Wanted to pick up a copy of Tucker: The man and his dream today. So I check out used prices on Amazon and Paypal. Both selling used from $60-90. Daaaang. Well I wanted to avoid DRM and have a nice portable copy, but $60 is a bit much for that, so I figured I'll get it for $10 on iTunes and only play it on iDevices. Eh.
Well it's only for rent at $4. Every single comment in the reviews mentions that it should be for sale. Huh... oh maybe Amazon is selling it. Dang, $4 rental there too.
What's the point in making it rental only? It's not like the makers profit off the used DVD market, or did one of them buy a pallet of them? Besides that, the movie is from 1994, it should be $0.99 and not "new release" price.
Oh well, I'm not going to pirate it... I'm going to wait for it from the library. If I can't own it I won't pay to rent it. Total cost to the movie studios? -$10.
There you have it, one good rant deserves another.
If you like text bigger than the average person, and zoom in to get it, then you end up having to scroll back and forth to read lines.
That sounds pretty big, making it what... a 432 point font? That is assuming 6 foot tall would be bigger than the average person. Lots of scrolling indeed!
Occam's razor said it was due to mutations and not some weird epi-genetic x-factor we haven't discovered yet.
Occam's razor is useful for determining the most likely answer, not for establishing fact. I don't think you were asserting it as a fact, but it can be read it that way.
In the DVR example you've taken advantage of a specially licensed showing of the copyrighted content. Whether you watch the commercials or not is just part of the formula they use to calculate the rates for that show.
So saying that using a DVR is indistinguishable from downloading a torrent copy is like saying because Costco is giving out free cheese dip samples today, you have the right to eat free cheese dip for life.
A certain percentage of tasters will buy the cheese dip, others will simply go to Costco and try one of everything to skip lunch. That's all part of their formula that helps them calculate how often they should give out samples.
Like the free cheese dip, if it's not offered free when and where you are then you just have to buy it when you find it on the shelf.
Yes I too would like my fridge to automatically teleport free cheese dip for me, but sadly I still have to buy it.
Now could someone please convert this to a car analogy for everyone's benefit, as cheese dip analogies are not common parlance here.
Ignore the insightful mods, it was meant to be a joke. The law of unintended consequences is what I'm referring to there. A nice sensible formula was presented, but inflation wasn't accounted for... I invent a silly doomsday scenario for it.
Could Disney alone destabilize the global economy? Doubtful. Could all the large movie studios, book publishers and other content owners pull it off? Most likely.
About network connections and malware removal... read up on the Morris worm.
that would explain why my 95 year old grandfather who has been drinking coffee for 84 years, now drinks seven thousand five hundred and twenty one gallons of coffee each morning.
Infrared light is not heat. I don't know where people got this idea. It is light. When it is absorbed, it may cause certain molecules to gain heat energy, but it is still light.
I think it comes from a basic lack of understanding of how heat is given off by fires. If all you know is something about photons and light... and that light absorption causes heat, you fill in the blanks and reason out that fire must release most of it's energy in the non-visible light spectrum. Also infrared cameras show hot and cold, therefore many may reason that infrared = heat.
In my memory of high school physics we didn't go in depth into heat transfer nor radiation. If that was the standard curriculum of the time then many people of gen X could believe that heat transfer is due to infrared light. It's interesting that the wikipedia page on Heat shows that many science textbooks use the term in confusing ways. Also
They found the predominant use among physicists to be as if it were a substance.
So one could be a competent scientist and still use the term in a semantically incorrect way, unknowlingly passing on disinformation.
It would be interesting to do a little informal polling of what heat is and how it transfers. What percentage of people know how it really works? What percentage of scientists?
The scene: Aristocratic antique styled dining room. There's a long table to seat over 20 guests with a prominent chair at the head for the prime minister.
You see various servants tidying up and leaving the room one by one while a butler inspects, he leaves last.
*Ethan Hunt carefully drops down from the skylight suspended by a cable*
*After much twisting acrobatics he replaces the seat cushion on the prime ministers chair with a pressure sensitive decoy unit* (For suspense let's put in a scene where he nearly knocks over a glass of red wine and catches the spilt drop with one hand while holding the glass with the other, a single drop of sweat will fall on a plate at this point, Ethan will wince as the drop lands but he won't have time to wipe the plate off)
*He quickly lifts up just as the butler returns to the dining room, nudging the sensor into perfect alignment right as it leaves his reach*
*Butler notices the drop of sweat and raises an eyebrow curiously, he then makes an icy stare at the servant girl who set that area as she enters the room, she looks fearful and guilty*
*Cut to MI van parked outside, a 3D printer is printing out a faux-butt for Ethan to wear while he steals the prime minister's car, it is spraying a realistic flesh tone over the perfectly carved rear* (Insert witty joke from Luther about Ethan's butt, perhaps stating that he had to guess the color and hopes it's right)
Glad it's not just me. Perhaps the Slobo moniker will catch on. Wish I could DIY upgrade the CPU in that baby or something. Used to be able to do that on some old RAIDs that ran on 486's.
Yes and ice cubes are even easier to walk over. Perhaps wearing shoes can prevent getting paint on ones feet, thereby eliminating the Leidenfrost effect entirely.
2 hardware reasons: iPhone 4S has better noise-canceling microphone hardware. Siri gets better performance using the built in mic than a bluetooth headset. The iPhone 4 and 3GS would have similar lesser accuracy in noisy environments.
The iPhone 4S has a redesigned proximity sensor so it can detect when the phone is held up about half a foot away from your face. The iPhone 4 and 3GS can only detect when they're pressed against your face. So the "lift to speak" feature would not work on them.
There's many angles that influenced the decision to only put Siri on the iPhone 4S, sales are certainly part of that decision. But hardware limitations and a desire to have Siri shown in the best possible light should not be discounted. There's enough complaints about Siri's voice recognition accuracy already, putting it on older hardware with lesser microphones would make those complaints multiply.
I'd say sue for religious discrimination but... atheism is "not a religion". Maybe that should change. Some of the founding fathers were atheists, so they must have considered it inclusive in the idea of "freedom of religion".
Perhaps the meaning of religion has slightly shifted since those days.
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Wanted to pick up a copy of Tucker: The man and his dream today. So I check out used prices on Amazon and Paypal. Both selling used from $60-90. Daaaang. Well I wanted to avoid DRM and have a nice portable copy, but $60 is a bit much for that, so I figured I'll get it for $10 on iTunes and only play it on iDevices. Eh.
Well it's only for rent at $4. Every single comment in the reviews mentions that it should be for sale. Huh... oh maybe Amazon is selling it. Dang, $4 rental there too.
What's the point in making it rental only? It's not like the makers profit off the used DVD market, or did one of them buy a pallet of them? Besides that, the movie is from 1994, it should be $0.99 and not "new release" price.
Oh well, I'm not going to pirate it... I'm going to wait for it from the library. If I can't own it I won't pay to rent it. Total cost to the movie studios? -$10.
There you have it, one good rant deserves another.
Cuz of killer bees.
That sounds pretty big, making it what... a 432 point font? That is assuming 6 foot tall would be bigger than the average person. Lots of scrolling indeed!
Occam's razor is useful for determining the most likely answer, not for establishing fact. I don't think you were asserting it as a fact, but it can be read it that way.
(Tired of Occam being used as proof in arguments)
In the DVR example you've taken advantage of a specially licensed showing of the copyrighted content. Whether you watch the commercials or not is just part of the formula they use to calculate the rates for that show.
So saying that using a DVR is indistinguishable from downloading a torrent copy is like saying because Costco is giving out free cheese dip samples today, you have the right to eat free cheese dip for life.
A certain percentage of tasters will buy the cheese dip, others will simply go to Costco and try one of everything to skip lunch. That's all part of their formula that helps them calculate how often they should give out samples.
Like the free cheese dip, if it's not offered free when and where you are then you just have to buy it when you find it on the shelf.
Yes I too would like my fridge to automatically teleport free cheese dip for me, but sadly I still have to buy it.
Now could someone please convert this to a car analogy for everyone's benefit, as cheese dip analogies are not common parlance here.
Tell THEM that.
Ignore the insightful mods, it was meant to be a joke. The law of unintended consequences is what I'm referring to there. A nice sensible formula was presented, but inflation wasn't accounted for... I invent a silly doomsday scenario for it.
Could Disney alone destabilize the global economy? Doubtful. Could all the large movie studios, book publishers and other content owners pull it off? Most likely.
About network connections and malware removal... read up on the Morris worm.
Because you don't want Disney causing runaway inflation just to keep Mickey out of the public domain.
So that's why it takes them soo long to pee!
I think it comes from a basic lack of understanding of how heat is given off by fires. If all you know is something about photons and light... and that light absorption causes heat, you fill in the blanks and reason out that fire must release most of it's energy in the non-visible light spectrum. Also infrared cameras show hot and cold, therefore many may reason that infrared = heat.
In my memory of high school physics we didn't go in depth into heat transfer nor radiation. If that was the standard curriculum of the time then many people of gen X could believe that heat transfer is due to infrared light. It's interesting that the wikipedia page on Heat shows that many science textbooks use the term in confusing ways. Also
So one could be a competent scientist and still use the term in a semantically incorrect way, unknowlingly passing on disinformation.
It would be interesting to do a little informal polling of what heat is and how it transfers. What percentage of people know how it really works? What percentage of scientists?
9 bits would still not be 256, it would be 512.
This guy doesn't think so. Why add a single bit when you can throw away 7?
The scene: Aristocratic antique styled dining room. There's a long table to seat over 20 guests with a prominent chair at the head for the prime minister.
You see various servants tidying up and leaving the room one by one while a butler inspects, he leaves last.
*Ethan Hunt carefully drops down from the skylight suspended by a cable*
*After much twisting acrobatics he replaces the seat cushion on the prime ministers chair with a pressure sensitive decoy unit* (For suspense let's put in a scene where he nearly knocks over a glass of red wine and catches the spilt drop with one hand while holding the glass with the other, a single drop of sweat will fall on a plate at this point, Ethan will wince as the drop lands but he won't have time to wipe the plate off)
*He quickly lifts up just as the butler returns to the dining room, nudging the sensor into perfect alignment right as it leaves his reach*
*Butler notices the drop of sweat and raises an eyebrow curiously, he then makes an icy stare at the servant girl who set that area as she enters the room, she looks fearful and guilty*
*Cut to MI van parked outside, a 3D printer is printing out a faux-butt for Ethan to wear while he steals the prime minister's car, it is spraying a realistic flesh tone over the perfectly carved rear* (Insert witty joke from Luther about Ethan's butt, perhaps stating that he had to guess the color and hopes it's right)
0 to 255. Yeesh.
Glad it's not just me. Perhaps the Slobo moniker will catch on. Wish I could DIY upgrade the CPU in that baby or something. Used to be able to do that on some old RAIDs that ran on 486's.
You getting decent speed out of those drobos? I have a Gen2 and it's been excruciatingly slow.
Yes and ice cubes are even easier to walk over. Perhaps wearing shoes can prevent getting paint on ones feet, thereby eliminating the Leidenfrost effect entirely.
Actually it's the Leidenfrost effect. Try that with dry feet and let me know how long it is before you can walk again.
2 hardware reasons: iPhone 4S has better noise-canceling microphone hardware. Siri gets better performance using the built in mic than a bluetooth headset. The iPhone 4 and 3GS would have similar lesser accuracy in noisy environments.
The iPhone 4S has a redesigned proximity sensor so it can detect when the phone is held up about half a foot away from your face. The iPhone 4 and 3GS can only detect when they're pressed against your face. So the "lift to speak" feature would not work on them.
There's many angles that influenced the decision to only put Siri on the iPhone 4S, sales are certainly part of that decision. But hardware limitations and a desire to have Siri shown in the best possible light should not be discounted. There's enough complaints about Siri's voice recognition accuracy already, putting it on older hardware with lesser microphones would make those complaints multiply.
I'd say sue for religious discrimination but... atheism is "not a religion". Maybe that should change. Some of the founding fathers were atheists, so they must have considered it inclusive in the idea of "freedom of religion".
Perhaps the meaning of religion has slightly shifted since those days.
-- Energy Executive.
Don't forget data-scrubbing... the fight the inevitable corruption that's inherent in their imperfect physical forms.
I was thinking "OOooh, rodent telepathy, that's awesome".
Oh, never mind. More like "Rats have empathy"
60% of the time, it works every time!
-- Anchorman