Actually, you sir, are incorrect. If you watch the video, you can note he specifically says he walked through the body scanner and he found the blades on his person. There were some airports that the TSA was testing the scanners in when this was filmed back in May.
Processing is based on java and is all about visuals. It removes all the obnoxious set up and background necessary from lower-level languages, allowing students to focus on concepts and not minutiae. And the fact that it's output is drawing stuff on the screen keeps the reward-level high and immediate!
If there's one thing that will interest kids in programming for a lifetime, it's getting them turned on to fast and cool-looking results.
I think too many people get married for the hell of it. I believe marriage to be a mostly obsolete tradition (along with religion, but that's for another thread).
Marriage was more relevant when people's life expectancy was shorter. Not only would you most likely be dead by the time you were 40 you'd have a good chance of getting eaten by a bear early on, freeing up your significant other to go find someone else.
Plus these days a couple doesn't have to have kids in order for their marriage to be socially considered legitimate. Many people are choosing not to breed, or at least reproduce at a lower frequency than days of yore.
With so many options of different people to choose from today, not needing to have kids, and our lives so long, it seems as though marriage is not as necessary as it once was.
I did RTFA but nowhere did I see any information about which orbit they're going to use.
It can't be geosynchronous because that wouldn't allow them to photograph all of the country at once. In order to cover the whole US, they'll need to have an orbit that passes the satellite over different parts of the country at different times.
The interesting thing is that in order to get such an orbit, it has to pass over other countries. Will Google take footage of other countries? If so, will it use that footage? That would probably require some intense international negotiations.
It's only a beta! Don't jump to conclusions about memory and CPU usage just yet. Although it certainly is an indicator of the way development is coming along, there are plenty of opportunities for the developers to optimize and trim it down before a general release.
I live in Miami, where there is a large Caribbean/Cuban-American population. They are predominantly vehemently Christian.
Last night my girlfriend who is Cuban and I were speaking about the Democratic party election. She was telling me that her parents and grandparents, immigrants from Cuba, have never voted for a Democrat but would vote for Hillary this year. They said they wouldn't vote for Obama because he is Muslim. These people who are otherwise fair and judicious with their political hats are scared to death about having a Muslim as a president, even though the man is Christian through and through. I've heard this same mistaken perception from others in Miami as well. If it's a problem in Miami, it certainly will be widespread in the Midwest and South.
For the record, I'm a devout atheist and want all religious discussion stricken from politics but I realize that an atheist is the only thing more frightening to a Christian than a Muslim. I'm also a hardcore green party member and have never voted for a democrat, let alone any candidate within either of the two parties, but I feel as though I can support Obama. He seems like the closest thing to reforming the system from the inside as we're going to get any time soon, so I believe I can compromise this time around.
I'm a musician, and I've come to terms with the fact that from now on, music is free. I support other musicians by purchasing LPs and CDs and the occasional MP3 of other artists I like, but for the majority of our audience (the public), our music is free.
How do we, as musicians, make money on our works? By doing the same thing that any underground band has known for a long long time: merch. The money is in the t-shirt, the lighter, the sticker, the wallet, etc. People want that.
That, and vinyl will never die. It is definitely a niche. But for one of my bands, we sell a 7" EP and you get a free MP3 download version of it as well. For one price you get the high quality, inconvenient vinyl and the low quality, convenient MP3. Not a bad model, IMO...
I've bought a few MP3 albums off Bleep before they were available in a physical format, but damn it, I wish for my $10 for the MP3 album, I'd get a $10 coupon to buy the LP or CD...
The iHP, I have to manage all my files manually. I drag over the folders into the directory I want and bingo, it's done. However, that takes time and effort. If I rip new music on to my computer, (which I do often, I'm a musician) I have to figure out what folders are already on there and which aren't. Plus because I'm on a mac, and OS X generates all sorts of hidden.files containing attributes, I have to go to the terminal and pull a find/Volumes/iRiver -name ".*" -print -delete just to remove ugly.files everywhere.
With my iPod, all my new music I rip in iTunes is placed neatly in my music library that I don't have to look at. All I do is plug in my iPod to charge, and *poof* all my new music is updated onto the device! I don't have to take time to dick around with folders, figuring out which songs I've added since my last manual update. As a boost, all the artwork is on there too, and I'm a meticulous tagger, so everything has art.
There are some nice benefits to the iRiver, of course, such as OGG support and a built in recorder, but over all, the iPod + iTunes experience has it beat, hands down.
When asked whether incorporating gaming into a workout routine was sending mixed messages to adolescents whose free time is often consumed by video games, instant messaging, and TV watching, Ferrell said that the approach Overtime Fitness is taking was necessary."In some ways, we're waving the white flag,"
How is that sending mixed messages? People multi-task today. This is the same as how Lance Armstrong or Mr. Nine-To-Fiver will go running with his iPod while listening to an NPR podcast. The only difference is the demographic and the focus of the media. I go running (almost) daily while listening to music, it gives me a chance to listen to my friends' and I's music and concentrate on it with little else distracting, a far cry from attempting to listen while driving or at home with roommates, spouses, and IMs. Same could go for gaming. Just keep on moving and keep on gaming.
Myspace is a fantastic tool for the professional artist. I am a musician and it is now the prefered method of booking gigs and making contacts within the industry. It is allowing many artists to flourish and grow in ways which were not as viral or rapid as before. That is the renaissance you speak of. It is alive, it is well, and it is good.
On a side note, now that Myspace has become a huge force in the music scene, and many people are relying upon it to help them meet ends, there needs to be greater responsibility in ensuring that it stays live, 24/7. Whether that requires legislation, I'm not sure. The same night it went down, a friend of mine who runs a club, couldn't get her guest list requests because she gets them from Myspace. She possibly lost a significant amount of money from the bar by not being able to check her myspace messages.
My band just released a 45rpm record. We sell the record and when you buy it, you get a password to a protected part of our website to download the same content on the record in MP3 format, so you can listen to it on your iPod. The hipsters get the rad vinyl for at home and the MP3s for listening to in their car or on the go.
I used to DJ for a college radio station and I found my CD's would get scratched using a big binder because of tiny bits of dirt would make holes in the data layer from the weight of all the other full CD pages on top of each other.
Now I swear by the Viewpak XG by Univenture (bottom of the page). They are heavy duty vinyl slips with a soft backing for 1 CD/DVD, a slip for the front cover of the album, and a back slip behind the CD for the back cover of the album.
They have packages without the artwork slips if you don't need them.
These things are real slim, robust, and if you need to order alphabetically or whatever, it's very easy to add or subtract from your collection without having to mess with everything (ie, in a binder).
They also sell Storage Boxes that are just the right size for the packs, or course you can just use shoe boxes or home-made wood crates like me.
Univenture has at least one customer for life. Long live physical media!
Not adding HDMI on both seems like a bad move, unless they also offer an accessory that can let people get the HDMI later... I would be pissed if I decided to upgrade to HD and realized my PS3 didn't have the right connectors.
If there were an HDMI upgrade, what would it cost? Let's say $100 for speculation, or a little under. Suppose no HDMI accessory upgrade becomes available for your $500 PS3. Sell the first unit on eBay and get the $600 unit. $100 upgrade right there. Plus you get a bigger harddrive and WiFi.
everyone's gonna see Mozilla and GNU and friends on the list and jump on it.
Just because you're interested in something doesn't mean everyone else is. I'm a programmer and an audio guy. I would find plain old coding boring as hell. I like doing DSP and such so I'm definitely far more interested getting paid to contribute to say, Ardour, FFmpeg, or XMMS2 than to work on a Mozilla project.
Part of the fun for me in playing a game is learning to play it. I think it is true with any type of game. The basics are simple but as you move on it becomes more and more complex. You can play chess just fine without knowing the more obscure rules like that move where you can switch the king and towers BUT the game will become deeper and more challenging as you learn more.
Same with other games. Say a FPS. A game with no stances is simpler as it saves 1-2 or even 3 buttons to learn BUT having the option makes the game deeper and more challenging.
I disagree. I am a 21-year-old male and I find contemporary console FPS and GTA-like games confusing, over-complicated, difficult to control, and on the whole poorly designed. I don't want to have to remember what a million buttons do. I always get killed because I hit reload instead of shoot. When I sit down with a console at a friend's house to have a casual match, I get my ass kicked because the buttons are too numerous and cumbersome (ok, yeah, I also suck, but give me a n00b bonus, heheh).
Contrast that with games like Donkey Konga, Mario Party, and PacPix. I have had an insane amount of fun playing those games with friends and alone because I can pick it up, play it within 1 minute, and have a great time. A complex and engrossing story and concept should not imply or require complex controls.
Hey, I hope you get this comment, you didn't have an email listed publicly in your/. profile. I'm interested in a music set up similar to what you described. Can you point me in the direction of the software, server stuff you're using? It would be greatly appreciated! smilinggoat at gmail dot com
I can't help but think that since Apple is a hardware company - and not a software company - that they don't care what we do with the hardware once we have it in our grubby little mitts.
Ahh, so Apple doesn't make software? Have you heard about OS X? What about iTunes or Mail or iChat or iPhoto or Final Cut or Logic or Aperture?
I don't understand that statement "Apple is a hardware company - and not a software company..." It is simply untrue. They are both a hardware and a software company.
MIDI, the Musical Instrumant Digital Interface, merely sends instructions for an instrument (could be a synthesizer or a sampler or any number of other devices) to then create sound. There is no actual audio. MIDI data can be represented in many different forms, be it a list of instruction in hexadecimal, a matrix of controller values, or even as printed sheet music. Asking whether or not a MIDI "remix" or re-writing is an original creation is similar to asking whether or not someone who takes previously written sheet music and transcribes it and changes it is creating a new work.
It all depends on the level of art and interpretation in the work (think about Cage, for instance, and his work in creating scores from astronomical maps) and the legalities. I cannot comment on the legalities of rewriting music, as I am just a musician and an engineer, not a lawyer.
As far as I know, it is not illegal to transcribe audio into sheet music, which is basically what one does when creating a MIDI file from digital (or analog) audio.
Wi-Fi vs Ni-Fi? no. Ni-Fi is not an alternative to Wi-Fi/802.11. Ni-Fi is a layer 3 protocol on top of 802.11.
The Nintendo DS uses IEEE 802.11b for ALL of its wireless communications. The DS operates at a specific subset of the features of 802.11b, including only operating using short preamble (not sure if this is a software option on the DS), and only operating at 1mbps or 2mbps max (to save power).
I read the article and was interested but somewhat skeptical. Now, after seeing the video, I want to buy this console ASAP. I've never bought a home console since Sega Genesis. PS2 and X-Box games bore me. My favorite games are from the 16-bit era (might have to do with my age of 21 and it occuring during my childhood), hence why I own a GBA and DS. I'm actually excited about a home console. Wow. I'm totally picking this one up.
I don't think this is about bashing Bush without merit. This is about PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR WAR. It's not a bad idea because the Bush administration is considering it. It's a bad idea because it's a bad idea regardless of who's considering it.
This sounds like it could be perceived as an act of aggression. If any nation on earth other than the UK were to consider such a policy, I bet the US would consider it an act of aggression and take action (pre-emptively?) accordingly.
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Actually, you sir, are incorrect. If you watch the video, you can note he specifically says he walked through the body scanner and he found the blades on his person. There were some airports that the TSA was testing the scanners in when this was filmed back in May.
Adam Savage of Mythbusters walked through a backscatter with two 12" razor blades and they never noticed.
Processing is based on java and is all about visuals. It removes all the obnoxious set up and background necessary from lower-level languages, allowing students to focus on concepts and not minutiae. And the fact that it's output is drawing stuff on the screen keeps the reward-level high and immediate!
If there's one thing that will interest kids in programming for a lifetime, it's getting them turned on to fast and cool-looking results.
I think too many people get married for the hell of it. I believe marriage to be a mostly obsolete tradition (along with religion, but that's for another thread).
Marriage was more relevant when people's life expectancy was shorter. Not only would you most likely be dead by the time you were 40 you'd have a good chance of getting eaten by a bear early on, freeing up your significant other to go find someone else.
Plus these days a couple doesn't have to have kids in order for their marriage to be socially considered legitimate. Many people are choosing not to breed, or at least reproduce at a lower frequency than days of yore.
With so many options of different people to choose from today, not needing to have kids, and our lives so long, it seems as though marriage is not as necessary as it once was.
I did RTFA but nowhere did I see any information about which orbit they're going to use.
It can't be geosynchronous because that wouldn't allow them to photograph all of the country at once. In order to cover the whole US, they'll need to have an orbit that passes the satellite over different parts of the country at different times.
The interesting thing is that in order to get such an orbit, it has to pass over other countries. Will Google take footage of other countries? If so, will it use that footage? That would probably require some intense international negotiations.
It's only a beta! Don't jump to conclusions about memory and CPU usage just yet. Although it certainly is an indicator of the way development is coming along, there are plenty of opportunities for the developers to optimize and trim it down before a general release.
I live in Miami, where there is a large Caribbean/Cuban-American population. They are predominantly vehemently Christian.
Last night my girlfriend who is Cuban and I were speaking about the Democratic party election. She was telling me that her parents and grandparents, immigrants from Cuba, have never voted for a Democrat but would vote for Hillary this year. They said they wouldn't vote for Obama because he is Muslim. These people who are otherwise fair and judicious with their political hats are scared to death about having a Muslim as a president, even though the man is Christian through and through. I've heard this same mistaken perception from others in Miami as well. If it's a problem in Miami, it certainly will be widespread in the Midwest and South.
For the record, I'm a devout atheist and want all religious discussion stricken from politics but I realize that an atheist is the only thing more frightening to a Christian than a Muslim. I'm also a hardcore green party member and have never voted for a democrat, let alone any candidate within either of the two parties, but I feel as though I can support Obama. He seems like the closest thing to reforming the system from the inside as we're going to get any time soon, so I believe I can compromise this time around.
I'm a musician, and I've come to terms with the fact that from now on, music is free. I support other musicians by purchasing LPs and CDs and the occasional MP3 of other artists I like, but for the majority of our audience (the public), our music is free.
How do we, as musicians, make money on our works? By doing the same thing that any underground band has known for a long long time: merch. The money is in the t-shirt, the lighter, the sticker, the wallet, etc. People want that.
That, and vinyl will never die. It is definitely a niche. But for one of my bands, we sell a 7" EP and you get a free MP3 download version of it as well. For one price you get the high quality, inconvenient vinyl and the low quality, convenient MP3. Not a bad model, IMO...
I've bought a few MP3 albums off Bleep before they were available in a physical format, but damn it, I wish for my $10 for the MP3 album, I'd get a $10 coupon to buy the LP or CD...
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
I disagree.
.files containing attributes, I have to go to the terminal and pull a find /Volumes/iRiver -name ".*" -print -delete just to remove ugly .files everywhere.
I own both an iRiver iHP-120 and an Apple iPod.
The iHP, I have to manage all my files manually. I drag over the folders into the directory I want and bingo, it's done. However, that takes time and effort. If I rip new music on to my computer, (which I do often, I'm a musician) I have to figure out what folders are already on there and which aren't. Plus because I'm on a mac, and OS X generates all sorts of hidden
With my iPod, all my new music I rip in iTunes is placed neatly in my music library that I don't have to look at. All I do is plug in my iPod to charge, and *poof* all my new music is updated onto the device! I don't have to take time to dick around with folders, figuring out which songs I've added since my last manual update. As a boost, all the artwork is on there too, and I'm a meticulous tagger, so everything has art.
There are some nice benefits to the iRiver, of course, such as OGG support and a built in recorder, but over all, the iPod + iTunes experience has it beat, hands down.
When asked whether incorporating gaming into a workout routine was sending mixed messages to adolescents whose free time is often consumed by video games, instant messaging, and TV watching, Ferrell said that the approach Overtime Fitness is taking was necessary."In some ways, we're waving the white flag,"
How is that sending mixed messages? People multi-task today. This is the same as how Lance Armstrong or Mr. Nine-To-Fiver will go running with his iPod while listening to an NPR podcast. The only difference is the demographic and the focus of the media. I go running (almost) daily while listening to music, it gives me a chance to listen to my friends' and I's music and concentrate on it with little else distracting, a far cry from attempting to listen while driving or at home with roommates, spouses, and IMs. Same could go for gaming. Just keep on moving and keep on gaming.
Myspace is a fantastic tool for the professional artist. I am a musician and it is now the prefered method of booking gigs and making contacts within the industry. It is allowing many artists to flourish and grow in ways which were not as viral or rapid as before. That is the renaissance you speak of. It is alive, it is well, and it is good.
On a side note, now that Myspace has become a huge force in the music scene, and many people are relying upon it to help them meet ends, there needs to be greater responsibility in ensuring that it stays live, 24/7. Whether that requires legislation, I'm not sure. The same night it went down, a friend of mine who runs a club, couldn't get her guest list requests because she gets them from Myspace. She possibly lost a significant amount of money from the bar by not being able to check her myspace messages.
My band just released a 45rpm record. We sell the record and when you buy it, you get a password to a protected part of our website to download the same content on the record in MP3 format, so you can listen to it on your iPod. The hipsters get the rad vinyl for at home and the MP3s for listening to in their car or on the go.
I used to DJ for a college radio station and I found my CD's would get scratched using a big binder because of tiny bits of dirt would make holes in the data layer from the weight of all the other full CD pages on top of each other.
Now I swear by the Viewpak XG by Univenture (bottom of the page). They are heavy duty vinyl slips with a soft backing for 1 CD/DVD, a slip for the front cover of the album, and a back slip behind the CD for the back cover of the album.
They have packages without the artwork slips if you don't need them.
These things are real slim, robust, and if you need to order alphabetically or whatever, it's very easy to add or subtract from your collection without having to mess with everything (ie, in a binder).
They also sell Storage Boxes that are just the right size for the packs, or course you can just use shoe boxes or home-made wood crates like me.
Univenture has at least one customer for life. Long live physical media!
Not adding HDMI on both seems like a bad move, unless they also offer an accessory that can let people get the HDMI later... I would be pissed if I decided to upgrade to HD and realized my PS3 didn't have the right connectors.
If there were an HDMI upgrade, what would it cost? Let's say $100 for speculation, or a little under. Suppose no HDMI accessory upgrade becomes available for your $500 PS3. Sell the first unit on eBay and get the $600 unit. $100 upgrade right there. Plus you get a bigger harddrive and WiFi.
What's wrong with that as an upgrade path?
everyone's gonna see Mozilla and GNU and friends on the list and jump on it.
Just because you're interested in something doesn't mean everyone else is. I'm a programmer and an audio guy. I would find plain old coding boring as hell. I like doing DSP and such so I'm definitely far more interested getting paid to contribute to say, Ardour, FFmpeg, or XMMS2 than to work on a Mozilla project.
Part of the fun for me in playing a game is learning to play it. I think it is true with any type of game. The basics are simple but as you move on it becomes more and more complex. You can play chess just fine without knowing the more obscure rules like that move where you can switch the king and towers BUT the game will become deeper and more challenging as you learn more.
Same with other games. Say a FPS. A game with no stances is simpler as it saves 1-2 or even 3 buttons to learn BUT having the option makes the game deeper and more challenging.
I disagree. I am a 21-year-old male and I find contemporary console FPS and GTA-like games confusing, over-complicated, difficult to control, and on the whole poorly designed. I don't want to have to remember what a million buttons do. I always get killed because I hit reload instead of shoot. When I sit down with a console at a friend's house to have a casual match, I get my ass kicked because the buttons are too numerous and cumbersome (ok, yeah, I also suck, but give me a n00b bonus, heheh).
Contrast that with games like Donkey Konga, Mario Party, and PacPix. I have had an insane amount of fun playing those games with friends and alone because I can pick it up, play it within 1 minute, and have a great time. A complex and engrossing story and concept should not imply or require complex controls.
Hey, I hope you get this comment, you didn't have an email listed publicly in your /. profile. I'm interested in a music set up similar to what you described. Can you point me in the direction of the software, server stuff you're using? It would be greatly appreciated! smilinggoat at gmail dot com
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I can't help but think that since Apple is a hardware company - and not a software company - that they don't care what we do with the hardware once we have it in our grubby little mitts.
Ahh, so Apple doesn't make software? Have you heard about OS X? What about iTunes or Mail or iChat or iPhoto or Final Cut or Logic or Aperture?
I don't understand that statement "Apple is a hardware company - and not a software company..." It is simply untrue. They are both a hardware and a software company.
MIDI, the Musical Instrumant Digital Interface, merely sends instructions for an instrument (could be a synthesizer or a sampler or any number of other devices) to then create sound. There is no actual audio. MIDI data can be represented in many different forms, be it a list of instruction in hexadecimal, a matrix of controller values, or even as printed sheet music. Asking whether or not a MIDI "remix" or re-writing is an original creation is similar to asking whether or not someone who takes previously written sheet music and transcribes it and changes it is creating a new work.
It all depends on the level of art and interpretation in the work (think about Cage, for instance, and his work in creating scores from astronomical maps) and the legalities. I cannot comment on the legalities of rewriting music, as I am just a musician and an engineer, not a lawyer.
As far as I know, it is not illegal to transcribe audio into sheet music, which is basically what one does when creating a MIDI file from digital (or analog) audio.
This page explains it all.
Wi-Fi vs Ni-Fi? no. Ni-Fi is not an alternative to Wi-Fi/802.11. Ni-Fi is a layer 3 protocol on top of 802.11.
The Nintendo DS uses IEEE 802.11b for ALL of its wireless communications. The DS operates at a specific subset of the features of 802.11b, including only operating using short preamble (not sure if this is a software option on the DS), and only operating at 1mbps or 2mbps max (to save power).
I read the article and was interested but somewhat skeptical. Now, after seeing the video, I want to buy this console ASAP. I've never bought a home console since Sega Genesis. PS2 and X-Box games bore me. My favorite games are from the 16-bit era (might have to do with my age of 21 and it occuring during my childhood), hence why I own a GBA and DS. I'm actually excited about a home console. Wow. I'm totally picking this one up.
I don't think this is about bashing Bush without merit. This is about PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR WAR. It's not a bad idea because the Bush administration is considering it. It's a bad idea because it's a bad idea regardless of who's considering it.
This sounds like it could be perceived as an act of aggression. If any nation on earth other than the UK were to consider such a policy, I bet the US would consider it an act of aggression and take action (pre-emptively?) accordingly.