More and more I've come to the conclusion that The Incredibles is my favorite super-hero movie. Granted, it was done in CG so they had much more latitude than a live-action movie. However, the story line was great and you got a sense of depth to each of the characters that you just don't normally see. If it wasn't for the fact that Pixar is too firmly in the 'family' movie camp to be able to get away with the boobies/violence in Ghost in The Shell, I'd think they could do a really interesting movie set in that realm. Note: I didn't say 'remake' I said 'new'.
As the parent of 2 children, I need to disagree with you on one big point: No. Kids do not have a right to privacy. Period. It is my responsibility as their parent to guide them and protect them and a big part of this is knowing what they are up to. I allow my daughter (12) to access the internet, but not to do IM or join 'social' sites. I also maintain the admin account on her computer (OS X). For my son (8) I allow him access to our LAN (for printing and multiplayer WCIII with his sister and I) but do not allow him access to the internet from his own system. To get to the internet he has to use my computer (in his own account).
Rather than trying to find ways around parental involvement, I think that the original poster needs to work _with_ his parents. Help them to set up the Linux computer for his sister and let them know how it is not susceptible to the same issues as a Windows box. Also, show them how to safely check up on the things that they are probably concerned about (eg; browser history, email addresses, etc.). This way _all_ of you can come out ahead and there is much more trust in the family.
Carpet Magnetic Factor (CMF). It is the somewhat esoteric force that attracts organic materials to floor coverings. It is measured in Armstrongs. Depth of the pile and color of the carpet can have a large effect on the CMF. Low levels of CMF have been documented in linoleum, but it is not as well studied as in carpet. The density and 'sloppiness' of the organic material has a large impact on the attractive force (this is why the buttered side of the toast is more strongly attracted to the floor covering).
I'm really surprised that no one has brought up Vinge's new book Rainbow's End yet. The idea of having contact lenses as monitors is a key technology in the book (along with a wearable computer to power it). In the book, the lenses were used to overlay VR over the real world. With the number of pixels that each lens was supporting, I'm totally amazed that none of the characters had their eyes fried out. I also thought that the mobile, combat routers was a cute idea, but that's a different topic:-)
You might be interested in knowing that there is a huge effort here at the University of Alaska to preserve the various languages (at least 20) that are spoken by indigenous Alaska natives http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/ . The cool thing that ties it to where I work on campus (the supercomputing center) is that the language center is digitizing many of the tapes of Native speakers and archiving the data on our mass storage system. It's a really neat blend of using modern tech to preserve ancient knowledge (some of the languages are only now spoken by 2 or 3 people).
Woah! Slow down there cowboy... That joke was neither ignorant nor racist. I happen to be American and my wife is French. You may have found one corner of the US where multiple ethnicities mix (I'd bet that NY is another). However, by and large we Americans are way behind other cultures in terms of relating to and understanding them. This may or may not be a bad thing, but it definitely hinders us from being able to empathize with folks from other countries. It is especially tough when there are so many folks who _try_ to pretend that nothing really exists outside of the US (in any meaningful way beyond a tourist destination that is).
Heh. That reminds me of an old joke. What do you call a person who knows 3 languages? 'trilingual' What do you call a person who knows 2 languages? 'bilingual' What do you call a person who knows 1 language? 'American'.
Very interesting. I wonder if this could be a contributing factor to why folks get headaches when reading on some computer screens. That is, computers, unlike books, are constantly redrawing the screen so not all of the letters may actually be visible very well at any one time. Your brain starts straining because it can't scan multiple letters (or entire words?) very well due to the flicker. Do eletronic book readers have a high refresh rate?
Have you tried them on FileMaker? Version 9 just came out and is pretty cool. It integrates really well with Office stuff and is dead simple to start using. Apple is not going to include a database app with iWork as long as FileMaker is around.
Bzzt! Wrong answer. I live in Fairbanks and pay quite a bit in property taxes. We also have several communities that pay sales tax (including the bustling burg of North Pole just south of here). As other posters have pointed out, the money for our Permanent Fund Dividends does not come from taxes. In fact, it actually comes from a portion of the interest that is earned by the Permanent Fund. The years in which the investment market are good result in larger ($800 - $1000) annual check while the reverse is also true (the first year I got a PFD check it was $350).
In any case, PFD season for Alaskan's is like Salmon season for bears. The local economy goes a little nuts with the influx of money -- which really helps as we go into winter...
According to an interview I saw, no. You do not download music with the phone. You download it to your computer and then sync it with the phone. Thus, the music part of the iPhone is just like an iPod.
Don't forget that the author of the article is Andrew Orlowski. His particular axe to grind is that he wants all of us to pay for digital music via a mandatory flat licensing scheme. That is, all of us would pay a bit (or a lot) extra for our broadband access and that money would be used to pay artists, publishers, etc. Thus, I'd take any predictions he makes about iTunes collapsing as either A) wishful thinking on his part or B) an exaggeration of what Forrester really told him.
Seriously.... if one side can lay siege to, invade and destroy the other side's capital, what happens then? Is it up to the players on the losing side to rebuild the city? Do naked fairies show up and put everything back together? Also, when your capital is destroyed, I suppose that you have to zip to a different area to buy supplies, etc... Or maybe you have to fight your way out of the city. Urgh.
Well, it is a moot point for me anyway. It sounded interesting until they mentioned that there would be no OS X version. So I'll stick with WoW (where I will soon be a duel-wielding Shammy... woot!:-)
For me the answer to that question is simple and unambiguous: I hate console controllers. Really, I dislike them intensly. For me they are uncomfortable and hard to use ('do I press X or square or triangle here?'). YMMV, but I just prefer the keyboard and mouse.
Our local admin swears by FileWave http://www.filewave.com/ It allows you to do unattended updates, push out specific files and run install packages remotely. It is a commercial package, though...
From the blogs, it looks like the iTV actually does none of the decoding itself. I think that the host system does all the translation/formatting/etc and then just beams the signal over to the iTV via 802.11. Based on the size and the fact that the power brick is built in to the unit, I really doubt that it even has a HD in it (probably just some RAM for buffering). This way too, I'd bet that it is dead silent. So your computer can be on the other side of the house but you don't have to listen to it while watching movies from it. Pretty cool I think.
Another interesting question is: can 1 PC or Mac stream video to more than 1 iTV at a time? If so, can it stream different movies to different boxes? Hmmm...
Actually, the title 'First Electronic Computer' is not as cut-n-dried as that. There is good evidence that the title should really go to the Z3 from Conrad Zuse. Other that Mauchly/Eckert his system is generally considered to be the best contender for first electronic computer. http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html
Yah, I certainly agree with that. Don't folks realize just how much stuff has changed 'under the hood' to improve speed, reliability and flexibility? To me, full point upgrades are about much more than just new applications and GUI changes. A good example is Tiger. Folks may have complained that not much changed on the outside, but do they realize that a huge swath of the networking subsystem was updated? These types of updates may be 'geeky' but I think that they are far, far more important than a new version of iMovie (cool as that app may be).
It's also important to remember that the keynote is just 90 minutes out of a week-long conference. Jobs' role in the keynote is to get developers excited about all of the other 120 (or so) sessions and materials. His keynote sets the tone and the emphasis for the remainder of the week. I remember very specifically lots of really cool stuff that was discussed in the 2004 WWDC in the sessions. Much of it was alluded to during the keynote but, since it was under NDA, never really made it out into the wild. Really, I think that folks like Leander need to remember that the WWDC keynote is not intended to stand on its own -- it is an intro to the conference.
Its not like every people people are sitting around going "Boy, I'm not watching the Super Bowl this year! It is the same boring game as last year, maybe with different teams.". Madden tries to add new features besides personnel updates, but these are routinely ignored by those saying "It is just a roster update.". As if doing 3D models for 100+ new individual players every year is not worth something itself (assuming each team signs at least 4 draft picks).
Hehe Every year I sit around and say "Boy, I'm not watching the Super Bowl this year!" As far as I'm concerned, it is always the same old boring game as previous years. Bleech:-P
They have already tried to do this with the audio DVDs. They have better audio than CDs, include videos (lyrics too?), etc. but have flopped in the marketplace. Why? For the same reason that something like your HDCD would: compatibility. There are many millions of CD players out there and any new format that is not compatible with all of them will need to be orders of magnitude better in order to displace them. I doubt that that will happen any time soon...
Well, actually, I think my Troll Shaman is kinda sexy in her own cute little 3 toed way;-) Now, if only Blizzard's artist would give us trolls some fine-art love like the other races do.
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More and more I've come to the conclusion that The Incredibles is my favorite super-hero movie. Granted, it was done in CG so they had much more latitude than a live-action movie. However, the story line was great and you got a sense of depth to each of the characters that you just don't normally see. If it wasn't for the fact that Pixar is too firmly in the 'family' movie camp to be able to get away with the boobies/violence in Ghost in The Shell, I'd think they could do a really interesting movie set in that realm. Note: I didn't say 'remake' I said 'new'.
As the parent of 2 children, I need to disagree with you on one big point: No. Kids do not have a right to privacy. Period. It is my responsibility as their parent to guide them and protect them and a big part of this is knowing what they are up to. I allow my daughter (12) to access the internet, but not to do IM or join 'social' sites. I also maintain the admin account on her computer (OS X). For my son (8) I allow him access to our LAN (for printing and multiplayer WCIII with his sister and I) but do not allow him access to the internet from his own system. To get to the internet he has to use my computer (in his own account).
Rather than trying to find ways around parental involvement, I think that the original poster needs to work _with_ his parents. Help them to set up the Linux computer for his sister and let them know how it is not susceptible to the same issues as a Windows box. Also, show them how to safely check up on the things that they are probably concerned about (eg; browser history, email addresses, etc.). This way _all_ of you can come out ahead and there is much more trust in the family.
Carpet Magnetic Factor (CMF). It is the somewhat esoteric force that attracts organic materials to floor coverings. It is measured in Armstrongs. Depth of the pile and color of the carpet can have a large effect on the CMF. Low levels of CMF have been documented in linoleum, but it is not as well studied as in carpet. The density and 'sloppiness' of the organic material has a large impact on the attractive force (this is why the buttered side of the toast is more strongly attracted to the floor covering).
I'm really surprised that no one has brought up Vinge's new book Rainbow's End yet. The idea of having contact lenses as monitors is a key technology in the book (along with a wearable computer to power it). In the book, the lenses were used to overlay VR over the real world. With the number of pixels that each lens was supporting, I'm totally amazed that none of the characters had their eyes fried out. I also thought that the mobile, combat routers was a cute idea, but that's a different topic :-)
You might be interested in knowing that there is a huge effort here at the University of Alaska to preserve the various languages (at least 20) that are spoken by indigenous Alaska natives http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/ . The cool thing that ties it to where I work on campus (the supercomputing center) is that the language center is digitizing many of the tapes of Native speakers and archiving the data on our mass storage system. It's a really neat blend of using modern tech to preserve ancient knowledge (some of the languages are only now spoken by 2 or 3 people).
Woah! Slow down there cowboy... That joke was neither ignorant nor racist. I happen to be American and my wife is French. You may have found one corner of the US where multiple ethnicities mix (I'd bet that NY is another). However, by and large we Americans are way behind other cultures in terms of relating to and understanding them. This may or may not be a bad thing, but it definitely hinders us from being able to empathize with folks from other countries. It is especially tough when there are so many folks who _try_ to pretend that nothing really exists outside of the US (in any meaningful way beyond a tourist destination that is).
Heh. That reminds me of an old joke. What do you call a person who knows 3 languages? 'trilingual' What do you call a person who knows 2 languages? 'bilingual' What do you call a person who knows 1 language? 'American'.
Very interesting. I wonder if this could be a contributing factor to why folks get headaches when reading on some computer screens. That is, computers, unlike books, are constantly redrawing the screen so not all of the letters may actually be visible very well at any one time. Your brain starts straining because it can't scan multiple letters (or entire words?) very well due to the flicker. Do eletronic book readers have a high refresh rate?
Have you tried them on FileMaker? Version 9 just came out and is pretty cool. It integrates really well with Office stuff and is dead simple to start using. Apple is not going to include a database app with iWork as long as FileMaker is around.
Bzzt! Wrong answer. I live in Fairbanks and pay quite a bit in property taxes. We also have several communities that pay sales tax (including the bustling burg of North Pole just south of here). As other posters have pointed out, the money for our Permanent Fund Dividends does not come from taxes. In fact, it actually comes from a portion of the interest that is earned by the Permanent Fund. The years in which the investment market are good result in larger ($800 - $1000) annual check while the reverse is also true (the first year I got a PFD check it was $350).
In any case, PFD season for Alaskan's is like Salmon season for bears. The local economy goes a little nuts with the influx of money -- which really helps as we go into winter...
WoW is a universal binary. It runs beautifully on my 20" iMac :-)
According to an interview I saw, no. You do not download music with the phone. You download it to your computer and then sync it with the phone. Thus, the music part of the iPhone is just like an iPod.
Don't forget that the author of the article is Andrew Orlowski. His particular axe to grind is that he wants all of us to pay for digital music via a mandatory flat licensing scheme. That is, all of us would pay a bit (or a lot) extra for our broadband access and that money would be used to pay artists, publishers, etc. Thus, I'd take any predictions he makes about iTunes collapsing as either A) wishful thinking on his part or B) an exaggeration of what Forrester really told him.
Or even simpler: Don't pay the WoW bill. If you can't log in, you can't play :-) Oops! Scholo run ... bye!
Seriously.... if one side can lay siege to, invade and destroy the other side's capital, what happens then? Is it up to the players on the losing side to rebuild the city? Do naked fairies show up and put everything back together? Also, when your capital is destroyed, I suppose that you have to zip to a different area to buy supplies, etc... Or maybe you have to fight your way out of the city. Urgh. ... woot! :-)
Well, it is a moot point for me anyway. It sounded interesting until they mentioned that there would be no OS X version. So I'll stick with WoW (where I will soon be a duel-wielding Shammy
For me the answer to that question is simple and unambiguous: I hate console controllers. Really, I dislike them intensly. For me they are uncomfortable and hard to use ('do I press X or square or triangle here?'). YMMV, but I just prefer the keyboard and mouse.
Our local admin swears by FileWave http://www.filewave.com/ It allows you to do unattended updates, push out specific files and run install packages remotely. It is a commercial package, though...
From the blogs, it looks like the iTV actually does none of the decoding itself. I think that the host system does all the translation/formatting/etc and then just beams the signal over to the iTV via 802.11. Based on the size and the fact that the power brick is built in to the unit, I really doubt that it even has a HD in it (probably just some RAM for buffering). This way too, I'd bet that it is dead silent. So your computer can be on the other side of the house but you don't have to listen to it while watching movies from it. Pretty cool I think.
Another interesting question is: can 1 PC or Mac stream video to more than 1 iTV at a time? If so, can it stream different movies to different boxes? Hmmm...
Actually, the title 'First Electronic Computer' is not as cut-n-dried as that. There is good evidence that the title should really go to the Z3 from Conrad Zuse. Other that Mauchly/Eckert his system is generally considered to be the best contender for first electronic computer.
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html
Yah, I certainly agree with that. Don't folks realize just how much stuff has changed 'under the hood' to improve speed, reliability and flexibility? To me, full point upgrades are about much more than just new applications and GUI changes. A good example is Tiger. Folks may have complained that not much changed on the outside, but do they realize that a huge swath of the networking subsystem was updated? These types of updates may be 'geeky' but I think that they are far, far more important than a new version of iMovie (cool as that app may be).
It's also important to remember that the keynote is just 90 minutes out of a week-long conference. Jobs' role in the keynote is to get developers excited about all of the other 120 (or so) sessions and materials. His keynote sets the tone and the emphasis for the remainder of the week. I remember very specifically lots of really cool stuff that was discussed in the 2004 WWDC in the sessions. Much of it was alluded to during the keynote but, since it was under NDA, never really made it out into the wild. Really, I think that folks like Leander need to remember that the WWDC keynote is not intended to stand on its own -- it is an intro to the conference.
Its not like every people people are sitting around going "Boy, I'm not watching the Super Bowl this year! It is the same boring game as last year, maybe with different teams.". Madden tries to add new features besides personnel updates, but these are routinely ignored by those saying "It is just a roster update.". As if doing 3D models for 100+ new individual players every year is not worth something itself (assuming each team signs at least 4 draft picks).
:-P
Hehe Every year I sit around and say "Boy, I'm not watching the Super Bowl this year!" As far as I'm concerned, it is always the same old boring game as previous years. Bleech
They have already tried to do this with the audio DVDs. They have better audio than CDs, include videos (lyrics too?), etc. but have flopped in the marketplace. Why? For the same reason that something like your HDCD would: compatibility. There are many millions of CD players out there and any new format that is not compatible with all of them will need to be orders of magnitude better in order to displace them. I doubt that that will happen any time soon...
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Well, actually, I think my Troll Shaman is kinda sexy in her own cute little 3 toed way ;-) Now, if only Blizzard's artist would give us trolls some fine-art love like the other races do.