How about the swinging arm of the guy behind the bench? That is background that is not static, yet it is redrawn with the arm motion neatly interpolated.
Ofcourse a lot of the background should be static, but it nearly always is unless you're looking at movie SFX or sea footage.
jasnw at least try Windows 8. If you have used Windows 7 (or Linux with Compiz) on a daily basis and appreciate the way windows dock, and launch most applications via the startbar anyway, theres nothing to be missed in Windows 8. If you used Win7 daily and didn't appreciate that, go back to XP or linux. If you haven't tried Windows 8, there is no reason to avoid it except if you don't have a touch laptop anyway and want to stick with the old ways, or if you believe the mass media ensued hysteria, i blame low news days for that. And please don't install a startmenu replacement within 60 minutes of using Win8, that just shows you couldn't cope with the learning curve. (amazingly a lot of people i considered smart failed to find out that how exactly those screen edges work in context. I dont blame Win8, they just failed to grasp (as conservative adults) a really simple concept that any 2 year old gets, much like initial iOS adoption actually)
Apparently Google wants to obligate the future Apollo site museum on the moon to reference them to explain the tracks that lead to a ducttape lego + webcam apparatus.
Have you ever seen gravity being explained with a bowlingball on a trampoline? There is your answer. If you shoot a marble into a smaller orbit, it'll have an ellipse orbit and so it might hit ISS again.
ShareIt is a javascript P2P filesharing system. And yes, if you are thinking about a torrent-isch setup, that is in the works also, one is called Ampere.
One becomes proficient at swearing after watching US movies ever week. Over on this side of the pond, lessons English start with telling teenagers that the US swearing in action movies is not normal English.
1) There are no normal things on TV. (that'd be just boring) 2) Non-US residents mainly learn US-English by watching US Series/Movies. Thus the way i see it, US visitors often mirror the weird reality depicted on US' tv..
First, no news is good news. Second, You are already on that spammers list. You shouldn't expect to suddenly stop receiving spam. Third, here are two tests to consider to take away any doubts.
1) Rule out man in the middle attack. Its very possible for your (or any intermediate) machine to be infected and passed along your keystrokes or detected email addresses in network packets. If you could setup a scenario where this is ruled out. Register on a different (clean) machine, using a different email address, possibly using https or VPN.
2) Confirm that the machine/list is still compromised. Covered by test 1 actually, watching incoming email (compared to your existing spam case) this tells you that its not an old list being circulated, but that new addresses are included in the next spam batch.
I would expect they use a YYYYMMDD notation or anything that flies with ISO 8601.. but a M-D-YYYY format in ASCII inside a computer system, seriously Google? What use does software have for that format besides communicate with Americans?
A tabular data app. Think MS Access, but without the hassle of having to set up tables or fields beforehand. Actually, forget MS Access. Its just a white graph-paper canvas, and you control it using your digitizer/tablet pen. The ideal tool no more complicated as sketch paper, enabling to quickly count inventory in your tablet (handwriting recognition and tally) the way you always have, but it understands and helps to plot your data if you decide to do so afterwards. It would also work if you start with a photo of your (actual paper) sketch.
This idea is mine (but have no time to build it according to my vision) and the idea may be freely used IF open source and not developed commercially. I see practical uses for people who do dislike computers, but need something slightly more faster/powerful than wielding a notepad and calculator while on the go.
My workstation sports two identical 17" with 1280x1024 for years both at home and work. Its 4:3 so no portrait but i see the value. I love snapping windows to a monitor with a flick of the mouse, Windows 7 got that right. I used Linux before at home before that. I really like how Windows 8 enables me to do the same on one monitor with RT apps.
Ideally i would buy now a 2560x1400 minimum wide on 30" monitor, with touch. Or rather, a tablet that size (YES) with proper pen support and realtime WiDi to my tv.
But i'd rather have higher resolution, 1280x1024 is lower than my medieval Acer laptop.
This happens people. Also, cows lick their newborns for an hour or so. Interestingly, they''ll only lick poo once unless you put a birthday candle in them which triggers the quite interesting curious cow reaction.
Consider this: Once you've put progress on a bar, you can't take it off. Suppose you start a process that should take 20 minutes, and do the first 5 minutes, progress is now at 25%. But then, partway through, something unexpected happens and you realize the process is actually going to take 40 minutes. You can't take the progress "back" now, that would disorient the user. So you have to rescale the remainder of the bar.
This is why you should not put different "steps" in one progress bar, the software would just be lying to users. Use a 0..100% range for each step. For each step, always show a useful number allong with a progress bar such as "10/1003" or "(digested 10 of 1003 buckets of lava)".
ONLY if its perfectly possible to predict remaining time, show that estimate. Factor in at step 1 that it has more work to do at step 2. It can not factor in unexpected failures ofcourse, so state the time as a minimum ("at least 90 minutes remaining) or best case pessimistic running estimate. Dont even bother calculating on the second/minute if its over 10 second/minutes.
And he should just buy a Surface Pro and be done with it. I'm going to. Its the first step beyond the classic laptop which basically just was a foldable desktop.
Seriously. You cant create on (todays) tablets. They are for consuming. If he wanted to do graphics fingering, he should just install PicSay Pro on his Android.
This story just proves how people forget to zoom out and look at whats really the problem. (answer: thats gravity)
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I'd really like it to then allow users to chose a specific thing that is allowed to move, to make cinematic gifs.
This would be a cool usecase. I dont mind JarJar so much though, theres lots of stranger things in starwars, but i'd make a good technology demo.
How about the swinging arm of the guy behind the bench? That is background that is not static, yet it is redrawn with the arm motion neatly interpolated.
Ofcourse a lot of the background should be static, but it nearly always is unless you're looking at movie SFX or sea footage.
jasnw at least try Windows 8. If you have used Windows 7 (or Linux with Compiz) on a daily basis and appreciate the way windows dock, and launch most applications via the startbar anyway, theres nothing to be missed in Windows 8. If you used Win7 daily and didn't appreciate that, go back to XP or linux. If you haven't tried Windows 8, there is no reason to avoid it except if you don't have a touch laptop anyway and want to stick with the old ways, or if you believe the mass media ensued hysteria, i blame low news days for that. And please don't install a startmenu replacement within 60 minutes of using Win8, that just shows you couldn't cope with the learning curve. (amazingly a lot of people i considered smart failed to find out that how exactly those screen edges work in context. I dont blame Win8, they just failed to grasp (as conservative adults) a really simple concept that any 2 year old gets, much like initial iOS adoption actually)
Apparently Google wants to obligate the future Apollo site museum on the moon to reference them to explain the tracks that lead to a ducttape lego + webcam apparatus.
Gallons and feet? How many bladders does that weigh?
NASA is metric.
Have you ever seen gravity being explained with a bowlingball on a trampoline? There is your answer. If you shoot a marble into a smaller orbit, it'll have an ellipse orbit and so it might hit ISS again.
Mod parent up.
WebRTC specification: http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/webrtc.html#rtcdatachannel
A nice experiment using WebRTC for P2P traffic in browsers: (well Chrome only for now, actually)
https://github.com/piranna/ShareIt#readme
ShareIt is a javascript P2P filesharing system. And yes, if you are thinking about a torrent-isch setup, that is in the works also, one is called Ampere.
No. Unless you don't know shit and feel creative. Seeing the rest of the article, i guess its actually content sources at The Union News..
Obligatory IMDB link: "Weekend at Bernie's"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/
One becomes proficient at swearing after watching US movies ever week.
Over on this side of the pond, lessons English start with telling teenagers that the US swearing in action movies is not normal English.
1) There are no normal things on TV. (that'd be just boring)
2) Non-US residents mainly learn US-English by watching US Series/Movies.
Thus the way i see it, US visitors often mirror the weird reality depicted on US' tv..
First, no news is good news.
Second, You are already on that spammers list. You shouldn't expect to suddenly stop receiving spam.
Third, here are two tests to consider to take away any doubts.
1) Rule out man in the middle attack.
Its very possible for your (or any intermediate) machine to be infected and passed along your keystrokes or detected email addresses in network packets.
If you could setup a scenario where this is ruled out. Register on a different (clean) machine, using a different email address, possibly using https or VPN.
2) Confirm that the machine/list is still compromised.
Covered by test 1 actually, watching incoming email (compared to your existing spam case) this tells you that its not an old list being circulated, but that new addresses are included in the next spam batch.
I would expect they use a YYYYMMDD notation or anything that flies with ISO 8601 .. but a M-D-YYYY format in ASCII inside a computer system, seriously Google?
What use does software have for that format besides communicate with Americans?
A tabular data app. Think MS Access, but without the hassle of having to set up tables or fields beforehand. Actually, forget MS Access. Its just a white graph-paper canvas, and you control it using your digitizer/tablet pen.
The ideal tool no more complicated as sketch paper, enabling to quickly count inventory in your tablet (handwriting recognition and tally) the way you always have, but it understands and helps to plot your data if you decide to do so afterwards. It would also work if you start with a photo of your (actual paper) sketch.
This idea is mine (but have no time to build it according to my vision) and the idea may be freely used IF open source and not developed commercially.
I see practical uses for people who do dislike computers, but need something slightly more faster/powerful than wielding a notepad and calculator while on the go.
Thats good news. You have one.
Pascal (including Delphi and Oxygen) developers should have a look at Smart Mobile Studio.
http://smartmobilestudio.com/
This bascially compiles pascal to javascript. This brings a lot of features to javascript, and you code actually stays human readable. Its fast too.
My workstation sports two identical 17" with 1280x1024 for years both at home and work. Its 4:3 so no portrait but i see the value. I love snapping windows to a monitor with a flick of the mouse, Windows 7 got that right. I used Linux before at home before that. I really like how Windows 8 enables me to do the same on one monitor with RT apps.
Ideally i would buy now a 2560x1400 minimum wide on 30" monitor, with touch. Or rather, a tablet that size (YES) with proper pen support and realtime WiDi to my tv.
But i'd rather have higher resolution, 1280x1024 is lower than my medieval Acer laptop.
This happens people. Also, cows lick their newborns for an hour or so. Interestingly, they''ll only lick poo once unless you put a birthday candle in them which triggers the quite interesting curious cow reaction.
You are clearly not one of them.
You don't rule by depending on a rigid foundation. Being flexible is way more stable, not only if the foundation is rigid.
Consider this: Once you've put progress on a bar, you can't take it off. Suppose you start a process that should take 20 minutes, and do the first 5 minutes, progress is now at 25%. But then, partway through, something unexpected happens and you realize the process is actually going to take 40 minutes. You can't take the progress "back" now, that would disorient the user. So you have to rescale the remainder of the bar.
This is why you should not put different "steps" in one progress bar, the software would just be lying to users. Use a 0..100% range for each step.
For each step, always show a useful number allong with a progress bar such as "10/1003" or "(digested 10 of 1003 buckets of lava)".
ONLY if its perfectly possible to predict remaining time, show that estimate. Factor in at step 1 that it has more work to do at step 2.
It can not factor in unexpected failures ofcourse, so state the time as a minimum ("at least 90 minutes remaining) or best case pessimistic running estimate. Dont even bother calculating on the second/minute if its over 10 second/minutes.
You should take a look at SmartGit and TortoiseGit.
And he should just buy a Surface Pro and be done with it. I'm going to. Its the first step beyond the classic laptop which basically just was a foldable desktop.
Seriously. You cant create on (todays) tablets. They are for consuming.
If he wanted to do graphics fingering, he should just install PicSay Pro on his Android.
This story just proves how people forget to zoom out and look at whats really the problem. (answer: thats gravity)
They must have forgotten that today Sci-Fi genre stands for "vampires and paranormal fiction". :'(