[Government] must accept that the only way for its share of the pie to grow bigger is to let the pie itself grow, which requires, at least in the short term, getting its hands out of that pie, and allowing the economy to grow bereft of any regulations at the federal level save, at most, those that are necessary to protect basic human rights.
Where have you been? The under-regulated banking system self-destructed. That is the reason only a partially-government-run banking system now remains. Unregulated capitalism leads to horrible cycles of boom and bust. On the way up, all responsible actors are out-competed and choked off by people who are willing to take irresponsible risks. When the bottom falls out, it is not only the guilty who suffer. Unemployment skyrockets and (again, without government assistance) people starve.
The idea that the economy grows best without regulations is a complete myth based on nothing. Counterexamples, on the other hand, abound.
"Moving your body" is a very general input device though. Even using a joystick is a special case of it. (Though I guess Natal isn't accurate enough to monitor your finger movements on a dummy joystick).
So for that to happen, the treasury would need to make more capital available (such as we saw during the insane bail-outs that have been happening). But, as is now known from the bailouts, even dumping 2 trillion on the market will not cause significant inflation (and China has less than 800 billion).
I've read that's because the increase in national debt has only counterbalanced a decrease in private debt (lending & borrowing), so the total amount of debt in the US actually hasn't changed much. Without govt spending, then, we actually would have encountered deflation as during the great depression. This encourages further economic slowdown by encouraging people to wait until later to spend any money, since it will then be worth more.
What you're ignoring is the trend - the majority of US patents being for foreign companies is a new thing. It indicates US economic dominance is in decline. Now, you can argue that's the natural state of things and it should always have been so, but regardless, it means we'll be paying more for scarce natural resources (think OIL), making less money (e.g. UAW went down the toilet), and we can't impose our will on other countries as much politically.
Social norms have changed to have little expectations of privacy. People just don't see the importance in it anymore, which is, in and of itself, terrifying.
I guess it's the rising hemline of our times. And once again, the teenagers behind the trend don't seem too concerned.
If he posted his SSN to Facebook, you would have a point.
Look at the direct quotes attributed to Zuckerberg in the article. Ignore the spin of the article, the more extreme spin of the slashdot blurb, and the yet more extreme spin of most of the comments here. Zuckerberg is not saying that spying is OK or that people should be forced to disclose information. He is observing that social norms have changed, and more people are choosing to be more public. I am fine with that, so long as it is voluntary, and the option for privacy remains for those who choose it.
Wow, second post and already we've got the "iPhone vs Android" debate started! Kudos!
Android's openness, and the iPhone's relative lack of openness, has been the centerpiece of the android marketing campaign. Exploits are part of the flipside of that.
Rather than high-end pro tools I'll never get to use, I was really thinking of mainstream commercial apps like Adobe Premiere, which is actually within reach, if it is good, but I haven't used it in years. What are most non-pros using these days, and how robust is it?
Just because you *can* do something, it doesn't mean you *should*. Mencoder won't complain (much) if you give it mutually-incompatible options but it might produce something weird and unusable.
I am not talking about anything illogical. Two examples. (This might seem long winded, but that's the point! What should be simple is actually complex and a big minefield)
The -delay and -audio-delay options control something very basic - correcting for a fixed delay between audio and video. Unfortunately, these options only work on.avi's, not on.mpeg or matroska containers. The only way I've seen to fix the audio offset in a mpeg is to transcode to avi with the -delay option, then back to mpeg, which is ridiculous. Moreover, they don't even work right on.avi's unless you're re-encoding the video - not just the audio. This takes many, many times longer than just re-encoding the audio (-ovc copy -oac mp3lame...) which should be sufficient. If you try to re-encode just the audio (with ovc copy), with a positive -delay it runs but doesn't work; with a negative -delay it just locks up!
Second example, the lavc codec allows you to specify the number of threads for parallel encoding. But if you use -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=libx264:threads=2, it doesn't complain, it just drops every single frame, sitting there emitting errors. So there is no parallel encoding for my iPod.
Video processing in general is a complete minefield. Even mplayer/mencoder, the best of the bunch imho, has many, many options that won't work together, and can produce output that itself cannot read. How the developers even manage to keep that massive jumble of libraries from bursting into flames I can't imagine.
My question, has anybody on the commercial side actually solved the problem of mixing and matching any audio codec, video codec, and container format out there? Or do they usually just target a few codecs? Kino, for example, was reasonably stable on Linux if you just wanted to edit dv video.
Well, sure, innovation is supposed to spur new sales. Sony released the PS3 so people would want to give them money, including people who already bought PS2s. So long as there's value for the consumer, how is this bad? You could argue it will displace what would have been cheaper options, but I don't think that's true. A couple months ago I got a 20" 1080p LCD monitor for under $100. Even after decades of maturity, CRTs were never that cheap (except perhaps in their waning days after the assembly lines had been sold off to generic manufacturers). The PS2 has enjoyed a long & cheap life on the market, post-PS3. Now, at some point, it will be almost as cheap to make a PS3 as a PS2, and at that point the PS2 will disappear. But it's not like the price of the PS2 could ever have dropped much further anyway.
I think 3D will end up being an almost free feature you can use or ignore. And since having somewhat of a 3d revelation watching Avatar, I'm looking forward to it.
I actually do think this is great. For those of us with HTPCs, game consoles, cable boxes, and usual rat's nest of wiring we don't really want sitting right next to the TV, it beats trying to run 40 feet of DVI cable through the ceiling.
For games that require moving around the map like that, the bigger question is how you will walk around at all (much less positioning yourself precisely to take cover). You can't actually move away from the camera, nor can you physically interact with the 3d terrain. Researchers for training simulations have been working on it for years, and come up with many contraptions from treadmills to giant hampster balls, none of which are ideal, much less feasible in a livingroom. Who wants to place bets on what the convention for walking/running/turning will be? I think tilting your head might be best.
The viral DNA that isn't conducive to life would have evolved out
Evolution is a very noisy process. It does not assure that we are all maximally fit, only fit enough that all our ancestors managed to reproduce. The boundary of viability is people who are viable, but whose children are not.
Viral DNA might be introduced to our genome as a side-effect of viral infection at a faster rate than natural selection can remove it out of our genome, even if it is harmful to us.
And any benefit from schitzophrenia would have to be so significant as to outweigh the cost of losing touch with reality, which is enormous. Perhaps our DNA code for a randomized process that usually results in a healthy amount of creativity, but sometimes too much. That gene could be preserved even if it is deleterious in outliers. In fact the variability of gene expression ensures that genes advantageous in their mean effect are sometimes less advantageous, i.e. relatively harmful.
In the current market, hardware-only e-book makers like this have no chance at all. Amazon has their e-book library, B&N has one, Sony has one... the proliferation of e-libraries isn't a problem in itself, except each is tied to the same brand of hardware, and nothing else. With iTunes and iPhone apps, Apple has pushed media lock-in further than I ever thought would be successful. I congratulate their shareholders, but I still think it's a terrible idea. It's like we're reverting from the era of the Internet back to proprietary BBS's like GENie Online and (old) AOL, where everything was bundled together and walled up.
I'm sure an eInk display is a big win in terms of power consumption, I'm still not convinced it is that much more readable than a color LCD.
Try both at the beach and get back to us. Emissive displays just don't make sense in well-lit areas - why waste battery power trying to out-shine the sun?
Obviously for the victim or his family it would be terrible, but once the scandal broke that the explosives had been planted on him by operatives there would no longer be any armed thugs in airports around the world, and we'd all be treated with a little more respect.
The police certainly weren't banned from BART for shooting Oscar Grant, even though bystanders caught the whole thing on video and the victim did not have any contraband, planted or otherwise.
We've had airport security for decades. When did it start? Early seventies? The only time we needed airport security to work, it didn't.
It did work. Nobody was harmed, simply because airport security prevented the guy from bringing a better bomb to the party. He was unable to effectively work around the existing restrictions. If not for airport security, the guy would have just used a grenade, or something bigger.
Airport security also worked on 9/11. That's why the terrorists were (essentially) unarmed. What didn't work on 9/11 was airplane security, since (even being unarmed) they all got access to the cockpit, instead of being gunned down by an armed air martial.
The over-the-air digital signal looks great even at full resolution (1920x1080), so it's maximum overkill for a cellphone screen. For that matter, decoding the broadcast ATSC signal takes a rather beefy CPU, so I wonder if decoding it (even in hardware) might not consume a lot of power for a cellphone.
Murder is murder, why should political murder scare you more than some thug doing a drive-by shooting?
Liberals have hate crimes, conservatives have terrorists. They're essentially the same thing - a crime thought to be worse due to the motive.
IMHO, what does distinguish these crimes from the garden variety is if the attack was sponsored by a larger organization (whether a homegrown militia or Al Qaeda), since that means further attacks are likely in the offing.
That there were no dead bodies or a mile-wide debris trail in downtown Detroit is trivial -- because there COULD have been.
Could have been, except existing airport security measures were adequate to prevent this terrorist from bringing a better bomb aboard.
Some have pointed out that the FBI demonstrated a fairly potent bomb with the same amount of explosive material, but that doesn't count if it used a fuse or shell that wouldn't have passed airport security.
Ultimately, both the employees and the companies they work for are in it for themselves. (If you doubt that, imagine employees working for free, or companies paying employees who don't work). Ignoring either side of the equation is obviously wrong.
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Where have you been? The under-regulated banking system self-destructed. That is the reason only a partially-government-run banking system now remains. Unregulated capitalism leads to horrible cycles of boom and bust. On the way up, all responsible actors are out-competed and choked off by people who are willing to take irresponsible risks. When the bottom falls out, it is not only the guilty who suffer. Unemployment skyrockets and (again, without government assistance) people starve.
The idea that the economy grows best without regulations is a complete myth based on nothing. Counterexamples, on the other hand, abound.
"Moving your body" is a very general input device though. Even using a joystick is a special case of it. (Though I guess Natal isn't accurate enough to monitor your finger movements on a dummy joystick).
I've read that's because the increase in national debt has only counterbalanced a decrease in private debt (lending & borrowing), so the total amount of debt in the US actually hasn't changed much. Without govt spending, then, we actually would have encountered deflation as during the great depression. This encourages further economic slowdown by encouraging people to wait until later to spend any money, since it will then be worth more.
On the other hand, projection systems excel in the area of SIZE, and size does matter.
What you're ignoring is the trend - the majority of US patents being for foreign companies is a new thing. It indicates US economic dominance is in decline. Now, you can argue that's the natural state of things and it should always have been so, but regardless, it means we'll be paying more for scarce natural resources (think OIL), making less money (e.g. UAW went down the toilet), and we can't impose our will on other countries as much politically.
That's why findings like this are so interesting. Maybe having it easy and being happy aren't synonymous after all?
I guess it's the rising hemline of our times. And once again, the teenagers behind the trend don't seem too concerned.
Look at the direct quotes attributed to Zuckerberg in the article. Ignore the spin of the article, the more extreme spin of the slashdot blurb, and the yet more extreme spin of most of the comments here. Zuckerberg is not saying that spying is OK or that people should be forced to disclose information. He is observing that social norms have changed, and more people are choosing to be more public. I am fine with that, so long as it is voluntary, and the option for privacy remains for those who choose it.
Android's openness, and the iPhone's relative lack of openness, has been the centerpiece of the android marketing campaign. Exploits are part of the flipside of that.
Rather than high-end pro tools I'll never get to use, I was really thinking of mainstream commercial apps like Adobe Premiere, which is actually within reach, if it is good, but I haven't used it in years. What are most non-pros using these days, and how robust is it?
I am not talking about anything illogical. Two examples. (This might seem long winded, but that's the point! What should be simple is actually complex and a big minefield)
The -delay and -audio-delay options control something very basic - correcting for a fixed delay between audio and video. Unfortunately, these options only work on .avi's, not on .mpeg or matroska containers. The only way I've seen to fix the audio offset in a mpeg is to transcode to avi with the -delay option, then back to mpeg, which is ridiculous. Moreover, they don't even work right on .avi's unless you're re-encoding the video - not just the audio. This takes many, many times longer than just re-encoding the audio (-ovc copy -oac mp3lame...) which should be sufficient. If you try to re-encode just the audio (with ovc copy), with a positive -delay it runs but doesn't work; with a negative -delay it just locks up!
Second example, the lavc codec allows you to specify the number of threads for parallel encoding. But if you use -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=libx264:threads=2, it doesn't complain, it just drops every single frame, sitting there emitting errors. So there is no parallel encoding for my iPod.
My question, has anybody on the commercial side actually solved the problem of mixing and matching any audio codec, video codec, and container format out there? Or do they usually just target a few codecs? Kino, for example, was reasonably stable on Linux if you just wanted to edit dv video.
Could you be any more wrong about the US/China relationship? We owe them $800,000,000,000. It's pretty obvious who's the sugar daddy.
I think 3D will end up being an almost free feature you can use or ignore. And since having somewhat of a 3d revelation watching Avatar, I'm looking forward to it.
I actually do think this is great. For those of us with HTPCs, game consoles, cable boxes, and usual rat's nest of wiring we don't really want sitting right next to the TV, it beats trying to run 40 feet of DVI cable through the ceiling.
For games that require moving around the map like that, the bigger question is how you will walk around at all (much less positioning yourself precisely to take cover). You can't actually move away from the camera, nor can you physically interact with the 3d terrain. Researchers for training simulations have been working on it for years, and come up with many contraptions from treadmills to giant hampster balls, none of which are ideal, much less feasible in a livingroom. Who wants to place bets on what the convention for walking/running/turning will be? I think tilting your head might be best.
Evolution is a very noisy process. It does not assure that we are all maximally fit, only fit enough that all our ancestors managed to reproduce. The boundary of viability is people who are viable, but whose children are not.
Viral DNA might be introduced to our genome as a side-effect of viral infection at a faster rate than natural selection can remove it out of our genome, even if it is harmful to us.
And any benefit from schitzophrenia would have to be so significant as to outweigh the cost of losing touch with reality, which is enormous. Perhaps our DNA code for a randomized process that usually results in a healthy amount of creativity, but sometimes too much. That gene could be preserved even if it is deleterious in outliers. In fact the variability of gene expression ensures that genes advantageous in their mean effect are sometimes less advantageous, i.e. relatively harmful.
In the current market, hardware-only e-book makers like this have no chance at all. Amazon has their e-book library, B&N has one, Sony has one... the proliferation of e-libraries isn't a problem in itself, except each is tied to the same brand of hardware, and nothing else. With iTunes and iPhone apps, Apple has pushed media lock-in further than I ever thought would be successful. I congratulate their shareholders, but I still think it's a terrible idea. It's like we're reverting from the era of the Internet back to proprietary BBS's like GENie Online and (old) AOL, where everything was bundled together and walled up.
Try both at the beach and get back to us. Emissive displays just don't make sense in well-lit areas - why waste battery power trying to out-shine the sun?
The police certainly weren't banned from BART for shooting Oscar Grant, even though bystanders caught the whole thing on video and the victim did not have any contraband, planted or otherwise.
It did work. Nobody was harmed, simply because airport security prevented the guy from bringing a better bomb to the party. He was unable to effectively work around the existing restrictions. If not for airport security, the guy would have just used a grenade, or something bigger.
Airport security also worked on 9/11. That's why the terrorists were (essentially) unarmed. What didn't work on 9/11 was airplane security, since (even being unarmed) they all got access to the cockpit, instead of being gunned down by an armed air martial.
The over-the-air digital signal looks great even at full resolution (1920x1080), so it's maximum overkill for a cellphone screen. For that matter, decoding the broadcast ATSC signal takes a rather beefy CPU, so I wonder if decoding it (even in hardware) might not consume a lot of power for a cellphone.
Liberals have hate crimes, conservatives have terrorists. They're essentially the same thing - a crime thought to be worse due to the motive.
IMHO, what does distinguish these crimes from the garden variety is if the attack was sponsored by a larger organization (whether a homegrown militia or Al Qaeda), since that means further attacks are likely in the offing.
Could have been, except existing airport security measures were adequate to prevent this terrorist from bringing a better bomb aboard.
Some have pointed out that the FBI demonstrated a fairly potent bomb with the same amount of explosive material, but that doesn't count if it used a fuse or shell that wouldn't have passed airport security.
Ultimately, both the employees and the companies they work for are in it for themselves. (If you doubt that, imagine employees working for free, or companies paying employees who don't work). Ignoring either side of the equation is obviously wrong.