Seriously. Don't bother. The patent system is a mess. You've probably already infringed on 5 patents just by creating whatever it is you say you've invented. Just patent it, and don't bother with the prior art. Paul Graham wrote about that in an article that previously featured on/..
I've been considering this for a while now. My recomendation is to scan the negatives. Wet drum scanners are the best, but it may be prohibitively expensive, and possibly overkill. You do have your negatives right? The big problem I ran into looking at film scanners is that the vast majority of the good ones are 35mm only. My parents have a lot of photos in a variety of formats. 110, 117 roll or medium format, along with 35mm. All those need scanned, which means for me I'd have to go with a flatbed, and use a jig/matte for differnent formats. You'll also need a flatbed to scan photos that you don't have the negatives to. Color correct software, especially software that can correct chroma shift in old color prints. You'll need automatic dust removal software as well. Check out photo.net. That site has all sorts of info, but it is heavily tilted towards pros.
The other thing I've been wanting is photo organization software. You know query for who, where, and when. I guess I'd have to make a custom DB system for that.
Seriously, does being informed about things in the world outside of my own personal interests automatically make me a liberal, with all the poisoned connotations that word has aquired? Am I required to be oblivious to the rest of the world outside of my local 6:00 newscast to be a proper American?
Ahh one of the old standards of the Republicans, the "liberal media" myth.
Here's the fact. There's never was, there definately isn't now, a "liberal media." How do we know this? The Republican strategists that invented the myth, have admitted it.
Rich Bond, 1992 Chairman of the GOP, famously said, "There is some strategy to it [bashing the 'liberal' media].... If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is 'work the refs.' Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one."
Former Reagan Chief of Staff, GHWB Secretary of State, and head of GWB's recount team, said of the media, "There were days and times and events we might have had some complaints [but] on balance I don't think we had anything to complain about," he explained to one writer.
Nixon speechwriter, now professional fringe pundit, Pat Buchanan, said of the coverage of his 1996 presidential run, "I've gotten balanced coverage, and broad coverage--all we could have asked. For heaven sakes, we kid about the 'liberal media,' but every Republican on earth does that."
Finally, Weekly Standard founder, and chief neo-con, William Kristol, said most damningly of all "I admit it. The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
You've been played, and lose by the most powerful schoolyard rule of all. Your own guy said so.
I always thought that Sony made a big goof by not using the movies as a loss leader to sell the PSP.
Think about it:
Okay. Sony loses money on every PSP sold. Sony loses money on every Sony movie UMD sold. Sony can't jack up the price to the other studios, otherwise they won't release stuff on UMD, so Sony loses money on every non-Sony movie sold. Sony apparently makes a profit by selling these money losers in volume.
I hear there may soon be an opening at GM. You should apply.
I could gold-plate a cow turd to create the most expensive cow turd in the world... but that doesn't make it any BETTER than any other piece of shit out there!
I beg to differ! The fact that only Paris Hilton can afford it , PROVES it's better. You little people just don't understand. Next thing you'll be telling me is that eating raw fish eggs and porpoise penises are gross. They're not. They're a delicacy. You're just mad because YOU can't afford them.
I loved my spoon (by seiko) watch. It's now discontinued. Pixel based display. Great backlight. Veritcal and horizontal layout. I would actually get complements about it. Unfortunately the band broke. The band couldn't be replaced because it was integrated into the case. The guts work fine. One of these days I'm going to have machine shop make a new aluminium case for it.
Anti-American stories? Huh? Like what? If you're disturbed by stories like talk of 24 hour propaganda, illegal domestic spying, and the American government spreading demonstably untrue stories. You should be. If you don't like what the government is doing. Change the government.
CVS is overkill if it's just your files. Stick them in a directory and make them read-only. I've kept my read-an-arbitrary-number-of-bytes-from-a-socket code for years that way. No fuss. No muss.
Hear! Hear! C=64 for me as well. I saved my money, and my dad took me to K-Mart to buy it when I was in the third grade. Without a disk drive, I learned to program. Especially because of "Itty Bitty Bytes of Space." By far the most useful how-to-program book I've ever read. Short programs that illustrated something like joystick reading, or sprites, or text input. The facing page had line-by-line documentation saying what each line did, and how it worked. Of all my coding posessions, that book is the one closes to my heart.
Okay, first "right hand" doesn't always mean "thing with 5 digits that is at the distal end of an arm." Lots of things have "right hand" sides. Like this page for instance. Also you're forgetting that 666 is from a bogus translation, and the actual writting has it as 616.
Of course overly literal and dubious translations is du rigur when it comes to religious prophesies. So I'm sure your counter argument would work against the bible thumpers.
You're upset at nothing. People already pay differing prices for bandwidth. It's called dialup, dsl, all the way up for tier-1 access. No one is upset at this. What is being proposed is that the telcos would intentionally break the system to create artifical scacity, and then turn around and charge you more for what you already have.
If you were truly believed in market capitalism, you'd realize that these are the actions of a monopoly. You'd also know that monopolies are ineffciencies, that cause services to degrade and prices to go up. Furthermore you'd realize that laissez-faire captialism, like socialism, completely unworkable in practice.
I'm sure it's all done legally as well, and I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't.
It just strikes me as unethical to profit from someone else's work, without actually contributing anything yourself. It's not to the same level as say patent houses, domain squaters, and the like, but it seems a bit too close those for my liking.
Yeah they provide content from other sources, but let's face it. All they've done is screen sraped and rebranded dictionary.com . In my opinion, this just makes them biggest leach on the block.
They'll never lock down photoshop they way you're thinking (e.g with dongles and such). Adobe likes the fact that photoshop is pirated. It means people use it. These same people will eventually need to do something legit, and when they do, they'll want to use photoshop because that's what they know. And then they'll shell out 1000 bux or whatever for it.
Like they saying goes, "the first one is always free."
The fact that there are only two political parties in the United States is a natural outcome of the winner-take-all elections we have. Yes, the two parties collude to try and prevent other parties from getting on the ballot, but if you look at the history of major third parties in the US, you'll see one of the three will get squeezed out. It's not always the upstart mind you. The Whigs got pushed out by their splitner group, the Republicans.
It's not that much different from forming coalitions in parlementary systems. Only in this case, everyone in the coalltion goes by the same name. Sometimes a smaller party gets absorbed by a larger party. The Dixiecrats and the Republicans for example.
Okay, I'll give you reasons why the Republican party is predominately crypto-facists.
1) Contrary to being free-market capitalists, they promote crony captialism. This is evident in the number of preferential laws, and budgets passed. Then of course the number of no-bid contracts given to the corporations they're are personally connected to.
2) They promote a consolidation of power between the very largest and wealthiest individuals and corporations by institutuing ideological purges within lobbiest groups. (The K-Street Project. )
3) They are so dedicated to consolidating power and promoting their cronies, they are not above taking out-and-out bribes.
4) They honestly believe they are above the law. Let me break this down point down. They seriously argue that:
4a) The President can declare any American citizen an "enemy combatant" wherever they may be. 4b) Once declared, the citizen can not challenge this. The President's word is final. 4c) The citizen can be held without charge in an undisclosed location for as long as the President decides. 4d) The President has the right to violate any law if he decides it is necessary. ("If the President does it, then that means it is not illegal." -- Richard Nixon) 4e) The President has the right conduct survellience against all citizens without any suspicion of any wrong doing, in direct violation of the law and the consititution. 4f) The citizens targeted for spying are not merely those who have clear ties to terrorists, but include political opponents such as the Quakers. 4g) Cricising the President is kin to sedition. 5h) The President only has this power for as long as the threat remains. 5i) The President has the sole ability to determine when the threat has passed.
And how can we forget the argument that torture is good.
Truly the democracy that men and women of this country have fought and died for, for almost 230 years.
Let me make this clear. The current Republican party is the most dangerous threat to democacy and freedom this country has ever seen. They're rhetoric of fear-mongering against an pervasive and unknown threat and their actions mirror the "emergency" powers given to ceasers of old, and facists of recent history. They are the "domestic threat" that the Presidential Oath of Office warns against, and why the Founding Fathers created three co-equal branches of government. Their immorality is only rivalved by their incompetence in governing.
If they were truly strong leaders, they would promoting strength and bravery. Instead they tell public to be afraid. They lie when it serves their purposes. They undermine national security by outing our spies, whenever it serves their political purposes. They ignore our military leaders. They ignore our career diplomats. They ignore our economists. They ignore our scientists. Nothing matters to them except getting re-elected so that they can continue to lining their own pockets and the pockets of their friends.
Have you ever considered that the reason why the administration hasn't vetoed any bills is because it controls the leadership of the congress? i.e. Why would you veto your own proposals?
The American version does have more CG, but let's face it, the American version had a much larger budget. Look, Hideo Nakata directed both "Ring 2" and "Ringu 2," and Ring 2 had more CG. I find it very unlikely that he was makingany sort of artistic statement by avoiding it in the low budget Japanese version, and using it in the high budget American version.
I wouldn't say Ringu was better than The Ring. I've seen them both, and I like The Ring better. The American video tape is WAAAAAAAY creepier than the Japanese tape. Also, I'd say The Ring, actually had less information about Samara/Sadako. In the American version, Samara was simply Evil. In Ringu they give this whole backstory about a how her mom was psychic and predicted a volcanic eruption, and what not. Who cares? The girl is Evil. She comes out of your tv, and she's coming to kill you in a week after you watch Un Chien Andalou,
I've had this discussion friends before, and it breaks down along cultural lines. The Americans inevetiably find the American version creepy, and the Japanese version weak. And the people form Asian cultures think the Japanese version is superior. They were made for two different audiences. It's not surprising that a psychological scare movie would work different. Each side is bringing something different to the film, and expects something different.
I liked Naomi Watts's character in The Ring. She was independent. The female lead character in Ringu, was independent at first, but as soon as the ex-boyfriend showed up, she let him push her aside, even though he didn't (or at least shouldn't have) known anything more than she did. In fact I believe, he was actually less informed about Sadako and the tape than she was. It was disappointing development in the film.
This isn't to say that many American versions of foriegn films aren't watered down. Many times they are. I just don't think so in the case of Ringu/Ring. Many many times, big audience movies have transparent plot "twists" (e.g. "TheUsual Suspects" and "The Village"). My personal favorite complaint about a movie was "Mission: Impossible" (which is a fine film, and vastly superior to the sequel, since M:I2 removed what makes M:I, M:I., that is THE TEAM). Many audiences, and critics, compained that the plot was "too complicated" because there was two halves of the list matching spies' code names to their real names. "Wait. Was it one list or was it two? I was confused," was the refrain. Those people are morons.
Luckily this year, there have been a few really good movies released to make for the usual crapfest.
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Seriously. Don't bother. The patent system is a mess. You've probably already infringed on 5 patents just by creating whatever it is you say you've invented. Just patent it, and don't bother with the prior art. Paul Graham wrote about that in an article that previously featured on /..
I've been considering this for a while now. My recomendation is to scan the negatives. Wet drum scanners are the best, but it may be prohibitively expensive, and possibly overkill. You do have your negatives right? The big problem I ran into looking at film scanners is that the vast majority of the good ones are 35mm only. My parents have a lot of photos in a variety of formats. 110, 117 roll or medium format, along with 35mm. All those need scanned, which means for me I'd have to go with a flatbed, and use a jig/matte for differnent formats. You'll also need a flatbed to scan photos that you don't have the negatives to. Color correct software, especially software that can correct chroma shift in old color prints. You'll need automatic dust removal software as well. Check out photo.net. That site has all sorts of info, but it is heavily tilted towards pros.
The other thing I've been wanting is photo organization software. You know query for who, where, and when. I guess I'd have to make a custom DB system for that.
Seriously, does being informed about things in the world outside of my own personal interests automatically make me a liberal, with all the poisoned connotations that word has aquired? Am I required to be oblivious to the rest of the world outside of my local 6:00 newscast to be a proper American?
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Yes, on both counts.
Ahh one of the old standards of the Republicans, the "liberal media" myth.
Here's the fact. There's never was, there definately isn't now, a "liberal media." How do we know this? The Republican strategists that invented the myth, have admitted it.
Rich Bond, 1992 Chairman of the GOP, famously said, "There is some strategy to it [bashing the 'liberal' media].... If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is 'work the refs.' Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one."
Former Reagan Chief of Staff, GHWB Secretary of State, and head of GWB's recount team, said of the media, "There were days and times and events we might have had some complaints [but] on balance I don't think we had anything to complain about," he explained to one writer.
Nixon speechwriter, now professional fringe pundit, Pat Buchanan, said of the coverage of his 1996 presidential run, "I've gotten balanced coverage, and broad coverage--all we could have asked. For heaven sakes, we kid about the 'liberal media,' but every Republican on earth does that."
Finally, Weekly Standard founder, and chief neo-con, William Kristol, said most damningly of all "I admit it. The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
You've been played, and lose by the most powerful schoolyard rule of all. Your own guy said so.
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I always thought that Sony made a big goof by not using the movies as a loss leader to sell the PSP.
Think about it:
Okay. Sony loses money on every PSP sold. Sony loses money on every Sony movie UMD sold. Sony can't jack up the price to the other studios, otherwise they won't release stuff on UMD, so Sony loses money on every non-Sony movie sold. Sony apparently makes a profit by selling these money losers in volume.
I hear there may soon be an opening at GM. You should apply.
I could gold-plate a cow turd to create the most expensive cow turd in the world... but that doesn't make it any BETTER than any other piece of shit out there!
I beg to differ! The fact that only Paris Hilton can afford it , PROVES it's better. You little people just don't understand. Next thing you'll be telling me is that eating raw fish eggs and porpoise penises are gross. They're not. They're a delicacy. You're just mad because YOU can't afford them.
Yes, they do card at movies. They started doing that in the early 90s.
I loved my spoon (by seiko) watch. It's now discontinued. Pixel based display. Great backlight. Veritcal and horizontal layout. I would actually get complements about it. Unfortunately the band broke. The band couldn't be replaced because it was integrated into the case. The guts work fine. One of these days I'm going to have machine shop make a new aluminium case for it.
Anti-American stories? Huh? Like what? If you're disturbed by stories like talk of 24 hour propaganda, illegal domestic spying, and the American government spreading demonstably untrue stories. You should be. If you don't like what the government is doing. Change the government.
CVS is overkill if it's just your files. Stick them in a directory and make them read-only. I've kept my read-an-arbitrary-number-of-bytes-from-a-socket code for years that way. No fuss. No muss.
Hear! Hear! C=64 for me as well. I saved my money, and my dad took me to K-Mart to buy it when I was in the third grade. Without a disk drive, I learned to program. Especially because of "Itty Bitty Bytes of Space." By far the most useful how-to-program book I've ever read. Short programs that illustrated something like joystick reading, or sprites, or text input. The facing page had line-by-line documentation saying what each line did, and how it worked. Of all my coding posessions, that book is the one closes to my heart.
Okay, first "right hand" doesn't always mean "thing with 5 digits that is at the distal end of an arm." Lots of things have "right hand" sides. Like this page for instance. Also you're forgetting that 666 is from a bogus translation, and the actual writting has it as 616.
Of course overly literal and dubious translations is du rigur when it comes to religious prophesies. So I'm sure your counter argument would work against the bible thumpers.
You're upset at nothing. People already pay differing prices for bandwidth. It's called dialup, dsl, all the way up for tier-1 access. No one is upset at this. What is being proposed is that the telcos would intentionally break the system to create artifical scacity, and then turn around and charge you more for what you already have.
If you were truly believed in market capitalism, you'd realize that these are the actions of a monopoly. You'd also know that monopolies are ineffciencies, that cause services to degrade and prices to go up. Furthermore you'd realize that laissez-faire captialism, like socialism, completely unworkable in practice.
I'm sure it's all done legally as well, and I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't.
It just strikes me as unethical to profit from someone else's work, without actually contributing anything yourself. It's not to the same level as say patent houses, domain squaters, and the like, but it seems a bit too close those for my liking.
Yeah they provide content from other sources, but let's face it. All they've done is screen sraped and rebranded dictionary.com . In my opinion, this just makes them biggest leach on the block.
They'll never lock down photoshop they way you're thinking (e.g with dongles and such). Adobe likes the fact that photoshop is pirated. It means people use it. These same people will eventually need to do something legit, and when they do, they'll want to use photoshop because that's what they know. And then they'll shell out 1000 bux or whatever for it.
Like they saying goes, "the first one is always free."
Good luck. Google links the biggest parasite of them all.
faliure magazine
failure comics
heart failure society of america
heart failure online
heart failure
How dare Google list these at the top of the first page!
You forget. McCarthism was all about blacklists, and destoying people politically, economically, and personally, without proof any at all.
The fact that there are only two political parties in the United States is a natural outcome of the winner-take-all elections we have. Yes, the two parties collude to try and prevent other parties from getting on the ballot, but if you look at the history of major third parties in the US, you'll see one of the three will get squeezed out. It's not always the upstart mind you. The Whigs got pushed out by their splitner group, the Republicans.
It's not that much different from forming coalitions in parlementary systems. Only in this case, everyone in the coalltion goes by the same name. Sometimes a smaller party gets absorbed by a larger party. The Dixiecrats and the Republicans for example.
Okay, I'll give you reasons why the Republican party is predominately crypto-facists.
1) Contrary to being free-market capitalists, they promote crony captialism. This is evident in the number of preferential laws, and budgets passed. Then of course the number of no-bid contracts given to the corporations they're are personally connected to.
2) They promote a consolidation of power between the very largest and wealthiest individuals and corporations by institutuing ideological purges within lobbiest groups. (The K-Street Project. )
3) They are so dedicated to consolidating power and promoting their cronies, they are not above taking out-and-out bribes.
4) They honestly believe they are above the law. Let me break this down point down. They seriously argue that:
4a) The President can declare any American citizen an "enemy combatant" wherever they may be.
4b) Once declared, the citizen can not challenge this. The President's word is final.
4c) The citizen can be held without charge in an undisclosed location for as long as the President decides.
4d) The President has the right to violate any law if he decides it is necessary. ("If the President does it, then that means it is not illegal." -- Richard Nixon)
4e) The President has the right conduct survellience against all citizens without any suspicion of any wrong doing, in direct violation of the law and the consititution.
4f) The citizens targeted for spying are not merely those who have clear ties to terrorists, but include political opponents such as the Quakers.
4g) Cricising the President is kin to sedition.
5h) The President only has this power for as long as the threat remains.
5i) The President has the sole ability to determine when the threat has passed.
And how can we forget the argument that torture is good.
Truly the democracy that men and women of this country have fought and died for, for almost 230 years.
Let me make this clear. The current Republican party is the most dangerous threat to democacy and freedom this country has ever seen. They're rhetoric of fear-mongering against an pervasive and unknown threat and their actions mirror the "emergency" powers given to ceasers of old, and facists of recent history. They are the "domestic threat" that the Presidential Oath of Office warns against, and why the Founding Fathers created three co-equal branches of government. Their immorality is only rivalved by their incompetence in governing.
If they were truly strong leaders, they would promoting strength and bravery. Instead they tell public to be afraid. They lie when it serves their purposes. They undermine national security by outing our spies, whenever it serves their political purposes. They ignore our military leaders. They ignore our career diplomats. They ignore our economists. They ignore our scientists. Nothing matters to them except getting re-elected so that they can continue to lining their own pockets and the pockets of their friends.
So I ask, why do they hate America?
Have you ever considered that the reason why the administration hasn't vetoed any bills is because it controls the leadership of the congress? i.e. Why would you veto your own proposals?
The American version does have more CG, but let's face it, the American version had a much larger budget. Look, Hideo Nakata directed both "Ring 2" and "Ringu 2," and Ring 2 had more CG. I find it very unlikely that he was makingany sort of artistic statement by avoiding it in the low budget Japanese version, and using it in the high budget American version.
I wouldn't say Ringu was better than The Ring. I've seen them both, and I like The Ring better. The American video tape is WAAAAAAAY creepier than the Japanese tape. Also, I'd say The Ring, actually had less information about Samara/Sadako. In the American version, Samara was simply Evil. In Ringu they give this whole backstory about a how her mom was psychic and predicted a volcanic eruption, and what not. Who cares? The girl is Evil. She comes out of your tv, and she's coming to kill you in a week after you watch Un Chien Andalou,
I've had this discussion friends before, and it breaks down along cultural lines. The Americans inevetiably find the American version creepy, and the Japanese version weak. And the people form Asian cultures think the Japanese version is superior. They were made for two different audiences. It's not surprising that a psychological scare movie would work different. Each side is bringing something different to the film, and expects something different.
I liked Naomi Watts's character in The Ring. She was independent. The female lead character in Ringu, was independent at first, but as soon as the ex-boyfriend showed up, she let him push her aside, even though he didn't (or at least shouldn't have) known anything more than she did. In fact I believe, he was actually less informed about Sadako and the tape than she was. It was disappointing development in the film.
This isn't to say that many American versions of foriegn films aren't watered down. Many times they are. I just don't think so in the case of Ringu/Ring. Many many times, big audience movies have transparent plot "twists" (e.g. "TheUsual Suspects" and "The Village"). My personal favorite complaint about a movie was "Mission: Impossible" (which is a fine film, and vastly superior to the sequel, since M:I2 removed what makes M:I, M:I., that is THE TEAM). Many audiences, and critics, compained that the plot was "too complicated" because there was two halves of the list matching spies' code names to their real names. "Wait. Was it one list or was it two? I was confused," was the refrain. Those people are morons.
Luckily this year, there have been a few really good movies released to make for the usual crapfest.
FlashMute doesn't work for macs, nor linux. So it's not really an option for many people.
I got so tired of unexpected sounds, I leave on mute. When I want to hear sounds, I unmute. Not very elegant, I grant you, but it works.