In order for a cashless society to exist, we need to change the model for how credit cards work.
Currently: we give our number, merchant bills the card.
Future: We get the merchant's number (via, say, a photo of the merchant's barcode on a cellphone) and explicitly/send/ them the money. Over a heavily encrypted wireless signal, routed through our banking institution.
Or layer grouping, or really anything useful when it comes to layers other than basic masking. If you're constructing anything more complicated than an icon, inkscape is better for you. And even that's annoying to use compared to illustrator.
A recent episode of Numb3rs examined this issue. They were excited when they began interacting with a computer that was seemingly poised to pass the turing test.
It ended up that the computer was programmed to pass the turing test and nothing else: it searched through possible responses until it found one that was statistically shown in conversation to be appropriate. It never actually understood the interactions taking place, it simply found an optimal response.
In order for an EV car to make economic sense over a gasoline car, the price difference between gas an grid electricity needs to be much higher. In order to recoup costs, driving 40 miles per day, for an $8,000 premium, is about 21 years right now.
For it to be viable, I'd say that should be about 2 years. So gas would need to cost about 12.50 per gallon, if electricity stayed the same at 16 cents / kwh.
If they can cluster LEDs in a way that simulates natural light (ie, a few at one frequency, a few at another frequency, etc) then I don't see how it's impossible... impossible for a single diode, perhaps..
Not only this, but while we were "fighting communism," we were propping up authoritarian regimes around the world - many worse than the communism we were "fighting"...
By invading Iraq, we bolstered support in the middle east (and Iraq in particular) for Al Qaida. We gave them angry young people who wanted to attack the US for ruining their lives (by killing their families) as recruits. Thus, we gave them aid.
Because that's called payola, and the station is legally required to disclose when they're being paid to play a song.
What I'm wondering is why Pandora hasn't set up a market research account so that record companies can gather pretty lucrative information on demographics for their music. Information that's more in-depth than radio listener counts. Information that could be anonymous: "Last month you had 602 listeners in the New York Metro area listening to Band X. This month you have 800, but Band Y has dropped in popularity.
Put in some awesome google analytics style output, and you've got a pretty useful app that companies would pay hand over fist for.
I'd think record companies would pay good money for this kind of market research, so they could help bands plan tours that would draw higher attendance - and possibly choose a venue: sometimes the anticipated attendance from market research is much lower than the actual attendance - so they book a large venue, but only fill it with a medium amount of people. This has the result of — no matter how good the band was — giving an appearance of being lackluster.
Example from another industry:
You have a restaurant. Your food is great. Everyone who eats there loves it. Unfortunately, because of the town you live in, not many people go out to eat. The business is still profitable, but the restaurant looks empty. People passing by and glancing in the windows might notice this, and come away with the impression that your restaurant has lousy food or service - and then they put it off their list of things to try. Often this is subconscious, but it's there.
Unless you market it as an etch-a-sketch for a new generation;)
Then it's not just web browsing vs graphic designers.
It's useful for any kind of artist, and useful for (older) kids who enjoy art. It's about the same price as a decent tablet, and it's more useful.
With a (semi) low quality screen, and a low level of pressure sensitivity (perhaps 256 levels instead of the 512 on the low end wacom tablets), it would be more a creative outlet toy than a useful professional tool.
Still, it would be nice to sketch out ideas when they happen rather than having to boot up my computer and photoshop - or having to scan in roughly drawn pencil sketches. Just sketch it, hit save, when you get to your computer plug it in and import directly to photoshop/gimp. Voila.
Too bulky. I want something the size of a paper notebook, all it does is work as a digital sketch pad. Also, most tablet PCs are not very pressure sensitive - my cheap wacom tablet has has a 512-level granularity.. Somehow I doubt most touch screens get that. They're mostly boolean, no?
I would rather have a low-cost art tablet (drawing surface with an LCD screen) than a low-cost web browsing tablet.
Current LCD screen tablets are over $1500, which weirds me out because my freakin' 24" widescreen LCD was only $500. Stylus technology (most use passive induction) can't be THAT expensive can it?
I would love it if someone came out with a $200 1024x768 thin digital sketch pad. Put all its computing into running GIMP (or better yet, photoshop) or Inkscape, make it able to plug in directly to my desktop to download my images from it (or use it indirectly as a tablet for my PC).
In Italy, they made a certain kind of cheese illegal (it's dangerous to eat): pecorino cheese with cheese fly larvae in it. It's basically fermented until it's almost toxic. The worms have sharp barbs on their tail-end, and can survive the gastric juices of a human and end up attempting to bore through your intestines. People usually eat it with one hand covering above it, because the larvae tend to launch themselves up to 15cm when disturbed.
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In order for a cashless society to exist, we need to change the model for how credit cards work.
Currently: we give our number, merchant bills the card.
Future: We get the merchant's number (via, say, a photo of the merchant's barcode on a cellphone) and explicitly /send/ them the money. Over a heavily encrypted wireless signal, routed through our banking institution.
Or layer grouping, or really anything useful when it comes to layers other than basic masking. If you're constructing anything more complicated than an icon, inkscape is better for you. And even that's annoying to use compared to illustrator.
Pretty sure Lynx will.
Beg to differ.
http://waynepan.com/2008/09/02/v8-tracemonkey-squirrelfish-ie8-benchmarks/
A recent episode of Numb3rs examined this issue. They were excited when they began interacting with a computer that was seemingly poised to pass the turing test.
It ended up that the computer was programmed to pass the turing test and nothing else: it searched through possible responses until it found one that was statistically shown in conversation to be appropriate. It never actually understood the interactions taking place, it simply found an optimal response.
Content with a lot of needless markup ;)
Yeah, but she was a cylon.
In order for an EV car to make economic sense over a gasoline car, the price difference between gas an grid electricity needs to be much higher. In order to recoup costs, driving 40 miles per day, for an $8,000 premium, is about 21 years right now.
For it to be viable, I'd say that should be about 2 years. So gas would need to cost about 12.50 per gallon, if electricity stayed the same at 16 cents / kwh.
Well, seeing as its stack trace says *vb instead of *cs, I'm guessing it's VB.
Actually, it's pretty interesting. He used a genetic algorithm to find the theoretical structure.
interesting game. The only winning move... Is not to play.
If they can cluster LEDs in a way that simulates natural light (ie, a few at one frequency, a few at another frequency, etc) then I don't see how it's impossible... impossible for a single diode, perhaps..
Thanks for that link. I needed to reboot my computer anyway..
We should just limit bills to 10 pages. If it can't be said in 10 pages, it needs to be broken up into smaller chunks.
Not only this, but while we were "fighting communism," we were propping up authoritarian regimes around the world - many worse than the communism we were "fighting" ...
By invading Iraq, we bolstered support in the middle east (and Iraq in particular) for Al Qaida. We gave them angry young people who wanted to attack the US for ruining their lives (by killing their families) as recruits. Thus, we gave them aid.
Because that's called payola, and the station is legally required to disclose when they're being paid to play a song.
What I'm wondering is why Pandora hasn't set up a market research account so that record companies can gather pretty lucrative information on demographics for their music. Information that's more in-depth than radio listener counts. Information that could be anonymous: "Last month you had 602 listeners in the New York Metro area listening to Band X. This month you have 800, but Band Y has dropped in popularity.
Put in some awesome google analytics style output, and you've got a pretty useful app that companies would pay hand over fist for.
I'd think record companies would pay good money for this kind of market research, so they could help bands plan tours that would draw higher attendance - and possibly choose a venue: sometimes the anticipated attendance from market research is much lower than the actual attendance - so they book a large venue, but only fill it with a medium amount of people. This has the result of — no matter how good the band was — giving an appearance of being lackluster.
Example from another industry:
You have a restaurant. Your food is great. Everyone who eats there loves it. Unfortunately, because of the town you live in, not many people go out to eat. The business is still profitable, but the restaurant looks empty. People passing by and glancing in the windows might notice this, and come away with the impression that your restaurant has lousy food or service - and then they put it off their list of things to try. Often this is subconscious, but it's there.
I really hope this never happens. I listen to pandora to find music that I like, not what the record execs want me to like.
(And yes, I use it as a music discovery service. I've bought about two albums a month from pandora's amazon affiliate link.
Have you done your part to help keep them alive?)
Unless you market it as an etch-a-sketch for a new generation ;)
Then it's not just web browsing vs graphic designers.
It's useful for any kind of artist, and useful for (older) kids who enjoy art. It's about the same price as a decent tablet, and it's more useful.
With a (semi) low quality screen, and a low level of pressure sensitivity (perhaps 256 levels instead of the 512 on the low end wacom tablets), it would be more a creative outlet toy than a useful professional tool.
Still, it would be nice to sketch out ideas when they happen rather than having to boot up my computer and photoshop - or having to scan in roughly drawn pencil sketches. Just sketch it, hit save, when you get to your computer plug it in and import directly to photoshop/gimp. Voila.
Too bulky. I want something the size of a paper notebook, all it does is work as a digital sketch pad. Also, most tablet PCs are not very pressure sensitive - my cheap wacom tablet has has a 512-level granularity.. Somehow I doubt most touch screens get that. They're mostly boolean, no?
This is a touch screen - it has nothing about pressure sensitivity. Which is pretty necessary for art apps.
I would rather have a low-cost art tablet (drawing surface with an LCD screen) than a low-cost web browsing tablet.
Current LCD screen tablets are over $1500, which weirds me out because my freakin' 24" widescreen LCD was only $500. Stylus technology (most use passive induction) can't be THAT expensive can it?
I would love it if someone came out with a $200 1024x768 thin digital sketch pad. Put all its computing into running GIMP (or better yet, photoshop) or Inkscape, make it able to plug in directly to my desktop to download my images from it (or use it indirectly as a tablet for my PC).
That's something I'd easily drop $500 on. Easily.
People really do eat some really weird stuff.
In Italy, they made a certain kind of cheese illegal (it's dangerous to eat): pecorino cheese with cheese fly larvae in it. It's basically fermented until it's almost toxic. The worms have sharp barbs on their tail-end, and can survive the gastric juices of a human and end up attempting to bore through your intestines. People usually eat it with one hand covering above it, because the larvae tend to launch themselves up to 15cm when disturbed.
Yeah, like people going crazy from too much Adam.
It's accurate, just not precise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision