It's not as great as people are lead to think. Ya, it's cool but it projects on to a self generated mist. Air waves disrupt it (like people walking by) and sunlight renders it hard to see.
Super cool in concept but it's not ideal for all situations.
Hmmm. If the title was meant to be "the dream of one particular elephant" then it should be "Elephant's Dream". If it was supposed to state that elephants can dream it should be "Elephants Dream".
It would suck - and be a simple testament to the fact that basic grammar and the internet do not work well together - if the title was misspelled. It's simple 5th grade English grammar here in the US. A product with such a high production value and that is a showpiece for their technology should NOT have a misspelled title. The message is "we can produce fantastic stuff but we can't punctuate at a fifth grade level".
The first thing you see is the title. It should at least have correct punctuation and spelling.
Sit back, take a good breath and think if you were that other guy. The one without all that drama that has entered you life. Sit back as that guy and look at your user and think "do they really suck?"
Honestly.
If they are truly lame, and mind you, you have enough crap to deal with in your life, then you can't afford to deal with them.
Trust me. I'm about to fly to Boston to put both of my parents in nursing homes. The key is to put yourself in the mindset of someone who is not going through all the crap you are. And if the user still sucks, then well, I guess you know what to do.
If they don't really suck and you still can't deal with them then sadly, you can't. They need to be cut off or diverted to someone who can. Don't swamp yourself at this point. Divert the flow to others who have the bandwidth to deal with it or mitigate it. Use the remaining fresh air to keep your head above water.
Cheers and good luck. Crap sucks. But that's sorta the definition of crap. Do what you must to get through it.
You're correct. It was an annoying article and with no real solution either.
Bascally, it goes like this: Here's something that sucks and here's no idea solution for it. All spread over three pages that should have been one that a reader could scroll through.
Flash uses a version of the On vp2 codec to the best of my knowledge.
Other codecs can produce better if not as good quality at the same file sizes. Sorenson, (I'm not kidding) 3ivx for creating platform independent MP4 Apple's H.264 And MPEG1 - for the size that the Flash movies were encoded
Some of the above codecs are also VBR where you set your desired quality level and each frame is only as big as it needs to be. But alas, Flash is on most browsers. What I haven't seen are DVD sized flash videos or any of larger dimensons.
FYI, I'm on a Quad mac and the video immediately starts chugging when the browser window is in the background. I'd rather look at a streaming Quicktime like the one here:
If a genetic mutation results in a condition that creates the offspring containing it being more or less fit to survive and that affects the individual's survival then that mutation IS contributing to the evolution of the members of that group of organisms.
The individuals that are the most fit to survive and reproduce, are more likely to succeed over time. If a mutation affects the survivability of the offspring to the point of where it reproduces, evolution is happening. The organism is still affected by external stimulii. And if that mutation helps in some manner, it it more lilkely to be passed on.
I find that the people I was talking to were attempting to give examples by stating "look at that over there, how can you say that's not made by God?" And that's not an example, it's jumping to a conclusion without evidence. No matter how much they WANT it to be evidence, it isn't.
As a scientific guy and a bit of a programmer, I have observed what I call the fundamental nature of complex systems.
That is, they either act in their own interest and succeed and increase, they fail, or they reach a case of neither failing nor increasing, but just staying at a point of existence. A population of bacteria may not have enough food to survive and may die out, may have just enough food to reproduce enough and move on or reproduce and expand the population. This, I feel is the inherent nature of complex systems, they either fail, they stabilize at a certain size or number or they grow and expand.
This concept can be applied to business (success, failure or hanging on at a current size) and to populations of living creatures.
Therefore, we can see a bunch of these "systems" operating at different scales in an "envronment", be it the marketplace or the ecological niches on the earth. All working, interacting with each other, succceeding, holding on or failing.
I have no problem with the feeling that there is no need for a God behind this. In recent conversations with converted people they can not fathom that the sunrise can not exist without a God to make it. They had an emotional realization of God and Jesus, not a rational , logical one. These folks look at a sunrise as a perfect creation by God. It is the fundamental essence of their understanding. The birds chirping are not calls saying "I'm here, I've got the best spot" but are manefestations of the wonder of "the perfect system" that God has created for us to inhabit. While we scientific minded love to find out how things work and how they work together, they accept things at face value and their interpretation of that. Therein it is flawed by their perspective, skewed by their predisposition that "everything was just created by God 6000 years ago". They are not capable of understanding research papers, partly because it would conflict with their sense of the world.
I (we?) are/am perfectly capable with everything existing without a God/god to make it happen. They are not.
The recent discovery of the transitional fish form was mentioned to these folks and was discounted as a baby alligator. No matter that alligators do not have fin rays at the end of their limbs and elbow like joints in the middle. Explaining atomic decay and radio carbon dating are equally dismissed by "that's just 75 years old, how can we make sure it's accurate?"
If scientific discovery found more evidence towards a God or some divine creation, then that's a pointer to skew things towards that direction but all discoveries are merely evidence one way or the other. Right now, there are more AGAINST the "truths" of the bible and testaments but until these discoveries are put in a language and context for people of the mindset I've mentioned, they still will discount it, sadly, because they can not fathom it.
I'll be damned if I'm going to discuss genetic drift. Anyone have any simple cases they care to share? Be they pro evolution or pro creation??
Weeeelll, if it happened 440 million LY ago, and it takes that long for it to get to us, we can't tell what happened after that since it hasn't gotten "here" yet. So it's not that "do we care about that", but it's "we can't check on anything that happened after that till it gets here".
I'll agree that my assertion was unfounded. In fact, I stated that I "heard" the claimed, asked for verification of it and am very happy to see it rebuffed.
I do find it a wee bit nepotistic that Bill's dad is on the team as a co-chair at 170K but many companies include family members.
It would have been a pleasure to have checked sources myself but I've been up most of the night with a wonderful coughing fit. Oh, the joy.
Think about this. Who are the officers of the charity? What are their salaries?
I believe - and I could be wrong that the administrators of Gates's charity make half a mil a year. If anyone knows for sure, please post references.
It definitely diminishes the altruism of the charity and also - after a point of accumulation, money doesn't matter, you've got more than enough. Gates might be doing a wonderful thing with the charity but that is with money made off of Microsoft's business practices, which we all know have been regarded as predatory and often illegal.
So he's giving away a shitload of money for good causes that was partially ill gotten. It's almost like the mobster giving to the orphanage.
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I've seen the heliodisplay.
It's not as great as people are lead to think. Ya, it's cool but it projects on to a self generated mist. Air waves disrupt it (like people walking by) and sunlight renders it hard to see.
Super cool in concept but it's not ideal for all situations.
Hmmm. If the title was meant to be "the dream of one particular elephant" then it should be "Elephant's Dream". If it was supposed to state that elephants can dream it should be "Elephants Dream".
It would suck - and be a simple testament to the fact that basic grammar and the internet do not work well together - if the title was misspelled. It's simple 5th grade English grammar here in the US. A product with such a high production value and that is a showpiece for their technology should NOT have a misspelled title. The message is "we can produce fantastic stuff but we can't punctuate at a fifth grade level".
The first thing you see is the title. It should at least have correct punctuation and spelling.
Sigh.
Does anyone know what the title means?
I for one, welcome our new dragonfly overlords!
I would expect 10 * 27.2 inches by 5 * 21.3 inches + a small amount of extra space between the monitors.
http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html
I'll take that bet and raise you 104,800,000 pixels.
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/hiperwall/
204,800,000 pixels - sans any dead ones.
Cheers,
Sit back, take a good breath and think if you were that other guy. The one without all that drama that has entered you life. Sit back as that guy and look at your user and think "do they really suck?"
Honestly.
If they are truly lame, and mind you, you have enough crap to deal with in your life, then you can't afford to deal with them.
Trust me. I'm about to fly to Boston to put both of my parents in nursing homes. The key is to put yourself in the mindset of someone who is not going through all the crap you are. And if the user still sucks, then well, I guess you know what to do.
If they don't really suck and you still can't deal with them then sadly, you can't. They need to be cut off or diverted to someone who can. Don't swamp yourself at this point. Divert the flow to others who have the bandwidth to deal with it or mitigate it. Use the remaining fresh air to keep your head above water.
Cheers and good luck.
Crap sucks. But that's sorta the definition of crap. Do what you must to get through it.
If he was VNC'd into a computer with a webcam and a display of that cam on it, then he could have seen it the hand.
But face it, we're just speculating.
aaaand the SOLUTION iiiis in my next installment!
Not to be mean buuut that's just bait.
You're correct. It was an annoying article and with no real solution either.
Bascally, it goes like this: Here's something that sucks and here's no idea solution for it. All spread over three pages that should have been one that a reader could scroll through.
Must be a slow news day.
And on a cooler note about cooler things...
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/hiperwall/
I saw the technology at the Wired Nextfest in San Francisco, about a year ago.
If you're standing, looking straight on to the "invidible item" it sorta works.
Otherwise, there's a fair amount more work to be done.
Change the stream format from audio to "something else" and decode it on the other end.
What it is redefined as could be as vague as "scientific data" or "random text"
Just a thought.
Flash uses a version of the On vp2 codec to the best of my knowledge.
/ a/2006/04/30/MNGJGII7BB1.DTL&o=0
Other codecs can produce better if not as good quality at the same file sizes.
Sorenson, (I'm not kidding)
3ivx for creating platform independent MP4
Apple's H.264
And MPEG1 - for the size that the Flash movies were encoded
Some of the above codecs are also VBR where you set your desired quality level and each frame is only as big as it needs to be. But alas, Flash is on most browsers. What I haven't seen are DVD sized flash videos or any of larger dimensons.
FYI, I'm on a Quad mac and the video immediately starts chugging when the browser window is in the background. I'd rather look at a streaming Quicktime like the one here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c
The quality is better, and it even streams fine on my upgraded dual g4 cube.
Ahhh, true but those pixies do not have the Bible claiming they exist.
"It's in the bible" becomes justification for everything.
Evolution is a reliant upon genetic mutation.
If a genetic mutation results in a condition that creates the offspring containing it being more or less fit to survive and that affects the individual's survival then that mutation IS contributing to the evolution of the members of that group of organisms.
The individuals that are the most fit to survive and reproduce, are more likely to succeed over time. If a mutation affects the survivability of the offspring to the point of where it reproduces, evolution is happening. The organism is still affected by external stimulii. And if that mutation helps in some manner, it it more lilkely to be passed on.
And since you asked, I'm on Fresca right now.
I find that the people I was talking to were attempting to give examples by stating "look at that over there, how can you say that's not made by God?" And that's not an example, it's jumping to a conclusion without evidence. No matter how much they WANT it to be evidence, it isn't.
Bacterial antibiotic resistence IS evolution in action.
In that specific case it is a change in response to external stimulii that provides offspring an advantage to survive in its surroundings.
Gravity and Electricity are meerly theories.
Well studied and accepted theories.
As is Evolution.
We need to put it in that context. It's not just a theory, but a theory that is well corroborated by the evidence.
As a scientific guy and a bit of a programmer, I have observed what I call the fundamental nature of complex systems.
That is, they either act in their own interest and succeed and increase, they fail, or they reach a case of neither failing nor increasing, but just staying at a point of existence. A population of bacteria may not have enough food to survive and may die out, may have just enough food to reproduce enough and move on or reproduce and expand the population. This, I feel is the inherent nature of complex systems, they either fail, they stabilize at a certain size or number or they grow and expand.
This concept can be applied to business (success, failure or hanging on at a current size) and to populations of living creatures.
Therefore, we can see a bunch of these "systems" operating at different scales in an "envronment", be it the marketplace or the ecological niches on the earth. All working, interacting with each other, succceeding, holding on or failing.
I have no problem with the feeling that there is no need for a God behind this. In recent conversations with converted people they can not fathom that the sunrise can not exist without a God to make it. They had an emotional realization of God and Jesus, not a rational , logical one. These folks look at a sunrise as a perfect creation by God. It is the fundamental essence of their understanding. The birds chirping are not calls saying "I'm here, I've got the best spot" but are manefestations of the wonder of "the perfect system" that God has created for us to inhabit. While we scientific minded love to find out how things work and how they work together, they accept things at face value and their interpretation of that. Therein it is flawed by their perspective, skewed by their predisposition that "everything was just created by God 6000 years ago". They are not capable of understanding research papers, partly because it would conflict with their sense of the world.
I (we?) are/am perfectly capable with everything existing without a God/god to make it happen. They are not.
The recent discovery of the transitional fish form was mentioned to these folks and was discounted as a baby alligator. No matter that alligators do not have fin rays at the end of their limbs and elbow like joints in the middle. Explaining atomic decay and radio carbon dating are equally dismissed by "that's just 75 years old, how can we make sure it's accurate?"
If scientific discovery found more evidence towards a God or some divine creation, then that's a pointer to skew things towards that direction but all discoveries are merely evidence one way or the other. Right now, there are more AGAINST the "truths" of the bible and testaments but until these discoveries are put in a language and context for people of the mindset I've mentioned, they still will discount it, sadly, because they can not fathom it.
I'll be damned if I'm going to discuss genetic drift. Anyone have any simple cases they care to share? Be they pro evolution or pro creation??
Cheers,
You must mean 83 MB, not GB.
...it states about Crusaders stinking in the part about the islamic invention of refined soap.
It appears that that article is now subscription only :
Weeeelll, if it happened 440 million LY ago, and it takes that long for it to get to us, we can't tell what happened after that since it hasn't gotten "here" yet. So it's not that "do we care about that", but it's "we can't check on anything that happened after that till it gets here".
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I think.
I'll agree that my assertion was unfounded. In fact, I stated that I "heard" the claimed, asked for verification of it and am very happy to see it rebuffed.
I do find it a wee bit nepotistic that Bill's dad is on the team as a co-chair at 170K but many companies include family members.
It would have been a pleasure to have checked sources myself but I've been up most of the night with a wonderful coughing fit. Oh, the joy.
Thanks for the reply.
You might be surprised to hear this from me but that's very good news to hear.
Thanks.
Think about this. Who are the officers of the charity? What are their salaries?
I believe - and I could be wrong that the administrators of Gates's charity make half a mil a year. If anyone knows for sure, please post references.
It definitely diminishes the altruism of the charity and also - after a point of accumulation, money doesn't matter, you've got more than enough. Gates might be doing a wonderful thing with the charity but that is with money made off of Microsoft's business practices, which we all know have been regarded as predatory and often illegal.
So he's giving away a shitload of money for good causes that was partially ill gotten. It's almost like the mobster giving to the orphanage.