You b/w film purists. If all you can see is a threat to your bizarre, luddite idea of what film should be, you need to get your heads checked, or at least you need to listen to your inner geek. Stop using these folks' achievement as an opportunity for chest-thumping.
The idea that one could color correct video with a few strokes from mspaint is staggering. Imagine if one could do this to color video, in real time... you could color-highlight an object and the computer could follow it without sensors or other pre-implanted devices, and that's not even a particularly original idea. This is awesome technology with applications probably well beyond what we see here.
Once information infrastructure becomes ubiquitous, once data pipelines are in the air all around us at all times, there will be no need for physical media.
One will only need a receiver. "Codecs" will become the impediments/enablers of media consumption, just as physical media has enabled/disabled the media monopolies of today.
Sure, one might cache some media on the reciever, but let's not split hairs. Transmission is where it's at. Or, rather, where it will be.
DNS is the achilles heel of the web. Take down/redirect/spoof/molest DNS, and it doesn't matter how many redundant whatevers and caching whothingies you have.
Nobody's getting to you.
And they may be getting to somebody else.
But DNS isn't glorious, so we'll keep spending the time/money on other things...
I can (and do) grip my logitech MX1000 in a way that looks like what they're trying to accomplish... Fingers bent a bit, hand relaxed over the top arch. Its buttons extend quite far along the body of the mouse, it's very comfortable.
It comes up as a separate install. It asks you if you want to install it. It's not a hidden checkbox or a "custom install" option. It's as obvious as it could possibly be.
With the Slashdot mindset, this was so guaranteed to end up on the front page, they should have foregone cropping to the AntiSpyware window in the screenshot and put some advertising behind it on their desktop. Millions of impressions cheap!
Yup. I tell you one thing, this is a huge goddamn threat to flash. All the interactivity, no plugins, no breaking of web standard functions (if programmed right). w00t!
..and it really is beautiful. XML backend, Javascript frontend... deliciously platform independent, fast, and dynamic as you wanna be. Once you overcome some of the cross browser weirdness, it's a breath of fresh air.
(...but if someone says the word "Weblication" to my face I'll have to smack them.)
Agreed, man. I do all my music on Buzz. People are surprised to find out it's all done in a free (as in beer) piece of software. (http://www.lacunaemusic.com/)
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Your reasons are old, oversimplified and hardly apply. There are many more, better reasons to hate flash than the three you specified.
I "replied" few of them to you once, but you didn't say anything back.
According to Yahoo! News maggot's may make their...
And in other news, apostrophes are still being used for pluralization... !!!!!@$(*!#(_$
*huffhuff*
In the first paragraph, I was referring to the multitude of irrelevant, huffy "colorizing b/w movies is a sin!" posts.
But hey, since you missed the point of that, it doesn't bother me that you missed the overall point of my post, which was in the second paragraph.
Cheers.
You b/w film purists. If all you can see is a threat to your bizarre, luddite idea of what film should be, you need to get your heads checked, or at least you need to listen to your inner geek. Stop using these folks' achievement as an opportunity for chest-thumping.
The idea that one could color correct video with a few strokes from mspaint is staggering. Imagine if one could do this to color video, in real time... you could color-highlight an object and the computer could follow it without sensors or other pre-implanted devices, and that's not even a particularly original idea. This is awesome technology with applications probably well beyond what we see here.
Once information infrastructure becomes ubiquitous, once data pipelines are in the air all around us at all times, there will be no need for physical media.
One will only need a receiver. "Codecs" will become the impediments/enablers of media consumption, just as physical media has enabled/disabled the media monopolies of today.
Sure, one might cache some media on the reciever, but let's not split hairs. Transmission is where it's at. Or, rather, where it will be.
I've said it before...
DNS is the achilles heel of the web. Take down/redirect/spoof/molest DNS, and it doesn't matter how many redundant whatevers and caching whothingies you have.
Nobody's getting to you.
And they may be getting to somebody else.
But DNS isn't glorious, so we'll keep spending the time/money on other things...
I can (and do) grip my logitech MX1000 in a way that looks like what they're trying to accomplish... Fingers bent a bit, hand relaxed over the top arch. Its buttons extend quite far along the body of the mouse, it's very comfortable.
Agreed. The biggest problem is the overwhelming influx of text on the web.
If only the Internet had some kind of noise filter...
Christ on a crutch.
How many times do I have to say "It was NOT a CHECKBOX" to get you understand it?
You people really are insufferable.
You're one dumb son of a bitch.
Have you tried it? No.
It was as if I'd doubleclicked the Yahoo Toolbar install EXE file. It came up and asked me if I wanted it.
But you're too busy trying to impress people.
Coward.
What the hell? Offering someone an option is chiseling away at their rights?
Cram it. Really. You're paranoid.
It comes up as a separate install. It asks you if you want to install it. It's not a hidden checkbox or a "custom install" option. It's as obvious as it could possibly be.
I just installed it. It asked me if I wanted the toolbar. I said no. End of story.
Paranoia.
With the Slashdot mindset, this was so guaranteed to end up on the front page, they should have foregone cropping to the AntiSpyware window in the screenshot and put some advertising behind it on their desktop. Millions of impressions cheap!
It's rings pavlovian, this crap.
Yup. I tell you one thing, this is a huge goddamn threat to flash. All the interactivity, no plugins, no breaking of web standard functions (if programmed right). w00t!
vk.
..and it really is beautiful. XML backend, Javascript frontend... deliciously platform independent, fast, and dynamic as you wanna be. Once you overcome some of the cross browser weirdness, it's a breath of fresh air.
(...but if someone says the word "Weblication" to my face I'll have to smack them.)
vk.
Oh, I agree, there are some bloggers who do "reporting," but blogging is for the most part editorial. I was referring bloggers in general.
Until bloggers start finding/reporting the stories instead of just spreading and spinning them, the answer is no.
try 5. it's winamp 2 improved, and it's begging for your forgiveness.
WMP is able to rip an entire CD into mp3s in 2 minutes flat.
What bit rate? How accurate?
Nobody knows how to fuck up a once perfectly good piece of software through bad decisions like AOL.
Heh. Except maybe Real.
Otherwise, not just your your adversaries will try to circumvent your security; your trusted parties will as well.
Agreed, man. I do all my music on Buzz. People are surprised to find out it's all done in a free (as in beer) piece of software. (http://www.lacunaemusic.com/)
Gotta love those finnish hackers.
Hahah, and grammar isn't even be worth complying at. Pfft!
...if that's all they can do.
HTML isn't even be worth putting on the resume.