Mr. Bezos has been, up to this point, subject to different (more relaxed) laws than everyone else (one-click) -- it shouldn't be much of a surprise when Bezos' Bozos(TM) request similar accomodation by the Federal government.
They won't all make it anyway: only those (very) few who have been chosen on both sides. Different dynamic, different potential outcomes. But golly, these folks have such mastery of their artform -- wouldn't it be great to finally see a "finding-Earth end-game" scenario that was actually engaging and worthwhile?
Most shows "jump the shark" for economic rather than creative reasons. I've thought Battlestar Galactica "jumps the shark" once or twice a season -- successfully emerging from unexpected and dramatic events when most other shows would severely flounder.
You are funny. First, death is normal and natural, but only the mentally infirm, religious zealot, or deluded refuse to think it's a bad thing.
Second, nothing says "obsessed with looking like a lie" more than "razz[ing] it all off with a grade 2 every couple of weeks".
Third, like it or not, people in modern western culture embrace the styling, coloring, cut, and decoration of hair as a significant expression of one's individuality, identity, or alliance with others. It's something of a tradition amongst homo sapien societies, dating back at least a few millenia, if not a few hundred. It's also normal and natural, by the way, to feel really f-ing pissed off when you are involuntarily deprived of participating in such a tradition.
But hey -- maybe you are consistently rude. If so, don't waste your time with baldies -- I hear there's a bunch of radical mastectomy survivors wearing falsies. Talk about an easy target, eh? Go get 'em, tiger!
I thought film was dead too (or rather, I thought it should be), until we recently had to order 40k acres of imagery at six-inch-pixel resolution, and I talked with the folks who own the cameras and fly the planes.
When it comes to airplane-based commercial aerial photography, film remains the most wide-spread capture medium. A decent camera can easily cost more than $1 million -- and you'll probably want two to capture stereo pairs, and don't forget a spare. For now, digital cameras are no less expensive and offer few benefits over their film-based bretheren.
Both require a GPS-controlled platform, capable of shooting several shots a second. After scanning, typical film-based photography is for all intents and delivers a 250+ megapixel result -- the digital alternative to such a beast is not exactly easy to find, and definately not inexpensive. Those are big files tool, and lossy compression is a bad, bad thing. Given the cost of fuel these days, redundancy is essential when it comes to data. That means being able to store four-to-twelve uncompressed (or minimally) 250+ megapixel images on two systems of one type or another, both of which must be rugged enough to withstand their environment.
Last but not least are the lenses. Outside the world of physics research, the highest quality land-camera lenses, even those in the cinematagraphic world, exhibit far more distortion than is acceptable for survey-grade aerial photography.
So, you're right. And yes, it sucks. We're betting environmental regulations will probably be the nail in the coffin over the next decade.
Yeah, um, the whole greed, corruption and "inane support for "Free Market" dogma" thing... must be referring to the incredibly successful and widespread school voucher program.
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I didn't realize your post was a joke until I got to the fourth or fifth sentence when you began to mention all those amazingly ridiculous hypotheticals. I came up with some too: xerox a document, tivo a movie, white-out an error, go boogie-boarding or rollerblading. I know they aren't as good as yours, but then I don't stand a chance of competing against someone who has the link you do for your slashdot homepage. You're wit truly dwarfs my own. I would have opted for an image of George Bush in it and used exclamation points instead of the numeral one for emphasis, but what do I know. I'm too busy weed-eating my lawn to think creatively. Ohhhh. Now I get it, it was a statement of sexual preference. Cool.
It is funny that people who routinely call the government incompetent attribute characteristics that require the utmost level of competence.
No, dude. The idiot up front is just a distraction -- it's the guy in back with the pacemaker pulling all the strings that make the world dance.
It was, after all, not until Nixon was elected that we actually 'landed' on the moon when, not coincidently, Dick Cheney began a career in politics as special assistant to the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity -- none other than Nixon appointee, Donald Rumsfeld. Does anyone really think the increase in American energy consumption and the steady decline of civil rights soon thereafter was an accident?
Once rid of the Vatican-controlled Kennedy Brothers(TM) and that pesky negro preacher, nothing has stood in their way -- hell bent on either world economic and political domination by controlling the world's energy supply and the policies that govern them... or to seize control for their Zionist masters on the religious right... I can never remember which one.
As the world grows increasingly weary and leery, a framework for continued domination is in place. "Green is the new petroleum!" went the cry from the group of aging alcoholics drinking anything but Scotch from Geronimo's skull while gathered 'round a college underclassman masturbating in a casket beneath a frat house in Connecticut. Their most capable operative/pawn is performing better than expected. Already in more than 400 theaters, his movie continues to be embraced by the wealthy lefties whose ideology unexpectedly formed amid the 'energy crisis' thirty years ago. This group, thought unreachable until only now, and unwittingly motivated to support the Statesman from Tennessee by the engineered 'election snafu' of 2000 and 2004, may still escape the Alzheimers-inducing tannins and waxes manufactured by Monsanto and slated for introduction next year into food items labeled "Certified Organic'.
But what I can't remember is whether it was Merom or Conroe that had the Homeland Security backdoor...
If you read that list of names and felt like laughing, you are probably not black, and you are probably offended that rocks on Mars are getting silly names. On the other hand, if you don't care about those names and how non-standard they are, I bet you don't care what the rocks on Mars get called either.
Not really -- there aren't many NFL players (black or otherwise) named "Sashimi", "SpongeBob SquarePants", or "Be My Valentine". Names such as those you mentioned, while unfamiliar and foreign to the (white) American ear, would be vast improvements over the dictionary-attack-style naming described in the article. The adjectives "unique" and "silly" have entirely different meanings and when applied to naming conventions deliver entirely different results. Thing is, the examples given in TFA are not "silly" at all. Random yes, but more "stupid" than "silly" -- and certainly not "unique" enough to be originate from black or poor thought processes, apparently.
Do the creatively void, such as the persons mentioned in TFA, fall into an ethnic and economic stereotype as well? Or being a non-poor, white American myself, did I miss your implication?
As far as sending huge files goes, they still don't need to know the differences between file sizes... A few megs at the MAX.
I don't think you fully understand the problem -- they have no concept of what a "meg" is. As a result, they are highly likely to consider any file they might want to send to be "a few megs".
As pointed out earlier, the mail server (actually, the user's mail client) should be configured to ensure there aren't any problems and such an oversize message would never be sent in the first place. If the user repeatedly is unable to email files whose size ends in "GB" or "MB", they'll soon learn, at least, the orders-of-magnitude difference between the two and "KB", and stick with the latter.
It only stands to reason that the Bush Administration is probably seriously thinking about moving refugees to another poor area under US control with a dark-skinned population... hence Iraq.
You do know Iraqis are rather fair skinned, don't you? Aryan ancestry and all that. Nice try, though.
To keep on-topic, a homeschooling family is far more likely to subscribe to Mother Earth News (or similar), the authority when it comes to living sustainably off the grid with a neglible budget, than their city-dwelling counterpart who will take Junior to school in the SUV. Further, they are more likely to live in a modest 1000-1200 square foot home (and an energy-efficient two stories at that) than a single-level 1800 square foot home -- and actually put energy efficiency and practicality before aesthetics.
Mother Earth News has run at least one story a year since it's inception on heating with wood from trees you grow yourself. The upshot is that it takes 7 years for some typical firewood-destined trees to reach maturity. You simply plant new ones to replace those you harvest for firewood -- a rotating forest. You only buy your wood for the first 7 years (or in true Mother Earth Fashion, you use the wood from the trees you had to clear for your homesite).
The yield depends on the type of wood (how long it burns and how hot), just as the quantity of trees depends on the type of tree (how long it takes to reach a "reasonable" size). Poplars, as I remember, are a good choice and a typical family home would likely go through 7 poplars a year.
So to answer your question, once you get it started, a pleasant and not-the-least-bit overwhelming grove of about fifty poplar trees is quite enough. And the space required? you could pull that off on a 0.3 acre site.
I believe the target states for these recommendations were Montana, Idaho, and North Dakota. Of course being Mother Earth News, they also assume you built your house with energy efficiency in mind, and aren't afraid to put on a sweater from time to time.
That said, GRASS could be as powerful as Almighty God, but most people would never get past what is surely the worst user-interface known to man. C'mon guys, fix the damn thing already.
You need to go to 5 years of school + an internship and then be licensed to build a house, you're paid hundreds of dollars an hour...
Bullshit. You need no such thing. At least in the US, you can build whatever the hell you want on your own property. Of course if it isn't up to code you'll be required to fix it or tear it down, and if you don't have a permit, you'll be fined severely. In some cities and counties, you don't even need a permit. The whole "architect" thing is a racket. Heck, you can be criminally prosecuted for misrepresenting yourself as one... and once you are licensed, you have to keep paying your yearly dues to keep using the title. As if the architecture didn't exist before the AIA. In most municipalities in California, as long as a licensed ENGINEER signs off on your structural drawings, you'll get a permit -- even if your only architectural training was obtained from legos and tinker toys.
Most large-scale builder/developers are as ruthlessly uninterested in the user's experience as software company management is. The house doesn't have to be any good -- it simply has to be legally and structurally sound and APPEAR to be good. So instead of a well-designed kitchen layout, they give you a cheap layout with granite counter tops.
...then have a UI team build an interface to the given design.
That is part of the problem too. Build the interface based on the specs then work out the implementation. The fundamental point of TFA is that UIs are too often built to satisfy managers and developers, without consideration for the user's experience. And yes, easier said than done.
Fixing Shake and Logic and Final Cut will be much more work.
Actually, I believe that all three of those began on x86 (FCP on both), so optimizations since then would be work, but it wouldn't require a complete rewrite.
Don't underestimate the power of SIMD for double-precision floating point numbers. If the Mac G4/G5s had that capability, they would decimate any x86 contender for anything 3d or CAD related. Even recent GPUs don't handle doubles all that well, if at all.
IBM, when asked if they would ever expand Altivec to handle doubles said they could, but they didn't have adequate motivation. All of Apple's promises for Altivec would be legitimate and realized if the damn things could use doubles instead of just floats (and integer types). Apparently Sony's promise of Mac-dwarfing sales was sufficient for IBM to do it, and actually improve upon the entire concept while they're at it.
Ask an Iraqi in private whether they want the US there right now, most will say yes.
Ask an Iraqi in public, they will say "hell no".
They are afraid of retailiation from the hundreds of tribal leaders who seek to (continue to) suppress the people to avoid seeing their power dissolve as it would under a democratic government. This retaliation can be physical (beatings or death) or financial (deprivation of food and supplies or jobs).
By the way, my info is first-hand from a Chaldean woman living in Baghdad. How many Iraqis have you talked to?
I'm amazed that so many people around the world are so willing to believe the "95% want us to leave" polls without considering there may be external influences. Baffles the mind.
You describe what, in any other profession, would be an embarrassment, but to the artist community is a badge of honor. Good art does not require unnecessary struggle.
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Mr. Bezos has been, up to this point, subject to different (more relaxed) laws than everyone else (one-click) -- it shouldn't be much of a surprise when Bezos' Bozos(TM) request similar accomodation by the Federal government.
They won't all make it anyway: only those (very) few who have been chosen on both sides. Different dynamic, different potential outcomes. But golly, these folks have such mastery of their artform -- wouldn't it be great to finally see a "finding-Earth end-game" scenario that was actually engaging and worthwhile?
Most shows "jump the shark" for economic rather than creative reasons. I've thought Battlestar Galactica "jumps the shark" once or twice a season -- successfully emerging from unexpected and dramatic events when most other shows would severely flounder.
You are funny. First, death is normal and natural, but only the mentally infirm, religious zealot, or deluded refuse to think it's a bad thing.
Second, nothing says "obsessed with looking like a lie" more than "razz[ing] it all off with a grade 2 every couple of weeks".
Third, like it or not, people in modern western culture embrace the styling, coloring, cut, and decoration of hair as a significant expression of one's individuality, identity, or alliance with others. It's something of a tradition amongst homo sapien societies, dating back at least a few millenia, if not a few hundred. It's also normal and natural, by the way, to feel really f-ing pissed off when you are involuntarily deprived of participating in such a tradition.
But hey -- maybe you are consistently rude. If so, don't waste your time with baldies -- I hear there's a bunch of radical mastectomy survivors wearing falsies. Talk about an easy target, eh? Go get 'em, tiger!
I thought film was dead too (or rather, I thought it should be), until we recently had to order 40k acres of imagery at six-inch-pixel resolution, and I talked with the folks who own the cameras and fly the planes.
When it comes to airplane-based commercial aerial photography, film remains the most wide-spread capture medium. A decent camera can easily cost more than $1 million -- and you'll probably want two to capture stereo pairs, and don't forget a spare. For now, digital cameras are no less expensive and offer few benefits over their film-based bretheren.
Both require a GPS-controlled platform, capable of shooting several shots a second. After scanning, typical film-based photography is for all intents and delivers a 250+ megapixel result -- the digital alternative to such a beast is not exactly easy to find, and definately not inexpensive. Those are big files tool, and lossy compression is a bad, bad thing. Given the cost of fuel these days, redundancy is essential when it comes to data. That means being able to store four-to-twelve uncompressed (or minimally) 250+ megapixel images on two systems of one type or another, both of which must be rugged enough to withstand their environment.
Last but not least are the lenses. Outside the world of physics research, the highest quality land-camera lenses, even those in the cinematagraphic world, exhibit far more distortion than is acceptable for survey-grade aerial photography.
So, you're right. And yes, it sucks. We're betting environmental regulations will probably be the nail in the coffin over the next decade.
Yeah, um, the whole greed, corruption and "inane support for "Free Market" dogma" thing... must be referring to the incredibly successful and widespread school voucher program.
I didn't realize your post was a joke until I got to the fourth or fifth sentence when you began to mention all those amazingly ridiculous hypotheticals. I came up with some too: xerox a document, tivo a movie, white-out an error, go boogie-boarding or rollerblading. I know they aren't as good as yours, but then I don't stand a chance of competing against someone who has the link you do for your slashdot homepage. You're wit truly dwarfs my own. I would have opted for an image of George Bush in it and used exclamation points instead of the numeral one for emphasis, but what do I know. I'm too busy weed-eating my lawn to think creatively. Ohhhh. Now I get it, it was a statement of sexual preference. Cool.
It is funny that people who routinely call the government incompetent attribute characteristics that require the utmost level of competence.
No, dude. The idiot up front is just a distraction -- it's the guy in back with the pacemaker pulling all the strings that make the world dance.
It was, after all, not until Nixon was elected that we actually 'landed' on the moon when, not coincidently, Dick Cheney began a career in politics as special assistant to the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity -- none other than Nixon appointee, Donald Rumsfeld. Does anyone really think the increase in American energy consumption and the steady decline of civil rights soon thereafter was an accident?
Once rid of the Vatican-controlled Kennedy Brothers(TM) and that pesky negro preacher, nothing has stood in their way -- hell bent on either world economic and political domination by controlling the world's energy supply and the policies that govern them... or to seize control for their Zionist masters on the religious right...
I can never remember which one.
As the world grows increasingly weary and leery, a framework for continued domination is in place. "Green is the new petroleum!" went the cry from the group of aging alcoholics drinking anything but Scotch from Geronimo's skull while gathered 'round a college underclassman masturbating in a casket beneath a frat house in Connecticut. Their most capable operative/pawn is performing better than expected. Already in more than 400 theaters, his movie continues to be embraced by the wealthy lefties whose ideology unexpectedly formed amid the 'energy crisis' thirty years ago. This group, thought unreachable until only now, and unwittingly motivated to support the Statesman from Tennessee by the engineered 'election snafu' of 2000 and 2004, may still escape the Alzheimers-inducing tannins and waxes manufactured by Monsanto and slated for introduction next year into food items labeled "Certified Organic'.
But what I can't remember is whether it was Merom or Conroe that had the Homeland Security backdoor...
yawn.
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If you read that list of names and felt like laughing, you are probably not black, and you are probably offended that rocks on Mars are getting silly names. On the other hand, if you don't care about those names and how non-standard they are, I bet you don't care what the rocks on Mars get called either.
Not really -- there aren't many NFL players (black or otherwise) named "Sashimi", "SpongeBob SquarePants", or "Be My Valentine". Names such as those you mentioned, while unfamiliar and foreign to the (white) American ear, would be vast improvements over the dictionary-attack-style naming described in the article. The adjectives "unique" and "silly" have entirely different meanings and when applied to naming conventions deliver entirely different results. Thing is, the examples given in TFA are not "silly" at all. Random yes, but more "stupid" than "silly" -- and certainly not "unique" enough to be originate from black or poor thought processes, apparently.
Do the creatively void, such as the persons mentioned in TFA, fall into an ethnic and economic stereotype as well? Or being a non-poor, white American myself, did I miss your implication?
As far as sending huge files goes, they still don't need to know the differences between file sizes... A few megs at the MAX.
I don't think you fully understand the problem -- they have no concept of what a "meg" is. As a result, they are highly likely to consider any file they might want to send to be "a few megs".
As pointed out earlier, the mail server (actually, the user's mail client) should be configured to ensure there aren't any problems and such an oversize message would never be sent in the first place. If the user repeatedly is unable to email files whose size ends in "GB" or "MB", they'll soon learn, at least, the orders-of-magnitude difference between the two and "KB", and stick with the latter.
It only stands to reason that the Bush Administration is probably seriously thinking about moving refugees to another poor area under US control with a dark-skinned population ... hence Iraq.
You do know Iraqis are rather fair skinned, don't you? Aryan ancestry and all that. Nice try, though.
To keep on-topic, a homeschooling family is far more likely to subscribe to Mother Earth News (or similar), the authority when it comes to living sustainably off the grid with a neglible budget, than their city-dwelling counterpart who will take Junior to school in the SUV. Further, they are more likely to live in a modest 1000-1200 square foot home (and an energy-efficient two stories at that) than a single-level 1800 square foot home -- and actually put energy efficiency and practicality before aesthetics.
Mother Earth News has run at least one story a year since it's inception on heating with wood from trees you grow yourself. The upshot is that it takes 7 years for some typical firewood-destined trees to reach maturity. You simply plant new ones to replace those you harvest for firewood -- a rotating forest. You only buy your wood for the first 7 years (or in true Mother Earth Fashion, you use the wood from the trees you had to clear for your homesite).
The yield depends on the type of wood (how long it burns and how hot), just as the quantity of trees depends on the type of tree (how long it takes to reach a "reasonable" size). Poplars, as I remember, are a good choice and a typical family home would likely go through 7 poplars a year.
So to answer your question, once you get it started, a pleasant and not-the-least-bit overwhelming grove of about fifty poplar trees is quite enough. And the space required? you could pull that off on a 0.3 acre site.
I believe the target states for these recommendations were Montana, Idaho, and North Dakota. Of course being Mother Earth News, they also assume you built your house with energy efficiency in mind, and aren't afraid to put on a sweater from time to time.
Um, if you mean the excellent summary article mentioned, GRASS is item number one.
That said, GRASS could be as powerful as Almighty God, but most people would never get past what is surely the worst user-interface known to man. C'mon guys, fix the damn thing already.
You need to go to 5 years of school + an internship and then be licensed to build a house, you're paid hundreds of dollars an hour...
Bullshit. You need no such thing. At least in the US, you can build whatever the hell you want on your own property. Of course if it isn't up to code you'll be required to fix it or tear it down, and if you don't have a permit, you'll be fined severely. In some cities and counties, you don't even need a permit. The whole "architect" thing is a racket. Heck, you can be criminally prosecuted for misrepresenting yourself as one... and once you are licensed, you have to keep paying your yearly dues to keep using the title. As if the architecture didn't exist before the AIA. In most municipalities in California, as long as a licensed ENGINEER signs off on your structural drawings, you'll get a permit -- even if your only architectural training was obtained from legos and tinker toys.
Most large-scale builder/developers are as ruthlessly uninterested in the user's experience as software company management is. The house doesn't have to be any good -- it simply has to be legally and structurally sound and APPEAR to be good. So instead of a well-designed kitchen layout, they give you a cheap layout with granite counter tops.
...then have a UI team build an interface to the given design.
That is part of the problem too. Build the interface based on the specs then work out the implementation. The fundamental point of TFA is that UIs are too often built to satisfy managers and developers, without consideration for the user's experience. And yes, easier said than done.
Fixing Shake and Logic and Final Cut will be much more work.
Actually, I believe that all three of those began on x86 (FCP on both), so optimizations since then would be work, but it wouldn't require a complete rewrite.
Don't underestimate the power of SIMD for double-precision floating point numbers. If the Mac G4/G5s had that capability, they would decimate any x86 contender for anything 3d or CAD related. Even recent GPUs don't handle doubles all that well, if at all.
IBM, when asked if they would ever expand Altivec to handle doubles said they could, but they didn't have adequate motivation. All of Apple's promises for Altivec would be legitimate and realized if the damn things could use doubles instead of just floats (and integer types). Apparently Sony's promise of Mac-dwarfing sales was sufficient for IBM to do it, and actually improve upon the entire concept while they're at it.
Or Americans could just put down the pipe.
billionaire?
Add three more zeros at the end and you'd start to be in the right ballpark.
Ask an Iraqi in private whether they want the US there right now, most will say yes.
Ask an Iraqi in public, they will say "hell no".
They are afraid of retailiation from the hundreds of tribal leaders who seek to (continue to) suppress the people to avoid seeing their power dissolve as it would under a democratic government. This retaliation can be physical (beatings or death) or financial (deprivation of food and supplies or jobs).
By the way, my info is first-hand from a Chaldean woman living in Baghdad. How many Iraqis have you talked to?
I'm amazed that so many people around the world are so willing to believe the "95% want us to leave" polls without considering there may be external influences. Baffles the mind.
At least there will be less of the "actor hanging from wires in front of a blue screen" inaccurate physics and gravity simulations.
You describe what, in any other profession, would be an embarrassment, but to the artist community is a badge of honor. Good art does not require unnecessary struggle.
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Worth the patient wait.