A signature is not an identification tool. It is a deliberate act signifying agreement. Since you have to put some effort into signing a document, it means you agree to the terms.
Some documents are so important that you must write the whole thing out by hand before signing. This is to make sure you've agree to terms with full knowledge of them. There will *not* be teams of handwriting analysts pouring over it and everything else you've written to make sure it's really you.
Presumably identification is done through more secure means. The signature is just a symbol of acquiescence.
Does 35 and 16mm film actually have enough data for 1080? Last time I went to the theater, it was not nearly as detailed as some of the home theaters I've seen (granted, comparing movies to OTA 1080p30 shows, so it's not like with like.)
And my gripe is just the opposite. Some movies are getting "flim grain" added to the picture. Presumably to make it more "gritty."
I think there still might be a way to do it. For personal changes, there are a lot, but it's going to be sparse. No need to store the whole matrix every time.
For global things, I think you can still accomplish it if you're careful about the kinds of quests you send people on.
Like, don't send anyone on a quest to kill the lich king, unless you can also come up with a plausible reason why he's not dead thirty seconds after you kill him.
In this vein, there's actually some rich storytelling you can get through before people catch on. Like, shortly after the quest, people start talking about how he's not really dead, and this opens up a new series of quests (obviously, you can't just go on the same quest as before, that failed to kill him permanently.)
Also, never send anyone on a quest to find the "one true" anything if that item can be added to the quester's inventory.*
*unless you really mean for them to be the only holder of said item. And thereby make them a target.
Sure, deformable geometry is probably a long way off (though there may be some options with instanced geometry if it can be generated client side from a very terse command language), but there are still some things that could be done in the future: not every "quest giver NPC" has to stand in the same spot all the time, for instance.
I've also thought that some of the tricks like in America's Army could be adapted to make the enemies a little less scripted.
Are you comparing movies in 1080i/p or stuff that's actually shot for the format?
'cause at the academy rate of ~24 fps, 1080p24 is the same bandwidth as 1080i. If you encode it as p60, you're just going to end up with a lot of duplicated frames.
I've yet to see anything shot for p60, btw, so I've no idea if it's a wash or not. Also, I've been *extremely* disappointed with the blu-ray disks i've seen in the stores. Lots of noise, and when there isn't noise, compression artifacts out the wazoo. Even CGI films. (yes, I specifically asked for a blu-ray player to be connected to a 1080p screen, and when the movie they picked had way too much film grain to tell anything, I waited while they hunted down a more appropriate film. Humorously, both films opened with shots of a standard-definition television set with exaggerated scan lines) I think blu-ray might be a "transition" format. real HD either requires more bandwidth, better compression algorithms, or less stupid technicians.
And B- and C- list movies that they've bought rights to.
Unfortunately, they forgo this and instead air wrestling (as if wrestling is too big for USA, Spike, and WB(I mean CW)), ghost stories, and giant snake movie N: {more|bigger} giant snakes.
Would it really kill them to sprinkle in a little Gamra now and again? Even Plan 9 from Outer Space is better than the stuff they keep showing. I'm down to one hour on friday nights of what was once my favorite channel.
What they should do in WoW is have a line of sick kids out the back of the hut. So after you kill the beasts to get the organs to bribe the shaman to give you the potion that you mix with the herbs you get from the carnivorous plants...[more stuff]...and finally lift the curse that's making the kid sick, he goes home* and the next kid goes in..
*actually taking a circuitous route back to the end of the line when your back is turned.
We are doing something about that. Now sick days and personal days are pooled into one unit. So your vacations have to compete with your potentially contagious illnesses. Everybody wins!
You know, not everybody has to be coerced into acting in a civilized manner.
The police are not there to protect you from those people. If the percentage who behave in a civilized manner were 100, we wouldn't need police. Or soldiers. Or even lawyers, statesmen, locks, passwords...
But those people do exist, and when they act, only violence or the threat of violence can protect the rest of us. Soldiers and police are the people who volunteer to perform that violence on our behalf, and they get a pretty bad deal considering how much danger they put themselves in so the rest of us can ogle whiny old women in pink hats and birthday suits.
True, but at some point, your lithography process has to use gamma radiation, and you end up with a significant risk of turning your mild mannered employees into angry, green-skinned clones of Lou Ferrigno.
Free as in "Free Beer!" vs. Free as in "Free Speech."
jeez. They used to say that the hacker mentality tended towards very precise use of language. Sadly slashdot is getting sloppy all the time. You even see people saying that "42 is the meaning of life" when that is not anywhere near the very precise wording that made for a joke that stretched out over five thirds of a trilogy.
But, we really just need a web-host with a number of decent templates for various items, and a strict classifying scheme to promote good searching. The "auction" bit is a nice gimmick, but search capabilities are more useful.
For instance, you shouldn't have to do a text search for laptops and manually filter out all the laptop accessories. You should be able to drill down your requirements until what remains is a number of laptops that meet your requirements with varying prices and optional stuff that might help your decision, but isn't strictly necessary.
eBay doesn't even do this very well and that's their core business. The auction bit is a nice gimmick, and has some utility in establishing market price for items you're not sure about, but an improved version of craigslist (even one where you pay for the listings) would be an eBay killer.
Look, the anti-oil-companies guys (and Obama) have a point, even though they don't actually have a plan
They *could* cut taxes, but the result would be pretty ephemeral. The nature of the demand curve (very steep i.e. inelastic) and the supply curve (also quite steep) means that, if you do shift the supply curve down, it's not going to have a whole lot of effect on the final equilibrium price. Some effect, for sure, but $1 less taxes doesn't get you $1 less gas. That doesn't mean they shouldn't do it anyway, but not for pricing reasons.
This is also why the price varies so much even over a single season: one little blip moves the supply curve to the right and the equilibrium point rockets upwards.
It also suggests what you can do to reduce the price: a very small shift in the supply curve can have a dramatic effect on the price.
The air isn't recirculated. That'd be incredibly expensive due to the extra weight from the O2 canisters and soda lime. Cabin air comes in from a tap in the engines.
Um.. who cares? A plane isn't a restaurant. It's a very fast bus. There's two much white noise to hear anyone more than three rows away, anyway.
Now babies... that noise carries. And for some reason the parents that are uncaring enough to bring a creature on a plane that can't valsalva, are also uncaring enough let the poor buggers spend three hours in a dirty diaper. It's like your own private little Omelas.
Well yeah, because my friends and family would be long dead and I wouldn't know anyone but the jerk that timeknapped me. I'd say that'd be almost cripplingly depressing. It would be a bit different if they also brought everyone I ever knew or heard of in the whole world.
The technology, I'd figure out how to deal with within a week. Although I doubt I'd ever figure out what the hell the three shells are for.
Well, we haven't drilled any new holes or built any new refineries since the model M came out, either. So yeah, the gas prices aren't so bad in that context.
But it's really not a matter of being glad about it or not. The fact is that complaining about the gas prices does very little good, and the proposals by many of the most ardent complainers will do nothing to alleviate those prices. Some of the proposed measures are practically guaranteed to make matters much, much worse, in fact.
Uh.. are you talking about the preamble? That's like the abstract of the constitution. It's not actually the instructions.
It happens occasionally, perhaps often even, that the goals of general welfare and common defense are hindered by congress not having a particular power. The correct response in that case is to convene a constitutional convention and hammer out an amendment that grants that power. Or reject the amendment and accepts the loss of efficiency.
In a nation the size of the US, it's only even been remotely conceivable in the last twenty years or so. (i.e. since the world wide web)
Without instant and dynamic information like the web provides, it would be impossible for a couple hundred million people to even consider being informed enough to vote on the nearly equally numerous referenda. And that's assuming that the proposal vetters are completely unbiased and fair.
Good point. But do you really want lawyers in charge of writing laws? They have a vested interest not in good laws, but in more laws.
Consequently, it makes sense that they think a "do nothing congress" is a bad thing, and they rate the success of a congress by how much legislatin' they got done.
For everything below high school, though, is a master's degree really necessary?
In the real world, you don't pay people for the education they have, you pay them for the education you need. So if someone with a master's degree flips burgers, he's not going to be a freakin' six figure burger-flipper.
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A signature is not an identification tool. It is a deliberate act signifying agreement. Since you have to put some effort into signing a document, it means you agree to the terms.
Some documents are so important that you must write the whole thing out by hand before signing. This is to make sure you've agree to terms with full knowledge of them. There will *not* be teams of handwriting analysts pouring over it and everything else you've written to make sure it's really you.
Presumably identification is done through more secure means. The signature is just a symbol of acquiescence.
Ok, movie buff..
Does 35 and 16mm film actually have enough data for 1080? Last time I went to the theater, it was not nearly as detailed as some of the home theaters I've seen (granted, comparing movies to OTA 1080p30 shows, so it's not like with like.)
And my gripe is just the opposite. Some movies are getting "flim grain" added to the picture. Presumably to make it more "gritty."
I think there still might be a way to do it. For personal changes, there are a lot, but it's going to be sparse. No need to store the whole matrix every time.
For global things, I think you can still accomplish it if you're careful about the kinds of quests you send people on.
Like, don't send anyone on a quest to kill the lich king, unless you can also come up with a plausible reason why he's not dead thirty seconds after you kill him.
In this vein, there's actually some rich storytelling you can get through before people catch on. Like, shortly after the quest, people start talking about how he's not really dead, and this opens up a new series of quests (obviously, you can't just go on the same quest as before, that failed to kill him permanently.)
Also, never send anyone on a quest to find the "one true" anything if that item can be added to the quester's inventory.*
*unless you really mean for them to be the only holder of said item. And thereby make them a target.
Sure, deformable geometry is probably a long way off (though there may be some options with instanced geometry if it can be generated client side from a very terse command language), but there are still some things that could be done in the future: not every "quest giver NPC" has to stand in the same spot all the time, for instance.
I've also thought that some of the tricks like in America's Army could be adapted to make the enemies a little less scripted.
Are you comparing movies in 1080i/p or stuff that's actually shot for the format?
'cause at the academy rate of ~24 fps, 1080p24 is the same bandwidth as 1080i. If you encode it as p60, you're just going to end up with a lot of duplicated frames.
I've yet to see anything shot for p60, btw, so I've no idea if it's a wash or not. Also, I've been *extremely* disappointed with the blu-ray disks i've seen in the stores. Lots of noise, and when there isn't noise, compression artifacts out the wazoo. Even CGI films. (yes, I specifically asked for a blu-ray player to be connected to a 1080p screen, and when the movie they picked had way too much film grain to tell anything, I waited while they hunted down a more appropriate film. Humorously, both films opened with shots of a standard-definition television set with exaggerated scan lines) I think blu-ray might be a "transition" format. real HD either requires more bandwidth, better compression algorithms, or less stupid technicians.
If you scratch the plastic on a CD, you won't affect it's playability. Now, if you scratch the foil on the other hand...
why the hell didn't they think of sandwiching the foil between two polycarbonate disks, like in DVD, anyway?
No way, moon-bounce delay line memory is where it's at.
And B- and C- list movies that they've bought rights to.
Unfortunately, they forgo this and instead air wrestling (as if wrestling is too big for USA, Spike, and WB(I mean CW)), ghost stories, and giant snake movie N: {more|bigger} giant snakes.
Would it really kill them to sprinkle in a little Gamra now and again? Even Plan 9 from Outer Space is better than the stuff they keep showing. I'm down to one hour on friday nights of what was once my favorite channel.
What they should do in WoW is have a line of sick kids out the back of the hut. So after you kill the beasts to get the organs to bribe the shaman to give you the potion that you mix with the herbs you get from the carnivorous plants...[more stuff]...and finally lift the curse that's making the kid sick, he goes home* and the next kid goes in..
*actually taking a circuitous route back to the end of the line when your back is turned.
We are doing something about that. Now sick days and personal days are pooled into one unit. So your vacations have to compete with your potentially contagious illnesses. Everybody wins!
The police are not there to protect you from those people. If the percentage who behave in a civilized manner were 100, we wouldn't need police. Or soldiers. Or even lawyers, statesmen, locks, passwords...
But those people do exist, and when they act, only violence or the threat of violence can protect the rest of us. Soldiers and police are the people who volunteer to perform that violence on our behalf, and they get a pretty bad deal considering how much danger they put themselves in so the rest of us can ogle whiny old women in pink hats and birthday suits.
True, but at some point, your lithography process has to use gamma radiation, and you end up with a significant risk of turning your mild mannered employees into angry, green-skinned clones of Lou Ferrigno.
It's beer and speech.
The full analogy is:
Free as in "Free Beer!" vs. Free as in "Free Speech."
jeez. They used to say that the hacker mentality tended towards very precise use of language. Sadly slashdot is getting sloppy all the time. You even see people saying that "42 is the meaning of life" when that is not anywhere near the very precise wording that made for a joke that stretched out over five thirds of a trilogy.
Indeed, the infrastructure is already there.
But, we really just need a web-host with a number of decent templates for various items, and a strict classifying scheme to promote good searching. The "auction" bit is a nice gimmick, but search capabilities are more useful.
For instance, you shouldn't have to do a text search for laptops and manually filter out all the laptop accessories. You should be able to drill down your requirements until what remains is a number of laptops that meet your requirements with varying prices and optional stuff that might help your decision, but isn't strictly necessary.
eBay doesn't even do this very well and that's their core business. The auction bit is a nice gimmick, and has some utility in establishing market price for items you're not sure about, but an improved version of craigslist (even one where you pay for the listings) would be an eBay killer.
Look, the anti-oil-companies guys (and Obama) have a point, even though they don't actually have a plan
They *could* cut taxes, but the result would be pretty ephemeral. The nature of the demand curve (very steep i.e. inelastic) and the supply curve (also quite steep) means that, if you do shift the supply curve down, it's not going to have a whole lot of effect on the final equilibrium price. Some effect, for sure, but $1 less taxes doesn't get you $1 less gas. That doesn't mean they shouldn't do it anyway, but not for pricing reasons.
This is also why the price varies so much even over a single season: one little blip moves the supply curve to the right and the equilibrium point rockets upwards.
It also suggests what you can do to reduce the price: a very small shift in the supply curve can have a dramatic effect on the price.
The air isn't recirculated. That'd be incredibly expensive due to the extra weight from the O2 canisters and soda lime. Cabin air comes in from a tap in the engines.
Um.. who cares? A plane isn't a restaurant. It's a very fast bus. There's two much white noise to hear anyone more than three rows away, anyway.
Now babies... that noise carries. And for some reason the parents that are uncaring enough to bring a creature on a plane that can't valsalva, are also uncaring enough let the poor buggers spend three hours in a dirty diaper. It's like your own private little Omelas.
Well yeah, because my friends and family would be long dead and I wouldn't know anyone but the jerk that timeknapped me. I'd say that'd be almost cripplingly depressing. It would be a bit different if they also brought everyone I ever knew or heard of in the whole world.
The technology, I'd figure out how to deal with within a week. Although I doubt I'd ever figure out what the hell the three shells are for.
So.. what.. is it solar powered or something?
Well, we haven't drilled any new holes or built any new refineries since the model M came out, either. So yeah, the gas prices aren't so bad in that context.
But it's really not a matter of being glad about it or not. The fact is that complaining about the gas prices does very little good, and the proposals by many of the most ardent complainers will do nothing to alleviate those prices. Some of the proposed measures are practically guaranteed to make matters much, much worse, in fact.
Six words: That was five words.
Uh.. are you talking about the preamble? That's like the abstract of the constitution. It's not actually the instructions.
It happens occasionally, perhaps often even, that the goals of general welfare and common defense are hindered by congress not having a particular power. The correct response in that case is to convene a constitutional convention and hammer out an amendment that grants that power. Or reject the amendment and accepts the loss of efficiency.
Athens. And they paid dearly for it.
In a nation the size of the US, it's only even been remotely conceivable in the last twenty years or so. (i.e. since the world wide web)
Without instant and dynamic information like the web provides, it would be impossible for a couple hundred million people to even consider being informed enough to vote on the nearly equally numerous referenda. And that's assuming that the proposal vetters are completely unbiased and fair.
Good point. But do you really want lawyers in charge of writing laws? They have a vested interest not in good laws, but in more laws.
Consequently, it makes sense that they think a "do nothing congress" is a bad thing, and they rate the success of a congress by how much legislatin' they got done.
For everything below high school, though, is a master's degree really necessary?
In the real world, you don't pay people for the education they have, you pay them for the education you need. So if someone with a master's degree flips burgers, he's not going to be a freakin' six figure burger-flipper.
The frog's name is resemble. The article is about his wolverine doll.