If I share something with one of my circles which includes several people who only have email and not a G+ account, will they automatically be emailed what I write?
No, not automatically at all.
There is a checkbox where you decide if you want the content to be emailed to them or not.
If you choose to email them, they receive the content first at the top, as well as a link to the webpage of the content (which if you've made it private, they can't access without signing in to an account).
I had a friend forward the email she received to me, and it does include a "Learn more" link, but no "Sign up here" link.
I was quite impressed actually, and I'm also very particular about what emails get sent to my friends, who trust me.
One bummer is the "reply to" is not a useful address. I wish it was like Second Life, where offline IMs can be replied to with a temporary email address for a few days and arrive to you in G+.
The big question though is one that nobody can answer yet with any certainty... will Facebook manage to draw enough people away from MySpace... will people who already use MySpace for everything see a reason to switch... I guess only time will tell.
Fixed that for ya'.;-) (I was of the same mindset of you, I expect FB to linger longer than MySpace has in the face of G+ though.)
But the answer is people don't need to switch for ya', since G+ will share via email and links, you don't need someone to have an account to share with them. They only need an account if they want stuff they'd like to share to appear in your stream.
Someone already suggested they'll use G+ in place of composing email, it's quicker/easier. À la how folks use Twitter in lieu of SMS.
It's not like Facebook, who will tell you 'your friends really want to share this great stuff', but first, you have to sign up and give us your name, address, previous addresses, DOB, income level, SS#, children's names and ages, and the barcode of your soul...
- Make +1 make sense. Currently pages you or others "+1" do not even appear in the stream. They're on a totally different page. This makes the +1 button useless.
- Either get rid of Buzz, or integrate it. it's currently nonsensical that Google is running both, yet Buzz updates don't go into your G+ stream.
- Integration with Google Reader. It sure would be nice if things from my Google Reader showed up in my G+ stream, because then you wouldn't have to leave, and it would facilitate simple sharing. This was a big oversight.
- "Sparks" (AKA Google News) needs to be in your stream. The current implementation is not useful.
- Gate for twitter. Google already has this with Buzz, why on earth did they release G+ without it, I have no clue. It makes me use G+ less because I now have to update two things.
Basically - Google needs to get as much into that stream as possible, and allow the user to filter by subsections if they want - NOT force the data into it's own little islands.
No, no, no, the benefit of G+ now is less noise, easier access to what you want. The control is with you, the user, rather than publishers or others dictating your user experience.
We don't want it turned around, or you'll have the Twitter effect, people love it, people used it, people stopped interacting because they were overwhelmed with too much information and couldn't separate out what they wanted to find, from what they didn't care about.
THIS is where G+ excels so far.
Vice-versa, they need to have it retain which subset of the stream view you wish to see, rather than defaulting to everything.
PS: I agree Google Reader should be integrated, but in a separate tab. Also, incorporating a Twitter client would be great, with good control so it doesn't pollute the stream.
If (hopefully "when") they change it so you have better control than viewing just one Circle in your stream versus the entire thing, IE, being able to pick several, or negate one or more, then I could see SOME of those thing being integrated, but not most. The stream format is only good for certain types of information consumption, as we learned from back when web pages were one long column of useless information.
The interface is utterly boring, the circles are way too hard to set up, you can't tell who you shared your posts with, and I still can't figure out how to post on someone's wall. Oh, and posting a photo, uggg. Maybe it's fixable, but this is not an encouraging start.
A simple clean interface has better for non-power users over the years, and is considered a staple of Google's success with their products.
Circles work just like dragging icons on a desktop, better even, as you can access the functionality anywhere (see a name, click for pop-up).
Every post tells you generally how many it's shared with, without any action on your part (public/limited), and one click of that link pops up a list of exactly who it's shared with.
I posted dozens of photos in one shot (just dragged them).
Wait, maybe you don't have a mouse? (Obviously teasing, bit it seems you are over-thinking it or something.)
PS: The mobile app easily does those things with touchscreens--I watched a complete neophyte do all but upload a photo on her Droid last Friday. My stream shows she uploaded her profile photo this weekend.
This used to happen a bunch, until the public became familiar with geocaching, and years ago geocaching guidelines changed to encourage clear plastic containers rather than the more robust menacing ammo cans that were favored initially (far more weather tight).
Ironically, letterboxing is an activity that has been popular across the pond for decades, and involves the exact same process of hiding a container somewhere publicly accessible.
But, you still will get over zealous officials who want to play with their toys and blow tupperware up, rather than look at the note on the container, or, you know, investigate.
Particularly troubling is this quote from the cache owner referring to the finder, "When I asked as to his fate, the policeman said it would be wrong to tell me what had happened to him but that he had been dealt with without going to court, but it would likely affect his future career. Read into that what you will."
I could see considering arresting the woman who called emergency services over nothing, then releasing her give her honest mistake. But doing more than questioning the finder and placer? Preposterous.
You can simply review their Privacy Policy, which is dang respectable IMO.
G-mail and Google Voice aren't really linked, but both display your contacts. I believe they also added the ability to place a call from the gmail interface?
Anyways, I've seen no correlation of those services to YouTube at all.
This page allows you to control whether Google profile info is used to customize ads or not (accessible without Google+).
If you are paranoid about searches, simply disable cookies (or use Firefox's Private Browsing), or Scroogle.
Finally, Google has it's Dashboard, which summarizes the services you have accounts with them, with links to custom privacy policies or any that are different.
Wow, I sound all Google knowledgeable, but honestly, I just searched for their privacy policy and clicked a few links, heh, they do make it easy.
I have never used my "real" identity with Google, I do not know where you are getting the idea that you must?
Unlike Facebook, which actively would delete accounts made representing your virtual identities and insist on verifying real information.
The later was useless to me, as my entire presence for decades is based on me, not my real name (which happens to co-exist with a celebrity, making it useless).
With Google thankfully, there is no name requirement, no verification, no cross referencing, just me, and whatever I choose to put in the name fields, which is no different than it has been all along.
Yes, I discovered realtime search was gone when I tried to share a Twitter conversation with a friend who wants a musical instrument.
Separately, a friend was engaged in an urban treasure hunt, in a different state, I was able to tell her where a person her team needed to find was, since he shared it an hour before entirely separately.
Let's see, I've used it to learn about one-day sales/promotions, I've used it to learn about status of servers (the first place "Is such-and-such up?" seems to get asked is Twitter), I've used it to discover contest answers, I've used it to learn of natural disasters (tornadoes, thundersnow) and follow natural wonder sightings (aurora borealis).
I've used it to discover police speed traps.
I've used it to learn about a local power station explosion as it was happening, rather than the news media interpretation after the fact.
Just because you can't conceive of things you'd want to search that are topical in just minutes or hours doesn't mean they don't exist.;-)
Also, sadly Twitter's own search is relatively ineffective, often not revealing messages that conform to the search terms.
Google also provided a useful graph plotting frequency of your search term over time.
A better question would be which I used more frequently, old web-based Google, or Twitter-based searches. Given that I tend to go to sources of info (Wikipedia, Twitter, Flicker, YouTube, Amazon, eBay), I tend not to do random shot-in-the-dark web searches too frequently.
Untrue. It's not something you are born with, and there are plenty of people (like me for example), who were never taught or learned jealousy (or guilt). If you do some research, you can easily discover the natural emotions we are born feeling, excluding jealousy, for which there is evidence. There are some cultures where jealousy is nonexistent.
Dogs vying for attention is not jealousy, it's seeking social stimulation, IE, love, (they are pack animals) and/or pack status (think chicken's pecking order). You'll notice ferrets don't behave that way, nor do cats or domestic rabbits.
You'll also notice the natural emotions are based upon hormonal reactions to things (originating in your amygdala). They can happen without conscious understanding of what is going on. Jealousy requires an intellectual conscious decision first, which then triggers a hormonal response (originating in the prefrontal cortex). (So yes, technically one could unlearn it too, but like a bad habit, once you are "wired" that way, it's much harder to replace that reaction with an alternative.)
PS: Is it also possible you are confusing jealousy with envy, which is a natural emotion?
Is this true? I would be jealous for sure, but sexually aroused when my girlfriend cheats on me? I don't think so. Are these proven facts, or just a theory based on some weakly correlated evidence?
First, jealousy isn't a natural emotion, it's learned. So some won't feel that.
Second, "cheating" isn't a prerequisite. No dishonestly or going behind another's back. A partner having relations with another may be permitted.
Finally, would you feel negatively seeing a sexual video of your girlfriend from before you were dating her? What about a video of her identical twin? How about if the video featured her with another woman? How about if it was a capture of her masturbating with a stranger on Chatroulette? How about if it was her job back then?
In my case, not having kids, Hulu provides what I need free. Unlike those using game systems, I only have a laptop, so an S-Video cable feeds the TV and a USB audio adapter runs to my stereo system.
The only difference from before is I can no longer watch things at double-speed off my PVR (unless I record from the laptop first of course). Double-speed was the best way to watch tennis tournaments, news, and saved a ton of time.
Or even more universal, Twitter, they can simply use a hashtag per response (or @fictionalpositive / @fictionalnay / @fictionalabstain), submit it via whatever they have, text message (SMS), web page, mobile site, app or terminals in the room for those without mobiles. Twitter search provides 50 results per page, for easy tabulation.
No need to setup anything beforehand (except test that your hashtags are unique and readily searchable).
(Heck you could even live stream the results as they come in, or delayed.)
Yeah but actually they defined smart phones as only a limited subset of phones. (You only need SMS to be connected with Twitter after all.)
They didn't include java phones, and they claimed other phones aren't "capable of downloading and running programs on demand. Another distinguishing feature is either a physical or touch-screen keyboard and a data plan to download and connect to the Internet with".
Um, my java flip phone from 2002 is capable of downloading and running programs (now called "apps"), has a T9 keyboard, and is 3G, in fact I used to tether it as my sole broadband connection, until I upgraded to fiber at my house. Sadly, one of my defunct apps let me not just access, but use Second Life on my phone, something that hasn't been achieved on "smart" phones since AFAIK.
So let's see, I can keep using my phone, with which I can readily type with one hand instead of two, pay $30/month instead of $70/month, download free apps instead of buying apps, or I can "upgrade" (read downgrade) to a "smart" phone--that sounds dumb to me.
You're quite lucky. The risk from mains current isn't that 120VAC at some small amperage will cook you; it's that 60Hz AC will throw your heart into ventricular fibrillation. A foot-to-foot connection poses no real risk other than pain, while a hand-to-left-foot circuit very well may kill you.
May possibly kill an infant or elderly person you mean.
Speaking as someone who had 110 running across my chest, with live in one hand and ground in the other for several seconds, unable to let go (for obvious reasons), until I managed to push myself away from the lines with my feet.
The most likely harm is burns at points of contact.
I did 3D years ago now, back when it was emerging, in a small shop.
Yes, just like any other business, companies don't want their name associated with shoddy products that hurt their image and chance for future work. Or their principles disallow them to produce work for clients that promote products they deem harmful to their core business, such as children.
However, as someone else points out below, you have to have the luxury of cash flow, and not be desperate to keep the doors open.
Then there's also a sensitive issue, if the quality of your animation or effects far surpasses the quality of the set, then the set designer/company looks bad. If the quality of your animation lighting makes the DP's lighting look shoddy, then the DP will be upset with you. If the quality of your 3D performer is better then the actor... If the... Etcetera...
Most frequently however, you haven't the slightest idea what the quality of the final product will be. I always laugh when interviewers ask actors in a blockbuster movie if they knew it was going to be great when they signed on. Of course they say yes to promote the movie. But all they had at the time was a script treatment! Not even a script. They had NO idea whatsoever, all the decisions that would be made in the intervening months.
Well guess what? Effects houses know even less when they sign on.
I can tell you a couple decades ago, in the 80s, before paintball became a common activity, a local paintball store had their deliveries shipped marked both "fragile" and unmarked--they quickly learned to not mark anything fragile to reduce breakage/costs.
It's like a heading "DON'T READ THIS". Nothing will draw attention to it more.
If you don't want to get "special" treatment, don't draw attention to yourself, as any vulnerable prey will attest.
You: Mash the keyboard... Mayor McCheese: ROFL You: Precede your next statement with # Mayor McCheese: So you are a control freak? You: How many words are in this sentence? Mayor McCheese: I'm a damned hamburger I can't count!
Douchebags ruin your turing tests.
Well your responses obviously understood the context, sounds human to me.
However...
RJFerret - Mash the keyboard [ Af:0 At:7 Sp:0] That's enough on that. Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949. RJFerret - Precede your next statement with # [ Af:0 At:7 Sp:0] If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? RJFerret - How many words are in this sentence? [ Af:0 At:7 Sp:0] There are 6 words in that sentence.
Reminds me of the Honda Civic HF, which nearly 25 years ago got 57 MPG average.
Plenty of diesel cars already do 60-70MPG. With the advantage of having no ignition system to go wrong and lots of torque, horse power is a misleading gauge of power, torque is what turns the wheels.
People usually look to horsepower as a measure of potential speed actually.
They are interrelated though, as HP = torque X RPM / 5252
Sure, a tractor can be powerful, but I have a car with ridiculously low torque, with record setting HP per cylinder, that is extremely fast (0-60 in 5-6 seconds) and amazingly fuel efficient (have gotten over 30 mpg highway) compared to similar performing alternatives.
All that being said, modern diesels not only are great, can use alternative fuel with little to no modifications (vegetable oil), but sadly still have a hard time overcoming the early introduction of diesel cars in America, which were sorely under-performing, dirty, noisy monstrosities.
Sure all those things have been remedied, but that just goes to prove how silly our general market is.
Diesels outperform hybrids, last longer with less maintenance and cost less (both initially and overall), but Hollywood hasn't made them trendy yet.
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If I share something with one of my circles which includes several people who only have email and not a G+ account, will they automatically be emailed what I write?
No, not automatically at all.
There is a checkbox where you decide if you want the content to be emailed to them or not.
If you choose to email them, they receive the content first at the top, as well as a link to the webpage of the content (which if you've made it private, they can't access without signing in to an account).
I had a friend forward the email she received to me, and it does include a "Learn more" link, but no "Sign up here" link.
I was quite impressed actually, and I'm also very particular about what emails get sent to my friends, who trust me.
One bummer is the "reply to" is not a useful address. I wish it was like Second Life, where offline IMs can be replied to with a temporary email address for a few days and arrive to you in G+.
The big question though is one that nobody can answer yet with any certainty... will Facebook manage to draw enough people away from MySpace... will people who already use MySpace for everything see a reason to switch... I guess only time will tell.
Fixed that for ya'. ;-) (I was of the same mindset of you, I expect FB to linger longer than MySpace has in the face of G+ though.)
But the answer is people don't need to switch for ya', since G+ will share via email and links, you don't need someone to have an account to share with them. They only need an account if they want stuff they'd like to share to appear in your stream.
Someone already suggested they'll use G+ in place of composing email, it's quicker/easier. À la how folks use Twitter in lieu of SMS.
It's not like Facebook, who will tell you 'your friends really want to share this great stuff', but first, you have to sign up and give us your name, address, previous addresses, DOB, income level, SS#, children's names and ages, and the barcode of your soul...
- Make +1 make sense. Currently pages you or others "+1" do not even appear in the stream. They're on a totally different page. This makes the +1 button useless.
- Either get rid of Buzz, or integrate it. it's currently nonsensical that Google is running both, yet Buzz updates don't go into your G+ stream.
- Integration with Google Reader. It sure would be nice if things from my Google Reader showed up in my G+ stream, because then you wouldn't have to leave, and it would facilitate simple sharing. This was a big oversight.
- "Sparks" (AKA Google News) needs to be in your stream. The current implementation is not useful.
- Gate for twitter. Google already has this with Buzz, why on earth did they release G+ without it, I have no clue. It makes me use G+ less because I now have to update two things.
Basically - Google needs to get as much into that stream as possible, and allow the user to filter by subsections if they want - NOT force the data into it's own little islands.
No, no, no, the benefit of G+ now is less noise, easier access to what you want. The control is with you, the user, rather than publishers or others dictating your user experience.
We don't want it turned around, or you'll have the Twitter effect, people love it, people used it, people stopped interacting because they were overwhelmed with too much information and couldn't separate out what they wanted to find, from what they didn't care about.
THIS is where G+ excels so far.
Vice-versa, they need to have it retain which subset of the stream view you wish to see, rather than defaulting to everything.
PS: I agree Google Reader should be integrated, but in a separate tab. Also, incorporating a Twitter client would be great, with good control so it doesn't pollute the stream.
If (hopefully "when") they change it so you have better control than viewing just one Circle in your stream versus the entire thing, IE, being able to pick several, or negate one or more, then I could see SOME of those thing being integrated, but not most. The stream format is only good for certain types of information consumption, as we learned from back when web pages were one long column of useless information.
Your compulsive purchasing single Asian Jewish alternate personality must be very disappointed.
(And suffering from WoW withdrawal.)
Little outcry because opened with that already in place, and there was an alternative to GMail, Yahoo.
If this remains, there's no remaining reason for me not to leave Yahoo entirely.
The interface is utterly boring, the circles are way too hard to set up, you can't tell who you shared your posts with, and I still can't figure out how to post on someone's wall. Oh, and posting a photo, uggg. Maybe it's fixable, but this is not an encouraging start.
A simple clean interface has better for non-power users over the years, and is considered a staple of Google's success with their products.
Circles work just like dragging icons on a desktop, better even, as you can access the functionality anywhere (see a name, click for pop-up).
Every post tells you generally how many it's shared with, without any action on your part (public/limited), and one click of that link pops up a list of exactly who it's shared with.
I posted dozens of photos in one shot (just dragged them).
Wait, maybe you don't have a mouse? (Obviously teasing, bit it seems you are over-thinking it or something.)
PS: The mobile app easily does those things with touchscreens--I watched a complete neophyte do all but upload a photo on her Droid last Friday. My stream shows she uploaded her profile photo this weekend.
And I'm not sure if you can finish off the cut edge of a board to a point where it won't unravel -- or at least, how you would do so.
I'd imagine sealing edges with epoxy or equivalent would suffice.
This used to happen a bunch, until the public became familiar with geocaching, and years ago geocaching guidelines changed to encourage clear plastic containers rather than the more robust menacing ammo cans that were favored initially (far more weather tight).
Ironically, letterboxing is an activity that has been popular across the pond for decades, and involves the exact same process of hiding a container somewhere publicly accessible.
But, you still will get over zealous officials who want to play with their toys and blow tupperware up, rather than look at the note on the container, or, you know, investigate.
Link to the archived geocache listing (for which you need an account to view)
Particularly troubling is this quote from the cache owner referring to the finder, "When I asked as to his fate, the policeman said it would be wrong to tell me what had happened to him but that he had been dealt with without going to court, but it would likely affect his future career. Read into that what you will."
I could see considering arresting the woman who called emergency services over nothing, then releasing her give her honest mistake. But doing more than questioning the finder and placer? Preposterous.
You can simply review their Privacy Policy, which is dang respectable IMO.
G-mail and Google Voice aren't really linked, but both display your contacts. I believe they also added the ability to place a call from the gmail interface?
Anyways, I've seen no correlation of those services to YouTube at all.
This page allows you to control whether Google profile info is used to customize ads or not (accessible without Google+).
If you are paranoid about searches, simply disable cookies (or use Firefox's Private Browsing), or Scroogle.
Finally, Google has it's Dashboard, which summarizes the services you have accounts with them, with links to custom privacy policies or any that are different.
Wow, I sound all Google knowledgeable, but honestly, I just searched for their privacy policy and clicked a few links, heh, they do make it easy.
I have never used my "real" identity with Google, I do not know where you are getting the idea that you must?
Unlike Facebook, which actively would delete accounts made representing your virtual identities and insist on verifying real information.
The later was useless to me, as my entire presence for decades is based on me, not my real name (which happens to co-exist with a celebrity, making it useless).
With Google thankfully, there is no name requirement, no verification, no cross referencing, just me, and whatever I choose to put in the name fields, which is no different than it has been all along.
Yes, I discovered realtime search was gone when I tried to share a Twitter conversation with a friend who wants a musical instrument.
Separately, a friend was engaged in an urban treasure hunt, in a different state, I was able to tell her where a person her team needed to find was, since he shared it an hour before entirely separately.
Let's see, I've used it to learn about one-day sales/promotions, I've used it to learn about status of servers (the first place "Is such-and-such up?" seems to get asked is Twitter), I've used it to discover contest answers, I've used it to learn of natural disasters (tornadoes, thundersnow) and follow natural wonder sightings (aurora borealis).
I've used it to discover police speed traps.
I've used it to learn about a local power station explosion as it was happening, rather than the news media interpretation after the fact.
Just because you can't conceive of things you'd want to search that are topical in just minutes or hours doesn't mean they don't exist. ;-)
Also, sadly Twitter's own search is relatively ineffective, often not revealing messages that conform to the search terms.
Google also provided a useful graph plotting frequency of your search term over time.
A better question would be which I used more frequently, old web-based Google, or Twitter-based searches. Given that I tend to go to sources of info (Wikipedia, Twitter, Flicker, YouTube, Amazon, eBay), I tend not to do random shot-in-the-dark web searches too frequently.
Even easier, since the original question pointed out "old files", simply sort by creation date initially.
Untrue. It's not something you are born with, and there are plenty of people (like me for example), who were never taught or learned jealousy (or guilt). If you do some research, you can easily discover the natural emotions we are born feeling, excluding jealousy, for which there is evidence. There are some cultures where jealousy is nonexistent.
Dogs vying for attention is not jealousy, it's seeking social stimulation, IE, love, (they are pack animals) and/or pack status (think chicken's pecking order). You'll notice ferrets don't behave that way, nor do cats or domestic rabbits.
You'll also notice the natural emotions are based upon hormonal reactions to things (originating in your amygdala). They can happen without conscious understanding of what is going on. Jealousy requires an intellectual conscious decision first, which then triggers a hormonal response (originating in the prefrontal cortex). (So yes, technically one could unlearn it too, but like a bad habit, once you are "wired" that way, it's much harder to replace that reaction with an alternative.)
PS: Is it also possible you are confusing jealousy with envy, which is a natural emotion?
Is this true? I would be jealous for sure, but sexually aroused when my girlfriend cheats on me? I don't think so. Are these proven facts, or just a theory based on some weakly correlated evidence?
First, jealousy isn't a natural emotion, it's learned. So some won't feel that.
Second, "cheating" isn't a prerequisite. No dishonestly or going behind another's back. A partner having relations with another may be permitted.
Finally, would you feel negatively seeing a sexual video of your girlfriend from before you were dating her? What about a video of her identical twin? How about if the video featured her with another woman? How about if it was a capture of her masturbating with a stranger on Chatroulette? How about if it was her job back then?
In my case, not having kids, Hulu provides what I need free. Unlike those using game systems, I only have a laptop, so an S-Video cable feeds the TV and a USB audio adapter runs to my stereo system.
The only difference from before is I can no longer watch things at double-speed off my PVR (unless I record from the laptop first of course). Double-speed was the best way to watch tennis tournaments, news, and saved a ton of time.
Instead, I've saved about $1000 annually.
Or even more universal, Twitter, they can simply use a hashtag per response (or @fictionalpositive / @fictionalnay / @fictionalabstain), submit it via whatever they have, text message (SMS), web page, mobile site, app or terminals in the room for those without mobiles. Twitter search provides 50 results per page, for easy tabulation.
No need to setup anything beforehand (except test that your hashtags are unique and readily searchable).
(Heck you could even live stream the results as they come in, or delayed.)
Yeah but actually they defined smart phones as only a limited subset of phones. (You only need SMS to be connected with Twitter after all.)
They didn't include java phones, and they claimed other phones aren't "capable of downloading and running programs on demand. Another distinguishing feature is either a physical or touch-screen keyboard and a data plan to download and connect to the Internet with".
Um, my java flip phone from 2002 is capable of downloading and running programs (now called "apps"), has a T9 keyboard, and is 3G, in fact I used to tether it as my sole broadband connection, until I upgraded to fiber at my house. Sadly, one of my defunct apps let me not just access, but use Second Life on my phone, something that hasn't been achieved on "smart" phones since AFAIK.
So let's see, I can keep using my phone, with which I can readily type with one hand instead of two, pay $30/month instead of $70/month, download free apps instead of buying apps, or I can "upgrade" (read downgrade) to a "smart" phone--that sounds dumb to me.
Limiting a definition does not reality make.
You're quite lucky. The risk from mains current isn't that 120VAC at some small amperage will cook you; it's that 60Hz AC will throw your heart into ventricular fibrillation. A foot-to-foot connection poses no real risk other than pain, while a hand-to-left-foot circuit very well may kill you.
May possibly kill an infant or elderly person you mean.
Speaking as someone who had 110 running across my chest, with live in one hand and ground in the other for several seconds, unable to let go (for obvious reasons), until I managed to push myself away from the lines with my feet.
The most likely harm is burns at points of contact.
I did 3D years ago now, back when it was emerging, in a small shop.
Yes, just like any other business, companies don't want their name associated with shoddy products that hurt their image and chance for future work. Or their principles disallow them to produce work for clients that promote products they deem harmful to their core business, such as children.
However, as someone else points out below, you have to have the luxury of cash flow, and not be desperate to keep the doors open.
Then there's also a sensitive issue, if the quality of your animation or effects far surpasses the quality of the set, then the set designer/company looks bad. If the quality of your animation lighting makes the DP's lighting look shoddy, then the DP will be upset with you. If the quality of your 3D performer is better then the actor... If the... Etcetera...
Most frequently however, you haven't the slightest idea what the quality of the final product will be. I always laugh when interviewers ask actors in a blockbuster movie if they knew it was going to be great when they signed on. Of course they say yes to promote the movie. But all they had at the time was a script treatment! Not even a script. They had NO idea whatsoever, all the decisions that would be made in the intervening months.
Well guess what? Effects houses know even less when they sign on.
The Boston incident was certainly an overreaction, but this one is more understandable, after all the toy had 8", while the police...
I can tell you a couple decades ago, in the 80s, before paintball became a common activity, a local paintball store had their deliveries shipped marked both "fragile" and unmarked--they quickly learned to not mark anything fragile to reduce breakage/costs.
It's like a heading "DON'T READ THIS". Nothing will draw attention to it more.
If you don't want to get "special" treatment, don't draw attention to yourself, as any vulnerable prey will attest.
PS: I am disappointed that the article is so short.
It's always scary when the Slashdot summary and the article are practically identical. Worse, the article just seems to be a reworded press release.
Yes, that blog posting was more an example of someone who fails to understand human nature, and overly dramatizes risk.
Heck, Facebook as a company has been proven to do more damage to users than anyone using Firesheep ever could, yet users still want to use it!
You: Mash the keyboard...
Mayor McCheese: ROFL
You: Precede your next statement with #
Mayor McCheese: So you are a control freak?
You: How many words are in this sentence?
Mayor McCheese: I'm a damned hamburger I can't count!
Douchebags ruin your turing tests.
Well your responses obviously understood the context, sounds human to me.
However...
RJFerret - Mash the keyboard
[ Af:0 At:7 Sp:0] That's enough on that. Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949.
RJFerret - Precede your next statement with #
[ Af:0 At:7 Sp:0] If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
RJFerret - How many words are in this sentence?
[ Af:0 At:7 Sp:0] There are 6 words in that sentence.
Reminds me of the Honda Civic HF, which nearly 25 years ago got 57 MPG average.
Plenty of diesel cars already do 60-70MPG. With the advantage of having no ignition system to go wrong and lots of torque, horse power is a misleading gauge of power, torque is what turns the wheels.
People usually look to horsepower as a measure of potential speed actually.
They are interrelated though, as HP = torque X RPM / 5252
Sure, a tractor can be powerful, but I have a car with ridiculously low torque, with record setting HP per cylinder, that is extremely fast (0-60 in 5-6 seconds) and amazingly fuel efficient (have gotten over 30 mpg highway) compared to similar performing alternatives.
All that being said, modern diesels not only are great, can use alternative fuel with little to no modifications (vegetable oil), but sadly still have a hard time overcoming the early introduction of diesel cars in America, which were sorely under-performing, dirty, noisy monstrosities.
Sure all those things have been remedied, but that just goes to prove how silly our general market is.
Diesels outperform hybrids, last longer with less maintenance and cost less (both initially and overall), but Hollywood hasn't made them trendy yet.