The few times I have submitted comments/bugs to the ADC bugreport email address, I've always received an answer back (even if it's "we're working on it"). The first time it happened I was completely shocked - it was a real email written by a real person with a real answer. Brilliant.
Considering that the Directors Cut makes the whole "Deckard is a replicant" thing incredibly obvious, I'm not sure which one would be considered more condescending...
You should come here and try them. You won't leave. And no, no one in Australia drink Fosters. With the Free Trade Agreement, Australia agreed to be fucked over by US IP laws and you agreed to drink all our swamp water;)
Things like the Microsoft deal don't happen overnight either. It's quite possible the deal was contingent on a way to 'capitalise' on Facebook's user-base. This may not have been Microsoft's doing however...rather something that was offered to them.
You're going to seriously tell me that when all these people joined FB of their own volition that they wanted their web browsing habits to be tracked, stored, and probably acted on in some fashion? I think it's more likely that they joined so they could hook up with their friends...you know, kind of like what FB was actually about. The subsequent invasion of privacy, tracking and collation of personal habits certainly IS very 'big brotherish' if you want to participate in modern society in any meaningful form. Or you could sever all ties to the internet, "opt-out" and go and live under a rock, is that the choice that what you call 'capitalism' has given us?
Many people find it to be a great abbreviation - perfectly apt, mildly humorous, with a twist of facetious venom. If this was your school debating team, then ok - maybe it wouldn't be appropriate - but school was many years ago for some of us and now we're just trying to have a fucking conversation, ok?
Steel looses structural integrity at around 500degC - well within the range produced by an 'ordinary' fire. The melting point of steel is about 1300degC, easily achieved by a liquid fuel fire. Can't address your other points though.
No. This is simply not the case. In your country maybe. Not to say nothing would happen, but you would not be shot. I think you need to get out a bit. By the way, you've been pissing me right off over the past few days QG, with your self righteous bullshit.
Meh - not that fishy after all, they're just being sold off at fire sale prices. They're competing with the >4Gb Nano, which comes in second place, and is slightly more expensive.
The best selling item is the BROWN 30Gb zune?! Come on - that smells so fishy it positively reeks. Just like the 15,000 people or so voting overnight to boost the Zune desirability in the WSJ poll mentioned in the article. Yeah.
Welcome to the rest of the world's dilemma if we want to even transit through the USA. I've avoided it for the past...3, 4(?) years exactly for this reason. I wouldn't be surprised if Japan is doing this kind of as a big 'FU' to the States.
I'm more interested to hear how you think it CAN'T be. Real-time image recognition has been around for ages (as long as you ignore images over a certain resolution), text, sound...easy. Ok - video...that's going to be difficult, but analysing keywords associated with the video is not. I imagine that they scan all emails and http requests. Some requests can probably be safely ignored. Bittorrent traffic is probably ignored too for the most part (maybe they look at ip addresses or file names to see if they correlate with other flagged addresses or keywords). Streaming video from safe sites to safe ip addresses would be ignored (think BBC to ip addresses in Australia). There's tons of easy ways to filter out the crud to get the core data you want. It would take some serious hardware and maths and programming, but I don't think it's unrealistic at all.
The point is that you don't have to look at everything - just enough to get the info that you're looking for. Things that trip certain flags probably get saved to be analysed in more detail. Hell - I think I could construct the logic and match the hardware for this kind of job, and there's a ton of people out there who know a lot more about these things than I do. Most of them are probably much cleverer too.
In photoshop, you could do what you want by creating a macro - which may sound daunting, but is actually pretty easy...it just records your clicks and selections. You can then run this macro on a whole load of files pretty easily. You probably wan to read up on how the colour control curves work, because that sounds like what you need to adjust to get the corrections you want (fading is consistent across images, but different amounts for each colour...if I understand what you're saying).
Alternatively you may find the iPhoto does the trick nicely - I think the new version can apply the same adjustment to multiple images...but it's fairly quick and easy regardless if you're not doing 'professional' level retouching.
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The few times I have submitted comments/bugs to the ADC bugreport email address, I've always received an answer back (even if it's "we're working on it"). The first time it happened I was completely shocked - it was a real email written by a real person with a real answer. Brilliant.
Not that I disagree with you in principle, but the missing ingredient in your discussion is "concentration", which kind of changes everything.
Considering that the Directors Cut makes the whole "Deckard is a replicant" thing incredibly obvious, I'm not sure which one would be considered more condescending...
You should come here and try them. You won't leave. And no, no one in Australia drink Fosters. With the Free Trade Agreement, Australia agreed to be fucked over by US IP laws and you agreed to drink all our swamp water ;)
Nice post dude.
You wouldn't steal a purse! You wouldn't steal a car! GPL software distribution without following the license - IT'S STEALING!!!
Things like the Microsoft deal don't happen overnight either. It's quite possible the deal was contingent on a way to 'capitalise' on Facebook's user-base. This may not have been Microsoft's doing however...rather something that was offered to them.
You're going to seriously tell me that when all these people joined FB of their own volition that they wanted their web browsing habits to be tracked, stored, and probably acted on in some fashion? I think it's more likely that they joined so they could hook up with their friends...you know, kind of like what FB was actually about. The subsequent invasion of privacy, tracking and collation of personal habits certainly IS very 'big brotherish' if you want to participate in modern society in any meaningful form. Or you could sever all ties to the internet, "opt-out" and go and live under a rock, is that the choice that what you call 'capitalism' has given us?
Ok smart arse, I guess that served me right... ; )
Many people find it to be a great abbreviation - perfectly apt, mildly humorous, with a twist of facetious venom. If this was your school debating team, then ok - maybe it wouldn't be appropriate - but school was many years ago for some of us and now we're just trying to have a fucking conversation, ok?
Just read at -1 like me - everyone is equal ;)
Got a lead on where to look for such things?
Microsoft sold their APPL stock a looong time ago.
Only if you've got a speech impediment.
Steel looses structural integrity at around 500degC - well within the range produced by an 'ordinary' fire. The melting point of steel is about 1300degC, easily achieved by a liquid fuel fire. Can't address your other points though.
What you don't remember is that the browser war was over and done well before that.
No. This is simply not the case. In your country maybe. Not to say nothing would happen, but you would not be shot. I think you need to get out a bit. By the way, you've been pissing me right off over the past few days QG, with your self righteous bullshit.
Meh - not that fishy after all, they're just being sold off at fire sale prices. They're competing with the >4Gb Nano, which comes in second place, and is slightly more expensive.
The best selling item is the BROWN 30Gb zune?! Come on - that smells so fishy it positively reeks. Just like the 15,000 people or so voting overnight to boost the Zune desirability in the WSJ poll mentioned in the article. Yeah.
You might have had a point in there, if only you could write intelligibly.
Welcome to the rest of the world's dilemma if we want to even transit through the USA. I've avoided it for the past...3, 4(?) years exactly for this reason. I wouldn't be surprised if Japan is doing this kind of as a big 'FU' to the States.
The point is that you don't have to look at everything - just enough to get the info that you're looking for. Things that trip certain flags probably get saved to be analysed in more detail. Hell - I think I could construct the logic and match the hardware for this kind of job, and there's a ton of people out there who know a lot more about these things than I do. Most of them are probably much cleverer too.
Alternatively you may find the iPhoto does the trick nicely - I think the new version can apply the same adjustment to multiple images...but it's fairly quick and easy regardless if you're not doing 'professional' level retouching.
Thank god that at least someone gets it!