There is NOTHING new in programming technology and hasn't been for a longest time. Really, in 16 years I can only truly say that bit-torrent was somehow a unique/new idea, but I think even that wasn't that radical, just the protocol was new.
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but the only reason why you think that is that you have an extremely limited perspective on programming.
In fact, are we completely sure there are no patents affecting VP8 which are held by third parties? Open sourcing the code might not do that much good if you can't legally ship it in America.
Heh. But it's not too far-fetched to think that Apple's infamous new rules for the iPhone have something to do with Adobe suddenly annoucing that they're working on Flash->HTML5 conversion. It looks like something good might come out of that decision after all.
There are infinitely many ways to align those three dimensions. So yes, “dimension” would be correct terminology.
There are infinitely many *alternative* ways to define three base dimensions, but you can have infinitely many directions within the *same* vector space. Not the same thing.
It's not wrong, it's just using a more technical definition of "direction" than the one you're used to. In the mathematics and physics I was taught, a vector has three attributes: a magnitude, which is a positive number; a direction, which is similar to a line, not a ray (eg north-south, not just north; the x axis, not just positive x; etc.); and a third thing which determines which way it's going along that direction (a single bit, basically); I'm not sure what this last thing is called in English, so let's call it sign, since you typically decide which way is positive and which way is negative along a direction, and then a signed number gives you both the magnitude and the sign.
This definition of "direction" may seem counterintuive at first, but it's really quite useful, because in physics you often encounter things which have to do with a direction in this sense (as is the case with this new material). That also explains why the writers of the article used this definition.
Note that you cannot simply use "dimension" in its stead. There are three dimensions in three-dimensional space (by definition), but infinite directions, so it's clear that they cannot be the same thing.
Also, when you have free time in California you can enjoy the sun, hit the beach, surf the ocean, or whatever else it is that young, happy people do outside. But what are you going to do when you're stuck inside during the long, cold Scandinavian winter? Before the Internet, Scandinavian kids used to get so bored, and thus angry, that they would do crazy stuff like this. Now fast Internet access makes life bearable in the inhospitable north. Of course everyone wants it.
The page you linked mentions that Berlusconi's channels gets 45% of TV audience. That's a far cry from "45% of all media". It's also unsourced and undated; assuming it was correct at some point, it is no longer so. The current data shows that Berlusconi's group is not even the largest group in terms of TV audience share (the largest is state-owned RAI).
No, no, a thousand times no. You literally have no idea what you're talking about.
One, in Italy the executive has no power over the judiciary or the prosecution, and neither does the parliament. No, not like in your country. The judiciary (which comprises both judges and prosecutors) is completely self-governed: there are no checks or balances other than the fact that they cannot make their own laws. They are not even subject to the people: they are not elected, nor under the direct or indirect influence of any popularly elected official.
Two, members of the judiciary, and especially the prosecutors and judges in Milan, are Berlusconi's worst enemies. They hate him, he hates them, and they have been trying to send him to jail for over a decade.
To say that Berlusconi is behind a ruling made by a Milan court is like saying that George W. Bush produced Fahrenheit 9/11, or that Sarah Palin was the secret mastermind of Obama's campaign. I am struggling to find a reference familiar to the American public that could accurately convey the level of (presumably inadvertent) lunacy your suggestion represents. You are making about as much sense as a Scientologist moon-landing-denier wearing a full suit of tinfoil armor.
The gamma is just the exponent in the function Vout = Vin**gamma. You can apply this function repeatedly to convert between different representations or to adapt the image to different output devices. The "gamma = 1.0" in the JFIF spec does indeed refer to the conversion applied to the RGB values obtained from YCbCr before sending them to the screen: it says that this conversion is the identity function, ie no conversion, ie the RGB as obtained by linear transformation of the YCbCr is already fit for display on a monitor - ie it is already at gamma 2.2.
Actually, Chinese traditional medicine might be even worse than homeopathy. Homeopathy may be a load of rubbish, but at least it doesn't have a billion people craving rare animal penis.
No matter how good that amended solution may be, you and I aren't going to care. We're only going to remember the stories on Slashdot and know that ACTA = EVIL. So with this early exposure, the thing is dead before it can be reformed and amended.
Oh, they're just going to change the name once the negotiations are over. Remember Palladium => TCPA => whatever they call it now? And that was just the private industry. These guys are politicians.
In Italy, when I buy train tickets online, I get the reservation info on my phone by SMS. When the train conductor comes, he asks me for the car and seat (in case I decided to move to some other empty seat) and checks my reservation code on his PDA. There's no paper involved.
10.6 dropped ATSUI support. 10.4 doesn't have Core Text. So the only way to support both is to have codepaths to use both text rendering backends and switch at runtime.
We're talking about drawing text here. Why don't you just put a CoreText-like wrapper around the old ATSUI code? How hard can that be? In fact, considering how Firefox is a multiplatform program with its own GUI framework (XUL), I'm surprised you don't already have a generic text-rendering wrapper.
or shipping separate binaries with the ensuing user confusion during downloading
That's ridiculous. You have the OS version right there in the user-agent string. In fact, you're *already* using it to offer me the right version of Firefox to download for my OS and language!
So there's not an obvious course of action here that best serves "the users".
In terms of user experience, 10.4 was superior to 10.5 for IME use because it allowed having a different active IME per document. 10.5 dropped that feature. I think 10.6 restored it.
That's not quite true. I'm still getting security updates for my iMac G5 (~2004), and that's pretty much the worst possible case because it's an entire obsolete architecture.
I'm a man and I find it hard to fathom that someone could be moved by that ad, let alone to tears. In fact, I'd say I felt nothing at all, unless cheese is an emotion.
I use a laptop because I have terrible handwriting, and I like being able to search through what I've written. For formulae and graphs, I use LaTeX and Graphviz notation, or a shorthand thereof. If I can't keep up with that, I use a paper notepad; then I take a picture of the page and file it with my digital notes. If I'm really in a hurry (eg, if I arrived late, or if I stopped paying attention for a bit, etc.), I take a photo of the blackboard directly.
Whenever possible, I download the professor's materials ahead of time, and take digital notes on them directly (using Skim).
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There is NOTHING new in programming technology and hasn't been for a longest time. Really, in 16 years I can only truly say that bit-torrent was somehow a unique/new idea, but I think even that wasn't that radical, just the protocol was new.
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but the only reason why you think that is that you have an extremely limited perspective on programming.
In fact, are we completely sure there are no patents affecting VP8 which are held by third parties? Open sourcing the code might not do that much good if you can't legally ship it in America.
Heh. But it's not too far-fetched to think that Apple's infamous new rules for the iPhone have something to do with Adobe suddenly annoucing that they're working on Flash->HTML5 conversion. It looks like something good might come out of that decision after all.
No, a probability is a dimensionless number between 0 and 1. 0.054 = 5.4%.
0.054
It's just you. The rest of us won't use it because it's a bad idea.
The number that was being thrown around in the last thread was around half of that.
There are infinitely many ways to align those three dimensions. So yes, “dimension” would be correct terminology.
There are infinitely many *alternative* ways to define three base dimensions, but you can have infinitely many directions within the *same* vector space. Not the same thing.
It's not wrong, it's just using a more technical definition of "direction" than the one you're used to. In the mathematics and physics I was taught, a vector has three attributes: a magnitude, which is a positive number; a direction, which is similar to a line, not a ray (eg north-south, not just north; the x axis, not just positive x; etc.); and a third thing which determines which way it's going along that direction (a single bit, basically); I'm not sure what this last thing is called in English, so let's call it sign, since you typically decide which way is positive and which way is negative along a direction, and then a signed number gives you both the magnitude and the sign.
This definition of "direction" may seem counterintuive at first, but it's really quite useful, because in physics you often encounter things which have to do with a direction in this sense (as is the case with this new material). That also explains why the writers of the article used this definition.
Note that you cannot simply use "dimension" in its stead. There are three dimensions in three-dimensional space (by definition), but infinite directions, so it's clear that they cannot be the same thing.
The temperature, you mean.
Also, when you have free time in California you can enjoy the sun, hit the beach, surf the ocean, or whatever else it is that young, happy people do outside. But what are you going to do when you're stuck inside during the long, cold Scandinavian winter? Before the Internet, Scandinavian kids used to get so bored, and thus angry, that they would do crazy stuff like this. Now fast Internet access makes life bearable in the inhospitable north. Of course everyone wants it.
I propose a new word for this: "pathentic".
The page you linked mentions that Berlusconi's channels gets 45% of TV audience. That's a far cry from "45% of all media". It's also unsourced and undated; assuming it was correct at some point, it is no longer so. The current data shows that Berlusconi's group is not even the largest group in terms of TV audience share (the largest is state-owned RAI).
No, no, a thousand times no. You literally have no idea what you're talking about.
One, in Italy the executive has no power over the judiciary or the prosecution, and neither does the parliament. No, not like in your country. The judiciary (which comprises both judges and prosecutors) is completely self-governed: there are no checks or balances other than the fact that they cannot make their own laws. They are not even subject to the people: they are not elected, nor under the direct or indirect influence of any popularly elected official.
Two, members of the judiciary, and especially the prosecutors and judges in Milan, are Berlusconi's worst enemies. They hate him, he hates them, and they have been trying to send him to jail for over a decade.
To say that Berlusconi is behind a ruling made by a Milan court is like saying that George W. Bush produced Fahrenheit 9/11, or that Sarah Palin was the secret mastermind of Obama's campaign. I am struggling to find a reference familiar to the American public that could accurately convey the level of (presumably inadvertent) lunacy your suggestion represents. You are making about as much sense as a Scientologist moon-landing-denier wearing a full suit of tinfoil armor.
The gamma is just the exponent in the function Vout = Vin**gamma. You can apply this function repeatedly to convert between different representations or to adapt the image to different output devices. The "gamma = 1.0" in the JFIF spec does indeed refer to the conversion applied to the RGB values obtained from YCbCr before sending them to the screen: it says that this conversion is the identity function, ie no conversion, ie the RGB as obtained by linear transformation of the YCbCr is already fit for display on a monitor - ie it is already at gamma 2.2.
Actually, Chinese traditional medicine might be even worse than homeopathy. Homeopathy may be a load of rubbish, but at least it doesn't have a billion people craving rare animal penis.
No matter how good that amended solution may be, you and I aren't going to care. We're only going to remember the stories on Slashdot and know that ACTA = EVIL. So with this early exposure, the thing is dead before it can be reformed and amended.
Oh, they're just going to change the name once the negotiations are over. Remember Palladium => TCPA => whatever they call it now? And that was just the private industry. These guys are politicians.
What if it is a stone with a suggestive shape, but was actually made that way by someone? People used to make a lot of those...
I think the word "parhelion" sounds better than "sundog".
In Italy, when I buy train tickets online, I get the reservation info on my phone by SMS. When the train conductor comes, he asks me for the car and seat (in case I decided to move to some other empty seat) and checks my reservation code on his PDA. There's no paper involved.
10.6 dropped ATSUI support. 10.4 doesn't have Core Text. So the only way to support both is to have codepaths to use both text rendering backends and switch at runtime.
We're talking about drawing text here. Why don't you just put a CoreText-like wrapper around the old ATSUI code? How hard can that be?
In fact, considering how Firefox is a multiplatform program with its own GUI framework (XUL), I'm surprised you don't already have a generic text-rendering wrapper.
or shipping separate binaries with the ensuing user confusion during downloading
That's ridiculous. You have the OS version right there in the user-agent string. In fact, you're *already* using it to offer me the right version of Firefox to download for my OS and language!
So there's not an obvious course of action here that best serves "the users".
Yes there is. Ship two binaries.
In terms of user experience, 10.4 was superior to 10.5 for IME use because it allowed having a different active IME per document. 10.5 dropped that feature. I think 10.6 restored it.
That's not quite true. I'm still getting security updates for my iMac G5 (~2004), and that's pretty much the worst possible case because it's an entire obsolete architecture.
I'm a man and I find it hard to fathom that someone could be moved by that ad, let alone to tears. In fact, I'd say I felt nothing at all, unless cheese is an emotion.
I use a laptop because I have terrible handwriting, and I like being able to search through what I've written. For formulae and graphs, I use LaTeX and Graphviz notation, or a shorthand thereof. If I can't keep up with that, I use a paper notepad; then I take a picture of the page and file it with my digital notes. If I'm really in a hurry (eg, if I arrived late, or if I stopped paying attention for a bit, etc.), I take a photo of the blackboard directly.
Whenever possible, I download the professor's materials ahead of time, and take digital notes on them directly (using Skim).