Is this increased multimedia capability simply an improved crappy integrated GPU or is this improved x86 multimedia processing like AVX? I would be very interested in improved x86 processing for tasks like rendering and raytracing. I could care less about the integrated GPU being slightly better.
The problem is that desperate people can cause cascading failure in the labor market.
If one person is unemployed and they decide that losing a little money is better than losing a lot of money they will underbid someone who was doing fine. Now you have one person slowly losing money and another person unemployed. The unemployed person takes an under paying job and you have two people dragging down wages.
Look at this from a systemic level and suddenly all of these underpaid people can no longer afford to buy goods and more people lose their jobs since they're no longer needed.
It's an extreme example but we have a minimum wage for a reason. Lots of people will do something which personally benefits them with no regard or understanding of broader consequences. On an individual level the person taking the job which results in them losing money is better than the alternative. On a higher level it does more net damage than net good.
Also businesses are a privileged group by design. They're given extra rights in order to help boost the economy. An individual would have a very difficult time running a business without the limited liability and special tax code to benefit them. In exchange for these favorable exemptions it's not unreasonable for society to demand that they treat their employees decently. History has been clear that desperate people will do just about anything for money. It's not tyranny to say that workers should receive compensation from their employer should their job injure them for instance. After all they're getting a sweet sweet set of tax breaks and aforementioned limits on liability.
The difference is that generally the "labour" part of the equation is an inflated hourly rate in order to cover the down-time in between tasks. They also have minimums so that if it takes 10 minutes you still get billed for 30. And
Generally freelancers have become accustomed to properly accounting for this extra rate charge on every billable hour to fill in the gaps. When you're "working" for mechanical turk you're really no longer an employee you're a business owner. Not everyone is cut out to run a business and nor should they need to, specialization is important. However, with businesses looking to become more efficient they can start calling their janitor a "contractor" and make them pay all of the payroll taxes. Technically that's illegal unless the janitor is also responsible for buying his own mops, brooms and can set his own hours but companies have been pushing the edge of what's legal (and often crossing it) for some time. The goal is often to make as many people 'freelance' as is humanely possible to avoid paying benefits or taxes or comply with safety regulations since their "employees" aren't actually employed--they're separate private businesses working alongside them.
The easiest way to avoid worker's rights is to avoid making them legally an employee.
There's a big difference though between using an internet connect to game and requiring an internet connection to authorize the game on startup. How many KBs does it really take to log in and authenticate? It should be reasonable even over EDGE 2G to make the handshake.
The number of people who own a cabin in the woods is pretty small.
Imagine this conversation with a developer:
"We have two plans. One lets upper middle class yuppies play video games in the woods. This will make us about an extra $100,000. The other prevents people from buying used games and potentially makes us tens of millions of dollars in additional game sales."
Guess which one he's going to pick? Is there a downside? Of course! There is a downside to a console being next generation. Sure the graphics look better but is this cabin powered by a generator? Next gen == more electricity. The Xbox 720's power consumption might mean sailing yacht racers also can't use it.
And if you just need to connect the license then you could very easily just tether to your phone, use the 1MB in transfer data for that one time that you're in the cabin and keep on gaming.
Haha, well it was a perfectly plausible incorrect statement. Lots of people think that bits == stops of dynamic range. And both Kodachrome and Ektachrome are slide reversal film which generally people associate with digital for look and dynamic range.;)
I for one don't care. Yes I'm one of those "if you have nothing to hide" people when it comes to location. I could really care less if the government knew exactly where I was at any given time. If the government turns evil and wants to kill all the dissidents... then my input on these cameras won't be requested it'll just happen anyway.
I'm in public. In public people can see what I'm doing. If they are really interested in me they'll just hire a private investigator or cop to follow me discreetly. I have no right to not have the police keep an eye on me in public--and honestly they're just going to get really bored.
That would be true if bits had anything to do with dynamic range. I can make a 4 bit gif that has 100 stops of dynamic range or a 32 bit EXR that has 5 stops of dynamic range.
There are plenty of 8bit images online that have 13 stops of dynamic range.
It's not. But I bought a Surface RT to 'hold me over' until the surface pro but actually found it far more useful than anticipated. It's nice to have support for real remote desktop so that I can use our company's web portal for accessing my workstation. Even just downloading a file from box's website onto a USB drive and printing to a real printer without any hassle was an enormous relief.
That being said. It seems like Windows RT shouldn't have ever been a consumer product. I can see why Microsoft would want to port Windows to ARM *cough* Windows Phone 8 Kernel *cough*. And I suspect a unified operating system is the future. But the choice isn't between bad battery life and x86--an atom processor is more than capable for ARM style computing but still delivers backwards compatibility.
I can understand Microsoft wanting to push the Metro app ecosystem. And I can understand having a 'killer device' which is exclusively metro styled being a good driving force. I can't for the life of me understand though why HP or Dell would pick ARM over Atom. They cost about the same. Battery life is about the same. Performance is about the same. The only difference is that Atom can at least poorly run legacy software. Which from a consumer standpoint is a positive--even if it's a negative from Microsoft's long term goals of moving people off of Win32.
It's unlikely either iOS or Windows Phone will ever attain android levels of adoption--however, I remember working on Android marketing for the first couple years and sales were pretty sad then too. Maybe it's because Windows Phone finally has Chase, United and official pandora apps but it feels like it might have finally hit the app threshold to be taken seriously in the last few weeks.
Seeing as BB10 has all of Android's apps it might be able to leapfrog Windows Phone's "lost year" but now they're back where WP was at the beginning of last year. So even if they are a year ahead of where Windows Phone *was* they'll still be behind (just like Windows Phone is behind Android).
Regardless of whether or not Windows Phone is a success--it was a necessary effort on MS' fault. It laid the groundwork for all of their Windows strategy. If nothing else it is functioning well as a large R&D effort to make Windows 9 a run-anywhere OS. Windows 8 is already slowly displacing Windows phone. W8 is the kernel, W8 is driving the app framework now... undoubtedly by W9 both the phone and PC will be the same OS through and through.
In the long run the question will be whether or not a Tablet/Phone OS (android) can scale up to handle PC duties better than a PC OS (Windows) can scale down to handle phone duties. Windows Phone 8 as a proof of concept has already proven it's possible. But we don't have a desktop android to compare it to. But like I said, one way or another a single OS is the direction everything is headed. And if Microsoft didn't invest in Windows Phone, windows would ultimately die. Market share in the mobile phone device is IMO secondary to this goal. Meanwhile Apple still has to go through this painful transition at some point in the future.
I might be wrong but you can't tether on the unlimited data plan. So you can use unlimited data on your phone or you need one of the bundles of data plans to use tethering.
Except that a lot of people who keep or don't keep their promises as politicians have to contend with 400 other politicians who also want to keep their promises. And when one politician says "I will cut taxes!" and another promises "I will fund social security!" You can't have both keep their promises.
... participating in the intentional leak of future versions tactic. How desperate Microsoft has become. Once the king, now toppled and humbled.....
Yeah... no screenshots from previous versions of windows have ever leaked before their release before! What a change this is... an OS update that's being tested by thousands of people and dozens of companies getting out into the wild.
If you were using the phone though in your store to take orders for copyrighted DVDs you *would* be liable. LONG before the 'war on terrorism' or any other strawman you want to throw out there.
There is no question ISO Hunt is guilty either under the law. Google might have copyrighted material indexed but it's not a category in Google like it is on some of Fung's sites. The lawsuit points out that "Warez" is even in his meta tags for the website. It's a piracy site, pure and simple. Whether we agree or disagree about piracy is irrelevant to whether or not they are essentially profiting from piracy. If we want piracy to be legal--convince the American People that it's in their best interest and change the law.
I'm a Global Entry member. If you and your idiotic right wing mouth foamers bothered spending 2 seconds actually reading what Global Entry is--you would realize it doesn't let you bypass any security. The only thing you get as a Global Entry member is that you don't have to talk to customs and you can use a kiosk instead of talking to a customs agent.
Whoops we've used up your $1,000 budget and we still don't have: An editor ($150 minimum) No sound (Add another $100) No poorly done 3D animation (Another $100) You didn't pay a camera operator to setup and point your camera (Another $150 minimum)
Now you need to include the time for someone to "write" it. Probably would take a day. Another $150 minimum even if your employee was working for minimum wage.
Are you going to shoot in a room at the IRS? You have to account for your Janitor then clearing the room of furniture. Let's say $50 for 2 hours work. Still cheaper by a factor of 10 or more than renting a stage.
Oh yeah, the actors have to wear something. Add $60 per actor * 7 actors = $420 ________ $2,120.
Also that $30k per video number is meaningless since it includes setting up a whole new in-house studio, stage space, purchasing lights, buying computers etc. If they produced 30 videos (1 per week) for the rest of the year, every video next year would be saving tax payers money.
There's also Lightworks from Editshare. It'll be open sourced at some point soonish and it's already has a working Windows, Linux and OSX build running.
. Racism is a position of the oppressor who has the power.
Because a black person can never have superior power to a white person? Apparently since an African American is in the white house the government can no longer oppress white people.
Social hierarchy and power is an incredibly complex subject but to suggest that no African Americans are in a superior position and capable of wielding oppression is absurd. It's not just absurd it's really offensive--to African Americans. It would imply that African Americans are powerless and subservient to whites regardless of status in society.
That's what's wrong with unreasonable people--not only do they alienate potential allies they often indirectly work against their goals by saying things that mean the exact opposite of what they intend.
I'm not saying that we wouldn't have terrorism if the U.S. had not provided material support to people who would probably be called terrorists today, tried to set up puppet governments in Iran and other places, or allowed Afghanistan to degrade into a horrible state of civil war after the Soviets pulled out, but we'd likely have a lot fewer terrorists, and it is quite clear that the terrorists who did exist would not have as much money and would not be as well armed. If nothing else, these are lessons that future Presidents need to learn.
I think the situation in Syria today has proven that our leaders are keenly aware of the past mistakes in arming an uprising against our enemies.
I know someone who had a product... it was selling very well. Then someone cracked it--and their business imploded. In part due to piracy they sold off the business before it went completely under.
Part of the question you have to take into consideration is what kind of industry you're in. If you have a nearly infinite number of customers then it's possible to ask for money and generally trust your users. If you have a very limited number of users who would hypothetically be willing to pay then you often need to charge a lot and keep every potential customer legit as is possible. It's one thing to be like "Hey chip in $5!" and it's quite another to be like "Hey chip in $1,000!"
Even the Blender foundation only has about $10k a year in credited donations. When you have 4-5 engineers who should be making $80-$100k a year and your customer base is small for a niche product you need DRM imo. If you charge $1,000 plus offer 2 years of updates between updates that means you need 1000 new customers per year. It's possible there are only a few thousand customers in the world.
Serious question... was he fired for Sim City or everything except for Sim City?
EA is celebrating the biggest SimCity launch of all time even as overall the video game maker missed operational targets for the year. Late Monday, CEO John Riccitiello resigned, taking responsibility for the overall poor performance.
I highly doubt EA's quarterly report includes Sim City already. More likely it was every game except for Sim City--and had nothing to do with DRM in the slightest.
Nurbs are a lot less flexible than meshes. A simple subdivision modeler for beginners would probably be better such as Wings3d.
Subdivision surfaces are great for traditional polygonal modeling approach but lousy for printing parts. Trying to blend chamfers through SubDs is a huge PITA. Something like Rhino with procedural compound booleans + fillets make that kind of work far easier.
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Criminal acts? Such as?
If Bradley's information was useless to the enemy... I would also argue it was useless to the public.
Is this increased multimedia capability simply an improved crappy integrated GPU or is this improved x86 multimedia processing like AVX? I would be very interested in improved x86 processing for tasks like rendering and raytracing. I could care less about the integrated GPU being slightly better.
The problem is that desperate people can cause cascading failure in the labor market.
If one person is unemployed and they decide that losing a little money is better than losing a lot of money they will underbid someone who was doing fine. Now you have one person slowly losing money and another person unemployed. The unemployed person takes an under paying job and you have two people dragging down wages.
Look at this from a systemic level and suddenly all of these underpaid people can no longer afford to buy goods and more people lose their jobs since they're no longer needed.
It's an extreme example but we have a minimum wage for a reason. Lots of people will do something which personally benefits them with no regard or understanding of broader consequences. On an individual level the person taking the job which results in them losing money is better than the alternative. On a higher level it does more net damage than net good.
Also businesses are a privileged group by design. They're given extra rights in order to help boost the economy. An individual would have a very difficult time running a business without the limited liability and special tax code to benefit them. In exchange for these favorable exemptions it's not unreasonable for society to demand that they treat their employees decently. History has been clear that desperate people will do just about anything for money. It's not tyranny to say that workers should receive compensation from their employer should their job injure them for instance. After all they're getting a sweet sweet set of tax breaks and aforementioned limits on liability.
The difference is that generally the "labour" part of the equation is an inflated hourly rate in order to cover the down-time in between tasks. They also have minimums so that if it takes 10 minutes you still get billed for 30. And
Generally freelancers have become accustomed to properly accounting for this extra rate charge on every billable hour to fill in the gaps. When you're "working" for mechanical turk you're really no longer an employee you're a business owner. Not everyone is cut out to run a business and nor should they need to, specialization is important. However, with businesses looking to become more efficient they can start calling their janitor a "contractor" and make them pay all of the payroll taxes. Technically that's illegal unless the janitor is also responsible for buying his own mops, brooms and can set his own hours but companies have been pushing the edge of what's legal (and often crossing it) for some time. The goal is often to make as many people 'freelance' as is humanely possible to avoid paying benefits or taxes or comply with safety regulations since their "employees" aren't actually employed--they're separate private businesses working alongside them.
The easiest way to avoid worker's rights is to avoid making them legally an employee.
There's a big difference though between using an internet connect to game and requiring an internet connection to authorize the game on startup. How many KBs does it really take to log in and authenticate? It should be reasonable even over EDGE 2G to make the handshake.
The number of people who own a cabin in the woods is pretty small.
Imagine this conversation with a developer:
"We have two plans. One lets upper middle class yuppies play video games in the woods. This will make us about an extra $100,000. The other prevents people from buying used games and potentially makes us tens of millions of dollars in additional game sales."
Guess which one he's going to pick? Is there a downside? Of course! There is a downside to a console being next generation. Sure the graphics look better but is this cabin powered by a generator? Next gen == more electricity. The Xbox 720's power consumption might mean sailing yacht racers also can't use it.
And if you just need to connect the license then you could very easily just tether to your phone, use the 1MB in transfer data for that one time that you're in the cabin and keep on gaming.
Haha, well it was a perfectly plausible incorrect statement. Lots of people think that bits == stops of dynamic range. And both Kodachrome and Ektachrome are slide reversal film which generally people associate with digital for look and dynamic range. ;)
I for one don't care. Yes I'm one of those "if you have nothing to hide" people when it comes to location. I could really care less if the government knew exactly where I was at any given time. If the government turns evil and wants to kill all the dissidents... then my input on these cameras won't be requested it'll just happen anyway.
I'm in public. In public people can see what I'm doing. If they are really interested in me they'll just hire a private investigator or cop to follow me discreetly. I have no right to not have the police keep an eye on me in public--and honestly they're just going to get really bored.
That would be true if bits had anything to do with dynamic range. I can make a 4 bit gif that has 100 stops of dynamic range or a 32 bit EXR that has 5 stops of dynamic range.
There are plenty of 8bit images online that have 13 stops of dynamic range.
It's not. But I bought a Surface RT to 'hold me over' until the surface pro but actually found it far more useful than anticipated. It's nice to have support for real remote desktop so that I can use our company's web portal for accessing my workstation. Even just downloading a file from box's website onto a USB drive and printing to a real printer without any hassle was an enormous relief.
That being said. It seems like Windows RT shouldn't have ever been a consumer product. I can see why Microsoft would want to port Windows to ARM *cough* Windows Phone 8 Kernel *cough*. And I suspect a unified operating system is the future. But the choice isn't between bad battery life and x86--an atom processor is more than capable for ARM style computing but still delivers backwards compatibility.
I can understand Microsoft wanting to push the Metro app ecosystem. And I can understand having a 'killer device' which is exclusively metro styled being a good driving force. I can't for the life of me understand though why HP or Dell would pick ARM over Atom. They cost about the same. Battery life is about the same. Performance is about the same. The only difference is that Atom can at least poorly run legacy software. Which from a consumer standpoint is a positive--even if it's a negative from Microsoft's long term goals of moving people off of Win32.
It's unlikely either iOS or Windows Phone will ever attain android levels of adoption--however, I remember working on Android marketing for the first couple years and sales were pretty sad then too. Maybe it's because Windows Phone finally has Chase, United and official pandora apps but it feels like it might have finally hit the app threshold to be taken seriously in the last few weeks.
Seeing as BB10 has all of Android's apps it might be able to leapfrog Windows Phone's "lost year" but now they're back where WP was at the beginning of last year. So even if they are a year ahead of where Windows Phone *was* they'll still be behind (just like Windows Phone is behind Android).
Regardless of whether or not Windows Phone is a success--it was a necessary effort on MS' fault. It laid the groundwork for all of their Windows strategy. If nothing else it is functioning well as a large R&D effort to make Windows 9 a run-anywhere OS. Windows 8 is already slowly displacing Windows phone. W8 is the kernel, W8 is driving the app framework now... undoubtedly by W9 both the phone and PC will be the same OS through and through.
In the long run the question will be whether or not a Tablet/Phone OS (android) can scale up to handle PC duties better than a PC OS (Windows) can scale down to handle phone duties. Windows Phone 8 as a proof of concept has already proven it's possible. But we don't have a desktop android to compare it to. But like I said, one way or another a single OS is the direction everything is headed. And if Microsoft didn't invest in Windows Phone, windows would ultimately die. Market share in the mobile phone device is IMO secondary to this goal. Meanwhile Apple still has to go through this painful transition at some point in the future.
I might be wrong but you can't tether on the unlimited data plan. So you can use unlimited data on your phone or you need one of the bundles of data plans to use tethering.
Except that a lot of people who keep or don't keep their promises as politicians have to contend with 400 other politicians who also want to keep their promises. And when one politician says "I will cut taxes!" and another promises "I will fund social security!" You can't have both keep their promises.
... participating in the intentional leak of future versions tactic. How desperate Microsoft has become. Once the king, now toppled and humbled.....
Yeah... no screenshots from previous versions of windows have ever leaked before their release before! What a change this is... an OS update that's being tested by thousands of people and dozens of companies getting out into the wild.
If you were using the phone though in your store to take orders for copyrighted DVDs you *would* be liable. LONG before the 'war on terrorism' or any other strawman you want to throw out there.
There is no question ISO Hunt is guilty either under the law. Google might have copyrighted material indexed but it's not a category in Google like it is on some of Fung's sites. The lawsuit points out that "Warez" is even in his meta tags for the website. It's a piracy site, pure and simple. Whether we agree or disagree about piracy is irrelevant to whether or not they are essentially profiting from piracy. If we want piracy to be legal--convince the American People that it's in their best interest and change the law.
I'm a Global Entry member. If you and your idiotic right wing mouth foamers bothered spending 2 seconds actually reading what Global Entry is--you would realize it doesn't let you bypass any security. The only thing you get as a Global Entry member is that you don't have to talk to customs and you can use a kiosk instead of talking to a customs agent.
$1,000? Let's say you pay minimum wage to the actors for a day of shooting.
5 actors * 10 hours * $8 = $400
Camera rental = $200 (Minimum)
Light rental = $100 (Minimum)
Greenscreen 20' = $100
Whoops we've used up your $1,000 budget and we still don't have:
An editor ($150 minimum)
No sound (Add another $100)
No poorly done 3D animation (Another $100)
You didn't pay a camera operator to setup and point your camera (Another $150 minimum)
Now you need to include the time for someone to "write" it. Probably would take a day. Another $150 minimum even if your employee was working for minimum wage.
Are you going to shoot in a room at the IRS? You have to account for your Janitor then clearing the room of furniture. Let's say $50 for 2 hours work. Still cheaper by a factor of 10 or more than renting a stage.
Oh yeah, the actors have to wear something. Add $60 per actor * 7 actors = $420
________
$2,120.
Also that $30k per video number is meaningless since it includes setting up a whole new in-house studio, stage space, purchasing lights, buying computers etc. If they produced 30 videos (1 per week) for the rest of the year, every video next year would be saving tax payers money.
There's also Lightworks from Editshare. It'll be open sourced at some point soonish and it's already has a working Windows, Linux and OSX build running.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks
. Racism is a position of the oppressor who has the power.
Because a black person can never have superior power to a white person? Apparently since an African American is in the white house the government can no longer oppress white people.
Social hierarchy and power is an incredibly complex subject but to suggest that no African Americans are in a superior position and capable of wielding oppression is absurd. It's not just absurd it's really offensive--to African Americans. It would imply that African Americans are powerless and subservient to whites regardless of status in society.
That's what's wrong with unreasonable people--not only do they alienate potential allies they often indirectly work against their goals by saying things that mean the exact opposite of what they intend.
When you're a samsung manufacturer, samsung will handle the PR and marketing. And why bother when you have nothing to sell?
Obligatory YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA
I'm not saying that we wouldn't have terrorism if the U.S. had not provided material support to people who would probably be called terrorists today, tried to set up puppet governments in Iran and other places, or allowed Afghanistan to degrade into a horrible state of civil war after the Soviets pulled out, but we'd likely have a lot fewer terrorists, and it is quite clear that the terrorists who did exist would not have as much money and would not be as well armed. If nothing else, these are lessons that future Presidents need to learn.
I think the situation in Syria today has proven that our leaders are keenly aware of the past mistakes in arming an uprising against our enemies.
I know someone who had a product... it was selling very well. Then someone cracked it--and their business imploded. In part due to piracy they sold off the business before it went completely under.
Part of the question you have to take into consideration is what kind of industry you're in. If you have a nearly infinite number of customers then it's possible to ask for money and generally trust your users. If you have a very limited number of users who would hypothetically be willing to pay then you often need to charge a lot and keep every potential customer legit as is possible. It's one thing to be like "Hey chip in $5!" and it's quite another to be like "Hey chip in $1,000!"
Even the Blender foundation only has about $10k a year in credited donations. When you have 4-5 engineers who should be making $80-$100k a year and your customer base is small for a niche product you need DRM imo. If you charge $1,000 plus offer 2 years of updates between updates that means you need 1000 new customers per year. It's possible there are only a few thousand customers in the world.
Serious question... was he fired for Sim City or everything except for Sim City?
EA is celebrating the biggest SimCity launch of all time even as overall the video game maker missed operational targets for the year. Late Monday, CEO John Riccitiello resigned, taking responsibility for the overall poor performance.
I highly doubt EA's quarterly report includes Sim City already. More likely it was every game except for Sim City--and had nothing to do with DRM in the slightest.
Nurbs are a lot less flexible than meshes. A simple subdivision modeler for beginners would probably be better such as Wings3d.
Subdivision surfaces are great for traditional polygonal modeling approach but lousy for printing parts. Trying to blend chamfers through SubDs is a huge PITA. Something like Rhino with procedural compound booleans + fillets make that kind of work far easier.