Aluminum, lead-acid batteries, steel and a few others
For most disposable products, recycling is a political tactic to make environmentally conscientious people believe that disposable products are environmentally friendly
There are millions of talented musicians who can't make a living playing music
Today's pop music isn't art, it's an artless, soulless industrial product, created by teams of trendmongers, marketeers, music writers, lyricists, arrangers, producers, engineers, choreographers and soon, computers running AI software; then tested with focus groups to make sure it sound good in the first 10 seconds.
As an artist, this sucks! It's the opposite of art!
We need to figure out a way for talented artists to make a living while making music they love
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Lower res material can be rendered at higher resolution
It provides a bit of improvement
I would love to have a 40", 8K monitor for my computer, but for the home theater, 1080p works fine for me
Of course, I'm old, with less than perfect eyeballs
He mentions VB as an example of an easier language. WTF?
It was a steaming pile of confusing layers of incomprehensible and inconsistent cruft
Just about everything was a special case that had to be learned and remembered
Is it an object? or just a function left over from the old days?
It it a method? or an attribute?
I'm so happy to be done with it
There are probably a tiny number of shots that work better in vertical format
But, yeah, most vertical videos are just quick and sloppy with no regard for proper framing or composition
Many old tools are computer based
Some old CNC machines run on MS-DOS and a 286 processor
As long as the hardware stays alive, they continue to do the job
If they must be networked, restrict their access to the local net
Smartphones have replaced cheap cameras for taking quick snapshots and pretty much killed the cheap camera market
They are nowhere near capable of shooting a great photograph. It's physics
Top quality lenses are the size they are because of the physics of glass and light
Same with top quality sensors
Aluminum, lead-acid batteries, steel and a few others
For most disposable products, recycling is a political tactic to make environmentally conscientious people believe that disposable products are environmentally friendly
Film has low dynamic range, no matter how perfectly it's scanned
..about a startup with a custom designed headquarters and a $16,000 refrigerator
A real engineering startup would have good tools, but an ugly, old building and a Costco refrigerator
This dude is a wannabe Steve Jobs
.. they would be better
Yeah, after I buy something, I often see a lot of ads for the same thing from different sellers, or a similar product from different manufacturers
This is a stupid waste of ad spending. I already made my decision
"Psychic" ads would give me interesting alternatives for products I'm researching
..because I use a desktop computer
To me, it's totally useless
I don't understand why it's so popular
Ahh.. I remember when 640K was a luxury
Further back, I remember getting a 64K memory card for my Imsai 8080. It was approx 10" x 6", completely covered in chips
The dude at the computer store asked ..what are you going to do with all that memory?
Modern software is incredibly wasteful
Musical talent isn't rare
There are millions of talented musicians who can't make a living playing music
Today's pop music isn't art, it's an artless, soulless industrial product, created by teams of trendmongers, marketeers, music writers, lyricists, arrangers, producers, engineers, choreographers and soon, computers running AI software; then tested with focus groups to make sure it sound good in the first 10 seconds.
As an artist, this sucks! It's the opposite of art!
We need to figure out a way for talented artists to make a living while making music they love
..something different
The engineers may be optimizing for cost, conversion efficiency, component availability, EMI rules, reliability or development time
The designers want it to look cool and different and fit the overall design aesthetic
Very few or either group care about encroaching on nearby devices
..don't have the technical competence
Security is hard
All I want is a reliable and secure OS
I also thought about how hard it would be to make a real autonomous vehicle that worked under all conditions
Getting to 90% has been done. Good weather, good visibility, few unexpected hazards
Getting to 95% will be harder, and it gets exponentially harder as you asymptotically approach 100%
The billion dollar question is...How close is close enough?
No matter how good it gets, someone will always sue, claiming it isn't perfect
The law needs to be adjusted to accept the reality that nothing is perfect
They do it the old way
They don't release anything until a conclusion has been reached
I prefer realtime, incremental data
Hmmm. I wonder what info they are harvesting..
>but to transform your customers from transactional to recurring revenue.
And they don't seem to care that this is bad for customers and that customers hate them for doing it
>Seriously, how freaking stupid can companies be to think that the "cloud" is the answer? I genuinely don't get it.
The push to the "cloud" is all about companies taking control away from users
Users don't want it or need it. It's being driven purely by companies' desire to gain more control and make more money
This is not a good thing for users
..but it's an essential part of computing infrastructure
It must be preserved and updated
If MS doesn't want to do this, they should release it to the open source world
..about the "Cloud"
Local storage is best
Cloud backup can be useful as part of a multi-level backup strategy, but keeping your one and only copy on the cloud is silly
Yeah, I know this rant doesn't exactly follow from the article, but the idea is still valid
If I trusted my boss to only call me if it was really important. I would answer at any hour, on any day
If I observed that my boss interrupted my free time with stupid stuff.. I would block his number
I love honesty and openness
I also realize that some use this as a weapon against me
Someone who is super picky, and has a problem with everything they buy, and returns a lot of stuff is a customer to be avoided
If I was a seller, I would blacklist them
Someone who has real problems with stuff not working right should be able to return it