I'm a professional photographer and I've been using flash zoom, feathering etc for years to achieve this effect. Guess I won't be allowed to do that anymore without asking Apple for permission first?
Don't like the responsibility to drive at or below the posted speed? Don't drive.
I don't speed. I'm looking at the bigger picture. I'm sick of police time being wasted catching motorists coming off a dual-carriageway and not slowing back down to 60mph fast enough, when those same police officers could be on duty outside a school to make sure people aren't speeding there. The person doing 70mph in a 60mph zone is not certain to be a dangerous driver, then or at any other time. The person doing 40mph outside a school _is_ driving dangerously, right there and then.
I want the police to save lives. Right now they are becoming a debt creation agency.
Sorry, yes, you're right. My only brush with the law was driving on a poorly-marked bus lane, which you don't get points for. Speeding offences do have mandatory points, yes.
An interesting point I've heard about speed cameras: To get permission for a speed camera placement, the police must show that a _majority_ of people speed at that location. How absurd is that? Surely if a majority of people consider it safe to speed there, it probably is. The police should be putting speed cameras where the dangerous _minority_ of people speed.
There was a big initiative launched here (Scottish Highlands) a few weeks ago, with the police clamping down on speeding motorists. The police took news photographers and TV camera crews out to village streets and roads near schools, showing officers with hand-held speed cameras. When was the last time you ever saw a police officer with a speed camera outside a school? Round here you only ever see them at the end of dual carriageways and overtaking lanes. They'd prefer to issue hundreds of fines to motorists driving safely over the 60mph limit, rather than catch the genuinely dangerous motorists doing 40mph past a school.
It sickens me that people are being killed by dangerous drivers while the police busy themselves handing out fines to safe drivers.
If governments want to pass some laws they should be passing them against people like this
Aside from being hypocritical, it would be self-damaging for any government to pass laws against this type of scam, because it's exactly this type of scam that governments use as a source of income.
As governments lower taxes to gain popularity and/or win votes, they increasingly criminalise every aspect of our lives so they can fine us.
Have you noticed that nearly every new offence is punishable by a fine, not jail time?
It's the same strategy used by police and councils, sending out fines with threats of prosecution for minor motoring offences. Realistically the case is unlikely to go to court, but people pay up anyway because: (1) they want to avoid the months of worry, waiting to find out if they are taken to court or not; (2) often the case would be heard hundred of miles from their home and, even if they win, they can't recover their travel / accommodation expenses; and (3) the court system is notoriously biased against the motorist and appeals are expensive and complicated.
This isn't as off-topic as you may think. People have been convinced by government / police campaigns that paying the fine is "the done thing". For example, someone driving at 67mph in a 60mph zone may be faced with a £30 fine, but if they let it go to court they risk getting 6 points on their license (halfway to losing it!) and a fine in the thousands.
This is what the copyright enforcement industry is now trying to achieve: A form of "justice" based on fear. Not fear of a fair punishment for a genuine offence, but fear of being put in to a situation where right or wrong, win or lose, people suffer significant financial loss and a great deal of worry.
UK retailers are already pricing this thing at £600+ which gives Apple a nice big helping hand to maintain market dominance. No way people are going to pay nearly double the price of an iPad for a tablet that isn't as good. And I say that as an Android fanboi who can't stand Apple.
Before anyone jumps in to point out my mistake, the team might not be Russian after all. I didn't know until now that "Soviet Montage" (company name) is a film-making technique.
The results are beautiful, in my opinion. HDR looks great when done with restraint. I've even used HDR for work a few times, such as this "portrait of a truck" for a haulage company: http://www.flickr.com/photos/meejahor/2073616479/sizes/z/
There's a slight mix-up in the video captions though. Where the captions say underexposed and overexposed, they've got the terms the wrong way round. Probably just a language barrier thing, though, as it's a Russian team.
"android is not capable of running the physics while maintaining acceptable frame rate"
Surely that is dependent on the speed of the host device? ie: if your app works on iPhone 3GS then it'll work better on Desire / Galaxy. If it only just works on iPhone 4 then it'll hardly work at all on a basic Android-powered device.
Apple seem terribly random and unpredictable. It would be senseless for any developer to begin work on a project that has become permitted by this clause, because tomorrow the terms could change again.
I'm an Android developer, releasing my first game in the next 4-6 weeks. Then I need to consider whether or not to produce an iPhone version. The decision will only slightly be based on forecasted sales, market share of competing products, and demand for my product. For the most part I will need to decide if I can afford to invest the time developing for a platform that may, at any point, "ban" my product for some obscure reason. (For example, all of my graphics are produced in 3D Studio and rendered as 2D sprites. Suppose Apple takes a dislike to Autodesk...?)
Hmm. I'm using Eclipse on Windows, for Android development, and have been using it solidly for the past three months. It hasn't crashed once. It feels like a rock solid piece of software. Yet judging from this discussion, it has a reputation for being flaky...?
Since putting my 'proper' job on hold I've clocked up around 2 months of 16-hour days working on my first Android game, with roughly a month to go, so it would be great if the whole world would buy Android phones please!
Oh and if everyone could also start pining for a retro-style vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up then that would be great too:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Link is goatse.
I feel poorly.
Damn, site is down. Can someone mirror? ;-)
Just one more reason to watch what you post, folks
Or one more reason to make ethical career choices, such as not working for a company that doesn't respect your right to a private life.
Got beaten by the feckin' 1K chess game in about a dozen moves. Feck!
I'm a professional photographer and I've been using flash zoom, feathering etc for years to achieve this effect. Guess I won't be allowed to do that anymore without asking Apple for permission first?
http://www.meejahor.com/2008/06/06/feathering-two-lights-for-the-price-of-one/
http://www.meejahor.com/2008/09/29/feathering-its-like-off-camera-lighting-but-faster/
(Just kidding. I know it's a patent for a specific method, not the technique.)
Another example is the "San Francisco" handset from UK carrier Orange. It's a cheapish-n-surprisingly-cheerful Android phone with 800x480 screen for around £100.
http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/San-Francisco-from-Orange-in-grey
...because I'm not sure what point to make. Or even if any point needs to be made at all. But I feel compelled to post a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
Don't like the responsibility to drive at or below the posted speed? Don't drive.
I don't speed. I'm looking at the bigger picture. I'm sick of police time being wasted catching motorists coming off a dual-carriageway and not slowing back down to 60mph fast enough, when those same police officers could be on duty outside a school to make sure people aren't speeding there. The person doing 70mph in a 60mph zone is not certain to be a dangerous driver, then or at any other time. The person doing 40mph outside a school _is_ driving dangerously, right there and then.
I want the police to save lives. Right now they are becoming a debt creation agency.
You get 3 points on your licence in any case
Sorry, yes, you're right. My only brush with the law was driving on a poorly-marked bus lane, which you don't get points for. Speeding offences do have mandatory points, yes.
An interesting point I've heard about speed cameras: To get permission for a speed camera placement, the police must show that a _majority_ of people speed at that location. How absurd is that? Surely if a majority of people consider it safe to speed there, it probably is. The police should be putting speed cameras where the dangerous _minority_ of people speed.
There was a big initiative launched here (Scottish Highlands) a few weeks ago, with the police clamping down on speeding motorists. The police took news photographers and TV camera crews out to village streets and roads near schools, showing officers with hand-held speed cameras. When was the last time you ever saw a police officer with a speed camera outside a school? Round here you only ever see them at the end of dual carriageways and overtaking lanes. They'd prefer to issue hundreds of fines to motorists driving safely over the 60mph limit, rather than catch the genuinely dangerous motorists doing 40mph past a school.
It sickens me that people are being killed by dangerous drivers while the police busy themselves handing out fines to safe drivers.
If governments want to pass some laws they should be passing them against people like this
Aside from being hypocritical, it would be self-damaging for any government to pass laws against this type of scam, because it's exactly this type of scam that governments use as a source of income.
As governments lower taxes to gain popularity and/or win votes, they increasingly criminalise every aspect of our lives so they can fine us.
Have you noticed that nearly every new offence is punishable by a fine, not jail time?
It's the same strategy used by police and councils, sending out fines with threats of prosecution for minor motoring offences. Realistically the case is unlikely to go to court, but people pay up anyway because: (1) they want to avoid the months of worry, waiting to find out if they are taken to court or not; (2) often the case would be heard hundred of miles from their home and, even if they win, they can't recover their travel / accommodation expenses; and (3) the court system is notoriously biased against the motorist and appeals are expensive and complicated.
This isn't as off-topic as you may think. People have been convinced by government / police campaigns that paying the fine is "the done thing". For example, someone driving at 67mph in a 60mph zone may be faced with a £30 fine, but if they let it go to court they risk getting 6 points on their license (halfway to losing it!) and a fine in the thousands.
This is what the copyright enforcement industry is now trying to achieve: A form of "justice" based on fear. Not fear of a fair punishment for a genuine offence, but fear of being put in to a situation where right or wrong, win or lose, people suffer significant financial loss and a great deal of worry.
Perhaps the best thing to do would be to submit your own reviews?
I hope the students never need any help from Apple.
http://gawker.com/5641211/steve-jobs-in-email-pissing-match-with-college-journalism-student
She says that using her name would be "illegal". That implies criminal. Isn't trademark infringement a civil matter?
I have my doubts. You're right, looks like the usual price is around £430 for WiFi only.
£299.99 but out of stock:
http://www.manetia.co.uk/63-ipad.html
UK retailers are already pricing this thing at £600+ which gives Apple a nice big helping hand to maintain market dominance. No way people are going to pay nearly double the price of an iPad for a tablet that isn't as good. And I say that as an Android fanboi who can't stand Apple.
Before anyone jumps in to point out my mistake, the team might not be Russian after all. I didn't know until now that "Soviet Montage" (company name) is a film-making technique.
The results are beautiful, in my opinion. HDR looks great when done with restraint. I've even used HDR for work a few times, such as this "portrait of a truck" for a haulage company:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meejahor/2073616479/sizes/z/
There's a slight mix-up in the video captions though. Where the captions say underexposed and overexposed, they've got the terms the wrong way round. Probably just a language barrier thing, though, as it's a Russian team.
"android is not capable of running the physics while maintaining acceptable frame rate"
Surely that is dependent on the speed of the host device? ie: if your app works on iPhone 3GS then it'll work better on Desire / Galaxy. If it only just works on iPhone 4 then it'll hardly work at all on a basic Android-powered device.
Please cite an example of the Android TOS changing in a way that prohibited sales of a specific subset of apps.
Apple seem terribly random and unpredictable. It would be senseless for any developer to begin work on a project that has become permitted by this clause, because tomorrow the terms could change again.
I'm an Android developer, releasing my first game in the next 4-6 weeks. Then I need to consider whether or not to produce an iPhone version. The decision will only slightly be based on forecasted sales, market share of competing products, and demand for my product. For the most part I will need to decide if I can afford to invest the time developing for a platform that may, at any point, "ban" my product for some obscure reason. (For example, all of my graphics are produced in 3D Studio and rendered as 2D sprites. Suppose Apple takes a dislike to Autodesk...?)
Thank you William J. Lashua.
Hmm. I'm using Eclipse on Windows, for Android development, and have been using it solidly for the past three months. It hasn't crashed once. It feels like a rock solid piece of software. Yet judging from this discussion, it has a reputation for being flaky...?
Since putting my 'proper' job on hold I've clocked up around 2 months of 16-hour days working on my first Android game, with roughly a month to go, so it would be great if the whole world would buy Android phones please!
Oh and if everyone could also start pining for a retro-style vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up then that would be great too :-)