Blocking a sidewalk or part of a street, barring entry to buildings and businesses and holding up traffic both vehicle or pedestrian can cause a nightmare.
Then make a law that bans those things! What does this have to do with photography, other than some photographers do these things?
I've tried a variant of the paq compressors (paq8p?) and it does a super job of compressing things very small. However, it does this by using a lot of memory and a lot of time. Decompression requires as much memory as you used to compress, apparently. What compression program you use depends on your needs and your constraints. I'm not sure what 7zip's memory requirements are, but with respect to time, it does a great job compressing in a time comparable to gzip, but much smaller (based on my limited testing).
I sent a complaint to Discovery Channel because of the advertising. I'm not sure if it's they who determine the advertising - maybe I should have complained to my cable provider?
Anyway, it's pretty sad that I can't watch a TV show with my kids that has nothing bad in it because the commercials in between are totally unsuitable for kids.
I know there's a lot of crap on TV shows but I try and avoid those. However, the advertising is another big area that needs more thought put into matching the rating of a show with the rating of the commercial.
You know, the weird thing is that for many years, we all raved about how down-to-earth and carefree Linus was, and how he didn't get involved in Internet spats because he was a geek too busy working on Linux.
Ha-haaa! I wonder, how many people does this describe if you think of it generally? I used to be pretty easy going until around my mid 20's when I started getting more and more tired of people's shit. Well, now I'm in my 30's and yeah, I'm even more tired of people's shit. Maybe I just need a vacation. Maybe Linus does, too.
Still, I'm a little surprised that someone of Linus' stature isn't more careful about who he flames. Maybe he's trying to rebel against the pressure to be more diplomatic because of his stature.
Or stop questioning how and why the 9/11 attacks happened or were allowed to happen? Why was a large - no HUGE - body of evidence ignored indicating that the towers were detonated rather than falling on their own. Watch for yourself:
It's amazing what can be covered up as time passes. Interesting when you hear declassified information which reveals how much lying the government actually has done in the past and undoubtedly continues to do.
Is this not censorship? I hate seeing the dodgy M$ "fact" campaigns like most of you, but I don't know if shutting them out is the answer. A balanced view of the major players in the market along with the positive and negative of each would be very informative and fair. A powerful way to present the data would be in simple tables:
Vendors supporting DRM ---------------------- Company 1 Company 2
Vendors against DRM ------------------- Organization 1
Pluses of DRM ------------- * [Company1]....
Negatives of DRM ---------------- * [Company1]...
Presenting in this form would help prevent the nonsense answers that someone like Steve Balmer seems to dole out. "Uh, sir, we need a checkmark for yes or no in this box. What can I put down for you?". You could boil down interviews to answering a non-anonymous multiple-choice questionnaire with comments at the end. I know most or all of this has been done by certain magazines on certain occasions, but as a standard I think it would work well.
Determining who are the major players would require some thought as well. I notice that companies under the top 3 often get overlooked in magazine reviews: it's as if they don't exist. However, their competing features can be just as good.
You can only talk to one person on the phone at once, right? I can see one or two rare situations where this would be of use, but generally, uses are there for this type of technology?
I don't see a huge use for it either. Plus I'd rather be the one initiating the call to cut down on prank calls. There's a lot of jerks on the net who'd I'm sure would love the opportunity to harass website owners, esp. of sites that they disagree with the content.
What would be neat is a way for a web surfer to talk to other visitors. For example, here on Slashdot, talk to other people reading the same article, or to people on your "Friends" list. Or on ebay, talk to other people watching that item (though that could get nasty, hehe).
To quote the report: Consumer ire, the report says, is driven by three factors: an excess of ads, the disruptive nature of ads, and the irrelevance of ads.
BINGO. I think they've hit the nail on the head there and it pretty much sums my feelings up as well. Especially the "excess of ads". I'm so used to tuning things out so I don't overload, and occasionally I catch myself doing it subconsciously. These days, blocking things out is necessary.
If you think about it, an airport is a perfect place to test this type of technology: a small, controlled environment where everyone is identified before getting into the 'secure' area, and it's one thing place is very hard to avoid using if you want to travel large distances. It's just a matter of time before this technology moves from testing (airports) to deployment (out in the world). People need to push back on this and write their congress, boycott the airport, etc... there's nothing else to stop it.
Wow, Dale Fuller taking over as interim CEO. He totally tanked Borland - let's see what he can do with McAfee. Maybe he'll turn them into an application lifecycle management company, too. I can't get over this decision.
I sure like the regular expression search! Too bad you can't search the whole WWW using regex's. I wonder how (or if) they guard against very cpu-hungry regular expression strings?
Bush's thinking seems to come down to this: if it gets him what he wants, it is the right thing to do. If you have to torture people or wiretap people illegally, so be it. His value system is totally out of line with his country's. He should have been forced out of power ages ago. But I guess he has his ways of making sure that doesn't happen.
My thought is that video games are but one way to stay mentally active. They seem to challenge various parts of your brain. If you take the old saying "use it or lose it" and apply it to the various parts of the brain, the more areas of your brain you keep challenged the better. You could think of video games as having "good test coverage" (re: software unit testing). How much test coverage does the game of Chess (strategy) or say a team-based multiplayer game give you? Seems it would be best to do 'cross-training' of your brain to get the best coverage.
Wow, talk about censorship in the United States. Everyone's laughing about the usage of the word "literally" while their freedoms are quickly evaporating one by one. I'm so glad I don't live there.
I wonder if there was some sort of "thought process" in this person which worked on solving how to get the brain functioning again? I am wondering, how was the solution arrived at?
Most people will simply be repeating arguements they've heard before, even if the flaws in it are already widely known. Only very few will actually attempt to analyse the situation from thier own perspective, or try to suggest a new way to address the problem which may be the 'bullseye' we're looking for.
It seems to take time for the large majority of people to embrace a really new opinion on something. For example, a new idea might be totally correct and plausible, yet its acceptance has to spread through the people. How long it takes depends a lot on how the new idea is presented.
Isn't it funny that Steve Ballmer is never Steve? No, if we say Steve without a last name, it's always Jobs.
But if you say "Monkeyboy", we all know which Steve that is.:)
Besides technical difficulties reported in this thread, I think another big factor in Vista's delay has got to be the changing marketplace since the product was designed. Look at how many new technologies have taken the 'net by storm since Vista (er, Longhorn) was drawn up on the whiteboard. I'm sure Microsoft wants to be a part of the majority of them.
Shouldn't all this mean that legislation like the PATRIOT Act is null and void?
Yeah, sure, but as long as the goverment has the law enforcement and weaponry to back itself up, there's not too much you can do about it. Who wants to go to jail for standing up for themselves? Or end up on a no-fly list? Since nobody can even talk about your being jailed, your cause sends out little if no message (boy doesn't this sound like part of the master plan?) Not too many on the whole. There have been huge demonstrations that were ignored by Bush (look at the anti-war protests in San Francisco). So what's the next step? And who's willing to take it?
Here's an interesting thought: take one of the American heroes of the past and consider how well they would do today with Bush running the country. Would they be muzzled to prevent them from accomplishing their goal?
I pay tax on burnable CDs to cover the cost of music downloaded from the Internet without paying for it. Therefore what I download and burn to CD is paid for. Since it's paid for, am I breaking the law? I think not.
Access to a virtually endless supply of cheap (see above) music has changed the way I think of music in my life. I download whatever I might be interested in and delete whatever I don't like without thinking "hey, I paid $2 for that song I'm keeping it even though I hate it". Now I can amass a large quantity of music that I really like which, aside from the CD tax, only costs me some time in weeding through that music. This is made easy with the iTunes/iPod combination. I look forward to the experience every day. If I choose, I don't ever have to listen to the same song more than once. That's amazing.
Heh, is there any wonder as to why the US government wants *everyone* if its citizens hooked up with Internet access? It's SO DAMN EASY to spy on people.
The theatre costs a lot of money for what you get. To get in is about 10 bucks a person. Popcorn, pop, snacks are very expensive. That means going to see a show is probably at least a 30 dollar venture for two people. You get to see about 10 minutes of previews which you may have already seen before. The sound and picture are good, but for most movies the improvement in presentation over common home theatre systems doesn't justify the price.
For me, new DVD releases are the _new_ new releases. I rent movies and watch them at home where I can pop my own popcorn and invite whoever I want and always get a good seat. No driving, no fuss, a fraction of the cost (which is smaller the more people who watch it with you).
DVD piracy may be a small factor but I think at some point people are tired of being gouged and are content to watch things at home. When times are tough (rising cost of housing, living), stuff like treating yourself to a movie at the first to get cut back.
The thing about Google is they make no attempt to hide the fact they are collecting a tremendous amount of data about people and people let them.
I can see that their we're not evil motto is a necessary part of their business plan to collect the world's information. Who'd willingly hand over all their information to an "evil" corporation? The glitch in their plan is that the government can take this information whenever they feel like it. Pooling this much personal data in one place is always a bad idea, IMO. Obvious ways for it to leak out are: government takes it, hacker steals it (physically or electronically), employee leaks/sells it, google decides to share it with 3rd parties, google is sold to some megacorp with vastly different views.
Personally, I've started to limit my usage of Google services so that less of my information is in one place. I've never trusted gmail and now I've validated that feeling.
I'd say this guy is a tad bit optimistic of what will happen to him when the technology comes around to unthaw and reanimate him. Initially the technology will have flaws I'm sure and guess who will get to be the guinea pig? Or he could end up some awful frankenstein creation because some crooked drug corporation says its in the best interests of humanity to carry out certain experiments. Pretty scary I'd say. Or maybe they'll want to subject him to all kinds of research into age old diseases or genetic makeup. Who's going to care about the rights of some 200 year old frozen corpse? If he thinks he'll get a fair shake at a fresh start, that just makes me laugh I'm sorry to say.
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Then make a law that bans those things! What does this have to do with photography, other than some photographers do these things?
I've tried a variant of the paq compressors (paq8p?) and it does a super job of compressing things very small. However, it does this by using a lot of memory and a lot of time. Decompression requires as much memory as you used to compress, apparently. What compression program you use depends on your needs and your constraints. I'm not sure what 7zip's memory requirements are, but with respect to time, it does a great job compressing in a time comparable to gzip, but much smaller (based on my limited testing).
I sent a complaint to Discovery Channel because of the advertising. I'm not sure if it's they who determine the advertising - maybe I should have complained to my cable provider?
Anyway, it's pretty sad that I can't watch a TV show with my kids that has nothing bad in it because the commercials in between are totally unsuitable for kids.
I know there's a lot of crap on TV shows but I try and avoid those. However, the advertising is another big area that needs more thought put into matching the rating of a show with the rating of the commercial.
You know, the weird thing is that for many years, we all raved about how down-to-earth and carefree Linus was, and how he didn't get involved in Internet spats because he was a geek too busy working on Linux.
Ha-haaa! I wonder, how many people does this describe if you think of it generally? I used to be pretty easy going until around my mid 20's when I started getting more and more tired of people's shit. Well, now I'm in my 30's and yeah, I'm even more tired of people's shit. Maybe I just need a vacation. Maybe Linus does, too.
Still, I'm a little surprised that someone of Linus' stature isn't more careful about who he flames. Maybe he's trying to rebel against the pressure to be more diplomatic because of his stature.
Or stop questioning how and why the 9/11 attacks happened or were allowed to happen? Why was a large - no HUGE - body of evidence ignored indicating that the towers were detonated rather than falling on their own. Watch for yourself:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fp3FzSoMUYo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ckMWO_w4iNY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CcRs1fv8i3I
It's amazing what can be covered up as time passes. Interesting when you hear declassified information which reveals how much lying the government actually has done in the past and undoubtedly continues to do.
Is this not censorship? I hate seeing the dodgy M$ "fact" campaigns like most of you, but I don't know if shutting them out is the answer. A balanced view of the major players in the market along with the positive and negative of each would be very informative and fair. A powerful way to present the data would be in simple tables:
....
...
Vendors supporting DRM
----------------------
Company 1
Company 2
Vendors against DRM
-------------------
Organization 1
Pluses of DRM
-------------
* [Company1]
Negatives of DRM
----------------
* [Company1]
Presenting in this form would help prevent the nonsense answers that someone like Steve Balmer seems to dole out. "Uh, sir, we need a checkmark for yes or no in this box. What can I put down for you?". You could boil down interviews to answering a non-anonymous multiple-choice questionnaire with comments at the end. I know most or all of this has been done by certain magazines on certain occasions, but as a standard I think it would work well.
Determining who are the major players would require some thought as well. I notice that companies under the top 3 often get overlooked in magazine reviews: it's as if they don't exist. However, their competing features can be just as good.
I don't see a huge use for it either. Plus I'd rather be the one initiating the call to cut down on prank calls. There's a lot of jerks on the net who'd I'm sure would love the opportunity to harass website owners, esp. of sites that they disagree with the content.
What would be neat is a way for a web surfer to talk to other visitors. For example, here on Slashdot, talk to other people reading the same article, or to people on your "Friends" list. Or on ebay, talk to other people watching that item (though that could get nasty, hehe).
To quote the report:
Consumer ire, the report says, is driven by three factors: an excess of ads, the disruptive nature of ads, and the irrelevance of ads.
BINGO. I think they've hit the nail on the head there and it pretty much sums my feelings up as well. Especially the "excess of ads". I'm so used to tuning things out so I don't overload, and occasionally I catch myself doing it subconsciously. These days, blocking things out is necessary.
If you think about it, an airport is a perfect place to test this type of technology: a small, controlled environment where everyone is identified before getting into the 'secure' area, and it's one thing place is very hard to avoid using if you want to travel large distances. It's just a matter of time before this technology moves from testing (airports) to deployment (out in the world). People need to push back on this and write their congress, boycott the airport, etc... there's nothing else to stop it.
:)
Posting with my 'slashdot' dog collar on.
Wow, Dale Fuller taking over as interim CEO. He totally tanked Borland - let's see what he can do with McAfee. Maybe he'll turn them into an application lifecycle management company, too. I can't get over this decision.
I sure like the regular expression search! Too bad you can't search the whole WWW using regex's.
I wonder how (or if) they guard against very cpu-hungry regular expression strings?
Bush's thinking seems to come down to this: if it gets him what he wants, it is the right thing to do. If you have to torture people or wiretap people illegally, so be it. His value system is totally out of line with his country's. He should have been forced out of power ages ago. But I guess he has his ways of making sure that doesn't happen.
My thought is that video games are but one way to stay mentally active. They seem to challenge various parts of your brain. If you take the old saying "use it or lose it" and apply it to the various parts of the brain, the more areas of your brain you keep challenged the better. You could think of video games as having "good test coverage" (re: software unit testing). How much test coverage does the game of Chess (strategy) or say a team-based multiplayer game give you? Seems it would be best to do 'cross-training' of your brain to get the best coverage.
Wow, talk about censorship in the United States. Everyone's laughing about the usage of the word "literally" while their freedoms are quickly evaporating one by one. I'm so glad I don't live there.
I wonder if there was some sort of "thought process" in this person which worked on solving how to get the brain functioning again? I am wondering, how was the solution arrived at?
I'm curious how many people know about perpendicular because of that effort.
Just look at how fast the Earth's population shot up since the Get Horizontal ad campaign.
Most people will simply be repeating arguements they've heard before, even if the flaws in it are already widely known. Only very few will actually attempt to analyse the situation from thier own perspective, or try to suggest a new way to address the problem which may be the 'bullseye' we're looking for.
It seems to take time for the large majority of people to embrace a really new opinion on something. For example, a new idea might be totally correct and plausible, yet its acceptance has to spread through the people. How long it takes depends a lot on how the new idea is presented.
Isn't it funny that Steve Ballmer is never Steve? No, if we say Steve without a last name, it's always Jobs.
:)
But if you say "Monkeyboy", we all know which Steve that is.
Besides technical difficulties reported in this thread, I think another big factor in Vista's delay has got to be the changing marketplace since the product was designed. Look at how many new technologies have taken the 'net by storm since Vista (er, Longhorn) was drawn up on the whiteboard. I'm sure Microsoft wants to be a part of the majority of them.
Yeah, sure, but as long as the goverment has the law enforcement and weaponry to back itself up, there's not too much you can do about it. Who wants to go to jail for standing up for themselves? Or end up on a no-fly list? Since nobody can even talk about your being jailed, your cause sends out little if no message (boy doesn't this sound like part of the master plan?) Not too many on the whole. There have been huge demonstrations that were ignored by Bush (look at the anti-war protests in San Francisco).
So what's the next step? And who's willing to take it?
Here's an interesting thought: take one of the American heroes of the past and consider how well they would do today with Bush running the country. Would they be muzzled to prevent them from accomplishing their goal?
I pay tax on burnable CDs to cover the cost of music downloaded from the Internet without paying for it. Therefore what I download and burn to CD is paid for. Since it's paid for, am I breaking the law? I think not.
Access to a virtually endless supply of cheap (see above) music has changed the way I think of music in my life. I download whatever I might be interested in and delete whatever I don't like without thinking "hey, I paid $2 for that song I'm keeping it even though I hate it". Now I can amass a large quantity of music that I really like which, aside from the CD tax, only costs me some time in weeding through that music. This is made easy with the iTunes/iPod combination. I look forward to the experience every day. If I choose, I don't ever have to listen to the same song more than once. That's amazing.
Heh, is there any wonder as to why the US government wants *everyone* if its citizens hooked up with Internet access? It's SO DAMN EASY to spy on people.
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."
The theatre costs a lot of money for what you get. To get in is about 10 bucks a person. Popcorn, pop, snacks are very expensive. That means going to see a show is probably at least a 30 dollar venture for two people. You get to see about 10 minutes of previews which you may have already seen before. The sound and picture are good, but for most movies the improvement in presentation over common home theatre systems doesn't justify the price.
For me, new DVD releases are the _new_ new releases. I rent movies and watch them at home where I can pop my own popcorn and invite whoever I want and always get a good seat. No driving, no fuss, a fraction of the cost (which is smaller the more people who watch it with you).
DVD piracy may be a small factor but I think at some point people are tired of being gouged and are content to watch things at home. When times are tough (rising cost of housing, living), stuff like treating yourself to a movie at the first to get cut back.
The thing about Google is they make no attempt to hide the fact they are collecting a tremendous amount of data about people and people let them.
I can see that their we're not evil motto is a necessary part of their business plan to collect the world's information. Who'd willingly hand over all their information to an "evil" corporation? The glitch in their plan is that the government can take this information whenever they feel like it. Pooling this much personal data in one place is always a bad idea, IMO. Obvious ways for it to leak out are: government takes it, hacker steals it (physically or electronically), employee leaks/sells it, google decides to share it with 3rd parties, google is sold to some megacorp with vastly different views.
Personally, I've started to limit my usage of Google services so that less of my information is in one place. I've never trusted gmail and now I've validated that feeling.
I'd say this guy is a tad bit optimistic of what will happen to him when the technology comes around to unthaw and reanimate him. Initially the technology will have flaws I'm sure and guess who will get to be the guinea pig? Or he could end up some awful frankenstein creation because some crooked drug corporation says its in the best interests of humanity to carry out certain experiments. Pretty scary I'd say. Or maybe they'll want to subject him to all kinds of research into age old diseases or genetic makeup. Who's going to care about the rights of some 200 year old frozen corpse? If he thinks he'll get a fair shake at a fresh start, that just makes me laugh I'm sorry to say.