No doubt, a mission to Mars might yield technical advances which could better life on our space rock. That said, there are large immediate problems here on Earth which require great technological pushes as well. I'm sorry, but screw Mars. We need massive pushes for energy independence, stem cell research, water acquisition etc. There is knowledge to be gained there and solutions developed will likely have a much greater impact upon our future.
We should secure the "future of humanity" by addressing our terrestrial problems, as opposed to solving extraterrestrial problems that will hopefully yield a technological trickle down. No doubt, I like Temperpedic pillows and freeze dried ice cream, but I'd also love for our country to never to funnel money into crazy nations chocked with bubbling crude.
I don't know if eMusic is carrying the new EMI content, but I imagine they will in time.
I respect the fact that you're sticking to your guns and avoiding a commercial operating system. That said, I don't think anyone is going to look down on you for, at the very least, virtualizing XP. Is the ideological battle really worth a hundred-something bucks and countless compatibility headaches?
Your water analogy is fairly ridiculous. Of some jerks screwed up a portion of my reservoir, and reduced the amount of water available to the entire county, I wouldn't be outside hosing down the driveway. I'd be forced to change my water consumption, regardless of whether or not I was to blame for the shortage.
Ya, but pigs and turkeys are raised on farms where they don't play a role in the surrounding ecosystem. They're also fairly plentiful.
As for the Inuit people, I'm sorry but traditionalism is no excuse for maintaining something that is this destructive. Times change, the Bowhead whale population has significantly decreased, and people have the means to get food elsewhere. There are somethings in the world that are bigger then antiquated hunting practices. Many would argue that the current rate of whaling is still unsustainable.
BS. Anything innovative in that market is almost always created by a third party and proposed a network provider. And network providers usually find a way to botch those things by turning them into restrictive billable services or features.
The only innovative things network providers create are fees shorty, fees.
This just in, nasty bugs were quickly discovered in the public beta of a newly ported app. Disappointment of outrageous expectations has now led to the death of several men living in their mothers' basements.
It is assumed Apple realized this devastating "beta" because they hate freedom and want the terrorists to win... and they've now won.
We will try to stay on top of this developing critical story. My god have mercy on us all.
"As the PDC is the definitive developer event focused on the future of the Microsoft platform, we try to align it to be in front of major platform milestones"
Translation...
"The things we wanted to show at the PDC are so far behind schedule that we would look like fools for even demoing the software."
I don't know what your graduate curriculum is like, but there's no way I would be able to get away with hiring someone else to do my thesis work. There is too much faculty oversight, the process takes too long, there are too many demands for new qualitative and quantitative research, etc.
In my humble opinion, faculty must be offering fairly generic curriculum if their curriculum can be exploited by lame paper writing services.
No doubt, looking at game UIs or other UIs offers invaluable input. Yet, I would argue that it's more valuable to adopt the design and development process that the game industry has in place.
There is a reason why contemporary games often have fairly progressive and intuitive user interface solutions. As most game designer have realized, you need to have the visual communication folks on-board at the start, and they need to have input in to the design of communication tools. More often then not, desktop applications are designed by a software engineer and skinned by a graphic designer. This is fairly miserable approach.
Dude, it's Transformers...I doubt Michael Bay can make it any worse then the horrible cartoon. It was a cartoon designed to sell toys which were better then the cartoon.
I would tend to agree that the rant about JS' robustness doesn't hold much water. That said, my big gripe is that we still lack a ubiquitous web medium that can host mature interactive content. All in all, things like CSS and JS have a lot of painful limitations for drawing content in the browser window. This is the issue that Flash, SilverLight, and JavaFX address.
I'm hoping that the migration toward high PPI displays and scalable vector graphics will really force people to rethink how things are drawn on the web.
I don't know if people want "customization" as much as they don't want the god awful interface MS decided to slap on IE 7. When compared to Firefox or Safari, that cluttered thing is a practically crime against humanity. Seriously, I think I've seen it try to execute the elderly by forcing them to use tabs.
Problem with this tech is that it is STILL stereo graphic. It's not volumetric, and therefore, the old eye strain problems will still exist.
OK, these guys may have developed a better way to deliver and display a stereo graphic image, but in the end, it's the same old crap we've seen for decades. You're still wearing stereo glasses. You put some glasses on, your right eye sees one image, your left eye sees another image, your brain converges the two images, but you can't focus on the depth of your choosing. Focus is predetermined by the film.
Human stereoscopic vision relies upon two mechanisms, convergence and accommodation. This cinema tech doesn't account for the latter. With this tech you still can't focus on depths of your choosing... as you would with a volumetric image or a real 3D object in the real world. These guys are trying to skirt around accommodation by limiting shots to particular ranges of depth. While this may help to minimize the problem, it doesn't eliminate it.
All in all... move along, nothing new to see here.
I posted this a week ago, and it may very well be nothing, but the folks at Alternet were raising concerns about the reporting of vote tallies in Ohio during the 04 election.
More specifically, they were concerned that the Ohio Secretary of State was hosting, tallying, and reporting election results with hardware / software architectures developed by companies with partisan connections.
Eh, she had a senior administrative job. It's not like she could've majored in Bureaucracy Studies in order to prep for that position. What really mattered was experience, her ability to network, her ability to raise money, etc. Moreover, admission standards are typically set by department chairs who understand their department's student body and curriculum. In the end, those are usually the people who set the important benchmarks.
Quite frankly, there are a LOT of desk jobs in the world that don't require a college degree as long as you're a reasonably competent and experienced individual. Thousands of college students graduate every year and enter a professional career that has nothing to do with their former major. I imagine the only college skills they reference are the the basic reading / writing / critical thought skills acquired from 1st and 2nd year General Ed. For many, a BA or BS is little more then a piece of paper that allows you to apply to new stratum of employment.
That's not to say you don't specialized degrees for specialized fields, and that's not to day she shouldn't step down. However, those potentially "crushed dreams" probably have little do with her ability to do that job.
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No doubt, a mission to Mars might yield technical advances which could better life on our space rock. That said, there are large immediate problems here on Earth which require great technological pushes as well. I'm sorry, but screw Mars. We need massive pushes for energy independence, stem cell research, water acquisition etc. There is knowledge to be gained there and solutions developed will likely have a much greater impact upon our future.
We should secure the "future of humanity" by addressing our terrestrial problems, as opposed to solving extraterrestrial problems that will hopefully yield a technological trickle down. No doubt, I like Temperpedic pillows and freeze dried ice cream, but I'd also love for our country to never to funnel money into crazy nations chocked with bubbling crude.
I don't know if eMusic is carrying the new EMI content, but I imagine they will in time.
I respect the fact that you're sticking to your guns and avoiding a commercial operating system. That said, I don't think anyone is going to look down on you for, at the very least, virtualizing XP. Is the ideological battle really worth a hundred-something bucks and countless compatibility headaches?
When does iTunes do that?
I was wonder how we could use Hitler to denounce climate change. Problem solved! Godwin's law upheld again!
Your water analogy is fairly ridiculous. Of some jerks screwed up a portion of my reservoir, and reduced the amount of water available to the entire county, I wouldn't be outside hosing down the driveway. I'd be forced to change my water consumption, regardless of whether or not I was to blame for the shortage.
Ya, but pigs and turkeys are raised on farms where they don't play a role in the surrounding ecosystem. They're also fairly plentiful.
As for the Inuit people, I'm sorry but traditionalism is no excuse for maintaining something that is this destructive. Times change, the Bowhead whale population has significantly decreased, and people have the means to get food elsewhere. There are somethings in the world that are bigger then antiquated hunting practices. Many would argue that the current rate of whaling is still unsustainable.
"the network provider is the only innovator"
BS.
Anything innovative in that market is almost always created by a third party and proposed a network provider. And network providers usually find a way to botch those things by turning them into restrictive billable services or features.
The only innovative things network providers create are fees shorty, fees.
This just in, nasty bugs were quickly discovered in the public beta of a newly ported app. Disappointment of outrageous expectations has now led to the death of several men living in their mothers' basements.
It is assumed Apple realized this devastating "beta" because they hate freedom and want the terrorists to win... and they've now won.
We will try to stay on top of this developing critical story.
My god have mercy on us all.
"So a presidential hopeful wants somebody who at least knows how technology works to be a technology adviser? Say it ain't so!"
Setting the bar fairly low, aren't we? This is Ballmer we're talking about.
Lower Price + Movie In Theaters = More Sales
Duh.
Why is this even "news?"
"As the PDC is the definitive developer event focused on the future of the Microsoft platform, we try to align it to be in front of major platform milestones"
Translation...
"The things we wanted to show at the PDC are so far behind schedule that we would look like fools for even demoing the software."
I don't know what your graduate curriculum is like, but there's no way I would be able to get away with hiring someone else to do my thesis work. There is too much faculty oversight, the process takes too long, there are too many demands for new qualitative and quantitative research, etc.
In my humble opinion, faculty must be offering fairly generic curriculum if their curriculum can be exploited by lame paper writing services.
No doubt, looking at game UIs or other UIs offers invaluable input. Yet, I would argue that it's more valuable to adopt the design and development process that the game industry has in place.
There is a reason why contemporary games often have fairly progressive and intuitive user interface solutions. As most game designer have realized, you need to have the visual communication folks on-board at the start, and they need to have input in to the design of communication tools. More often then not, desktop applications are designed by a software engineer and skinned by a graphic designer. This is fairly miserable approach.
"This movie is doubly insulting to me"
More insulting then a half hour commercial, I mean cartoon, designed to sell toys?
Dude, it's Transformers...I doubt Michael Bay can make it any worse then the horrible cartoon. It was a cartoon designed to sell toys which were better then the cartoon.
I had no idea MS was to blame for that god awful cable box software. I thought that was Motorola's doing.
... nuff said
Nevertheless, good riddance
I'd consider a paper route.
My papers are delivered by a 40 year old man. Good for him. That's what I say.
I would tend to agree that the rant about JS' robustness doesn't hold much water. That said, my big gripe is that we still lack a ubiquitous web medium that can host mature interactive content. All in all, things like CSS and JS have a lot of painful limitations for drawing content in the browser window. This is the issue that Flash, SilverLight, and JavaFX address.
I'm hoping that the migration toward high PPI displays and scalable vector graphics will really force people to rethink how things are drawn on the web.
I don't know if people want "customization" as much as they don't want the god awful interface MS decided to slap on IE 7. When compared to Firefox or Safari, that cluttered thing is a practically crime against humanity. Seriously, I think I've seen it try to execute the elderly by forcing them to use tabs.
I keep getting these annoying diskettes in the mail trying to offer me 1000 free hours of a shitty health care plan.
Problem with this tech is that it is STILL stereo graphic. It's not volumetric, and therefore, the old eye strain problems will still exist.
OK, these guys may have developed a better way to deliver and display a stereo graphic image, but in the end, it's the same old crap we've seen for decades. You're still wearing stereo glasses. You put some glasses on, your right eye sees one image, your left eye sees another image, your brain converges the two images, but you can't focus on the depth of your choosing. Focus is predetermined by the film.
Human stereoscopic vision relies upon two mechanisms, convergence and accommodation. This cinema tech doesn't account for the latter. With this tech you still can't focus on depths of your choosing... as you would with a volumetric image or a real 3D object in the real world. These guys are trying to skirt around accommodation by limiting shots to particular ranges of depth. While this may help to minimize the problem, it doesn't eliminate it.
All in all... move along, nothing new to see here.
I posted this a week ago, and it may very well be nothing, but the folks at Alternet were raising concerns about the reporting of vote tallies in Ohio during the 04 election.
http://www.alternet.org/story/50941/
More specifically, they were concerned that the Ohio Secretary of State was hosting, tallying, and reporting election results with hardware / software architectures developed by companies with partisan connections.
Yes Mr. Senator.
Eh, she had a senior administrative job. It's not like she could've majored in Bureaucracy Studies in order to prep for that position. What really mattered was experience, her ability to network, her ability to raise money, etc. Moreover, admission standards are typically set by department chairs who understand their department's student body and curriculum. In the end, those are usually the people who set the important benchmarks.
Quite frankly, there are a LOT of desk jobs in the world that don't require a college degree as long as you're a reasonably competent and experienced individual. Thousands of college students graduate every year and enter a professional career that has nothing to do with their former major. I imagine the only college skills they reference are the the basic reading / writing / critical thought skills acquired from 1st and 2nd year General Ed. For many, a BA or BS is little more then a piece of paper that allows you to apply to new stratum of employment.
That's not to say you don't specialized degrees for specialized fields, and that's not to day she shouldn't step down. However, those potentially "crushed dreams" probably have little do with her ability to do that job.
The internet is a big truck.