A girl I was dating some years ago tried to browbeat me into agreeing that Jackson Pollock's work wasn't a total pile of shit by arguing from authority (she had an art degree). She was a pretentious twat. Epic boobs, though.
-jcr
That’s why I would have kept my mouth shut - during the conversation, of course.
If art was considered property of buyer and buyer has no recourse to not execute purchase then artist or whomever destroyed it could be in a lot of pain, soon.
Especially when you consider that it hasn’t been that long since you could buy a Caravaggio for that price.
But software Easter eggs are not destructive. A better analogy would be paying good money for software that eats itself when you update it. This may explain Windows.
There has always been a prank element in modern art. Remember those Warhol pieces that were nothing but giant stenciled prices? What are those going for today, if indeed they are still being traded?
There has also been art that was intended to be ephemeral, like Christo’s shrouded landforms. Those were not for purchase, though. Did the buyer of this piece know it was about to self-destruct.
Pointless squabbles like use of Morse code as a hazing culture have obscured the fact that amateur radio still can play a vital role in disaster management. For the most part, it does not rely on infrastructure. It should be recast as an official adjunct to FEMA and its counterparts in each country to be a fallback means of communication when all else has been destroyed. The service needs a more unified approach to digital communications (lots of experimenting going on right now, but let’s focus the ingenuity) and more focus on maintainable power systems for large rigs during extended loss of grid power.
It will, just like the legal system of the present. Convince a jury of cabbageheads that soda pop is a toxin - which like anything else, it is in sufficiently large quantities - and Joseph Blow gets an award in the billions. Not that his purported case of heartburn is worth that much, you see, but you gotta send the Evil Corporation a “message.”
Yes, but today’s stakes are small in comparison. If the target is an Evil Corporation, you can have Gloria Allred on your side, grandstanding for the media and going after a verdict in the billions. It will be like this summer’s story of the Glyphosate scammer.
Watch for a spate of movie and product titles using this "more memorable" font, until everybody is doing it and any advantage is killed off.
Remember right about the turn of the century, when every logo suddenly included a perspective-effect circle as an element? There was an effect in Photoshop at that time that everyone used.
Katakana, which is just a more angular form of the hiragana set of phonetic characters, is the set used like italics for foreign words. Hiragana are used as Japanese grammatical elements interspersed with the Chinese kanji, which carry the meaning.
Because an accident in an self-driving car is a product design problem that could be highly lucrative legally, rather than a charge against one person's insurance, I predict that artificially creating accidents will become a hobby for scammers. People will dash into the street in front of one from between parked cars, hoping to just be grazed. They will make oddball turns at intersection, trying to fool SDC detection systems. They will exploit whatever edge cases they can find in marginal weather. They will play "fastest brakes in the West" at intersections, knowing that the law is totally un the side of the stopped car in rear-end collisions.
Printed manuals for electronic gear always did suck to varying degrees. It's true that back in the nineteen hundreds when machines like the Altair and Commodore were aimed at the hobbyist market, the writing was nerd-to-nerd rather than by the illiterate Chinese peasants who wrote the manuals for other electronics.
Computer manuals have never been the worst. Try deciphering a camera manual sometime. After you invest in a new Kosmo-Kazac 5000 and are immediately lost in a maze of twisty little menus, all alike, you may be tempted to reach for the manual, which quaintly still comes in printed form. But you're better off with the PDF, which you can (1) display at a readable font size and (2) represents the current revision, rather than the one that was in print that day in Sichuang when the box was sealed.
But experienced photographers know that they'll be still better off when a third-party guidebook called something like "Mastering The Kosmo-Kazac 5000" comes out. It will explain not only what each menu item means and how they interrelate, but but will tell you what settings are important for different kinds of photography. The guidebook, not the manufacturer manual, is what you will keep, well-thumbed, in your camera bag for the life of the device. And in a field with hardware so complex today that lenses have their own firmware updates, only a good third-party guide will tell you whether bringing the Exorbitar 24mm prime is a good choice for today's shooting with this particular camera.
It’s the EU, so a Brussels bureaucrat gets to make that decision. They are politicians, so they see nature through a political lens, not ther lens of science.
One of the great ideals in forming the European Union was being able to collectively engage in large projects like the LHC and all the new physics that has flowed from it. So CERN has decided that politics trumps (sorry!) this researcher’s ability to do physics. If he had been wearing a Hawaiian shirt, would he be executed?
Meanwhile, Europe has totally bowed out of the CRISPR/GMO revolution. I’m waiting for word from Brussels that the world is flat.
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I'm shredding my tax documents now. I'm gonna be a billionaire!
That only works if you’re President.
A girl I was dating some years ago tried to browbeat me into agreeing that Jackson Pollock's work wasn't a total pile of shit by arguing from authority (she had an art degree). She was a pretentious twat. Epic boobs, though.
-jcr
That’s why I would have kept my mouth shut - during the conversation, of course.
If art was considered property of buyer and buyer has no recourse to not execute purchase then artist or whomever destroyed it could be in a lot of pain, soon.
Especially when you consider that it hasn’t been that long since you could buy a Caravaggio for that price.
But software Easter eggs are not destructive. A better analogy would be paying good money for software that eats itself when you update it. This may explain Windows.
There has always been a prank element in modern art. Remember those Warhol pieces that were nothing but giant stenciled prices? What are those going for today, if indeed they are still being traded?
There has also been art that was intended to be ephemeral, like Christo’s shrouded landforms. Those were not for purchase, though. Did the buyer of this piece know it was about to self-destruct.
Pointless squabbles like use of Morse code as a hazing culture have obscured the fact that amateur radio still can play a vital role in disaster management. For the most part, it does not rely on infrastructure. It should be recast as an official adjunct to FEMA and its counterparts in each country to be a fallback means of communication when all else has been destroyed. The service needs a more unified approach to digital communications (lots of experimenting going on right now, but let’s focus the ingenuity) and more focus on maintainable power systems for large rigs during extended loss of grid power.
I have this mental image of today’s hams belting each other with canes and oxygen tanks...
Bezos just wants to be ready for the first Amazon Prime shipment to the moon. 2 day shipping will be a bit of a challenge.
Let’s see UPS try to throw THIS package...
The dumber the idea it is, the more people will try it.
It will, just like the legal system of the present. Convince a jury of cabbageheads that soda pop is a toxin - which like anything else, it is in sufficiently large quantities - and Joseph Blow gets an award in the billions. Not that his purported case of heartburn is worth that much, you see, but you gotta send the Evil Corporation a “message.”
Yes, but today’s stakes are small in comparison. If the target is an Evil Corporation, you can have Gloria Allred on your side, grandstanding for the media and going after a verdict in the billions. It will be like this summer’s story of the Glyphosate scammer.
Watch for a spate of movie and product titles using this "more memorable" font, until everybody is doing it and any advantage is killed off.
Remember right about the turn of the century, when every logo suddenly included a perspective-effect circle as an element? There was an effect in Photoshop at that time that everyone used.
That's why in intellectual Japanese conversations you see people tracing kanji on the palms of their hands.
Katakana, which is just a more angular form of the hiragana set of phonetic characters, is the set used like italics for foreign words. Hiragana are used as Japanese grammatical elements interspersed with the Chinese kanji, which carry the meaning.
Because an accident in an self-driving car is a product design problem that could be highly lucrative legally, rather than a charge against one person's insurance, I predict that artificially creating accidents will become a hobby for scammers. People will dash into the street in front of one from between parked cars, hoping to just be grazed. They will make oddball turns at intersection, trying to fool SDC detection systems. They will exploit whatever edge cases they can find in marginal weather. They will play "fastest brakes in the West" at intersections, knowing that the law is totally un the side of the stopped car in rear-end collisions.
And that Arizona specialty, blasting down a freeway going the wrong way after the bars close.
Printed manuals for electronic gear always did suck to varying degrees. It's true that back in the nineteen hundreds when machines like the Altair and Commodore were aimed at the hobbyist market, the writing was nerd-to-nerd rather than by the illiterate Chinese peasants who wrote the manuals for other electronics.
Computer manuals have never been the worst. Try deciphering a camera manual sometime. After you invest in a new Kosmo-Kazac 5000 and are immediately lost in a maze of twisty little menus, all alike, you may be tempted to reach for the manual, which quaintly still comes in printed form. But you're better off with the PDF, which you can (1) display at a readable font size and (2) represents the current revision, rather than the one that was in print that day in Sichuang when the box was sealed.
But experienced photographers know that they'll be still better off when a third-party guidebook called something like "Mastering The Kosmo-Kazac 5000" comes out. It will explain not only what each menu item means and how they interrelate, but but will tell you what settings are important for different kinds of photography. The guidebook, not the manufacturer manual, is what you will keep, well-thumbed, in your camera bag for the life of the device. And in a field with hardware so complex today that lenses have their own firmware updates, only a good third-party guide will tell you whether bringing the Exorbitar 24mm prime is a good choice for today's shooting with this particular camera.
Who gets to decide what knowledge is wrong?
It’s the EU, so a Brussels bureaucrat gets to make that decision. They are politicians, so they see nature through a political lens, not ther lens of science.
One of the great ideals in forming the European Union was being able to collectively engage in large projects like the LHC and all the new physics that has flowed from it. So CERN has decided that politics trumps (sorry!) this researcher’s ability to do physics. If he had been wearing a Hawaiian shirt, would he be executed?
Meanwhile, Europe has totally bowed out of the CRISPR/GMO revolution. I’m waiting for word from Brussels that the world is flat.
If 3 billion people kick the bucket from flu...
This is otherwise called the radical Greens’ wet dream.
For the benefit of us all, please keep nit taking flu shots. We want the future to be free from your influence.
If only it wasn't such a PITA to leave work to get a shot. Just deliver the damn thing to my home and I'll prick myself. Done!
Let’s hear you say that again as you’re locked in your apartment while “28 Monkeys” rages outside.
If Hollywood sends its thugs after you, you can't just move your server to the free world, like Sci-Hub.
Liberals would like to whip this up into the American version of Kaupthing. Just watch.
Astrology fails: You didn't work "trine" in there somehow. You didn't mention GMOs, either.