Paying people without getting poorer would be a real trick.
A pretty well-known trick then - e.g. every company is paying its employees to do something. You tell me, the companies that make a profit - are they getting poorer or richer?
Or me paying a stock broker to manage a portfolio - and (s)he does what I expect.. I'm getting richer, right?
That is pretty impressive. I've never used LW, so tell me: have you found any areas lacking (obviously not enough to go back, but still), and/or any specific functions where Blender falls short compared to LW?
Perhaps one future problem could be, that the problem domains people will work in will change?
Complex stuff where mainframes would carry the research forward (but clusters would not), that - with only clusters available - won't be feasible and not get the attention it might deserve. Just an uninformed thought..
[...] their shirts really are nice looking, are comfortable, somewhat durable (especially the stitching) have "safe" patterns and the look damn good on me.
Taste and perception can be manufactured.
The important question is how percieved qualities are associated with a particular brand/product in the first place.
Some qualities are verifiable, and scientifically inclined people are possibly less susceptible to baseless hype. But, for example, who the f* would've cared about "Chanel Number whatever" if it weren't for Monroe? Or Manolo Blahniks that chicks can barely friggin stand in? "Think Different" campaigns for an extreme monoculture? And on and on..
Now, you dasmegabyte and some people are probably perceptive enough to identify many aspects of the mirage that is marketing, but the safe bet seems to be that for the majority, marketing - the building and control of perception - is worth it to the companies.
If not, one would think companies would've rerouted a lot of branding $ to support, QA, R&D, etc., ages ago rather than constantly increase their marketing budgets.
Hehehrm.. Ok, there was a "slight" disconnect 'tween the specifics of the sub-topic and my example... but in the general sense, it wasn't *that* awful, was it?
Not to mention all the white, middle-class males in their 'ghetto gear', their streetwise 'O.G.' language, and complicated greeting rituals... 'Thug life', as it were.
Have you considered the webbrowser? Its like skinning on top of a braindead set of controls, with all the power of your local machine stripped away in favor of... What exactly?
I'm not sure one can say stream ripping equals piracy. Is it? I recall recording a lot of radio shows on old, analog c-60 tapes a couple of decades ago. Quite the 10-year old 'pirate'...
Anyway, I see no difference between the two (as there are none), and sorry, I don't see it as piracy to record a radio broadcast (or TV broadcast).
But then, my moral fibre was probably corrupt even in my pre-teens..
Exactly what I was thinking. I've got piles of, well 'designs' isn't the word.., but all kinds of 'sketches' of stuff that would be cool to build - if only I had a bigass workshop and the needed skills.. As you say, a lot of people must have all kinds of uses for services like this.
My solution way back as a teen, was having a cool dad (working at a large factory with access to some mean machines and the skills to use them).
We messed around with all sorts of designs that he took to the shop and tried to build. Custom-made compressors, airbrush painting equipment, skateboard parts, various furniture, cases, fittings, gadgets, etc. Ah, memories.
It would be wicked cool to take this up again. But looking at the emachines site, the prices seem a very high. Some of the stuff I'd have in mind might cost thousands of dollars...
This rings very true. Looking back at the last bunch of CD purchases I've made, every single one has been well-known to me.
Well-known as in downloaded and listened to, sometimes for weeks, before the purchases. As I nolonger watch TV and seldom listen to broadcast radio, Bittorrent and the multitude of semi-'pirate' online radio stations/streams have become the way (well, in combination with recommendations from people) that I'm introduced to new music (which, obviously, is the only music I would have any interest in buying).
The ancient IBM T21 laptop this is written on hasn't been rebooted in over 2 months (I messed up an installation). Over the last year there's been like 3-4 reboots - all unnecessary and due to my not knowing what the hell I was doing tweaking the system:).
Normal operation though, I put it in suspend mode and get it back online in a second or three.
(The current OS is Redhat 9, it might've been different if I'd've had Windows installed(?), but there really is no need to power this computer off...save for hardware changes, or major software changes - e.g. installing a new OS.)
Forgive my ignorance, but when I copy/move 'picture.jpeg' - does 'hidden.txt' follow with it (either "physically" or with a reference)? If not, how do I keep the connection ('predicate' in RDF-speak I guess) between the two?
I noticed the article made no mention of Pike (also the name of a fish - see language logo). Pike's a fine C-like scripting language...that I know extremely poorly myself, but anyway..
The release of Pike 7.6 marks the first results of a long-running project to make Pike the first scripting language for the Semantic Web. The current highlight in that respect is the support for W3C's standard formats RDF and OWL.
Worth downloading and checking out for other reasons than "just" RDF & OWL. Free software, available under LGPL, GPL, and MPL (Mozilla Public License).
Branded by Apple as Rendezvous (the same way that IEEE 802.11b became Airport and 1394 became Firewire), Zeroconf is designed to bring the "It Just Works" Apple swagger to IP [...] networks.
I wonder - and forgive my ignorance if I'm asking/stating something untrue/stupid: if Rendezvous is "just" an implementation of Zeroconf, why all the "Kudos!" to Apple for "giving back to the community" (not you, ashpool7, but in this discussion)?
Because, I don't see people praising Apple for 802.11x ("Airport"!) or IEEE1394 ("Firewire"!) in quite the same way...
As I understand it, they didn't come up with the underlying technology(?) but rather made an implementation. And now, under their own license, release that implementation - source code to registered users. And again, if I understand this correctly, there are already other Zeroconf implementations, apart from Apple's?
I'm not trying to troll or flame here, but from what I read in the article ashpool7 linked to, I honestly don't understand why Apple are made out to be such heroes. Anyone care to explain?
Actually, some folks in the iPodLinux project have done some work to get flite (a run-time speech syntheziser engine for ARM) working: See this forum thread. It should therefore be possible to have your iPod read you any text file you wish in a cool, monotone computer voice:)
As you can read in the forum, text-2-speech (ebooks, notes, etc.) as well as a usability for blind people (menus as speech, etc.) are the main motivations (and that it's a cool hack, of course).
Unsure whether anyone's got it working adequately yet. Check with the devs/users in the iPodLinux forums.
Damn.. You managed to squeeze every available mod option into that one, "+" winning a righteous victory in the end. My impressed hat-tip in your general direction, Nameless One. A 'bash.org moment' if there ever was one on slashdot:)
+1 insightful. Lacking modpoints and not having anything substantial to add, I just wanted to say that I agree.
Having one/few individual/s coming up with something (that is free to hack away at), me-too-thinks is the #1 strength of the free (and OS) software community. I'm constantly in awe of how much amazing stuff people come up with all the time - and that perfect strangers rush to help tweak the h* out of it.
I want a handheld computer that is also quick with 3d.
I'd really like to see competent graphic chipsets worth a damn become a standard feature in these devices.
Do I have to get a PSP? But I'd like to play around creating 3d apps of my own - do I need to get a Sony SDK license (at what cost)?
This one, at $2800, still sports the (for 3d) underpowered 855GM chipset. Shared memory, no 3d hardware (or does it have?)...
Ok, with a 3d gfx card, the battery life might fall through the roof - but still... I'd feel like Superman without the cape with a hi-res screen like that, a fast CPU, but with abysmal overall 3d performance.
Also, the Curta's play a not insignificant role - as objects of desire for some old-school hacker/collector fetishists - in William Gibson's novel "All Tomorrow's Parties" (IIRC). The book had me look into them while reading it..pretty cool machines.
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Paying people without getting poorer would be a real trick.
A pretty well-known trick then - e.g. every company is paying its employees to do something. You tell me, the companies that make a profit - are they getting poorer or richer?
Or me paying a stock broker to manage a portfolio - and (s)he does what I expect.. I'm getting richer, right?
That is pretty impressive. I've never used LW, so tell me: have you found any areas lacking (obviously not enough to go back, but still), and/or any specific functions where Blender falls short compared to LW?
Perhaps one future problem could be, that the problem domains people will work in will change?
Complex stuff where mainframes would carry the research forward (but clusters would not), that - with only clusters available - won't be feasible and not get the attention it might deserve. Just an uninformed thought..
The important question is how percieved qualities are associated with a particular brand/product in the first place.
Some qualities are verifiable, and scientifically inclined people are possibly less susceptible to baseless hype. But, for example, who the f* would've cared about "Chanel Number whatever" if it weren't for Monroe? Or Manolo Blahniks that chicks can barely friggin stand in? "Think Different" campaigns for an extreme monoculture? And on and on..
Now, you dasmegabyte and some people are probably perceptive enough to identify many aspects of the mirage that is marketing, but the safe bet seems to be that for the majority, marketing - the building and control of perception - is worth it to the companies.
If not, one would think companies would've rerouted a lot of branding $ to support, QA, R&D, etc., ages ago rather than constantly increase their marketing budgets.
Hehehrm.. Ok, there was a "slight" disconnect 'tween the specifics of the sub-topic and my example... but in the general sense, it wasn't *that* awful, was it?
Not to mention all the white, middle-class males in their 'ghetto gear', their streetwise 'O.G.' language, and complicated greeting rituals... 'Thug life', as it were.
Roughly, this: In Praise of Evolvable Systems.
I'm not sure one can say stream ripping equals piracy. Is it? I recall recording a lot of radio shows on old, analog c-60 tapes a couple of decades ago. Quite the 10-year old 'pirate'...
Anyway, I see no difference between the two (as there are none), and sorry, I don't see it as piracy to record a radio broadcast (or TV broadcast).
But then, my moral fibre was probably corrupt even in my pre-teens..
Exactly what I was thinking. I've got piles of, well 'designs' isn't the word.., but all kinds of 'sketches' of stuff that would be cool to build - if only I had a bigass workshop and the needed skills.. As you say, a lot of people must have all kinds of uses for services like this.
My solution way back as a teen, was having a cool dad (working at a large factory with access to some mean machines and the skills to use them).
We messed around with all sorts of designs that he took to the shop and tried to build. Custom-made compressors, airbrush painting equipment, skateboard parts, various furniture, cases, fittings, gadgets, etc. Ah, memories.
It would be wicked cool to take this up again. But looking at the emachines site, the prices seem a very high. Some of the stuff I'd have in mind might cost thousands of dollars...
This rings very true. Looking back at the last bunch of CD purchases I've made, every single one has been well-known to me.
Well-known as in downloaded and listened to, sometimes for weeks, before the purchases. As I nolonger watch TV and seldom listen to broadcast radio, Bittorrent and the multitude of semi-'pirate' online radio stations/streams have become the way (well, in combination with recommendations from people) that I'm introduced to new music (which, obviously, is the only music I would have any interest in buying).
The ancient IBM T21 laptop this is written on hasn't been rebooted in over 2 months (I messed up an installation). Over the last year there's been like 3-4 reboots - all unnecessary and due to my not knowing what the hell I was doing tweaking the system :).
...save for hardware changes, or major software changes - e.g. installing a new OS.)
Normal operation though, I put it in suspend mode and get it back online in a second or three.
(The current OS is Redhat 9, it might've been different if I'd've had Windows installed(?), but there really is no need to power this computer off
I suspected the properties for files were met^H^H^H NTFS streams. Interesting, thank you.
Forgive my ignorance, but when I copy/move 'picture.jpeg' - does 'hidden.txt' follow with it (either "physically" or with a reference)? If not, how do I keep the connection ('predicate' in RDF-speak I guess) between the two?
I noticed the article made no mention of Pike (also the name of a fish - see language logo). Pike's a fine C-like scripting language ...that I know extremely poorly myself, but anyway..
From Pike's official homepage (at the University of Linkoping, Sweden):
Worth downloading and checking out for other reasons than "just" RDF & OWL. Free software, available under LGPL, GPL, and MPL (Mozilla Public License).
You're right, thanks. Upon further reading, I came to realize this too (replies to this post and the Zeroconf page).
:)
My bad, Apple does seem to rock in this case
I wonder - and forgive my ignorance if I'm asking/stating something untrue/stupid: if Rendezvous is "just" an implementation of Zeroconf, why all the "Kudos!" to Apple for "giving back to the community" (not you, ashpool7, but in this discussion)?
Because, I don't see people praising Apple for 802.11x ("Airport"!) or IEEE1394 ("Firewire"!) in quite the same way...
As I understand it, they didn't come up with the underlying technology(?) but rather made an implementation. And now, under their own license, release that implementation - source code to registered users. And again, if I understand this correctly, there are already other Zeroconf implementations, apart from Apple's?
I'm not trying to troll or flame here, but from what I read in the article ashpool7 linked to, I honestly don't understand why Apple are made out to be such heroes. Anyone care to explain?
Poor wording, but the AC possibly refers to iTunesDB?
Actually, some folks in the iPodLinux project have done some work to get flite (a run-time speech syntheziser engine for ARM) working: See this forum thread. It should therefore be possible to have your iPod read you any text file you wish in a cool, monotone computer voice :)
As you can read in the forum, text-2-speech (ebooks, notes, etc.) as well as a usability for blind people (menus as speech, etc.) are the main motivations (and that it's a cool hack, of course).
Unsure whether anyone's got it working adequately yet. Check with the devs/users in the iPodLinux forums.
Damn.. You managed to squeeze every available mod option into that one, "+" winning a righteous victory in the end. My impressed hat-tip in your general direction, Nameless One. A 'bash.org moment' if there ever was one on slashdot :)
+1 insightful. Lacking modpoints and not having anything substantial to add, I just wanted to say that I agree.
Having one/few individual/s coming up with something (that is free to hack away at), me-too-thinks is the #1 strength of the free (and OS) software community. I'm constantly in awe of how much amazing stuff people come up with all the time - and that perfect strangers rush to help tweak the h* out of it.
Ah, yes - had a vague recollection some company had made a handheld w decent (hardware) 3d. Thanks for the pointer.
I want a handheld computer that is also quick with 3d.
I'd really like to see competent graphic chipsets worth a damn become a standard feature in these devices.
Do I have to get a PSP? But I'd like to play around creating 3d apps of my own - do I need to get a Sony SDK license (at what cost)? This one, at $2800, still sports the (for 3d) underpowered 855GM chipset. Shared memory, no 3d hardware (or does it have?)...
Ok, with a 3d gfx card, the battery life might fall through the roof - but still... I'd feel like Superman without the cape with a hi-res screen like that, a fast CPU, but with abysmal overall 3d performance.
Oh, but there is, Sir. Mastering no less, in a new-ish (2nd Edition, July 2002) edition. It is good, it is just. :)
Also, the Curta's play a not insignificant role - as objects of desire for some old-school hacker/collector fetishists - in William Gibson's novel "All Tomorrow's Parties" (IIRC). The book had me look into them while reading it..pretty cool machines.