Detrimental to this website and its reputation? What reputation? The reputation of uber-geeks that bash Microsoft and Apple at every opportunity, warranted or not?
Considering Google owns a not-insignificant portion of "The Internet" (backbone connections,) I'd love to see the MPAA try. Might as well try to "disconnect" Level3 from the Internet.
I've been using HTTPS for Facebook for quite a while (when accessing over wireless, or from work,) and they've slowly been making it less obnoxious. The certificate errors disappeared a few weeks ago, but there is still no IM via HTTPS. And if you are logged out and visit their site via HTTPS, if punts you back to the regular HTTP when you log in, so you have to go manually re-S the connection.
The F-22 and F-35 already use IEEE-1394 (aka "FireWire") as their primary data carriers between parts of the aircraft, over shielded copper wires. Is optical cabling really that much lighter that this matters?
Or you could say one zealot who wants to punish companies rather than benefit their users.
Apple was perfectly happy to leave it up even AFTER the complaint was made. The source code was completely available.
My mother couldn't compile VLC on Linux, so why does it matter that she can't compile it for iOS, either? It *IS* possible to do so to people who know how. The fact that it is/was available is/was great, in spite of Apple's limitations.
In the example videos, the changes are not random, they are a pattern that rotates around the group. (Watch the shape change and size change to see it most obviously, but it's there in the color/brightness ones as well.)
So when the group starts rotating, it is actually counter-balancing the individual item change. You're losing sight of the trees for the forest.
Example: a group of people are on a merry-go-round. Each one is holding paper with a symbol on it facing up. They start passing their papers around counter-clockwise. So each person's "symbol" is changing. You see it happening easily. Then the merry-go-round itself starts rotating, which counter-balances the rotation of the moving symbols. Even if you quickly reverse the merry-go-round motion every so often, as they do in their examples, you will see the 'overall pattern' seem stationary, followed by VERY QUICK movement, followed by stationary.
A better example would have each individual item's changes be completely random, not following an overarching rotating pattern.
My Apple IIgs has the ability to boot via an AppleTalk network-hosted boot image. Apple has had this on the Macintosh since the late '90s with Mac OS 9, and Mac OS X has supported it since its introduction. Just hold down 'n' during boot on any Open Firmware or EFI-equipped Mac, and it will try to netboot. And netboot.me provides a minimally-assisted INTERNET-based netboot for any gPXE computer. It is even possible to configure an OpenWRT-compatible WiFi router to send the proper netboot.me assistance, so you don't need any "infrastructure" on your premises at all, just your internet modem and router.
I'm just thinking that because Kodachrome is so "iconic" and historic piece of photography history, the processing machinery would be a good thing to have in a museum. Also, if it truly is the last one, it might be nice to keep one around, just in case. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolo_11_missing_tapes for a case where keeping around the last machine proved useful. If something like this comes up, I'm sure SOMEBODY could whip up another batch of chemicals...)
I hope they are just "selling" the processing equipment, not specifically "selling for scrap", as the article mentions. I would hope that SOMEONE would buy it to send to the Smithsonian or similar.
The fact that it is POSSIBLE to have a "ten fold improvement" is pretty much PROOF of how crappy it is/was.
Apple's "jihad" against Flash has pushed Adobe to improve Flash significantly. Adobe always claimed that there were never any performance issues, no battery-hog-issues, yet they are capable of this ten fold improvement?
I mean, in the demo, the Adobe guy makes fun of Apple's MacBook Air for being "underpowered". The latest Air is *NOT* underpowered. It *SHOULD* be more than capable of playing back 1080p with an overlay. Flash had been so bad, you couldn't. Flash had been so bad, that merely having Flash ads on a page killed battery life. That's not Apple's fault, that Flash's fault.
I *REALLY* hope that Flash 10.2 really does make enough improvements (and are mobile-portable,) that Apple will stop their jihad, and support Flash. I mean, if 10.2 really is all that, Flash should now be able to run on phones with acceptable performance.
Hey, if making fun of Avatar's plot is fashionable, making fun of the Star Wars Prequels' plots can be equally allowed, right?
I agree, the underlying plot of the Star Wars saga is a good plot. The actual storytelling left something to be desired, though. (I love listening to the soundtrack; the "Luke vs. Vader/Emperor" in Return of the Jedi and "Obi Wan vs. Anakin" in Revenge of the Sith are absolutely incredible, listening to just the music, thinking about the plot without the distraction of Lucas' questionable dialogue.)
The fact that FACEBOOK makes over $500 million a year doesn't mean that ZUCKERBERG is a billionaire.
I have no doubt that he has drawn high millions from it. Possibly even $100 million. But unless he sells the company tomorrow for cash, HE is not worth that much. I fully understand the idea of net worth, and also fully understand how easily it can evaporate.
As someone in Portland in (presumably) the tech sector, I'd think you would know more about how even seemingly large tech companies (and their perceived wealth) can vanish overnight.
P.S. Assuming you're the "geekoid" I think you are, I believe we have a few common friends from Tek...
A movie shouldn't make you go "WOW!! THOSE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE AWESOME!!!"
It should make you go "WOW!! THAT MOVIE WAS GREAT!!" REGARDLESS of the special effects. If the special effects add to the sense of wow, great. If the special effects make you notice them AS special effects, they're not doing their job.
Heck, a scene in Avatar distracted me because of the special effects. The "tree of life" or whatever it was called. I saw the "tentacles" hanging down, and my first thought was "wow, for such a high-budget movie, you'd think they'd do something other than clear plastic tubing with strand of glow-wire inside." Then I realized that the entire scene was CGI, and was impressed by the CGI so realistic, I thought it was a bad physical prop. I completely ignored the actual plot of the movie for a good minute while thinking about the special effects. That is a BAD thing for a movie maker. (Well, except Lucas, who uses special effects to hide the lack-of-plot...)
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This article makes my head hurt...
What? What does that even mean?
You mean... Like a NOOKcolor? Oh, wait, that's $50 under your target price...
The iPod line has had video out since the first "photo" iPod. The iOS line has had component video out since the original iPhone.
I do agree it is silly to not just announce the latest products, but to announce the rumor of a widely expected product...
Out of curiosity, your sig says that your dialup provides 14 GB...
I'm assuming you really mean "my dialup has no cap", since even if you saturated it 24/7, you'd barely exceed 14 GB.
*BWAHAHAHA*! Oh, man, that's a good one.
Detrimental to this website and its reputation? What reputation? The reputation of uber-geeks that bash Microsoft and Apple at every opportunity, warranted or not?
Considering Google owns a not-insignificant portion of "The Internet" (backbone connections,) I'd love to see the MPAA try. Might as well try to "disconnect" Level3 from the Internet.
This absolutely needs to be rated up!
The best one I've heard of is that it's an ocean if it has ocean in its name. That's it.
Lots of astronomical terms are very vague in their definition. Heck, "planet" was only officially defined a couple years ago.
There is no "official" difference between "ocean" and "sea", either.
I've been using HTTPS for Facebook for quite a while (when accessing over wireless, or from work,) and they've slowly been making it less obnoxious. The certificate errors disappeared a few weeks ago, but there is still no IM via HTTPS. And if you are logged out and visit their site via HTTPS, if punts you back to the regular HTTP when you log in, so you have to go manually re-S the connection.
The F-22 and F-35 already use IEEE-1394 (aka "FireWire") as their primary data carriers between parts of the aircraft, over shielded copper wires. Is optical cabling really that much lighter that this matters?
Or you could say one zealot who wants to punish companies rather than benefit their users.
Apple was perfectly happy to leave it up even AFTER the complaint was made. The source code was completely available.
My mother couldn't compile VLC on Linux, so why does it matter that she can't compile it for iOS, either? It *IS* possible to do so to people who know how. The fact that it is/was available is/was great, in spite of Apple's limitations.
In the example videos, the changes are not random, they are a pattern that rotates around the group. (Watch the shape change and size change to see it most obviously, but it's there in the color/brightness ones as well.)
So when the group starts rotating, it is actually counter-balancing the individual item change. You're losing sight of the trees for the forest.
Example: a group of people are on a merry-go-round. Each one is holding paper with a symbol on it facing up. They start passing their papers around counter-clockwise. So each person's "symbol" is changing. You see it happening easily. Then the merry-go-round itself starts rotating, which counter-balances the rotation of the moving symbols. Even if you quickly reverse the merry-go-round motion every so often, as they do in their examples, you will see the 'overall pattern' seem stationary, followed by VERY QUICK movement, followed by stationary.
A better example would have each individual item's changes be completely random, not following an overarching rotating pattern.
So she HAD been using VLC on her iDevice, and now magically VLC has disappeared?
How many movies does the average non-geek have that isn't playable on an iOS device already?
Not "the creators", but rather "one of the creators" (or possibly "some of".)
The organization VideoLAN officially promoted its use and listing, in spite of one vocal member's protests.
My Apple IIgs has the ability to boot via an AppleTalk network-hosted boot image. Apple has had this on the Macintosh since the late '90s with Mac OS 9, and Mac OS X has supported it since its introduction. Just hold down 'n' during boot on any Open Firmware or EFI-equipped Mac, and it will try to netboot. And netboot.me provides a minimally-assisted INTERNET-based netboot for any gPXE computer. It is even possible to configure an OpenWRT-compatible WiFi router to send the proper netboot.me assistance, so you don't need any "infrastructure" on your premises at all, just your internet modem and router.
I'm just thinking that because Kodachrome is so "iconic" and historic piece of photography history, the processing machinery would be a good thing to have in a museum. Also, if it truly is the last one, it might be nice to keep one around, just in case. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolo_11_missing_tapes for a case where keeping around the last machine proved useful. If something like this comes up, I'm sure SOMEBODY could whip up another batch of chemicals...)
I hope they are just "selling" the processing equipment, not specifically "selling for scrap", as the article mentions. I would hope that SOMEONE would buy it to send to the Smithsonian or similar.
I'm a huge fan of puns, I just wanted to see how many people would reply with. :-D
"I tell ya, if I had a NaCl for every pun on here..." is definitely the best.
The fact that it is POSSIBLE to have a "ten fold improvement" is pretty much PROOF of how crappy it is/was.
Apple's "jihad" against Flash has pushed Adobe to improve Flash significantly. Adobe always claimed that there were never any performance issues, no battery-hog-issues, yet they are capable of this ten fold improvement?
I mean, in the demo, the Adobe guy makes fun of Apple's MacBook Air for being "underpowered". The latest Air is *NOT* underpowered. It *SHOULD* be more than capable of playing back 1080p with an overlay. Flash had been so bad, you couldn't. Flash had been so bad, that merely having Flash ads on a page killed battery life. That's not Apple's fault, that Flash's fault.
I *REALLY* hope that Flash 10.2 really does make enough improvements (and are mobile-portable,) that Apple will stop their jihad, and support Flash. I mean, if 10.2 really is all that, Flash should now be able to run on phones with acceptable performance.
For $5, I think that's the point. As they say, use it to translate signs, menus, etc.
We get it already, heat jokes. Knock it off!
Hey, if making fun of Avatar's plot is fashionable, making fun of the Star Wars Prequels' plots can be equally allowed, right?
I agree, the underlying plot of the Star Wars saga is a good plot. The actual storytelling left something to be desired, though. (I love listening to the soundtrack; the "Luke vs. Vader/Emperor" in Return of the Jedi and "Obi Wan vs. Anakin" in Revenge of the Sith are absolutely incredible, listening to just the music, thinking about the plot without the distraction of Lucas' questionable dialogue.)
Uh...
The fact that FACEBOOK makes over $500 million a year doesn't mean that ZUCKERBERG is a billionaire.
I have no doubt that he has drawn high millions from it. Possibly even $100 million. But unless he sells the company tomorrow for cash, HE is not worth that much. I fully understand the idea of net worth, and also fully understand how easily it can evaporate.
As someone in Portland in (presumably) the tech sector, I'd think you would know more about how even seemingly large tech companies (and their perceived wealth) can vanish overnight.
P.S. Assuming you're the "geekoid" I think you are, I believe we have a few common friends from Tek...
A movie shouldn't make you go "WOW!! THOSE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE AWESOME!!!"
It should make you go "WOW!! THAT MOVIE WAS GREAT!!" REGARDLESS of the special effects. If the special effects add to the sense of wow, great. If the special effects make you notice them AS special effects, they're not doing their job.
Heck, a scene in Avatar distracted me because of the special effects. The "tree of life" or whatever it was called. I saw the "tentacles" hanging down, and my first thought was "wow, for such a high-budget movie, you'd think they'd do something other than clear plastic tubing with strand of glow-wire inside." Then I realized that the entire scene was CGI, and was impressed by the CGI so realistic, I thought it was a bad physical prop. I completely ignored the actual plot of the movie for a good minute while thinking about the special effects. That is a BAD thing for a movie maker. (Well, except Lucas, who uses special effects to hide the lack-of-plot...)