Well, I guess Hitler thought that he had classic blunder #1 canceled out by #2. If I remember right, he thought that he had essentially gotten the Russians to go against a Sicilian (not directly, but they were allies) when death was on the line... Too bad Benito was northern Italian...
Dude never played Risk, obviously. Gotta set up a stronghold down in Oz first... what a maroon.
Hollywood is already way ahead of you - they've already developed "Dreck Technology" incorporated into many modern films, which can result in eyeballs exploding without the need for any prosthetics. Of course, they didn't do it deliberately...
And amazingly, it didn't result in box office losses - Avatar made the most money of any film in history. *shrug*
The right to sell Flash apps for the iPhone is an example of a positive right--your right implies an obligation on another party's part to facilitate it... More negative rights should be the default, but casually sanctifying positive rights is a recipe for less freedom, not more, because you're placing active obligations on everyone else. Flash devs don't want the right to write Flash apps, they want the right to be supported by Apple on the iPhone, and that's what Apple is denying.
That description doesn't describe what's going on here.
Apple is denying this right merely through the use of its license, not through any technical reason. Adobe CS5 can output from Flash to a _native format_ for the iPhone, and Apple very quickly responded with wording in their license that that would not be allowed. Apple doesn't have to 'support' anything that they wouldn't already be supporting. Apple doesn't have to support Flash on the iPhone/iPad, but they DO have to support native apps, and the only way they could block someone from using non-Apple development environment (thus having to pay for Apple hardware & software to create Apple apps) was to change their license, precisely BECAUSE it wasn't a technical or support issue.
in the slashdot world, there's only one 'monopoly law' and it says 'companies are not allowed to do anything i don't like'.
It depends on what rules you agree to beforehand, though. The most common additional rule is that all taxes/fees are paid into a pot in the middle, and whoever the next person to land on Free Parking gets it. Some add $100 to the pot to start with, and each time the pot is emptied, the starting money goes up by $100.
Yes, we can certainly learn valuable things by actually setting up bases on the Moon, as opposed to half a dozen one-off trips, but it's no substitute for going to Mars, which is itself no substitute for going other places like the asteroid belt or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn or the Oort Cloud. As for the Moon, I'd rather see the it colonized by Helium-3 mining operations.
I'd really like to see us setting up living & manufacturing stations at the Earth/Moon Lagrangian points and elsewhere, and figure out how to mine the asteroids and process those materials _in space_ (rather than bring the mined materials back to earth for processing, only to send them back up again for use in space). This is how you start a spacefaring civilization. We need to get this kind of thing up and running as fast as possible, as it will make everything else vastly cheaper and faster.
>> Wouldn't it be more efficient to rely on soy for protein? Even the most efficient methods of growing meat are always going to be less efficient than just eating the plants directly, and the continued survival of the worlds vegan population indicates that there are no major health problems with such a diet.
> Do you believe in unicorns too?
Oh, MAN, unicorn tastes great! There's nothing like some chicken fried unicorn with mashed potatoes and country gravy. And some edamame. And an extra large diet Coke.
Wait, let me guess, you're one of those guys who doesn't understand the difference between Javascript, the language, and the horror that is the DOM?
Wait, let me guess, you're one of those guys who doesn't understand when someone tells a joke, and when replying, can't figure out which is the correct poster to reply to. Right?
Do you mean 'pretty much everywhere', or 'pretty much everywhere in Michigan'? Big difference.
I'm in the Seattle area, and I've been on either Sprint or Verizon for the past 10 years or so (I've been on Sprint for the last 2+ years for their fantastic data plan pricing). I've had no problems at all, even driving across Lake Washington while on a call. I had a dropped call with Verizon every now and then, but not many (and certainly *nothing* like I had with AT&T/Cingular), and zero with Sprint in the last 2+ years.
As a former Sprint customer, I can say with certainty that they're network is utter shit.
You say SAY that all you want, but it just means you don't know what you're talking about. Network quality depends MIGHTILY upon where you are. In some places, Sprint is the best, in some, the worst. The exact same can be said of the other big three in the U.S. I went from Verizon to Sprint and my call quality went up, and I've never had a dropped call since, although that also depends partly on the handset you're using.
I thought it was the next volcano in the chain after Eyjafjallajökul
Eyjafjallajökul is a 4:3 volcano, while WHUXGA is a 16:9 '1080 full-HD' volcano, though the length of the name Eyjafjallajökul certainly fools people into thinking it's wider than WHUXGA.
> The prices on decent panels (H-IPS, specifically) are coming down now, and it's possible to get a really nice 24" display for under $500. 1920x1200, too,
Pretty please with sugar on top: back that up with a link.
You're looking at the past with rose-colored goggles. There were very few (if any) 21" CRTs that did 1600x1200 *well.* Most users ended up turning them down to 1280x1024.
There were some. I'm not saying it was cheap. It cost me $1,400 US in 1994. It lasted for 10 years before it finally crapped out. When I went to replace it, I couldn't find any CRTs that size in that class anymore.:(
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Well, I guess Hitler thought that he had classic blunder #1 canceled out by #2. If I remember right, he thought that he had essentially gotten the Russians to go against a Sicilian (not directly, but they were allies) when death was on the line... Too bad Benito was northern Italian...
Dude never played Risk, obviously. Gotta set up a stronghold down in Oz first ... what a maroon.
Hollywood is already way ahead of you - they've already developed "Dreck Technology" incorporated into many modern films, which can result in eyeballs exploding without the need for any prosthetics.
Of course, they didn't do it deliberately...
And amazingly, it didn't result in box office losses - Avatar made the most money of any film in history. *shrug*
The right to sell Flash apps for the iPhone is an example of a positive right--your right implies an obligation on another party's part to facilitate it ...
More negative rights should be the default, but casually sanctifying positive rights is a recipe for less freedom, not more, because you're placing active obligations on everyone else. Flash devs don't want the right to write Flash apps, they want the right to be supported by Apple on the iPhone, and that's what Apple is denying.
That description doesn't describe what's going on here.
Apple is denying this right merely through the use of its license, not through any technical reason. Adobe CS5 can output from Flash to a _native format_ for the iPhone, and Apple very quickly responded with wording in their license that that would not be allowed. Apple doesn't have to 'support' anything that they wouldn't already be supporting. Apple doesn't have to support Flash on the iPhone/iPad, but they DO have to support native apps, and the only way they could block someone from using non-Apple development environment (thus having to pay for Apple hardware & software to create Apple apps) was to change their license, precisely BECAUSE it wasn't a technical or support issue.
This seems to be the ethical equivalent to 'opt out' instead of 'opt in'. More freedom (or 'rights') should be the default, not the other way around.
I'm waiting for Naughty Nautilus myself.
There goes a Narwhal!
in the slashdot world, there's only one 'monopoly law' and it says 'companies are not allowed to do anything i don't like'.
It depends on what rules you agree to beforehand, though. The most common additional rule is that all taxes/fees are paid into a pot in the middle, and whoever the next person to land on Free Parking gets it. Some add $100 to the pot to start with, and each time the pot is emptied, the starting money goes up by $100.
to get what accuracy? the ionosphere can mess up GPS signals by about 100 nanoseconds
What?! That sounds like terrorism! Let's do away with this 'ionosphere' once and for all!
While I dislike Apple's my-way-or-the-highway approach, I'll give them credit for sticking to their guns about open standards for the web.
You _really_ think Apple's position on Flash has anything to do with supporting open standards? Really?
When you contain the heat, you then have the ability to move it around and use it for cogeneration, thus vastly increasing your overall efficiency.
Yes, we can certainly learn valuable things by actually setting up bases on the Moon, as opposed to half a dozen one-off trips, but it's no substitute for going to Mars, which is itself no substitute for going other places like the asteroid belt or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn or the Oort Cloud. As for the Moon, I'd rather see the it colonized by Helium-3 mining operations.
I'd really like to see us setting up living & manufacturing stations at the Earth/Moon Lagrangian points and elsewhere, and figure out how to mine the asteroids and process those materials _in space_ (rather than bring the mined materials back to earth for processing, only to send them back up again for use in space). This is how you start a spacefaring civilization. We need to get this kind of thing up and running as fast as possible, as it will make everything else vastly cheaper and faster.
>> Wouldn't it be more efficient to rely on soy for protein? Even the most efficient methods of growing meat are always going to be less efficient than just eating the plants directly, and the continued survival of the worlds vegan population indicates that there are no major health problems with such a diet.
> Do you believe in unicorns too?
Oh, MAN, unicorn tastes great! There's nothing like some chicken fried unicorn with mashed potatoes and country gravy. And some edamame. And an extra large diet Coke.
Wait, let me guess, you're one of those guys who doesn't understand the difference between Javascript, the language, and the horror that is the DOM?
Wait, let me guess, you're one of those guys who doesn't understand when someone tells a joke, and when replying, can't figure out which is the correct poster to reply to. Right?
You can't polish a turd, or so the proverb goes. But it seems you can extend one with libraries, and write a book about it to boot.
Ah, that would be The tQuery Cookbook, available from O'Reilly. One guess as to the cover 'animal'. Hint: It's a character on South Park.
Do you mean 'pretty much everywhere', or 'pretty much everywhere in Michigan'? Big difference.
I'm in the Seattle area, and I've been on either Sprint or Verizon for the past 10 years or so (I've been on Sprint for the last 2+ years for their fantastic data plan pricing). I've had no problems at all, even driving across Lake Washington while on a call. I had a dropped call with Verizon every now and then, but not many (and certainly *nothing* like I had with AT&T/Cingular), and zero with Sprint in the last 2+ years.
>> In some places, Sprint is the best, in some, the worst. The exact same can be said of the other big three in the U.S.
> While I think you're right, I've yet to find a location where ATT is the best.
Okay, AT&T may be the exception. :)
As a former Sprint customer, I can say with certainty that they're network is utter shit.
You say SAY that all you want, but it just means you don't know what you're talking about. Network quality depends MIGHTILY upon where you are. In some places, Sprint is the best, in some, the worst. The exact same can be said of the other big three in the U.S. I went from Verizon to Sprint and my call quality went up, and I've never had a dropped call since, although that also depends partly on the handset you're using.
1) Bean bag chairs
2) Laptops
3) Headphones
4) A big sign in front of each developer that says, "Piss Off!"
Trust me on this.
Let's hope Shatner follows his lead. I'd really like to miss him.
I thought it was the next volcano in the chain after Eyjafjallajökul
Eyjafjallajökul is a 4:3 volcano, while WHUXGA is a 16:9 '1080 full-HD' volcano, though the length of the name Eyjafjallajökul certainly fools people into thinking it's wider than WHUXGA.
> The prices on decent panels (H-IPS, specifically) are coming down now, and it's possible to get a really nice 24" display for under $500. 1920x1200, too,
Pretty please with sugar on top: back that up with a link.
No problemo:
HP ZR24w (regular gamut)
For a bit more for a wide gamut monitor:
Dell U2410
There are probably others, but those are the two I know off offhand.
I prefer to look at is as half 'knee'.
Did you just say 'knee' to that old jerk?
You're looking at the past with rose-colored goggles. There were very few (if any) 21" CRTs that did 1600x1200 *well.* Most users ended up turning them down to 1280x1024.
There were some. I'm not saying it was cheap. It cost me $1,400 US in 1994. It lasted for 10 years before it finally crapped out. When I went to replace it, I couldn't find any CRTs that size in that class anymore. :(
This is just another in a long line of examples of why Flash is Evil.
This is just another in a long line of examples of why the word 'kneejerk' is 50% 'jerk'.
How is a mortal human being supposed to know what the holy shit "WHUXGA" means in a practical sense?
I'm pretty sure WHUXGA is a volcano in Iceland.
Some of this is of course due to currency fluctuations, I think... never seen a piece of hardware increase in price over time before.
Haven't priced a Ford Mustang made in the 1960s lately, have you? :)