The late-arriving FAA rules hasn't impacted anything. actually, most of the innovators were over seas, and the article is just trying to assign blame when the actual reason is that the innovators for this technology just aren't really in the USA.
But... there is also plenty of things going on in the USA, just that most of the stuff is trying to be military/gov based. Outside of this, what *actually* has stifled innovation in the USA is the homeland security; I actually know a company in the radio link and telemetry business that was expressly threatened by the DHS that they were not to develop a radio system with telemetry with live video feed.
Read: this has actually nothing to do with the FAA...
Uniqueness only really counts for how something looks, when using a computer, you just want it to work.
If you want a custom looking laptop, actually the easiest way to do that with is a Mac because there's less bumps and crud molded into the design so you can easily apply decals, get it custom etched, etc.
...creative integrity. These movies stand a great chance of being awesome because the back-story has already been told. A movie spends a fair amount of time establishing context and character... they get to get straight into it, which is what helped ToyStory 2. Sequels can be great when they've been done properly with the right amount of creative integrity.
Ratatouille was just about complete and it wasn't what they were after. They brought in Brad Bird who re-wrote it and did it right. If they have the creative integrity to do things like this, then I'm fully looking forward to these movies.
Pixar really do deserve people giving their projects the benefit of the doubt at least until they make a dud. Their creativity and originality have been amazing; a step above of any other studio in the industry.
...but I can't understand how a glorified logger can be this far off. With hand-shaking and all the rest of it, it just staggers me that something this simple is so hard. If our systems or audit logging were off by more than 5k, our nuts would be in a sling, and our projects sure as heck aren't as big as these puppies.
Unsure how well this will go, maybe it'll work just because it's google. But there was an *awesome* 3D plugin ages ago called Metastream. It was by the group that made Kai's Power Tools (the first set of photoshop plugins that really got the plugins thing moving along). What made it awesome was that you could model the one model with as much detail as you wanted and then export it for Metastream. In the webpage you could just call the server and say that you wanted a little low-res version to show as a thumbnail, but if you wanted a product detail you simply call for the same thing but with more detail. The Metastream plugin changed the geometry detail and image mapping to whatever was needed to get it done... just like progressive images, but better and more complete (would be the exact same if you could tell a progressive image you just wanted it really small).
Anyways... Metastream didn't take off, but it was certainly an example of it done really well with a lot of possibilities. Because it was so good, it makes me doubt as to whether it'll be cool when google does it. Metastream was awesome.
...by definition 95% of people don't know what it's like to be the top 5%. The truer version of this that does apply to most people is that you can typically find a job if you take the pay grade of someone with less experience. If you're a coder with 5 years experience, you'll always be able to find a job because if you're at the bottom of the barrel you're going to bump out any newbies trying to get a newbie wage paying job...
...the 5% will remain relatively unharmed, but the further you are from that the bigger the cut you may have to take. Point is though, if you have experience, you can trade some of that in to ensure you always have food on the table.
Seems like people just want semi-instant gratification these days. Games used to be tough to get through, when you said you clocked a game it really meant you knew it because you had to get through all these "time sinks" and problems to get to the end. The upshot was that when you got to the end and beat it, you really beat it.
"Time-sinks" may not be wanted in this new wipe-my-ass world, but being punished and set back in a game is a large part of accomplishment it takes to clock the game. It's all analogous though to the people that go to the arcade with a pile of money and just continue until the game is done... they spend more money and wont have the same satisfaction of clocking it without continuing. It's a good metaphor because these "no time sink" people will spend more on games as they finish them faster.
But it's all fine as long as there are products for everyone, and that anyone looking for old-school challenges can find games like Ikaruga
the best path of success is to find the device that works best with linux at point of purchase. With that in mind, you clearly need one of these vibrators...
there's a societal obsession with getting our kids to "mature" as fast as possible
Wha'?! By the age of eight I was walking home from school alone, getting lost in the woods behind the old orchard, and I'd seen Star Wars ANH, in which the main father-figure / advisor to the Hiro Protagonist is chopped in half with a laser (how it looked to me at the time!) Nowadays you'd be arrested for child neglect if you leave your kid alone in the house for more than half-an-hour! Come on, if anything it's the opposite way round.
...I think that it's just the divide getting deeper between those that enjoy a solid game and those that just like to push a button and see pixels react in some way. There will alway be the market for the serious in some way, the games that challenge from the start (like serious scrolly-shooter fans and Ikaruga as an example). And the opposite would be the masses of people making Webkinz a run-away success.
Another example is Monkeyball on the iphone, and all the people commenting that it's too hard. The game is very playable with a very high gameplay, especially when you can be playing immediately (in the "play immediately" mode) and the practice modes. There used to be a time when all people playing games appreciated the challenge. The definition of a good game is something that allows you to play at the start and progressively gets harder...
...but I think more and more of the masses just don't get it. A divide if you will.
from TFA: "By Sunday, it could be downloaded on BitTorrent file-sharing sites or viewed on YouTube, he said"
I just want to know how people are able to upload a full 2.5 hours of movie onto YouTube, it sounds handy. They put a lot of money into those IMAX cameras when shooting the movie so that people could realise the full quality that is the YouTube experience!
A case and point for this "good product no marketing" would be the Amiga 500 and its brothers. By all measures it was the best product on the market when it arrived, but it was not marketed at all. Its slow and horrible death can still be witnessed today at amiga.com
...this just means that you need to host the forum in Antigua, China or any other country currently not willing to tow the USA's line. Certainly wherever they're currently hosting DeCSS
isn't part of what you've explained just a byproduct of the party system?... what I mean is, the party system is so overweight that you have to be crazy to run against them. If there was no party system it would look completely different... all the current candidates wouldn't be Democrat or Republican, just simply people running for president. Not trying to be funny, but Hillary would still be running along with other strong candidates that didn't manage to claw their way up to the top of their respective party. It would be Obama, Hillary, and McCain running, and the most votes chooses the president rather than some premature turn-out of a sub-section of the community who are politically hyper citizens deciding who makes the final cut.
The HD's are likely all imaged with a single Vista image. In order to mass market XP, they will likely have to re-tool slightly to continue producing XP imaged drives in addition to Vista imaged drives. It's not much, but it does add to the labor, and while $50 is a bit steep, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the combination of tooling, labor, and licensing adds up to close to that amount.
-Rick This post, put simply, is bullshit. "tooling" costs are bullshit and completely laughable because a few months ago XP was simply an option on their machines. It's not like Dell ever removed whatever it was in place to provide XP, because they've never stopped making XP available!...they're just suddenly making a charge for it because of the absurd licensing landscape that Microsoft has put in place that makes it more awkward for people to get a usable operating system.
I don't know about the person you're responding to, but I found the mention of Ruby on the Sproutcore Hello World Tutorial (bolded for emphasis):
"If you haven't yet installed SproutCore, it's really easy if you have Ruby installed on your machine."
"Note that if you are on a Mac, you will need the developer tools installed as well for Ruby to work." Thanks for that. Tagging articles with shill-tags that you have to dig all the way past the bloody article and into the coding tutorial to find, is exactly my original point: bad tags by people trying to will Ruby development into relevance. But hey, I'm glad someone found the actual Ruby reference in this, it validates the existence of the tags and made the dozens of Ruby developers out there quite happy.
...I read the article as linked, and just to make sure, I ran some text searches across them, and neither "ruby" or "rails" came up in the article content. From a goodly amount of reading, I didn't come across Rails being put forward as the big platform choice to warrant the tagging. So once again... the ruby/rails crowd seem to be shills, or at least certainly eager to grass-roots their little world into existence; because a packaging system isn't enough to be tagging the article as if it's the main technology.
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The late-arriving FAA rules hasn't impacted anything. actually, most of the innovators were over seas, and the article is just trying to assign blame when the actual reason is that the innovators for this technology just aren't really in the USA.
But... there is also plenty of things going on in the USA, just that most of the stuff is trying to be military/gov based. Outside of this, what *actually* has stifled innovation in the USA is the homeland security; I actually know a company in the radio link and telemetry business that was expressly threatened by the DHS that they were not to develop a radio system with telemetry with live video feed.
Read: this has actually nothing to do with the FAA...
Uniqueness only really counts for how something looks, when using a computer, you just want it to work. If you want a custom looking laptop, actually the easiest way to do that with is a Mac because there's less bumps and crud molded into the design so you can easily apply decals, get it custom etched, etc.
...creative integrity. These movies stand a great chance of being awesome because the back-story has already been told. A movie spends a fair amount of time establishing context and character... they get to get straight into it, which is what helped ToyStory 2. Sequels can be great when they've been done properly with the right amount of creative integrity.
Ratatouille was just about complete and it wasn't what they were after. They brought in Brad Bird who re-wrote it and did it right. If they have the creative integrity to do things like this, then I'm fully looking forward to these movies.
Pixar really do deserve people giving their projects the benefit of the doubt at least until they make a dud. Their creativity and originality have been amazing; a step above of any other studio in the industry.
...but I can't understand how a glorified logger can be this far off. With hand-shaking and all the rest of it, it just staggers me that something this simple is so hard. If our systems or audit logging were off by more than 5k, our nuts would be in a sling, and our projects sure as heck aren't as big as these puppies.
Which will be awesome if we get to see Hepburn and Garbo with their gear off!
Unsure how well this will go, maybe it'll work just because it's google. But there was an *awesome* 3D plugin ages ago called Metastream. It was by the group that made Kai's Power Tools (the first set of photoshop plugins that really got the plugins thing moving along). What made it awesome was that you could model the one model with as much detail as you wanted and then export it for Metastream. In the webpage you could just call the server and say that you wanted a little low-res version to show as a thumbnail, but if you wanted a product detail you simply call for the same thing but with more detail. The Metastream plugin changed the geometry detail and image mapping to whatever was needed to get it done... just like progressive images, but better and more complete (would be the exact same if you could tell a progressive image you just wanted it really small).
Anyways... Metastream didn't take off, but it was certainly an example of it done really well with a lot of possibilities. Because it was so good, it makes me doubt as to whether it'll be cool when google does it. Metastream was awesome.
...and trying a little too hard to break the stereotype. And it still wont land him chix0r's
If you're good, you can always find a new job.
...by definition 95% of people don't know what it's like to be the top 5%. The truer version of this that does apply to most people is that you can typically find a job if you take the pay grade of someone with less experience. If you're a coder with 5 years experience, you'll always be able to find a job because if you're at the bottom of the barrel you're going to bump out any newbies trying to get a newbie wage paying job...
Ipod, yes. We're talking about a different market here.
really?... Apple's phone was brought out in the same way they brought out the iPod, and it seems to have had a pretty good start indeed
Seems like people just want semi-instant gratification these days. Games used to be tough to get through, when you said you clocked a game it really meant you knew it because you had to get through all these "time sinks" and problems to get to the end. The upshot was that when you got to the end and beat it, you really beat it.
"Time-sinks" may not be wanted in this new wipe-my-ass world, but being punished and set back in a game is a large part of accomplishment it takes to clock the game. It's all analogous though to the people that go to the arcade with a pile of money and just continue until the game is done... they spend more money and wont have the same satisfaction of clocking it without continuing. It's a good metaphor because these "no time sink" people will spend more on games as they finish them faster.
But it's all fine as long as there are products for everyone, and that anyone looking for old-school challenges can find games like Ikaruga
On the other hand, I turned down a job offer from Google, because their mentality there is such that you can't have a career there without a Ph.D.
...if Google don't want people without a PhD, why did they extend you a job invitation for you to turn down?...
...they had a BotNet-Buster-Buster (tm)(c)
the best path of success is to find the device that works best with linux at point of purchase. With that in mind, you clearly need one of these vibrators...
...yet another law written by people that really don't understand the environment that the law is applicable to.
there's a societal obsession with getting our kids to "mature" as fast as possible
Wha'?! By the age of eight I was walking home from school alone, getting lost in the woods behind the old orchard, and I'd seen Star Wars ANH, in which the main father-figure / advisor to the Hiro Protagonist is chopped in half with a laser (how it looked to me at the time!) Nowadays you'd be arrested for child neglect if you leave your kid alone in the house for more than half-an-hour! Come on, if anything it's the opposite way round.
Nope, it's actually a scary mixture of both!
...I think that it's just the divide getting deeper between those that enjoy a solid game and those that just like to push a button and see pixels react in some way. There will alway be the market for the serious in some way, the games that challenge from the start (like serious scrolly-shooter fans and Ikaruga as an example). And the opposite would be the masses of people making Webkinz a run-away success.
...but I think more and more of the masses just don't get it. A divide if you will.
Another example is Monkeyball on the iphone, and all the people commenting that it's too hard. The game is very playable with a very high gameplay, especially when you can be playing immediately (in the "play immediately" mode) and the practice modes. There used to be a time when all people playing games appreciated the challenge. The definition of a good game is something that allows you to play at the start and progressively gets harder...
from TFA: "By Sunday, it could be downloaded on BitTorrent file-sharing sites or viewed on YouTube, he said"
I just want to know how people are able to upload a full 2.5 hours of movie onto YouTube, it sounds handy. They put a lot of money into those IMAX cameras when shooting the movie so that people could realise the full quality that is the YouTube experience!
A case and point for this "good product no marketing" would be the Amiga 500 and its brothers. By all measures it was the best product on the market when it arrived, but it was not marketed at all. Its slow and horrible death can still be witnessed today at amiga.com
Return it and buy from a manufacturer... no need to disassemble the BIOS, your time is worth more than that.
Seems to me that the kind of guy that pulls apart BIOS tables would be the kind that a) knows how, and b) probably enjoys doing it.
Sometimes it's not where you're going but how you get there.
...this just means that you need to host the forum in Antigua, China or any other country currently not willing to tow the USA's line. Certainly wherever they're currently hosting DeCSS
isn't part of what you've explained just a byproduct of the party system?... what I mean is, the party system is so overweight that you have to be crazy to run against them. If there was no party system it would look completely different... all the current candidates wouldn't be Democrat or Republican, just simply people running for president. Not trying to be funny, but Hillary would still be running along with other strong candidates that didn't manage to claw their way up to the top of their respective party. It would be Obama, Hillary, and McCain running, and the most votes chooses the president rather than some premature turn-out of a sub-section of the community who are politically hyper citizens deciding who makes the final cut.
did you get linked to the same links that the post linked me to!?...
...I read the article as linked, and just to make sure, I ran some text searches across them, and neither "ruby" or "rails" came up in the article content. From a goodly amount of reading, I didn't come across Rails being put forward as the big platform choice to warrant the tagging. So once again... the ruby/rails crowd seem to be shills, or at least certainly eager to grass-roots their little world into existence; because a packaging system isn't enough to be tagging the article as if it's the main technology.
Just to make sure, here's all the links that the post refers to:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/16/apples_open_secret_sproutcore_is_cocoa_for_the_web.html
http://www.sproutit.com/
http://www.sproutcore.com/
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080530/0022021266.shtml
Tags on the article at time of posting: apple, rails, ruby, rubyonrails (tagging beta)
...is ruby really that lame that people are tagging unrelated articles to grassroots this bitch into existence?...