One one hand, it will now make censoring a certain amount of porn sites easier.
On the other, this could be a good thing because most.xxx sites would be the ones who are less shady about their dealings and willing to comply with blocking.
But it'll only work if porn sites wern't FORCED to being on the.xxx TDL.
That is because we Chinese are the most extreme sort of capitalists. The communists used to point all the way across the pacific to accuse the west of being capitalistic, when all they really needed to do was look in their own back yard.
See, if you look at history, outside communist China the way the Chinese community establishes itself has always been in the following way. One, do what ever (includes murder) necessary to gain wealth and power. Two, pour that money into education systems of the highest standards as a means of enabling your future generations to hold on to a high quality of life, thus ensuring the community will thrive into the future. To the Chinese, all that matters is that your family eats well and your children are well educated.
So there might be many Chinese Ph.D holders, but the value the Chinese derive from a doctorate is different from what the west traditionally takes from it. To the west, a Ph.D is a step in one's academic career, an acknowledgement from your peers on the work you're accomplished in the pursuit of knowledge. But to the Chinese, a doctorate is a means of gaining knowledge, where knowledge is seen as a tool for economic advancement.
Therefore the reason you don't see a lot of ground breaking research is because most of those Ph.Ds are applying themselves in generating revenue, rather then generating research.
I'm not saying we're ALL like that, there are many of us who are academically inclined and do research for the sake of knowledge, but compared to the way over a billion of us out there, those who do are a minority.
In a just world, that DRM woudl make p2p trading of music legal. How? You paid money for a legit CD and you want tolisten to it on your iPod. But your iPod doesn't play WMA and your CD won'r rip into mp3.
So instead of spending the next 2 hours manually, playing back, recording, cutting, recompressing and labelling your music, you choose to download it from soemone else who has already done it.
Though if the world were just, the RIAA would be dead and all it's execs in jail for running a cartel.
Actually, they have copy protection in some books. When you print a book in black ink on red paper, when you photocopy it all you get is a black sheet.
You could colour copy it, but you may as well just buy the book outright with the money spent on colour copy.
Anyway, I think the REAL reason books work is because it's tangeable and people respect the tangeable. There are millions of people out there who won't think twice about downloading music yet wouldn't steal even a penny.
When they finally write DECENT drivers then I will be impressed. As it is the official drivers are buggy and dual monitor support is absolute crap compared to nVidia's drivers.
Lets not talk about load balancing between cards, ATi can't even get scaling one desktop over 2 momnitors right. And thats if you can get monitor #2 to detect, which is still a hit or miss affair with the official drivers.
Not only cars, but it's bikes also. I.e the NSR150RR or the CBR600RR..
Though the newest and fastest NSR is an SP.. makes me wonder if they have caught on to the "Badge engineering," you're on about an decided an change in naming is in order...
"Joss noted that while Stanford was dismayed by the actions of the candidates who tried to gain unauthorized access, it "did not rush to judgment given the limited information available to us initially. By carefully reviewing the file of each applicant involved in these incidents, we upheld the business school's values while treating each applicant fairly. As an educational institution, we hope that the applicants involved in this incident might learn from their experience.""
Sounds more like an attempt by the PR departments to cover their collective legal asses after their PHBs jumped the gun and block rejected applicants on the grounds that they committed a crime that technically isn't. IMHO, their position on the matter is weak.
The students didn't steal passwords, spread a virus or trojan. All they did was akin to manually typing in an abiet complicated URL and accessed data on unprotected public servers.
What is wrong with you? I'd rather all this was hushed up and nobody but us geeks in the know knew about it. That this never hits mainstream news and that the companies know as little as possible about all this hacking.
If companies rethink this software lock out strategy, what exactly do you think is going to happen? I'll tell you what. Our cost of living is going to go up. So if they can't make product A and sell A-1 at $200 and A-2 at $100 then they will just sell product A at $250.
Companies exist to make a profit. Don't think for a moment that because you protest, they will sell product A at $100.
This is just like how companies gloss over the 2% credit card tax.
All that needs to be done is instead of simply displaying "Windows is Shutting Down..." display what's going on.. Like "Flushing Disc Buffers..." then "Awaiting Disc OK "
And people won't assume the PC has Hung and yank the cord (and if they did, they took an informed gamble and deserve the consequences.)
It just makes me wonder why is it that the sequential gearbox didn't filter down from motorsports to regular cars.
It may cost more, but it can't cost THAT much more to fit a manual sequential gearbox plus with economy of scale, who knows? The technology is mature, motorcycles have had it standard across the board for years, from sport bikes and Hogs to grandma's moped.
Think of the benefits. You only have 2 options, up or down and the risk of mis shifting is taken out. Heck you can even have the sequential gearbox without a manually operated clutch and it would be like operating an automatic shift except you have to reach for the shift more and you can toss out the god dammed torque converter...
Then again i'm biased. I'm a bike rider and I think sequentials are just soo much better the then H type shift most cars have.
You have remember what PDF is and whats being used to create it.
PDF is an extension of postscript, where is allows to go from creation to distribution in a WYSIWYG format. Most people who need strict WYSIWYG in their documents won't be using any of MS offerings (including publisher) in the first place in creating said documents as it's piss poor at retaining it's layout and formatting.
So maybe your typical office drone who thinks every slideshow is a PowerPoint presentation will use the new METRO format, but users like designers, companies' PR depertments, engineers etc who need their documents to go everywhere in the manner in which they intend will be making their documents in with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and/or Pagemaker and exporting to PDF.
So unless Microsoft manages to develop software that can kill off each and every of Adobe's offerings that deal with 2D documents, PDF isn't going to die.
Ah, yes. I agree. I too miss the days when they used to throw the Christians to the lions for sport.
Insightful? Hows this insightful?
I fully agree with the grandparent on this. This is about the same as when people say Isreal and the Palestinians ought to make up and share the land, the nuts on one side call it anti-semitism and the yahoos on the other calls it anti-islamic.
It's all bull. The only way tricky situations like this can be solved is if nobody wins and nobody loses, for neither side can tolorate the other winning, and neither side can tolorate losing to the other.
If for two peoples to live in peace means that neither side can feel all high and mighty about it then so be it.
That because you live in the USA. in the rest of the world, especially in the developing world, the price of movies are grossly over prices.
I live in a country where if you look at purchasing power parity, our courrency is nearly 60% undervalued against the USD. So stuff here ought to cost only about 40% of what they cost in the US (in other words 60% cheaper).
Yet, the price of a non bootleg DVD movie here is about US$50 and it stays that way. So that makes it 700% more expensive then your US$7 instead of 60% cheaper which is the fair price.
Anyway, thats moot, my point is that the MP/RI-AA's arguement is flawed. A people with very low disposeable incomes are either going to buy a bootleg or not going to buy it at all. So there is no loss there because nobody would have bought the original if piracy didn't exist anyway.
Oh and Non Linear Editing is the opposite of traditional linear editing. In traditional editing, we would normally 'crash edit' where to get multiple scenes scattered across many reels of film on to one coherent show, we would line up the scenes we want in sequence, play them back in sequence and record on a new reel. Hence the doing everything in sequence is Linear Editing.
In non linear editing we can shift everything around until we liked it, when ever we want to where ever we want and then render the final show.
Actually, you were spot on about the 4D being time based, I was just chiming in with the rest of the Ds.
Anyway, what is sold to us as "3D" by the CG industry is actually 2D in design terms, and a 3D animation is 4D. 3D is strictly defined as real word stuff with an actual 3rd dimension. The "3D" modeling and animation we do on computers is actually 2D and 4D respectively as if you think about it, when a "3D" modeling is simply manipulating data on a PC with no real world object being created and a 3D animation is still nothing but a bunch of frames already rendered into 2D being shown in sequence over time
That's why we have graphics libraries like D3D, OpenGL etc, to draw a 2D image to display on a screen from 3D information. In no point in 3D animation is there actually anything in 3D, as the "3D" info on a disc is 1D, the process of animation is 5D (interactive manipulation of data on a 2D interface) and the end result is shown in 2D or 4D depending on if you were animating or simply modeling.
As long as we have a moot going on here, the technical term is Non-Linear Editing, but in design school we are taught that there are 5 dimensions:
1d words, sound and music 2d images diagrams and typography 3d forms, sculpture and space 4d animation, film language 5d interactivity; action response, kinaesthetics, behaviours
So as we can see, the stuff of Premiere and AfterEffects is 4D (Animation, Film):D
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So we build another one and a couple of network cards...
Recall that article a while back where researchers wired a mouse's brain and could give the mouse an orgasm at the push of a button...
One one hand, it will now make censoring a certain amount of porn sites easier.
.xxx sites would be the ones who are less shady about their dealings and willing to comply with blocking.
.xxx TDL.
On the other, this could be a good thing because most
But it'll only work if porn sites wern't FORCED to being on the
That is because we Chinese are the most extreme sort of capitalists. The communists used to point all the way across the pacific to accuse the west of being capitalistic, when all they really needed to do was look in their own back yard.
See, if you look at history, outside communist China the way the Chinese community establishes itself has always been in the following way. One, do what ever (includes murder) necessary to gain wealth and power. Two, pour that money into education systems of the highest standards as a means of enabling your future generations to hold on to a high quality of life, thus ensuring the community will thrive into the future. To the Chinese, all that matters is that your family eats well and your children are well educated.
So there might be many Chinese Ph.D holders, but the value the Chinese derive from a doctorate is different from what the west traditionally takes from it. To the west, a Ph.D is a step in one's academic career, an acknowledgement from your peers on the work you're accomplished in the pursuit of knowledge. But to the Chinese, a doctorate is a means of gaining knowledge, where knowledge is seen as a tool for economic advancement.
Therefore the reason you don't see a lot of ground breaking research is because most of those Ph.Ds are applying themselves in generating revenue, rather then generating research.
I'm not saying we're ALL like that, there are many of us who are academically inclined and do research for the sake of knowledge, but compared to the way over a billion of us out there, those who do are a minority.
OOO... I get it. It's just like those Slashvertisements we see around here all the time... Except in a newspaper!
In a just world, that DRM woudl make p2p trading of music legal. How? You paid money for a legit CD and you want tolisten to it on your iPod. But your iPod doesn't play WMA and your CD won'r rip into mp3.
So instead of spending the next 2 hours manually, playing back, recording, cutting, recompressing and labelling your music, you choose to download it from soemone else who has already done it.
Though if the world were just, the RIAA would be dead and all it's execs in jail for running a cartel.
Actually, they have copy protection in some books. When you print a book in black ink on red paper, when you photocopy it all you get is a black sheet.
You could colour copy it, but you may as well just buy the book outright with the money spent on colour copy.
Anyway, I think the REAL reason books work is because it's tangeable and people respect the tangeable. There are millions of people out there who won't think twice about downloading music yet wouldn't steal even a penny.
When they finally write DECENT drivers then I will be impressed. As it is the official drivers are buggy and dual monitor support is absolute crap compared to nVidia's drivers.
Lets not talk about load balancing between cards, ATi can't even get scaling one desktop over 2 momnitors right. And thats if you can get monitor #2 to detect, which is still a hit or miss affair with the official drivers.
Not only cars, but it's bikes also. I.e the NSR150RR or the CBR600RR..
Though the newest and fastest NSR is an SP.. makes me wonder if they have caught on to the "Badge engineering," you're on about an decided an change in naming is in order...
Amen. And if you're a competant rider, you could out corner the civic at every turn too. I wish I didn't let my mod points expire.
"Joss noted that while Stanford was dismayed by the actions of the candidates who tried to gain unauthorized access, it "did not rush to judgment given the limited information available to us initially. By carefully reviewing the file of each applicant involved in these incidents, we upheld the business school's values while treating each applicant fairly. As an educational institution, we hope that the applicants involved in this incident might learn from their experience.""
Sounds more like an attempt by the PR departments to cover their collective legal asses after their PHBs jumped the gun and block rejected applicants on the grounds that they committed a crime that technically isn't. IMHO, their position on the matter is weak.
The students didn't steal passwords, spread a virus or trojan. All they did was akin to manually typing in an abiet complicated URL and accessed data on unprotected public servers.
Can you imagine how cool it would be to be able to do full ray tracing in a large complex game world in REAL TIME???
As it is ray tracing a single frame of a medium polycount room takes a fair bit of time...
What is wrong with you? I'd rather all this was hushed up and nobody but us geeks in the know knew about it. That this never hits mainstream news and that the companies know as little as possible about all this hacking.
If companies rethink this software lock out strategy, what exactly do you think is going to happen? I'll tell you what. Our cost of living is going to go up. So if they can't make product A and sell A-1 at $200 and A-2 at $100 then they will just sell product A at $250.
Companies exist to make a profit. Don't think for a moment that because you protest, they will sell product A at $100.
This is just like how companies gloss over the 2% credit card tax.
Maybe because SPAM (The product) isn't exactly a meat?
IIRC, a country has rights over airspace until the 100 km boundry of space.
It's called Not Keeping Info from the User(tm).
All that needs to be done is instead of simply displaying "Windows is Shutting Down..." display what's going on.. Like "Flushing Disc Buffers..." then "Awaiting Disc OK "
And people won't assume the PC has Hung and yank the cord (and if they did, they took an informed gamble and deserve the consequences.)
Will some one please post a .torrent? Highly apreciated thanks.
It just makes me wonder why is it that the sequential gearbox didn't filter down from motorsports to regular cars.
It may cost more, but it can't cost THAT much more to fit a manual sequential gearbox plus with economy of scale, who knows? The technology is mature, motorcycles have had it standard across the board for years, from sport bikes and Hogs to grandma's moped.
Think of the benefits. You only have 2 options, up or down and the risk of mis shifting is taken out. Heck you can even have the sequential gearbox without a manually operated clutch and it would be like operating an automatic shift except you have to reach for the shift more and you can toss out the god dammed torque converter...
Then again i'm biased. I'm a bike rider and I think sequentials are just soo much better the then H type shift most cars have.
OT: but... gawd.. did you read the one about the 3 piston diesel in the Kia Rio? THREE PISTONS.... DIESEL.
You're ALSO forgetting.
You have remember what PDF is and whats being used to create it.
PDF is an extension of postscript, where is allows to go from creation to distribution in a WYSIWYG format. Most people who need strict WYSIWYG in their documents won't be using any of MS offerings (including publisher) in the first place in creating said documents as it's piss poor at retaining it's layout and formatting.
So maybe your typical office drone who thinks every slideshow is a PowerPoint presentation will use the new METRO format, but users like designers, companies' PR depertments, engineers etc who need their documents to go everywhere in the manner in which they intend will be making their documents in with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and/or Pagemaker and exporting to PDF.
So unless Microsoft manages to develop software that can kill off each and every of Adobe's offerings that deal with 2D documents, PDF isn't going to die.
Insightful? Hows this insightful?
I fully agree with the grandparent on this. This is about the same as when people say Isreal and the Palestinians ought to make up and share the land, the nuts on one side call it anti-semitism and the yahoos on the other calls it anti-islamic.
It's all bull. The only way tricky situations like this can be solved is if nobody wins and nobody loses, for neither side can tolorate the other winning, and neither side can tolorate losing to the other.
If for two peoples to live in peace means that neither side can feel all high and mighty about it then so be it.
That because you live in the USA. in the rest of the world, especially in the developing world, the price of movies are grossly over prices.
I live in a country where if you look at purchasing power parity, our courrency is nearly 60% undervalued against the USD. So stuff here ought to cost only about 40% of what they cost in the US (in other words 60% cheaper).
Yet, the price of a non bootleg DVD movie here is about US$50 and it stays that way. So that makes it 700% more expensive then your US$7 instead of 60% cheaper which is the fair price.
Anyway, thats moot, my point is that the MP/RI-AA's arguement is flawed. A people with very low disposeable incomes are either going to buy a bootleg or not going to buy it at all. So there is no loss there because nobody would have bought the original if piracy didn't exist anyway.
Oh and Non Linear Editing is the opposite of traditional linear editing. In traditional editing, we would normally 'crash edit' where to get multiple scenes scattered across many reels of film on to one coherent show, we would line up the scenes we want in sequence, play them back in sequence and record on a new reel. Hence the doing everything in sequence is Linear Editing.
In non linear editing we can shift everything around until we liked it, when ever we want to where ever we want and then render the final show.
Actually, you were spot on about the 4D being time based, I was just chiming in with the rest of the Ds.
Anyway, what is sold to us as "3D" by the CG industry is actually 2D in design terms, and a 3D animation is 4D. 3D is strictly defined as real word stuff with an actual 3rd dimension. The "3D" modeling and animation we do on computers is actually 2D and 4D respectively as if you think about it, when a "3D" modeling is simply manipulating data on a PC with no real world object being created and a 3D animation is still nothing but a bunch of frames already rendered into 2D being shown in sequence over time
That's why we have graphics libraries like D3D, OpenGL etc, to draw a 2D image to display on a screen from 3D information. In no point in 3D animation is there actually anything in 3D, as the "3D" info on a disc is 1D, the process of animation is 5D (interactive manipulation of data on a 2D interface) and the end result is shown in 2D or 4D depending on if you were animating or simply modeling.
Yea.. I realize that's just completely anal. Lol.
As long as we have a moot going on here, the technical term is Non-Linear Editing, but in design school we are taught that there are 5 dimensions:
:D
1d words, sound and music
2d images diagrams and typography
3d forms, sculpture and space
4d animation, film language
5d interactivity; action response, kinaesthetics, behaviours
So as we can see, the stuff of Premiere and AfterEffects is 4D (Animation, Film)