How many cars were in the study? What percentage of them were pink? What percentage of them were stolen? Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? Without these answers the results are meaningless.
If you can't understand a software license, and can't be bothered to find someone to help you understand it, then you have no business trying to sell that software.
It is not the business of the people you are ripping off to provide you with free legal advice after the fact.
Because the sad truth is that not once have I ever seen a CGI-rendered scene that didn't look utterly fake.
I think the phrase you are looking for is that "not once have you ever seen a CGI-rendered scene that you could identify as CGI-rendered that did not look CGI-rendered."
The ones that didn't look utterly fake looked real enough for you to assume that they were real. That's kind of the whole point, you see.
Maybe we're half way through reading different threads. The one I read goes something like this:
"Hey, MediaCoder violates our license. What can we do about it?"
"No it doesn't!"
"Yes it does. Read the license for ffmpeg."
"I don't want to. Read it for me!"
"Seriously, read the license for the software you are reselling."
"I didn't do it! Someone else did it first!"
"I don't care. Read the damn license."
"Reading is hard. Please read the license for me."
"Why don't you just read the license?"
"How about I release a patch? I haven't done it yet, but let's just pretend that I will. Does that make everything better?"
"No. Read the license."
"Okay, here's a patch. Is everything okay now?"
"That doesn't help. Just read the license for ffmpeg and stop violating it."
"I don't want to. Maybe I could change the colour of the windows in the installer. Why isn't anyone helping me? Why won't you tell me what I can do?"
"Have you tried reading the license?"
While things certainly could have been handled better by both sides, when you are taking someone else's work and reselling it the way that Mediacoder is, it shouldn't be too much to ask that you spend a little bit of time making sure that you aren't violating the license you acquired it under. Being too busy selling copies of ffmpeg for $399 isn't an excuse for not being able to read.
So basically, if your granddad rigs up a machine that kills him depending on the quantum state of a particle, and then he leaves that particle in an indeterminate quantum state until he has your dad and your dad has you, and then you collapse that particle's waveform into the state that would have killed him, he will have died back then. And somehow paradox is avoided.
Wha?
Perhaps if it was explained without nasty phrases like "Time travel" and "paradox", it would be a lot clearer.
Technically it is possible for a particle to appear out of nowhere. Think of it as random energy fluctuations which occasionally turn into matter. It just happens.
If that's possible, then it's possible for two particles to appear. That also happens, it's just less likely.
By following that logic, it is possible for a whole lot of particles to appear at the same time, in the form of Michael J. Fox wearing a bright orange vest. It's alarmingly unlikely, and it will suck a lot of energy out of the nether regions of the universe, but it is still possible. Once that happens there is no reason why that person couldn't meet a woman whom he thinks looks a lot like his mother and prevent her from meeting some other guy and marrying him. The fact that those two may have gone on to have had a child named Marty in the future has no bearing on the fact that someone who resembles him appeared in the past.
If you look at a "time machine" as a means of triggering highly unlikely events in the past instead of a way of traveling into it then the whole notion of an unsolvable "grandfather paradox" quietly disappears.
All that Lloyd is doing is wrapping this whole transaction up with quantum entanglement and making the universe look the other way for a little bit longer than usual before it finally decides just what happened after all.
Also, most people would be better off buying a cheap dual-core laptop $479 - 3 gig ram, dual core, 320 gig hd), refusing the MS install (-$55) and getting a refund on Windows, and they also won't have to buy a monitor (-$100), keyboard and mouse (-$25) mouse, ups (-$40), or wireless networking to steal wifi since they're so cheap ($25). So, laptop $479-$245=$234
Why stop there? If you're buying a cheap laptop for $479, you won't need to fill up your pickup truck with gas to pick it up, so that's -$80 right there, and you certainly won't have to buy a case of beer for your friends to come over and move the couch for you, so -$27. While you're at it you can choose not to buy five large pizzas and the entire computer will be FREE!
The Monk hands him a $20 bill and the vendor puts it in the till and smiles at him. The monk, a little confused, asks him "What about my change?" and the vendor replies, "Change comes from within."
...At which time the Monk answered the question "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
I am predicting at least one defriending as I rub this piece of satire in some choice faces.
And I predict at least one evil smirk as you blindly hand over all of your personal information to an application written by someone you know nothing about.
Why should only MafiaFarm addicts get fleeced? Here comes Cow Clicker to snare all of the smug bastards who think they're too smart for facebook games.
This leads to the rather obvious, Dr-Feynman-at-Los-Alamos solution.
Issue a memo requiring that Ken Thompson never be allowed near your computers. Any computer that Mr. Thompson has touched is to be disposed of and replaced immediately, for security reasons.
Dell decided to produce cheaper, in order to compete on price. They could have decided to compete on, say, quality, service, security, or any other area. They didn't.
That's right. They could have gone the way of Alienware and competed on quality while keeping prices high.
Of course, Alienware was bought up four years ago and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Dell, but just keep on thinking happy thoughts.
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How many cars were in the study? What percentage of them were pink? What percentage of them were stolen? Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? Without these answers the results are meaningless.
As long as you use Intelligent Design Sort.
Keep in mind that these are different from naked female zombies. We need to pass different laws for them.
I still think he should have kept his original name, M. Night Jojo Jr. Shabadoo.
I see you haven't met the US Military yet.
That still doesn't explain why it isn't being deployed.
Drivers and motorcyclists in the USA are required to pass a test? I had no idea.
Every time I go there the roads are filled with evidence that they don't. Where's Robert Loggia when you need him?
If you can't understand a software license, and can't be bothered to find someone to help you understand it, then you have no business trying to sell that software.
It is not the business of the people you are ripping off to provide you with free legal advice after the fact.
I think the phrase you are looking for is that "not once have you ever seen a CGI-rendered scene that you could identify as CGI-rendered that did not look CGI-rendered."
The ones that didn't look utterly fake looked real enough for you to assume that they were real. That's kind of the whole point, you see.
It's not a dream, but he's really a replicant.
"Hey, MediaCoder violates our license. What can we do about it?"
"No it doesn't!"
"Yes it does. Read the license for ffmpeg."
"I don't want to. Read it for me!"
"Seriously, read the license for the software you are reselling."
"I didn't do it! Someone else did it first!"
"I don't care. Read the damn license."
"Reading is hard. Please read the license for me."
"Why don't you just read the license?"
"How about I release a patch? I haven't done it yet, but let's just pretend that I will. Does that make everything better?"
"No. Read the license."
"Okay, here's a patch. Is everything okay now?"
"That doesn't help. Just read the license for ffmpeg and stop violating it."
"I don't want to. Maybe I could change the colour of the windows in the installer. Why isn't anyone helping me? Why won't you tell me what I can do?"
"Have you tried reading the license?"
While things certainly could have been handled better by both sides, when you are taking someone else's work and reselling it the way that Mediacoder is, it shouldn't be too much to ask that you spend a little bit of time making sure that you aren't violating the license you acquired it under. Being too busy selling copies of ffmpeg for $399 isn't an excuse for not being able to read.
Perhaps if it was explained without nasty phrases like "Time travel" and "paradox", it would be a lot clearer.
Technically it is possible for a particle to appear out of nowhere. Think of it as random energy fluctuations which occasionally turn into matter. It just happens.
If that's possible, then it's possible for two particles to appear. That also happens, it's just less likely.
By following that logic, it is possible for a whole lot of particles to appear at the same time, in the form of Michael J. Fox wearing a bright orange vest. It's alarmingly unlikely, and it will suck a lot of energy out of the nether regions of the universe, but it is still possible. Once that happens there is no reason why that person couldn't meet a woman whom he thinks looks a lot like his mother and prevent her from meeting some other guy and marrying him. The fact that those two may have gone on to have had a child named Marty in the future has no bearing on the fact that someone who resembles him appeared in the past.
If you look at a "time machine" as a means of triggering highly unlikely events in the past instead of a way of traveling into it then the whole notion of an unsolvable "grandfather paradox" quietly disappears.
All that Lloyd is doing is wrapping this whole transaction up with quantum entanglement and making the universe look the other way for a little bit longer than usual before it finally decides just what happened after all.
So, how are you enjoying your PR job for Nike? Are they paying you well?
So put a $40 graphics card in it.
Seriously. I think you're overestimating the requirements a bit.
Why stop there? If you're buying a cheap laptop for $479, you won't need to fill up your pickup truck with gas to pick it up, so that's -$80 right there, and you certainly won't have to buy a case of beer for your friends to come over and move the couch for you, so -$27. While you're at it you can choose not to buy five large pizzas and the entire computer will be FREE!
What a bargain!
But on the other hand, you'd have to shop at Best Buy to get anything out of it so that's no good.
Unless you wanted to trade the gift certificate for "professional services" on Craigslist, but that brings you right back where you started.
Get two of them and a nice wooden board for the top. Build yourself a desk.
You can even put a computer from this century on top of it.
Yes. It's yours, but at least it's accurate.
Well, some of them are.
For extra fun, keep reading the entire series and watch for all of the times that Vaarsuvius hands someone a heroism potion.
...At which time the Monk answered the question "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
And I predict at least one evil smirk as you blindly hand over all of your personal information to an application written by someone you know nothing about.
Why should only MafiaFarm addicts get fleeced? Here comes Cow Clicker to snare all of the smug bastards who think they're too smart for facebook games.
How dare they flaunt US Copyright law like that.
This leads to the rather obvious, Dr-Feynman-at-Los-Alamos solution.
Issue a memo requiring that Ken Thompson never be allowed near your computers. Any computer that Mr. Thompson has touched is to be disposed of and replaced immediately, for security reasons.
That should take care of that problem.
That's right. They could have gone the way of Alienware and competed on quality while keeping prices high.
Of course, Alienware was bought up four years ago and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Dell, but just keep on thinking happy thoughts.