That used to be true. These days the vast majority of DVD movies can just be put in the player and you're ready to go within a minute. Companies did listen and they very rarely put unskippable crap in. The only reliably unskippable part is the piracy warning which is up for maybe 30 seconds.
I bought a Max and Ruby DVD for my 4 year old daughter. The only way to "skip" the ads is to chapter skip each one. You can't go straight to the menu like most every movie I own. Disney calls it "Fast Play." I won't be buying another Max and Ruby DVD. There are plenty of better shows and movies anyway.
More likely she wanted it *now* and decided that piracy was a permanent solution rather than the temporary 3-5 day solution while her shiny DVDs shipped from Amazon.
Piracy is just the new socially acceptable temper tantrum. Individual consumers (as opposed to collective market forces) have decided *they* get to decide the price and medium and if they don't get their way, they'll just take it for free.
Fine, pirate it, right after you process your order with Amazon. That way you don't have wait to enjoy what you now legally own. Or, why don't you write a check for a price you're willing to pay per episode and send it to the company as a donation?
I'm guessing you and your girlfriend are perfectly content not paying anything ever because the company dared to not have it your way right now.
Having two monitors I feel a lot less claustrophobic. It may not increase my productivity but I'm far less agitated when doing my job. I don't like hunting for tabs to switch between views. When debugging.Net sites it's nice to have to site remain in view when the breakpoint is hit.
Perhaps BP et al got patents on producing biobutanol because THEY want to produce biobutanol.
You'll be buying BP biobutanol at some point.
So what?
These companies are investing ridiculous amounts of money into alternative fuel research and those wacky conspiracy theorists think it's just to prevent alternative fuels from hitting the market.
Do you really think these *energy* companies care whether they get your money through BP oil or BP biobutanol? All they care is that BP is on the label and they're fueling your vehicle one way or another.
If Facebook could get it's privacy settings to be easy to use so that people could share all the personal details with trusted people while maintaining connections with untrusted individuals then people would be able to build out more.
They would then be able to start recommending people based on common interests, relationship status, etc.
Right now it's more of a place to keep people up to date with your life and find old friends rather than a way to find new friends or date.
Most people steal because they want your stuff, not your information.
A dead hard drive doesn't do much to diminish the value of a computer in terms of pawning it or selling it on ebay. A dead CPU, especially in a laptop, makes the computer worthless. Therefore, there's no point stealing it.
For this to be effective it has to be in wide use. Otherwise the odds of getting a worthless laptop are too small to concern yourself with when looking for something expensive to steal.
Also, if you tie the encryption of the hard drive to a particular CPU then killing the CPU makes your information inaccessible.
At four years old the parents should have been watching to avoid this sort of thing.
The child should be sued because ultimately the parents will pay for not doing their job. As they should.
This was no minor injury they inflicted. It may have been a coincidence that the adult died but it was certainly because of the children and lack of oversight by their parents that the person was severely injured the last few months of their life.
The problem is with the details. Footprints aren't being made in the snow, snow isn't really being moved around much considering it's all fresh powder. The camera is angled to hide the fact that the environment is not changing dynamically with the action.
It's not hard to make high polygon count, pretty, things relative to the rest of what it takes for a solid piece of animation. The challenge is making a bunch of polygons interact in a believable way.
The professionals spend a lot of time making the environment deform in real time in response to the action.
You can't just shake the camera. The ground needs to deform when big giant things are crashing around on it.
Blender, or the animators, have a long way to go to catch up and Pixar isn't standing still.
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shouldn't be teaching. Let's check the actual quote:
I have a three year old daughter and she was playing with an old educational toy when I realized that you could take it apart, see how it works and put it back together again. It wasn't designed for that but there were plenty of parts in it. You can't do that with most modern toys. They're just discrete pieces of silicon. Very little of interest or use is contained in them.
The problem with this type of "research" is that it's finding excuses to give kids sugar rather than discipline them so they eat real food.
Success is no longer defined by the amount of learning that is happening but by the lack of discipline problems that occur while the learning is occurring. Sugar shuts the kids up so that's success.
Schools need to stop encouraging the attitude that education begins and ends with a bell. If schools focused on reading, writing and math then students could find and learn about their own personalized interests outside of class.
Exceptions are a universal method of returning error conditions from functions.
Yes they are overused. But they make it a heck of a lot easier to inform the user of what exactly they did wrong.
You can't always predict, prevent and recover from certain inputs. And it's very difficult to pass back human readable, useful, error information without exceptions.
People are cutting out non-essentials so they can get out of debt or simply be financially secure. An extra $71 on a $150K mortgage will cut years off the time it takes to pay it back and save thousands of dollars.
If we didn't get cable forced on us through our HOA (at $8 a month, a steal) we wouldn't have it. We have NetFlix and the internet for watching movies and shows. We're getting rid of our landline to save $25 a month that we don't need to be spending. We have MagicJack, Tracfones and a company provided cell-phone.
All the money we're saving is being snowballed onto debts which are quickly disappearing. Once we're out of debt then we can decide which luxuries we'd like to have.
Shop around for a bank that actually values you as a customer. I believe Bank of America will give you your money back within 24 hours. I'm not a fan of theirs but at least they do that for you. I personally use US Bank.
The whole point of funding Columbus was to see if they could open up a new line of trade which would prove very lucrative. It was an investment. If Columbus made it to India, Spain would get back far more than they paid.
Where is the big financial payoff for going into space? If we get to Mars, how is that going to provide a financial windfall for the country that does it?
We don't spend a lot of money on space exploration because the potential ROI is near zero. We should be dumping money into exploring Earth. We know more about space than we do about the depths of our oceans.
trying to create a bogeyman so they can convince the population that they need to be taxed so they can be protected from it.
The "collective stupid" is the most common. It's amazing how many people are willing to give up money and liberty to be protected from all those "stupid" people out there.
"Look at all those dumb people who get computers infected and pay companies to fix the problem for them! We need to tax them and let the government manage that industry."
And you can bet Microsoft won't be contracted out using that tax money to save all us "smart" people from the dumb people who get infected.
Also, pay no mind to the fact that the massive botnets are largely in countries not affected by taxes imposed by the US government.
When your premis is false your entire argument is false no matter how long winded your argument is.
Claiming that 2 significant mistakes is no big deal is like claiming that if you built a bridge out of a million stones and only two in the base were severely damaged you'd be happy. The bridge collapsed. Why are you happy?
Phil Jones doesn't know where the weather stations are that were used or where his data went.
Arguments are generally derived from premises. It doesn't matter how many pages are written if they are based on a false premise then the entire argument is false.
It's amazing how many people still want to believe this nonsense because there are so many believers. 1 billion Muslims can't be wrong, right?
It's too bad they are base their views on the same lies. Whether 1 person or a thousand believe a lie, it's still a lie.
It's amazing how quickly "Climate Change" went from a derided term used by "deniers" to being the term of choice for the true believers.
Leprechauns paint the grass green. The grass is green. Therefore leprechauns exist.
that the AGW true believers aren't intentionally preventing contrary opinions from being put into peer reviewed journals.
Appeal to authority is a fallacy. If authority mattered the earth would still be the center of the universe. When the authority is preventing contrary opinions from being considered they are no longer an authority.
The hockey stick is a lie. It's been exposed. I find it hilarious that "Global Warming" believers were first whining about the term "Climate Change" being used and now they've fully embraced it. They will embrace whatever term is most socially acceptable. Nobody doubts that the climate changes. We have days, we have seasons. Why would things not shift on a larger time scale as well?
People ignorantly dump their time, effort and money into cults all the time while the people at the top get rich. The idiots at the bottom don't prove the lies at the top.
Talking to a teacher I learned that the most feared weapon a teacher has is their cell phone. Seems that students start to behave better when you have instant communication with the parents.
Other pro-tips: never give out your cell phone number to students and disable text (or at least picture) messages. If you are the recipient of a sexting as a teacher you had until about 10 minutes ago to report it or you get a healthy dose of the legal system in the area of child porn.
IT people like to make fun of Stevens for the analogy and yet don't even think about it when they talk about how big the "pipe" is when talking about bandwidth.
Maybe if he had said it was a "series of pipes" it would have gone over better. Because tubes are different than pipes.
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That used to be true. These days the vast majority of DVD movies can just be put in the player and you're ready to go within a minute. Companies did listen and they very rarely put unskippable crap in. The only reliably unskippable part is the piracy warning which is up for maybe 30 seconds.
I bought a Max and Ruby DVD for my 4 year old daughter. The only way to "skip" the ads is to chapter skip each one. You can't go straight to the menu like most every movie I own. Disney calls it "Fast Play." I won't be buying another Max and Ruby DVD. There are plenty of better shows and movies anyway.
why not buy the DVDs?
More likely she wanted it *now* and decided that piracy was a permanent solution rather than the temporary 3-5 day solution while her shiny DVDs shipped from Amazon.
Piracy is just the new socially acceptable temper tantrum. Individual consumers (as opposed to collective market forces) have decided *they* get to decide the price and medium and if they don't get their way, they'll just take it for free.
Fine, pirate it, right after you process your order with Amazon. That way you don't have wait to enjoy what you now legally own. Or, why don't you write a check for a price you're willing to pay per episode and send it to the company as a donation?
I'm guessing you and your girlfriend are perfectly content not paying anything ever because the company dared to not have it your way right now.
Having two monitors I feel a lot less claustrophobic. It may not increase my productivity but I'm far less agitated when doing my job. I don't like hunting for tabs to switch between views. When debugging .Net sites it's nice to have to site remain in view when the breakpoint is hit.
Wearing comfortable clothes probably doesn't increase productivity either.
I like pi.
Yeah
It's pretty cool
Hey, you forgot about ME!
Interesting that he just goes to 2000 as the upgrade to 98 as opposed to ME and then XP.
It's asteroids all the way down
Perhaps BP et al got patents on producing biobutanol because THEY want to produce biobutanol.
You'll be buying BP biobutanol at some point.
So what?
These companies are investing ridiculous amounts of money into alternative fuel research and those wacky conspiracy theorists think it's just to prevent alternative fuels from hitting the market.
Do you really think these *energy* companies care whether they get your money through BP oil or BP biobutanol? All they care is that BP is on the label and they're fueling your vehicle one way or another.
If Facebook could get it's privacy settings to be easy to use so that people could share all the personal details with trusted people while maintaining connections with untrusted individuals then people would be able to build out more.
They would then be able to start recommending people based on common interests, relationship status, etc.
Right now it's more of a place to keep people up to date with your life and find old friends rather than a way to find new friends or date.
Most people steal because they want your stuff, not your information.
A dead hard drive doesn't do much to diminish the value of a computer in terms of pawning it or selling it on ebay. A dead CPU, especially in a laptop, makes the computer worthless. Therefore, there's no point stealing it.
For this to be effective it has to be in wide use. Otherwise the odds of getting a worthless laptop are too small to concern yourself with when looking for something expensive to steal.
Also, if you tie the encryption of the hard drive to a particular CPU then killing the CPU makes your information inaccessible.
At four years old the parents should have been watching to avoid this sort of thing.
The child should be sued because ultimately the parents will pay for not doing their job. As they should.
This was no minor injury they inflicted. It may have been a coincidence that the adult died but it was certainly because of the children and lack of oversight by their parents that the person was severely injured the last few months of their life.
The problem is with the details. Footprints aren't being made in the snow, snow isn't really being moved around much considering it's all fresh powder. The camera is angled to hide the fact that the environment is not changing dynamically with the action.
It's not hard to make high polygon count, pretty, things relative to the rest of what it takes for a solid piece of animation. The challenge is making a bunch of polygons interact in a believable way.
The professionals spend a lot of time making the environment deform in real time in response to the action.
You can't just shake the camera. The ground needs to deform when big giant things are crashing around on it.
Blender, or the animators, have a long way to go to catch up and Pixar isn't standing still.
shouldn't be teaching. Let's check the actual quote:
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/290532/david-thornburg/any-teacher-that-can-be-replaced-by-a-computer-deserves
"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be." - David Thornburg
Teachers who are as soulless as a computer shouldn't be teaching. Anyone who thinks a computer can do a teacher's job has never been a teacher.
I have a three year old daughter and she was playing with an old educational toy when I realized that you could take it apart, see how it works and put it back together again. It wasn't designed for that but there were plenty of parts in it. You can't do that with most modern toys. They're just discrete pieces of silicon. Very little of interest or use is contained in them.
The problem with this type of "research" is that it's finding excuses to give kids sugar rather than discipline them so they eat real food.
Success is no longer defined by the amount of learning that is happening but by the lack of discipline problems that occur while the learning is occurring. Sugar shuts the kids up so that's success.
Schools need to stop encouraging the attitude that education begins and ends with a bell. If schools focused on reading, writing and math then students could find and learn about their own personalized interests outside of class.
Exceptions are a universal method of returning error conditions from functions.
Yes they are overused. But they make it a heck of a lot easier to inform the user of what exactly they did wrong.
You can't always predict, prevent and recover from certain inputs. And it's very difficult to pass back human readable, useful, error information without exceptions.
Short term gains are taxed as regular income.
Only if you hold a stock for 12 months or more do you get to take the capital gains tax.
So the government is already punishing these people with higher taxes but they don't care.
It's more important that they make money consistently than worry about the quantity of money. Consistency ends up better in the long run.
Why not just go to hotornot.com if you'd like to see what millions of people consider a 10?
People are cutting out non-essentials so they can get out of debt or simply be financially secure. An extra $71 on a $150K mortgage will cut years off the time it takes to pay it back and save thousands of dollars.
If we didn't get cable forced on us through our HOA (at $8 a month, a steal) we wouldn't have it. We have NetFlix and the internet for watching movies and shows. We're getting rid of our landline to save $25 a month that we don't need to be spending. We have MagicJack, Tracfones and a company provided cell-phone.
All the money we're saving is being snowballed onto debts which are quickly disappearing. Once we're out of debt then we can decide which luxuries we'd like to have.
Shop around for a bank that actually values you as a customer. I believe Bank of America will give you your money back within 24 hours. I'm not a fan of theirs but at least they do that for you. I personally use US Bank.
The whole point of funding Columbus was to see if they could open up a new line of trade which would prove very lucrative. It was an investment. If Columbus made it to India, Spain would get back far more than they paid.
Where is the big financial payoff for going into space? If we get to Mars, how is that going to provide a financial windfall for the country that does it?
We don't spend a lot of money on space exploration because the potential ROI is near zero. We should be dumping money into exploring Earth. We know more about space than we do about the depths of our oceans.
trying to create a bogeyman so they can convince the population that they need to be taxed so they can be protected from it.
The "collective stupid" is the most common. It's amazing how many people are willing to give up money and liberty to be protected from all those "stupid" people out there.
"Look at all those dumb people who get computers infected and pay companies to fix the problem for them! We need to tax them and let the government manage that industry."
And you can bet Microsoft won't be contracted out using that tax money to save all us "smart" people from the dumb people who get infected.
Also, pay no mind to the fact that the massive botnets are largely in countries not affected by taxes imposed by the US government.
When your premis is false your entire argument is false no matter how long winded your argument is.
Claiming that 2 significant mistakes is no big deal is like claiming that if you built a bridge out of a million stones and only two in the base were severely damaged you'd be happy. The bridge collapsed. Why are you happy?
Phil Jones doesn't know where the weather stations are that were used or where his data went.
Arguments are generally derived from premises. It doesn't matter how many pages are written if they are based on a false premise then the entire argument is false.
It's amazing how many people still want to believe this nonsense because there are so many believers. 1 billion Muslims can't be wrong, right?
It's too bad they are base their views on the same lies. Whether 1 person or a thousand believe a lie, it's still a lie.
It's amazing how quickly "Climate Change" went from a derided term used by "deniers" to being the term of choice for the true believers.
Leprechauns paint the grass green. The grass is green. Therefore leprechauns exist.
that the AGW true believers aren't intentionally preventing contrary opinions from being put into peer reviewed journals.
Appeal to authority is a fallacy. If authority mattered the earth would still be the center of the universe. When the authority is preventing contrary opinions from being considered they are no longer an authority.
The hockey stick is a lie. It's been exposed. I find it hilarious that "Global Warming" believers were first whining about the term "Climate Change" being used and now they've fully embraced it. They will embrace whatever term is most socially acceptable. Nobody doubts that the climate changes. We have days, we have seasons. Why would things not shift on a larger time scale as well?
People ignorantly dump their time, effort and money into cults all the time while the people at the top get rich. The idiots at the bottom don't prove the lies at the top.
Talking to a teacher I learned that the most feared weapon a teacher has is their cell phone. Seems that students start to behave better when you have instant communication with the parents.
Other pro-tips: never give out your cell phone number to students and disable text (or at least picture) messages. If you are the recipient of a sexting as a teacher you had until about 10 minutes ago to report it or you get a healthy dose of the legal system in the area of child porn.
IT people like to make fun of Stevens for the analogy and yet don't even think about it when they talk about how big the "pipe" is when talking about bandwidth.
Maybe if he had said it was a "series of pipes" it would have gone over better. Because tubes are different than pipes.