The only issue I have with it is that the front facing camera displays the image digitally zoomed or closer than how your face appears using either FaceTime or the built in camera application or a number of apps that call to the camera. I'm guessing Skype built their own way of A/V and couldn't rely on Apple's implementation within their own app.
This is what FaceTime should have been and it one ups Yahoo Messengers half assed implementation because it works between with Windows, Mac, and other iOS clients (tested all three).
I used it with my Mom today to call my Dad on his Vista machine. My Mom was driving and I switched between the front and rear cameras while she was driving to participate in the conversation. It was fun and has the potential to be HUGE. It's still kind of a bummer that the people that really reap the bedford of the update are iPhone 4 users do to its connectivity.
and the tests don't include the iPhone 4 and no reason/mention why. It'd make sense, since ya know, the Epic and iPhone 4 share the same Intrinsity chip design... and the iPhone 4 supports UMTS and Wireless-N whereas the 3GS doesn't.
It's an advertisement platform that rides solely on the ignorance if its users. So people had two and a half hours to take a break from their narcissism... this is something worthy of finger pointing?
The very last seen showing Luke inspecting (and retracting) his saber with R2-D2 w/ C3P0 in the far background... it looks like Hamill from the side. It more resembles his facial features.
It's not beyond Lucas to patch, restore, or refilm... it looks like a physical puppet. Probably they couldn't actually get Hamill for the shot and they constructed an actual puppet or had existing materials or another actor to fill in. It probably wasn't a shot worth spending a lot of money on unless they really believed it was going to be part of the introduction at the time. It's not beyond what it looks like they could of done in 1982-1983.
It's also something that Lucas could of redone, patched, or refilmed. He's done a combination of any of those for rereleases.
I think it's 80s footage... the motion of his head when he looks down at the lightsaber has the mannerisms of a puppet... the placement of the human hands with a black cloak helps with the illusion.
It looks like they used a puppet for the close up. You see his nose and his chin... looks different from what Hamill looked like (Seriously, just Google RotJ Mark Hamill.. even factoring in the shadows.. doesn't look like his chin, upper lip, and nose). The movement looks stiff... like they tilted the head of damned puppet. They did the ol' Swedish Chef... puppet body, real hands.
It's incredibly likely that they're going to include the redone version of Episode 1 with the digital puppet of Yoda rather than that goofy thing they had in the original version. Unfortunately, we'll still have Jar Jar. It'll be interesting to see how they touched up, corrected, or redid anything in the box set though.
What's your reasoning for it not being likely at all? Do you always question everyone's comments like it's a dissertation panel..? it's Slashdot for Chrissakes. You sound like my next door neighbor's AIM bot if I look at all your comments consecutively.
It doesn't make it any less likely than anyone else's claim if it's not out of Apple's mouth.
It's called speculation and I was merely breaking down other conclusions while asserting my own.
I don't think external antennas design themselves. I don't see where Ives didn't have some input to the design of the product.
It looks like Apple hands out a few immunity cards within their company.
Eh... stainless steel backings for portable products, aluminum casings for wireless products... they're designed to look good.. can't really stress durability of a reflective metal surface or a wireless signal's ability to penetrate a radio inhibiting material like aluminum. An iPod Shuffle... it has no buttons.. Apple is about design. Differentiates them.
Who shaped out the antenna if it wasn't under Ives supervision?
I hate to shuffle out that the Slashdot story writes in a sorta/kinda confirmation that it was indeed a firing based on a blogger's opinion on what happened. The opinion is extrapolated from observation (Papermaster wasn't at the press conference a few weeks back) and a dosage of common sense and logic about the firing.
Nothing states any observations that the termination might be linked to how Papermaster handled supervision of his engineers and the methods of field testing that lead to this loss of one of their prototypes to a third party (and eventually Gizmodo). I can't recall how Daring Fireball was linked to that debacle (or why Gruber didn't acknowledge that maybe Papermaster was held liable by Steve Jobs as well as his subordinate).
The first deduction of reasoning I saw when the story first broke was that his expertise is in chip design therefore he had nothing to do with the antenna... then it was reasoned that since he is the head of the mobile division, he has a responsibility to the design of the phone (makes more sense).
I've never known Apple to really put forward their designs based solely on functionality. Johnny Ives wasn't at the Apple Antennagate news conference a few weeks ago... but no one blames him or expects a letter of resignation from him on Steve Job's desk the next morning. It was likely that he drew up the design for the product and told engineering that they were constrained to what was on his design papers down to the every angle and curve regardless of how functional it actually was.
The Nissan Leaf is scheduled to debut with the price tag of around $32,000. I wouldn't call it cheap but I wouldn't call it a prohibitive luxury good. With federal and state tax subsidies, it makes it cheaper and a working incentive to go electric. It's a long way to go as far as infrastructure.
Tesla Roaders shouldn't really get an incentive tax credit. It'd be like the government giving tax breaks for MacBook Pros.
I think that electric cars today are more of a statement than a solution.
"The examples are almost endless: counterfeit car parts, illegal software, pirated video games, knockoff consumer goods, dangerous counterfeit medicines, and many other types of products - including very sophisticated technology," according to the website's rather bleek outline of what they intend to do.
In a forest beware of wolfs, bears, kittens, puppies, mountain cats, and wild dogs.
Seriously, I understand some of what they're going to do.. and I'm pretty sure a lot less enforcement and emphasis will go towards people that pirate Wii games for personal entertainment. The whole thing strikes me as something they'd go after distribution rather than the buyers or takers of the goods. "Pirated video games" strike me as the dumbest part of that items in a series.
This might be more of a "Fuck you, Wal-Mart, for trying to import cheaper drugs in a pilot program for your stores" or a "Don't buy cheaper Canadian drugs"...
American creativity is nothing more than taking your shit and putting a stylized swoosh logo on it... hell, it's not even our dung anymore, we have to outsource it.
This is nothing more than a cheap, low balled, corporate funded attempt to surpress the issue of rising costs for a lot of these goods that are now being counterfeited cheaply rather than actually strike at the greed and the issue of why drugs are counterfeited in the first place... (low level greed, despiration to have better heath, better living)..
Obama administration turned Change into an aimless, money spending waste of time.
If I had a gun, which I don't, I still totally agree with the one commenter that said he/she put it in an electronic safe with a trigger lock. I also wouldn't leave the gun loaded and have the clips separate but readily available in case I need to rock.
The story is trying to give Nintendo bad press and is largely trying to connect the dots and rationale of a toddler "suicide" to the video game console when in reality, it was some idiot being negligent with a firearm. The story should read, "Another Idiot Negligent w/ Firearm." Period.
I think it's a double standard... the universities say, "Sure, we'll move to and encourage a digital infrastructure for class notes, grades, discussions, bulletins, scheduling, academic affairs, housing, food services... etc." and offer wifi across campus.. give you meager discounts off of laptops for school... yet the instant a professor feels insecure about being heard in a lecture hall of 500... they get turned off.
I don't buy the keyboard clicking argument... students come to class sick... hack everywhere, they talk obnoxiously... professors won't excuse students and expect others to deal with it, but the INSTANT a laptop is pulled out, it becomes an issue.
I understand that there is a place for laptops. Particularly, I don't find them useful in math classes (unless there is web-based testing or information that supplements it). Writing examples, understanding how the problem is setup and solved flow better when you're practicing them on paper (as you're expected to do the same thing for exams). It's impossible (at least for me) to translate complex board work to a keyboard in a particular order (and with graphical examples) without writing them by hand.
I've taken online calculus and regular pen/paper calculus). I was lucky that the professor scanned problem examples and solutions written out in order to make things easier. Just, there is no reason for them in math classes, in my personal experience/opinion.
English, History, Philosophy, Economics... Biology... just anything with straight up concepts (even with involvement of math) feels necessary in order to obtain information. It's learning preference... some people listen, others write, some type. It's harder for me to try to listen to a professor explain while trying to make my writing legible enough to read later. I consciously have to be an art student to doodle legible characters while trying to grasp concepts. Professors can't really gauge the students natural ability to absorb and retain information... Are they going to supply Adderall at the door to lecture halls.
I had at least one professor take time out of his lecture to "assume" what I've been doing on my laptop, point me out to the class, try to embarrass me, and physically threaten me by walking up to my face and call me "deaf" and "insubordinate" because I had a laptop open. No, I am not failing the class after the incident and no one mentioned it again. It's just insecurity and lack of professionalism... that universities NEEDS with pushing responsibility of students (rising tuition, other costs... bloated or spiraling budgets resulting in student activity cuts.. furlough days).
Nah, the university won't turn wifi off in lecture halls or at least block facebook or anything considered distracting (I guess that goes against university Prime Directive to expand knowledge)... but they'll sure as hell create an area in their IT department to serve up letters to have students cough up money for file sharing.
Laptop bans are stupid. I understand cell phones simply because they are communications appliances.. sure, people can wreck into utility polls at 80mph while getting maybe... 90WPM saying, "I haz good time last night
Just all in all.. universities need to re-evaluate other factors than the assumption of a student's attention span that might be sinking the ship.
They're encouraging people to divulge internal information about a company that a company itself isn't willing to make publicly available yet. It'd be like AMD making a contest to confirm wild speculation and to divulge information about new Intel chips.
It's more or less a corporate espionage contest. Nowhere is it even close to a media outlet paying for pictures or an exclusive. It's asking people to subvert information about upcoming Apple products.
The lawyers at Apple are likely are doing Valleywag a favor by telling them to pull the contest. The blog would be liable for instigating and promoting the stunt. To me, it'd be like a radio station telling people to hold their piss for a Wii (did happen, a lady died, and the radio company paid money).
It's just a bad idea.
From what I heard, OS X uses certain low level functions that control processor speed/voltage within the OS itself versus what conventionally would be done through a BIOS on a normal PC. Apple uses EFI... I know that.
Just reading about some of the "dangers" if using a Mac to run Linux... main reason being, you have a likeliness of damaging the CPU if all you run are intensive tasks under Linux. Apple wrote drivers that deal with this stuff under Windows.
All in all, Vista drivers will work fine... but I'm just picky about "official bootcamp support" even if it is a gimmick. Apple wouldn't be putting an ounce of elbow grease into it unless there was something important they were writing into it to ensure a smooth experience.
I think what bothered me with the 360 making the list versus the PS2 is the fact that Engadget editors measured the 360 based on Live, which is a service, NOT a gadget. Gmail was awesome, didn't make the list... neither did DropBox or a bunch of other ways to communicate data.
The Dreamcast pioneered the whole console gaming internet thing a bit earlier in 1999 before the PS2 literally nailed the last piece in its coffin in 2001. Microsoft merely took the online idea and threw more money than Sega had to make it happen. Microsoft merely took Sega's evolutionary dead-end and sparked it back to life.
PS2 should get honors for standardizing DVD playback, moving forward game based storage to DVDs, and generally offering a baseline standard for what "next-gen" should of been back in 2000.
Wii... should get an honorable mention because Nintendo took a dated and... well not a hot selling platform (GameCube) and MacGuyver'd it into something that would sell and drive Nintendo back into a profitable home console platform.
The DS came in the wake of the dying PDA craze in 2004 before multi-touch. The pen/stylus setup probably was a risky direction to take since... say the Sony Clie was pulled out during the same time.
DS proved that touch-based inputs could work for a massive audience... sparked the direction the Wii took. Today, we have Microsoft and Sony trying to catch up with their motion based interaction setups. Apple and other handheld makers have introduced touch-capable devices on everything under the sun. DS was engineered by people that liked neat things and this happened to be a hit. I mean, TWO screened handhelds seemed a bit unrealistic too. The DS success made Sega's VMU and Nintendo's GBA-GC two screen system link ideas feel like they didn't go to waste. Supplemental screens work if they're designed in every system.
Alright, I know "super book" sounds kind of stupid. I can kind of agree with the argument that the Kindle itself acts as one book versus the content within it being individual pieces of work. It's almost the same for the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console. Technically, you can download different pieces of video game software that originally came from different cartridges (which you see on e-bay) but when it comes down to licenses and what you own, you can't take out bits and pieces of it from your Wii. The entire collection you download is tied to that individual console. It sort of makes each console it's own "super rom". It's an interesting legal argument because... all these works were once sold on their own, individually. It could spark the argument that these books through either my Wii example or Kindle are derivative works and not original publications instead of digitalized reprints... if that makes sense.
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The only issue I have with it is that the front facing camera displays the image digitally zoomed or closer than how your face appears using either FaceTime or the built in camera application or a number of apps that call to the camera. I'm guessing Skype built their own way of A/V and couldn't rely on Apple's implementation within their own app.
This is what FaceTime should have been and it one ups Yahoo Messengers half assed implementation because it works between with Windows, Mac, and other iOS clients (tested all three).
I used it with my Mom today to call my Dad on his Vista machine. My Mom was driving and I switched between the front and rear cameras while she was driving to participate in the conversation. It was fun and has the potential to be HUGE. It's still kind of a bummer that the people that really reap the bedford of the update are iPhone 4 users do to its connectivity.
and the tests don't include the iPhone 4 and no reason/mention why. It'd make sense, since ya know, the Epic and iPhone 4 share the same Intrinsity chip design... and the iPhone 4 supports UMTS and Wireless-N whereas the 3GS doesn't.
It's an advertisement platform that rides solely on the ignorance if its users. So people had two and a half hours to take a break from their narcissism... this is something worthy of finger pointing?
The very last seen showing Luke inspecting (and retracting) his saber with R2-D2 w/ C3P0 in the far background... it looks like Hamill from the side. It more resembles his facial features. It's not beyond Lucas to patch, restore, or refilm... it looks like a physical puppet. Probably they couldn't actually get Hamill for the shot and they constructed an actual puppet or had existing materials or another actor to fill in. It probably wasn't a shot worth spending a lot of money on unless they really believed it was going to be part of the introduction at the time. It's not beyond what it looks like they could of done in 1982-1983. It's also something that Lucas could of redone, patched, or refilmed. He's done a combination of any of those for rereleases. I think it's 80s footage... the motion of his head when he looks down at the lightsaber has the mannerisms of a puppet... the placement of the human hands with a black cloak helps with the illusion.
It looks like they used a puppet for the close up. You see his nose and his chin... looks different from what Hamill looked like (Seriously, just Google RotJ Mark Hamill.. even factoring in the shadows.. doesn't look like his chin, upper lip, and nose). The movement looks stiff... like they tilted the head of damned puppet. They did the ol' Swedish Chef... puppet body, real hands.
It's incredibly likely that they're going to include the redone version of Episode 1 with the digital puppet of Yoda rather than that goofy thing they had in the original version. Unfortunately, we'll still have Jar Jar. It'll be interesting to see how they touched up, corrected, or redid anything in the box set though.
What's your reasoning for it not being likely at all? Do you always question everyone's comments like it's a dissertation panel..? it's Slashdot for Chrissakes. You sound like my next door neighbor's AIM bot if I look at all your comments consecutively.
It doesn't make it any less likely than anyone else's claim if it's not out of Apple's mouth. It's called speculation and I was merely breaking down other conclusions while asserting my own. I don't think external antennas design themselves. I don't see where Ives didn't have some input to the design of the product. It looks like Apple hands out a few immunity cards within their company. Eh... stainless steel backings for portable products, aluminum casings for wireless products... they're designed to look good.. can't really stress durability of a reflective metal surface or a wireless signal's ability to penetrate a radio inhibiting material like aluminum. An iPod Shuffle... it has no buttons.. Apple is about design. Differentiates them. Who shaped out the antenna if it wasn't under Ives supervision?
I hate to shuffle out that the Slashdot story writes in a sorta/kinda confirmation that it was indeed a firing based on a blogger's opinion on what happened. The opinion is extrapolated from observation (Papermaster wasn't at the press conference a few weeks back) and a dosage of common sense and logic about the firing.
Nothing states any observations that the termination might be linked to how Papermaster handled supervision of his engineers and the methods of field testing that lead to this loss of one of their prototypes to a third party (and eventually Gizmodo). I can't recall how Daring Fireball was linked to that debacle (or why Gruber didn't acknowledge that maybe Papermaster was held liable by Steve Jobs as well as his subordinate).
The first deduction of reasoning I saw when the story first broke was that his expertise is in chip design therefore he had nothing to do with the antenna... then it was reasoned that since he is the head of the mobile division, he has a responsibility to the design of the phone (makes more sense). I've never known Apple to really put forward their designs based solely on functionality. Johnny Ives wasn't at the Apple Antennagate news conference a few weeks ago... but no one blames him or expects a letter of resignation from him on Steve Job's desk the next morning. It was likely that he drew up the design for the product and told engineering that they were constrained to what was on his design papers down to the every angle and curve regardless of how functional it actually was.
The Nissan Leaf is scheduled to debut with the price tag of around $32,000. I wouldn't call it cheap but I wouldn't call it a prohibitive luxury good. With federal and state tax subsidies, it makes it cheaper and a working incentive to go electric. It's a long way to go as far as infrastructure. Tesla Roaders shouldn't really get an incentive tax credit. It'd be like the government giving tax breaks for MacBook Pros. I think that electric cars today are more of a statement than a solution.
Yeah, don't put metal in the microwave while observing a super nova.
"The examples are almost endless: counterfeit car parts, illegal software, pirated video games, knockoff consumer goods, dangerous counterfeit medicines, and many other types of products - including very sophisticated technology," according to the website's rather bleek outline of what they intend to do. In a forest beware of wolfs, bears, kittens, puppies, mountain cats, and wild dogs. Seriously, I understand some of what they're going to do.. and I'm pretty sure a lot less enforcement and emphasis will go towards people that pirate Wii games for personal entertainment. The whole thing strikes me as something they'd go after distribution rather than the buyers or takers of the goods. "Pirated video games" strike me as the dumbest part of that items in a series. This might be more of a "Fuck you, Wal-Mart, for trying to import cheaper drugs in a pilot program for your stores" or a "Don't buy cheaper Canadian drugs"... American creativity is nothing more than taking your shit and putting a stylized swoosh logo on it... hell, it's not even our dung anymore, we have to outsource it. This is nothing more than a cheap, low balled, corporate funded attempt to surpress the issue of rising costs for a lot of these goods that are now being counterfeited cheaply rather than actually strike at the greed and the issue of why drugs are counterfeited in the first place... (low level greed, despiration to have better heath, better living).. Obama administration turned Change into an aimless, money spending waste of time.
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They drilled too deep... hit a pocket, created an incident that can be negated (with a level of uncertainty) by a nuke. Damn this sounds familiar...
Did these people on the rig have on Dharma jumpsuits?
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The story is trying to give Nintendo bad press and is largely trying to connect the dots and rationale of a toddler "suicide" to the video game console when in reality, it was some idiot being negligent with a firearm. The story should read, "Another Idiot Negligent w/ Firearm." Period.
I don't buy the keyboard clicking argument... students come to class sick... hack everywhere, they talk obnoxiously... professors won't excuse students and expect others to deal with it, but the INSTANT a laptop is pulled out, it becomes an issue.
I understand that there is a place for laptops. Particularly, I don't find them useful in math classes (unless there is web-based testing or information that supplements it). Writing examples, understanding how the problem is setup and solved flow better when you're practicing them on paper (as you're expected to do the same thing for exams). It's impossible (at least for me) to translate complex board work to a keyboard in a particular order (and with graphical examples) without writing them by hand.
I've taken online calculus and regular pen/paper calculus). I was lucky that the professor scanned problem examples and solutions written out in order to make things easier. Just, there is no reason for them in math classes, in my personal experience/opinion.
English, History, Philosophy, Economics... Biology... just anything with straight up concepts (even with involvement of math) feels necessary in order to obtain information. It's learning preference... some people listen, others write, some type. It's harder for me to try to listen to a professor explain while trying to make my writing legible enough to read later. I consciously have to be an art student to doodle legible characters while trying to grasp concepts. Professors can't really gauge the students natural ability to absorb and retain information... Are they going to supply Adderall at the door to lecture halls.
I had at least one professor take time out of his lecture to "assume" what I've been doing on my laptop, point me out to the class, try to embarrass me, and physically threaten me by walking up to my face and call me "deaf" and "insubordinate" because I had a laptop open. No, I am not failing the class after the incident and no one mentioned it again. It's just insecurity and lack of professionalism... that universities NEEDS with pushing responsibility of students (rising tuition, other costs... bloated or spiraling budgets resulting in student activity cuts.. furlough days).
Nah, the university won't turn wifi off in lecture halls or at least block facebook or anything considered distracting (I guess that goes against university Prime Directive to expand knowledge)... but they'll sure as hell create an area in their IT department to serve up letters to have students cough up money for file sharing.
Laptop bans are stupid. I understand cell phones simply because they are communications appliances.. sure, people can wreck into utility polls at 80mph while getting maybe... 90WPM saying, "I haz good time last night Just all in all.. universities need to re-evaluate other factors than the assumption of a student's attention span that might be sinking the ship.
They're encouraging people to divulge internal information about a company that a company itself isn't willing to make publicly available yet. It'd be like AMD making a contest to confirm wild speculation and to divulge information about new Intel chips. It's more or less a corporate espionage contest. Nowhere is it even close to a media outlet paying for pictures or an exclusive. It's asking people to subvert information about upcoming Apple products. The lawyers at Apple are likely are doing Valleywag a favor by telling them to pull the contest. The blog would be liable for instigating and promoting the stunt. To me, it'd be like a radio station telling people to hold their piss for a Wii (did happen, a lady died, and the radio company paid money). It's just a bad idea.
From what I heard, OS X uses certain low level functions that control processor speed/voltage within the OS itself versus what conventionally would be done through a BIOS on a normal PC. Apple uses EFI... I know that. Just reading about some of the "dangers" if using a Mac to run Linux... main reason being, you have a likeliness of damaging the CPU if all you run are intensive tasks under Linux. Apple wrote drivers that deal with this stuff under Windows. All in all, Vista drivers will work fine... but I'm just picky about "official bootcamp support" even if it is a gimmick. Apple wouldn't be putting an ounce of elbow grease into it unless there was something important they were writing into it to ensure a smooth experience.
I think what bothered me with the 360 making the list versus the PS2 is the fact that Engadget editors measured the 360 based on Live, which is a service, NOT a gadget. Gmail was awesome, didn't make the list... neither did DropBox or a bunch of other ways to communicate data. The Dreamcast pioneered the whole console gaming internet thing a bit earlier in 1999 before the PS2 literally nailed the last piece in its coffin in 2001. Microsoft merely took the online idea and threw more money than Sega had to make it happen. Microsoft merely took Sega's evolutionary dead-end and sparked it back to life. PS2 should get honors for standardizing DVD playback, moving forward game based storage to DVDs, and generally offering a baseline standard for what "next-gen" should of been back in 2000. Wii... should get an honorable mention because Nintendo took a dated and... well not a hot selling platform (GameCube) and MacGuyver'd it into something that would sell and drive Nintendo back into a profitable home console platform. The DS came in the wake of the dying PDA craze in 2004 before multi-touch. The pen/stylus setup probably was a risky direction to take since... say the Sony Clie was pulled out during the same time. DS proved that touch-based inputs could work for a massive audience... sparked the direction the Wii took. Today, we have Microsoft and Sony trying to catch up with their motion based interaction setups. Apple and other handheld makers have introduced touch-capable devices on everything under the sun. DS was engineered by people that liked neat things and this happened to be a hit. I mean, TWO screened handhelds seemed a bit unrealistic too. The DS success made Sega's VMU and Nintendo's GBA-GC two screen system link ideas feel like they didn't go to waste. Supplemental screens work if they're designed in every system.
If you're on a Mac, GlimmerBlocker works (as it's a non-browser-dependent proxy which filters out ads).
Alright, I know "super book" sounds kind of stupid. I can kind of agree with the argument that the Kindle itself acts as one book versus the content within it being individual pieces of work. It's almost the same for the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console. Technically, you can download different pieces of video game software that originally came from different cartridges (which you see on e-bay) but when it comes down to licenses and what you own, you can't take out bits and pieces of it from your Wii. The entire collection you download is tied to that individual console. It sort of makes each console it's own "super rom". It's an interesting legal argument because... all these works were once sold on their own, individually. It could spark the argument that these books through either my Wii example or Kindle are derivative works and not original publications instead of digitalized reprints... if that makes sense.