I'm actually rather impressed at the attitude of the other forum members. Most of them felt it was a bad choice and put pedestrians who might have been in the area at risk, suggesting the racer should go to a local track instead to wind up his wheels.
You think you'll still be able to 2-3 years from now?
I expect 120hz to become the standard "minimum" maximum refresh rate. You're worried about your 30 fps stuff looking dumb from artificial motion compensation you forget about all the folks who want to watch 24 fps films at actual framerates. A 120hz cycle allows both to run at even multiples (with the effect turned off) if one wants.
It does highlight that his opinion really isn't worth any more than a regular person and the inclusion of his degree is unneeded. He's not a professor of anything relevant to the topic, and yet it's still mentioned in an attempt to lend more credibility to his statements.
We don't need to worry about electric cars overloading power grids, we're already doing it right now.
You can't possibly say that the rolling blackouts and brownouts of the California power grid are "normal operating procedures" for a power system working within it's capacity, let alone a sign they have any surplus room for recharging electric vehicles.
I live in a college town in the Midwest, our city (~100,000 people) is served by a local cable company (not a major provider like Cox or T-W). Our highest tier residential internet service is 50 dn/2 up with a 250 GB usage cap for $69.95. I have a roommate who just graduated and moved to Seattle two months ago to work for Microsoft. He didn't quote exact prices when he made an offhand complaint about the cable Internet service out there, be he said it was about "twice as much" as it had been here, and that it maxed out at about 15 Mbps.
They can't. It's just a bullshit country's attempt to claim copyright over the layout of their roads and cities. You can't claim ownership over the view of your land from space.
This is actually in the same realm has claiming ownership of the rights on translating foreign languages in copyrighted works. Yes, you can sell the right to make the "official" version of something. But to me, there is something implicitly wrong about saying that if someone else tells someone what such-and-such sentence means in another language they can be sued. Like how China is now trying to say only State-approved companies (even foreign ones) can create a representation of the layout of the land that makes up the country.
Unsurprisingly, the plan has some anti-gun groups upset. Lyn Costello, of Mothers Against Murder and Aggression (MAMAA), said, "This isn't suitable, especially in light of what happened in Cumbria. We've got to be extra careful giving gun licenses."
Pardon my interruption here, MAMAA. But the purpose of this iPhone app is to RENEW pre-existing licenses. So nobody will be using it to get a gun who doesn't already have one.
Why does Apple even bother with this? Do they really think that nobody is going to complain? And for what? A few extra dollars?
Why are you assuming Apple really did any of this? Has it occurred to you that these resellers are simply making whatever excuses they need to for their backroom distributor/vendor deals to shine through?
Do you think it's impossible for a salesman to lie?
Wrong. It got added to Firefox if any of the toolbars were detected on the system, even if it was for IE. So someone with an OEM install of Windows with an IE toolbar, but who never used IE, would still get the Firefox add-on forced upon him.
I don't use any of the toolbars mentioned. I built this machine myself and installed Windows on it from a corporate XP installation CD. Why did I get that mysterious Microsoft extension?
The answer seems to be because most people can tell the difference between something printed at 300dpi and something printed at 1200 dpi.
This is pretty much what I was thinking when I heard Steve give that "300 dpi" claim. I've tried it many times myself: printed the same word processing document on a Postscript laser printer at the various settings. I can see a difference between 600 and 1200 dpi, let alone 300. And I don't have to hold the page right up to my face to see it.
I can finally get replacement eyes for all the stupid acts of humanity I've witnessed in my short lifetime that have dulled my sensitivity to this world.
Replacement corneas cannot make you forget the time you were tricked into clicking that Goatse link.
Do we now expect everyone's grandma to look up phone numbers on the Internet?
Of course not, they expect them to call 411 and find out the number for $1.45 per request, rather than look it up in the phone book for free. It's what the pointy-haired phone company execs would call "monetizing informational resources". Yeah, there are free 411 services like Google's but many people don't even realize these services exist.
Gizmodo needed proof that Apple was the true owner of the device.
If Gizmodo had doubts as to whether they were truly looking at a prototype Apple iPhone, why would they spend $5000 to purchase it? And why would they make a big deal and publishing photos/videos of it on their site? Any valid iPhone that is out in the wild before the official introduction is either a prototype or stolen pre-sale merchandise -- both Apple property.
The idea Gizmodo would go to these lengths for something that could just be another Chinese knockoff sounds like a "playing dumb" defense to me.
What I hate is they don't have permanent links to articles. Or they don't archive their news stories, one of the two. If I find an article I like I can't really bookmark it. If I try to come back to it months later I'm simply told the article doesn't exist.
Meanwhile, I have bookmarks to articles on Wired's website from a decade ago that still load correctly.
Well, you can "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" comments now like on YouTube, and ones that score low enough (the threshold seems pretty damn low) will be hidden by default. So there is actually a possibility that the old crew of outright racist and vulgar comments will be actually suppressed a bit (that was why Yahoo pulled the comment plug to begin with, it was during that scare about lawsuits on sites that allowed hate speech to be published in reader comments). But the general quacks will still get the attention they want.
A system more like Slashdot's where a comment starts with a low score and has to be modded up to a certain threshold to be seen by most people would be better.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm actually rather impressed at the attitude of the other forum members. Most of them felt it was a bad choice and put pedestrians who might have been in the area at risk, suggesting the racer should go to a local track instead to wind up his wheels.
You think you'll still be able to 2-3 years from now?
I expect 120hz to become the standard "minimum" maximum refresh rate. You're worried about your 30 fps stuff looking dumb from artificial motion compensation you forget about all the folks who want to watch 24 fps films at actual framerates. A 120hz cycle allows both to run at even multiples (with the effect turned off) if one wants.
You can turn the effect off, you know.
In a soundproof room... nobody can hear you scream.
...and it's such hot news!
It does highlight that his opinion really isn't worth any more than a regular person and the inclusion of his degree is unneeded. He's not a professor of anything relevant to the topic, and yet it's still mentioned in an attempt to lend more credibility to his statements.
We don't need to worry about electric cars overloading power grids, we're already doing it right now.
You can't possibly say that the rolling blackouts and brownouts of the California power grid are "normal operating procedures" for a power system working within it's capacity, let alone a sign they have any surplus room for recharging electric vehicles.
It's very interesting you mention Seattle.
I live in a college town in the Midwest, our city (~100,000 people) is served by a local cable company (not a major provider like Cox or T-W). Our highest tier residential internet service is 50 dn/2 up with a 250 GB usage cap for $69.95. I have a roommate who just graduated and moved to Seattle two months ago to work for Microsoft. He didn't quote exact prices when he made an offhand complaint about the cable Internet service out there, be he said it was about "twice as much" as it had been here, and that it maxed out at about 15 Mbps.
Yup, and David didn't get a choice I notice.
Just Pops there taking advantage of a drugged minor. Then uses him as a cash cow so he can quit his regular job.
Sleazy parents are sleazy.
Troll? I don't know about that.
What was the cost sharing on the "International" Space Station again?
They can't. It's just a bullshit country's attempt to claim copyright over the layout of their roads and cities. You can't claim ownership over the view of your land from space.
This is actually in the same realm has claiming ownership of the rights on translating foreign languages in copyrighted works. Yes, you can sell the right to make the "official" version of something. But to me, there is something implicitly wrong about saying that if someone else tells someone what such-and-such sentence means in another language they can be sued. Like how China is now trying to say only State-approved companies (even foreign ones) can create a representation of the layout of the land that makes up the country.
Pardon my interruption here, MAMAA. But the purpose of this iPhone app is to RENEW pre-existing licenses. So nobody will be using it to get a gun who doesn't already have one.
Isn't using HTTPS everywhere on a website that's sole purpose is to share info about yourself kinda ironic?
In Soviet Russia, outlaws work for YOU!
Why are you assuming Apple really did any of this? Has it occurred to you that these resellers are simply making whatever excuses they need to for their backroom distributor/vendor deals to shine through?
Do you think it's impossible for a salesman to lie?
I don't use any of the toolbars mentioned. I built this machine myself and installed Windows on it from a corporate XP installation CD. Why did I get that mysterious Microsoft extension?
Thanks to there being no term limits on Congress, there may be things in those documents about people who are still in office.
Perhaps we shouldn't spread the story too widely until we have the hole truth. /ducks
This is pretty much what I was thinking when I heard Steve give that "300 dpi" claim. I've tried it many times myself: printed the same word processing document on a Postscript laser printer at the various settings. I can see a difference between 600 and 1200 dpi, let alone 300. And I don't have to hold the page right up to my face to see it.
Replacement corneas cannot make you forget the time you were tricked into clicking that Goatse link.
Security Theater needs actors.
Of course not, they expect them to call 411 and find out the number for $1.45 per request, rather than look it up in the phone book for free. It's what the pointy-haired phone company execs would call "monetizing informational resources". Yeah, there are free 411 services like Google's but many people don't even realize these services exist.
What I hate is they don't have permanent links to articles. Or they don't archive their news stories, one of the two. If I find an article I like I can't really bookmark it. If I try to come back to it months later I'm simply told the article doesn't exist.
Meanwhile, I have bookmarks to articles on Wired's website from a decade ago that still load correctly.
Well, you can "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" comments now like on YouTube, and ones that score low enough (the threshold seems pretty damn low) will be hidden by default. So there is actually a possibility that the old crew of outright racist and vulgar comments will be actually suppressed a bit (that was why Yahoo pulled the comment plug to begin with, it was during that scare about lawsuits on sites that allowed hate speech to be published in reader comments). But the general quacks will still get the attention they want.
A system more like Slashdot's where a comment starts with a low score and has to be modded up to a certain threshold to be seen by most people would be better.