Ghostbusters doesn't really have action sequences though in the same way that Indiana Jones did. The biggest action sequence was probably them running ut of the library.
I am not sure, but doing that as they trip over their zimmer frames just changes everything.
I watched the animations on the site, and nowhere did I see the mention of the Kama Sutra. Then again if you can find the Kama Sutra in a search, how is this any different from Google or Safari?
If anyone has seen the Truman show then they will know what I mean when I say we all being fooled. The boundary is simply the painted wall of our illusion chamber. There is just a lot of goo before the wall to keep our hopes up. Now I want my Nobel Prize.
For the nay-saysers, speed isn't implicitly causing accidents, poor driving and/or unforseen circumstances are.
Speed by itself doesn't kill, but it does when you combine it with everything else. Everything else including, but limited to:
- bad road condition (rain, snow, surface)
- bad car condition
- not respecting distances
- bad driver
- bad drivers in other cars
- incorrect tires
On the other hand sometimes a kick of speed is actually necessary, for example over-taking in certain critical situations. Having your speed suddenly limited in during over-taking could be fatal. Part of the reason is that this would catch the driver unaware at the worst possible moment.
Is there actually anywhere (US or EU) a legal basis for them to bar people from linking to their site?
If they have an issue, then we could organise someone to hijack his domain entry. That way they would not have to worry about anyone linking to their site. I almost feel he is as disconnected from reality as the record industry is.
They elected, and then re-elected Bush. Now, what is it you were saying?
Well, Bush had the advantage of being consistent, even if his policies were disturbing. Kerry on the other hand appeared lost in trying to make everyone happy, but making few happy. People generally vote for someone who is firm in where they are going, than someone who isn't. You generally expect politicians to break promises, but when the politician isn't sure what is being promised, then you have real issues.
The court found that, by hosting Usenet servers, Demon Internet had republished the libel and were therefore liable.
I wasn't aware of that case, but at the same time it is yet another example of the legal system being far behind on how the internet works. What the legal system doesn't grasp is that the internet is copy by default and where the distinction should be made is in what form that copy is and for what period. In many ways usenet could be considered a global caching system of news content.
If the ISPs are to be considered a 'common carrier', then this is not their duty.
Other points, if the ISPs are going to be doing this:
- How are they to decide when something is fair use, when even the big media companies get it wrong so often?
- Who is going to pay them to do the dirty work of the media industry?
- This is like getting Walmart to ban you because something you are doing is not kosher in HMV.
There are certainly other problems with this whole 'getting the ISPs' to do the dirty work, but I have a 'failure of imagination' when it comes to the other issues.
This is because all the followers of The Church of Steve Jobs are promoting anything iphone/apple on firehose.
Maybe, but if you step back for a moment, you will also find that the church of Adobe (Flash) and the church of Microsoft (Silverlight0 has an alternative: the church of open standards. As an example, take the following page:
and then simply select "MPEG-4 video" as the format. It plays without any extra magic.
I may use an iPhone, but I am very pro open standards. Sure anyone can keep a local copy of the MPEG4 file, but this is where Creative Commons comes into play.
MPEG4 is certainly the way to go. At this point you could write some Javascript that either checks for the iPhone or lack of Flash capability. The only question is what the best MPEG4 codec is and whether you should optimise the video for streaming?
And by the looks of it doesn't really care about distributing things right either. Sony Connect was a mess, and then there is that annoying issue with Farscape season 1. What problem? They bought the rights, but haven't don't squat with making the season available - at least no where I can find it.
The big question is, will music stores be allowed to sell it. Will retailers who sell this be blacklisted by the distribution chain?
The distribution chain could try to blacklist stores, but this would probably run foul of certain laws if they were caught out doing it. Anti-competition laws is one that could come into play.
Ever hear of red light cameras that take a photo of your license plate and send you a ticket in the mail if you run a red light? Ever hear about how many cities calibrate their yellow light timers to 4 seconds instead of the legally required 6 seconds just so that camera will take more photos and generate more ticket revenue for the city? Who certifies these cameras?
IANAL, so I would be curious to know whether the lack of certification could be used as credible doubt? Show me a picture of me going through the red light, rather than something saying I went through the light, and I would have a hard time proving otherwise.
The key here is not that the government, or anyone, should own what they produced -- it's that when what they produced is used to convict someone, that person has the right to examine the methods used.
I will call out the company for doing shoddy work. The question is whether the device was ever certified for the purpose, and if it was who did it and what was the process used. If you are going to use something to prosecute, then there needs to be evidence that the device was tested and certified using a publicly documented process. This is black box testing and if the government never did it, then why is it allowed in court?
Er, why would it need or be expected to be? It's a commercial product. I don't think most bank websites are "coded" to any specific standard either.
No, but their bank machines probably are. On one side they don't want to lose money and the other they don't want to be sued for losing customer money. Code is held to a higher standard when something critical is at play, or at least should be. The vast majority of web sites (all?) wouldn't even enter that category, so if there is an odd bug no one is going to care.
Correct! This is a point that many people fail to understand. Testing can't prove that there aren't bugs. All it proves is that a bug did not occur. Failing a test just proves that a bug exists while passing all test just proves that you failed to find a bug. Passing many tests can boost your confidence that there are no bugs. Verification can prove that your code is correct but for most programs it is unfeasible.
This prompts the question: what black box tests were done to define how reliable the device is? If a sanctioned testing process shows that it works 90% of the time then it shows it is as reliable as most technology is, but is 10% reasonable doubt? You can adjust the percentages all you want, but the point I am trying to make is if it works most of the time and fails in the odd case does that make the device unreliable? I am yet to see anything that is 100% reliable.
it measures the time of flight of IR from camera to surface to sensor for each pixel.
Light source type can still have an impact. If you have tungsten lamps, halogens or any other strong source of IR, it can mess with with this. I discovered this the hard way with the Wiimote.
Actually, there are plenty of developers who would love to be able to stop supporting IE. The amount of times things have to be tweaked and hacked just to please Internet Explorer, when the web site already works on most everything else (everything else: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera).
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Ghostbusters doesn't really have action sequences though in the same way that Indiana Jones did. The biggest action sequence was probably them running ut of the library.
I am not sure, but doing that as they trip over their zimmer frames just changes everything.
I watched the animations on the site, and nowhere did I see the mention of the Kama Sutra. Then again if you can find the Kama Sutra in a search, how is this any different from Google or Safari?
Its all a lie, I tell you...
If anyone has seen the Truman show then they will know what I mean when I say we all being fooled. The boundary is simply the painted wall of our illusion chamber. There is just a lot of goo before the wall to keep our hopes up. Now I want my Nobel Prize.
Just kidding.
For the nay-saysers, speed isn't implicitly causing accidents, poor driving and/or unforseen circumstances are.
Speed by itself doesn't kill, but it does when you combine it with everything else. Everything else including, but limited to:
- bad road condition (rain, snow, surface)
- bad car condition
- not respecting distances
- bad driver
- bad drivers in other cars
- incorrect tires
On the other hand sometimes a kick of speed is actually necessary, for example over-taking in certain critical situations. Having your speed suddenly limited in during over-taking could be fatal. Part of the reason is that this would catch the driver unaware at the worst possible moment.
155 KPH or 155 MPH? We can all assume that you are talking about 155 KPH, but I would rather not assume.
Is there actually anywhere (US or EU) a legal basis for them to bar people from linking to their site?
If they have an issue, then we could organise someone to hijack his domain entry. That way they would not have to worry about anyone linking to their site. I almost feel he is as disconnected from reality as the record industry is.
I thought Nvidia was indicating they were going to move to supporting OpenCL, or are the simply planning to support multiple technologies?
They elected, and then re-elected Bush. Now, what is it you were saying?
Well, Bush had the advantage of being consistent, even if his policies were disturbing. Kerry on the other hand appeared lost in trying to make everyone happy, but making few happy. People generally vote for someone who is firm in where they are going, than someone who isn't. You generally expect politicians to break promises, but when the politician isn't sure what is being promised, then you have real issues.
The court found that, by hosting Usenet servers, Demon Internet had republished the libel and were therefore liable.
I wasn't aware of that case, but at the same time it is yet another example of the legal system being far behind on how the internet works. What the legal system doesn't grasp is that the internet is copy by default and where the distinction should be made is in what form that copy is and for what period. In many ways usenet could be considered a global caching system of news content.
ISPs do not have common carrier status.
Fair enough, but what is their status with regards to the data that passes through their networks?
If the ISPs are to be considered a 'common carrier', then this is not their duty.
Other points, if the ISPs are going to be doing this:
- How are they to decide when something is fair use, when even the big media companies get it wrong so often?
- Who is going to pay them to do the dirty work of the media industry?
- This is like getting Walmart to ban you because something you are doing is not kosher in HMV.
There are certainly other problems with this whole 'getting the ISPs' to do the dirty work, but I have a 'failure of imagination' when it comes to the other issues.
This is because all the followers of The Church of Steve Jobs are promoting anything iphone/apple on firehose.
Maybe, but if you step back for a moment, you will also find that the church of Adobe (Flash) and the church of Microsoft (Silverlight0 has an alternative: the church of open standards. As an example, take the following page:
http://lessig.blip.tv/file/1714232/
and then simply select "MPEG-4 video" as the format. It plays without any extra magic.
I may use an iPhone, but I am very pro open standards. Sure anyone can keep a local copy of the MPEG4 file, but this is where Creative Commons comes into play.
MPEG4 is certainly the way to go. At this point you could write some Javascript that either checks for the iPhone or lack of Flash capability. The only question is what the best MPEG4 codec is and whether you should optimise the video for streaming?
Popcorn?
Are you suggesting I will be able to download food? Cool.
He is CEO of Sony Pictures, not Sony.
And by the looks of it doesn't really care about distributing things right either. Sony Connect was a mess, and then there is that annoying issue with Farscape season 1. What problem? They bought the rights, but haven't don't squat with making the season available - at least no where I can find it.
I've asked lots of interview candidates to implement randomSort. They've never heard of it, so then I describe the algorithm.
Did you change roles from developer to HR?
The big question is, will music stores be allowed to sell it. Will retailers who sell this be blacklisted by the distribution chain?
The distribution chain could try to blacklist stores, but this would probably run foul of certain laws if they were caught out doing it. Anti-competition laws is one that could come into play.
IANAL, so this is just my 5c.
Bogosort: for when you have you are paid by the hour, but aren't penalised for being late.
Ever hear of red light cameras that take a photo of your license plate and send you a ticket in the mail if you run a red light? Ever hear about how many cities calibrate their yellow light timers to 4 seconds instead of the legally required 6 seconds just so that camera will take more photos and generate more ticket revenue for the city? Who certifies these cameras?
IANAL, so I would be curious to know whether the lack of certification could be used as credible doubt? Show me a picture of me going through the red light, rather than something saying I went through the light, and I would have a hard time proving otherwise.
The key here is not that the government, or anyone, should own what they produced -- it's that when what they produced is used to convict someone, that person has the right to examine the methods used.
I will call out the company for doing shoddy work. The question is whether the device was ever certified for the purpose, and if it was who did it and what was the process used. If you are going to use something to prosecute, then there needs to be evidence that the device was tested and certified using a publicly documented process. This is black box testing and if the government never did it, then why is it allowed in court?
Er, why would it need or be expected to be? It's a commercial product. I don't think most bank websites are "coded" to any specific standard either.
No, but their bank machines probably are. On one side they don't want to lose money and the other they don't want to be sued for losing customer money. Code is held to a higher standard when something critical is at play, or at least should be. The vast majority of web sites (all?) wouldn't even enter that category, so if there is an odd bug no one is going to care.
Correct! This is a point that many people fail to understand. Testing can't prove that there aren't bugs. All it proves is that a bug did not occur. Failing a test just proves that a bug exists while passing all test just proves that you failed to find a bug. Passing many tests can boost your confidence that there are no bugs. Verification can prove that your code is correct but for most programs it is unfeasible.
This prompts the question: what black box tests were done to define how reliable the device is? If a sanctioned testing process shows that it works 90% of the time then it shows it is as reliable as most technology is, but is 10% reasonable doubt? You can adjust the percentages all you want, but the point I am trying to make is if it works most of the time and fails in the odd case does that make the device unreliable? I am yet to see anything that is 100% reliable.
it measures the time of flight of IR from camera to surface to sensor for each pixel.
Light source type can still have an impact. If you have tungsten lamps, halogens or any other strong source of IR, it can mess with with this. I discovered this the hard way with the Wiimote.
What are the chances that if you opened up a such a store in the US, you would have homeland security checking out your credentials?
and no one cares anymore
Actually, there are plenty of developers who would love to be able to stop supporting IE. The amount of times things have to be tweaked and hacked just to please Internet Explorer, when the web site already works on most everything else (everything else: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera).