Projectors from the 1990's/early 2000's are harder to position in a home; today's projectors are almost all self-monitoring, meaning that they project their test image and then calibrate against it using internal optics. As a result, you can place the projector anywhere that it can project an uobstructed beam at a relatively uniformly-colored surface, and it will adjust for keystone/flatness/color depth all by itself. This means that you can keep a desk-mount projector tucked away, and stick it on a coffee table pointed at a blank wall when you want to watch something. Nothing hard to position about that.
And if you're concerned about it not looking as good as a SmartTV of the same size -- those TVs don't really look that great. Sure, it won't look quite as good as a computer monitor of the same size, but the quality of monitors is still significantly higher than that of TV screens. And as has been pointed out, monitors only go up to around 55", after which you're into LED territory, and an image that's worse than the projected equivalent which is 1/10 the price.
Bike theft is often linked to substance abuse -- opportunistic theft, not some crime ring breaking the bikes down for cash. The same is likely true for the remaining phone thefts.
Also, I can see great benefit in turning some code like OpenCyc loose on the mechanical turk to generate answers to the survey questions, then reaping the results as OpenCyc answers thousands of surveys a day for you. I'd guess you should probably create multiple identities for that purpose though, as Amazon might get suspicious if someone spends 5,000 hours/day filling out surveys.
My point here is that he's charging the same amount for the domains as a default registry charge -- $0.
But you're lying. That's not what he's charging. Stop lying. Then you won't be so wrong.
But I'm not -- he does have other conditions to transfers, but so do the registrars themselves. It's one thing to say I'm incorrect and point at some evidence that shows this (for example, is he also waiting for domains to expire and then gobbling them up, posting them as "for sale" for exorbitant prices? If so, that's a valid point), but it's another to just say I'm intentionally misleading people about it.
My point here is that he's charging the same amount for the domains as a default registry charge -- $0. And while doing this, he IS preventing regular squatters from sucking up these domains and turning a profit off them.
But none of that matters much anymore, when you can register domains like nota.democrat if you pay the right registrar the right $$$....
I consider domain registrars for the most part to be a net drain on society. Let's just map unicode to IPv6 and be done with it. Use a search engine instead of a domain to find the content.
...except in his case, he realized the value of them, and realized that someone would rent seek them, so he grabbed them to give out to those he figured would use them for something useful.
His behavior is actually preventing the predatory practices that naturally grow out of the current domain registration racket.
And of course, any startup he gives one to can then turn around and sell it if they need the money.
The National Post isn't an obscure paper though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The National Post is a Canadian paper based out of Toronto, and was the flagship paper of PostMedia, one of Canada's major media conglomerates. It is in direct competition with The Globe and Mail (the other major paper title). It used to be a major National title, but its readership dropped off about the same time it started doing strong "partisan" editorials on topics with strong pro-Israeli/anti-muslim content (including the 2006 Iran controversy). In the past decade, they have not been strangers to coloring their reporting, sometimes past the line of believability.
Why on earth did someone mark me off topic for referencing a language generation engine that generates philosophical dreck inseparable from that generated by real philosophy students? It's not only on topic for the thread, it's on topic for TFA 8|
How did we go from "Firefox -- it's the browser part of Netscape Communicator. You want extra features? Add an add-on!" to FirefoxOS????
I want a browser that does things the Unix way -- make a rendering engine. Make an http engine (or just use Curl or Wget, which already exist). Make a plugin architecture/chrome UI layer. Make more than one of each if you like.
Then let me stick them together how I want, without forcing a bunch of extra features on me that bloat memory, slow performance, and provide me with 0 value for how I use the product. Bonus points if I can strip it down small enough that my own mind can do a code review to check for security and performance issues in the parts I actually use.
Which smartphones have you used? I've never had an issue with this on a smartphone, as long as I hold it like a camera when making the shot, and not like a phone (meaning I use the traditional stable gun holds, either square shoulders, kneeling with arm support or prone with triangulated elbows).
On the other hand, I've had that issue lots on point-n-shoot cameras, both film and digital. I don't have this issue with DSLRs due to image stabilization -- which is probably why I don't have the issue on smartphones either (as the sensor area is significantly larger than the resulting photo, which is somewhat forgiving).
There's one other thing that traditional cameras have that phones don't: not just better optics, but also depth of field. With the optics squashed up against the sensor, there's not really too much you can do about this on a phone.
So phones have replaced all the low-end cameras; but as soon as you get into the realm of photography where you want to start playing with different lenses, you need a DSLR.
But these days, other than niche photography, the following are all you need:
Snapshots and large depth of field: use a phone Macro photography, telephoto, boca effects, curtain effects, use a DSLR Underwater/active photographer/videographer, use a GoPro, CoolPix or similar. 3-D photography/videography, market still maturing (yes low end photography manufacturers, this is sadly where to focus next).
They did... and then a few years back they changed their minds, after Java was no longer an issue. As such, there are cross-compiled.Net/Mono apps on iOS now.
But besides that, this is a case of Facebook creating an iOS-specific library that implements React.js in native code -- so by the time the binary hits the App store, there's no interpretation going on. I'd call that an improvement, myself.
30 years and airports will be underwater? I'm willing to believe man has an effect on the climate, but alarmist crap like this doesn't help your cause. Did John Kerry start working for the dot?
I can see some airports being under water in 30 years if time suddenly fast-forwarded. Take SFO for example: the runway is just above sea level. YVR is another coastal airport in the same situation. If we fast-forwarded 30 years, the runways could end up under water during extreme high tides -- ASSUMING NO DIKES OR BACKFILLING IS DONE IN THE MEANTIME.
Considering the fact that most airports lay new tarmac in that amount of time, all they'd have to do is make it a bit thicker next time and this is no longer an issue.
So yeah; it's reasonable until you factor in the fact that other things change over time too.
I'd say what's going to happen now is that every company will hold back a key patent that's not directly related to the standard, and FRAND the rest. That way, they get their patents into the standards, get the revenue, but should anyone decide to play nasty, they can pull out the extra patent and hit them over the head with it.
But that's only the big players. I can also see the big players abusing the new situation to take advantage of anyone who FRANDs their patents, which could easily suppress the number of patents included in standards that don't belong to a megacorp (but then, isn't that already the case?).
The benefit to 1) is that you can connect from any WiFi access point and know that people won't be snooping on your connection -- and you don't have to trust every single App vendor to have implemented https instead of http to transmit your credentials.
The benefit to 2) is that you have full control of your device -- and because Apple requires all web access to use WebKit, putting these restrictions on WebKit means that the rules you set are inherited by every App on your device -- including Tor, if you set it up.
...and this is why Apple was hitting Samsung with design patents, as those are never part of a standard. That's why Apple succeeded with their patent suit, yet Samsung failed with their rebuttal -- because their rebuttal was using a FRAND patent they'd already agreed to share with Apple.
So basically, Apple lawyers noticed that any patents that were part of FRAND were no longer part of the patent war chest, and didn't have to be defended against. Samsung missed out on this subtlety, and paid the price. Now, instead of this being a by-case issue, the DoJ and IEEE are formalising it so that nobody else attempts to mix FRAND and defensive patents to the detriment of all.
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Quit making excuses for your lack of social skills, and quit expecting the world to adapt to you.
Are you expecting the world to adapt to you?
Projectors are harder to position in a home
Projectors from the 1990's/early 2000's are harder to position in a home; today's projectors are almost all self-monitoring, meaning that they project their test image and then calibrate against it using internal optics. As a result, you can place the projector anywhere that it can project an uobstructed beam at a relatively uniformly-colored surface, and it will adjust for keystone/flatness/color depth all by itself. This means that you can keep a desk-mount projector tucked away, and stick it on a coffee table pointed at a blank wall when you want to watch something. Nothing hard to position about that.
And if you're concerned about it not looking as good as a SmartTV of the same size -- those TVs don't really look that great. Sure, it won't look quite as good as a computer monitor of the same size, but the quality of monitors is still significantly higher than that of TV screens. And as has been pointed out, monitors only go up to around 55", after which you're into LED territory, and an image that's worse than the projected equivalent which is 1/10 the price.
Bike theft is often linked to substance abuse -- opportunistic theft, not some crime ring breaking the bikes down for cash. The same is likely true for the remaining phone thefts.
At least he's truthful that he's not truthful.
Are you sure about that?
Also, I can see great benefit in turning some code like OpenCyc loose on the mechanical turk to generate answers to the survey questions, then reaping the results as OpenCyc answers thousands of surveys a day for you. I'd guess you should probably create multiple identities for that purpose though, as Amazon might get suspicious if someone spends 5,000 hours/day filling out surveys.
My point here is that he's charging the same amount for the domains as a default registry charge -- $0.
But you're lying. That's not what he's charging. Stop lying. Then you won't be so wrong.
But I'm not -- he does have other conditions to transfers, but so do the registrars themselves. It's one thing to say I'm incorrect and point at some evidence that shows this (for example, is he also waiting for domains to expire and then gobbling them up, posting them as "for sale" for exorbitant prices? If so, that's a valid point), but it's another to just say I'm intentionally misleading people about it.
My point here is that he's charging the same amount for the domains as a default registry charge -- $0. And while doing this, he IS preventing regular squatters from sucking up these domains and turning a profit off them.
But none of that matters much anymore, when you can register domains like nota.democrat if you pay the right registrar the right $$$....
I consider domain registrars for the most part to be a net drain on society. Let's just map unicode to IPv6 and be done with it. Use a search engine instead of a domain to find the content.
...except in his case, he realized the value of them, and realized that someone would rent seek them, so he grabbed them to give out to those he figured would use them for something useful.
His behavior is actually preventing the predatory practices that naturally grow out of the current domain registration racket.
And of course, any startup he gives one to can then turn around and sell it if they need the money.
The National Post isn't an obscure paper though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The National Post is a Canadian paper based out of Toronto, and was the flagship paper of PostMedia, one of Canada's major media conglomerates. It is in direct competition with The Globe and Mail (the other major paper title). It used to be a major National title, but its readership dropped off about the same time it started doing strong "partisan" editorials on topics with strong pro-Israeli/anti-muslim content (including the 2006 Iran controversy). In the past decade, they have not been strangers to coloring their reporting, sometimes past the line of believability.
Why on earth did someone mark me off topic for referencing a language generation engine that generates philosophical dreck inseparable from that generated by real philosophy students? It's not only on topic for the thread, it's on topic for TFA 8|
How did we go from "Firefox -- it's the browser part of Netscape Communicator. You want extra features? Add an add-on!" to FirefoxOS????
I want a browser that does things the Unix way -- make a rendering engine. Make an http engine (or just use Curl or Wget, which already exist). Make a plugin architecture/chrome UI layer. Make more than one of each if you like.
Then let me stick them together how I want, without forcing a bunch of extra features on me that bloat memory, slow performance, and provide me with 0 value for how I use the product. Bonus points if I can strip it down small enough that my own mind can do a code review to check for security and performance issues in the parts I actually use.
If I wanted FirefoxOS, I'd have stuck with EMACS.
Which smartphones have you used? I've never had an issue with this on a smartphone, as long as I hold it like a camera when making the shot, and not like a phone (meaning I use the traditional stable gun holds, either square shoulders, kneeling with arm support or prone with triangulated elbows).
On the other hand, I've had that issue lots on point-n-shoot cameras, both film and digital. I don't have this issue with DSLRs due to image stabilization -- which is probably why I don't have the issue on smartphones either (as the sensor area is significantly larger than the resulting photo, which is somewhat forgiving).
There's one other thing that traditional cameras have that phones don't: not just better optics, but also depth of field. With the optics squashed up against the sensor, there's not really too much you can do about this on a phone.
So phones have replaced all the low-end cameras; but as soon as you get into the realm of photography where you want to start playing with different lenses, you need a DSLR.
But these days, other than niche photography, the following are all you need:
Snapshots and large depth of field: use a phone
Macro photography, telephoto, boca effects, curtain effects, use a DSLR
Underwater/active photographer/videographer, use a GoPro, CoolPix or similar.
3-D photography/videography, market still maturing (yes low end photography manufacturers, this is sadly where to focus next).
http://www.barbalet.net/kant/
Not Eliza, Kant.
They did... and then a few years back they changed their minds, after Java was no longer an issue. As such, there are cross-compiled .Net/Mono apps on iOS now.
But besides that, this is a case of Facebook creating an iOS-specific library that implements React.js in native code -- so by the time the binary hits the App store, there's no interpretation going on. I'd call that an improvement, myself.
Anyway, no matter how we look at it, it's hardly going to be an issue as people move faster than sea levels change -- which was my original point.
The GIMP doesn't sound like such a bad name for a graphics manipulation package anymore, does it?
30 years and airports will be underwater? I'm willing to believe man has an effect on the climate, but alarmist crap like this doesn't help your cause. Did John Kerry start working for the dot?
I can see some airports being under water in 30 years if time suddenly fast-forwarded. Take SFO for example: the runway is just above sea level. YVR is another coastal airport in the same situation. If we fast-forwarded 30 years, the runways could end up under water during extreme high tides -- ASSUMING NO DIKES OR BACKFILLING IS DONE IN THE MEANTIME.
Considering the fact that most airports lay new tarmac in that amount of time, all they'd have to do is make it a bit thicker next time and this is no longer an issue.
So yeah; it's reasonable until you factor in the fact that other things change over time too.
I'd say what's going to happen now is that every company will hold back a key patent that's not directly related to the standard, and FRAND the rest. That way, they get their patents into the standards, get the revenue, but should anyone decide to play nasty, they can pull out the extra patent and hit them over the head with it.
But that's only the big players. I can also see the big players abusing the new situation to take advantage of anyone who FRANDs their patents, which could easily suppress the number of patents included in standards that don't belong to a megacorp (but then, isn't that already the case?).
The benefit to 1) is that you can connect from any WiFi access point and know that people won't be snooping on your connection -- and you don't have to trust every single App vendor to have implemented https instead of http to transmit your credentials.
The benefit to 2) is that you have full control of your device -- and because Apple requires all web access to use WebKit, putting these restrictions on WebKit means that the rules you set are inherited by every App on your device -- including Tor, if you set it up.
I miss the good old serial port.
It's on your universal serial bus.
...and this is why Apple was hitting Samsung with design patents, as those are never part of a standard. That's why Apple succeeded with their patent suit, yet Samsung failed with their rebuttal -- because their rebuttal was using a FRAND patent they'd already agreed to share with Apple.
So basically, Apple lawyers noticed that any patents that were part of FRAND were no longer part of the patent war chest, and didn't have to be defended against. Samsung missed out on this subtlety, and paid the price. Now, instead of this being a by-case issue, the DoJ and IEEE are formalising it so that nobody else attempts to mix FRAND and defensive patents to the detriment of all.
Turned out fine for China -- until it was replaced by RFID-enabled identity cards.
Looks like the Chinese Govt has decided not to be evil. So they decided to follow example set by the role-model of dont-be-evil, Google+
I hope it works as well as Google+'s variant. None of my Google+ accounts use the name on my driver's license.
...which includes your home address, as does the IP address registration for your phone and home access.
I'm trying to decide between Dread Pirate Roberts and Spartacus.