Regardless of it's sleek, clean or [insert buzzword] look, they are attempting to provide a better visual hierarchy for their suite of services. I just spoke to someone who complained it's more work to switch between GIS and normal search now, as they have moved the links a few millimeters, but when you consider that each of those top links is a whole application, it's very sensible.
Consider searching for some business, then clicking on Maps to find it, then clicking Gmail to send someone the location you just found. It's less jarring with the mini dashboard they've created, since there are persistent UI elements across all of their services. Before it would move a little with each one, as they use slightly different logos which change the top fold. What does bother me is that Gmail's "dashboard" links differ from the various search tools.
www.mythdev.org is the home of the volunteer project to update all three Myth games. While III was on OS X, Myth TFL was the thing that kept me dual booting for months after switching to OS X. I'm addicted all over again...
The multiplayer works for all three games, but Myth II is by far the most popular of the three. Geez it's good to play TFL again!
Copyleft is a general method for making a program free software and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free software as well. ...
In the GNU project, our aim is to give all users the freedom to redistribute and change GNU software. If middlemen could strip off the freedom, we might have many users, but those users would not have freedom. So instead of putting GNU software in the public domain, we ``copyleft'' it. Copyleft says that anyone who redistributes the software, with or without changes, must pass along the freedom to further copy and change it. Copyleft guarantees that every user has freedom.
So why is anyone talking about copyright When the GPL is specifically designed to provide copyleft?:)
2 megapixels won't get you superior 8.5x11 prints. A 300 DPI print would be 2550 x 3300 pixels, which is ~8.5 megapixels. A 150 DPI print would be 1275 x 1650 px, which comes out to ~2.1 megapixels...
People who need good prints for school/work need larger pictures, but then again most of us have cameras already.
Judgment: decent deal for families or people skeptical of digital cameras. Maybe it will encourage the sale of full-fledged digital cameras, who knows.
It will now offer... run-time, binary use of Linux for all commercial users of Linux based on the 2.4 kernel and later.
Ok, maybe I don't understand, but isn't supplying a binary-only copy of Linux w/o source the exact opposite of every ideal GNU and the FSF stand for? Maybe I read the article wrong, if anyone can clue me in I'd appreciate. Is this a violation of the GPL?
Come on. He even admits it. I can think of a couple ways of writing this article, transmitting the same information, and not come off as a bigot at the same time. It's rather interesting to read, but he is speaking for the browsers more than he needs to, let them speak for themselves!
He's also obsessed with CSS (but we won't talk about standards in this article, no not any), like that's the only point you consider when picking/develpoing for a browser. Sure it's important, I use it a ton don't get me wrong, but it is not the only thing with IE that I have trouble developing for.
In the book and the movie, there is no indication of Norton's character's name, but in common discussion (scripts, this thread, IMDb.com credits, interviews, DVD commentary by Fincher himself), he IS in fact referred to as Jack, otherwise we'd be talking about Tyler, Marla and the Narrating Character played by Ed Norton In Fight Club. Narrator sounds too dry. Nevertheless, his character is referred to numerous times up and down the DVD commentary by Palahniuk, Uhls, and Fincher, not to mention the cast.
Marls knows him as Tyler Durden
She knows Jack as Tyler, but she also knows he makes up names, as indicated when she points out the "Rupert" nametag.
If you're going to be pedantic, at least be right.:)
Those ratings at the top indicating the likelihood of these allegations (or whatever you want to call them) don't really mean anything. They're just speculation and opinion, much like the 17,000/. comments dealing with this whole deal. It reads nice and legal-sounding, but to me it looks like a table formatted thread straight off this site.
No, what he meant was "Like almost everyone, I receive a lot of spam every day, much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous that I don't exclusively own the people and technologies associated with these messages so I could earn another 40 billion dollars"
The star athlete in my high school once told our class "Bill gates could give everyone in America a million dollars and still have money left over." When I inquired how 270 million million is the same as 55 thousand million (he was about 55 billion then), his only response was "...I play football!"
This guy is 100% correct. Refresh rate is more concerned with flash rate than frame rate. 48Hz is the acceptable flash rate in a darkened theatre (this was all worked out back long ago) however a higher refresh rate is needed to combat fluorescent lights and red staplers and stuff in the office.
You don't just get up and change something like that. The reason film is 24 fps is because that was the best flash rate people could stomach financially back in the day. 48 fps provides enough light on the screen, but since not very much more than 24 is needed for fluid motion to our eyes they film it at 24 and flash each frame twice in the projector. Do you notice that more and more TV shows (24, angel) are being filmed at 24 frames per second instead of normal American TV's 29.97? It is much more pleasing to the eye.
I am not trying to be too harsh but the trend is moving TOWARDS 24fps instad of or 120Hz or whatever you're thinking would be better. HDTVs do flat out 1920p 24fps now. that's getting closer to film quality than older TV. 35mm film is approximately 3.1 megapixels in theory (2048x1536, box your frame afterards and it's a bit lower), but its color range is millions and millions of colors, which no camera, not even G. Lucas' little pet project can pull off as of yet. Film is a very rich medium that will not be removed from its position for a while yet IMHO.
Wow, ok </rant>. Sorry. Ever heard of Nyquist? He basically figured out that if you want to accurately capture data (in this case it would be our eyes capturing images) you must sample at twice the rate of the original source. It works slightly backwards in this case. If we are to see perfectly fluid motion we would have to feed 60 images per second to our eyes, because since average eyes see ~30fps that is twice the rate. Think about when you point a camcorder at a monitor. You get those weird dark bands that slowly creep up or down he screen. What you are actually seeing is the camcorder's framerate conflicting with the monitor's frame (refresh) rate. Tilt the the camera along its Z axis about 50 degrees, and poof, no more bands. Alternatively, jack the refresh rate of your monitor up to 120Hz and the Nyquist theorem states that you will cease to pick up dark bands on the camcorder. Put it at 30Hz (not an option for many I know) and you will see ONLY "dark bands."
My apologies again since that was not really relevant to your "gripe" but alas, it's been typed. My main point is that we've been given "quality" that matches our physiology. People for the most part have settled on current framerates because they look good to most. People are gaining acceptance for wide format movies which IMHO are much more pleasing to the eye than 4:3 TV shape. I am definitely NOT saying that you are stupid or distasteful, but I am saying I like things where they are. Nothing needs to be faster than 60Hz/fps because we can't see any quicker than that. IMO 24fps looks better anyway. Many movies (Saving Pvt Ryan, Fast and the Furious, American Beauty, Braveheart, Fight Club just to name a few diverse titles) have decided to accomplish slow motion by filming a shot at the normal framerate and using a technique called frame blending, where the frame rate is cut in half and instead of showing every frame twice (1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4) it cross fades every second frame (1,1/2,2,2/3,3,3/4,4). It makes for a very interesting and suave alternative to burning up more film on slo-mo (a la 800fps in Snatch, but damn that was cool).
I don't know what it means either, but here's what I meant:
In Office Space, the main character makes a tiny little mistake over a brand new policy at work (TPS reports, they never explain) and I think four people end up telling him about it in a few short hours. When I laughed about that insanely great comment about turds I got a boss's attention and he asked me what I was doing blah blah...Then, almost as if the other one wee waiting there for him to finish, I got the speech all over again...f-ing/.!!!
LOL you bastard!!! I just got in trouble for laughing at that little comment! Two bosses came over and gave me the TPS-ish speech right in a row. Seriously though, grandparent has worse problems than IE compatability with that site.
A group of grad students in Purdue's CG dept are contributing to a remake of Ultima V. They asked some undergrads (one of them being me) to help them out with various aspects of recreation, like textures or worldmap modeling.
Slashdot Mirror
Regardless of it's sleek, clean or [insert buzzword] look, they are attempting to provide a better visual hierarchy for their suite of services. I just spoke to someone who complained it's more work to switch between GIS and normal search now, as they have moved the links a few millimeters, but when you consider that each of those top links is a whole application, it's very sensible.
Consider searching for some business, then clicking on Maps to find it, then clicking Gmail to send someone the location you just found. It's less jarring with the mini dashboard they've created, since there are persistent UI elements across all of their services. Before it would move a little with each one, as they use slightly different logos which change the top fold. What does bother me is that Gmail's "dashboard" links differ from the various search tools.
I reccommend http://www.zeldman.com/ for all your web-standards reading. He's even re-worked Slashdot using current web standards.
www.mythdev.org is the home of the volunteer project to update all three Myth games. While III was on OS X, Myth TFL was the thing that kept me dual booting for months after switching to OS X. I'm addicted all over again...
The multiplayer works for all three games, but Myth II is by far the most popular of the three. Geez it's good to play TFL again!
So the GPL violates copyright law, eh? I thought the GPL is copyleft.
From the FSF website:
Copyleft is a general method for making a program free software and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free software as well.
...
In the GNU project, our aim is to give all users the freedom to redistribute and change GNU software. If middlemen could strip off the freedom, we might have many users, but those users would not have freedom. So instead of putting GNU software in the public domain, we ``copyleft'' it. Copyleft says that anyone who redistributes the software, with or without changes, must pass along the freedom to further copy and change it. Copyleft guarantees that every user has freedom.
So why is anyone talking about copyright When the GPL is specifically designed to provide copyleft? :)
it's a new, but not suprising meaning to "take a wicked dump."
2 megapixels won't get you superior 8.5x11 prints. A 300 DPI print would be 2550 x 3300 pixels, which is ~8.5 megapixels. A 150 DPI print would be 1275 x 1650 px, which comes out to ~2.1 megapixels...
People who need good prints for school/work need larger pictures, but then again most of us have cameras already.
Judgment: decent deal for families or people skeptical of digital cameras. Maybe it will encourage the sale of full-fledged digital cameras, who knows.
Ok, maybe I don't understand, but isn't supplying a binary-only copy of Linux w/o source the exact opposite of every ideal GNU and the FSF stand for? Maybe I read the article wrong, if anyone can clue me in I'd appreciate. Is this a violation of the GPL?
weird so do I
Come on. He even admits it. I can think of a couple ways of writing this article, transmitting the same information, and not come off as a bigot at the same time. It's rather interesting to read, but he is speaking for the browsers more than he needs to, let them speak for themselves!
He's also obsessed with CSS (but we won't talk about standards in this article, no not any), like that's the only point you consider when picking/develpoing for a browser. Sure it's important, I use it a ton don't get me wrong, but it is not the only thing with IE that I have trouble developing for.
Someone mod this guy back down.
In the book and the movie, there is no indication of Norton's character's name, but in common discussion (scripts, this thread, IMDb.com credits, interviews, DVD commentary by Fincher himself), he IS in fact referred to as Jack, otherwise we'd be talking about Tyler, Marla and the Narrating Character played by Ed Norton In Fight Club. Narrator sounds too dry. Nevertheless, his character is referred to numerous times up and down the DVD commentary by Palahniuk, Uhls, and Fincher, not to mention the cast.
Marls knows him as Tyler DurdenShe knows Jack as Tyler, but she also knows he makes up names, as indicated when she points out the "Rupert" nametag.
If you're going to be pedantic, at least be right. :)
Those ratings at the top indicating the likelihood of these allegations (or whatever you want to call them) don't really mean anything. They're just speculation and opinion, much like the 17,000 /. comments dealing with this whole deal. It reads nice and legal-sounding, but to me it looks like a table formatted thread straight off this site.
I knew it!!! SCO is sponsoring this contest...
No, what he meant was "Like almost everyone, I receive a lot of spam every day, much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous that I don't exclusively own the people and technologies associated with these messages so I could earn another 40 billion dollars"
The star athlete in my high school once told our class "Bill gates could give everyone in America a million dollars and still have money left over." When I inquired how 270 million million is the same as 55 thousand million (he was about 55 billion then), his only response was "...I play football!"
You, sir have just been marked as my friend :)
Here's another link to side view (I can hear expert melting)
It gets better: Many* albums in the iTunes store cost a mere 9.99, no matter the number of songs on it. So that's 10 dollars saved, give or take.
* I say many because I don't feel like looking up the real numbersThis guy is 100% correct. Refresh rate is more concerned with flash rate than frame rate. 48Hz is the acceptable flash rate in a darkened theatre (this was all worked out back long ago) however a higher refresh rate is needed to combat fluorescent lights and red staplers and stuff in the office.
You don't just get up and change something like that. The reason film is 24 fps is because that was the best flash rate people could stomach financially back in the day. 48 fps provides enough light on the screen, but since not very much more than 24 is needed for fluid motion to our eyes they film it at 24 and flash each frame twice in the projector. Do you notice that more and more TV shows (24, angel) are being filmed at 24 frames per second instead of normal American TV's 29.97? It is much more pleasing to the eye.
I am not trying to be too harsh but the trend is moving TOWARDS 24fps instad of or 120Hz or whatever you're thinking would be better. HDTVs do flat out 1920p 24fps now. that's getting closer to film quality than older TV. 35mm film is approximately 3.1 megapixels in theory (2048x1536, box your frame afterards and it's a bit lower), but its color range is millions and millions of colors, which no camera, not even G. Lucas' little pet project can pull off as of yet. Film is a very rich medium that will not be removed from its position for a while yet IMHO.
Wow, ok </rant>. Sorry. Ever heard of Nyquist? He basically figured out that if you want to accurately capture data (in this case it would be our eyes capturing images) you must sample at twice the rate of the original source. It works slightly backwards in this case. If we are to see perfectly fluid motion we would have to feed 60 images per second to our eyes, because since average eyes see ~30fps that is twice the rate. Think about when you point a camcorder at a monitor. You get those weird dark bands that slowly creep up or down he screen. What you are actually seeing is the camcorder's framerate conflicting with the monitor's frame (refresh) rate. Tilt the the camera along its Z axis about 50 degrees, and poof, no more bands. Alternatively, jack the refresh rate of your monitor up to 120Hz and the Nyquist theorem states that you will cease to pick up dark bands on the camcorder. Put it at 30Hz (not an option for many I know) and you will see ONLY "dark bands."
My apologies again since that was not really relevant to your "gripe" but alas, it's been typed. My main point is that we've been given "quality" that matches our physiology. People for the most part have settled on current framerates because they look good to most. People are gaining acceptance for wide format movies which IMHO are much more pleasing to the eye than 4:3 TV shape. I am definitely NOT saying that you are stupid or distasteful, but I am saying I like things where they are. Nothing needs to be faster than 60Hz/fps because we can't see any quicker than that. IMO 24fps looks better anyway. Many movies (Saving Pvt Ryan, Fast and the Furious, American Beauty, Braveheart, Fight Club just to name a few diverse titles) have decided to accomplish slow motion by filming a shot at the normal framerate and using a technique called frame blending, where the frame rate is cut in half and instead of showing every frame twice (1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4) it cross fades every second frame (1,1/2,2,2/3,3,3/4,4). It makes for a very interesting and suave alternative to burning up more film on slo-mo (a la 800fps in Snatch, but damn that was cool).
I don't know what it means either, but here's what I meant:
In Office Space, the main character makes a tiny little mistake over a brand new policy at work (TPS reports, they never explain) and I think four people end up telling him about it in a few short hours. When I laughed about that insanely great comment about turds I got a boss's attention and he asked me what I was doing blah blah...Then, almost as if the other one wee waiting there for him to finish, I got the speech all over again...f-ing /.!!!
LOL you bastard!!! I just got in trouble for laughing at that little comment! Two bosses came over and gave me the TPS-ish speech right in a row. Seriously though, grandparent has worse problems than IE compatability with that site.
Why don't you just use middle click...it only taks one hand. Yes, "that" is fully implied.
hahahahhaha offtopic my ass!!! Seriously, how is that not immediately +5 Funny?
Come on, we've heard enough about DRM from M$, now from German DJs?!?
If you like Ultima check this out.
A group of grad students in Purdue's CG dept are contributing to a remake of Ultima V. They asked some undergrads (one of them being me) to help them out with various aspects of recreation, like textures or worldmap modeling.
The title of this book is sort of redundant, isn't it?