You know all those ancient statues and such and sculptures made or those paintings by artists? Do you honestly think that everyone generally looked as good as the painting/statues? We've always done this. If anything because, I as the king/rich person would lop off some artist/sculpture's head if they didn't make me look good.
Move forward a few centuries and you've got household publishing with the internet/office apps. I wouldn't lop off the wife's or the kids' heads if they didn't make me look good in the family website or photo album, but we'd all pick the shots and photoshop what we can get away with to look our best. (The wife and kids have been taught what we think is decent taste in picking out photos and better pictures from a set so they should know better than posting poor pics.)
It's sort of like the concept of dressing up for photos. No one ever actually wears that sort of crap. It's only used to make you look as what the current culture set thinks presentable for art/photos/pictures is and that's it. (It's all rented or thrown away after that single use because you'd never wear it again.)
Okay...you say that your taught your wife what decent taste is, and you refer to yourself in that sentence as "we." I'm thinking that your reference to kings must be because you are one.
This is from the same school of "reality" as those cosmetics commercials where the model has had 6 hours of makeup and artificial eyelashes in order to look like that.
The more we force life to look perfect, the more we'll be disappointed by what we actually get. There is a great Charlie Brooker skit on aspirational television and how believing that we should be as beautiful and stylish as the cast of Friends and Sex and the City is actually making everybody miserable.
I would also say that the bumps of imperfection are an important part of our humanity. Examples:
- Over produced music sounds rubbish because if we can't hear the strumming it doesn't sound like a human being was playing it.
- If you cook Chilli from a recipe it may come out "perfect every time" but it will also get pretty dull.
- A sunny day is a much greater joy in Scotland, where it's a rarity.
Bah, humbug.
6 hours of makeup? Sure, but Photoshop is the main tool used to make models look like they do. I just watched a documentary on the subject a few nights ago.
2. I seem the recall that it has been calculated that mining Helium 3 on the moon would be cost inefficient and furthermore mining on the Moon would make dust fly around and create a kind of smog. What the hell would you want to mine on an asteroid, and do you realise how hard it would be to go to an asteroid (which are all thankfully orders of magnitude further from the Earth than the Moon), mine there and send tons of minerals back to Earth?
Last week there was an article mentioned on/. in which there was an economic analysis of mining He-3 on the Moon, concluding that the value of the helium would be 10-100x the cost of mining.
I mean, the obvious issue that comes to most people's minds was the shuttle explosion, apparently caused by poor engineering decisions, and subsequent cover-ups of them.
That was entirely caused by a budget cut between 2001 and 2002. There was a well funded program to permanently solve the problem that caused that accident, but NASA decided that since it had never had catastrophic consequences before, it would, along with the majority of other programs, have its solution canceled. The mistake, I suppose, was in choosing to cut that program, but without he massive funding cuts that occurred that year, I don't think NASA would have lost that shuttle.
Virtually all of the mass of this mission, except for maybe a little rocket propellant, will stay within the Earth-Moon system, so the center of gravity of the two won't change. In other words, no, this won't affect Earth's Orbit thanks to CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM!!
Story submitted: 11:00am. Your post submitted: 11:00am. There's just no way in hell you formulated a response and typed out all of that in less than a minute. So just what kind of douchebag are you, anyway?
They're probably making a smart business decision and ensuring that they ride the wave of Intel's hype. If Intel *does* succeed in convincing the market that Raytracing is the future, NVidia will be ready to compete rather than cede the market.
It's great for nVidia that they can do this with their chips, but I don't think this was done primarily for tech purposes. I think you're close to the truth when you say they can ride Intel's hype, but not quite spot on. I think this is meant to break Intel's growing ray tracing hype machine, not come along for the ride.
"Look, we can do now what you say you'll do in two years, and we can do it WAY better than you will be able to then, but on our current tech."
I can't imagine anything could be more effective at ending the "Intel will crush nVidia with ray tracing" meme that's been affecting nV stock.
It's an interesting piece. The photographer in question is within his right to take the photographs he takes. He's also not very bright and a jerk. He's a very untalented photographer looking for attention by giving himself a brand ("illegal, underground photographer" as he repeats several times). Of course, the photographs he takes could be taken by anyone with no incident - he just likes to fight with people to get a response, and then make some bloggy headlines from it.
This resonates well with the college-aged blogger crowd that is inclined to feel outraged at authority for fun. For reference, I'm quite concerned with many of the real issues murkily reflected in this story, but as a grown up, I'm concerned with them in a grown up fashion. When I take photographs with my professional camera in places where that's not allowed, I take what I need or want to take, then move on. I don't yell in the faces of the guards and try to provoke a response. While that works for this photographer in terms of getting a response worthy of blog attention (which isn't very impressive if you ask me), it is rather ineffective at letting him take his photographs.
Ugh... never mind. I did throw in that "in China", didn't I? Oops. Of course, there is the question of how many people in China are allowed to be anything other than Communists, but that can be saved for another time.
Ask a friend who actually was raised in China and never left how good a job their president is doing. The confused stare will give you a lot more things to wonder about when it comes to Chinese politics.
Why is it so important that other people know that you're a vegan, are pro-abortion
I haven't kept track, counted, but I'm pretty sure I've seen just about as many pro-life bumper stickers as I have pro-choice stickers. I got a few bumper stickers myself, but I've never stuck them on a bumper.
Falcon
The difference is that the people driving the pro-life cars may blow you up if you disagree with them. In fairness, I suppose the pro-choice people may impregnate your daughter and then kill your unborn grandchild.
Fighting in Georgia would be the first legitimate war we've gotten into since 1812.
I don't know about Georgia being a legitimate war for the US, unless you mean someone invades Atlanta and we defend it.
Unless some massive political manipulation went on behind the scenes, it seems like the Georgians attacked their "breakaway region" of South Ossetia, because Ossetia is pro-Moscow. They killed a fair number of people, though according to South Ossetian doctors interviewed today on NPR, the Russian claim of thousands of dead South Ossetian civilians isn't true at all, the reality being hundreds of mostly wounded Ossetian militia and Russian peacekeepers.
Georgia's action was pretty bad. They started this conflict, and I can't imagine they didn't expect Russia to react. Why did they do it? Did Russian spies instigate it to give Russia an excuse? I doubt it. I'm also guessing Americans didn't prompt it, or at least didn't want the Georgians to do anything at that time, since America seems to have been caught off guard. Of course, that could be an act, but I digress.
Then Russia overreacts, or crosses the line, or whatever you want to call it, and not only do they go occupy the pro-Moscow region, but they verifiably do kill a lot of civilians. Then they agree to a cease fire demanding that they withdraw to Ossetia and immediately follow up by deploying throughout Georgia, and they bring along Ossetians who are drunk with power and alcohol as they follow behind the Russian military forces burning towns, killing people, and generally showing themselves to be sick assholes. Until then I'd say the Ossetians had whatever moral high ground could be had in this situation, since they started it all off by being attacked by surprise, but you don't win a lot of sympathy by massacring your neighbors.
Now America has the choice of fighting in Georgia. It won't do it because it knows it would be terrible for the economy and probably require pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention possibly prompting World War III. But even if there were no repercussions outside of Georgia, I disagree with you about this being a "legitimate" war for America. Georgia is an American ally and America has been rather public in urging Georgia to do things to spite Russia. Then Georgia attacked part of its own territory filled with people who want to be part of Russia, who are ethnically linked to the Ossetians across the border in Russia, and they did so probably because they thought they could pull a fast one while Russia was looking elsewhere. Russia certainly earns a ton of evil points, maybe as many as the U.S. did in invading Iraq, for its response. Then Russia earns a lot more evil points for their occupation. Yeah, America has been in Iraq for a lot of years now, which is very bad, but its managed to mostly, not entirely, but mostly be focused on rebuilding and improving local security. Also, despite a lot of expectations around the country and the world, America hasn't stolen Iraqi oil. Most economic trickery pulled off by the Bush administration in Iraq has been stealing money from American taxpayers and giving it to the companies run by or formerly run by Bush's cabinet and friends, while Iraq has been raking in oil money. I'm surprised that Bush has managed to resist the proverbial cookie jar that's right there protected by his own military.
So America has evil points for Iraq, Russia has, let's say, a comparable amount of evil accumulated in a very short period in Georgia, and they got those points by escalating a conflict with a vastly asymmetric response. Any American involvement in a Georgian war would necessarily be a further unjustifiable escalation, and I don't think America can handle being any more evil right now.
Or until there is a community based patch to remove the DRM.
I tried finding a way to contact EA/Maxis, and all I could find was their support portal. Entirely FAQ based, and when you go the route of "None of these help me, let me send an e-mail to customer support" my message was received but obviously misunderstood.
How can I and the rest of the community tell EA/Maxis that they're not going to purchase the game unless the draconian DRM is removed? They don't seem to want to hear my thoughts, and I'm already planning on voting with my wallet.
The "community based patch," aka crack, for the game will no doubt be available within one day of the official game release. That may even be one day before the official release.
The reason I say 1000 is that with organ replacement there is no reason to simply die. But if you look at the statistics, random accidents will have a 50% shot of killing you by the age 1000.
Tissue and somatic genetic engineering will allow us to avoid or activly fix most if not all illnesses.
I hope you enjoy your brain replacement.
*I'm not snarkily saying you're dumb, I'm pointing out that the brain ages just like all your other organs, and will thus need the same replacement.
Having doubts about going to the Olympics based on China's treatment of Tibet and other ethnic/religious minorities? Oops, looks like we forgot that one too, there G8 as well.
No, China's not part of the G8. They're part of the O5 ("Outreach 5"), a group of less developed nations recognized by the G8.
Well, I was 8 when I first watched A New hope. I loved it. I watched it again few months ago...And Frankly I found the scenario a bit too simple. But my nephew simply loved it...So the real show for me was watching him:-).
Don't you feel that we are simply getting older and the star wars franchise isn't for us anymore? Kids seem to enjoy it as much as we did (IMHO).
As a 30's, I prefer is Battlestar Galactica II. I prefer six over the princess anyday;-)
If you look at the film from a literary perspective, I think that you'll find a great deal of content you missed in the past. Think of it in terms of Greek epic, for starters.
I've seen system-crashing bugs happen in OSX, too. Except that it was made to look purdy, though you couldn't do anything other than unplug the whole deal, and then restart it.
At the Apple store at Valley Fair in San Jose I always manage to crash any Mac I use within 5 minutes by running programs or opening images and resizing them in the default viewer. Maybe the hardware in the store is the bad stuff or the power is very dirty, but it's been like that for years.
And it's not pretty, it usually just reboots on its own with no warning.
I hope that this pans out, but the manufacturing of said Renewable energy will probably offset the whole "Green" side of things... Well, hopefully it will all work out for the best. The question is, apart from Government financing, is it possible for Normal People to buy a Green Home / Car / Life?
Several others have given good responses, but I thought I'd point out that the affordability for Normal People will come from projects like this, which make more economical versions more feasible.
The anonymity of this author doesn't mean anything. All of his arguments stand on their own, and are supported by trivially verifiable math. Rather than complain about the authenticity, spend 3 minutes reproducing the results and you'll see that he's right.
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That poor customer never got his sunday just so you could watch the trainee fail six times? Six? Why?
You know all those ancient statues and such and sculptures made or those paintings by artists? Do you honestly think that everyone generally looked as good as the painting/statues? We've always done this. If anything because, I as the king/rich person would lop off some artist/sculpture's head if they didn't make me look good.
Move forward a few centuries and you've got household publishing with the internet/office apps. I wouldn't lop off the wife's or the kids' heads if they didn't make me look good in the family website or photo album, but we'd all pick the shots and photoshop what we can get away with to look our best. (The wife and kids have been taught what we think is decent taste in picking out photos and better pictures from a set so they should know better than posting poor pics.)
It's sort of like the concept of dressing up for photos. No one ever actually wears that sort of crap. It's only used to make you look as what the current culture set thinks presentable for art/photos/pictures is and that's it. (It's all rented or thrown away after that single use because you'd never wear it again.)
Okay...you say that your taught your wife what decent taste is, and you refer to yourself in that sentence as "we." I'm thinking that your reference to kings must be because you are one.
This is from the same school of "reality" as those cosmetics commercials where the model has had 6 hours of makeup and artificial eyelashes in order to look like that.
The more we force life to look perfect, the more we'll be disappointed by what we actually get. There is a great Charlie Brooker skit on aspirational television and how believing that we should be as beautiful and stylish as the cast of Friends and Sex and the City is actually making everybody miserable.
I would also say that the bumps of imperfection are an important part of our humanity. Examples:
- Over produced music sounds rubbish because if we can't hear the strumming it doesn't sound like a human being was playing it.
- If you cook Chilli from a recipe it may come out "perfect every time" but it will also get pretty dull.
- A sunny day is a much greater joy in Scotland, where it's a rarity.
Bah, humbug.
6 hours of makeup? Sure, but Photoshop is the main tool used to make models look like they do. I just watched a documentary on the subject a few nights ago.
2. I seem the recall that it has been calculated that mining Helium 3 on the moon would be cost inefficient and furthermore mining on the Moon would make dust fly around and create a kind of smog. What the hell would you want to mine on an asteroid, and do you realise how hard it would be to go to an asteroid (which are all thankfully orders of magnitude further from the Earth than the Moon), mine there and send tons of minerals back to Earth?
Last week there was an article mentioned on /. in which there was an economic analysis of mining He-3 on the Moon, concluding that the value of the helium would be 10-100x the cost of mining.
I mean, the obvious issue that comes to most people's minds was the shuttle explosion, apparently caused by poor engineering decisions, and subsequent cover-ups of them.
That was entirely caused by a budget cut between 2001 and 2002. There was a well funded program to permanently solve the problem that caused that accident, but NASA decided that since it had never had catastrophic consequences before, it would, along with the majority of other programs, have its solution canceled. The mistake, I suppose, was in choosing to cut that program, but without he massive funding cuts that occurred that year, I don't think NASA would have lost that shuttle.
Virtually all of the mass of this mission, except for maybe a little rocket propellant, will stay within the Earth-Moon system, so the center of gravity of the two won't change. In other words, no, this won't affect Earth's Orbit thanks to CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM!!
Story submitted: 11:00am. Your post submitted: 11:00am. There's just no way in hell you formulated a response and typed out all of that in less than a minute. So just what kind of douchebag are you, anyway?
Uh, maybe he looked at the story on the firehose.
They're probably making a smart business decision and ensuring that they ride the wave of Intel's hype. If Intel *does* succeed in convincing the market that Raytracing is the future, NVidia will be ready to compete rather than cede the market.
It's great for nVidia that they can do this with their chips, but I don't think this was done primarily for tech purposes. I think you're close to the truth when you say they can ride Intel's hype, but not quite spot on. I think this is meant to break Intel's growing ray tracing hype machine, not come along for the ride.
"Look, we can do now what you say you'll do in two years, and we can do it WAY better than you will be able to then, but on our current tech."
I can't imagine anything could be more effective at ending the "Intel will crush nVidia with ray tracing" meme that's been affecting nV stock.
For the cost of one M1A1 tank tread, Putin bought himself a whole lot of firepower.
This is so obviously the answer that the parent needs to get to +5 Insightful as soon as possible and that can be the end of the story.
It's an interesting piece. The photographer in question is within his right to take the photographs he takes. He's also not very bright and a jerk. He's a very untalented photographer looking for attention by giving himself a brand ("illegal, underground photographer" as he repeats several times). Of course, the photographs he takes could be taken by anyone with no incident - he just likes to fight with people to get a response, and then make some bloggy headlines from it.
This resonates well with the college-aged blogger crowd that is inclined to feel outraged at authority for fun. For reference, I'm quite concerned with many of the real issues murkily reflected in this story, but as a grown up, I'm concerned with them in a grown up fashion. When I take photographs with my professional camera in places where that's not allowed, I take what I need or want to take, then move on. I don't yell in the faces of the guards and try to provoke a response. While that works for this photographer in terms of getting a response worthy of blog attention (which isn't very impressive if you ask me), it is rather ineffective at letting him take his photographs.
Ugh... never mind. I did throw in that "in China", didn't I? Oops. Of course, there is the question of how many people in China are allowed to be anything other than Communists, but that can be saved for another time.
Ask a friend who actually was raised in China and never left how good a job their president is doing. The confused stare will give you a lot more things to wonder about when it comes to Chinese politics.
Why is it so important that other people know that you're a vegan, are pro-abortion
I haven't kept track, counted, but I'm pretty sure I've seen just about as many pro-life bumper stickers as I have pro-choice stickers. I got a few bumper stickers myself, but I've never stuck them on a bumper.
Falcon
The difference is that the people driving the pro-life cars may blow you up if you disagree with them. In fairness, I suppose the pro-choice people may impregnate your daughter and then kill your unborn grandchild.
Fighting in Georgia would be the first legitimate war we've gotten into since 1812.
I don't know about Georgia being a legitimate war for the US, unless you mean someone invades Atlanta and we defend it.
Unless some massive political manipulation went on behind the scenes, it seems like the Georgians attacked their "breakaway region" of South Ossetia, because Ossetia is pro-Moscow. They killed a fair number of people, though according to South Ossetian doctors interviewed today on NPR, the Russian claim of thousands of dead South Ossetian civilians isn't true at all, the reality being hundreds of mostly wounded Ossetian militia and Russian peacekeepers.
Georgia's action was pretty bad. They started this conflict, and I can't imagine they didn't expect Russia to react. Why did they do it? Did Russian spies instigate it to give Russia an excuse? I doubt it. I'm also guessing Americans didn't prompt it, or at least didn't want the Georgians to do anything at that time, since America seems to have been caught off guard. Of course, that could be an act, but I digress.
Then Russia overreacts, or crosses the line, or whatever you want to call it, and not only do they go occupy the pro-Moscow region, but they verifiably do kill a lot of civilians. Then they agree to a cease fire demanding that they withdraw to Ossetia and immediately follow up by deploying throughout Georgia, and they bring along Ossetians who are drunk with power and alcohol as they follow behind the Russian military forces burning towns, killing people, and generally showing themselves to be sick assholes. Until then I'd say the Ossetians had whatever moral high ground could be had in this situation, since they started it all off by being attacked by surprise, but you don't win a lot of sympathy by massacring your neighbors.
Now America has the choice of fighting in Georgia. It won't do it because it knows it would be terrible for the economy and probably require pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention possibly prompting World War III. But even if there were no repercussions outside of Georgia, I disagree with you about this being a "legitimate" war for America. Georgia is an American ally and America has been rather public in urging Georgia to do things to spite Russia. Then Georgia attacked part of its own territory filled with people who want to be part of Russia, who are ethnically linked to the Ossetians across the border in Russia, and they did so probably because they thought they could pull a fast one while Russia was looking elsewhere. Russia certainly earns a ton of evil points, maybe as many as the U.S. did in invading Iraq, for its response. Then Russia earns a lot more evil points for their occupation. Yeah, America has been in Iraq for a lot of years now, which is very bad, but its managed to mostly, not entirely, but mostly be focused on rebuilding and improving local security. Also, despite a lot of expectations around the country and the world, America hasn't stolen Iraqi oil. Most economic trickery pulled off by the Bush administration in Iraq has been stealing money from American taxpayers and giving it to the companies run by or formerly run by Bush's cabinet and friends, while Iraq has been raking in oil money. I'm surprised that Bush has managed to resist the proverbial cookie jar that's right there protected by his own military.
So America has evil points for Iraq, Russia has, let's say, a comparable amount of evil accumulated in a very short period in Georgia, and they got those points by escalating a conflict with a vastly asymmetric response. Any American involvement in a Georgian war would necessarily be a further unjustifiable escalation, and I don't think America can handle being any more evil right now.
Or until there is a community based patch to remove the DRM.
I tried finding a way to contact EA/Maxis, and all I could find was their support portal. Entirely FAQ based, and when you go the route of "None of these help me, let me send an e-mail to customer support" my message was received but obviously misunderstood.
How can I and the rest of the community tell EA/Maxis that they're not going to purchase the game unless the draconian DRM is removed? They don't seem to want to hear my thoughts, and I'm already planning on voting with my wallet.
The "community based patch," aka crack, for the game will no doubt be available within one day of the official game release. That may even be one day before the official release.
The reason I say 1000 is that with organ replacement there is no reason to simply die. But if you look at the statistics, random accidents will have a 50% shot of killing you by the age 1000.
Tissue and somatic genetic engineering will allow us to avoid or activly fix most if not all illnesses.
I hope you enjoy your brain replacement.
*I'm not snarkily saying you're dumb, I'm pointing out that the brain ages just like all your other organs, and will thus need the same replacement.
Having doubts about going to the Olympics based on China's treatment of Tibet and other ethnic/religious minorities? Oops, looks like we forgot that one too, there G8 as well.
No, China's not part of the G8. They're part of the O5 ("Outreach 5"), a group of less developed nations recognized by the G8.
Well, I was 8 when I first watched A New hope. I loved it. I watched it again few months ago...And Frankly I found the scenario a bit too simple. But my nephew simply loved it...So the real show for me was watching him :-).
Don't you feel that we are simply getting older and the star wars franchise isn't for us anymore? Kids seem to enjoy it as much as we did (IMHO).
As a 30's, I prefer is Battlestar Galactica II. I prefer six over the princess anyday ;-)
If you look at the film from a literary perspective, I think that you'll find a great deal of content you missed in the past. Think of it in terms of Greek epic, for starters.
In Vista, the only driver crashes I've seen cause only a brief screen flicker.
Of course, also in Vista, no one can hear you scream.
I'd rather targeted advertising than random advertising since no advertising isn't an option.
I suggest you refer to several of the above posts, and perhaps to a Google search on the subject. (Virtually) no advertising certainly is an option.
I've seen system-crashing bugs happen in OSX, too. Except that it was made to look purdy, though you couldn't do anything other than unplug the whole deal, and then restart it.
At the Apple store at Valley Fair in San Jose I always manage to crash any Mac I use within 5 minutes by running programs or opening images and resizing them in the default viewer. Maybe the hardware in the store is the bad stuff or the power is very dirty, but it's been like that for years.
And it's not pretty, it usually just reboots on its own with no warning.
Yup, videos of Jihadists killing American Soldiers can stay up. Videos recruiting terrorists can stay up.
Of course videos that are against Jihad MUST be taken down as well.
+1 Insightful
Gotta wonder about the people at You-Tube, they really seem to hate freedom.
+1 Funny? -1 WTF?
I just don't know.
I hope that this pans out, but the manufacturing of said Renewable energy will probably offset the whole "Green" side of things... Well, hopefully it will all work out for the best. The question is, apart from Government financing, is it possible for Normal People to buy a Green Home / Car / Life?
Several others have given good responses, but I thought I'd point out that the affordability for Normal People will come from projects like this, which make more economical versions more feasible.
The anonymity of this author doesn't mean anything. All of his arguments stand on their own, and are supported by trivially verifiable math. Rather than complain about the authenticity, spend 3 minutes reproducing the results and you'll see that he's right.
Guess what, you can distrust anything in China but at least you know your own computer to be safe.
Mod parent Funny, please.
You don't understand the changes in American conservativism in the twenty years, then.
What three justices do is not American conservativism.
Yeah, if the conservative justices directly mirrored American conservatism, they'd all side with corporations every time, not just three of them.