It is myopic materialistic leeches like yourself that want to hold society and Science hostage with paywalls, pretend you can patent math, inflict your bullshit copy protection schemes so that legitimate consumers can't backup their property meanwhile the pirates already laugh at your stupidity because they are "kracked" you nonsense, try to outlaw libraries for sharing knowledge, sue people for sharing CD's because you didn't get your precious "cut", bully and badger people for sharing numbers with frivolous lawsuits about Imaginary Property because you are too stupid too understand numbers can represent anything, try to claim ownership of DNA even thought you didn't _invent_ it, etc. all because you worship the false god of Greed.
See I can play the retarded game of ad hominems too.
Maybe if you would play more attention to some of the greatest minds this world has ever seen you might actually get a clue stick:
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Sir Isaac Newton
But you would rather fuck everyone over to make a quick buck. Who gives a shit about my fellow man, right? They are just resources to be exploited. Who cares if I con people into buying over-priced rocks. Your false profit (sic.) is P. T. Barnum and his bible is "There's a sucker born every minute"
One day you will eventually realize that relationships are more valuable then money.
The questions is -- will you realize this before or after you die?
Because one day you WILL lose everything -- and the only thing that carries over into the next life is how well, or poorly, you treated everyone.
Last year, 2015, the majority of patents expired in the US
Fraunhofer IIS were a bunch of greedy assholes suing everyone who encoded mp3's and didn't license their codec. They decided to allow for free mp3 playback since that would be double-dipping.
Red Hat probably stayed clear the entire minefield just to be safe and I don't blame them. Many geeks switched to FLAC (50% lossless compression) or Ogg.
-- HDCP = Hollywood's Draconian Copy Protection system which does nothing to stop pirates and only hinders legitimate customers.
> The SETI question has large potential for positive change in society in general.
If by "potential" you mean where we learn that governments have covered up the truth for decades, that humans were genetically engineered, that we don't own the dam planet, that we aren't the sharpest tool in the galaxy by a long shot, that some advanced species treat as us mere animals and a delicacy, that every religion is man made, that our mathematics is extremely linear, that our politics is a complete and total joke, that our science is primitive (at best), that almost everyone has a false belief that "There is never enough", and that we STILL haven't figured out how to get along on a planet without money when animals have done this for millions of years, then OK.
Oh wait, you mean that cloaking, FTL, teleportation, and time travel is possible, the discovery that consciousness IS the underlying energy, that there are 6 fundamental forces, that we can heal every disease given the plant variety we have, that there are "levels" to consciousness, that white holes recycle the energy from black holes, that our experiments with high energy physics is damaging our planet, that the physical reality is only one sub-set, that money will be come completely valueless due to zero point energy, that creativity is the greatest gift that we can offer, etc., then yeah, we'll learn all that good stuff too.
-- First Contact is coming ~2024. Are you ready for a new cosmic paradigm?
Wordstar was released in June 1979 but the Apple 2 (][//e//c) also used "high-bit" ASCII two years earlier in April 1977.
i.e.
.1 LDA $C000 ; read keyboard
BPL.1
STA $C010 ; clear keyboard
; A >= $80
Reading a native character had the high bit set. Writing a character to screen required the high-bit ALSO set unless you specifically wanted INVERSE (0x00..0x3F) or FLASHing characters (0x40..0x7F). See Beagle Bros Peeks and Pokes Chart
> but they still broke the defacto standard because no one else could make use of it.
That's not technically true. Apple DOS 3.2 and 3.3 also used the same trick to signal end-of-string.
Remember, at the time there were 3 ways to signal end-of-string:
* C's null-terminated (ASCIIZ) -- last byte is zero. * Pascal's first-byte-string-length * Dextral Character Inverted (DCI) -- the last byte has the sign bit flipped. (This was popular on Apple 2 assemblers such as Merlin. Thankfully this pseudo-opcode has been preserved on modern assemblers)
-- First Contact is scheduled for ~ 2024. Are you ready to accept the facts that humans were genetically engineered?
As someone also with a degree in Comp. Sci. and studied this "AI", you've fallen hook, line, and sinker for the complete and total joke of Artificial Ignorance (A.I.) as opposed to actual intelligence (a.i.). Mislabeling was as peace doesn't make it so.
The facts according to Physics, such as the Standard Model, is that consciousness and intelligence don't even exist!!!There are ZERO equations (or variables) that describe consciousness, let alone intelligence.If you can't even measure nor quantify it then you have no proof. If you have no way to PROVE intelligence then all you have is only wishful thinking.
I've spent the last 12 years studying and interacting with non-human consciousness (both above and below.) Without consciousness you don't have ANY "intelligence" -- all you have is a glorified state machine at best -- yes, even your stupid "recurrent neural (sic.) network" -- that "appears" "intelligent" within a very narrow, domain-specific field because it can do billions of calculations inside it yet is a total idiot outside it. i.e. How does Google's AlphaGo play checkers, chess, or actually "learn" any other game outside its domain on its own without being programmed??Hint:It can't -- it's completely ignorant -- oblivious to anything it wasn't programmed with. But let's keep hijacking terms and mislabeling ignorance as intelligence.
The solution for a.i. is biocomputing -- using _actual_ living cells.
-- First Contact is scheduled for ~ 2024. Are you ready to accept the facts that humans were genetically engineered?
As someone with a degree in Comp. Sci. and studied this "AI", you've fallen hook, line, and sinker for the complete and total joke of Artificial Ignorance as opposed to actual intelligence.
Without consciousness you don't have any "intelligence" -- you have a glorified state table, at best, that "appears" intelligent within a very narrow, domain-specific field because it can do billions of calculations and a total idiot outside. i.e. How does Google's AlphaGo play checkers, chess, or actually "learn" any other game without being programmed?? Hint: It can't -- it's completely ignorant -- oblivious to anything it wasn't programmed with.
The _facts_ according to Physics, such as the Standard Model, is that consciousness doesn't even exist ! **There are ZERO equations (or variables) that describe consciousness**, let alone intelligence. If you can't even measure nor quantify consciousness then how the fuck is one even replicating intelligence which depends upon consciousness?? If you have no way to PROVE that you are then all you have is only _wishful thinking._
With Artificial Ignorance actually starts using _living brain cells_ then maybe they'll actually have a hope with actual intelligence.
Worse, all sense of color has been removed -- icons are now monochromatic.
* Before users had two ways ways to identify icons: color, and silhouette. * Now with "flat shading" users only have 1 way to identify icons: silhouette.
> Seriously, Microsoft deciding to drop colors from icons had me very preplexed.
That's because all the modern UI designers are color blind. They would rather pick gaudy colors and visual vomit, then work within a 1 or 2 color "theme" and make that look good.
It is the modern approach of "throw shit at a wall and see what sticks" mentality.
There is a name for myopic people who assumes their religion is "best" for everyone; their immature "my way is the only way" mentality is called a cult.
The *proper* solution is to give users a **choice** -- because good style is subjective.
Naturally, that begs the question, what is good? We'll get to that in a second.
Some people think this bookshelf is absolutely beautiful. Compare and contrast to the "modern" version which is bland and boring. All sense of charm, and uniqueness is flushed down the crapper -- Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft now all look the same. **Yawn**
I'm not the only one who hates the flat button look. All these modern designs look the same -- bland. Skeuomorphism matches what a real calculator looks like -- and you can pry my HP48SX from my cold, dead hands, thank-you very much.
Again, the best decision would be to match what users prefer. Some prefer the former, others prefer the latter. BOTH choices are OK. But designers love to pretend that they know better -- and shove their crap down my throat regardless if I like it or not.
Personally, I find antiskeuomorphism design to be dumb and gaudy -- as there no context for what is foreground and background. Congratulations, you've removed all signal and just made everything noise!. How is completely over-loading the user with noise helping them???
Maybe you prefer the gaudy, boxy design of Windows 1, er, Windows 8, but many people sure don't.
UI should be about empowering users -- NOT "let's make everything look bland, sterile, gaudy, lifeless and make me want to gouge my eyes out" because that's what modern UI has become. A clusterfuck of visual vomit.
IMO skeuomorphism is like spice
* Too much and you get indigestion. * Too little and everything is "flat" and lacking.
I also disagree that "flat design" is skeuomorphic but that is a topic for another day.
-- Henry Poincare derived the e=mc^2 Mass-Energy equivalence 5 years earlier before Einstein. Einstein also abbreviated it as a linear equation instead of an infinite series.
Part of the problem is that modern UI designers chase fads. (The previous fad was antiskeuomorphism.)
You can see this in the UI "devolution" of Photoshop and others tools:
* The background used to be black on white, aka "light" themes. * Now "dark" themes are in vogue -- with white on black.
Also, True Type / Postscript / Web fonts still don't support color gradients. The classic is the old vertical "Orange-Yellow-White" gradient font used in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Yet back in 1992 this was trivial with bitmap fonts:
Most UI designers are clueless about the difference print fonts (serif) and screen fonts (sans serif). I don't expect many of them to understand the pixel grid
Slashdot Mirror
/sarcasm You mean the saying "Loud Pipes Saves Lives" isn't true? But I read it on the internet !
I see you also like to use ad hominems with anyone who disagrees with you.
--
There is a name for people who like to pretend they can own a number or formula: Delusional
Ad hominem much?
It is myopic materialistic leeches like yourself that want to hold society and Science hostage with paywalls, pretend you can patent math, inflict your bullshit copy protection schemes so that legitimate consumers can't backup their property meanwhile the pirates already laugh at your stupidity because they are "kracked" you nonsense, try to outlaw libraries for sharing knowledge, sue people for sharing CD's because you didn't get your precious "cut", bully and badger people for sharing numbers with frivolous lawsuits about Imaginary Property because you are too stupid too understand numbers can represent anything, try to claim ownership of DNA even thought you didn't _invent_ it, etc. all because you worship the false god of Greed.
See I can play the retarded game of ad hominems too.
Maybe if you would play more attention to some of the greatest minds this world has ever seen you might actually get a clue stick:
-- Thomas Jefferson
-- Sir Isaac Newton
But you would rather fuck everyone over to make a quick buck. Who gives a shit about my fellow man, right? They are just resources to be exploited. Who cares if I con people into buying over-priced rocks. Your false profit (sic.) is P. T. Barnum and his bible is "There's a sucker born every minute"
One day you will eventually realize that relationships are more valuable then money.
The questions is -- will you realize this before or after you die?
Because one day you WILL lose everything -- and the only thing that carries over into the next life is how well, or poorly, you treated everyone.
So spare me the anticapitalist claptrap.
When the fuck are you going to grow up?
Patents.
Last year, 2015, the majority of patents expired in the US
Fraunhofer IIS were a bunch of greedy assholes suing everyone who encoded mp3's and didn't license their codec. They decided to allow for free mp3 playback since that would be double-dipping.
Red Hat probably stayed clear the entire minefield just to be safe and I don't blame them. Many geeks switched to FLAC (50% lossless compression) or Ogg.
--
HDCP = Hollywood's Draconian Copy Protection system which does nothing to stop pirates and only hinders legitimate customers.
OK, thanks for the clarification. Must have been another AC. :-/
OT: Which version of Firefox did you say was safe? Version 43? 44? or 45?
Thanks.
Oh please, GIMP is a toy.
When will GIMP have native Layer Effects?
* Gradient Overlay
* Outer Glow
When will it have native support for 16-bit and 32-bit raw importing?
Because GIMP 2.8 is a joke compared to Photoshop.
--
Bose is shit and a bunch of cowards. Where are the technical specs??
> The SETI question has large potential for positive change in society in general.
If by "potential" you mean where we learn that governments have covered up the truth for decades, that humans were genetically engineered, that we don't own the dam planet, that we aren't the sharpest tool in the galaxy by a long shot, that some advanced species treat as us mere animals and a delicacy, that every religion is man made, that our mathematics is extremely linear, that our politics is a complete and total joke, that our science is primitive (at best), that almost everyone has a false belief that "There is never enough", and that we STILL haven't figured out how to get along on a planet without money when animals have done this for millions of years, then OK.
Oh wait, you mean that cloaking, FTL, teleportation, and time travel is possible, the discovery that consciousness IS the underlying energy, that there are 6 fundamental forces, that we can heal every disease given the plant variety we have, that there are "levels" to consciousness, that white holes recycle the energy from black holes, that our experiments with high energy physics is damaging our planet, that the physical reality is only one sub-set, that money will be come completely valueless due to zero point energy, that creativity is the greatest gift that we can offer, etc., then yeah, we'll learn all that good stuff too.
--
First Contact is coming ~2024. Are you ready for a new cosmic paradigm?
Wordstar was released in June 1979 but the Apple 2 (][ //e //c) also used "high-bit" ASCII two years earlier in April 1977.
i.e.
Reading a native character had the high bit set. Writing a character to screen required the high-bit ALSO set unless you specifically wanted INVERSE (0x00..0x3F) or FLASHing characters (0x40..0x7F). See Beagle Bros Peeks and Pokes Chart
> but they still broke the defacto standard because no one else could make use of it.
That's not technically true. Apple DOS 3.2 and 3.3 also used the same trick to signal end-of-string.
Remember, at the time there were 3 ways to signal end-of-string:
* C's null-terminated (ASCIIZ) -- last byte is zero.
* Pascal's first-byte-string-length
* Dextral Character Inverted (DCI) -- the last byte has the sign bit flipped. (This was popular on Apple 2 assemblers such as Merlin. Thankfully this pseudo-opcode has been preserved on modern assemblers)
--
First Contact is scheduled for ~ 2024. Are you ready to accept the facts that humans were genetically engineered?
As someone also with a degree in Comp. Sci. and studied this "AI", you've fallen hook, line, and sinker for the complete and total joke of Artificial Ignorance (A.I.) as opposed to actual intelligence (a.i.). Mislabeling was as peace doesn't make it so.
The facts according to Physics, such as the Standard Model, is that consciousness and intelligence don't even exist!!! There are ZERO equations (or variables) that describe consciousness, let alone intelligence. If you can't even measure nor quantify it then you have no proof. If you have no way to PROVE intelligence then all you have is only wishful thinking.
I've spent the last 12 years studying and interacting with non-human consciousness (both above and below.) Without consciousness you don't have ANY "intelligence" -- all you have is a glorified state machine at best -- yes, even your stupid "recurrent neural (sic.) network" -- that "appears" "intelligent" within a very narrow, domain-specific field because it can do billions of calculations inside it yet is a total idiot outside it. i.e. How does Google's AlphaGo play checkers, chess, or actually "learn" any other game outside its domain on its own without being programmed?? Hint: It can't -- it's completely ignorant -- oblivious to anything it wasn't programmed with. But let's keep hijacking terms and mislabeling ignorance as intelligence.
The solution for a.i. is biocomputing -- using _actual_ living cells.
--
First Contact is scheduled for ~ 2024. Are you ready to accept the facts that humans were genetically engineered?
As someone with a degree in Comp. Sci. and studied this "AI", you've fallen hook, line, and sinker for the complete and total joke of Artificial Ignorance as opposed to actual intelligence.
Without consciousness you don't have any "intelligence" -- you have a glorified state table, at best, that "appears" intelligent within a very narrow, domain-specific field because it can do billions of calculations and a total idiot outside. i.e. How does Google's AlphaGo play checkers, chess, or actually "learn" any other game without being programmed?? Hint: It can't -- it's completely ignorant -- oblivious to anything it wasn't programmed with.
The _facts_ according to Physics, such as the Standard Model, is that consciousness doesn't even exist ! **There are ZERO equations (or variables) that describe consciousness**, let alone intelligence. If you can't even measure nor quantify consciousness then how the fuck is one even replicating intelligence which depends upon consciousness?? If you have no way to PROVE that you are then all you have is only _wishful thinking._
With Artificial Ignorance actually starts using _living brain cells_ then maybe they'll actually have a hope with actual intelligence.
I'm in the same boat as you -- except I have a late 2013 with an nVidia GT 750M
The solution is an an eGPU, such as BizonBox2 -- an external GPU with its own power supply and connected to the MBP via Thunderbolt.
Thanks for the catch -- yes, should be "your" -- I had a brain fart when I changed the grammar.
This is the holy trinity of computers:
* Hardware + Software + User Experience
Great Hardware enables great software.
Great Software empowers the user experience.
Great user experiences has people loving computers.
Crappy hardware can only make for poor software.
Poor software makes for laggy user experience.
Laggy user experience has people hating computers.
--
If you're frame rate (or UI) is not targeting at least 60+ Hz, you're doing it wrong. Only amateurs target 30 Hz.
Preach it brother!
Worse, all sense of color has been removed -- icons are now monochromatic.
* Before users had two ways ways to identify icons: color, and silhouette.
* Now with "flat shading" users only have 1 way to identify icons: silhouette.
And this "flat" stuff is 'better' ??? NOT.
> Seriously, Microsoft deciding to drop colors from icons had me very preplexed.
That's because all the modern UI designers are color blind. They would rather pick gaudy colors and visual vomit, then work within a 1 or 2 color "theme" and make that look good.
It is the modern approach of "throw shit at a wall and see what sticks" mentality.
> Skeuomorphic design is stupid and childish.
There is a name for myopic people who assumes their religion is "best" for everyone; their immature "my way is the only way" mentality is called a cult.
The *proper* solution is to give users a **choice** -- because good style is subjective.
Naturally, that begs the question, what is good? We'll get to that in a second.
Some people think this bookshelf is absolutely beautiful. Compare and contrast to the "modern" version which is bland and boring. All sense of charm, and uniqueness is flushed down the crapper -- Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft now all look the same. **Yawn**
I'm not the only one who hates the flat button look. All these modern designs look the same -- bland. Skeuomorphism matches what a real calculator looks like -- and you can pry my HP48SX from my cold, dead hands, thank-you very much.
Again, the best decision would be to match what users prefer. Some prefer the former, others prefer the latter. BOTH choices are OK. But designers love to pretend that they know better -- and shove their crap down my throat regardless if I like it or not.
Personally, I find antiskeuomorphism design to be dumb and gaudy -- as there no context for what is foreground and background. Congratulations, you've removed all signal and just made everything noise!. How is completely over-loading the user with noise helping them???
Maybe you prefer the gaudy, boxy design of Windows 1, er, Windows 8, but many people sure don't.
UI should be about empowering users -- NOT "let's make everything look bland, sterile, gaudy, lifeless and make me want to gouge my eyes out" because that's what modern UI has become. A clusterfuck of visual vomit.
IMO skeuomorphism is like spice
* Too much and you get indigestion.
* Too little and everything is "flat" and lacking.
I also disagree that "flat design" is skeuomorphic but that is a topic for another day.
--
Henry Poincare derived the e=mc^2 Mass-Energy equivalence 5 years earlier before Einstein. Einstein also abbreviated it as a linear equation instead of an infinite series.
Part of the problem is that modern UI designers chase fads. (The previous fad was antiskeuomorphism.)
You can see this in the UI "devolution" of Photoshop and others tools:
* The background used to be black on white, aka "light" themes.
* Now "dark" themes are in vogue -- with white on black.
Also, True Type / Postscript / Web fonts still don't support color gradients. The classic is the old vertical "Orange-Yellow-White" gradient font used in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Yet back in 1992 this was trivial with bitmap fonts:
* Ultima 7 Main Menu
* Ultima 7 NPC Dialog
Most UI designers are clueless about the difference print fonts (serif) and screen fonts (sans serif). I don't expect many of them to understand the pixel grid
--
DVD / Blu-Ray Region Locking == Price Fixing.
That's why I put "best" in quotes.
Thanks!
Yup, Outlook's search is crap.
> MS office (because stupid people can only use outlook for email),
I dislike Outlook just as much as you, but what cross platform mail client and server handles shared calendars across Windows, and OSX ?
sarcasm, noun; the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
/sarcsam Because America has the "best" government money can buy son.
Speaking of the ocean a great documentary is Mission Blue (available on Netflix)
What a bad trailer.
Guy is too self-absorbed to spend any time with man's best friend so he ignores his dog ... because the game is more important.