That's the best part! The image is showing that there are portions of the painting that have deteriorated and can't be seen.
To represent this issue he has placed broken image links over the areas that an observer can't see.
I thought it was kind of funny on it's own, but it gets better and better as I see more people confused by the image.
In the case of the original, the missing portions of the painting add something to its qualification as art. For me, the number of people that don't "get the joke" of the revised piece add to its qualification as art.
I submitted it in this way because the actual story is that NSTA does not distribute DVDs for anyone. They do not have warehouses and stamps for people that want materials distributed. This is completely misinterpreted by the producer of "An Inconvenient Truth." Furthermore NSTA generally avoids political material, and, regardless of what anyone says, the film in question is a political firebrand. I drive a Prius and I can still recognize that a movie starring Al Gore is controversial.
Science teachers must stay above that controversy.
As for the "oil money," Shell/Exxon/Mobile are all desperate for better scientists coming out of our country. They do not donate to control curriculum, they donate to expand science education.
Laurie David has only proven that she is very good at finding bits of information and weaving them into a compelling narrative.
I find that we don't have very good outlets for sadness in our society. (Some movies, perhaps?) Our western holidays are based on celebration (insert rant about capitalism overtaking each holiday and making it into "be happy and buy more") we don't get a sanctioned opportunity to feel remorse or saddness. Not understanding that sadness is the necessary counterpoint to joy is something that gets lost in a world of "TGIFridays" Holidays. Clinical depression is one thing, but the right to be sad sometimes, to feel loss or remorse anything other than joy is important to gaining a perspective on being happy. Ash wednesday is a good christian example as Ramadan is a good Muslim example. I personally get a huge amount of sadness out of my system at the "Temple Burn" which is the day after they burn the man at Burning Man.
They didn't fix the broken window, the only way to fix the problem is to rebuild the whole house.
How can they ever establish a remedy for this outrageously irresponsible act. Their rootkit is comprimising military bases and on corperate systems. How much will it cost to remove? How many systems will never be cleaned?
This is much more than "scaring off DRM in the future." This is irresponsible and should lead to more than a class action suit.
My friends and I boo and hiss when we see those ads.
Last time someone in the audience said "You hate set painters?" referring to the "worker that is being harmed by piracy" in the ad.
Workers don't lose out from piracy, producers and content owners do. They are the ones that can afford the politicians to create laws on their behalf and lawyers if the laws aren't created on their behalf. If I could afford lawyers and politicians then then I would get royalties too.
Those people in the ads are laborors and don't miss out on royalties.
I noticed that too. Particularly because I worked on that video. I was the dolly grip, which means every shot in that video in which the camera was moving (except the one where he gets on the escalator) is me moving the camera (dare I say, dancing with Mr. Walken?)
No royalties for me.
But the iTunes store has validated that video as one of the greatest of all time.
Here are some behind the scenes shots if anyone is interested. That would be me, standing behind the camera.
OK, I didn't RTFA, I just read the comments. This comment in particular really forces me to agree with all of the other "What about iPhoto" posts.
iPhoto does all the things people are taking about here (again I didn't RTFA) and does them easily. You want to remove red eye? It's really simple in iPhoto, click the red eye button and click on an eye... My Aunt can handle it. Want to crop? It's simple. Rotating, changing brightness... simple, simple. I use it all the time to email images. I shoot at pretty high resolution but there's a button for emailing. I select the images and iPhoto resizes (S, M, L or full resolution) and opens a new email with the images in it. I really like that feature.
I don't want to come off as some fanboy, I use photoshop a lot in my day to day life and it's complicated, but iPhoto is really simple for the generally simple things it does.
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As a person that uses that gear on a daily basis, I will point out that HMI lighting and Tyler mounts (for example) are not just un-user friendly (to the layman) they are actually dangerous in the wrong hands.
There is plenty of gear out there that you can use with a consumer camera to create decent images.
The people that can afford shooting with a Satellight-X HMI can afford a crew to operate it.
They might still edit on Final Cut Pro.
/mac evangelism
PS. Woo-Hoo. Something involving my job is on Slashdot!
If the mac mini is designed as the machine that we hook up to our HDTVs (I currently have a modded G4 cube doing that for now.)
And assuming (this might be a stretch) that the "Asteroid" box is really a HD video box (Jobs said it's the year of HD) and that my iPod Photo has the hardware already to play movies then Apple will have a perfect set of distribution/watch on HDTV/carry on iPod. A formidable concept.
Apple is putting into place the exact pieces to create the iTunes store for movies. With Steves experience in the film business (Pixar) he already has more connections than he did with the record companies and now he has a track record, no, he has written the book on legal downloading.
Napster is talking abut dilly-dallying around with the concepts that Apple is preparing the major groundwork for.
HP is selling iPods. Not a merger, a stretegic partnership.
IBM and Apple could never exist under the same management but they could sell the same products to different people (i.e. HP iPod.) Apple isn't letting anyone build competing hardware but it is letting them sell the same hardware to groups of people that it can't reach alone, in the case of HP that would be windows users, in the case of IBM it would be businesses.
Apple has clearly shown how to impliment open source in their business practice (please feel free to bash on this point, but they are a profitable company integrating open source concepts into their business strategy with success) which IBM is surely interested in, and it isn't windows.
Ahhh. Marketing. Apple lies. Now I understand. HP doesn't lie. Dell doesn't lie. Microsoft doesn't lie. Red Hat doesn't lie. Only Apple.
Is this about marketing? PCs market themselves as being cheap. Apple markets design.
It's all about drinking the Kool-Aid. Who do you believe?
I'm a liar or a moron? Settle down. Rage against whatever it is that's itching you, not against why iPods are causing people to think Apple make good products. Explore why it's happening, not why it shouldn't.
iPod. It's a trojan horse. iPod insinuates into the hands of PC users and gives them a taste of what Apple wants them to taste.
Please, buy a Dell if you are concerned about the problems with Apple's hardware and software, but average consumers will continue to touch iPods as there first contact with Apple, they will continue to consider that the quality of the iPod as representative of Apple products.
For each of the problems you cite, I present 20 years of using macs and a very satisfied 20 years at that. My Ti paint is perfect. My Al book screen was fixed for free when the white spots appeared.
Can Google even count the number of problems people have had with PCs? The number of "out of warranty" PCs that crash? The screen defects in any consumer electronic device?
As was mentioned above, it is not the technical compliance with the machine that would cause the switch (ipod already works with PCs,) it is the "ease of use," fit and finish, attention to detail that makes PC users "mac curious."
My ipod is the only gadget I own that I can let someone play with and have them understand it immediatly and enjoy the the design of not only the hardware but also the software. My amazing phone doesn't have that effect on anyone or my amazing Clie. This creates a link between the Apple brand and a concept of easy to understand, elegant technology.
I blame Apple for the change in my attitude away from "bigger is more impressive" to "hide the technology and make it look like magic" mentality. The computers I used to build were big and obviously demanding of attention, my favorite machine now is the one that people don't even notice in the living room.
I had tried X-10 years ago and it seemed pretty lame, but I recently installed the latest hardware on my home server and bought a Rain8 and a rain sensor and it works great. The best part is that the Indigo software for OSX that drives the X10 has an awesome community who have come up with plenty of ways to do what you're asking about.
Why does no one mention the possibility that this implies the ability to download songs from the iTMS directly to the phone.
A cell phone has the internet connection that the iPod lacks. The two can not be compared. Small capacity, yes, but I can download a song I want to hear RIGHT NOW.
Having the iTMS in my pocket is a groundbreaking concept. Considering the number of songs they've sold from PCs, imagine how many songs they would sell if the store was in your pocket all the time!
"Stupid lawsuit against Microsoft competitor" is cheaper than "Empty Ad Campaign to try and prove that Microsoft's product is even on par with said competitor."
Grabs headlines, costs competitor money.
There is an Excel spreadsheet somewhere in Redmond that details the cost/benefit on that.
(Oh, and another Excel spreadsheet in Washington that tells carl rove what day to trot out Osama's body to get the most bang in November...)
I have a Brain Bag backpack, with a snake charmer, for all my cables and mouse, etc. and a Brain Cell, hard individual protection case custom fit for my 15" Powerbook AL.
It is comfortable, durable, looks sharp (if you're into REI chic) and all just works together (like Apple products.)
First item on their Guarantee Page: Everything you buy from TOM BIHN is satisfaction guaranteed: no sale is final.
Other satisfied users: http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/CTGY/_TRAV EL
What will those numbers look like after this Xmas?
Hello?
The iTMS drives sales of iPods. Apple need not turn a profit on the iTMS. By Making-The-Whole-Widget (tm) Apple can compete against the likes of Napster, et al on completly different terms.
The research I've been doing is in the $4000 range and I've decided on DLP.
There is no "burn-in" and the consoles are significantly thinner (not plasma thin, but thinner than traditional rear projection units.) The picture is pretty awesome at all angles and the technology is really cool.
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Right, good call.
Still, I like the idea of people hitting the "reload" button when they see the painting.
It reminds me of:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/24/cursor-kite.html
They are pictures of broken links!
That's the best part! The image is showing that there are portions of the painting that have deteriorated and can't be seen.
To represent this issue he has placed broken image links over the areas that an observer can't see.
I thought it was kind of funny on it's own, but it gets better and better as I see more people confused by the image.
In the case of the original, the missing portions of the painting add something to its qualification as art. For me, the number of people that don't "get the joke" of the revised piece add to its qualification as art.
I submitted it in this way because the actual story is that NSTA does not distribute DVDs for anyone. They do not have warehouses and stamps for people that want materials distributed. This is completely misinterpreted by the producer of "An Inconvenient Truth." Furthermore NSTA generally avoids political material, and, regardless of what anyone says, the film in question is a political firebrand. I drive a Prius and I can still recognize that a movie starring Al Gore is controversial.
Science teachers must stay above that controversy.
As for the "oil money," Shell/Exxon/Mobile are all desperate for better scientists coming out of our country. They do not donate to control curriculum, they donate to expand science education.
Laurie David has only proven that she is very good at finding bits of information and weaving them into a compelling narrative.
"I would like to live in a world where I'm not worried about some organization of rich bastards strong arming citizens out of hard earned cash."
I'm not worried. I already pay the rich bastards, they're called the government.
What you meant to say was you don't like the idea of worrying about the **AA muscling in on the guv'ment's turf.
I find that we don't have very good outlets for sadness in our society. (Some movies, perhaps?)
Our western holidays are based on celebration (insert rant about capitalism overtaking each holiday and making it into "be happy and buy more") we don't get a sanctioned opportunity to feel remorse or saddness.
Not understanding that sadness is the necessary counterpoint to joy is something that gets lost in a world of "TGIFridays" Holidays.
Clinical depression is one thing, but the right to be sad sometimes, to feel loss or remorse anything other than joy is important to gaining a perspective on being happy.
Ash wednesday is a good christian example as Ramadan is a good Muslim example. I personally get a huge amount of sadness out of my system at the "Temple Burn" which is the day after they burn the man at Burning Man.
Yes! Correct.
Please Mod up Absoluts reply.
They didn't fix the broken window, the only way to fix the problem is to rebuild the whole house.
How can they ever establish a remedy for this outrageously irresponsible act. Their rootkit is comprimising military bases and on corperate systems. How much will it cost to remove? How many systems will never be cleaned?
This is much more than "scaring off DRM in the future." This is irresponsible and should lead to more than a class action suit.
My friends and I boo and hiss when we see those ads.
Last time someone in the audience said "You hate set painters?" referring to the "worker that is being harmed by piracy" in the ad.
Workers don't lose out from piracy, producers and content owners do. They are the ones that can afford the politicians to create laws on their behalf and lawyers if the laws aren't created on their behalf. If I could afford lawyers and politicians then then I would get royalties too.
Those people in the ads are laborors and don't miss out on royalties.
I noticed that too. Particularly because I worked on that video.
I was the dolly grip, which means every shot in that video in which the camera was moving (except the one where he gets on the escalator) is me moving the camera (dare I say, dancing with Mr. Walken?)
No royalties for me.
But the iTunes store has validated that video as one of the greatest of all time.
Here are some behind the scenes shots if anyone is interested.
That would be me, standing behind the camera.
OK, I didn't RTFA, I just read the comments. This comment in particular really forces me to agree with all of the other "What about iPhoto" posts.
iPhoto does all the things people are taking about here (again I didn't RTFA) and does them easily.
You want to remove red eye? It's really simple in iPhoto, click the red eye button and click on an eye... My Aunt can handle it.
Want to crop? It's simple. Rotating, changing brightness... simple, simple.
I use it all the time to email images. I shoot at pretty high resolution but there's a button for emailing. I select the images and iPhoto resizes (S, M, L or full resolution) and opens a new email with the images in it. I really like that feature.
I don't want to come off as some fanboy, I use photoshop a lot in my day to day life and it's complicated, but iPhoto is really simple for the generally simple things it does.
As a person that uses that gear on a daily basis, I will point out that HMI lighting and Tyler mounts (for example) are not just un-user friendly (to the layman) they are actually dangerous in the wrong hands.
/mac evangelism
There is plenty of gear out there that you can use with a consumer camera to create decent images.
The people that can afford shooting with a Satellight-X HMI can afford a crew to operate it.
They might still edit on Final Cut Pro.
PS. Woo-Hoo. Something involving my job is on Slashdot!
If the mac mini is designed as the machine that we hook up to our HDTVs (I currently have a modded G4 cube doing that for now.)
And assuming (this might be a stretch) that the "Asteroid" box is really a HD video box (Jobs said it's the year of HD) and that my iPod Photo has the hardware already to play movies then Apple will have a perfect set of distribution/watch on HDTV/carry on iPod. A formidable concept.
Apple is putting into place the exact pieces to create the iTunes store for movies. With Steves experience in the film business (Pixar) he already has more connections than he did with the record companies and now he has a track record, no, he has written the book on legal downloading.
Napster is talking abut dilly-dallying around with the concepts that Apple is preparing the major groundwork for.
Got me.
I should stick to only posting when I've had the privoius three days off work to read every slashdot article.
Sorry.
I'll crwal back in my hole now.
A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (£13,700) on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game (RPG.)
BBC News
He plans on making the money back through selling mining rights and taxing the hunting and mining operations of other players on the land.
Oh, and selling beachfront property.
This makes my head hurt.
...is merger.
Did Apple and HP merge? No.
HP is selling iPods. Not a merger, a stretegic partnership.
IBM and Apple could never exist under the same management but they could sell the same products to different people (i.e. HP iPod.) Apple isn't letting anyone build competing hardware but it is letting them sell the same hardware to groups of people that it can't reach alone, in the case of HP that would be windows users, in the case of IBM it would be businesses.
Apple has clearly shown how to impliment open source in their business practice (please feel free to bash on this point, but they are a profitable company integrating open source concepts into their business strategy with success) which IBM is surely interested in, and it isn't windows.
Did anyone read the article on CELL processors?
Hello, they're based on 970s.
Ahhh. Marketing. Apple lies. Now I understand. HP doesn't lie. Dell doesn't lie. Microsoft doesn't lie. Red Hat doesn't lie. Only Apple.
Is this about marketing? PCs market themselves as being cheap. Apple markets design.
It's all about drinking the Kool-Aid. Who do you believe?
I'm a liar or a moron? Settle down. Rage against whatever it is that's itching you, not against why iPods are causing people to think Apple make good products. Explore why it's happening, not why it shouldn't.
iPod. It's a trojan horse. iPod insinuates into the hands of PC users and gives them a taste of what Apple wants them to taste.
Please, buy a Dell if you are concerned about the problems with Apple's hardware and software, but average consumers will continue to touch iPods as there first contact with Apple, they will continue to consider that the quality of the iPod as representative of Apple products.
For each of the problems you cite, I present 20 years of using macs and a very satisfied 20 years at that. My Ti paint is perfect. My Al book screen was fixed for free when the white spots appeared.
Can Google even count the number of problems people have had with PCs? The number of "out of warranty" PCs that crash? The screen defects in any consumer electronic device?
What was the Apple product that failed you?
As was mentioned above, it is not the technical compliance with the machine that would cause the switch (ipod already works with PCs,) it is the "ease of use," fit and finish, attention to detail that makes PC users "mac curious."
My ipod is the only gadget I own that I can let someone play with and have them understand it immediatly and enjoy the the design of not only the hardware but also the software. My amazing phone doesn't have that effect on anyone or my amazing Clie. This creates a link between the Apple brand and a concept of easy to understand, elegant technology.
I blame Apple for the change in my attitude away from "bigger is more impressive" to "hide the technology and make it look like magic" mentality. The computers I used to build were big and obviously demanding of attention, my favorite machine now is the one that people don't even notice in the living room.
I had tried X-10 years ago and it seemed pretty lame, but I recently installed the latest hardware on my home server and bought a Rain8 and a rain sensor and it works great.
The best part is that the Indigo software for OSX that drives the X10 has an awesome community who have come up with plenty of ways to do what you're asking about.
What network (Kazaa, Edonkey, etc.) does Pocket tunes use to find online mp3s?
I see the shoutcast streaming on the website but I don't see a section on mp3 downloading.
Is it "legal" or p2p?
Why does no one mention the possibility that this implies the ability to download songs from the iTMS directly to the phone.
A cell phone has the internet connection that the iPod lacks. The two can not be compared. Small capacity, yes, but I can download a song I want to hear RIGHT NOW.
Having the iTMS in my pocket is a groundbreaking concept. Considering the number of songs they've sold from PCs, imagine how many songs they would sell if the store was in your pocket all the time!
Hello?
This is the new advertising.
"Stupid lawsuit against Microsoft competitor"
is cheaper than
"Empty Ad Campaign to try and prove that Microsoft's product is even on par with said competitor."
Grabs headlines, costs competitor money.
There is an Excel spreadsheet somewhere in Redmond that details the cost/benefit on that.
(Oh, and another Excel spreadsheet in Washington that tells carl rove what day to trot out Osama's body to get the most bang in November...)
Actually, that's what I have right now.
I have a Samsung DLP HDTV hooked up to a modified G4 cube via DVI. I just rip DVDs to VIDEO_TS folders and select them with DVD player to watch.
The cube rocks since it is fanless, and looks great, esp with the DLP which has the cheesegrater front just like the cube mod I have.
...for your powerbook.
V EL
I have a Brain Bag backpack, with a snake charmer, for all my cables and mouse, etc. and a Brain Cell, hard individual protection case custom fit for my 15" Powerbook AL.
It is comfortable, durable, looks sharp (if you're into REI chic) and all just works together (like Apple products.)
First item on their Guarantee Page:
Everything you buy from TOM BIHN is satisfaction guaranteed: no sale is final.
Other satisfied users:
http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/CTGY/_TRA
From the Apple Q4 conference call:
137,000 iBooks shipped ($154 million)
336,000 iPods shipped ($121 million)
iPods represent almost as much income as iBooks!
Without iTMS for windows!
What will those numbers look like after this Xmas?
Hello?
The iTMS drives sales of iPods.
Apple need not turn a profit on the iTMS.
By Making-The-Whole-Widget (tm) Apple can compete against the likes of Napster, et al on completly different terms.
It fits in with their overall iApps strategy.
The research I've been doing is in the $4000 range and I've decided on DLP.
There is no "burn-in" and the consoles are significantly thinner (not plasma thin, but thinner than traditional rear projection units.) The picture is pretty awesome at all angles and the technology is really cool.
Info on DLP concept.
A vendor (Pricey, but informative.)
Rumors are around that sub-$1000 DLP systems will be out by the end of the year.