or she could just license it for a pittance, say $5/year. unless she actually wanted to squeeze a small business. but no, only large corporations are greedy, of course.
well, slashdot doesn't like basic typographic symbols either. at least i can use html entities for endash and emdash, but it will strip out a proper ellipsis, even as an html entity.
they won't have to think. eventually there will be services to "professionalize" your light-field photos (possibly this service will be bundled into specially-marketed lines of camera in the "razor and blades" style). this process will be at least partly automated, with the left-over work done by low- to medium-skilled employees in production line fashion. bottom line is, instead of hiring a good professional photographer for an event, you can just have your staff or wedding guests run around with lytros and then either 1) use some specialized software to optimize them, much like red-eye correction is done now; or 2) if it's a very special occasion, pay a company a few hundred bucks to optimize them using audited production-line labor.
of course, the result won't be as good as a real professional photographer mostly because there won't be any mise en scène, but hey, most "professional" photographers really aren't that good anyway and as you said, people don't think. it'll be 90% as good for 10% the price, and hiring a photographer will become like hiring a valet: exclusively for the quite rich.
of course, this is the business side. on the art side, creative people will figure out new forms of photography to fully exploit the light-field.
it's worse; there's also a lot of noise if the subject is not very well lit. since they claim this will be (partially) fixed in firmware, maybe they haven't gotten dark-frame subtraction to work yet?
less coloring=marginally lower operating costs in the long term.
now, maybe it will reduce sales, but i find that hard to believe. even if it did, i won't cry for them; thanks to massive corn subsidies, they're still better off with government than without it. live by the sword, die by the sword.
no it isn't. verisimilitude is, roughly, the quality of being believably realistic. truthiness is like "verisimilitudinous lying," i.e. the apparent realism is misleading, often toward the exact opposite of the truth.
i wasn't trolling. it's fair (in that it removes the glaring exception among slurs; "cracker" is just weak) and pretty accurate. i think it would be a wonderful thing, if non-whites started calling whites "ice niggers".
sure, we can do that after we abolish trade secrets and patent protection (we'd of course retain the mandatory publication part, so as to have that information there in the first place). fair enough?
this is called "multiple testing," and is an instance of what is derogatorily called "data-dredging" (as opposed to data-mining, which is (hopefully) doing this sort of thing responsibly). there are ways to do multiple testing correctly.
for instance, you can sometimes test whether there is any effect and then, if that is positive, go into identification. if nothing else, you can do a bonferroni correction, which is dead simple and almost always valid, but also overly stringent (it multiples p-values by the number of hypotheses tested). nowadays you can sometimes sample a population of artificial datasets from the given data and check yourself that way (this is called "bootstrapping").
once again, the summary is crap. the experiment didn't make them rich; it raised their status, which is very different.
likewise, the driving observation was based on the car they were driving, a rather noisy and biased indicator of wealth (in particular, fancy cars are associated with being a douchebag as much as they are with having $).
you're both right. but, unless the linux kernel and x.org have s3kr1t apis that libreoffice can't use, this argument is a bit thin... i've started from scratch with both libreoffice and office2007, and arguing that libreoffice is functionally better in any way (apart from supporting an open standard) is ridiculous. personally, i even preferred running office2007 on cxoffice to running libreoffice natively. please leave the "secret optimizations" argument back in the 1990s.
according to the oed, "bold-faced" goes back to at least 1623 (shakespeare) and is defined as "Having a bold or confident face or look; usually impudent." okay, so that works.
the earliest noted metaphorical use of "bare-faced" (as opposed to literally not wearing a mask/veil) is also shakespeare and is defined as "unconcealed, undisguised, avowed, open." this also works.
on the other hand, "bald-faced" goes only back to 1648 and has no recorded metaphorical use at that time.
so it's either bold-faced or bare-faced, and you can probably thank shakespeare for both, so who cares?
yes, indeed my "point" (insofar as i had one) was that hypertext has so far only been effective as reference/commentary.
continuing with this, i don't see how hyperlinks make your example much better than just having two parallel texts. the benefit of switching rapidly back and forth comes with being restricted to hyperlinks, which break the "continuous" aspects of writing when they are followed. people are really good at sympathizing and creating associations, so i suspect that a bunch of hyperlinks would be, ironically, more constricting than just reading the two texts separately.
just a thought. i don't think hyperlinks are impossible to use in the text (someone mentioned infinite jest, which i'll also endorse as coming close), but so far i haven't seen any successes which aren't metatextual.
i think it's supposed to be ironic. the reader's relief that it's not about anal rape and/or eating feces, like most copy-paste jobs, plays into the light-heartedness of the self-destruction.
if the only obligation of these entities is toward the morals of the shareholders, and they ignore or actively shirk this obligation, isn't that pretty much the definition of amorality?
the definitive "hyperlinks" for the bible were published in 1890 and known as Strong's Concordance (which is, btw, possibly the most badass-sounding book title in the history of english), or more accurately Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. there's a modern hyperlinked version here based on it, called the Interlinear Bible, which is remarkably similar and effective.
the problem with hyperlinks in literature is, i think, that they have to be both thorough and noticeable in order to be any better than mere footnotes. however, this means that they are going to be distracting, and most readers will end up skimming through the entire book wikipedia-style instead of reading it. i remember reading some awful literature on a cd-rom on my middle school computers, that tried to exploit this, but it didn't work very well. i guess a custom reader could be made to restrict hyperlinks somehow, but this is aesthetically hard to design; will probably have compatibility problems; and may even be intrinsically frustrating to the reader.
it's notable that much of the function of Strong's Concordance is to help the dedicated reader work through translation issues. it's a "metatextual" scholarly tool.
some kindle books have a feature where you can read other peoples' annotations. i think it's kind of sleazy to put a social network in a book, but it's maybe the only literary hypertext that is actually at all functional right now. note, again, this is metatextual.
in the original back to the future script, marty mcfly was sent "back to the future" in a refrigerator in one of the model houses at a nuclear test site. doc brown modded the fridge somehow so that the radiation would trigger the time circuits.
the original script was very surreal, and a blatant social commentary on the failure/decay of the space age. for example, iirc, the time machine was powered by diet cola and marty is stranded because aspartame isn't invented until 1965.
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or she could just license it for a pittance, say $5/year. unless she actually wanted to squeeze a small business. but no, only large corporations are greedy, of course.
it's england. they'd be sued for libel the next day. doesn't matter if it's a true statement.
well, slashdot doesn't like basic typographic symbols either. at least i can use html entities for endash and emdash, but it will strip out a proper ellipsis, even as an html entity.
kudos! spoken like a true "bastard operator from hell".
they won't have to think. eventually there will be services to "professionalize" your light-field photos (possibly this service will be bundled into specially-marketed lines of camera in the "razor and blades" style). this process will be at least partly automated, with the left-over work done by low- to medium-skilled employees in production line fashion. bottom line is, instead of hiring a good professional photographer for an event, you can just have your staff or wedding guests run around with lytros and then either 1) use some specialized software to optimize them, much like red-eye correction is done now; or 2) if it's a very special occasion, pay a company a few hundred bucks to optimize them using audited production-line labor.
of course, the result won't be as good as a real professional photographer mostly because there won't be any mise en scène, but hey, most "professional" photographers really aren't that good anyway and as you said, people don't think. it'll be 90% as good for 10% the price, and hiring a photographer will become like hiring a valet: exclusively for the quite rich.
of course, this is the business side. on the art side, creative people will figure out new forms of photography to fully exploit the light-field.
it's worse; there's also a lot of noise if the subject is not very well lit. since they claim this will be (partially) fixed in firmware, maybe they haven't gotten dark-frame subtraction to work yet?
less coloring=marginally lower operating costs in the long term.
now, maybe it will reduce sales, but i find that hard to believe. even if it did, i won't cry for them; thanks to massive corn subsidies, they're still better off with government than without it. live by the sword, die by the sword.
please provide evidence that 34mg of caffeine will harm me.
and the other half involve the television show being worth watching.
no it isn't. verisimilitude is, roughly, the quality of being believably realistic. truthiness is like "verisimilitudinous lying," i.e. the apparent realism is misleading, often toward the exact opposite of the truth.
mostly. this would be worse only if, apart from the servers folding, the cards were non-transferable between accounts, which i assume was the case.
with few exceptions, i always correct the cashier. overall, in the past five years, this has resulted in a net "loss" of maybe $20.
the exceptions are when the cashier is a dick. decency is a mutual axiom; if you violate it, so will i.
the money was wasted the moment it was spent... this is just driving home that point.
i wasn't trolling. it's fair (in that it removes the glaring exception among slurs; "cracker" is just weak) and pretty accurate. i think it would be a wonderful thing, if non-whites started calling whites "ice niggers".
sure, we can do that after we abolish trade secrets and patent protection (we'd of course retain the mandatory publication part, so as to have that information there in the first place). fair enough?
well, the funniest one i've heard is "ice nigger".
this is called "multiple testing," and is an instance of what is derogatorily called "data-dredging" (as opposed to data-mining, which is (hopefully) doing this sort of thing responsibly). there are ways to do multiple testing correctly.
for instance, you can sometimes test whether there is any effect and then, if that is positive, go into identification. if nothing else, you can do a bonferroni correction, which is dead simple and almost always valid, but also overly stringent (it multiples p-values by the number of hypotheses tested). nowadays you can sometimes sample a population of artificial datasets from the given data and check yourself that way (this is called "bootstrapping").
once again, the summary is crap. the experiment didn't make them rich; it raised their status, which is very different.
likewise, the driving observation was based on the car they were driving, a rather noisy and biased indicator of wealth (in particular, fancy cars are associated with being a douchebag as much as they are with having $).
you're both right. but, unless the linux kernel and x.org have s3kr1t apis that libreoffice can't use, this argument is a bit thin... i've started from scratch with both libreoffice and office2007, and arguing that libreoffice is functionally better in any way (apart from supporting an open standard) is ridiculous. personally, i even preferred running office2007 on cxoffice to running libreoffice natively. please leave the "secret optimizations" argument back in the 1990s.
according to the oed, "bold-faced" goes back to at least 1623 (shakespeare) and is defined as "Having a bold or confident face or look; usually impudent." okay, so that works.
the earliest noted metaphorical use of "bare-faced" (as opposed to literally not wearing a mask/veil) is also shakespeare and is defined as "unconcealed, undisguised, avowed, open." this also works.
on the other hand, "bald-faced" goes only back to 1648 and has no recorded metaphorical use at that time.
so it's either bold-faced or bare-faced, and you can probably thank shakespeare for both, so who cares?
yes, indeed my "point" (insofar as i had one) was that hypertext has so far only been effective as reference/commentary.
continuing with this, i don't see how hyperlinks make your example much better than just having two parallel texts. the benefit of switching rapidly back and forth comes with being restricted to hyperlinks, which break the "continuous" aspects of writing when they are followed. people are really good at sympathizing and creating associations, so i suspect that a bunch of hyperlinks would be, ironically, more constricting than just reading the two texts separately.
just a thought. i don't think hyperlinks are impossible to use in the text (someone mentioned infinite jest, which i'll also endorse as coming close), but so far i haven't seen any successes which aren't metatextual.
i think it's supposed to be ironic. the reader's relief that it's not about anal rape and/or eating feces, like most copy-paste jobs, plays into the light-heartedness of the self-destruction.
if the only obligation of these entities is toward the morals of the shareholders, and they ignore or actively shirk this obligation, isn't that pretty much the definition of amorality?
the definitive "hyperlinks" for the bible were published in 1890 and known as Strong's Concordance (which is, btw, possibly the most badass-sounding book title in the history of english), or more accurately Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. there's a modern hyperlinked version here based on it, called the Interlinear Bible, which is remarkably similar and effective.
the problem with hyperlinks in literature is, i think, that they have to be both thorough and noticeable in order to be any better than mere footnotes. however, this means that they are going to be distracting, and most readers will end up skimming through the entire book wikipedia-style instead of reading it. i remember reading some awful literature on a cd-rom on my middle school computers, that tried to exploit this, but it didn't work very well. i guess a custom reader could be made to restrict hyperlinks somehow, but this is aesthetically hard to design; will probably have compatibility problems; and may even be intrinsically frustrating to the reader.
it's notable that much of the function of Strong's Concordance is to help the dedicated reader work through translation issues. it's a "metatextual" scholarly tool.
some kindle books have a feature where you can read other peoples' annotations. i think it's kind of sleazy to put a social network in a book, but it's maybe the only literary hypertext that is actually at all functional right now. note, again, this is metatextual.
in the original back to the future script, marty mcfly was sent "back to the future" in a refrigerator in one of the model houses at a nuclear test site. doc brown modded the fridge somehow so that the radiation would trigger the time circuits.
the original script was very surreal, and a blatant social commentary on the failure/decay of the space age. for example, iirc, the time machine was powered by diet cola and marty is stranded because aspartame isn't invented until 1965.