*This* Industry however is not necessarily the source of all entertainment. There was a time when the industry did not exist, but entertainment still existed. The reason you have these torrent sites is because the industry has been very very good at monopolizing,
It's true that the recording industry are fuckers but the reason we have piracy isn't due to that. Let's not pretend that TPB users are part of a moral crusade. We have piracy because people are cheap and want free stuff. There are independent movies being shared and pirated along with those from big studios. There's no distinction in most people's eyes. I can pirate World of Goo (http://2dboy.com) on TPB, an indy game that was released cheaply and, idealistically, without DRM.
Furthermore, pirating isn't the solution to fixing the recording industry. Pirating only provides the ammo those companies need to further abuse their customers. What is needed are more outlets for indy music, film, and games. Music in particular can work well. Unlike movies, you don't need vast sums of money to produce a high quality album and then sell it on the net.
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I chanced upon the XBone launch event in NYC yesterday. I saw a bunch of consoles in action and did a couple of laps in Forza 5: Higher frames, better lighting effects, more detailed models, but I saw nothing to get excited about. They were still taking pre-orders for people to get the console that night. On the way I also say an employee standing outside RadioShack with a PS4 box, so those haven't sold out completely either.
The compression forces it to begin fusing heavier elements, which gives it a renewed burst of energy, thus causing it to explode outwards.
As I recall, stars will continue fusing elements up iron fairly happily. Elements heavier than iron are synthesised during the core collapse of a supernova. Probably someone will correct me, but I think that explosion is just release of gravitational potential energy.
If it exhausted its "nuclear fuel," how could it explode?
Briefly, (and I'm not an expert) a star is a balance of inward gravitational pull and fusion-generated thermal energy pushing out. If the fuel runs out the balance is disturbed, stuff falls inwards at vast speeds and a very impressive bang ensues. There are also other ways a star can go nova (e.g involving a small, dense, companion star). Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova
In most usage scenarios, pizza restaurants excepted, I doubt "worn out charging port" is going to be the reason you ultimately stop using the phone. I don't think I've ever had a device fail due to the charging port. For most people, wireless charging is a nice luxury rather than a genuinely useful feature.
Oooh. It's been years now. Probably not used it seriously since '08 or '09. I installed it on a virtual machine today and the package manager went faster than I remember it and it found most things I wanted. The main problem I ran into was the clusterfuck when I tried to install the Tex meta-package. It tried to install about 1,500 packages, mostly containing stuff I clearly won't need.
I'm pretty sure I had to pay to see the Sistine Chapel and associated museum area. It's terribly good of them not to charge you for going to church at St. Peter's, though.
The writing in the catacombs shown in the link you mean? It looks closer to the Byzantine script than Greek proper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_minuscule Notice that the script in the catacomb tour contains a letter that looks like a Latin "C" Greek (ancient and modern) doesn't have such a character. It was, however, present in the Byzantine script.
I like SuSE. It was the first Linux distro I seriously used but in the end I switched to Ubuntu because often found myself having problems finding software on SuSE. If a piece of software or a newer version wasn't available through main repos, I recal spending ages on sites such as Pacman trying to find the right packages and resolve dependency issues. Is the situation better now? If so, I'd be tempted to switch back.
People are really bad at understanding statistics because the Mainstream Media purposely skews reporting to maintain current power structures. If the media did a halfway accurate job of reporting how well the Teslas perform compared to traditional cars, you would have a ton of lawmakers, lobbyists, power brokers, and other old-money individuals all 'making phone calls' to get those involved removed.
People are not bad at understanding statistics because of the mainstream media. Most people, including the mainstream media, do not understand statistics. The only thing they understand are viewing/circulation figures and ad revenues. As a result, we get all this badly researched and sensationalised bullshit, because that's what they think people want to watch. TV news in the US now resembles reality TV and there is fuck all intelligent debate and analysis.
All of this appeals to something psychologists have realised to be true: that people weigh anecdote, particularly if it comes from people they know, much more highly than cold statistical facts. This is because people tend to make decisions based on emotion not logic. If they are attached to a particular view, giving them facts and statistics to the contrary will rarely change their minds. Colourful anecdotes and subtle peer pressure to conform are more successful.
You can avoid the "selling of information" in Ubuntu by either not using Unity (who would use it anyway?) or by sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping. It's not so hard. Ubuntu has its advantages: software is very easy to come by and the support community is great. I use it because it gets out of the way I can just get on my with my work without any screwing around.
For example, there are tons of videos that show you how to properly choose a chef's knife (word to the wise, most people have very dull knives in their kitchen - very dangerous
People say duller knives are dangerous, but my experience suggests the opposite. When my knife set was new, I cut myself badly with them on two or three occasions. Nearly took the end of a finger off once. Now that the knives are a little duller they're safer. I maintain the edges a little but I don't bother getting them back to where they were before. It's true they cut faster, but they also cut me faster. Probably I'm just clumsy, but then the lesson is that sharp knives are more dangerous for the clumsy.
They probably said it was disappointing because hopes are always raised for a great, horizon to horizon, comet. It was suggested that ISON might have been one such great comet. I think it never rose above a binocular object on its way towards the sun, but things could change on the outbound journey.
No you can't, but that would usually also be pointless. After all, usually what you want to know is if a new treatment is better than what's out there. So the experiment you do on your head trauma victims is new treatment vs current best practice. So your null hypothesis is not a nill. This is considered best practice for most new drugs. It's only drug companies who want to make their crappy new drugs look good who test them against placebo.
Ah, right. The only time I did it for an extended time was a non-serious race on GT5. I don't have voice set but 3 or 4 of the others did. They sounded like regulars and in who knew each other and were clearly adults (30s or 40s). Its pretty amusing listening to their banter. I can see how the early teen thing would be annoying: I read their posts sometimes on the fora and it's quite alienating.
I'm with you there. When GT7 comes out I might consider the PS4. Other than that, I'm happy with my recently and cheaply purchased PS3. Yes, many games are better on PC (FPS, particularly), but there are enough interesting titles to make the $250 purchase price of a PS3 worthwhile.
This isn't even a story. The linked-to blog post is marketing fluff, full of big hazy promises and substance. I read some of it and sounds like some sort of data-centric OO language (it makes me think of the R plotting system ggplot: http://ggplot2.org/), beyond that, however, who knows what the hell this is?
thats like saying that everything in reality is an led screen because it is reflecting light into your eyes... the thing is, with this technology, they could send whatever light they want to send to your retina, it doesnt have to be a screen... it doesnt even have to be rectangular. they could even put a camera on it and send a modified real world image to your eyes for AR games.
I think we're talking cross-purposes. LED displays have the illumination behind it and works by gating transmission (not reflecting). The DLP chip, on the other hand, is a small screen that works by reflection. Here is how: http://www.dlp.com/technology/how-dlp-works/ It is, by every definition of the word, a screen. The main difference between the chip and an LCD display is that the DLP chip needs to be projected onto a surface in order to be useful. Otherwise, it meets the definition of a screen. I don't know what you mean by it not having to be rectangular. I'm not pulling this stuff out my ass, I've integrated DLP chips into a microscope optical train and I know how they work.
But my point is that one data point can be enough in situations such as this. This isn't a scientific experiment, it's a real-world engineering scenario. For instance:
When a plane crashes there's a big investigation and they try to find out what went wrong. If they discover that the magic pressure widget valve (TM) malfunctioned because of a design defect and that caused the crash, then they're going to update the widget valves throughout the fleet. They're not going to wait to see if more planes go down in order to test their hypothesis. It has to work this way because some failures happen rarely and so it takes a long time to accumulate enough data. In addition, when your data points are fatalities, injuries, etc, then accumulating them isn't even something you want to be doing.
Of course it's possible they may test their widget pressure valve hypothesis using an experimental set up and thereby accumulate more data. However, in terms of real-world incidents one can certainly be enough to trigger a design change.
the difference is that this has no display, it sends light directly to your eyes. the OR has a screen. projected onto the screen is whatever is in the game. your eyes then see the screen and project it onto the retina. this completely cuts out the screen. because it cuts out the screen, your eyes do not get strained from seeing bright lights in close proximity to your eyes, but instead you 'see' the image as it is coming out of the game.
But that's not true: it *does* have a screen. The screen is composed of the micro-mirror array and the RGB LED that illuminates it. That's the equivalent of a screen: if you look at one of those you will see an image. This new device forms an image of the mirror array on your retina. The OR, if I understand how it works, forms an image of an LCD display on your retina. So what's the difference? In one case you're using reflected light and in other transmitted. But in both cases you're projecting a nearby display surface onto the retina.
I'm not sure how the micromirrors are used - is each one fixed, and the laser scanning across?
It's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Light_Processing As you say: expand beam via a lens or two to fill the mirror array then project the array onto your surface of choice with another lens. Scanning across the retina sounds like a non-starter, pointless, and dangerous. For what it's worth: I've built a microscope which works via a pair of scan mirrors (galvanometer-based) and a dangerous IR laser. I generally operate it at 256x256 and get frame rates of 5 to 6 FPS. You can get up to about 40 FPS with resonant scanners, but those make a nasty noise.
I was thinking about this. Surely the Occulus Rift has lenses, because your eye has a tough time accommodating to objects very near by. The Wikipedia page states that the OR "development kit also includes interchangeable lenses that will allow for simple dioptric correction." So if it does involve lenses then isn't working the same way as this new device? i.e. you could call the OR a "retinal head mounted display", because it contains optics that project an image of the display onto your retina. Thus, the difference would seem to be that the new device uses a reflection-based display and is based on DLP principles whereas the Rift uses a conventional RGB LCD.
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*This* Industry however is not necessarily the source of all entertainment. There was a time when the industry did not exist, but entertainment still existed. The reason you have these torrent sites is because the industry has been very very good at monopolizing,
It's true that the recording industry are fuckers but the reason we have piracy isn't due to that. Let's not pretend that TPB users are part of a moral crusade. We have piracy because people are cheap and want free stuff. There are independent movies being shared and pirated along with those from big studios. There's no distinction in most people's eyes. I can pirate World of Goo (http://2dboy.com) on TPB, an indy game that was released cheaply and, idealistically, without DRM.
Furthermore, pirating isn't the solution to fixing the recording industry. Pirating only provides the ammo those companies need to further abuse their customers. What is needed are more outlets for indy music, film, and games. Music in particular can work well. Unlike movies, you don't need vast sums of money to produce a high quality album and then sell it on the net.
I chanced upon the XBone launch event in NYC yesterday. I saw a bunch of consoles in action and did a couple of laps in Forza 5: Higher frames, better lighting effects, more detailed models, but I saw nothing to get excited about. They were still taking pre-orders for people to get the console that night. On the way I also say an employee standing outside RadioShack with a PS4 box, so those haven't sold out completely either.
The compression forces it to begin fusing heavier elements, which gives it a renewed burst of energy, thus causing it to explode outwards.
As I recall, stars will continue fusing elements up iron fairly happily. Elements heavier than iron are synthesised during the core collapse of a supernova. Probably someone will correct me, but I think that explosion is just release of gravitational potential energy.
If it exhausted its "nuclear fuel," how could it explode?
Briefly, (and I'm not an expert) a star is a balance of inward gravitational pull and fusion-generated thermal energy pushing out. If the fuel runs out the balance is disturbed, stuff falls inwards at vast speeds and a very impressive bang ensues. There are also other ways a star can go nova (e.g involving a small, dense, companion star). Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova
In most usage scenarios, pizza restaurants excepted, I doubt "worn out charging port" is going to be the reason you ultimately stop using the phone. I don't think I've ever had a device fail due to the charging port. For most people, wireless charging is a nice luxury rather than a genuinely useful feature.
Oooh. It's been years now. Probably not used it seriously since '08 or '09. I installed it on a virtual machine today and the package manager went faster than I remember it and it found most things I wanted. The main problem I ran into was the clusterfuck when I tried to install the Tex meta-package. It tried to install about 1,500 packages, mostly containing stuff I clearly won't need.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. :)
I'm pretty sure I had to pay to see the Sistine Chapel and associated museum area. It's terribly good of them not to charge you for going to church at St. Peter's, though.
The writing in the catacombs shown in the link you mean? It looks closer to the Byzantine script than Greek proper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_minuscule Notice that the script in the catacomb tour contains a letter that looks like a Latin "C" Greek (ancient and modern) doesn't have such a character. It was, however, present in the Byzantine script.
I like SuSE. It was the first Linux distro I seriously used but in the end I switched to Ubuntu because often found myself having problems finding software on SuSE. If a piece of software or a newer version wasn't available through main repos, I recal spending ages on sites such as Pacman trying to find the right packages and resolve dependency issues. Is the situation better now? If so, I'd be tempted to switch back.
People are really bad at understanding statistics because the Mainstream Media purposely skews reporting to maintain current power structures. If the media did a halfway accurate job of reporting how well the Teslas perform compared to traditional cars, you would have a ton of lawmakers, lobbyists, power brokers, and other old-money individuals all 'making phone calls' to get those involved removed.
People are not bad at understanding statistics because of the mainstream media. Most people, including the mainstream media, do not understand statistics. The only thing they understand are viewing/circulation figures and ad revenues. As a result, we get all this badly researched and sensationalised bullshit, because that's what they think people want to watch. TV news in the US now resembles reality TV and there is fuck all intelligent debate and analysis.
All of this appeals to something psychologists have realised to be true: that people weigh anecdote, particularly if it comes from people they know, much more highly than cold statistical facts. This is because people tend to make decisions based on emotion not logic. If they are attached to a particular view, giving them facts and statistics to the contrary will rarely change their minds. Colourful anecdotes and subtle peer pressure to conform are more successful.
You can avoid the "selling of information" in Ubuntu by either not using Unity (who would use it anyway?) or by sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping. It's not so hard. Ubuntu has its advantages: software is very easy to come by and the support community is great. I use it because it gets out of the way I can just get on my with my work without any screwing around.
For example, there are tons of videos that show you how to properly choose a chef's knife (word to the wise, most people have very dull knives in their kitchen - very dangerous
People say duller knives are dangerous, but my experience suggests the opposite. When my knife set was new, I cut myself badly with them on two or three occasions. Nearly took the end of a finger off once. Now that the knives are a little duller they're safer. I maintain the edges a little but I don't bother getting them back to where they were before. It's true they cut faster, but they also cut me faster. Probably I'm just clumsy, but then the lesson is that sharp knives are more dangerous for the clumsy.
They probably said it was disappointing because hopes are always raised for a great, horizon to horizon, comet. It was suggested that ISON might have been one such great comet. I think it never rose above a binocular object on its way towards the sun, but things could change on the outbound journey.
No you can't, but that would usually also be pointless. After all, usually what you want to know is if a new treatment is better than what's out there. So the experiment you do on your head trauma victims is new treatment vs current best practice. So your null hypothesis is not a nill. This is considered best practice for most new drugs. It's only drug companies who want to make their crappy new drugs look good who test them against placebo.
Ah, right. The only time I did it for an extended time was a non-serious race on GT5. I don't have voice set but 3 or 4 of the others did. They sounded like regulars and in who knew each other and were clearly adults (30s or 40s). Its pretty amusing listening to their banter. I can see how the early teen thing would be annoying: I read their posts sometimes on the fora and it's quite alienating.
I don't play much on line so I've not encountered these people. What exactly constitutes fuckwit behavior in on-line games?
I'm with you there. When GT7 comes out I might consider the PS4. Other than that, I'm happy with my recently and cheaply purchased PS3. Yes, many games are better on PC (FPS, particularly), but there are enough interesting titles to make the $250 purchase price of a PS3 worthwhile.
This isn't even a story. The linked-to blog post is marketing fluff, full of big hazy promises and substance. I read some of it and sounds like some sort of data-centric OO language (it makes me think of the R plotting system ggplot: http://ggplot2.org/), beyond that, however, who knows what the hell this is?
Pretty cool. I had no idea such a thing existed. Thanks for the links.
thats like saying that everything in reality is an led screen because it is reflecting light into your eyes... the thing is, with this technology, they could send whatever light they want to send to your retina, it doesnt have to be a screen... it doesnt even have to be rectangular. they could even put a camera on it and send a modified real world image to your eyes for AR games.
I think we're talking cross-purposes. LED displays have the illumination behind it and works by gating transmission (not reflecting). The DLP chip, on the other hand, is a small screen that works by reflection. Here is how: http://www.dlp.com/technology/how-dlp-works/ It is, by every definition of the word, a screen. The main difference between the chip and an LCD display is that the DLP chip needs to be projected onto a surface in order to be useful. Otherwise, it meets the definition of a screen. I don't know what you mean by it not having to be rectangular. I'm not pulling this stuff out my ass, I've integrated DLP chips into a microscope optical train and I know how they work.
When a plane crashes there's a big investigation and they try to find out what went wrong. If they discover that the magic pressure widget valve (TM) malfunctioned because of a design defect and that caused the crash, then they're going to update the widget valves throughout the fleet. They're not going to wait to see if more planes go down in order to test their hypothesis. It has to work this way because some failures happen rarely and so it takes a long time to accumulate enough data. In addition, when your data points are fatalities, injuries, etc, then accumulating them isn't even something you want to be doing.
Of course it's possible they may test their widget pressure valve hypothesis using an experimental set up and thereby accumulate more data. However, in terms of real-world incidents one can certainly be enough to trigger a design change.
the difference is that this has no display, it sends light directly to your eyes. the OR has a screen. projected onto the screen is whatever is in the game. your eyes then see the screen and project it onto the retina. this completely cuts out the screen. because it cuts out the screen, your eyes do not get strained from seeing bright lights in close proximity to your eyes, but instead you 'see' the image as it is coming out of the game.
But that's not true: it *does* have a screen. The screen is composed of the micro-mirror array and the RGB LED that illuminates it. That's the equivalent of a screen: if you look at one of those you will see an image. This new device forms an image of the mirror array on your retina. The OR, if I understand how it works, forms an image of an LCD display on your retina. So what's the difference? In one case you're using reflected light and in other transmitted. But in both cases you're projecting a nearby display surface onto the retina.
I'm not sure how the micromirrors are used - is each one fixed, and the laser scanning across?
It's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Light_Processing As you say: expand beam via a lens or two to fill the mirror array then project the array onto your surface of choice with another lens. Scanning across the retina sounds like a non-starter, pointless, and dangerous. For what it's worth: I've built a microscope which works via a pair of scan mirrors (galvanometer-based) and a dangerous IR laser. I generally operate it at 256x256 and get frame rates of 5 to 6 FPS. You can get up to about 40 FPS with resonant scanners, but those make a nasty noise.
I was thinking about this. Surely the Occulus Rift has lenses, because your eye has a tough time accommodating to objects very near by. The Wikipedia page states that the OR "development kit also includes interchangeable lenses that will allow for simple dioptric correction." So if it does involve lenses then isn't working the same way as this new device? i.e. you could call the OR a "retinal head mounted display", because it contains optics that project an image of the display onto your retina. Thus, the difference would seem to be that the new device uses a reflection-based display and is based on DLP principles whereas the Rift uses a conventional RGB LCD.