Thanks for backing me up with your complete lack of justification for the mindless post he gave.
I think I'm going to start meta moderating. It seems like something's wrong when an informative post get no mod points, and a post sent by someone to whine about his own lack of cognition is modded up by a couple of friends. I should know, I've also sent one or two posts that were absolutely useless but, thanks to not-so-competent mods, got five points.
Maybe this metamodding thing really has some necessity.
Of course it's not going to display every possible color there is to be seen. I figured that was obvious enough that I wouldn't have to spell it out for you. I could have written a big long article about it, but criminy, I'm not going to waste all that space talking about something that *most* people can figure out on their own.
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It's funny, cause when I read the headline, I thought 'what the Hell kind of good will that do?', but after a little thought, this started to sound useful. I had never tried to think outside the RGB world because it 'technically' displays all colors, though it struck me that the colors in-between RGB will come out dimmer than they should.
I think the first thing to spring to graphic artists' minds is 'when can I get a monitor like this?' And also, how much of a strain would it be for a video card to compute three new colors (while not needing their values upfront).
I figure, most printers also work by CMYK values, so previews would be more accurate. It seems like this would have all sort of uses.
And, yeah, all CMY is is a shift down in the hue from RGB: Cyan is between green and blue Magenta is between blue and red Yellow is (of course) between red and green
Unless the obedient 'rule-followers' are running a server, and for some reason (oh, say, crucial security issues) don't want a port opened to share absolutely useless information with a few suits at a company.
If you're trying to make UFOs and such into false occurrences, then you should probably stay away from the media and (especially) the area of physics. Input from people who are afraid of what goes on outside their front lawn is usually just laughed at.
And as for the claim that "they misspelled something so they don't have technology", the hole in that logic is wide enough to drive a truck through.
From what I've seen of nano data techniques, they'd probably put the bit on a bunch of molecules instead of just one. Y'know, just in case. But even then, I'm sure that if they came out with 100-terabyte storage, there'd be a bit more protection around it than your average easy-break CD.
I dunno about the tablet, but the pens break at the drop of a hat. I'm using a Wacom tablet and had to put tape on the pen after having it for only a week, though it's been doing fine for the last year. I never dropped the actual tablet before, but it's not a screen anyway.
As for screen-tablets, you can already get a 15" one at http://www.wacom.com/lcdtablets/index.cfm for $1500 - a thousand more than an apple studio display - though of course, it's made for standard computers.
I foresee a lot of people buying tablet Macs if they come out with one (and according to one post, this article's faulted and Apple isn't really planning to release one), but unless the price is right, Apple would once-again be throwing money out the window trying to screw people.
Let's get a Photoshop expert to draw a lot of pictures featuring this thing in different situations
But where could WE get a Photoshop expert?
Wait, I'M a Photoshop expert! Oh this sounds like a great. I like the 'stitches for snitches' idea Lord Kano had, or maybe the ferret exiting someone's back door with a PS2 dragging behind. Oooooh the satire...
I'm now waiting for your semantic argument that argues that copyright infringement is not the same as stealing
I figured you would. If I equated data transfer with some random bad word like, say, murder or lying, I'd also anticipate a correction. So glad you saw it coming in spite of the fact that you never corrected yourself.
I guess there's a funny little group out and about that actually believes what these people say. How can you spot them? Simple: They can only back up their claims using utterly undefined and arbitrary words ('sending data is wrong! Obeying me is right! Dualism is right! Disobeying corporations is wrong!'), equating propaganda with morality ('you haven't paid for that tile so you have no right to stand on it!'), and of course, trying with every last breath to turn listening to music into 'ripping off' the artist who, even if the outlandishly abstract concept of artists 'losing' money to data transfer were true, isn't getting the 8 cents he would have gotten had you bent over and bought the CD.
The claims pretty much debunk themselves, not only with the total lack of reason but the obvious fact that nobody ever manages to justify them without turning the dictionary inside-out. You'd think these people would do a better job of convincing you now that the anti-data-exchange movement has been around for some time, but the throw-offs cop-outs are actually getting worse.
A ferret? Wow I'm convinced. I'm so inspired I think I'll sell my soul to the recording industry and sue some random kid right now!
A small fine for stealing a CD, a large lawsuit for downloading one. Let's arrest those kids outside of the bank and ignore the guy robbing it.
Everything's simple when you're a mindless anonymous coward who couldn't identify his own hand before his face. Here we have an excellent example of the sort of neanderthals who try to reinforce the 'spirit r not exist' ideas mom and dad told them to believe. No logic, no proof, nothing to back their little fantasies but capital letters and the usual 'u r suxors and stoopid becuz I think spirits r not exist'
People with small minds are always in over their heads when it comes to these matters. Leave your shack for once and go get a sense of reason.
Anyone else smell a mindless troll? I take it the big attention-whoring flame was supposed to to cover up the fact that you clearly don't have any deduction skills? There are plenty of subjects at which you can let off the steam after a fight with your mom or dad, but science certainly isn't one of them, and you've given a flagrant demonstration at how dumb a person can make himself look when he charges into subjects he doesn't understand.
Fine then, I'll put this in terms people your age can understand: Different planets have different materials, different possibilities, and in this supposed situation, different forms of life. Now, on our planet, the most we have is natural fuels, of which we need a lot in order to get into space. On another planet they could easily have materials that'll do the same with little technology required. Following? Probably not but anyway, intelligent life on a planet with these materials has a gigantic boost in that direction. They could have space travel while giving no attention at all to these completely unrelated subjects you're coming up with.
You wondering how someone on another planet could travel without knowledge of the atom is the same as another uneducated dunce wondering how the Egyptians built the pyramids without knowledge of glaciers. It only means that you can't put two and two together and have this naive idea that everyone who knows this therefore knows everything about some subject that has absolutely nothing to do with it. The linear intelligent model: Only idiots follow it so it's no wonder you've tried so zealously to back it up. Just what I'd expect from a mindless anonymous coward.
because if creatures are smart enough to travel outside of their light cone, they are smart enough to be able to watch our tv
This is based solely the 'linear intelligence' model, which thinks that all civilizations follow the same tree of technology, and if a civilization has a technology that we don't, then it means they've 'passed us up' on this imaginary tree and know everything that we do.
It's basically meaningless. The ability to get from one system to another could simply mean that the civilization, at one point or another, needed a means of space-travel to survive and now happens to be way ahead in transportation. Or they may be a bunch of dunces who stumbled on a way to bend space into wormholes.
And there are a billion ways to exist here unknown to human perception and inventions. Or at least quite a few. Just one look: Many of us are still bent on denying spirits and anything else we're told to believe is 'paranormal' (a funny little scarecrow-word that's kept us away from anything we're not told to acknowledge or figure out). Do you think the government could get funding to detect something they can't see at all? They wouldn't have much success getting funds for something that a politician can just call a ghost chase.
If we can't even detect something as frequent as a spirit, then moving around under our radar would be a snap for someone with the right skills or technology.
But kudos for not sacrificing your credibility and using the fearful old 'tinfoil hat' scarecrow, anyone else would have chickened out and gone 'Eek! Anyone who doesn't believe me has a tinfoil hat!!'
That's a good point, though I just add it as a php script to replace the normal png for IE browsers. I'd rather have IE's incompetence as a minor inconvenience than a hinderance.
Who here trusts the opinion of a mindless flamer who's scared to death of showing his face? Anybody? No? Then let's move along and not feed the trolls.
The buzz is that now I don't have to make PHP replacement scripts so that 80% of my viewers can view my site correctly. It's completely idiotic that one browser can be so incompetent and so far behind but that's just the way the internet works. Browsers will all do things differently, so while this makes life complicated for new developers, others can really take advantage of the differences. In this case, it's just a little more convenient.
Just an obligatory note that will apparently be obsolete later, but IE technically did support alpha PNG, you just had to load it into a DIV and use the AlphaImageLoader filter, which developers may want to look up when they run into PNG issues.
...is that Disney was one of the VERY FIRST to LITERALLY circumvent copyright law in order to keep their Mickey Mouse in their possession for longer than the law says they can. This is what REAL copyright circumvention is. The perfect example of why the rules don't apply to the gigantic conglomerates, but the rest of us can all go to Hell.
If you build a prison, you have an interest in prisoners being produced to lock up.
I can understand that one, but the rest can be replaced with 'if you (...), then you have an interest in money'
For instance 'if you have stock in Disney, then you have an interest in money', the fact that they're looking for ways to sue the life and soul out of more people not being an issue.
Hmm, you're asking a lot of questions there, aren't you? Kinda sounds like somethin a terrorist would do, eh? Now, I think you should just keep your eyes straight, face the flag, use your right hand for Christ's sake, keep your feet together, and say what your government tells you to say.
That's about the time I realized it too. It's the school system and America in a nutshell: Don't think, don't analyze, just keep yer eyes straight and obey the master.
The government is using the fact that students are a captive audience in order to push its political agenda?
Naaawwww the government isn't into that at all! Don't let the fact that you must spend the very vast majority of your childhood in a cold, stale classroom doing paperwork till your eyes bleed fool you. Government is your friend! Government loves you! When Government tells you to bend over, you ask how far! You don't want teacher to punish you, right? So keep working until you can't feel your hands anymore because that's learning! Obedience and fear is learning!
Heh, anyway, it's a good thing I payed attention, otherwise I wouldn't know all this. We've come so far since the slave days.
Also, Sony should make sure that they don't have all the "Disc read error" problems this time through.
My thoughts exactly. I sure hope it emulates PS2's because NONE OF THEM WORK
In fact I'm just going to go get a Game Tetrahedron or whatever Nintendo comes out with in 2005. My PS2 doesn't work, Sony weaseled out because it's not under warrantee after a year, and I'm not going to risk dealing with this company's incompetence in the future.
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How many points does this person have? Well I'm off to meta-moderate. We need it, bad.
Thanks for backing me up with your complete lack of justification for the mindless post he gave.
I think I'm going to start meta moderating. It seems like something's wrong when an informative post get no mod points, and a post sent by someone to whine about his own lack of cognition is modded up by a couple of friends. I should know, I've also sent one or two posts that were absolutely useless but, thanks to not-so-competent mods, got five points.
Maybe this metamodding thing really has some necessity.
Of course it's not going to display every possible color there is to be seen. I figured that was obvious enough that I wouldn't have to spell it out for you. I could have written a big long article about it, but criminy, I'm not going to waste all that space talking about something that *most* people can figure out on their own.
It's funny, cause when I read the headline, I thought 'what the Hell kind of good will that do?', but after a little thought, this started to sound useful. I had never tried to think outside the RGB world because it 'technically' displays all colors, though it struck me that the colors in-between RGB will come out dimmer than they should.
I think the first thing to spring to graphic artists' minds is 'when can I get a monitor like this?' And also, how much of a strain would it be for a video card to compute three new colors (while not needing their values upfront).
I figure, most printers also work by CMYK values, so previews would be more accurate. It seems like this would have all sort of uses.
And, yeah, all CMY is is a shift down in the hue from RGB:
Cyan is between green and blue
Magenta is between blue and red
Yellow is (of course) between red and green
Unless the obedient 'rule-followers' are running a server, and for some reason (oh, say, crucial security issues) don't want a port opened to share absolutely useless information with a few suits at a company.
If you're trying to make UFOs and such into false occurrences, then you should probably stay away from the media and (especially) the area of physics. Input from people who are afraid of what goes on outside their front lawn is usually just laughed at.
And as for the claim that "they misspelled something so they don't have technology", the hole in that logic is wide enough to drive a truck through.
From what I've seen of nano data techniques, they'd probably put the bit on a bunch of molecules instead of just one. Y'know, just in case. But even then, I'm sure that if they came out with 100-terabyte storage, there'd be a bit more protection around it than your average easy-break CD.
I dunno about the tablet, but the pens break at the drop of a hat. I'm using a Wacom tablet and had to put tape on the pen after having it for only a week, though it's been doing fine for the last year. I never dropped the actual tablet before, but it's not a screen anyway.
As for screen-tablets, you can already get a 15" one at http://www.wacom.com/lcdtablets/index.cfm for $1500 - a thousand more than an apple studio display - though of course, it's made for standard computers.
I foresee a lot of people buying tablet Macs if they come out with one (and according to one post, this article's faulted and Apple isn't really planning to release one), but unless the price is right, Apple would once-again be throwing money out the window trying to screw people.
Let's get a Photoshop expert to draw a lot of pictures featuring this thing in different situations
But where could WE get a Photoshop expert?
Wait, I'M a Photoshop expert! Oh this sounds like a great. I like the 'stitches for snitches' idea Lord Kano had, or maybe the ferret exiting someone's back door with a PS2 dragging behind. Oooooh the satire...
Oh man, thanks! You know what? I'm going to show my unbridled appreciation for the BSA and download those again and again and again....
I'm now waiting for your semantic argument that argues that copyright infringement is not the same as stealing
I figured you would. If I equated data transfer with some random bad word like, say, murder or lying, I'd also anticipate a correction. So glad you saw it coming in spite of the fact that you never corrected yourself.
I guess there's a funny little group out and about that actually believes what these people say. How can you spot them? Simple: They can only back up their claims using utterly undefined and arbitrary words ('sending data is wrong! Obeying me is right! Dualism is right! Disobeying corporations is wrong!'), equating propaganda with morality ('you haven't paid for that tile so you have no right to stand on it!'), and of course, trying with every last breath to turn listening to music into 'ripping off' the artist who, even if the outlandishly abstract concept of artists 'losing' money to data transfer were true, isn't getting the 8 cents he would have gotten had you bent over and bought the CD.
The claims pretty much debunk themselves, not only with the total lack of reason but the obvious fact that nobody ever manages to justify them without turning the dictionary inside-out. You'd think these people would do a better job of convincing you now that the anti-data-exchange movement has been around for some time, but the throw-offs cop-outs are actually getting worse.
A ferret? Wow I'm convinced. I'm so inspired I think I'll sell my soul to the recording industry and sue some random kid right now!
A small fine for stealing a CD, a large lawsuit for downloading one. Let's arrest those kids outside of the bank and ignore the guy robbing it.
Everything's simple when you're a mindless anonymous coward who couldn't identify his own hand before his face. Here we have an excellent example of the sort of neanderthals who try to reinforce the 'spirit r not exist' ideas mom and dad told them to believe. No logic, no proof, nothing to back their little fantasies but capital letters and the usual 'u r suxors and stoopid becuz I think spirits r not exist'
People with small minds are always in over their heads when it comes to these matters. Leave your shack for once and go get a sense of reason.
This is the problem with you fucks
Anyone else smell a mindless troll? I take it the big attention-whoring flame was supposed to to cover up the fact that you clearly don't have any deduction skills? There are plenty of subjects at which you can let off the steam after a fight with your mom or dad, but science certainly isn't one of them, and you've given a flagrant demonstration at how dumb a person can make himself look when he charges into subjects he doesn't understand.
Fine then, I'll put this in terms people your age can understand: Different planets have different materials, different possibilities, and in this supposed situation, different forms of life. Now, on our planet, the most we have is natural fuels, of which we need a lot in order to get into space. On another planet they could easily have materials that'll do the same with little technology required. Following? Probably not but anyway, intelligent life on a planet with these materials has a gigantic boost in that direction. They could have space travel while giving no attention at all to these completely unrelated subjects you're coming up with.
You wondering how someone on another planet could travel without knowledge of the atom is the same as another uneducated dunce wondering how the Egyptians built the pyramids without knowledge of glaciers. It only means that you can't put two and two together and have this naive idea that everyone who knows this therefore knows everything about some subject that has absolutely nothing to do with it. The linear intelligent model: Only idiots follow it so it's no wonder you've tried so zealously to back it up. Just what I'd expect from a mindless anonymous coward.
because if creatures are smart enough to travel outside of their light cone, they are smart enough to be able to watch our tv
This is based solely the 'linear intelligence' model, which thinks that all civilizations follow the same tree of technology, and if a civilization has a technology that we don't, then it means they've 'passed us up' on this imaginary tree and know everything that we do.
It's basically meaningless. The ability to get from one system to another could simply mean that the civilization, at one point or another, needed a means of space-travel to survive and now happens to be way ahead in transportation. Or they may be a bunch of dunces who stumbled on a way to bend space into wormholes.
And there are a billion ways to exist here unknown to human perception and inventions. Or at least quite a few. Just one look: Many of us are still bent on denying spirits and anything else we're told to believe is 'paranormal' (a funny little scarecrow-word that's kept us away from anything we're not told to acknowledge or figure out). Do you think the government could get funding to detect something they can't see at all? They wouldn't have much success getting funds for something that a politician can just call a ghost chase.
If we can't even detect something as frequent as a spirit, then moving around under our radar would be a snap for someone with the right skills or technology.
But kudos for not sacrificing your credibility and using the fearful old 'tinfoil hat' scarecrow, anyone else would have chickened out and gone 'Eek! Anyone who doesn't believe me has a tinfoil hat!!'
That's a good point, though I just add it as a php script to replace the normal png for IE browsers. I'd rather have IE's incompetence as a minor inconvenience than a hinderance.
Who here trusts the opinion of a mindless flamer who's scared to death of showing his face? Anybody? No? Then let's move along and not feed the trolls.
The buzz is that now I don't have to make PHP replacement scripts so that 80% of my viewers can view my site correctly. It's completely idiotic that one browser can be so incompetent and so far behind but that's just the way the internet works. Browsers will all do things differently, so while this makes life complicated for new developers, others can really take advantage of the differences. In this case, it's just a little more convenient.
Heh, yeah Joe Consumer is not very smart, but he's not a total moron who likes taking it up the rear from advertisers.
Just an obligatory note that will apparently be obsolete later, but IE technically did support alpha PNG, you just had to load it into a DIV and use the AlphaImageLoader filter, which developers may want to look up when they run into PNG issues.
...is that Disney was one of the VERY FIRST to LITERALLY circumvent copyright law in order to keep their Mickey Mouse in their possession for longer than the law says they can. This is what REAL copyright circumvention is. The perfect example of why the rules don't apply to the gigantic conglomerates, but the rest of us can all go to Hell.
If you build a prison, you have an interest in prisoners being produced to lock up.
I can understand that one, but the rest can be replaced with 'if you (...), then you have an interest in money'
For instance 'if you have stock in Disney, then you have an interest in money', the fact that they're looking for ways to sue the life and soul out of more people not being an issue.
Hmm, you're asking a lot of questions there, aren't you? Kinda sounds like somethin a terrorist would do, eh? Now, I think you should just keep your eyes straight, face the flag, use your right hand for Christ's sake, keep your feet together, and say what your government tells you to say.
That's about the time I realized it too. It's the school system and America in a nutshell: Don't think, don't analyze, just keep yer eyes straight and obey the master.
The government is using the fact that students are a captive audience in order to push its political agenda?
Naaawwww the government isn't into that at all! Don't let the fact that you must spend the very vast majority of your childhood in a cold, stale classroom doing paperwork till your eyes bleed fool you. Government is your friend! Government loves you! When Government tells you to bend over, you ask how far! You don't want teacher to punish you, right? So keep working until you can't feel your hands anymore because that's learning! Obedience and fear is learning!
Heh, anyway, it's a good thing I payed attention, otherwise I wouldn't know all this. We've come so far since the slave days.
Also, Sony should make sure that they don't have all the "Disc read error" problems this time through.
My thoughts exactly. I sure hope it emulates PS2's because NONE OF THEM WORK
In fact I'm just going to go get a Game Tetrahedron or whatever Nintendo comes out with in 2005. My PS2 doesn't work, Sony weaseled out because it's not under warrantee after a year, and I'm not going to risk dealing with this company's incompetence in the future.