How many rainforest diseases have we taken back to civilization? Syphilis? What about when man encounters extraterrestrial life - we have sci-fi stories about how they die because of our germs and diseases but what about the pathogens they bring to us? Will there be a mass die-off of human life on the same scale? If the government is scared of something, Im sure this would be high on the list, TFA being an example
Seems like MS was stack ranked by the mobile computing market and was put at the bottom of the pile. Ballmer is a classic American management type - a salesman in charge of things he didn't understand. And now he exits with a heartfelt confession of failure that will supposedly make him more human - more likeable.
No.
Investment bankers are slime, a large enough population of bacteria forms a slime, so slime (bacteria) as a model predictor for investment bankers should make perfect sense.
Suits and bankers always bring this subscription shit up. You would think Adobe of all companies would have learned from Quark = do not piss of your base.
Hope this spurs gimp, pixelmator, cinepaint et al to get their act together.
Not when the US carriers charge what they do. A cheaper iphone isn't going to help boost verizon subscriptions up to corporate expectations... cheaper rates will. Im as tired of hearing "cheaper phones will make..." as I was of hearing "ipod killer" 5 years ago and "ipad killer" today. When the carriers lower the rates - and not until then - I'll buy one.
I just love "the market and privatization will win the day" goons like you. Private companies have done such a great job keeping the earth clean and safe, not to mention their sterling record of labor relations, worker safety... But they will do great things, if you cut their taxes, let them bend a few laws, bail them out when they fuck up... The Gov't always has to do the dirty work - the infrastructure, roads, dams... then idiots like you dismantle the systems they built by claiming private industry could do better, when all they do is pillage profits that a stable society allows them to access to. Do us all a favor and go elect another politician who will make a 20 year career out of being "anti big gov't". everything you mentioned is only possible because nasa went to the moon -
And if private industry ever gets into space they will never (Im saying never) ever (x) do anything remotely altruistic/scientific for its own sake, like nasa, like everything you mentioned
O.C. and Stiggs were characters from the old 1970s National Lampoon magazine... when it was still just an east coast college rag, long before they became known to the general public for the chevy chase fraud "vacation" movies. The original magazine characters were a riot - the movie was a travesty that was years past it's relevance. Nothing to do with DR and Quinch.
the the machine itself is designed to be cinematic. The Purdue competition they have a cube to work within and the camera people are not artists or professionals...
there are several cases but of course you didn't read any of TFAs
"Three individuals have been arrested and charged in the case: a Washington-area U.S. Defense Department official (Gregg William Bergersen), a naturalized U.S. citizen from Taiwan (Tai Shen Kuo), and a Chinese national (Yu Xin Kang). "
I agree with your post in general but...
From the article you link to: "The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is the first in a class of three super carriers." It is nuke powered, Japans no nuke rule is for nuclear weaponry - not the ships powerplant. Also from TFA: "In August 1992, Kitty Hawk was appointed as Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet's "ready carrier." a position she still holds with temp detours to the middle east - because its faster to get to the Arabian sea from japan than from the eastern US.
The US msm will get to the story tomorrow when they figure out how to spin it...
LOL the post following yours "Boy those Chinese must've been surprised when they inadvertantly surfaced and were completely surrounded by potentially 'enemy' ships." Wish I had mod points tonight...
Reality master 101 a few posts below hit it pretty well - "Create a consumer a humanoid robot maid that can do all household chores, and Americans would buy millions of them without a qualm. Of course, the next step would be sex robots disguised as maid robots because of the social stigma of sexbots. When we have *that*, we'll have robots everywhere."
Another really obvious robot would be like the mars rovers, but sentient. I would think space exploration (que HAL and replicant posts) would be one of the best possible uses for robots, especially extra solar, what is time/age to a robot? - powerful enough radio transmitters would be the only real issue, and since food storage, waste disposal and other human needs would not be an issue Im sure a big radio would be childs play to a team that could build a sentient space exploration robot
It would only get to be an issue if the robots were genetically created and not mechanical, ie replicants. If I didn't mention it, somebody would have...
Ive never met another 'graphic artist' who uses a tablet pc. Wacom cintiq yes, but thats not a tablet pc and they're all connected to macs, never seen a cintiq connected to a pc. The only tablets Ive seen have been bankers/finance guys doing powerpoint/excell in airport lounges and retail inventory personnel. You're right about the useless though. Until there is a technological breakthrough and you can have cintiq-like sensitivity without the bulk, it won't happen and none of the current 'multi-touch' technologies that Ive seen come close. But I'd love to see if apple can do it... but this seems like some people think apple should do and apple hasn't wanted to do it. Hell, good voice recognition software would be more useful.
For all of you arm-chair political pundits out there who think Colbert and "the people" are being ripped off: His candidacy would be illegal (check the FEC rules) due to his corporate sponsorships -doritos and comedy channel. If the shoe was on the other foot, say Tom Delay gets GM to pony up $30 million... Does conflict of interest mean any... never mind.
You realize "his" old stuff isn't "his" any more than Pinball wizard... Ever hear of Bernie Taupin? Their fallout was basically the reason he fell off the charts, he didn't write the music - Bernie did. The punk rock culture shift didn't help...
The TFAs author is barely techonogically and historically literate. A few books by science historian James Burke would help immensely (Connections, The day the universe changed, The axmakers gift etc.) It would be a start.
Didn't this happen at least ten times with SCO?? A company/CEO signs a deal with a very unpopular/hostile to the free/open source movement and the CEO/PHB always manages to be "shocked" by the angry response of the community... Do these guys read anything besides pr0n? The Novell (and reactions from the 'community') deal was front page news... This guy must be looking for a job in the White House
I think the sta-puft marshmallow man from ghostbusters would have been the more surreal choice, esp if they could keep the 50 or so foot height. That might make an even better attack robot though... You would think the military guys would at least come up with a dogs head - afterall, who is mans best friend, a teddy bear (childrens plaything) or a dog?
Don't know whats wrong with their site (googled it - your link didn't go anywhere) right now - it won't work in safari and only sorta works with firefox - I did see some of it at work on a pc... Hmmm. I will have to wait to see more_but...
I should have been a bit more specific, from what I did see earlier their brush wasn't all that sensitive (no more so than any object dragged across the surface, ie a hand, paper) - Im being utopian here and was thinking of a sensitivity similar to my cintiq (higher dpi, touch-pressure sensitivity, rotational and tilt sensitive etc.). And the cintiq is pretty big, I had to "re-format" my desk.
I also don't think that any of this is that far off, five years max and its truly affordable - but it won't involve cameras, be the size of a coffee table or run microsoft. Their demos have a way of being more vapor than anything. Like the early vista demos that were actually video. I just get the feeling that the MS table will end up in Las Vegas hotels and airports - games for the kids while dad plays poker and mom tries to book a flight home - not at creative agencies
The perceptive pixel demo floored me, the iphone made me "ok, cool toy, but I cant wait to see what they really do with the GUI and OS full size", The MS table startled me for a moment than I just thought it paled next to two more impressive (Apple -tiny, PP - just 'liquid') uses of similar tech that were previously announced. Ive had the cintiq for about a year and seeing none of this makes me regret the purchase. 16 months from now I my be sick of it all but...
sorry I Im jerky - its late and I'll see more of their demo tomorow - if it takes MS to force the other guys to step up and deliver, thats great - then we all win.
uh oh shes mad, time to go...
If you read about Jeff Han and Perceptive Pixel you would know that they made that DOD screen. Im not sure if you've seen their wares (take 5 seconds and google it) but the Microsoft tech pales.
The Micosoft technology is crude, it_seems_cool until you look closely. Apple gets a multi-touch screen into a phone - Microsoft needs a table and five cameras.
I work as an art director and think the Wacom Cintiq is better for my creative work - don't get me wrong, I would_love_a multi-touch screen, but for everyday use (or adobe lightroom), not photoshop, illustrator etc. I don't think the detail is there - or "finger tip" control isn't fine enough. When they get this stuff to work with a brush I'll really be inpressed.
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How many rainforest diseases have we taken back to civilization? Syphilis? What about when man encounters extraterrestrial life - we have sci-fi stories about how they die because of our germs and diseases but what about the pathogens they bring to us? Will there be a mass die-off of human life on the same scale? If the government is scared of something, Im sure this would be high on the list, TFA being an example
Seems like MS was stack ranked by the mobile computing market and was put at the bottom of the pile. Ballmer is a classic American management type - a salesman in charge of things he didn't understand. And now he exits with a heartfelt confession of failure that will supposedly make him more human - more likeable. No.
Investment bankers are slime, a large enough population of bacteria forms a slime, so slime (bacteria) as a model predictor for investment bankers should make perfect sense.
Suits and bankers always bring this subscription shit up. You would think Adobe of all companies would have learned from Quark = do not piss of your base. Hope this spurs gimp, pixelmator, cinepaint et al to get their act together.
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Not when the US carriers charge what they do. A cheaper iphone isn't going to help boost verizon subscriptions up to corporate expectations... cheaper rates will. Im as tired of hearing "cheaper phones will make..." as I was of hearing "ipod killer" 5 years ago and "ipad killer" today. When the carriers lower the rates - and not until then - I'll buy one.
I just love "the market and privatization will win the day" goons like you. Private companies have done such a great job keeping the earth clean and safe, not to mention their sterling record of labor relations, worker safety... But they will do great things, if you cut their taxes, let them bend a few laws, bail them out when they fuck up... The Gov't always has to do the dirty work - the infrastructure, roads, dams... then idiots like you dismantle the systems they built by claiming private industry could do better, when all they do is pillage profits that a stable society allows them to access to. Do us all a favor and go elect another politician who will make a 20 year career out of being "anti big gov't". everything you mentioned is only possible because nasa went to the moon - And if private industry ever gets into space they will never (Im saying never) ever (x) do anything remotely altruistic/scientific for its own sake, like nasa, like everything you mentioned
"why does the general public in the US still cling to their customary system of units?" ...?
Is this a rhetorical question
O.C. and Stiggs were characters from the old 1970s National Lampoon magazine... when it was still just an east coast college rag, long before they became known to the general public for the chevy chase fraud "vacation" movies. The original magazine characters were a riot - the movie was a travesty that was years past it's relevance. Nothing to do with DR and Quinch.
fm6 is right - the company I work for made this commercial about 6 years ago and the cost was in the millions: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4187430023476942057
the the machine itself is designed to be cinematic. The Purdue competition they have a cube to work within and the camera people are not artists or professionals...
there are several cases but of course you didn't read any of TFAs
"Three individuals have been arrested and charged in the case: a Washington-area U.S. Defense Department official (Gregg William Bergersen), a naturalized U.S. citizen from Taiwan (Tai Shen Kuo), and a Chinese national (Yu Xin Kang). "
I wanted a smoking crater not a smoking hole...
A Macbook Air and A Wacom Cintiq 12WX... I want to get one just for the "watch this" effect next time I have to meet a client/portfolio review.
It may not be a magic bullet, but it probably will make life easier - isn't that good enough for you? Or is it all black and white to you...
I agree with your post in general but...
From the article you link to: "The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is the first in a class of three super carriers." It is nuke powered, Japans no nuke rule is for nuclear weaponry - not the ships powerplant. Also from TFA: "In August 1992, Kitty Hawk was appointed as Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet's "ready carrier." a position she still holds with temp detours to the middle east - because its faster to get to the Arabian sea from japan than from the eastern US.
The US msm will get to the story tomorrow when they figure out how to spin it...
LOL the post following yours "Boy those Chinese must've been surprised when they inadvertantly surfaced and were completely surrounded by potentially 'enemy' ships." Wish I had mod points tonight...
Reality master 101 a few posts below hit it pretty well - "Create a consumer a humanoid robot maid that can do all household chores, and Americans would buy millions of them without a qualm. Of course, the next step would be sex robots disguised as maid robots because of the social stigma of sexbots. When we have *that*, we'll have robots everywhere."
Another really obvious robot would be like the mars rovers, but sentient. I would think space exploration (que HAL and replicant posts) would be one of the best possible uses for robots, especially extra solar, what is time/age to a robot? - powerful enough radio transmitters would be the only real issue, and since food storage, waste disposal and other human needs would not be an issue Im sure a big radio would be childs play to a team that could build a sentient space exploration robot
It would only get to be an issue if the robots were genetically created and not mechanical, ie replicants. If I didn't mention it, somebody would have...
Ive never met another 'graphic artist' who uses a tablet pc. Wacom cintiq yes, but thats not a tablet pc and they're all connected to macs, never seen a cintiq connected to a pc. The only tablets Ive seen have been bankers/finance guys doing powerpoint/excell in airport lounges and retail inventory personnel. You're right about the useless though. Until there is a technological breakthrough and you can have cintiq-like sensitivity without the bulk, it won't happen and none of the current 'multi-touch' technologies that Ive seen come close. But I'd love to see if apple can do it... but this seems like some people think apple should do and apple hasn't wanted to do it. Hell, good voice recognition software would be more useful.
For all of you arm-chair political pundits out there who think Colbert and "the people" are being ripped off: His candidacy would be illegal (check the FEC rules) due to his corporate sponsorships -doritos and comedy channel. If the shoe was on the other foot, say Tom Delay gets GM to pony up $30 million... Does conflict of interest mean any... never mind.
You realize "his" old stuff isn't "his" any more than Pinball wizard... Ever hear of Bernie Taupin? Their fallout was basically the reason he fell off the charts, he didn't write the music - Bernie did. The punk rock culture shift didn't help...
The TFAs author is barely techonogically and historically literate. A few books by science historian James Burke would help immensely (Connections, The day the universe changed, The axmakers gift etc.) It would be a start.
In a great number of cases...
Didn't this happen at least ten times with SCO?? A company/CEO signs a deal with a very unpopular/hostile to the free/open source movement and the CEO/PHB always manages to be "shocked" by the angry response of the community... Do these guys read anything besides pr0n? The Novell (and reactions from the 'community') deal was front page news... This guy must be looking for a job in the White House
I think the sta-puft marshmallow man from ghostbusters would have been the more surreal choice, esp if they could keep the 50 or so foot height. That might make an even better attack robot though... You would think the military guys would at least come up with a dogs head - afterall, who is mans best friend, a teddy bear (childrens plaything) or a dog?
Don't know whats wrong with their site (googled it - your link didn't go anywhere) right now - it won't work in safari and only sorta works with firefox - I did see some of it at work on a pc... Hmmm. I will have to wait to see more_but...
I should have been a bit more specific, from what I did see earlier their brush wasn't all that sensitive (no more so than any object dragged across the surface, ie a hand, paper) - Im being utopian here and was thinking of a sensitivity similar to my cintiq (higher dpi, touch-pressure sensitivity, rotational and tilt sensitive etc.). And the cintiq is pretty big, I had to "re-format" my desk.
I also don't think that any of this is that far off, five years max and its truly affordable - but it won't involve cameras, be the size of a coffee table or run microsoft. Their demos have a way of being more vapor than anything. Like the early vista demos that were actually video. I just get the feeling that the MS table will end up in Las Vegas hotels and airports - games for the kids while dad plays poker and mom tries to book a flight home - not at creative agencies
The perceptive pixel demo floored me, the iphone made me "ok, cool toy, but I cant wait to see what they really do with the GUI and OS full size", The MS table startled me for a moment than I just thought it paled next to two more impressive (Apple -tiny, PP - just 'liquid') uses of similar tech that were previously announced. Ive had the cintiq for about a year and seeing none of this makes me regret the purchase. 16 months from now I my be sick of it all but...
sorry I Im jerky - its late and I'll see more of their demo tomorow - if it takes MS to force the other guys to step up and deliver, thats great - then we all win.
uh oh shes mad, time to go...
If you read about Jeff Han and Perceptive Pixel you would know that they made that DOD screen. Im not sure if you've seen their wares (take 5 seconds and google it) but the Microsoft tech pales.
The Micosoft technology is crude, it_seems_cool until you look closely. Apple gets a multi-touch screen into a phone - Microsoft needs a table and five cameras.
I work as an art director and think the Wacom Cintiq is better for my creative work - don't get me wrong, I would_love_a multi-touch screen, but for everyday use (or adobe lightroom), not photoshop, illustrator etc. I don't think the detail is there - or "finger tip" control isn't fine enough. When they get this stuff to work with a brush I'll really be inpressed.