I'm on T-Mobile and where I live they are hands down the worst network for cell. I can't drive from home to work without passing through at least one dead spot - and those dead spots are marked as "1-2 bars" on their map.
It's a bit presumptuous to declare the pro video market "gone" after a month of a new release.
FCPX is broken down to its foundation. No audio tracks? No EDLs? No ability to keep project files outside of the app itself? The list goes on. Every professional editor I know is deciding between going to Premiere or (back to) AVID. (Sorry Sony, Vegas isn't even on the radar)
FCP is done. We've had the rug pulled out from underneath us, and we're not going to hang around and hope that the scraps of a good app left will ever be woven into something useful for actual production work.
FCP7 was long in the tooth already. The last major update wasn't even a major update. The market's confidence in Apple to deliver pro-grade editing software is simply gone.
Whatever happened to Ford's plans to sell a diesel Focus in the U.S. by 2006 or so? I remember that it was a Big Thing for a while, then just... never materialized.
I played the java based free version for about 20 minutes. I built a few gigantic staircases and burrowed into the ground. After that It seemed really not much fun. Am I missing something?
Imagination? When you've created entire cities connected by a switched subway network you'll understand why some people really dig it.
None of which is really very game-like. There's no objective. No goals. No "winning" condition. What game elements there are (mobs, weapons) are really just bolted on. I got to the point in Minecraft where I simply turn off mobs. They were nothing more than an annoyance.
Your critique is almost exactly the same one Will Wright received from game execs when he proposed "Sim City".
Some people don't need to be guided and have their hands-held through from the beginning to the end of an experience. Sometimes the experience is what matters more than the existence of a winning condition. If you've put months, or even a year or more into a Minecraft world - who cares if the game has an end? (Though Notch is thinking about putting in one anyway to placate people who aren't satisfied)
Minecraft is the natural extension of the legacy beginning with playing in the sandbox, building things with LEGO, and burning through an entire night on Sim City.
They'll probably still charge you $4.99 for Xcode. Not terrible, but not great. Finding out gcc4 was not included in the paid version of Xcode... now that was terrible.
With Lion coming from the App Store you need to have OS X installed to install OS X. What happens if you buy a new hard drive? Have your hard drive partition table lose a leg? How do you get 10.7 on your Mac? Apple won't say just yet.
Those who have broken their NDAs suggest there might be workarounds with delving into the.mpkg files and such, or that Apple might force you to install Snow Leopard and then upgrade from there. Neither option is particularly desirable.
Telephone pole-mounted fire alarm boxes should be gone by now. Telephones should have killed them. Then cell phones. But they refuse to die off completely, and the fire departments of some cities fight to keep them.
They exist not simply because of nostalgia, but because they just work. Quite well, actually. The system in Boston has experienced uptime of over a century. Nothing has ever managed to shut it down. Even when the telephone systems fail, cell phone towers stop working and there is absolutely no other way to communicate, the boxes remain functional and the ultimate insurance policy. No matter what happens, or where you are at any given moment, you will be able to get help if you need it. All thanks to 19th century telegraph technology. If your city is considering getting rid of them to save a few bucks, you might want to consider asking them not to.
They're not just useful for fires. Many NYC boxes offer the user a choice between fire / police and medical options.
The point would be for the exact level of damage to the spent fuel pools to be revealed, which would confirm the level of concern that should be given contamination fears. If the pools are all full of water or show undamaged assemblies, then the public would be reassured. That they have chosen not to release this footage, by Occam's Razor, indicates that things are worse than has been definitively confirmed, although likely not worse than has been widely speculated.
Precisely this. There is absolutely no shortage of speculation and hypothesizing about worst case scenarios. Holding back information on the status of the facility is only going to help fuel the uncertainty produced by a lack of information!
I really don't understand the strident desire by some to downplay the severity of this incident. In pure economic terms, this has crippled the Tokyo electric grid, probably for years, which is affecting the lives of tens of millions in the Tokyo area. It will also cost billions of dollars to clean up, by "clean-up" meaning entombing these particular facilities forever.
When horrified people assumed that Chernobyl could happen anywhere, there was a reflexive response to dispel those fears with facts. A response which continues to this day. Unfortunately, those informed pro-nuclear attitudes have evolved to the point where a number of nuclear power's defenders steadfastly refuse to believe that anything could go significantly wrong with a reactor facility. Well-informed rationality has given way to hubris.
A large-scale radioactive release, catastrophic system failure... these things were initially described as highly unlikely, and in the minds of some they've now reached the point of absolute impossibility. When presented with evidence that the situation at Fukushima was far more grave than initially reported, some of these people were extremely vocal in completely dismissing all concerns. When it became clear to just about everyone that the situation there was spiraling out of control, the disbelief continued. Often devolving into mocking those who thought something might be seriously wrong with the plant. (The old "OMG ATOMZ!!!!", etc attacks) It took an enormous amount of proof before this contingent of nuclear power supporters finally stopped ridiculing every bit of news from every single source as mindless fear-mongering.
And yes, there has been fear-mongering, but there has been an almost equal amount of misplaced faith in technology. And as this situation proves, those with irrational fears of nuclear power exist on the opposite end of the spectrum of those who defend it without fail, irrespective of all evidence and fact.
I have faith in technology, but bad things happen. No system is foolproof, and watching programmers and other well-educated people believe a particular application to be flawless is well... disheartening. It belongs in the magical fantasy land of bug-free code and cities filled with buildings lacking design flaws.
I support nuclear power, but at the same time, I'm highly doubtful that any large company is going to provide me with the whole truth about any nuclear accident. History has shown it to be an unwise expectation. But that doesn't make me a hysterical NIMBY, and maybe this will be the wakeup call that lets people express opinions not rooted in some form of zealotry.
I'm sorry, you just haven't spent every waking moment of your life obsessively "guarding" a select group of pages against anyone who would DARE edit them. There is a price to be paid for that on Wikipedia.
(which is why I'll never bother contributing there)
nonsense. wikipedia, has for example, summaries for each and every episode of popular anime *as a separate article*, yet uses "notable" argument against content of actual cultural significance. That is hypocrisy and a double standard.
Editing Wikipedia often attracts the interest of bored, pathetic manchildren who base their entire lives around the mystical activities of fictional Japanese schoolgirls / related demons and such.
Which is why their precious anime will consume a disproportionate amount of disk space on Wikipedia that cannot be sacrificed for something less absurd and creepy.
The following is why I spend less and less time in Wikipedia.
Editors must:
1) Delete any and all photos. Does it have a fair use rationale? Not good enough! Was the copyright owned by f-ing Nazi Germany, so presumably nobody is going to sue Wikipedia over it? (yes, I've seen this) Not good enough! But there are exceptions (see #5) 2) Delete any article that doesn't interest them. 3) Add non-sequitor references to a song written by their garage band that nobody's heard of to the end of articles under "In Other Media". 4) Add the following categories to every article that is "notable" enough to survive:
- In Animé
- In Manga
- In Graphic Novels
- In Western Animation 5) Note if said article could function as an excuse for posting cell phone pictures of their genitals. (ewww... just stop with this, please) 6) Realize that if it comes down to choosing between a professionally-shot photo in the public domain and a cell phone picture of someone's shoulder taken with a Nokia cell phone from 2002 - they must go with the latter. Always. If someone else posts a higher-quality photo they must sit at their computer and revert the edit incessantly until the person posting the better photo gives up.
Does that page reference the douchery of their owners, and how those owners seem to need to point out how their laptops are different from every other laptop out there?
No, but I hear they're considering adding a paragraph or two on smug non-Mac users who absolutely insist on throwing non sequiturs like yours into practically every Apple discussion.
I hear far, far more from people like you than I do from those you're complaining about. And I work in an industry that is disproportionately Mac-centric, and went to a college where easily 95%+ of the student body and faculty used Macs. And I also love to spend time at coffee shops. I mean come on.
I'm beginning to think it's a bizarre inferiority complex that is triggered by the sight / mention of Apple products. The same way some people flip out and feel oppressed when they spot "Happy Holidays" or something.
How could this possibly be a good idea? And how can you implement this and then accuse every other Windows user of having OCD? Pot. Kettle. Black.
This is an absurd personal preference to force on your users, and a good example of an admin crossing the line from "ensuring the system works well" to "forcing the users to compromise their workflow because of the personal whims of the admin". Admins are supposed to keep users from interfering with the operation of the system, but it's equally important that they don't interfere with what the users are doing more than they absolutely have to.
This is right up there with admins who don't set the time properly / leave the display at a ridiculously low resolution, then lock down the preference setting so it can't be adjusted.
While the desire to keep pollutants out of the waterways is a noble one, storm drains in Boston empty directly into the harbor, or Charles River (which empties into the harbor). The drains are even labeled with warnings about this.
The whole "we don't want to pollute the harbor" line people hear from the city every winter makes sense until you realize that the pollutant-filled runoff is going to end up in the harbor anyway.
‘A manager came by my room and asked me if I was concerned about an 18 degree launch,’ recalled Ebeling. ‘I said ‘What?’ – because we’re only qualified to 40 degrees. I said ‘what business does anyone even have thinking about 18 degrees, we’re in no man’s land, we’re in a big grey area.’
Ebeling called his O-ring task force team to assemble in his office, given the O-rings had never been tested below freezing, but now the estimated temperatures the exposed SRBs would experience were some 18 degrees colder.
‘We discussed what might happen below our 40 degree qualification temperature and practically to a man we decided it would be catastrophic,’ added Ebeling.
..
A formal presentation would have to be made, two hours after speaking with Lovingood and just 15 hours before launch, via a teleconference at which Thiokol would need to given their reasoning for a no launch decision – a power contractors held, but were scared to make given the effects on the Shuttle schedule.
Thiokol engineer Roger Boisjoly – one of two specialists (the other being Arnie Thompson) on the SRB joint seals – grabbed anything he could from his office to show how the temperature would lead to a failure of the SRB’s O-ring and the destruction of the Shuttle.
‘Unfortunately in our rush we didn’t have time for a dry run at what we’d present to NASA,’ noted Boisjoly. ‘I had no idea what my colleagues would present and I had no idea what I’d bring to the meeting.’
Thiokol engineers still managed to give what they believed to be compelling evidence that the low temperature would slow down the sealing of the O-ring primary and secondary seal, leading to hot gas leaking out of the joints and an explosion on the launch pad as soon as the SRBs ignited.
‘The entire Thiokol group recommended no launch,’ remembered Ebeling, as they recommended a minimum launch temperature of 53F (11C). The expected rubber stamping of that recommendation was expected from NASA on the other end of the teleconference. However, they would be proven wrong.
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So it it uses webkit and all these open standards why cant i use netflix on my linux box?
Because the studios said so.
I'm on T-Mobile and where I live they are hands down the worst network for cell. I can't drive from home to work without passing through at least one dead spot - and those dead spots are marked as "1-2 bars" on their map.
- Drive
- Use phone
Pick only one.
"1992 will be the year of the Linux desktop!"
All the effort that goes into creating knock-offs could be used to make something truly original.
It's a bit presumptuous to declare the pro video market "gone" after a month of a new release.
FCPX is broken down to its foundation. No audio tracks? No EDLs? No ability to keep project files outside of the app itself? The list goes on. Every professional editor I know is deciding between going to Premiere or (back to) AVID. (Sorry Sony, Vegas isn't even on the radar)
FCP is done. We've had the rug pulled out from underneath us, and we're not going to hang around and hope that the scraps of a good app left will ever be woven into something useful for actual production work.
FCP7 was long in the tooth already. The last major update wasn't even a major update. The market's confidence in Apple to deliver pro-grade editing software is simply gone.
Whatever happened to Ford's plans to sell a diesel Focus in the U.S. by 2006 or so? I remember that it was a Big Thing for a while, then just... never materialized.
I played the java based free version for about 20 minutes. I built a few gigantic staircases and burrowed into the ground. After that It seemed really not much fun. Am I missing something?
Imagination? When you've created entire cities connected by a switched subway network you'll understand why some people really dig it.
None of which is really very game-like. There's no objective. No goals. No "winning" condition. What game elements there are (mobs, weapons) are really just bolted on. I got to the point in Minecraft where I simply turn off mobs. They were nothing more than an annoyance.
Your critique is almost exactly the same one Will Wright received from game execs when he proposed "Sim City".
Some people don't need to be guided and have their hands-held through from the beginning to the end of an experience. Sometimes the experience is what matters more than the existence of a winning condition. If you've put months, or even a year or more into a Minecraft world - who cares if the game has an end? (Though Notch is thinking about putting in one anyway to placate people who aren't satisfied)
Minecraft is the natural extension of the legacy beginning with playing in the sandbox, building things with LEGO, and burning through an entire night on Sim City.
Perhaps they're obscured from view... in some sort of "Hideout" for Honeycomb-related things.
Hopefully it is.
They'll probably still charge you $4.99 for Xcode. Not terrible, but not great. Finding out gcc4 was not included in the paid version of Xcode... now that was terrible.
With Lion coming from the App Store you need to have OS X installed to install OS X. What happens if you buy a new hard drive? Have your hard drive partition table lose a leg? How do you get 10.7 on your Mac? Apple won't say just yet.
Those who have broken their NDAs suggest there might be workarounds with delving into the .mpkg files and such, or that Apple might force you to install Snow Leopard and then upgrade from there. Neither option is particularly desirable.
I just checked the Paul Revere page and there don't seem to be huge sections devoted to:
- Paul Revere in Animé.
- Paul Revere in Manga
- Paul Revere in Western Animation
- Paul Revere in Comics
- Paul Revere in Graphic Novels
Truly, an e-atrocity. I assume the Palinistas deleted them all.
/80sChildhoodNostalgia
Telephone pole-mounted fire alarm boxes should be gone by now. Telephones should have killed them. Then cell phones. But they refuse to die off completely, and the fire departments of some cities fight to keep them.
They exist not simply because of nostalgia, but because they just work. Quite well, actually. The system in Boston has experienced uptime of over a century. Nothing has ever managed to shut it down. Even when the telephone systems fail, cell phone towers stop working and there is absolutely no other way to communicate, the boxes remain functional and the ultimate insurance policy. No matter what happens, or where you are at any given moment, you will be able to get help if you need it. All thanks to 19th century telegraph technology. If your city is considering getting rid of them to save a few bucks, you might want to consider asking them not to.
They're not just useful for fires. Many NYC boxes offer the user a choice between fire / police and medical options.
The Air Force deserved to get one of the shuttles, even if it was the Enterprise. We still have the Apollo 15 CM, though - and that's something.
The Air Force is the reason the design got compromised in the first place.
The point would be for the exact level of damage to the spent fuel pools to be revealed, which would confirm the level of concern that should be given contamination fears. If the pools are all full of water or show undamaged assemblies, then the public would be reassured. That they have chosen not to release this footage, by Occam's Razor, indicates that things are worse than has been definitively confirmed, although likely not worse than has been widely speculated.
Precisely this. There is absolutely no shortage of speculation and hypothesizing about worst case scenarios. Holding back information on the status of the facility is only going to help fuel the uncertainty produced by a lack of information!
I really don't understand the strident desire by some to downplay the severity of this incident. In pure economic terms, this has crippled the Tokyo electric grid, probably for years, which is affecting the lives of tens of millions in the Tokyo area. It will also cost billions of dollars to clean up, by "clean-up" meaning entombing these particular facilities forever.
When horrified people assumed that Chernobyl could happen anywhere, there was a reflexive response to dispel those fears with facts. A response which continues to this day. Unfortunately, those informed pro-nuclear attitudes have evolved to the point where a number of nuclear power's defenders steadfastly refuse to believe that anything could go significantly wrong with a reactor facility. Well-informed rationality has given way to hubris.
A large-scale radioactive release, catastrophic system failure... these things were initially described as highly unlikely, and in the minds of some they've now reached the point of absolute impossibility. When presented with evidence that the situation at Fukushima was far more grave than initially reported, some of these people were extremely vocal in completely dismissing all concerns. When it became clear to just about everyone that the situation there was spiraling out of control, the disbelief continued. Often devolving into mocking those who thought something might be seriously wrong with the plant. (The old "OMG ATOMZ!!!!", etc attacks) It took an enormous amount of proof before this contingent of nuclear power supporters finally stopped ridiculing every bit of news from every single source as mindless fear-mongering.
And yes, there has been fear-mongering, but there has been an almost equal amount of misplaced faith in technology. And as this situation proves, those with irrational fears of nuclear power exist on the opposite end of the spectrum of those who defend it without fail, irrespective of all evidence and fact.
I have faith in technology, but bad things happen. No system is foolproof, and watching programmers and other well-educated people believe a particular application to be flawless is well... disheartening. It belongs in the magical fantasy land of bug-free code and cities filled with buildings lacking design flaws.
I support nuclear power, but at the same time, I'm highly doubtful that any large company is going to provide me with the whole truth about any nuclear accident. History has shown it to be an unwise expectation. But that doesn't make me a hysterical NIMBY, and maybe this will be the wakeup call that lets people express opinions not rooted in some form of zealotry.
Come on people. The Wikipedia process provides solutions for situations like this.
1) Find a cell phone. But it's gotta be from 2002/2003. This is a must. Serious business and all.
2) Take a photo of the screen with the Free Speech Flag on it. Make sure you cut off like half the image, blow it out and dutch it too.
3) Delete the image already on Wikipedia
4) Post your new image.
5) Add an anime reference to the bottom of the article.
I'm sorry, you just haven't spent every waking moment of your life obsessively "guarding" a select group of pages against anyone who would DARE edit them. There is a price to be paid for that on Wikipedia.
(which is why I'll never bother contributing there)
nonsense. wikipedia, has for example, summaries for each and every episode of popular anime *as a separate article*, yet uses "notable" argument against content of actual cultural significance. That is hypocrisy and a double standard.
Editing Wikipedia often attracts the interest of bored, pathetic manchildren who base their entire lives around the mystical activities of fictional Japanese schoolgirls / related demons and such.
Which is why their precious anime will consume a disproportionate amount of disk space on Wikipedia that cannot be sacrificed for something less absurd and creepy.
The following is why I spend less and less time in Wikipedia.
Editors must:
1) Delete any and all photos. Does it have a fair use rationale? Not good enough! Was the copyright owned by f-ing Nazi Germany, so presumably nobody is going to sue Wikipedia over it? (yes, I've seen this) Not good enough! But there are exceptions (see #5)
2) Delete any article that doesn't interest them.
3) Add non-sequitor references to a song written by their garage band that nobody's heard of to the end of articles under "In Other Media".
4) Add the following categories to every article that is "notable" enough to survive:
- In Animé
- In Manga
- In Graphic Novels
- In Western Animation
5) Note if said article could function as an excuse for posting cell phone pictures of their genitals. (ewww... just stop with this, please)
6) Realize that if it comes down to choosing between a professionally-shot photo in the public domain and a cell phone picture of someone's shoulder taken with a Nokia cell phone from 2002 - they must go with the latter. Always. If someone else posts a higher-quality photo they must sit at their computer and revert the edit incessantly until the person posting the better photo gives up.
Does that page reference the douchery of their owners, and how those owners seem to need to point out how their laptops are different from every other laptop out there?
No, but I hear they're considering adding a paragraph or two on smug non-Mac users who absolutely insist on throwing non sequiturs like yours into practically every Apple discussion.
I hear far, far more from people like you than I do from those you're complaining about. And I work in an industry that is disproportionately Mac-centric, and went to a college where easily 95%+ of the student body and faculty used Macs. And I also love to spend time at coffee shops. I mean come on.
I'm beginning to think it's a bizarre inferiority complex that is triggered by the sight / mention of Apple products. The same way some people flip out and feel oppressed when they spot "Happy Holidays" or something.
How could this possibly be a good idea? And how can you implement this and then accuse every other Windows user of having OCD? Pot. Kettle. Black.
This is an absurd personal preference to force on your users, and a good example of an admin crossing the line from "ensuring the system works well" to "forcing the users to compromise their workflow because of the personal whims of the admin". Admins are supposed to keep users from interfering with the operation of the system, but it's equally important that they don't interfere with what the users are doing more than they absolutely have to.
This is right up there with admins who don't set the time properly / leave the display at a ridiculously low resolution, then lock down the preference setting so it can't be adjusted.
I'm not sure how this will work for those of us using 3rd party mail clients and IMAP or POP3.
While the desire to keep pollutants out of the waterways is a noble one, storm drains in Boston empty directly into the harbor, or Charles River (which empties into the harbor). The drains are even labeled with warnings about this.
The whole "we don't want to pollute the harbor" line people hear from the city every winter makes sense until you realize that the pollutant-filled runoff is going to end up in the harbor anyway.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn't it? It's oh so easy for us to second-guess the people making the decisions AFTER something happens.
Learn yourself some history:
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‘A manager came by my room and asked me if I was concerned about an 18 degree launch,’ recalled Ebeling. ‘I said ‘What?’ – because we’re only qualified to 40 degrees. I said ‘what business does anyone even have thinking about 18 degrees, we’re in no man’s land, we’re in a big grey area.’
Ebeling called his O-ring task force team to assemble in his office, given the O-rings had never been tested below freezing, but now the estimated temperatures the exposed SRBs would experience were some 18 degrees colder.
‘We discussed what might happen below our 40 degree qualification temperature and practically to a man we decided it would be catastrophic,’ added Ebeling.
..
A formal presentation would have to be made, two hours after speaking with Lovingood and just 15 hours before launch, via a teleconference at which Thiokol would need to given their reasoning for a no launch decision – a power contractors held, but were scared to make given the effects on the Shuttle schedule.
Thiokol engineer Roger Boisjoly – one of two specialists (the other being Arnie Thompson) on the SRB joint seals – grabbed anything he could from his office to show how the temperature would lead to a failure of the SRB’s O-ring and the destruction of the Shuttle.
‘Unfortunately in our rush we didn’t have time for a dry run at what we’d present to NASA,’ noted Boisjoly. ‘I had no idea what my colleagues would present and I had no idea what I’d bring to the meeting.’
Thiokol engineers still managed to give what they believed to be compelling evidence that the low temperature would slow down the sealing of the O-ring primary and secondary seal, leading to hot gas leaking out of the joints and an explosion on the launch pad as soon as the SRBs ignited.
‘The entire Thiokol group recommended no launch,’ remembered Ebeling, as they recommended a minimum launch temperature of 53F (11C). The expected rubber stamping of that recommendation was expected from NASA on the other end of the teleconference. However, they would be proven wrong.