The joke of course is just how much content on YT clearly violates copyright but just sits there for years. I mean entire major motion pictures will be posted by some non-rights-holding Joe Shmoe, remain up for years, and get recommended to you by YT's algorithms and have ads run before they show it to you. So you go ahead and post a short clip from, say, The Jackie Gleason Show from 1960, Jackie Gleason Enterprises sends in a DCMA by the next day, it gets taken down, (fair enough) and YT has the absolute gall to send you a "you're a naughty boy!" email and ask you to watch this oh-so-amusing copyright drivers-ed film which declares pretty much anything not 100% original content is a violation of the rules, while pretty much the vast majority of the content on the site does exactly that.
So the poor analogy is this: kids throwing rocks at the old factory windows in full view of the police. If the factory owner calls the police and complains, the kids are promptly arrested. If the owner says nothing the police gather a crowd around inviting people to watch the kids smash the windows, then mills through the crowd selling tickets to the policeman's ball.
I'm not about to say I like the new design, but I was never cozy with the current design either. Reading comments on a popular subject requires so much damn scrolling. Do comments really need a subject line, sigs, all that metadata right in the body? And has anyone ever used the "Share" button for a comment? I never found customized comment filtering all that useful either - everything but -1 to knock out trolls but that's it.
And why no simple formatting tools - bold, italic, add link? I get it's a shibboleth to keep out the non-techie riff-raff who can't be bothered to put code in their comments, but it's also a bit petty.
Destroyed as in vaporized, or destroyed as in lots of wreckage and parts and metal floating about, with armadas of salvage ships waiting on the outskirts to hoover it all up?
I forget where I read the quote, but at one point when Atari changed hands (probably when Hasbro bought the brand) the company wasn't much more than "a crate full of documents".
Make that massively deployed. We need to start thinking about renewable energy sources that will deliver not only just enough energy but fucktons of it (it's a technical term.) Energy to desalinate water for cities, drill tunnels to link the continents with supersonic rail, launch vehicles into space using maglev, scrub the atmosphere, plasma-burn our poisonous waste, air-condition our domed cities, and all those other "big science" ideas that we'd be doing if we weren't waiting for fusion energy to finally work.
This reminds me of the cable TV remote I once confronted. There was no "on", but it had an "off' button. Took me a good ten minutes to work out to turn on the TV, you punch in the channel you want first. Now the TV turns on with the channel you want already selected. One step eliminated! Progress!
Sure not getting those ten minutes back though.
The "find the location you want, then any search for a place of interest search after that is based off that location" may be "better" but it's not intuitive. Why should the user assume that's what's going to happen until they try it? Would it have killed them to put in a hoverover or something telling you that? But when you click the "search nearby" link, you know that's what's going to happen.
And I just tried this:
New Google Maps: find a location, then search "New Jersey" - you'll see a map of New Jersey.
Classic Google Maps: find a location, click Search Nearby, search "New Jersey" - you see places nearby with "New Jersey" in the name or otherwise have something to do with New Jersey. Nice.
There are those who pay extra for most powerful hardware they can get because they want better/faster/smarter all the time, and will be buying hardware upgrades after about a year.
Then there's those who pay extra for most powerful hardware they can get because they just want to get their work done and want to worry less about the hardware keeping up with the software. How many years will you be able to get from the $3-9,000 beast before they can't update the OS or run the latest and greatest from Adobe? Five years? Seven?
And then they'll just plonk down another few grand for a brand new beast.
In the TED demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niFHFIbD0M) the founder specifically mentions crouching as one of the motions. But yeah, nothing about lying down. I was more curious of simulating uphill/downhill motion, like climbing stairs.
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http://i.imgur.com/KON0j7C.jpg
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The joke of course is just how much content on YT clearly violates copyright but just sits there for years. I mean entire major motion pictures will be posted by some non-rights-holding Joe Shmoe, remain up for years, and get recommended to you by YT's algorithms and have ads run before they show it to you. So you go ahead and post a short clip from, say, The Jackie Gleason Show from 1960, Jackie Gleason Enterprises sends in a DCMA by the next day, it gets taken down, (fair enough) and YT has the absolute gall to send you a "you're a naughty boy!" email and ask you to watch this oh-so-amusing copyright drivers-ed film which declares pretty much anything not 100% original content is a violation of the rules, while pretty much the vast majority of the content on the site does exactly that.
So the poor analogy is this: kids throwing rocks at the old factory windows in full view of the police. If the factory owner calls the police and complains, the kids are promptly arrested. If the owner says nothing the police gather a crowd around inviting people to watch the kids smash the windows, then mills through the crowd selling tickets to the policeman's ball.
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It seems they're doing just that:
http://gigaom.com/2013/09/24/w...
But if they're not rechargeable, what do you do with the old ones?
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Just strap it into the passenger seat, plug it into the lighter socket, and head straight for the HOV lane!
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On the Moon, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with Moon rocks.
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I'm not about to say I like the new design, but I was never cozy with the current design either. Reading comments on a popular subject requires so much damn scrolling. Do comments really need a subject line, sigs, all that metadata right in the body? And has anyone ever used the "Share" button for a comment? I never found customized comment filtering all that useful either - everything but -1 to knock out trolls but that's it.
And why no simple formatting tools - bold, italic, add link? I get it's a shibboleth to keep out the non-techie riff-raff who can't be bothered to put code in their comments, but it's also a bit petty.
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...with the feel of its rich Corinthian API.
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Destroyed as in vaporized, or destroyed as in lots of wreckage and parts and metal floating about, with armadas of salvage ships waiting on the outskirts to hoover it all up?
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I forget where I read the quote, but at one point when Atari changed hands (probably when Hasbro bought the brand) the company wasn't much more than "a crate full of documents".
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Try to keep up.
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All the energy mankind consumes on Earth is a sparrow's fart compared to the energy the entire Earth gets from the sun:
See http://www.sandia.gov/~jytsao/Solar%20FAQs.pdf
So even if we increased our energy consumption by ten times, the amount of waste heat it might generate is negligible.
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Make that massively deployed. We need to start thinking about renewable energy sources that will deliver not only just enough energy but fucktons of it (it's a technical term.) Energy to desalinate water for cities, drill tunnels to link the continents with supersonic rail, launch vehicles into space using maglev, scrub the atmosphere, plasma-burn our poisonous waste, air-condition our domed cities, and all those other "big science" ideas that we'd be doing if we weren't waiting for fusion energy to finally work.
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Ya! Look vat ve do to your autonomeautomobil!
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So do SA residents actually use that link? What actually happens?
Nothing? Good things? Bad things? Very bad things?
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This reminds me of the cable TV remote I once confronted. There was no "on", but it had an "off' button. Took me a good ten minutes to work out to turn on the TV, you punch in the channel you want first. Now the TV turns on with the channel you want already selected. One step eliminated! Progress!
Sure not getting those ten minutes back though.
The "find the location you want, then any search for a place of interest search after that is based off that location" may be "better" but it's not intuitive. Why should the user assume that's what's going to happen until they try it? Would it have killed them to put in a hoverover or something telling you that? But when you click the "search nearby" link, you know that's what's going to happen.
And I just tried this:
New Google Maps: find a location, then search "New Jersey" - you'll see a map of New Jersey.
Classic Google Maps: find a location, click Search Nearby, search "New Jersey" - you see places nearby with "New Jersey" in the name or otherwise have something to do with New Jersey. Nice.
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The tough black mineral that won't cop out when the heat's all about.
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Filmmakers should now add real obfuscated code to the computer screens that do or say something clever if someone sits down and tries to run it.
(Just not this.)
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After all, replacement children don't come cheap!
http://youtu.be/GYSfncB4peU?t=1m25s
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But if it helps, yes, just like that.
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...he climb on da car roof, go BOOM!
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...followed by rolling, followed by rolling of the third type.
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There are those who pay extra for most powerful hardware they can get because they want better/faster/smarter all the time, and will be buying hardware upgrades after about a year.
Then there's those who pay extra for most powerful hardware they can get because they just want to get their work done and want to worry less about the hardware keeping up with the software. How many years will you be able to get from the $3-9,000 beast before they can't update the OS or run the latest and greatest from Adobe? Five years? Seven?
And then they'll just plonk down another few grand for a brand new beast.
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I wondered if plasma funaces could ever be used to extract the base elements from trash. Right now they just turn heavier elements into inert 'slag'.
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...but I'm picturing Walter Matthau in 'Fail Safe'.
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In the TED demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niFHFIbD0M) the founder specifically mentions crouching as one of the motions. But yeah, nothing about lying down.
I was more curious of simulating uphill/downhill motion, like climbing stairs.
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