"I think I'd like to own that movie" "why don't you just queue it up first and see if you want a permanent copy?" [time passes] "Wow, I'm glad I only rented that"
But, you'd better do another advertising blitz around the time it's actually available for me the way I plan on viewing it. If I forget I wanted to see your movie, I don't really consider that a loss. That's just more time for more productive hobbies.
3D adds texture. It's often gimicky, because producers (I assume it's producers) demand excuses to show of "it's 3D!" usually by having something pointy come out of the frame too far (as in, too close for normal people to adjust their eyes to it quickly).
But it's a perfectly useful tool for adding texture to projects if you avoid the gimmicky "throw stuff at you" tricks. It really does add to the immersion on films where they're not playing "look, it's 3D!" all the time.
No one calls greek friezes "gimmky" just because they have some relief (although they would if every frieze had a spear sticking way out to remind you). It's just another tool for artists to use to evoke emotion.
Now, I'd challenge you to watch one of the films where it wasn't just a gimmick, but I'd be hard pressed to actually name one. "Monsters vs. Aliens" wasn't too bad, though.
Yeah, there won't ever be a good consumer HD video camera as long as they have to be portable. Packing it into that size, you're not going to have enough light-gathering ability without resorting to a small, noisy sensor.
Your pixels are just over a tenth the size of SD pixels (due to wide-screen aspect), and SD camcorders are already struggling to gather enough photons.
The solutions are to use wider field of view or larger lenses. That's it, really. The problem is fundamental, not limited to "how accurate the sensor is". You can only count the photons you receive, even a perfect sensor is going to have unappealing measurement uncertainty compared to a perfect sensor with a larger lens system.
Not to say HW encryption isn't a good idea from a security standpoint.
It isn't. A device plugged into a laptop usb port probably isn't a problem, but having the decrypt on the drive instead of the cpu means that many more inches where the data is being transmitted in the clear.
The cpu would have access to the data anyway, to do whatever it needed to do with it, but why pass plaintext through more hands than it needs to?
Better yet, put the hardware crypto on the CPU die, so that the plaintext doesn't even exist in ram.
I do think there is enough evidence out there that a longer term view eventually yeilds better returns. We should try and break the 18mo CEO cycle.
We need to get over the "corporate savior" model of CEO selection and realize that the locus of people capable of performing those functions is larger than the pool of "lords" it currently is perceived to be: CEOs are overpaid because they have successfully convinced the market they are rare. Much like DeBeers did with diamonds.
Management is a cost center: Just like physical plant, you can't do business without it, but it's not the business you do.
I haven't seen any charts yet that suggest that we've failed to limit the temperature rise 2 degrees C temperature anomaly yet. By what metric are you suggesting they've failed in the goal?
If AGW is a myth, then the market will relax towards alternate energy sources as we run out of Oil & Coal. In fact, we already have plenty of tenable alternatives that are currently mired in *political* machinations. It will be easy to clear the red tape for integral fast reactors, wind farms, algae farms, geothermal wells, damming up the few remaining dammable resources, etc. when the time comes that those things are unavoidable.
Oil and Coal use is perfectly fine if there aren't any environmental downsides to them, so there is absolutely no need to push for seeking replacements that aren't going to be implemented until they naturally would be anyway.
Recycling is another canard. At the moment, ores are concentrated enough that it doesn't actually make sense to recycle many materials: the value of the materials on the recycled market is *less* than the cost of the recycling process (and that's not even counting the man-hours spent sorting). It really just makes sense at the moment to just take all that stuff and dump it in a pile somewhere to wait until the pile itself has the highest concentration of the minerals in question, then mine the pile.
The first big clue that recycling is not beneficial is that you have to pay extra for the privilege. If it really saved energy, then at the very least, it wouldn't cost extra, and possibly the waste management companies would be offering small bounties for your recyclables. And.. oh look.. for the materials that actually make sense to recycle, there *are* bounties.
So yeah, I definitely agree that improving recycling would be beneficial. As long as we improve it so much that it's no longer "not beneficial."
Saw it on mythbusters a few years ago. Your solution is at hand:
Scan your fingerprint and print it out on label paper. Whenever you have to use the fingerprint reader, just slap the printout of your own fingerprint onto the appropriate finger and use that. Since it worked better than 90% of the time on the show, it'll improve your scan rate, while simultaneously demonstrating the worthlessness of the system to your higher ups.
Note: do not do so if any of your boss, boss's boss, or their boss lacks a sense of humor, or is otherwise slow to wise to things.
Note to the GP: FINGERPRINTS AREN"T PASSWORD. They're username, at best.
What difference does it make? As long as the data is really encrypted on the drive, either way the cpu is going to have access to the plain text, and in some ways it's better to do the encryption on the cpu: no plaintext over USB foils usb-attached listening devices. Depending on how it's implemented and what you need the data for, it's even possible to never have plaintext in RAM.
The article seems to imply that the data is not, in fact, stored on the drive using the claimed AES cipher, or if it is, the password that the user enters is not used to generate the key, but instead used to authorize use of a stored key, which may in fact be exactly the same for all affected devices.
The courts will always go for the "least effort" ruling. If they can decide the case on some technicality without having to address the underlying issue, then they will punt the issue down the road to the next court to deal with.
Regarding the 4th amendment -- don't you have to consent to you and your property being searched before purchasing or checking into a flight? If that's the case then these machines are just a means for the TSA to carry out said search in a more efficient manor.
That would've been a valid argument back when the airlines were handling their own security. But now that the government has interposed itself into the airport security role, they're supposed to operate with the same restrictions as regular law enforcement. The fourth amendment didn't apply before because it was just the "terms of sale" that you submit to the airline's screening process.
Sadly, the legal theory in play seems to be "everyone got used to the screening before it was run by the government, so it's not not ok for the government to do these things that it's traditionally not ok for the government to do."
In a single day, 20 some odd yahoos cost the US economy several hundred billions of dollars. This doesn't include Afghanistan and Iraq. And the fall of global markets after 911?
You're making an argument for spreading out operations and using telepresence to connect the movers and shakers from the golf courses of their choice. Possibly you're making an argument for capping the size of aircraft (the market seems to be doing that on it's own though. Look at the popularity of SouthWest and the orders for the Dreamliner that held fast despite slipping deadlines compared to the A380)
You have not made a valid argument for harassing everyone and making travel difficult and slower.
It doesn't make the state less sovereign. But it does stick a thumb in the eye of all citizens not members of a blessed international organization. Section 2(c) is even better than the fourth amendment!
Unfortunately, I don't have access to hundreds of millions of dollars with which to produce a non-leftist-propoganda special effects extravaganza. Given the choice between leftist spectacle and no spectacle, I choose "sometimes give in and just watch it" to satisfy my need for spectacle, and I'll go looking to satisfy my need for good stories some other way.
"20-something male has to pee and gets out of car. Jumps over side embankment, only to find out that he's on an overpass elevated 65 feet above the ground. Falls. Dies."
How could they possibly know that that was the reason he went over the rail?
The alien wasn't the bad guy in "Alien." The corporation was. They clearly knew they were putting their crew at extreme risk in their little side-op when writing the standing orders for the ship's computer.
Stories I rent, as they're just as good no matter how you see them. Spectacles on the other hand, the sold-out imax theater this weekend suggests that I'm not alone in going out of the way to view.
No, there is one place where the US does, in fact, desperately need a giant middle-finger. It won't get one, though. Instead it'll get a cheat-to-tall-with-decorative-structures building that really expresses to the world that we're "giving up to the terrorists."
Well, at least they won't have to worry about muslims trying to terror it into the ground. That's the reason why the replacement for the WTC towers is going to be uninspiringly non-superlative.
Just, fyi, meteorolgists are not the particular branch of scientists you should be "siding with" vs. Al Gore. Their focus is too local, and although there may be some that branch out into "global weather" that is still not quite the same thing as "global climate"
The guys you want to listen to are atmospheric scientists, planetary scientists, and astrophysicists.
Tylenol is a well-known anti-liver drug that is frequently used in the US as a placebo for pain relief. It is so commonly used for this purpose that it is often added to actual pain relievers (like oxycodone) to "improve" their "effectiveness."
To deliberately keep the celestial sphere mysterious and reserve navigation, timekeeping, the calender and such for privileged classes?
Some of astrology is useful. It turns random figures in the sky into recognizable shapes and gives a reference point into historical events and movements. Why do you suppose the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are so named? Do you really think "the year of the rat" or the "age of Aquarius" are arbitrary terms that have nothing at all to do with orbital precession?
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"I think I'd like to own that movie"
"why don't you just queue it up first and see if you want a permanent copy?"
[time passes]
"Wow, I'm glad I only rented that"
But, you'd better do another advertising blitz around the time it's actually available for me the way I plan on viewing it. If I forget I wanted to see your movie, I don't really consider that a loss. That's just more time for more productive hobbies.
3D adds texture. It's often gimicky, because producers (I assume it's producers) demand excuses to show of "it's 3D!" usually by having something pointy come out of the frame too far (as in, too close for normal people to adjust their eyes to it quickly).
But it's a perfectly useful tool for adding texture to projects if you avoid the gimmicky "throw stuff at you" tricks. It really does add to the immersion on films where they're not playing "look, it's 3D!" all the time.
No one calls greek friezes "gimmky" just because they have some relief (although they would if every frieze had a spear sticking way out to remind you). It's just another tool for artists to use to evoke emotion.
Now, I'd challenge you to watch one of the films where it wasn't just a gimmick, but I'd be hard pressed to actually name one. "Monsters vs. Aliens" wasn't too bad, though.
Yeah, there won't ever be a good consumer HD video camera as long as they have to be portable. Packing it into that size, you're not going to have enough light-gathering ability without resorting to a small, noisy sensor.
Your pixels are just over a tenth the size of SD pixels (due to wide-screen aspect), and SD camcorders are already struggling to gather enough photons.
The solutions are to use wider field of view or larger lenses. That's it, really. The problem is fundamental, not limited to "how accurate the sensor is". You can only count the photons you receive, even a perfect sensor is going to have unappealing measurement uncertainty compared to a perfect sensor with a larger lens system.
Not to say HW encryption isn't a good idea from a security standpoint.
It isn't. A device plugged into a laptop usb port probably isn't a problem, but having the decrypt on the drive instead of the cpu means that many more inches where the data is being transmitted in the clear.
The cpu would have access to the data anyway, to do whatever it needed to do with it, but why pass plaintext through more hands than it needs to?
Better yet, put the hardware crypto on the CPU die, so that the plaintext doesn't even exist in ram.
I do think there is enough evidence out there that a longer term view eventually yeilds better returns. We should try and break the 18mo CEO cycle.
We need to get over the "corporate savior" model of CEO selection and realize that the locus of people capable of performing those functions is larger than the pool of "lords" it currently is perceived to be: CEOs are overpaid because they have successfully convinced the market they are rare. Much like DeBeers did with diamonds.
Management is a cost center: Just like physical plant, you can't do business without it, but it's not the business you do.
I haven't seen any charts yet that suggest that we've failed to limit the temperature rise 2 degrees C temperature anomaly yet. By what metric are you suggesting they've failed in the goal?
If AGW is a myth, then the market will relax towards alternate energy sources as we run out of Oil & Coal. In fact, we already have plenty of tenable alternatives that are currently mired in *political* machinations. It will be easy to clear the red tape for integral fast reactors, wind farms, algae farms, geothermal wells, damming up the few remaining dammable resources, etc. when the time comes that those things are unavoidable.
Oil and Coal use is perfectly fine if there aren't any environmental downsides to them, so there is absolutely no need to push for seeking replacements that aren't going to be implemented until they naturally would be anyway.
Recycling is another canard. At the moment, ores are concentrated enough that it doesn't actually make sense to recycle many materials: the value of the materials on the recycled market is *less* than the cost of the recycling process (and that's not even counting the man-hours spent sorting). It really just makes sense at the moment to just take all that stuff and dump it in a pile somewhere to wait until the pile itself has the highest concentration of the minerals in question, then mine the pile.
The first big clue that recycling is not beneficial is that you have to pay extra for the privilege. If it really saved energy, then at the very least, it wouldn't cost extra, and possibly the waste management companies would be offering small bounties for your recyclables. And.. oh look.. for the materials that actually make sense to recycle, there *are* bounties.
So yeah, I definitely agree that improving recycling would be beneficial. As long as we improve it so much that it's no longer "not beneficial."
Saw it on mythbusters a few years ago. Your solution is at hand:
Scan your fingerprint and print it out on label paper. Whenever you have to use the fingerprint reader, just slap the printout of your own fingerprint onto the appropriate finger and use that. Since it worked better than 90% of the time on the show, it'll improve your scan rate, while simultaneously demonstrating the worthlessness of the system to your higher ups.
Note: do not do so if any of your boss, boss's boss, or their boss lacks a sense of humor, or is otherwise slow to wise to things.
Note to the GP: FINGERPRINTS AREN"T PASSWORD. They're username, at best.
What difference does it make? As long as the data is really encrypted on the drive, either way the cpu is going to have access to the plain text, and in some ways it's better to do the encryption on the cpu: no plaintext over USB foils usb-attached listening devices. Depending on how it's implemented and what you need the data for, it's even possible to never have plaintext in RAM.
The article seems to imply that the data is not, in fact, stored on the drive using the claimed AES cipher, or if it is, the password that the user enters is not used to generate the key, but instead used to authorize use of a stored key, which may in fact be exactly the same for all affected devices.
The courts will always go for the "least effort" ruling. If they can decide the case on some technicality without having to address the underlying issue, then they will punt the issue down the road to the next court to deal with.
Regarding the 4th amendment -- don't you have to consent to you and your property being searched before purchasing or checking into a flight? If that's the case then these machines are just a means for the TSA to carry out said search in a more efficient manor.
That would've been a valid argument back when the airlines were handling their own security. But now that the government has interposed itself into the airport security role, they're supposed to operate with the same restrictions as regular law enforcement. The fourth amendment didn't apply before because it was just the "terms of sale" that you submit to the airline's screening process.
Sadly, the legal theory in play seems to be "everyone got used to the screening before it was run by the government, so it's not not ok for the government to do these things that it's traditionally not ok for the government to do."
In a single day, 20 some odd yahoos cost the US economy several hundred billions of dollars. This doesn't include Afghanistan and Iraq. And the fall of global markets after 911?
You're making an argument for spreading out operations and using telepresence to connect the movers and shakers from the golf courses of their choice. Possibly you're making an argument for capping the size of aircraft (the market seems to be doing that on it's own though. Look at the popularity of SouthWest and the orders for the Dreamliner that held fast despite slipping deadlines compared to the A380)
You have not made a valid argument for harassing everyone and making travel difficult and slower.
It doesn't make the state less sovereign. But it does stick a thumb in the eye of all citizens not members of a blessed international organization. Section 2(c) is even better than the fourth amendment!
Unfortunately, I don't have access to hundreds of millions of dollars with which to produce a non-leftist-propoganda special effects extravaganza. Given the choice between leftist spectacle and no spectacle, I choose "sometimes give in and just watch it" to satisfy my need for spectacle, and I'll go looking to satisfy my need for good stories some other way.
"20-something male has to pee and gets out of car. Jumps over side embankment, only to find out that he's on an overpass elevated 65 feet above the ground. Falls. Dies."
How could they possibly know that that was the reason he went over the rail?
Oh wait. twitter.
Luna is one of the original seven planets...
The alien wasn't the bad guy in "Alien." The corporation was. They clearly knew they were putting their crew at extreme risk in their little side-op when writing the standing orders for the ship's computer.
Ah, story vs. spectacle.
Stories I rent, as they're just as good no matter how you see them. Spectacles on the other hand, the sold-out imax theater this weekend suggests that I'm not alone in going out of the way to view.
No, there is one place where the US does, in fact, desperately need a giant middle-finger. It won't get one, though. Instead it'll get a cheat-to-tall-with-decorative-structures building that really expresses to the world that we're "giving up to the terrorists."
Well, at least they won't have to worry about muslims trying to terror it into the ground. That's the reason why the replacement for the WTC towers is going to be uninspiringly non-superlative.
Just, fyi, meteorolgists are not the particular branch of scientists you should be "siding with" vs. Al Gore. Their focus is too local, and although there may be some that branch out into "global weather" that is still not quite the same thing as "global climate"
The guys you want to listen to are atmospheric scientists, planetary scientists, and astrophysicists.
Tylenol is a well-known anti-liver drug that is frequently used in the US as a placebo for pain relief. It is so commonly used for this purpose that it is often added to actual pain relievers (like oxycodone) to "improve" their "effectiveness."
It displays them as decimals, Do you have any reason to believe that the actual storage is floating point rather than fixed point decimal?
For the same reason you don't teach astrology.
To deliberately keep the celestial sphere mysterious and reserve navigation, timekeeping, the calender and such for privileged classes?
Some of astrology is useful. It turns random figures in the sky into recognizable shapes and gives a reference point into historical events and movements. Why do you suppose the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are so named? Do you really think "the year of the rat" or the "age of Aquarius" are arbitrary terms that have nothing at all to do with orbital precession?