it doesn't seem you're alone here:
Some Republicans who served in the Illinois Senate with Obama credit him for his pragmatic and diligent work ethic, particularly under the confines of a GOP majority that worked to stifle Democratic-backed legislation during much of his tenure in the legislature.
"While Barack had principles, he was, importantly, practical and realistic," said state Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale), who also is the GOP chairman of DuPage County, long the home of one of the state's highest Republican vote totals.
"Many of the same qualities that make Sen. Obama a national superstar--intelligence, charm and an ability to get along with all types of factions--were put to the test in Springfield in his early years," Dillard said. "Barack had tremendous respect from Republicans as well as Democrats, and for those of us who were lucky enough to work with him before he became a national celebrity, none of how America's media has characterized him surprises us."
Obama scored successes on key, and controversial, pieces of legislation, taking on such issues as requiring reform of the state's problem-fraught death penalty system, tracking and combating racial profiling by law enforcement, imposing tougher governmental ethics rules and mandating the videotaping of criminal confessions.
I think that for games developers you'll see most of them drop the mac versions. But for other mac stuff you'll see a lot of people hold on to the mac platform, especially when they see apple sell a lot more machines. There's nothing to say that the market won't go the other way, especially because that's where a lot of growth will be.
I'm pretty sure you'll see more macs in businesses. it's an easier transition now, software wise.
Also, Apple had to do this first before someone hacked OS X onto a standard PC.
Who knows, maybe this is just a first step toward an apple supported hypervisor.
since my music collection is bigger than my ipod, smart playlists are really good. I've been an iPod user for a while now (2nd gen 10G) and I've just really started to use the smart playlists. I only upload now three smart playlists to my iPod: recent additions (8 gb), top 50 Most Played (250 mb), and top rated (500 mb). When I dock my iPod, I have another playlist called Played Today (i don't have an on-the-go function on my iPod) where I then rate the songs i listened to that day when I come home from work. Nonetheless, Smart Playlists rock.
Still, since my goal is "listen to songs you want to listen to," I'm looking at applescript to define some of the relationships between smart playlists to fit in my measly 10 gbs.
MOTO has a bit of a BRND IMGE now with TKNG five or six LTTR WRDS, removing a VOWL or two, capitalizing it and GTNG a PRDCT name. Obviously referring to the halo model, the RAZR.
Seriously though, I'd expect a ROKR E2 soon, in a RAZR design. That'd be sweet.
My guess is Marvel's essentially taking these titles over for one of three reasons:
1. Stories. they want to reintroduce the populace to a lot of the Marvel characters by way of the Ultimates rehashings. Hawkeye, the Ultimates (avengers), Nick Fury, ant-man, all have under gone some major facelifts by rewriting some of the histories under joe quesada. They focused on the story and not the franchise. Hopefully, this will translate in the movies. I'm suspicious that the movie studios were yearning for more franchises.
I, for one, have really been looking forward to a Captain America, with a yearning for man vs. himself conflict with U.S. Agent. (could speak volumes about the state this country is in).
2. kids - power pack could be a good kids movie, and Ant-man could be delightfully campy. kids would love it.
3. action - never read any shang-chi, but it could be a good kung-fu movie if done well. you probably wouldn't even know it was a comic book but for the marvel entertainment credit.
so let me see if I get this right... the high level tradeoff is that the user (programmer?) implementing benefits ease of use a distributed system (xGrid?) while the database admin gets lowly performance from mysql. I guess with some really vertical markets that can really take advantage of the vectorization of the g5 combined with distributed systems, OS X makes sense. Who's taking advantage of this benefit?
on the other hand, the end user gets overhead on every single fork() call, meaning making new threads take longer, but the general user doesn't notice this as much since the processes (apps) are much bigger.
I'm really disappointed that there isn't an internal component, just sensor feed back. what happens when one of those sensors fails?
I mean shouldn't there be a WiFi component to this? I'd imagine it'd make the whole system a whole lot easier if the cars could talk to each other to make decisions regarding automatic driving. In fact, I don't know why they don't network cars first, to have a car follow the path of the car in front of them. It seems that would be the easier, more practical milestone than sensor feedback. probably less expensive too.
it lowers costs because the losses incurred by theft are then folded back into the price of an item. For example, when a shirt goes on sale for 20 dollars off, it probably could have gone on sale for $25 off had there been no loss folded back into the price.
And really it's not so much the one off theft that matters, it's the repeat thefts that they are looking to get to. The compulsive shoplifter, the person who wears a shirt for one night, then returns it the next day. The internal theft by an employee. Also, as crazy as it sounds, there are shoplifting rings that move across the country. They'll steal things at one store, buy them with cash at others, copy the reciepts, and return everything, legit and stolen at a profit. It's in this manner that RFID can help.
Personally, in apparel, I could see them putting a tag on a secondary removable tag, that the customer can remove at their will. but if it's removed the customer can't return it, or if it lists that the item wasn't sold, then they won't allow them to return it. also, only that the tag contains data about the item,(sku, manufacture date,manufacture number etc), not the customer. I think that'd be a decent compromise. consumer groups would be all over a company if they put it in permanently.
As a former retail manager, I think I can lend some insight into this.
Remember, your retail experience is not necessarily defined by the everyday experience, but the worst case scenario. Think Christmas time. People will leave, not shop, put off shopping if there is a line, it's called line abandonment. During the shopping season, this happens all the time, I've done it. RFID makes it easier, because someone bags your parcels, and then you pay. It cuts out cashier error.
It doesn't necessarily eliminate the need for human contact, but it could possibly facilitate that.
Another reason why retailers want this is loss prevention. It'd be really easy to tell if something was stolen if it had RFID in it. It's great for business to have a liberal return policy, but there are tons of people that abuse that with trying to return stolen merchandise, etc. If retailers had RFID, they could save a lot of money, through lessening theft and LP training. Some may pass those savings on to you, something to the order of 5 bucks on a 40 dollar shirt.
I'm personally for it. I hate having to wait in a line for a half an hour during christmas.
I think it's pretty convenient to go downstairs and walk 100 feet to get all the basics that I need, rather than driving.
Nowadays, driving is horribly inconvenient with gas prices.
Not to mention the incredble public funded programs that the City of Chicago puts together, like Millenium Park, movies in the park, and summerdance. If i don't want to drive, I don't have to. Biking is easy, too.
So yes, I think living in a city is incredibly convenient. More than in the summer, by a matter of degrees.
yeah the granularity is definitely an advantage of the comic medium. Animation/film eliminates that largely, but I would argue that alot of the depends on the animator/filmmaker.
Keyframing a scene appropriately can visually puncuate a scene to give the same sense of granularity that you're talking about. You might talk about a favorite scene, but what you remember are the keyframes, the granules. A good filmmaker/animator might use pauses in motion to give that image even more punctuation.
For instance, the dojo fight scene in the matrix was done extremely well, I thought. there was a lot of quick blurry motions, but then they were punctuated with morpheus's knee into the ground, the frozen look on neo's face, and the removal of neo from the frame completely. (the w. bros pitched to the studio as a comic book right?)
Comics have this built in for the most part, but still needs a good artist to pull alot of that out. I remember a marvel how to draw comics video when i was growing up where john buscema said the most exciting way to illustrate a moment is to draw it right before or right after it happens. like right before the punch, or right after the punch.
if they ever remade the Graduate, that line would go...
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Nanotubes.
That, and once again punish Paul Simon with another reunion with Art Garfunkle
I agree with you, she didn't think about this too much. The box v. animation paradigm, is a huge distinction to make. Part of the beauty of the comic book box is that it's compartmentalized. while the author can choose what the viewer looks at, the viewer can go at their own pace. My twin brother and I grew up on comic books, it'd usually take me 15 minutes to get through a book, while it'd take him 45 minutes because he'd really look at all the pictures.
The editing in animation doesn't allow that, it makes time the necessary component in determining pace. the box, on the other hand, determines the pace by just how much you are giving the reader to look at. smaller boxes can mean faster pace, and larger boxes can mean slower pace, but it really depends on how the author is using them and laying them out.
Personally for comics to succeed in the digital age, I think that the medium should be balanced between both the internet syndication, and the intensely private and personal act of sitting down with a book in your hand.
Incidentally, my brother graduated with an animation degree, but he hasn't had a job in production, because they were leaning him into flash rather than 2d traditional. i thought that sucked because the message behind watching handdrawn animation is "wow, some one drew all those frames"
I see your point for the mass marketed mp3 players, and that's why there's the hard drive capabilities as well as the image and impending video storage.
but I'm sure someone will make a high end player with tempo, and pitch control, a huge hard drive, a lossless codec/aiff, software to run it, and slap a huge margin on it, and it would still sell like hotcakes. you ever seen a wedding dj's gig bag? Even the house dj's here in chicago would find a great use for it. You probably wouldn't sell a million, but probably could get away with couple a hundred thousand, at a much larger margin (pro Music equipment margins are HUGE). It depends on the market.
Alternatively, speaking of video storage, an average dvd movie weighs in at 9 gigs? that's only 8 movies with a 80 gig and 12 with a 120 gig. A videoPod would need that kind of capacity, at the very least. In my eyes that'd be the next killer app. (think grabbing the last show from a tivo, or renting a video podcast from blockbuster.
well this is pretty short sighted. History has shown that the arts advance with every technological advancement. Certainly we'll need 120 gb of data when we get 5.1 audio for recorded music, even with a lossless compression format. I'm sure working dj's who are using Flac would need that much space to hold a selection of their library at least for one night.
I'm a bit disgusted by this. it's like were reduced to livestock, but instead of food we get cheap computers. instead of looking out for each other, we are just stepping on each others toes.
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"While Barack had principles, he was, importantly, practical and realistic," said state Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale), who also is the GOP chairman of DuPage County, long the home of one of the state's highest Republican vote totals.
"Many of the same qualities that make Sen. Obama a national superstar--intelligence, charm and an ability to get along with all types of factions--were put to the test in Springfield in his early years," Dillard said. "Barack had tremendous respect from Republicans as well as Democrats, and for those of us who were lucky enough to work with him before he became a national celebrity, none of how America's media has characterized him surprises us."
Obama scored successes on key, and controversial, pieces of legislation, taking on such issues as requiring reform of the state's problem-fraught death penalty system, tracking and combating racial profiling by law enforcement, imposing tougher governmental ethics rules and mandating the videotaping of criminal confessions.
from an article on Obama, from the chicago tribune."
I think that for games developers you'll see most of them drop the mac versions. But for other mac stuff you'll see a lot of people hold on to the mac platform, especially when they see apple sell a lot more machines. There's nothing to say that the market won't go the other way, especially because that's where a lot of growth will be.
I'm pretty sure you'll see more macs in businesses. it's an easier transition now, software wise.
Also, Apple had to do this first before someone hacked OS X onto a standard PC.
Who knows, maybe this is just a first step toward an apple supported hypervisor.
since my music collection is bigger than my ipod, smart playlists are really good. I've been an iPod user for a while now (2nd gen 10G) and I've just really started to use the smart playlists. I only upload now three smart playlists to my iPod: recent additions (8 gb), top 50 Most Played (250 mb), and top rated (500 mb). When I dock my iPod, I have another playlist called Played Today (i don't have an on-the-go function on my iPod) where I then rate the songs i listened to that day when I come home from work. Nonetheless, Smart Playlists rock.
Still, since my goal is "listen to songs you want to listen to," I'm looking at applescript to define some of the relationships between smart playlists to fit in my measly 10 gbs.
Um sir, its YURE FIRD.
:-)
I'll be cleaning my desk out now
MOTO has a bit of a BRND IMGE now with TKNG five or six LTTR WRDS, removing a VOWL or two, capitalizing it and GTNG a PRDCT name. Obviously referring to the halo model, the RAZR.
Seriously though, I'd expect a ROKR E2 soon, in a RAZR design. That'd be sweet.
I think you're on to something here.
My guess is Marvel's essentially taking these titles over for one of three reasons:
1. Stories. they want to reintroduce the populace to a lot of the Marvel characters by way of the Ultimates rehashings. Hawkeye, the Ultimates (avengers), Nick Fury, ant-man, all have under gone some major facelifts by rewriting some of the histories under joe quesada. They focused on the story and not the franchise. Hopefully, this will translate in the movies. I'm suspicious that the movie studios were yearning for more franchises.
I, for one, have really been looking forward to a Captain America, with a yearning for man vs. himself conflict with U.S. Agent. (could speak volumes about the state this country is in).
2. kids - power pack could be a good kids movie, and Ant-man could be delightfully campy. kids would love it.
3. action - never read any shang-chi, but it could be a good kung-fu movie if done well. you probably wouldn't even know it was a comic book but for the marvel entertainment credit.
so let me see if I get this right... the high level tradeoff is that the user (programmer?) implementing benefits ease of use a distributed system (xGrid?) while the database admin gets lowly performance from mysql. I guess with some really vertical markets that can really take advantage of the vectorization of the g5 combined with distributed systems, OS X makes sense. Who's taking advantage of this benefit?
on the other hand, the end user gets overhead on every single fork() call, meaning making new threads take longer, but the general user doesn't notice this as much since the processes (apps) are much bigger.
I'm really disappointed that there isn't an internal component, just sensor feed back. what happens when one of those sensors fails?
I mean shouldn't there be a WiFi component to this? I'd imagine it'd make the whole system a whole lot easier if the cars could talk to each other to make decisions regarding automatic driving. In fact, I don't know why they don't network cars first, to have a car follow the path of the car in front of them. It seems that would be the easier, more practical milestone than sensor feedback. probably less expensive too.
here's the actual patent
it lowers costs because the losses incurred by theft are then folded back into the price of an item. For example, when a shirt goes on sale for 20 dollars off, it probably could have gone on sale for $25 off had there been no loss folded back into the price.
And really it's not so much the one off theft that matters, it's the repeat thefts that they are looking to get to. The compulsive shoplifter, the person who wears a shirt for one night, then returns it the next day. The internal theft by an employee. Also, as crazy as it sounds, there are shoplifting rings that move across the country. They'll steal things at one store, buy them with cash at others, copy the reciepts, and return everything, legit and stolen at a profit. It's in this manner that RFID can help.
Personally, in apparel, I could see them putting a tag on a secondary removable tag, that the customer can remove at their will. but if it's removed the customer can't return it, or if it lists that the item wasn't sold, then they won't allow them to return it. also, only that the tag contains data about the item,(sku, manufacture date,manufacture number etc), not the customer. I think that'd be a decent compromise. consumer groups would be all over a company if they put it in permanently.
the g4 isn't a big endian chip. It can switch modes. The 680x0 were, and the g5 is, and the os has been written that way.
so, theoretically, this could work.
As a former retail manager, I think I can lend some insight into this.
Remember, your retail experience is not necessarily defined by the everyday experience, but the worst case scenario. Think Christmas time. People will leave, not shop, put off shopping if there is a line, it's called line abandonment. During the shopping season, this happens all the time, I've done it. RFID makes it easier, because someone bags your parcels, and then you pay. It cuts out cashier error.
It doesn't necessarily eliminate the need for human contact, but it could possibly facilitate that.
Another reason why retailers want this is loss prevention. It'd be really easy to tell if something was stolen if it had RFID in it. It's great for business to have a liberal return policy, but there are tons of people that abuse that with trying to return stolen merchandise, etc. If retailers had RFID, they could save a lot of money, through lessening theft and LP training. Some may pass those savings on to you, something to the order of 5 bucks on a 40 dollar shirt.
I'm personally for it. I hate having to wait in a line for a half an hour during christmas.
I think it's pretty convenient to go downstairs and walk 100 feet to get all the basics that I need, rather than driving.
Nowadays, driving is horribly inconvenient with gas prices.
Not to mention the incredble public funded programs that the City of Chicago puts together, like Millenium Park, movies in the park, and summerdance. If i don't want to drive, I don't have to. Biking is easy, too.
So yes, I think living in a city is incredibly convenient. More than in the summer, by a matter of degrees.
Dear RIAA,
Hire Hilary Rosen back.
Slashdot.
I thought aac stood for apple audio codec.
it's obvious :-)
yeah the granularity is definitely an advantage of the comic medium. Animation/film eliminates that largely, but I would argue that alot of the depends on the animator/filmmaker.
Keyframing a scene appropriately can visually puncuate a scene to give the same sense of granularity that you're talking about. You might talk about a favorite scene, but what you remember are the keyframes, the granules. A good filmmaker/animator might use pauses in motion to give that image even more punctuation.
For instance, the dojo fight scene in the matrix was done extremely well, I thought. there was a lot of quick blurry motions, but then they were punctuated with morpheus's knee into the ground, the frozen look on neo's face, and the removal of neo from the frame completely. (the w. bros pitched to the studio as a comic book right?)
Comics have this built in for the most part, but still needs a good artist to pull alot of that out. I remember a marvel how to draw comics video when i was growing up where john buscema said the most exciting way to illustrate a moment is to draw it right before or right after it happens. like right before the punch, or right after the punch.
great post by the way.
it really depends on the artist and how they use it. detail in the drawing, repetitive objects. no one way to do it of course.
if they ever remade the Graduate, that line would go...
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Nanotubes.
That, and once again punish Paul Simon with another reunion with Art Garfunkle
on this PiMP thing you talk about. I'd always envisioned it as a portable that can drive a tv, that you could also view at home.
on this high capacity player, good turntables cost that much.
I agree with you, she didn't think about this too much. The box v. animation paradigm, is a huge distinction to make. Part of the beauty of the comic book box is that it's compartmentalized. while the author can choose what the viewer looks at, the viewer can go at their own pace. My twin brother and I grew up on comic books, it'd usually take me 15 minutes to get through a book, while it'd take him 45 minutes because he'd really look at all the pictures.
The editing in animation doesn't allow that, it makes time the necessary component in determining pace. the box, on the other hand, determines the pace by just how much you are giving the reader to look at. smaller boxes can mean faster pace, and larger boxes can mean slower pace, but it really depends on how the author is using them and laying them out.
Personally for comics to succeed in the digital age, I think that the medium should be balanced between both the internet syndication, and the intensely private and personal act of sitting down with a book in your hand.
Incidentally, my brother graduated with an animation degree, but he hasn't had a job in production, because they were leaning him into flash rather than 2d traditional. i thought that sucked because the message behind watching handdrawn animation is "wow, some one drew all those frames"
I see your point for the mass marketed mp3 players, and that's why there's the hard drive capabilities as well as the image and impending video storage.
but I'm sure someone will make a high end player with tempo, and pitch control, a huge hard drive, a lossless codec/aiff, software to run it, and slap a huge margin on it, and it would still sell like hotcakes. you ever seen a wedding dj's gig bag? Even the house dj's here in chicago would find a great use for it. You probably wouldn't sell a million, but probably could get away with couple a hundred thousand, at a much larger margin (pro Music equipment margins are HUGE). It depends on the market.
Alternatively, speaking of video storage, an average dvd movie weighs in at 9 gigs? that's only 8 movies with a 80 gig and 12 with a 120 gig. A videoPod would need that kind of capacity, at the very least. In my eyes that'd be the next killer app. (think grabbing the last show from a tivo, or renting a video podcast from blockbuster.
well this is pretty short sighted. History has shown that the arts advance with every technological advancement. Certainly we'll need 120 gb of data when we get 5.1 audio for recorded music, even with a lossless compression format. I'm sure working dj's who are using Flac would need that much space to hold a selection of their library at least for one night.
PhysOrg has an article on this as well
feh.
I'm a bit disgusted by this. it's like were reduced to livestock, but instead of food we get cheap computers. instead of looking out for each other, we are just stepping on each others toes.