If it only took 300 jobs to build and 20 to staff then that would be demonstrably superior
No, then we'd build it twice as big so it would create 600 construction jobs and 45 permanent positions.
If it could be done at a profit, we wouldn't need government to do it, and we wouldn't allow government to do it, and government wouldn't get a chance to do it.
But it can't be done at a profit. Not until government takes the expense of doing the first one to reduce the cost of doing it by creating the meta-infrastructure and technological knowledge to do it.
If in the end the entire system, of government creating one of these, and then business leveraging that technology to create and profiting and pay taxes from the rest, and consumers living more productive lives due to its energy production, ends up being efficient, by even one dollar, then it will have been done correctly.
Business won't do this because business doesn't get all of the economic benefit from it, and so can't make a profit overall on the entire lifecycle of heliostat technology. Society does, so society can afford to do this because, if it works, it pays society a net economic benefit. Society's means of doing things collectively is government. Government hires business to do its work. Everyone acts, everyone benefits. The math-illiterate and socially maladjusted and poorly educated complain in buzzwords about things they don't actually understand, and get led to voting for power-mongers who are just in it for themselves.
The fact that the OED documents misuse of a word does not make misusing it correct usage.
Dictionaries exist to assist you in decoding language. They are rather useless in helping you encode it. See any number of malaprops in the English documentation for products that come from Asia.
The fact is, comprises sounds like composes but unequivocally means includes. 150 years of dunces can't change that.
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Uh-huh. Amazon really wants to promote its global expandable multiplexable file server service as fragile enough to fall over due to simple downloads.
that 4x3 is at 480i, if that. and no NTSC-to-digital conversion really looks good, even though careful transfers often look better than the original NTSC-over-broadcast.
so you're talking about playing "old movies" on a new system, and expectations are necessarily grainy, so if the material is even a little better than crappy you feel good about it, even if it doesn't fill the screen. in those cases, the pillarboxing is innocuous.
but for the next 30 years the native format of the majority of content will be 16x9 and the best of that will be 1920x1080. so to keep me from feeling cheated when i'm using the good stuff, i want that native resolution. no more, no less.
entertainment is psychology, so the math has to follow the psychology, not the other way around.
And that is why I won't put myself in that situation. Because in reality you don't control people even if you employ them, and by the time you can fire them they've fucked you on your own dime.
1. Never. Corporations are not entities in fact. They are artificial aggregations of entities to serve a collective purpose. The way we treat them as individuals is stupid.
2. "comprise", not "are comprised of".
3. Absolve the corporation, but only if you can identify the individuals responsible, and if you can't then the one responsible is the CEO, the board, and the shareholders. As things are now, the corporation shields these people against the consequences of their decisions.
3. sure, but I don't think this story rises to the honorable level of "investigative journalism". and i think it needed to percolate; this reporter was on the verge of causing the tempest with himself holding the teapot and in prime position to how he forced the industry to capitulate. now it's in the wild and he'll be a footnote as they deal with the problem and PR the process for their own benefit (see also your comment about claiming the nominal result as a bonus).
4. he shouldn't have a job, as it's clear he isn't doing it, which likely means he didn't really know there was an issue until he was called for this story. in fact, his answer, that there's no policy on maintaining the quality of the images, pretty much tells me that his title is window-dressing. even if he signs the orders to buy projectors, he admits he doesn't give anyone orders to make sure the sight and sound are any good. clear sign of a corporate sinecure with no clue what his value is.
Just to keep up with the Chromes and Winderzes and whomever.
Plus, he should be naming releases alphabetically after a cutesy trope, like Ubuntu (Maverick Meerkat, Natty Narwhal) and Android (Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich) do.
Starting with the letter I, for "I invented the fucking thing."
First, you have not given any valid argument against the middle sentence of my post.
That's because it's so wrong it doesn't need refutation. Babies are frequently the deciders when it comes to breast vs. bottle. They do so by spitting out the nipple and refusing to eat, causing the supplier to find alternative solutions, because its end of the system is the only end that has any intelligence in the matter.
A consumer of manufactured products is perfectly capable of locating the CEO and explaining exactly how to modify the product to satisfy the consumer.
You've also ignore other features that make the comparison inept: 1. consumerism is a trade; baby feeding is one-way provision. 2. consumerism is elective for the consumer and statistical for the producer; baby feeding is life-or-death for the baby and sanity-defining for the mother. 3. teat is better than bottle, except in the very few cases where it isn't; oblivious consumerism is not the better half of the deal for consumers, except in the very few cases where it is.
Seriously, as a metaphor, the teat-sucking baby as oblivious consumer couldn't be more inept.
if i could get content at 1920x1200, then i'd be happy again. until then, it might as well cinemascope scanned into NTSC if it doesn't fill my screen; it'll piss me off.
Because projectionists, although they are presenting themselves now as a guild of skilled artisans, are really just one step above convenience-store clerks in their value as skilled labor. And theater owners haven't given a crap hardly ever.
why passwords and such are needed to change the lens and how was it set up like that?
The 3-D lens is mounted inside the case. The password is needed to allow you to open the case, because once the case is open you could get at the digital signal and steal it.
Why they coupled these is a small mystery, the most likely solution to which is that Sony's engineers did what was easy to implement instead of what was easy to use.
Almost all new movies are shot with digital cameras. The image is sometimes post-processed to make it look more filmish. Using a film camera now is a special setup for a special effect.
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If it only took 300 jobs to build and 20 to staff then that would be demonstrably superior
No, then we'd build it twice as big so it would create 600 construction jobs and 45 permanent positions.
If it could be done at a profit, we wouldn't need government to do it, and we wouldn't allow government to do it, and government wouldn't get a chance to do it.
But it can't be done at a profit. Not until government takes the expense of doing the first one to reduce the cost of doing it by creating the meta-infrastructure and technological knowledge to do it.
If in the end the entire system, of government creating one of these, and then business leveraging that technology to create and profiting and pay taxes from the rest, and consumers living more productive lives due to its energy production, ends up being efficient, by even one dollar, then it will have been done correctly.
Business won't do this because business doesn't get all of the economic benefit from it, and so can't make a profit overall on the entire lifecycle of heliostat technology. Society does, so society can afford to do this because, if it works, it pays society a net economic benefit. Society's means of doing things collectively is government. Government hires business to do its work. Everyone acts, everyone benefits. The math-illiterate and socially maladjusted and poorly educated complain in buzzwords about things they don't actually understand, and get led to voting for power-mongers who are just in it for themselves.
The fact that the OED documents misuse of a word does not make misusing it correct usage.
Dictionaries exist to assist you in decoding language. They are rather useless in helping you encode it. See any number of malaprops in the English documentation for products that come from Asia.
The fact is, comprises sounds like composes but unequivocally means includes. 150 years of dunces can't change that.
Uh-huh. Amazon really wants to promote its global expandable multiplexable file server service as fragile enough to fall over due to simple downloads.
Think Busby Berkeley meets Grace Jones.
that 4x3 is at 480i, if that. and no NTSC-to-digital conversion really looks good, even though careful transfers often look better than the original NTSC-over-broadcast.
so you're talking about playing "old movies" on a new system, and expectations are necessarily grainy, so if the material is even a little better than crappy you feel good about it, even if it doesn't fill the screen. in those cases, the pillarboxing is innocuous.
but for the next 30 years the native format of the majority of content will be 16x9 and the best of that will be 1920x1080. so to keep me from feeling cheated when i'm using the good stuff, i want that native resolution. no more, no less.
entertainment is psychology, so the math has to follow the psychology, not the other way around.
And that is why I won't put myself in that situation. Because in reality you don't control people even if you employ them, and by the time you can fire them they've fucked you on your own dime.
1. Never. Corporations are not entities in fact. They are artificial aggregations of entities to serve a collective purpose. The way we treat them as individuals is stupid.
2. "comprise", not "are comprised of".
3. Absolve the corporation, but only if you can identify the individuals responsible, and if you can't then the one responsible is the CEO, the board, and the shareholders. As things are now, the corporation shields these people against the consequences of their decisions.
3. sure, but I don't think this story rises to the honorable level of "investigative journalism". and i think it needed to percolate; this reporter was on the verge of causing the tempest with himself holding the teapot and in prime position to how he forced the industry to capitulate. now it's in the wild and he'll be a footnote as they deal with the problem and PR the process for their own benefit (see also your comment about claiming the nominal result as a bonus).
4. he shouldn't have a job, as it's clear he isn't doing it, which likely means he didn't really know there was an issue until he was called for this story. in fact, his answer, that there's no policy on maintaining the quality of the images, pretty much tells me that his title is window-dressing. even if he signs the orders to buy projectors, he admits he doesn't give anyone orders to make sure the sight and sound are any good. clear sign of a corporate sinecure with no clue what his value is.
sed -e 's/manager/mayor/' < mypost.txt
HTH
You weren't in my house last night when Netflix had a system outage.
They're going to frame my emails if they ever see them.
Your next job will then be:
1) massage therapist
2) nail technician
3) prostitute
4) photo-posting website TOS-enforcement specialist (i.e., manual kiddie-porn filter)
If they're paying for "free book" by charging advertisers for your clicks, then that's why you get the wisdom for "free".
Also, despite the chronology of their development and deployment, webpages are newer and better technology than e-Books are.
He should do the recursive thing like K&R who wrote the C compiler in C, and just write the Linux kernel in Linux.
On the other hand, change to the kernel is always major. Hence the intense scrutiny before yours is incorporated.
Just to keep up with the Chromes and Winderzes and whomever.
Plus, he should be naming releases alphabetically after a cutesy trope, like Ubuntu (Maverick Meerkat, Natty Narwhal) and Android (Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich) do.
Starting with the letter I, for "I invented the fucking thing."
I don't for a second believe that "Cisco" did anything. I can easily believe someone in Cisco's employ did something stupid and/or evil.
When you have people working "for" you, they're going to fuck you over eventually, either deliberately or negligently.
First, you have not given any valid argument against the middle sentence of my post.
That's because it's so wrong it doesn't need refutation. Babies are frequently the deciders when it comes to breast vs. bottle. They do so by spitting out the nipple and refusing to eat, causing the supplier to find alternative solutions, because its end of the system is the only end that has any intelligence in the matter.
A consumer of manufactured products is perfectly capable of locating the CEO and explaining exactly how to modify the product to satisfy the consumer.
You've also ignore other features that make the comparison inept: 1. consumerism is a trade; baby feeding is one-way provision. 2. consumerism is elective for the consumer and statistical for the producer; baby feeding is life-or-death for the baby and sanity-defining for the mother. 3. teat is better than bottle, except in the very few cases where it isn't; oblivious consumerism is not the better half of the deal for consumers, except in the very few cases where it is.
Seriously, as a metaphor, the teat-sucking baby as oblivious consumer couldn't be more inept.
My choice was:
1) do without
2) glossy screen + all the other specs satisfied
3) matte screen + almost no specs satisfied
I'm only a victim of the channel's faddish interpretation of sales data as "meeting expectations".
from working as a chef in a decent restaurant, to working for Mcdonalds
To the employee it may have felt that way. To the outside world it was a McDonald's cook being replaced by a machine.
Every elementary school has an AV club full of 4th-6th graders who can do what projectionists can do.
There was never an art to it, and the goals were minimal: sharp focus, clean lens, clear sound, and synchronization.
Any half-assed chef would chase you down the street with a cleaver if you called him just a projectionist of food.
yes. it's always easier to get something into a narrower space if you start with the pointy end.
letterboxing = waste
if i could get content at 1920x1200, then i'd be happy again. until then, it might as well cinemascope scanned into NTSC if it doesn't fill my screen; it'll piss me off.
the last thing i want on my screen while the movie is playing is lit-up controls or extra space for them.
if i were a video editor, i'd have half a dozen monitors from 1920x1080 to 4k x 4k in front of me.
very few people are video editors. playback is by far the largest market driver.
Because projectionists, although they are presenting themselves now as a guild of skilled artisans, are really just one step above convenience-store clerks in their value as skilled labor. And theater owners haven't given a crap hardly ever.
why passwords and such are needed to change the lens and how was it set up like that?
The 3-D lens is mounted inside the case. The password is needed to allow you to open the case, because once the case is open you could get at the digital signal and steal it.
Why they coupled these is a small mystery, the most likely solution to which is that Sony's engineers did what was easy to implement instead of what was easy to use.
Almost all new movies are shot with digital cameras. The image is sometimes post-processed to make it look more filmish. Using a film camera now is a special setup for a special effect.