Invariably, we also see throughout history that these laser focused artists and creators are preyed upon by the vultures. The swarming businessmen, promotors, managers, who give their charges "the best they can" (i.e. a fraction of their actual value) whilst proclaiming to the world that they themselves are the true producers and behind closed doors they opine how if only they could get that last fraction of a few pennies from "those leeches, those damned artists."
Sure, I was using the GoPro as an example. There are smaller and lighter cameras (with more limited capabilities, etc), and in a few years, GoPros will be smaller and lighter, as well. I've got a 1.2MP camera in my bag right now that's half the size of a gopro that uses a little SD Card. A little hacking and I could put it in an even smaller/lighting housing (or use the helicopter itself as the housing), use a microSD card, etc.
Just as an aside, as an aspiring filmmaker, you'd be surprised what we can modify to install cameras on. a Go Pro, is a common off-the-shelf camera that's common enlisted into these sorts of endeavors, and you can fork out about $45 to rent one for a day or weekend with "damage insurance".
What's crazy is that I have a handful of encrypted USB sticks and even an entire laptop whose passwords I've long since forgotten. It's not like there's anything on them (That I know of, but a year or so ago I was playing with encryption schemes, full disk encryption, volume encryption, hidden containers, etc for shits and giggles), and recently I booted my laptop to discover that I really have no idea what the password was. Now imagine the stormtroopers come banging on my door tomorrow.. I'm in deep doodoo if they think I'm hiding something on any of those devices. Eventually, I need to wipe/reinstall, but I've not been in any particular hurry...
Actually, yes. Maybe her mother can find a man who's not such a fucking douche that will be a better role model for her. As it is, when she grows up, she gets to tell everyone her dad was murdered for being asshole.
.. Maybe I missed some context here, but as a former FedEx employee with frequent contact with current FedEx employees, I've not heard of every fedex package being subject to x-rays or picture collection, although I wouldn't be surprised at the latter since I believe they've installed state-of-the-art OCR for QR reading on the airbills. The closest thing to x-rays I know of are the laser scanners used for calculating dimensions/weight (dimweight) for appropriate billing (people marking "1 pound" on their Laserjet shipping...). The amount of time it would require to actually x-ray and analyze 5-10 million packages a day would be non-trivial, especially in light of the service commitments. I could be wrong, however, and I'll have to bring it up next time I talk to the guys.
Posting from a chromebook. My gf has one as well. Neither of us has installed Crouton or similar. I know another dozen or so people in my peer group who've done the same. It's a great, inexpensive little laptop (although I really wish it had a backlit keyboard), perfect form-factor and does the job I need it to do quite well (it's my couch surfing laptop). I have a thinkpad x200s if I need a win8 dev laptop to carry around (my work W520 is just too cumbersome/heavy), and my Sony Vaio TR3A is my linux dev sub-notebook. I use the chromebook 10x the amount of the other 2. My "personal desktop" is an AMD A8 based laptop that I upgraded from an A4; this is what I "game" and do all my media work on (film editing, music composition, world of warcraft). Yes, my W520 would beat it up, but that belongs to work, not myself.
That has more to do with the fact that the "media industry" owns hulu more than it has to do with netflix. Disclaimer: I work in the "media industry". This kind of shit goes on all the damned time.
I've got a small stack of PS3 (and PS2) games that I've yet to play, and with my first gen PS3 that I picked up for cheap a few months back, I think I'm good until the first PS4 revision comes out.
I remember a test I had in Geography from Middle School: "If you are standing on the North Pole and turn left, what direction are you facing? If you turn left again, what direction are you facing now?" I, of course, assumed this was a "trick" question, so I answered "South". I was marked incorrect. I argued my case, the teacher/coach couldn't follow the argument, and I made less of an A than I usually got, because the Coach said "well, no one else had problems with the question. You're so smart you ain't got no common sense." I'm still irritated at that to this day.
That would at least narrow him down to his family, if found.
I always thought, though, that Genghis chose a "true" Mongol's burial: dragged on a pallet up a mountain, left where his body slid off the pallet and then fair game for all the critters of the wild to pick clean...
I don't see why they can't though. You still need specialized construction crews for drilling, excavating, and building the various chambers, etc, all things that people like Halliburton love to do. You still need miles and miles of copper and fiber for power and data, all things that billionaire owned communications companies would love to provide. You still need lots of sensors to be engineered and built, and then installed by contractors who make a fraction of their billable rate. I mean, I know what you're saying, but the key is you have to pitch it to the 1% correctly. "See, Bob, all you have to do is bid $5 billion dollars on this project, but with cost overruns and the like *wink wink*, you will actually end up getting about $50 billion dollars... I mean, you did a great job doing that with the new stealth fighter, right?"
The big coffee-table picture books will still be around (looking at some of the beautiful photography in those books is lost on an 8.9" kindle screen). I also think technical books will remain viable in print (I've got a handful of dev-related books on my kindle, and I've invariably bought the printed versions where available). I also still insist on buy DVD/BluRays, mainly because I don't like the Netflix availability (although I do use it), but also seem to be in the mood to watch movies when my internet connection goes down.
The market is dwindling, I grant you, but there are niches where I think physical books will remain relevant. Maybe we'll see bookstores dwindle in size to become like a magazine stand or similar.
Indeed. Much of what makes his later works unique is that he was constantly pushing the boundaries of "architectural" norm. Cantilevers were unheard of, using concrete in the manner he used it was unheard of, etc. Someone has to forge the path and make the mistakes for everyone else to follow behind and improve. Just take a look at your own code. The first time you tried to implement something? I bet it was garbage. The difference is, your code is a recompile away, a building, not so much. These days with computer models and what not, it's much easier to test without having to put up the first wall.
I'd love to see MIPS make a comeback. I've been looking for one of the looongson (?) netbooks for awhile now, just so I can have a MIPS Linux box to play with, but those seem hard to come by.
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Invariably, we also see throughout history that these laser focused artists and creators are preyed upon by the vultures. The swarming businessmen, promotors, managers, who give their charges "the best they can" (i.e. a fraction of their actual value) whilst proclaiming to the world that they themselves are the true producers and behind closed doors they opine how if only they could get that last fraction of a few pennies from "those leeches, those damned artists."
Sure, I was using the GoPro as an example. There are smaller and lighter cameras (with more limited capabilities, etc), and in a few years, GoPros will be smaller and lighter, as well. I've got a 1.2MP camera in my bag right now that's half the size of a gopro that uses a little SD Card. A little hacking and I could put it in an even smaller/lighting housing (or use the helicopter itself as the housing), use a microSD card, etc.
Just as an aside, as an aspiring filmmaker, you'd be surprised what we can modify to install cameras on. a Go Pro, is a common off-the-shelf camera that's common enlisted into these sorts of endeavors, and you can fork out about $45 to rent one for a day or weekend with "damage insurance".
What's crazy is that I have a handful of encrypted USB sticks and even an entire laptop whose passwords I've long since forgotten. It's not like there's anything on them (That I know of, but a year or so ago I was playing with encryption schemes, full disk encryption, volume encryption, hidden containers, etc for shits and giggles), and recently I booted my laptop to discover that I really have no idea what the password was. Now imagine the stormtroopers come banging on my door tomorrow.. I'm in deep doodoo if they think I'm hiding something on any of those devices. Eventually, I need to wipe/reinstall, but I've not been in any particular hurry...
Actually, yes. Maybe her mother can find a man who's not such a fucking douche that will be a better role model for her. As it is, when she grows up, she gets to tell everyone her dad was murdered for being asshole.
Would make for more interesting videos, anyway... :D
.. Maybe I missed some context here, but as a former FedEx employee with frequent contact with current FedEx employees, I've not heard of every fedex package being subject to x-rays or picture collection, although I wouldn't be surprised at the latter since I believe they've installed state-of-the-art OCR for QR reading on the airbills. The closest thing to x-rays I know of are the laser scanners used for calculating dimensions/weight (dimweight) for appropriate billing (people marking "1 pound" on their Laserjet shipping...). The amount of time it would require to actually x-ray and analyze 5-10 million packages a day would be non-trivial, especially in light of the service commitments. I could be wrong, however, and I'll have to bring it up next time I talk to the guys.
Posting from a chromebook. My gf has one as well. Neither of us has installed Crouton or similar. I know another dozen or so people in my peer group who've done the same. It's a great, inexpensive little laptop (although I really wish it had a backlit keyboard), perfect form-factor and does the job I need it to do quite well (it's my couch surfing laptop). I have a thinkpad x200s if I need a win8 dev laptop to carry around (my work W520 is just too cumbersome/heavy), and my Sony Vaio TR3A is my linux dev sub-notebook. I use the chromebook 10x the amount of the other 2. My "personal desktop" is an AMD A8 based laptop that I upgraded from an A4; this is what I "game" and do all my media work on (film editing, music composition, world of warcraft). Yes, my W520 would beat it up, but that belongs to work, not myself.
(sarcasm).
That has more to do with the fact that the "media industry" owns hulu more than it has to do with netflix. Disclaimer: I work in the "media industry". This kind of shit goes on all the damned time.
The health insurance and the strong social nets. I'd gladly trade 25% of my income for this.
Which is why Germany is devoid of industry, commerce, and civilization, obviously.
I still want to read it!!!! I love Stross' work and I imagine his 3rd installment would still be a good read, regardless of real world applicability.
As a fellow rider, plusfuckityplus.
That's Bukkake. Although, that might be entertaining to watch, as well.
I've got a small stack of PS3 (and PS2) games that I've yet to play, and with my first gen PS3 that I picked up for cheap a few months back, I think I'm good until the first PS4 revision comes out.
I remember a test I had in Geography from Middle School:
"If you are standing on the North Pole and turn left, what direction are you facing? If you turn left again, what direction are you facing now?" I, of course, assumed this was a "trick" question, so I answered "South". I was marked incorrect. I argued my case, the teacher/coach couldn't follow the argument, and I made less of an A than I usually got, because the Coach said "well, no one else had problems with the question. You're so smart you ain't got no common sense." I'm still irritated at that to this day.
Khan has a unique genetic marker that could be identified in a DNA test: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/science/a-prolific-genghis-khan-it-seems-helped-people-the-world.html
That would at least narrow him down to his family, if found.
I always thought, though, that Genghis chose a "true" Mongol's burial: dragged on a pallet up a mountain, left where his body slid off the pallet and then fair game for all the critters of the wild to pick clean...
I don't see why they can't though. You still need specialized construction crews for drilling, excavating, and building the various chambers, etc, all things that people like Halliburton love to do. You still need miles and miles of copper and fiber for power and data, all things that billionaire owned communications companies would love to provide. You still need lots of sensors to be engineered and built, and then installed by contractors who make a fraction of their billable rate. I mean, I know what you're saying, but the key is you have to pitch it to the 1% correctly. "See, Bob, all you have to do is bid $5 billion dollars on this project, but with cost overruns and the like *wink wink*, you will actually end up getting about $50 billion dollars... I mean, you did a great job doing that with the new stealth fighter, right?"
I'm suddenly very sad.
The big coffee-table picture books will still be around (looking at some of the beautiful photography in those books is lost on an 8.9" kindle screen). I also think technical books will remain viable in print (I've got a handful of dev-related books on my kindle, and I've invariably bought the printed versions where available). I also still insist on buy DVD/BluRays, mainly because I don't like the Netflix availability (although I do use it), but also seem to be in the mood to watch movies when my internet connection goes down.
The market is dwindling, I grant you, but there are niches where I think physical books will remain relevant. Maybe we'll see bookstores dwindle in size to become like a magazine stand or similar.
We'll just purchase it from Google/Facebook since everyone's so keen on posting up everything they do in their lives everywhere.
Just a minor nitpick, but I used to think the Tea Party had genuine grassroots, as well, but:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/11/1186268/-Koch-Planning-Tea-Party-Since-2002-New-Research-Paper-Reveals
Now I'm not so sure.
Indeed. Much of what makes his later works unique is that he was constantly pushing the boundaries of "architectural" norm. Cantilevers were unheard of, using concrete in the manner he used it was unheard of, etc. Someone has to forge the path and make the mistakes for everyone else to follow behind and improve. Just take a look at your own code. The first time you tried to implement something? I bet it was garbage. The difference is, your code is a recompile away, a building, not so much. These days with computer models and what not, it's much easier to test without having to put up the first wall.
And I still can't get dual screens to work reliably/painlessly. Sigh.
COMPETITION IS GOOD.
I'd love to see MIPS make a comeback. I've been looking for one of the looongson (?) netbooks for awhile now, just so I can have a MIPS Linux box to play with, but those seem hard to come by.