The one thing that Amiga had that still isn't in modern OSes is DataTypes. On the Amiga, if a new graphics format came out, a new DataType could be written, and every well written application on your system would instantly be able to use the new format. It was like device drivers for data.
If you go and look at the context of those kinds of comments you will find that 'Custom' hardware means one of two things to the Amiga community as a group. 1) The custom audio/video coprocessors that were produced by Commodore. Generally referred to as the "custom chipset". 2) PowerPC motherboards.
One of the biggest reason failures I see going around involves the overloading of the word 'fact'. There is 'fact' as in the opposite of fiction, and then there is 'fact' as in the opposite of opinion.
What we see is 'reasoning' that goes like this...
1+1=37. This is a fiction, and thus isn't a fact. It is the opposite of a fact, so that makes it an opinion. Opinions are by definition not wrong, so 1+1=37 isn't wrong. since it isn't wrong, it must be right. Since it is right it must be true. Since it is true, it is a fact.
Incorrect. Plenty of credit card companies will happily give you an account that does not have an annual fee. I have 4 credit cards I don't carry a balance on any of them, so pay no interest, and none of them charge an annual fee. On the other hand, when I have a dispute with a retailer, the credit card company will force the retailer to refund my money as well as extends the warranty on many of my purchases.
If you don't have the self control to spend less than you make, or the forethought to check the terms of your contract, then perhaps you are better off not having credit at all. But for anyone who can responsibly use credit, it is a good thing.
You are exactly why I have no faith in our education system. The "all that matters is you try" attitude is disgusting. I assume you learned this attitude via the public schools social promotion program. Pay/employ people based on whether they can do the job. I don't want doctors who try hard. I want doctors who can perform a better job effortlessly. Likewise, I don't want a cashier that tries hard. I want one that can ring me through twice as fast effortlessly.
Yes. It is mature to acknowledge reality when it is easily verifiable. Your claim that 3D does not work for effects showing inside the screen is absurd and does not match reality. Have you ever looked at a 3D screen? Seriously. Go to your local Costco and look at any of the 3D screens they have on display. The Demos will have both behind the screen and in-front of the screen effects. The behind the screen effects work. The in front of the screen generally do not. So, the statement still stands...
You seem to have read some report on how 3D TV/Movies work, misunderstood it, and decided that misunderstood hearsay trumps first hand physical evidence.
In case you didn't notice, the screen that is used for 3D is the same distance away whether they the effect of going inside the screen or going outside the screen. Widely available empirical evidence also shows that it works. Not only that it works, but that it works BETTER than trying to show the object outside the screen. You seem to have read some report on how 3D TV/Movies work, misunderstood it, and decided that misunderstood hearsay trumps first hand physical evidence.
The problem is that the rest of us were not talking about dumb creationist. Were were having a completely different conversation when you decided to change the subject to dumb creationists. You might as well have started ranting about CleanMyPC.
Not really. I would guess, just guess mind you, that there are plenty of "fill in the gaps" discoveries to be made. Things that when posted on Slashdot will elicit insults about how anyone with an electron microscope COULD have done it.
There is also the fact that when armatures do the same experiments that the pros do, the results are more likely to make it into the general public. A 12 year old is unlikely read an expensive, for pay, peer reviewed article. On the other hand, they might do the experiment at home.
Even for the pros, it is much better to have a teen enter the field with 5-10 years of experience in the simpler areas of the field when they enter college than it is to have them starting from scratch at 18 or 19.
At worst, you would be no more screwed than you are now. At best, Megacorp wouldn't want to risk that every single one of their wins get invalidated due to misconduct AND having to pay out to every single person that they have been in a legal dispute with for the correct price.
The lawyers are going to have to claim more than $20 an hour, or they will quickly be uncovered for lying to the court. They might be able to hide some of the funds, but that would still put us all in far better shape than we are now.
It seems to me that the problems with 3D are usually when they try to come out of the screen. If they approached the filming as if you were looking through a window, the cutoff on the edges of the screen would not be as off putting, and I suspect that fewer people would get headaches.
Oh, and offer glasses that have both lenses polarized in the same direction, so that people who don't want the 3D can watch the same showing in 2D.
High frame rates mean that the artist gets to choose what is produced instead of being stuck with what the technology has to offer. Some movies today are filmed in black and white. That doesn't mean that it isn't WAY better that we now have color as the standard. In fact, black and white is MORE effective now that we have color than it was before because you know it was done intentionally instead of due to technology limitations. Black and white was just overdone until the advent of color.
No. NTSC is fixed at 60 FIELDS per second. Being interlaced, that becomes 30 FRAMES per second. NTSC is the standard that has been used in the US from the beginning. In other countries you have PAL which is 50/25 fields/frames per second.
The theater could easily offer the same movie in both 3D and 2D on the same screen at the same time. They just need to have glasses that have both lenses polarized in the same direction.
That would be another alternative. I would say that the solution to the scaling fee isn't to have the legal consultant decide if they will wave the fee. It would be to have the fee rise (points against your fees) when you lose cases. So, each case you lose, the cost goes up for the next one. This would prevent spamming the legal system, while not harming those that are most targeted. I would also stipulate that subsequent lawsuits against the same defendant count as points against your fees whether you win or lose. And that dropped cases count as points as well.
Why would the $500/hour lawyer get "paid layman rates"? And, if the other parties money is being siphoned off they are not going to be getting the best representation, if any, so you don't need a $500 lawyer on your side.
The rest of the main features seem to be about the same, and while some may say, what's the difference between.68 and.71 inches, well, it's still 5%, which takes quite a lot of engineering to get rid of when you are looking at laptops of this size.
That right there is an example of why people make fun of Mac fans. The fact that Apple put in "quite a lot of engineering" to gain no practical benefit shows that they are less worried about usability than they are bragging rights. The fact that someone would try to make less than a millimeter sound significant doesn't make it so.
The thickness of laptops is a nerd dick measuring contest. Even in a literal dick measuring contest no one cares about sub millimeter size differences.
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The one thing that Amiga had that still isn't in modern OSes is DataTypes. On the Amiga, if a new graphics format came out, a new DataType could be written, and every well written application on your system would instantly be able to use the new format. It was like device drivers for data.
No. It isn't. They would just need to virtualize every non-protected app so that they had their own memory space.
If you go and look at the context of those kinds of comments you will find that 'Custom' hardware means one of two things to the Amiga community as a group. 1) The custom audio/video coprocessors that were produced by Commodore. Generally referred to as the "custom chipset". 2) PowerPC motherboards.
I think it would be funnier to run LOGO on it.
One of the biggest reason failures I see going around involves the overloading of the word 'fact'. There is 'fact' as in the opposite of fiction, and then there is 'fact' as in the opposite of opinion.
What we see is 'reasoning' that goes like this...
1+1=37. This is a fiction, and thus isn't a fact. It is the opposite of a fact, so that makes it an opinion. Opinions are by definition not wrong, so 1+1=37 isn't wrong. since it isn't wrong, it must be right. Since it is right it must be true. Since it is true, it is a fact.
Eureka! 1+1=37 !!!
Awsome!
Incorrect. Plenty of credit card companies will happily give you an account that does not have an annual fee. I have 4 credit cards I don't carry a balance on any of them, so pay no interest, and none of them charge an annual fee. On the other hand, when I have a dispute with a retailer, the credit card company will force the retailer to refund my money as well as extends the warranty on many of my purchases.
If you don't have the self control to spend less than you make, or the forethought to check the terms of your contract, then perhaps you are better off not having credit at all. But for anyone who can responsibly use credit, it is a good thing.
You are exactly why I have no faith in our education system. The "all that matters is you try" attitude is disgusting. I assume you learned this attitude via the public schools social promotion program. Pay/employ people based on whether they can do the job. I don't want doctors who try hard. I want doctors who can perform a better job effortlessly. Likewise, I don't want a cashier that tries hard. I want one that can ring me through twice as fast effortlessly.
You keep telling yourself that....
Yes. It is mature to acknowledge reality when it is easily verifiable. Your claim that 3D does not work for effects showing inside the screen is absurd and does not match reality. Have you ever looked at a 3D screen? Seriously. Go to your local Costco and look at any of the 3D screens they have on display. The Demos will have both behind the screen and in-front of the screen effects. The behind the screen effects work. The in front of the screen generally do not. So, the statement still stands...
You seem to have read some report on how 3D TV/Movies work, misunderstood it, and decided that misunderstood hearsay trumps first hand physical evidence.
Apropos clearly doesn't mean what you think it means.
In case you didn't notice, the screen that is used for 3D is the same distance away whether they the effect of going inside the screen or going outside the screen. Widely available empirical evidence also shows that it works. Not only that it works, but that it works BETTER than trying to show the object outside the screen. You seem to have read some report on how 3D TV/Movies work, misunderstood it, and decided that misunderstood hearsay trumps first hand physical evidence.
That is simply false. I don't know where you came up with that.
The problem is that the rest of us were not talking about dumb creationist. Were were having a completely different conversation when you decided to change the subject to dumb creationists. You might as well have started ranting about CleanMyPC.
Not really. I would guess, just guess mind you, that there are plenty of "fill in the gaps" discoveries to be made. Things that when posted on Slashdot will elicit insults about how anyone with an electron microscope COULD have done it.
There is also the fact that when armatures do the same experiments that the pros do, the results are more likely to make it into the general public. A 12 year old is unlikely read an expensive, for pay, peer reviewed article. On the other hand, they might do the experiment at home.
Even for the pros, it is much better to have a teen enter the field with 5-10 years of experience in the simpler areas of the field when they enter college than it is to have them starting from scratch at 18 or 19.
At worst, you would be no more screwed than you are now. At best, Megacorp wouldn't want to risk that every single one of their wins get invalidated due to misconduct AND having to pay out to every single person that they have been in a legal dispute with for the correct price.
The lawyers are going to have to claim more than $20 an hour, or they will quickly be uncovered for lying to the court. They might be able to hide some of the funds, but that would still put us all in far better shape than we are now.
It seems to me that the problems with 3D are usually when they try to come out of the screen. If they approached the filming as if you were looking through a window, the cutoff on the edges of the screen would not be as off putting, and I suspect that fewer people would get headaches.
Oh, and offer glasses that have both lenses polarized in the same direction, so that people who don't want the 3D can watch the same showing in 2D.
High frame rates mean that the artist gets to choose what is produced instead of being stuck with what the technology has to offer. Some movies today are filmed in black and white. That doesn't mean that it isn't WAY better that we now have color as the standard. In fact, black and white is MORE effective now that we have color than it was before because you know it was done intentionally instead of due to technology limitations. Black and white was just overdone until the advent of color.
No. NTSC is fixed at 60 FIELDS per second. Being interlaced, that becomes 30 FRAMES per second. NTSC is the standard that has been used in the US from the beginning. In other countries you have PAL which is 50/25 fields/frames per second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC
The theater could easily offer the same movie in both 3D and 2D on the same screen at the same time. They just need to have glasses that have both lenses polarized in the same direction.
I'm pretty sure that Tolken wrote The Hobbit to have taken place in 3D.
Feel-Around is arguably the best, but you want to make sure you go to the right movie. You really don't want to have it during Saw.
That would be another alternative. I would say that the solution to the scaling fee isn't to have the legal consultant decide if they will wave the fee. It would be to have the fee rise (points against your fees) when you lose cases. So, each case you lose, the cost goes up for the next one. This would prevent spamming the legal system, while not harming those that are most targeted. I would also stipulate that subsequent lawsuits against the same defendant count as points against your fees whether you win or lose. And that dropped cases count as points as well.
Why would the $500/hour lawyer get "paid layman rates"? And, if the other parties money is being siphoned off they are not going to be getting the best representation, if any, so you don't need a $500 lawyer on your side.
The rest of the main features seem to be about the same, and while some may say, what's the difference between .68 and .71 inches, well, it's still 5%, which takes quite a lot of engineering to get rid of when you are looking at laptops of this size.
That right there is an example of why people make fun of Mac fans. The fact that Apple put in "quite a lot of engineering" to gain no practical benefit shows that they are less worried about usability than they are bragging rights. The fact that someone would try to make less than a millimeter sound significant doesn't make it so.
The thickness of laptops is a nerd dick measuring contest. Even in a literal dick measuring contest no one cares about sub millimeter size differences.