But he is the head of the government, while also being the head of state, as US of Americans would more likely call him. In a Presidential Republic, the President is usually invested with both roles.
Just like Rolling Stone and new albums... Detection bias-- for volunteer reviewers on community site it's only worth their time to review something they liked. In Rolling Stone's case, there's just so much music out there that they only bother to review the stuff they like, and the review, like on slashdot, is essentially an endorsement.
Yeah, that's the real trick. On a movie, an aritst spends a month rotoscoping the scene and then a compositor (a human) tweaks the overlayed matte until it's all just so. This is completely automatic.
Apparently, there'll be a new wave of UI with "gestures". They're getting it all wrong. I do not want a computer for which I must extend my arm to flick through 2,000 photos! That's stupid! "Gestures" do not necessarily make for a simple UI.
I dunno, I was pretty good with Graffiti writing back in the day, as were a lot of other people, and that requires you to learn a particular way of writing every letter in the latin alphabet. Doing lotsa gestures can work, the problem is exposing the functionality the gestures provide in a way thats hard to miss.
The sad fact of the matter is that there is such a deathgrip on the American cell phone market, I go in now with lowered expectation and zero assumption I will ever receive anything that resembles customer service or support.
I dunno, my phone's touchscreen went dead the first month I had it and I was able to bring it back to the shop I bought it from and they gave me a new one right then. I the OS software on my phone is regularly updated over the internet from the vendor, adding new features and security updates, and they also vouch for all the 3rd-party software that will run on it.
Of course, I have an iPhone, which is quite a breath of fresh air after the line of Treos I had; w/r/t software Android has the potential of being the same, and Palm has the potential of providing good hardware support, considering they do have a small chain of stores that they could use to extend customer service the last mile the way Apple has leveraged their Apple stores. But Palm's awful support has been particularly breathtaking in the last 5 years, and the folks currently running the Palm shops make the guys at Radio Shack look good.
To be fair, we've never seen Sideshow Bob pilot a fighter jet, and he was able to handle a Wright Flyer competently, so this would indicate that he at least would have some aptitude for it.
Yeah - it is one guy and as long as he doesn't put on an annoyingly green tie - it all just works.
There are several substantive differences:
The green or blue weather map is a straight chromakey, the matted background is opaque and the removed background is monochromatic. The first-down line/overlays have to be added to a surface of varying (but reasonably predictable) colors, and it's laid over the action, with objects "in front" (not grass) matted out of the overlay. This is very complicated.
The camera is in motion, panning and tilting while the overlay is happening. The weatherman always does his schtick in front of a camera on "lockdown," because if the camera moved, the weatherman would move (w/r/t the frame) on a different plane from his chromakeyed background.
I'd read the article if it weren't slashdotted, it appears very interesting...
In theory it could if SCOTUS rules that the amendment can be incorporated, but I doubt they'd go for that, since the amendment the GP is talking about doesn't extend anyone any more due process rights than they already get from the other amendments, and simply ratchets up the punishment for violating someone's due process and equates it with "treason." Which is... an "idealistic" way of putting it.
I dunno, I think "homeslice" is pretty neutral...:)
Your point on the right of movement is enlightening, even if certain folks on the SCOTUS are originalists and don't recognize "substantive due process."
Right though you may be, I don't think you actually propose a defect in my argument. A person under investigation loses no rights.
Though to be honest, I don't think wiretapping somebody without a warrant is the equivalent of levying war against the United States. Hell, murdering the president isn't by itself considered treason.
You and the parent poster have both gone off the deep end, just at opposite ends. If you are certain that someone is "doing wrong", i.e. you have probable cause, they are forfeiting certain of their rights.
And what rights would those be, homeslice? If the police have PC to arrest you and they put you in holding, you lose freedom of movement, but that isn't a constitutional right. An innocent person has all of their rights intact until they're proven guilty, and even then, in prison, they retain a semblance of most of them. As a matter of principle, a prosecutor can send you up the river with full and damning evidence and at no time are any of your legal protections forfeit. They were designed for people under suspicion. If nobody was ever under suspicion then your probably wouldn't need a Bill of Rights.
I think you are confusing certain "rights," like and privacy with "Constitutional protections."
The wisdom teeth are part of your permanent tier, they just erupt later. Back before we had good dentistry, it wasn't uncommon for an individual to be missing a tooth or two by the time they reached 25, and so when the wisdom teeth came in, they would rack in from the back and shift the others forward.
Now that tooth loss is uncommon, wisdom teeth are regularly extracted, since they're liable to become impacted if there isn't space (from missing teeth) for them to grow in.
And it's true that some people don't grow wisdom teeth. It's also true that some people only grow two, and some people grow six.
I never said I wanted it or represented as much, though I do, because I think if you hold the work of filmmakers in such low regard that you never make an effort to possess a copy of their work, you can expect the Netflix jukebox to eternally hand you a rotating collection of mildly-satisfying trash, essentially completing the transition of high entertainment to the pr0n business model. Making movies inexpensive and un-ownable is just a way for the distributors to ease you into paying for bad movies, because you have no investment.
it's clear to me that as long as people are happy with disposable entertainment, the quality of that entertainment will be equally disposable.
Just my opinion of course, but haven't you ever wanted to own the movie? You own books, don't you? Or is the library enough? I would think not.
Is this true? He's supposedly a big shot in the derivatives community...
TFA says, in so many words: Taleb has only made money three times in his life, during the '87 crash, after the LTCM meltdown, and in the current crisis.
but he noted that DVDs maintain an advantage over streaming, which is that "they are very profitable" for film studios
And you can hold them and touch them, resell them, and duplicate them for safekeeping, and you can play them a thousand times without having to engage a "service." They are property. How is this latest innovation any different from the old Divx?
I would think that, since this input method is based on moving a finger between letters in a continuous motion, it would probably be a Good Thing if commonly used letters were far apart, or far enough apart to make each character entered a long enough "swipe" to feel natural and ergonomic.
I am a bit curious about how you were to type a word like "letter," where you need to make 2 "Ts" at once. Maybe after you enter the first T, you do a little loop and end up where you started.
You can, by the way, get a writing app for your iPhone now that operates on this principle.
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But he is the head of the government, while also being the head of state, as US of Americans would more likely call him. In a Presidential Republic, the President is usually invested with both roles.
Just like Rolling Stone and new albums... Detection bias-- for volunteer reviewers on community site it's only worth their time to review something they liked. In Rolling Stone's case, there's just so much music out there that they only bother to review the stuff they like, and the review, like on slashdot, is essentially an endorsement.
Yeah, that's the real trick. On a movie, an aritst spends a month rotoscoping the scene and then a compositor (a human) tweaks the overlayed matte until it's all just so. This is completely automatic.
This is an area of continuing research
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I dunno, I was pretty good with Graffiti writing back in the day, as were a lot of other people, and that requires you to learn a particular way of writing every letter in the latin alphabet. Doing lotsa gestures can work, the problem is exposing the functionality the gestures provide in a way thats hard to miss.
The sad fact of the matter is that there is such a deathgrip on the American cell phone market, I go in now with lowered expectation and zero assumption I will ever receive anything that resembles customer service or support.
I dunno, my phone's touchscreen went dead the first month I had it and I was able to bring it back to the shop I bought it from and they gave me a new one right then. I the OS software on my phone is regularly updated over the internet from the vendor, adding new features and security updates, and they also vouch for all the 3rd-party software that will run on it.
Of course, I have an iPhone, which is quite a breath of fresh air after the line of Treos I had; w/r/t software Android has the potential of being the same, and Palm has the potential of providing good hardware support, considering they do have a small chain of stores that they could use to extend customer service the last mile the way Apple has leveraged their Apple stores. But Palm's awful support has been particularly breathtaking in the last 5 years, and the folks currently running the Palm shops make the guys at Radio Shack look good.
To be fair, we've never seen Sideshow Bob pilot a fighter jet, and he was able to handle a Wright Flyer competently, so this would indicate that he at least would have some aptitude for it.
In my experience with a 270 and 650, that's a pretty big thing to set aside, really about a third of the whole experience.
There are several substantive differences:
I'd read the article if it weren't slashdotted, it appears very interesting...
Uh, I seem to recall the oval office having three TVs. Didn't you see Superman 2?
It's a beautiful day neighbor, to kick your ass!
D'oh! Why did I sign up for insta-trace!
Uh. my paystubs here in LA show deductions for State Unemployment Insurance, about $9/week... are you sure it isn't half and half employer/employee?
I think he says "state" when he means "heap."
In theory it could if SCOTUS rules that the amendment can be incorporated, but I doubt they'd go for that, since the amendment the GP is talking about doesn't extend anyone any more due process rights than they already get from the other amendments, and simply ratchets up the punishment for violating someone's due process and equates it with "treason." Which is... an "idealistic" way of putting it.
I dunno, I think "homeslice" is pretty neutral... :)
Your point on the right of movement is enlightening, even if certain folks on the SCOTUS are originalists and don't recognize "substantive due process."
Right though you may be, I don't think you actually propose a defect in my argument. A person under investigation loses no rights.
That's not necessarily true. According to Article 5, this language could be proposed by 2/3 of the state legislatures, and then ratified by state Constitutional Conventions. No Federal Government invovlement at all in that.
Though to be honest, I don't think wiretapping somebody without a warrant is the equivalent of levying war against the United States. Hell, murdering the president isn't by itself considered treason.
Well FooGoo, since you're a committed kiddie pr0n aficionado maybe they should be tapping your phone as well.
What, you were just kidding in that post? Well, maybe, but what do you have to hide if we just need to make sure...
You and the parent poster have both gone off the deep end, just at opposite ends. If you are certain that someone is "doing wrong", i.e. you have probable cause, they are forfeiting certain of their rights.
And what rights would those be, homeslice? If the police have PC to arrest you and they put you in holding, you lose freedom of movement, but that isn't a constitutional right. An innocent person has all of their rights intact until they're proven guilty, and even then, in prison, they retain a semblance of most of them. As a matter of principle, a prosecutor can send you up the river with full and damning evidence and at no time are any of your legal protections forfeit. They were designed for people under suspicion. If nobody was ever under suspicion then your probably wouldn't need a Bill of Rights.
I think you are confusing certain "rights," like and privacy with "Constitutional protections."
The wisdom teeth are part of your permanent tier, they just erupt later. Back before we had good dentistry, it wasn't uncommon for an individual to be missing a tooth or two by the time they reached 25, and so when the wisdom teeth came in, they would rack in from the back and shift the others forward.
Now that tooth loss is uncommon, wisdom teeth are regularly extracted, since they're liable to become impacted if there isn't space (from missing teeth) for them to grow in.
And it's true that some people don't grow wisdom teeth. It's also true that some people only grow two, and some people grow six.
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The obvious question: why didn't the FBI do this rather than set-up a honeypot site?
Police and prosecutors are rewarded based on the number of arrests and convictions, and not necessarily on reduction in crime?
It's still more technically accurate than the average William Gibson novel...
I never said I wanted it or represented as much, though I do, because I think if you hold the work of filmmakers in such low regard that you never make an effort to possess a copy of their work, you can expect the Netflix jukebox to eternally hand you a rotating collection of mildly-satisfying trash, essentially completing the transition of high entertainment to the pr0n business model. Making movies inexpensive and un-ownable is just a way for the distributors to ease you into paying for bad movies, because you have no investment.
it's clear to me that as long as people are happy with disposable entertainment, the quality of that entertainment will be equally disposable.
Just my opinion of course, but haven't you ever wanted to own the movie? You own books, don't you? Or is the library enough? I would think not.
I'm comparing netflix to DVDs, not Netflix Instant Queue to Netflix by mail.
Is this true? He's supposedly a big shot in the derivatives community...
TFA says, in so many words: Taleb has only made money three times in his life, during the '87 crash, after the LTCM meltdown, and in the current crisis.
but he noted that DVDs maintain an advantage over streaming, which is that "they are very profitable" for film studios
And you can hold them and touch them, resell them, and duplicate them for safekeeping, and you can play them a thousand times without having to engage a "service." They are property. How is this latest innovation any different from the old Divx?
I would think that, since this input method is based on moving a finger between letters in a continuous motion, it would probably be a Good Thing if commonly used letters were far apart, or far enough apart to make each character entered a long enough "swipe" to feel natural and ergonomic.
I am a bit curious about how you were to type a word like "letter," where you need to make 2 "Ts" at once. Maybe after you enter the first T, you do a little loop and end up where you started.
You can, by the way, get a writing app for your iPhone now that operates on this principle.