And even the performance scale is just one of many axes in the space of the question, whether that concept is useful. The size, for example, is another one.
Why do people always think in one-dimensional absolute extremes? (Yes, I know that the “always“ is ironic. ^^)
So? I’d hire her exactly because of her refusing to cave to the bullshit reality of others. That makes her reliable not to fall for schizophrenia-like diseases, like religion, strong irrational beliefs, being detached from reality etc. Which is a great and rare quality to have.
Also, I’d hire her for minimum legal wage, and unofficially pay her a lot more.
Well, as I said earlier, it’s the maximum amount she can pay, without resorting to bankruptcy and them getting nothing. As determined by the RIAA agents.
The damage is still $0. Refuting that argument, is as absurd as refuting gravity. That fact will never change. No matter it what parallel-reality bullshit everyone (even here) got dragged.
The base assumption of this seems to be, that the point of a pharma company is to heal people with safe drugs.
It’s not. In fact, if they don’t lose money from it, it is completely irrelevant if you die a slow and horrible death. Proven by many, many products that are out there right now. Like Prozac. It does help nobody. In fact it does the exact opposite, because it drives people even further into repression. And therefore dependency on the stuff.
The point of pharma companies, is to make money. As long as that is not 100% and without any loopholes, tied to what we want from them, we will have no guarantee at all to get it.
I know that this is likely to be meant funny, but for anyone out there with a real life similar to this:
Have you ever considered to stop coming from the needy beggar angle? And to instead think of it in this way:
1. Consider yourself valuable! Find your values! List all that you have to offer. 2. Find anyone who could possibly want or need this, and has anything that you need. (And probably does not know yet, that he wants it.) 3. Go out there, and sell yourself. From a point of “I’m offering YOU something very special. Something you wish you had. But it’s not for free!”. You know: “Sell a dream!” 4. PROFIT!
Only if you draw others in your reality, that you should be given money, will you ever get money. What exactly you get it for, is not that important. As long as you like it.
It’s you who decided to allow others to treat you like a 15 year old. It’s your own fault. Create your own rules, draw a line, and don’t allow anyone to step over it. That’s the basis of getting respected.
EMP is not directional? Yeah. Tell that to the inventor of the lens, the flashlight, and the parabolic mirror! Because flashlights are just that: EMP guns in the visible light spectrum.
Electromagnetic waves are just electromagnetic waves. It does not matter if they are microwaves, visible light, or something else. Of course you can focus, direct and channel them. Just like light.
As if killing would be the worst case possible. It’s not. By far. There are much worse things.
Like becoming a drooling retard in a wheelchair, after the needle shocked right into your spinal nerves! I’d rather be shot.
Besides: Contrary to popular belief, gun shots do not have to be lethal at all! A small bullet in a leg muscle is far less bad than a taser in your central nervous system. Of course there are even less bad systems. A couple of ropes, around the legs. A net thrown over someone. Foam that gets hard. All simple, non lethal, not even painful, methods to stop someone quickly and effectively. There are thousands of methods.
I’ll go out and say, that the only reason, tasers are more popular, is that it satisfies the perverse sadistic needs of the average cop / security guy / blackwater murderer / soldier. You know. Those types that don’t do it to do good, but because of the“fun” of legally hurting others. Those types that pull every good cop into their dirt.
Something being less wrong, does not make it right.
And I bet that soon, everybody BUT the police will have more of these handheld devices, and know better how to use them, than the cops.
Cue the unstoppable car that EMPs every cop, including the helicopters, large swat trucks, and even tanks! I wish there were a GTA IV mod to show this...
Also, I wonder how big the focus area is. If it’s bigger than a car, then good luck avoiding a mass-crash on the highway. If it’s smaller, then good luck hitting the right part at 100 mph!
Lol. That’s what I get for mentioning Apple. Would I haved used $something, it would be Insightful.
But it’s still true. That’s exactly the facts, layed out there. Which of course results in extreme irrational actions, because that it what defines mentally ill fanboys. In this case, this means, that they, obviously lacking any arguments, resorted to a caveman-like groan, expressed trough a -1, troll moderation.
I laugh in your faces trollbois! Apple is for fags who love to believe in a marketing dream, and don’t care for the quality of a product! That’s a straight out fact. There I said it. And deep down you know it’s true. And you hate me for it, as a reflection of how much you hate yourself, for your whole life being a lie. But you can never change it. It will just go on, and on, and on. Every day you will stumble over it Until you finally burst out in the other extreme, and throw all your anger at Apple! But god forbid, you would actually learn something and start to have some rational thoughts. Cause the mere thought of you admitting the facts, is linked trough the fear of death by a association, stronger than that between you, and the real world.
Reminds me of my uncle, who was inside a large car crash with at least a dozen cars bumping in each other because of ice on the road. Most cars had huge destruction of the crumple zones. You know what he had to do to fix his car? As old Mercedes SL.
Re-paint the bumpers.
You know, I can only take cars seriously, that I can scratch along walls, run into fire hydrants with, etc, without having any trouble. I hate, that nearly every car has paint, that falls off as soon as you stare at it. And that the crumple zones don’t just spring back. Like they would, if they were made of memory metal. (Imagine that all you would have to do to fix the dents, would be, to drive trough a hot car wash!)
They are no cars. They are jokes. Falling into pieces when you touch them. For a machine that is made to move at over 100 mph, that is ridiculous.
Wrong. There is no reason you can’t write games in HTML5.
There are 3 parts needed to create a video game: - A canvas. Check. <canvas> And SVG adds a whole vector library too. - A programming language. Check. JavaScript. In fact Flash’s ActionScript is just JavaScript with data types. - Enough performance. Pure JS should already be faster than ActionScript. Only the rendering is a bit slow right now. Which will change soon.
In fact, with WebGL coming soon, HTML5/JS will seriously beat Flash out of the water in terms of what it can do. Because as soon as the textures, models and shaders are loaded into the graphics card, rendering last-generation graphics quality will perform just as well as with pure C/C++. (Only world updates, events, etc, will be slower.)
That’s the best thing: They don’t have to license shit. Just bind to DirectShow on Windows, ffmpeg on Linux, and CoreVideo on Mac, and you’re done. They can still offer a fallback to a builtin Theora codec.
It’s just evangelism/extremism. Additionally, it’s impossible to sue everybody who uses H.264 without a license. Because everybody uses it. If they would care to rake in money trough lawsuits, they would long have started.
Now if only anybody in the real world would care if it is “free”.
Every movie and show i downloaded in the last 2 years, was encoded with it. ffmpeg, vlc, mplayer, xine, windows, they all support it.
So actually, the Firefox team would not have to get into any hassle AT ALL. Just bind to ffmpeg, and be done with it. And/or bind to DirectShow on Windows. As an alternative.
This means: ZERO non-free code in Firefox (as it would be a dynamic OS library). Still support for the crappy Theora. And full H.264 support.
If anyone still bitches about THAT, he need a hard slap with a reality towel.;)
I think you should be moderated Funny. The article is just silly, starting with such a bad frame and never thinking outside that box, that in that mindset, it’s never possible to reach really revolutionary new, good concepts...
I mean it still assumes there should be icons to click. How silly is that? I do not even assume a mouse!
The proper principle, is to let the UI grow with the user. E.g. a desktop video player. At first it could have a menu with all the functions listed as text, with a long description if you hover over it. Then when you get used to it, the main functions could become icons to click (e.g. play/open/ffwd), and then they could become shortcuts without any icons at all.
The best conventional solution I saw, was to always show the icon and shortcut right in the menu item, so that you can learn to associate them. Of course that’still a long shot from an adapting UI.
It’s a GUI. On a screen. Not a mechanical button from a 1980s VCR. The only thing “realism“ does, is limit you, and create analogies that do not fit.
Besides: Who came up with the stupid idea of replacing everything with symbols, so that you have to guess what it means? The worst offenders are those that only offer on-hover text, or even no text at all. I wish they would make a big icon, linking to “rm -rf/” or “deltree/y c:\”, on their own desktop, then forget what it means, and click it.
Wrong. Nokia ones do. Costs extra, but well, it’s work to do, so it’s OK to ask money for it.
Your camera has a horribly small lens and is good only for taking 4x6 photos.
Yes, although the N9x models do have a pretty good high-quality lens and a bigger sensor. But of course there is always a line. If you just want to do snapshots, the N9x models are really all you need. They even have xenon flash sometimes. If you want to do professional photos, it’s obvious that you won’t do that with a phone.
Your watch can't be kept with you while doing anything active.
How so? I used my phone while running, riding my bike (dirty downhill trough mud), playing diverse ball games in the park, etc.
Your document scanner is horrible quality.
This one is true. But I have no idea why the GP poster threw it in. It’s in no way a official function that I have seen. (Except maybe the barcode scanning.)
Your portable game console is limited by having touchscreen only and no physical controls.
Not with devices like the N900. It has a 37-key keyboard, and a pretty powerful CPU. Certainly more powerful and with more acceleration and memory than a Gameboy DS.
Using your mp3 player/video player (and any of the above) will deplete your phone battery so you can't receive calls.
I use my phone as a music player every day. Sure it takes a bit of power. But it’s far from a power drain. I never had trouble with it during the day. (I usually recharge it in the evening or when going to bed.) So unless you are several days without the ability to recharge, there is no problem here. I also think that a well designed phone should not take more energy than a standalone mp3 player to play music. There is no reason it should take more. Of course we all hope to get better batteries.:)
etc.
Etc what?
Sorry, but you apparently never touched a full smartphone. But I hope you will. And I also hope that you don’t see the world in black and white. As it’s never really 100% clear. Even an imaginary Adolph Kim-Jong Stalin would have his good sides.:)
I downloaded all of Europe. Compressed, it’s 1.9 GB. And 4.7 MB for the German female speech files. (This is the normal map and terrain data. Not the satellite data, which really would be huge for such a large area, but still pretty small for e.g. a city.)
My memory card is 8 GB in size, and easily replacable without turning the phone off or opening the back panel. So it fits nicely, even with loads of music files, six hours of video and a couple of photos.
Well, you must understand, that all of your good arguments are completely pointless.
Because you’re arguing with a Apple fanboi. Their distortion bubble is stronger than any argument, and they just twist reality, until it fits. Because their whole self-respect is attached to reality with those twists. Cut them and... $unthinkableEvents. (This is not meant to be mean. It’s just the psychology of how this works.)
So you’re fighting windmills. ^^
Nobody with a stable stand in reality did disagree with you in the first place.:)
Although it still lacks satellite data. Which is understandable, because, as a Nokia guy did put it, that would be huuuge! (Although I thing you should still be able to download it for your city.)
But I already use that free offline data since last month, because I had the chance to get a special offer. Which also included free routing for walking. (The one I need.) So apart from the tiny A-GPS data, and the little bit, that Maps Booster* takes, I have zero data transfer anymore.
___ * Maps Booster is a W-LAN-based navigational add-on from the same company that does the iPhone navigation. Which means you get navigation, even without GPS, even inside buildings, and also a quicker fix. It integrates right into the internal API and is usable by every program. Which is a fair deal for 3€. (I’m not affiliated.)
Uum, you know that you can submit stories for the firehose. If it’s interesting (as in this case) it should quickly get voted to the top, and then get put the front page.
Slashdot Mirror
And even the performance scale is just one of many axes in the space of the question, whether that concept is useful.
The size, for example, is another one.
Why do people always think in one-dimensional absolute extremes?
(Yes, I know that the “always“ is ironic. ^^)
So? I’d hire her exactly because of her refusing to cave to the bullshit reality of others.
That makes her reliable not to fall for schizophrenia-like diseases, like religion, strong irrational beliefs, being detached from reality etc.
Which is a great and rare quality to have.
Also, I’d hire her for minimum legal wage, and unofficially pay her a lot more.
Well, as I said earlier, it’s the maximum amount she can pay, without resorting to bankruptcy and them getting nothing.
As determined by the RIAA agents.
The damage is still $0.
Refuting that argument, is as absurd as refuting gravity.
That fact will never change. No matter it what parallel-reality bullshit everyone (even here) got dragged.
Their agents found out, that this is the maximum amount they can squeeze out of her, without her declaring bankruptcy, and them getting nothing.
The base assumption of this seems to be, that the point of a pharma company is to heal people with safe drugs.
It’s not. In fact, if they don’t lose money from it, it is completely irrelevant if you die a slow and horrible death.
Proven by many, many products that are out there right now. Like Prozac. It does help nobody. In fact it does the exact opposite, because it drives people even further into repression. And therefore dependency on the stuff.
The point of pharma companies, is to make money.
As long as that is not 100% and without any loopholes, tied to what we want from them,
we will have no guarantee at all to get it.
I know that this is likely to be meant funny, but for anyone out there with a real life similar to this:
Have you ever considered to stop coming from the needy beggar angle? And to instead think of it in this way:
1. Consider yourself valuable! Find your values! List all that you have to offer.
2. Find anyone who could possibly want or need this, and has anything that you need. (And probably does not know yet, that he wants it.)
3. Go out there, and sell yourself. From a point of “I’m offering YOU something very special. Something you wish you had. But it’s not for free!”. You know: “Sell a dream!”
4. PROFIT!
Only if you draw others in your reality, that you should be given money, will you ever get money.
What exactly you get it for, is not that important. As long as you like it.
It’s you who decided to allow others to treat you like a 15 year old. It’s your own fault. Create your own rules, draw a line, and don’t allow anyone to step over it. That’s the basis of getting respected.
EMP is not directional? Yeah. Tell that to the inventor of the lens, the flashlight, and the parabolic mirror!
Because flashlights are just that: EMP guns in the visible light spectrum.
Electromagnetic waves are just electromagnetic waves. It does not matter if they are microwaves, visible light, or something else.
Of course you can focus, direct and channel them. Just like light.
That whole “doesn’t kill” idea, is just *wrong*.
As if killing would be the worst case possible.
It’s not. By far.
There are much worse things.
Like becoming a drooling retard in a wheelchair, after the needle shocked right into your spinal nerves!
I’d rather be shot.
Besides: Contrary to popular belief, gun shots do not have to be lethal at all!
A small bullet in a leg muscle is far less bad than a taser in your central nervous system.
Of course there are even less bad systems. A couple of ropes, around the legs. A net thrown over someone. Foam that gets hard.
All simple, non lethal, not even painful, methods to stop someone quickly and effectively.
There are thousands of methods.
I’ll go out and say, that the only reason, tasers are more popular, is that it satisfies the perverse sadistic needs of the average cop / security guy / blackwater murderer / soldier. You know. Those types that don’t do it to do good, but because of the“fun” of legally hurting others. Those types that pull every good cop into their dirt.
Something being less wrong, does not make it right.
And I bet that soon, everybody BUT the police will have more of these handheld devices, and know better how to use them, than the cops.
Cue the unstoppable car that EMPs every cop, including the helicopters, large swat trucks, and even tanks! I wish there were a GTA IV mod to show this...
Also, I wonder how big the focus area is. If it’s bigger than a car, then good luck avoiding a mass-crash on the highway. If it’s smaller, then good luck hitting the right part at 100 mph!
Lol. That’s what I get for mentioning Apple. Would I haved used $something, it would be Insightful.
But it’s still true. That’s exactly the facts, layed out there.
Which of course results in extreme irrational actions, because that it what defines mentally ill fanboys.
In this case, this means, that they, obviously lacking any arguments, resorted to a caveman-like groan, expressed trough a -1, troll moderation.
I laugh in your faces trollbois! Apple is for fags who love to believe in a marketing dream, and don’t care for the quality of a product! That’s a straight out fact.
There I said it. And deep down you know it’s true. And you hate me for it, as a reflection of how much you hate yourself, for your whole life being a lie. But you can never change it. It will just go on, and on, and on. Every day you will stumble over it
Until you finally burst out in the other extreme, and throw all your anger at Apple!
But god forbid, you would actually learn something and start to have some rational thoughts.
Cause the mere thought of you admitting the facts, is linked trough the fear of death by a association, stronger than that between you, and the real world.
Reminds me of my uncle, who was inside a large car crash with at least a dozen cars bumping in each other because of ice on the road.
Most cars had huge destruction of the crumple zones. You know what he had to do to fix his car? As old Mercedes SL.
Re-paint the bumpers.
You know, I can only take cars seriously, that I can scratch along walls, run into fire hydrants with, etc, without having any trouble.
I hate, that nearly every car has paint, that falls off as soon as you stare at it. And that the crumple zones don’t just spring back. Like they would, if they were made of memory metal. (Imagine that all you would have to do to fix the dents, would be, to drive trough a hot car wash!)
They are no cars. They are jokes. Falling into pieces when you touch them.
For a machine that is made to move at over 100 mph, that is ridiculous.
Wrong. There is no reason you can’t write games in HTML5.
There are 3 parts needed to create a video game:
- A canvas. Check. <canvas> And SVG adds a whole vector library too.
- A programming language. Check. JavaScript. In fact Flash’s ActionScript is just JavaScript with data types.
- Enough performance. Pure JS should already be faster than ActionScript. Only the rendering is a bit slow right now. Which will change soon.
In fact, with WebGL coming soon, HTML5/JS will seriously beat Flash out of the water in terms of what it can do. Because as soon as the textures, models and shaders are loaded into the graphics card, rendering last-generation graphics quality will perform just as well as with pure C/C++. (Only world updates, events, etc, will be slower.)
Look at this, to see what can be done nowadays:
http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/tracker/tracker.xhtml
I wouldn’t call this a lightweight algorithm at all.
That’s the best thing: They don’t have to license shit.
Just bind to DirectShow on Windows, ffmpeg on Linux, and CoreVideo on Mac, and you’re done.
They can still offer a fallback to a builtin Theora codec.
It’s just evangelism/extremism.
Additionally, it’s impossible to sue everybody who uses H.264 without a license. Because everybody uses it. If they would care to rake in money trough lawsuits, they would long have started.
Protip: GIF, MP3, H.264, etc, are de-facto free.
Now if only anybody in the real world would care if it is “free”.
Every movie and show i downloaded in the last 2 years, was encoded with it.
ffmpeg, vlc, mplayer, xine, windows, they all support it.
So actually, the Firefox team would not have to get into any hassle AT ALL.
Just bind to ffmpeg, and be done with it.
And/or bind to DirectShow on Windows.
As an alternative.
This means: ZERO non-free code in Firefox (as it would be a dynamic OS library).
Still support for the crappy Theora.
And full H.264 support.
If anyone still bitches about THAT, he need a hard slap with a reality towel. ;)
I think you should be moderated Funny. The article is just silly, starting with such a bad frame and never thinking outside that box, that in that mindset, it’s never possible to reach really revolutionary new, good concepts...
I mean it still assumes there should be icons to click. How silly is that? I do not even assume a mouse!
The proper principle, is to let the UI grow with the user. E.g. a desktop video player. At first it could have a menu with all the functions listed as text, with a long description if you hover over it.
Then when you get used to it, the main functions could become icons to click (e.g. play/open/ffwd), and then they could become shortcuts without any icons at all.
The best conventional solution I saw, was to always show the icon and shortcut right in the menu item, so that you can learn to associate them. Of course that’still a long shot from an adapting UI.
It’s a GUI. On a screen. Not a mechanical button from a 1980s VCR.
The only thing “realism“ does, is limit you, and create analogies that do not fit.
Besides: Who came up with the stupid idea of replacing everything with symbols, so that you have to guess what it means? The worst offenders are those that only offer on-hover text, or even no text at all. /” or “deltree /y c:\”, on their own desktop, then forget what it means, and click it.
I wish they would make a big icon, linking to “rm -rf
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
This is what the subject line in my RSS reader (Thunderbird) just gave me:
4 Out of 5 of<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.gov Web Sites Miss DNSSEC Deadline
WTF? Are you writing this stuff in MS Word?
Because I constantly see this stupid shit. And no human would ever do something like that.
On the other hand, I would feel bad to pay nothing for map data that is constantly updated by a team of people working all day long.
Your GPS doesn't get traffic data.
Wrong. Nokia ones do. Costs extra, but well, it’s work to do, so it’s OK to ask money for it.
Your camera has a horribly small lens and is good only for taking 4x6 photos.
Yes, although the N9x models do have a pretty good high-quality lens and a bigger sensor. But of course there is always a line.
If you just want to do snapshots, the N9x models are really all you need. They even have xenon flash sometimes.
If you want to do professional photos, it’s obvious that you won’t do that with a phone.
Your watch can't be kept with you while doing anything active.
How so? I used my phone while running, riding my bike (dirty downhill trough mud), playing diverse ball games in the park, etc.
Your document scanner is horrible quality.
This one is true. But I have no idea why the GP poster threw it in. It’s in no way a official function that I have seen. (Except maybe the barcode scanning.)
Your portable game console is limited by having touchscreen only and no physical controls.
Not with devices like the N900. It has a 37-key keyboard, and a pretty powerful CPU. Certainly more powerful and with more acceleration and memory than a Gameboy DS.
Using your mp3 player/video player (and any of the above) will deplete your phone battery so you can't receive calls.
I use my phone as a music player every day. Sure it takes a bit of power. But it’s far from a power drain. I never had trouble with it during the day. (I usually recharge it in the evening or when going to bed.) :)
So unless you are several days without the ability to recharge, there is no problem here.
I also think that a well designed phone should not take more energy than a standalone mp3 player to play music. There is no reason it should take more.
Of course we all hope to get better batteries.
etc.
Etc what?
Sorry, but you apparently never touched a full smartphone. But I hope you will. And I also hope that you don’t see the world in black and white. As it’s never really 100% clear. Even an imaginary Adolph Kim-Jong Stalin would have his good sides. :)
I downloaded all of Europe. Compressed, it’s 1.9 GB. And 4.7 MB for the German female speech files.
(This is the normal map and terrain data. Not the satellite data, which really would be huge for such a large area, but still pretty small for e.g. a city.)
My memory card is 8 GB in size, and easily replacable without turning the phone off or opening the back panel.
So it fits nicely, even with loads of music files, six hours of video and a couple of photos.
Well, you must understand, that all of your good arguments are completely pointless.
Because you’re arguing with a Apple fanboi. Their distortion bubble is stronger than any argument, and they just twist reality, until it fits. Because their whole self-respect is attached to reality with those twists. Cut them and... $unthinkableEvents. (This is not meant to be mean. It’s just the psychology of how this works.)
So you’re fighting windmills. ^^
Nobody with a stable stand in reality did disagree with you in the first place. :)
Although it still lacks satellite data.
Which is understandable, because, as a Nokia guy did put it, that would be huuuge!
(Although I thing you should still be able to download it for your city.)
But I already use that free offline data since last month, because I had the chance to get a special offer. Which also included free routing for walking. (The one I need.) So apart from the tiny A-GPS data, and the little bit, that Maps Booster* takes, I have zero data transfer anymore.
___
* Maps Booster is a W-LAN-based navigational add-on from the same company that does the iPhone navigation. Which means you get navigation, even without GPS, even inside buildings, and also a quicker fix. It integrates right into the internal API and is usable by every program. Which is a fair deal for 3€. (I’m not affiliated.)
Uum, you know that you can submit stories for the firehose. If it’s interesting (as in this case) it should quickly get voted to the top, and then get put the front page.