Are there good Word Processors/Spreadsheets/Presentation apps on android yet? Seriously asking. I'm a big Pages fan and am really happy to see they were able to put together an iPad version; and the single-record entry views in Numbers are one of those "duh" ideas that would probably be really useful.
Please don't post to tell me about google docs -- at the very least a "real" word processor should allow more than web core fonts, and should let you set line spacing, tab stops per paragraph, and use named styles.
Google Voice never used VoIP, it was just a front-end for viewing your messages and contacts- when you wanted to make a phone call thru the app, it just inititiated a POTS call to a nearby toll-free number, which made the connection to their backhaul.
We control the business as far as office work is concerned. We need a professional cabal, like the AMA, or ABA or whatever the accountants have
I think the word you're looking for is "guild," and when they did work they generally relied on the state to either enforce their membership rules or at least turn a blind eye while they roughed up the guy who came into town trying to sell his cut-rate cotton tunics.
I think you can definitely make the case for guilds when the practitioners are able to cause a lot of damage without oversight (lawyers, civil engineers, doctors, and I'd include teachers but I don't think teacher's unions do this properly), but for software development the social justification of such an institution is pretty thin. A union or mutual benefit society is a better way to go, but in places like the US in the last thirty years there's approximately ZERO class solidartity among white-collar workers, so the thing is pretty unworkable. Class solidarity among the very wealthy is as healthy as ever, regrettably...
It may make more sense, as long as that reference to bytes (not bits) is accurate, to refer to this as a 16 kilobit key instead, as public key encryption is usually referenced in bits.
We could just quote the key size in terms of "cardinality of encodings of state of every atom in the universe," in which case I believe a 16 kilobit key would be about 200 universe-states.:)
Theo didn't invent Open Source, and he ain't the arbiter of what it is or what it's for.
Leaving the teleology aside, BSD or GPL licenses do not create or entail greater end-user liberty -- that's just a fact of history at this point. A lot of hairy people made a lot of crazy prognostications in the early 80s, and even by their own standards it's unclear what their intentions were with regard to non-developer end-users. Is my mom in the cathedral or the bazaar? The answer is she's in neither.
Now leave me alone, I'm watching Search for Spock again. I have a feeling it'll be good this time.
Yes but open source was primary supposed to be good for the end-user.
It's worth refining our terms here... Because Apple was able to use BSD code, they were able to field a very competitve OS to Windows in a short time period, and they benefit from all of the work getting done on BSD and the GCC toolchain. This has significantly expanded the options of OSs available to home users... it has not made computer OSs magically free, and it has not given power users maximal liberty, but the first isn't going to happen in a world where people want and need support and have money to spend, and the second was never needed in a world with Linux.
I guess you could make some sort of argument that Apple "owes" the OSS community something, but when did anyone in the OSS community make their demands? They certainly didn't in their licenses, in which they commended their intellectual property unto the public good with the hope that it would be useful, and from which anyone that could use it could derive benefit.
It just turns out that the people that can derive the most real benefit from open-source code are people that can read code. Open source code is "supposed to be good" for the developer-user, not the end-user. Open-source licenses entail nothing on pure end-users, only people that use the code.
Wasn't that how it was supposed to work? Maybe Bruce Perens can back me up on this, but I thought Open Source was supposed to be good for profits and business.
The voters have minimal say in who actually wins a primary. It makes for good theater, but in reality the candidates with the leadership's blessings are the ones who win primaries.
The dynamics of this vary a lot state-by-state, depending on a lot of things, but even in the worst cases the US system for candidate selection is far more small-L liberal than, say, any pure proportional representation parliamentary democracy's system.
in which case the leadership fight eachother with canidates and voters being pawns
The only way you're able to make this argument, it appears, is by completely depriving voters of their agency.
Again, face it: voters don't care about this issue. Don't defame the US electoral system, as goofy as it is, just because it produces results you disagree with. Politics is about tradeoffs, and you vote for people, not positions. If you could vote for someone with the guarantee that their election would produce X result, there'd be no point in electing representatives in the first place-- it would just be more equitable to hold a plebiscite for everything.
I don't, or more accurately, am disallowed to. Why? Because I'm an Independent, and Maryland only lets the Repubs vote for other Repubs and Demos vote for other Demos in the primaries.
Get off your ass and affiliate. "Independent" in this country is just a polite way of saying "I want to be able to blame everyone else when the government does something wrong."
Seriously, how many states are going to have pro-consumer, sane-IP senators in the upcoming election that we can vote for?
States don't front candidates, parties do. Party candidates are voted in primaries; everyone votes in primaries, and a cold ham sandwich could get on a primary ballot.
Face it, people don't give a damn about this issue. They're too busy trying to find health insurance and keep us out of wars:)
Of course you can shoot something documentary-style in the shuttle -- after all, they did shoot The Dream is Alive with Imax cameras with the shuttle in orbit.
Have you tried to shoot a single scene, let alone an entire movie, in a bathroom stall without breakaway walls? It's a pain in the ass-- I've only done onewith breakaway walls and it was extremely difficult.
But AVI is an obsolete container (which is why Microsoft stopped using it).
N.B. Microsoft WAVE files, upon which basically all professional sound recording is based, use the same container format as AVI files. There's been some movement in the professional sphere to start using Broadcast-WAV RF64, which is basically a QT Atom knockoff (the QT container format itself is standardized as the original MPEG-4 (.mp4) container), but standard 2 GiB RIFF WAV files are here to stay forevah.
If you're on a Mac, install ClickToFlash and on YouTube it'll give you the option of bypassing the Flash movie and playing the H.264 that Youtube serves up to their iPhone client, in a QuickTime viewer (which on Mac is a very good thing).
I'd immediately invest in Canon and other lens manufacturers in the expectation of a bunch of custom orders for large format fisheye lenses with insane levels of distortion correction.
Actually you could get a little something done if, instead of using a Panavision or Arri body, you used a Canon 7D or 5DmkII (or RED Scarlett, whenever those become available), since its body and lenses are small enough to move around. But you need to have a minimum of like 10 people on the set at any one time, to act, direct, operate camera, pull focus, makeup, production design, grip, and light, and then you actually have to have proper lights for the scenes; it's complicated. You could only make it work if you were doing something verite or Dogma-95 style, and those movies generally don't make enough money to cover the $20 million you spent buying the thing:)
There's a company up the 101 in the valley that owns the complete mockup that was built for SpaceCamp. That single model has been enough for every LA film, TV show or other for the past 20 years or so; there really isn't a high demand for shuttle flight deck interior scenes. The set is actually a lot MORE intereting than the actual fligt deck, IMHO, since they never updated it with EFIS and it still has all of the original analogue gauges and gear (all completely accurate I might add). Even if you did want to buy a space shuttle to use in a film, you'd probably have to destroy the thing just to make it useable for shooting: running power and HVAC, tearing out walls, etc)
That said... babysteps. Get an iMovie done and with any luck you've at least got a framework to build upon, to learn mistakes from, and to do better with in the future.
Yeah I know, they never will add to it though. And when someone like me comes along and wants to add some glue to it to support timecode, I'll find the source a mess and several underlying architectural decisions that make the implementation impossible.
Does this thing support negative matchback, 3-perf or RED camera workflows? Or is it just another prosumer tinkertoy, like every other Linux media package?
Trust me when I say there is a LOT of interest in OSS alternatives (or any alternatives at all) to Avid, Final Cut Pro or Pro Tools, and a lot of money in support contracts if you were able to build the solution. But alas, Linux devs are constantly reinventing iMovie.
We don't really care at all what device you use on our network as long as its approved by the relevant authorities to be used on the appropriate radio frequencies.
To be honest, this sounds like the sort of arrangement many of us here can only dream of here in the US. All of our carriers here want to "help us" by locking-out phone features and plying us with terrible value-added services, and structuring rate plans so that the carrier is essentially charging rent instead of providing a compensated service.
I guess it depends on your goalposts, since City of Lost Children was by far the most expensive French-produced French-language film of 1995, and The Pianist the most expensive German-produced film of 2002. By the standards of films produced in the EU for general audiences, which is what we were talking about, they were very big-budget.
Of course the second got a lot of money from Universal Focus, but it was still made in Polish and German with a Polish crew, unlike all the copros that filter through the German/French/Spanish/UK tax havens.
That's not really fair, nor accurate. Big budget movies, aimed to appeal to as many people as possible (and most often in the cases of blockbusters, that means 14 year olds) do have a very predictable plot.
Except for The Dark Knight, or Empire Strikes Back, or Wrath of Khan, or, well, a lot of movies.
Even if we start from the presumption that the protagonist will survive, it's often very unclear what kind of world they'll end up with when they win, or the drama comes from trying to piece out how the hero will work the ending -- see Sherlock Holmes for a sorta clumsy example of this.
The few movies that do have large budgets tend to have very predictable plots.
Except The Pianist, or City of Lost Children, or any Harry Potter film (I never read any of the books and found each storyling sufficiently novel and surprising). Actually, there are a lot of big-budget European and Chinese films that are very good, and while Japan isn't really known for its live-action, anime production isn't exactly cheap either. Again, the hero's success is assured, it's really about how he does it.
It's also worth remembering too that many, if not most US big budget studio movies are actually funded by Germans, or consortiums that include plenty of Europeans
Angela Merkel closed the tax loophole a few years ago, and ever since the decline of the US$ production in LA and the US in general has been way up, thank you very much. The Germans and French were just using their production service companies as tax dodges anyways; all of the physical production was always happening in the US, and the question of money was always a question of "Do we pay a 10% production service fee to Hans and let him take the loss risk, or fund it ourselves and take the risk ourselves?" The profit off of these films always went back to the US of A (woohoo?)
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Are there good Word Processors/Spreadsheets/Presentation apps on android yet? Seriously asking. I'm a big Pages fan and am really happy to see they were able to put together an iPad version; and the single-record entry views in Numbers are one of those "duh" ideas that would probably be really useful.
Please don't post to tell me about google docs -- at the very least a "real" word processor should allow more than web core fonts, and should let you set line spacing, tab stops per paragraph, and use named styles.
Google Voice never used VoIP, it was just a front-end for viewing your messages and contacts- when you wanted to make a phone call thru the app, it just inititiated a POTS call to a nearby toll-free number, which made the connection to their backhaul.
I think the word you're looking for is "guild," and when they did work they generally relied on the state to either enforce their membership rules or at least turn a blind eye while they roughed up the guy who came into town trying to sell his cut-rate cotton tunics.
I think you can definitely make the case for guilds when the practitioners are able to cause a lot of damage without oversight (lawyers, civil engineers, doctors, and I'd include teachers but I don't think teacher's unions do this properly), but for software development the social justification of such an institution is pretty thin. A union or mutual benefit society is a better way to go, but in places like the US in the last thirty years there's approximately ZERO class solidartity among white-collar workers, so the thing is pretty unworkable. Class solidarity among the very wealthy is as healthy as ever, regrettably...
Python is arguably one of the easiest languages to learn.
I can't wait to explain to my mom the difference between four spaces and one tab, just to name one of Python's endless oddities.
It may make more sense, as long as that reference to bytes (not bits) is accurate, to refer to this as a 16 kilobit key instead, as public key encryption is usually referenced in bits.
We could just quote the key size in terms of "cardinality of encodings of state of every atom in the universe," in which case I believe a 16 kilobit key would be about 200 universe-states. :)
Theo didn't invent Open Source, and he ain't the arbiter of what it is or what it's for.
Leaving the teleology aside, BSD or GPL licenses do not create or entail greater end-user liberty -- that's just a fact of history at this point. A lot of hairy people made a lot of crazy prognostications in the early 80s, and even by their own standards it's unclear what their intentions were with regard to non-developer end-users. Is my mom in the cathedral or the bazaar? The answer is she's in neither.
Now leave me alone, I'm watching Search for Spock again. I have a feeling it'll be good this time.
It's worth refining our terms here... Because Apple was able to use BSD code, they were able to field a very competitve OS to Windows in a short time period, and they benefit from all of the work getting done on BSD and the GCC toolchain. This has significantly expanded the options of OSs available to home users... it has not made computer OSs magically free, and it has not given power users maximal liberty, but the first isn't going to happen in a world where people want and need support and have money to spend, and the second was never needed in a world with Linux.
I guess you could make some sort of argument that Apple "owes" the OSS community something, but when did anyone in the OSS community make their demands? They certainly didn't in their licenses, in which they commended their intellectual property unto the public good with the hope that it would be useful, and from which anyone that could use it could derive benefit.
It just turns out that the people that can derive the most real benefit from open-source code are people that can read code. Open source code is "supposed to be good" for the developer-user, not the end-user. Open-source licenses entail nothing on pure end-users, only people that use the code.
Wasn't that how it was supposed to work? Maybe Bruce Perens can back me up on this, but I thought Open Source was supposed to be good for profits and business.
The dynamics of this vary a lot state-by-state, depending on a lot of things, but even in the worst cases the US system for candidate selection is far more small-L liberal than, say, any pure proportional representation parliamentary democracy's system.
The only way you're able to make this argument, it appears, is by completely depriving voters of their agency.
Again, face it: voters don't care about this issue. Don't defame the US electoral system, as goofy as it is, just because it produces results you disagree with. Politics is about tradeoffs, and you vote for people, not positions. If you could vote for someone with the guarantee that their election would produce X result, there'd be no point in electing representatives in the first place-- it would just be more equitable to hold a plebiscite for everything.
I completely agree, however the previous system had become completely corrupt, so it's clear they had to do something.
Get off your ass and affiliate. "Independent" in this country is just a polite way of saying "I want to be able to blame everyone else when the government does something wrong."
States don't front candidates, parties do. Party candidates are voted in primaries; everyone votes in primaries, and a cold ham sandwich could get on a primary ballot.
Face it, people don't give a damn about this issue. They're too busy trying to find health insurance and keep us out of wars :)
Watch out for that first step, it's a DOOZY!
Of course you can shoot something documentary-style in the shuttle -- after all, they did shoot The Dream is Alive with Imax cameras with the shuttle in orbit.
Have you tried to shoot a single scene, let alone an entire movie, in a bathroom stall without breakaway walls? It's a pain in the ass-- I've only done one with breakaway walls and it was extremely difficult.
But AVI is an obsolete container (which is why Microsoft stopped using it).
N.B. Microsoft WAVE files, upon which basically all professional sound recording is based, use the same container format as AVI files. There's been some movement in the professional sphere to start using Broadcast-WAV RF64, which is basically a QT Atom knockoff (the QT container format itself is standardized as the original MPEG-4 (.mp4) container), but standard 2 GiB RIFF WAV files are here to stay forevah.
If you're on a Mac, install ClickToFlash and on YouTube it'll give you the option of bypassing the Flash movie and playing the H.264 that Youtube serves up to their iPhone client, in a QuickTime viewer (which on Mac is a very good thing).
Actually you could get a little something done if, instead of using a Panavision or Arri body, you used a Canon 7D or 5DmkII (or RED Scarlett, whenever those become available), since its body and lenses are small enough to move around. But you need to have a minimum of like 10 people on the set at any one time, to act, direct, operate camera, pull focus, makeup, production design, grip, and light, and then you actually have to have proper lights for the scenes; it's complicated. You could only make it work if you were doing something verite or Dogma-95 style, and those movies generally don't make enough money to cover the $20 million you spent buying the thing :)
There's a company up the 101 in the valley that owns the complete mockup that was built for SpaceCamp. That single model has been enough for every LA film, TV show or other for the past 20 years or so; there really isn't a high demand for shuttle flight deck interior scenes. The set is actually a lot MORE intereting than the actual fligt deck, IMHO, since they never updated it with EFIS and it still has all of the original analogue gauges and gear (all completely accurate I might add). Even if you did want to buy a space shuttle to use in a film, you'd probably have to destroy the thing just to make it useable for shooting: running power and HVAC, tearing out walls, etc)
What's your degree in? Ecofeminism, or postmodern comparative religion?
Yeah I know, they never will add to it though. And when someone like me comes along and wants to add some glue to it to support timecode, I'll find the source a mess and several underlying architectural decisions that make the implementation impossible.
Get AAF export going and we'll talk.
Does this thing support negative matchback, 3-perf or RED camera workflows? Or is it just another prosumer tinkertoy, like every other Linux media package?
Trust me when I say there is a LOT of interest in OSS alternatives (or any alternatives at all) to Avid, Final Cut Pro or Pro Tools, and a lot of money in support contracts if you were able to build the solution. But alas, Linux devs are constantly reinventing iMovie.
To be honest, this sounds like the sort of arrangement many of us here can only dream of here in the US. All of our carriers here want to "help us" by locking-out phone features and plying us with terrible value-added services, and structuring rate plans so that the carrier is essentially charging rent instead of providing a compensated service.
I guess it depends on your goalposts, since City of Lost Children was by far the most expensive French-produced French-language film of 1995, and The Pianist the most expensive German-produced film of 2002. By the standards of films produced in the EU for general audiences, which is what we were talking about, they were very big-budget.
Of course the second got a lot of money from Universal Focus, but it was still made in Polish and German with a Polish crew, unlike all the copros that filter through the German/French/Spanish/UK tax havens.
Except for The Dark Knight, or Empire Strikes Back, or Wrath of Khan, or, well, a lot of movies.
Even if we start from the presumption that the protagonist will survive, it's often very unclear what kind of world they'll end up with when they win, or the drama comes from trying to piece out how the hero will work the ending -- see Sherlock Holmes for a sorta clumsy example of this.
Except The Pianist, or City of Lost Children, or any Harry Potter film (I never read any of the books and found each storyling sufficiently novel and surprising). Actually, there are a lot of big-budget European and Chinese films that are very good, and while Japan isn't really known for its live-action, anime production isn't exactly cheap either. Again, the hero's success is assured, it's really about how he does it.
Angela Merkel closed the tax loophole a few years ago, and ever since the decline of the US$ production in LA and the US in general has been way up, thank you very much. The Germans and French were just using their production service companies as tax dodges anyways; all of the physical production was always happening in the US, and the question of money was always a question of "Do we pay a 10% production service fee to Hans and let him take the loss risk, or fund it ourselves and take the risk ourselves?" The profit off of these films always went back to the US of A (woohoo?)