I think there is an anime or two that uses the OStan designs, I think it might be Popotan or Nurse Witch Komugi. Maybe the magazine that ran the manga version is who you are referencing, but I really don't know, but that example was a lot more of an homage/reference than just a rip-off.
I see this a lot too. It's inconsistent, sometimes a drop-down menu shows up where it's supposed to be, sometimes it shows up on the other screen. Does this mean that the FF Mac developers aren't enlightened on the use of dual monitors? It sure seems like it.
I just want FF to not crash so much in OS X. I'm multiplatform, keeping functionality and extensions is important. Camino seems to be most relevant if you never want to move your profile between platforms. I can do that in a few minutes, and have done that several times. The extension compatibility is important because there are very few good extensions for Mac-only browsers, the genetic "depth" of the available extensions is very shallow, I've come across too many circumstances where FF has a few alternates to try to do a task, the Mac-only stuff might only have one extension that does a task and it doesn't do it very well.
I see Firefox crash on my Mac a lot. Sometimes it just stalls and won't do any thing for a minute. For a long time, toggling FlashBlock on a site would crash the Mac. Firefox on the Mac doesn't allow me to rearrange bookmarks in folders on the bookmarks bar like the Windows version. I have to go to "manage bookmarks", which is a clumsy little program.
I like using Firefox and Thunderbird simply because I can just transfer my profile to another platform and back. I just did that last week when I moved my Thunderbird emails to my Windows notebook for an expo, and then back to my Mac tower when I returned. It's sometimes a bit tedious, but it only takes me five to ten minutes to do that each way
What protocols don't solve is being able to say, "ok, if you want high speed access on _my_ network, you have to pay extra." That's the problem.
I understand what you mean, but it's not quite described right, so I'll clarify for others.
What you are trying to say is that the ISPs are in a way trying to sell access to their customer base to the internet services. They are asking the sellers of video, VOIP and other services to pay money to the ISP that the customer is using. Basically they want both sides to pay for access through the "last mile". The customer is already paying for the service over the last mile, but the ISP wants the sender of those services to pay too, otherwise they might get unsatisfactory service. At least, that's the popular interpretation around here, and I think it's the most plausible.
The ISPs might say that they would be offering a premium improved service to Google, iTunes and such, but in reality, I would expect that they would just degrade service for customers of services that don't pay. I just don't think the big ISPs can be trusted to be honest about this.
The "lack" of manufacturing in the US is overstated. There may be fewer manufacturing jobs, those still in manufacturing have generally increased in productivity. The manufacturing that has gone overseas is the lower skilled work.
I'm not convinced that manufacturing is a panacea for anyone. Right now, it's largely based on consumerism, and "need" for the next big thing or keeping up with the Joneses when it's just not relevant and current behaviors are not sustainable on a global scale.
Material goods are easy to protect from copying because they are relatively hard to copy.
You can say that, but for how long will this be the case? I don't think copying something is very hard right now, and the barriers seem to continue to go down.
What happens when anyone can copy anything? I'm trying to figure out the economic consequences of that when it is carried out that far. It doesn't seem as if a person can make money using their talents to improve on something. I'm skeptical that the equivalent of tip money can make it worthwhile, it would seem to turn artisans, engineers and designers into beggars like many OSS projects seem to be these days. I suppose musicians can make money with live performances, but would that actually be a money draw? Recorded media seems to have reduced the desire for live bands. Heck, if the wedding market is any indication, services like DJs are simply being replaced with the likes of playlists.
I agree with many of the points you present, really. Having the fanciest device doesn't help if you don't know how to use it. I don't know if it necessarily applies so well to photography, but in my general experience, a talented person can do better work with a lesser device than a less talented person with the most expensive gear. I understand that it's harder to compete, but I think there's still a paying high end. I don't see the casual point-and-shooter doing shots for magazine ads, posters, wedding portraits or anything like that. In the same vein, megapixels don't matter as much as most people seem to think.
I think it is fine for an active photographer to have multiple cameras. They'll have a full size camera and a pocket camera. I see hear about the same practices in the video field too.
A dSLR in point and shoot mode defeats the point of the camera design.
Besides, how do you know that the white balance is wrong? Are you sure that the final image actually represents the actual scene? The article doesn't even say whether the pictures are accurate. There is nothing in the article that suggests anything that resembles a scientific methodology, nor do they give an impression that they know anything about cameras to judge them on merit rather than just picking the one that is the most overprocessed. If the camera's processing is wrong, it's hard to correct the photo without problems.
Before anyone jumps on me, I don't have a dSLR, nor do I know how to use one.
Let's just say that their methodology is suspect at best:
"All the shots were taken with devices taken straight out of the box, and we used the default settings or an automatic mode if there was one".
A person should not be buying a dSLR if they aren't going to take the time to learn how to use it. They should just be buying a point and shoot camera. The 5MP camera, they noted that it does badly in low light and the light has a blue tinge.
The only thing that this thing compares is the quality of scaled-down pictures.
It's kind of pointless to clamor for a high megapixel camera if it's only going to be scaled down to VGA res for the web. 2MP would be plenty and offer plenty of oversampling for web. If you want to do good prints, then that's where a nicer camera comes into play, but they don't compare that.
Heck, you can buy Blackberry service and mysteriously not GET Blackberry service because the service is down and the company wouldn't tell anyone or explain why it was down. Yeah, *that* is the kind of service that I want to buy.
I don't think Intel would be forced to use HyperTransport. They are easily big enough that they can make their own point-to-point interconnect and not worry about the rest of the industry. Intel is or was working one, I think it was supposed to be introduced with the Penryn chips.
I really don't think it would necessarily be heads-and-shoulders better than Hypertransport though.
They later came back and said that above 50Mph is about when A/C is more efficient than windows down, 50mph being about when it crosses over. I'm surprised it made much difference, but then, for my car, A/C on vs. off is practically negligible.
I think that makes sense, but still, AMD survived a very long time by being "second best", I really don't see it to be a major problem, except for the short-term damage caused by the ATI merger. Only time will tell if they made a good choice for the long term. A lot of people seemed to like AMD for having better bang for the buck.
McCain didn't mention his entourage, did he? I think The Daily Show showed it actually involved 12 well-armed troops and a few humvees. Stewart joked that he doesn't want to go shopping in Indiana anymore.
The fact that hardware costs money to design even if you have free labor and free software is a big hurdle.
Free software is based on the principles of freedom to change the design and the fact that it doesn't cost much money to develop or to use. Free hardware allows you to change the design, but there's still the issue of the cost of development, and even using the designs means spending money to have circuits made.
I think designing "open" computers is silly, you cannot compete against makers that punch out a million boards. You are better off sticking to an old computer, it's not as if there is a shortage of those.
Just the fact that people have lives makes this whole thing unpalatable. The people that tend to know how to do this stuff well tend to be already employed doing it. It is better to have a hobby that is not what you make your money doing.
Personally, I am designing some hardware on my own, but I am doing it so that I can expand my small business. I really can't say that I would be doing it if I didn't think I might be able to make money with the work, and I am certainly not going to give much more than maybe a tiny bit of my work away for free. I'm sure arguments can be constructed that I might still be able to make money giving some of my work for free, but even after reading this site for nearly a decade, I still don't buy that as a general case.
In a way, you can have custom hardware circuit boards made, very much in the manner that you describe, except that you have to design the circuit. Maybe not over night, but less than a week. You could probably have a reference board made. How computer board makers make their variations is by including or not including parts based on the order.
Making custom versions of what's being mass produced in the millions is usually not advised unless you have a very good reason to do so, for high value, specialized tasks.
Soldering ball grid array parts is big pain though.
It's not as if AMD was suddenly not making fast CPUs, just that Intel's best was faster than AMD's best.
There was just a little issue of whether they make the fastest. I would expect that few people would notice the difference in speed between a top AMD and a top Intel chip in actual use.
RAR irritates me though. It's rare enough that I usually have to dig up a decompresser for it and install it special for just one file and then I never use it again. I just don't like having to deal with files that require me to install new software just so I can use that one file. In that vein, I really don't think the article is relevant. I certainly won't use novelty file formats unless it looks like it has "legs". It's not like I want to make a file that becomes useless when the maintainer of the decompression utility loses interest and it goes away.
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I think there is an anime or two that uses the OStan designs, I think it might be Popotan or Nurse Witch Komugi. Maybe the magazine that ran the manga version is who you are referencing, but I really don't know, but that example was a lot more of an homage/reference than just a rip-off.
I see this a lot too. It's inconsistent, sometimes a drop-down menu shows up where it's supposed to be, sometimes it shows up on the other screen. Does this mean that the FF Mac developers aren't enlightened on the use of dual monitors? It sure seems like it.
I just want FF to not crash so much in OS X. I'm multiplatform, keeping functionality and extensions is important. Camino seems to be most relevant if you never want to move your profile between platforms. I can do that in a few minutes, and have done that several times. The extension compatibility is important because there are very few good extensions for Mac-only browsers, the genetic "depth" of the available extensions is very shallow, I've come across too many circumstances where FF has a few alternates to try to do a task, the Mac-only stuff might only have one extension that does a task and it doesn't do it very well.
I see Firefox crash on my Mac a lot. Sometimes it just stalls and won't do any thing for a minute. For a long time, toggling FlashBlock on a site would crash the Mac. Firefox on the Mac doesn't allow me to rearrange bookmarks in folders on the bookmarks bar like the Windows version. I have to go to "manage bookmarks", which is a clumsy little program.
I like using Firefox and Thunderbird simply because I can just transfer my profile to another platform and back. I just did that last week when I moved my Thunderbird emails to my Windows notebook for an expo, and then back to my Mac tower when I returned. It's sometimes a bit tedious, but it only takes me five to ten minutes to do that each way
What protocols don't solve is being able to say, "ok, if you want high speed access on _my_ network, you have to pay extra." That's the problem.
I understand what you mean, but it's not quite described right, so I'll clarify for others.
What you are trying to say is that the ISPs are in a way trying to sell access to their customer base to the internet services. They are asking the sellers of video, VOIP and other services to pay money to the ISP that the customer is using. Basically they want both sides to pay for access through the "last mile". The customer is already paying for the service over the last mile, but the ISP wants the sender of those services to pay too, otherwise they might get unsatisfactory service. At least, that's the popular interpretation around here, and I think it's the most plausible.
The ISPs might say that they would be offering a premium improved service to Google, iTunes and such, but in reality, I would expect that they would just degrade service for customers of services that don't pay. I just don't think the big ISPs can be trusted to be honest about this.
The "lack" of manufacturing in the US is overstated. There may be fewer manufacturing jobs, those still in manufacturing have generally increased in productivity. The manufacturing that has gone overseas is the lower skilled work.
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http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues
I'm not convinced that manufacturing is a panacea for anyone. Right now, it's largely based on consumerism, and "need" for the next big thing or keeping up with the Joneses when it's just not relevant and current behaviors are not sustainable on a global scale.
Material goods are easy to protect from copying because they are relatively hard to copy.
You can say that, but for how long will this be the case? I don't think copying something is very hard right now, and the barriers seem to continue to go down.
What happens when anyone can copy anything? I'm trying to figure out the economic consequences of that when it is carried out that far. It doesn't seem as if a person can make money using their talents to improve on something. I'm skeptical that the equivalent of tip money can make it worthwhile, it would seem to turn artisans, engineers and designers into beggars like many OSS projects seem to be these days. I suppose musicians can make money with live performances, but would that actually be a money draw? Recorded media seems to have reduced the desire for live bands. Heck, if the wedding market is any indication, services like DJs are simply being replaced with the likes of playlists.
I agree with many of the points you present, really. Having the fanciest device doesn't help if you don't know how to use it. I don't know if it necessarily applies so well to photography, but in my general experience, a talented person can do better work with a lesser device than a less talented person with the most expensive gear. I understand that it's harder to compete, but I think there's still a paying high end. I don't see the casual point-and-shooter doing shots for magazine ads, posters, wedding portraits or anything like that. In the same vein, megapixels don't matter as much as most people seem to think.
I think it is fine for an active photographer to have multiple cameras. They'll have a full size camera and a pocket camera. I see hear about the same practices in the video field too.
A dSLR in point and shoot mode defeats the point of the camera design.
Besides, how do you know that the white balance is wrong? Are you sure that the final image actually represents the actual scene? The article doesn't even say whether the pictures are accurate. There is nothing in the article that suggests anything that resembles a scientific methodology, nor do they give an impression that they know anything about cameras to judge them on merit rather than just picking the one that is the most overprocessed. If the camera's processing is wrong, it's hard to correct the photo without problems.
Then there's also control over depth of field too. Really nice photographs use depth of field to good effect.
Before anyone jumps on me, I don't have a dSLR, nor do I know how to use one.
Let's just say that their methodology is suspect at best:
"All the shots were taken with devices taken straight out of the box, and we used the default settings or an automatic mode if there was one".
A person should not be buying a dSLR if they aren't going to take the time to learn how to use it. They should just be buying a point and shoot camera. The 5MP camera, they noted that it does badly in low light and the light has a blue tinge.
The only thing that this thing compares is the quality of scaled-down pictures.
It's kind of pointless to clamor for a high megapixel camera if it's only going to be scaled down to VGA res for the web. 2MP would be plenty and offer plenty of oversampling for web. If you want to do good prints, then that's where a nicer camera comes into play, but they don't compare that.
Last I checked, those countries also make plenty of manufactured crap with little to no intrinsic value.
Thank you for telling me that Earth Simulator went away 15 years ago!
Heck, you can buy Blackberry service and mysteriously not GET Blackberry service because the service is down and the company wouldn't tell anyone or explain why it was down. Yeah, *that* is the kind of service that I want to buy.
Maybe I made a mistake, I didn't spot this picture:
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http://www.folklore.org/projects/Macintosh/images
Unfortunately, that was a title bar in the shape of a tab, not a tab in the sense of exposing and hiding different panes of information or control.
I don't think Intel would be forced to use HyperTransport. They are easily big enough that they can make their own point-to-point interconnect and not worry about the rest of the industry. Intel is or was working one, I think it was supposed to be introduced with the Penryn chips.
I really don't think it would necessarily be heads-and-shoulders better than Hypertransport though.
Correlation is indeed a measure of a relationship between a cause and effect
No, it's not. Correlation does not mean causation. Assuming that correlation means causation is considered a logical fallacy.
They later came back and said that above 50Mph is about when A/C is more efficient than windows down, 50mph being about when it crosses over. I'm surprised it made much difference, but then, for my car, A/C on vs. off is practically negligible.
I think that makes sense, but still, AMD survived a very long time by being "second best", I really don't see it to be a major problem, except for the short-term damage caused by the ATI merger. Only time will tell if they made a good choice for the long term. A lot of people seemed to like AMD for having better bang for the buck.
McCain didn't mention his entourage, did he? I think The Daily Show showed it actually involved 12 well-armed troops and a few humvees. Stewart joked that he doesn't want to go shopping in Indiana anymore.
The fact that hardware costs money to design even if you have free labor and free software is a big hurdle.
Free software is based on the principles of freedom to change the design and the fact that it doesn't cost much money to develop or to use. Free hardware allows you to change the design, but there's still the issue of the cost of development, and even using the designs means spending money to have circuits made.
I think designing "open" computers is silly, you cannot compete against makers that punch out a million boards. You are better off sticking to an old computer, it's not as if there is a shortage of those.
Just the fact that people have lives makes this whole thing unpalatable. The people that tend to know how to do this stuff well tend to be already employed doing it. It is better to have a hobby that is not what you make your money doing.
Personally, I am designing some hardware on my own, but I am doing it so that I can expand my small business. I really can't say that I would be doing it if I didn't think I might be able to make money with the work, and I am certainly not going to give much more than maybe a tiny bit of my work away for free. I'm sure arguments can be constructed that I might still be able to make money giving some of my work for free, but even after reading this site for nearly a decade, I still don't buy that as a general case.
In a way, you can have custom hardware circuit boards made, very much in the manner that you describe, except that you have to design the circuit. Maybe not over night, but less than a week. You could probably have a reference board made. How computer board makers make their variations is by including or not including parts based on the order.
Making custom versions of what's being mass produced in the millions is usually not advised unless you have a very good reason to do so, for high value, specialized tasks.
Soldering ball grid array parts is big pain though.
It's not as if AMD was suddenly not making fast CPUs, just that Intel's best was faster than AMD's best.
There was just a little issue of whether they make the fastest. I would expect that few people would notice the difference in speed between a top AMD and a top Intel chip in actual use.
RAR irritates me though. It's rare enough that I usually have to dig up a decompresser for it and install it special for just one file and then I never use it again. I just don't like having to deal with files that require me to install new software just so I can use that one file. In that vein, I really don't think the article is relevant. I certainly won't use novelty file formats unless it looks like it has "legs". It's not like I want to make a file that becomes useless when the maintainer of the decompression utility loses interest and it goes away.