It's not American it's human. People identify more personally with faces than text. If you see a picture of a starving child you're more than 3x as likely to give than if you're presented with a message on hunger/poverty. We want to fix what we see. Hence the title of the banner is "A personal appeal".
What I do have is a couple UNIX boxes that are completely capable of fetching data over a network and displaying it on screen. There's absolutely no reason I should have to buy another piece of hardware to do that.
You're right. Install Windows and your hardware should work fine.
Netflix is essentially saying, "This open source stuff rocks! But we aren't going to allow you to run our product on it."
No what they said if you RTFA is that *Sometimes* open source rocks for some things and other times commercial proprietary software rocks and other times home built rocks.
I bet you can use many aspects of the NetflixAPI on linux--just not the video streaming portion.
My laptop is a tablet. It's not Windows that's really the problem. It's the lack of Tablet centric apps.
I use ArtRage which is designed for a tablet and it works great. Most other apps though just assume you have a mouse. But as far as using windows is concerned it works fine.
Allocating all the funds towards "yet another explosion" instead of... well virtually all other expenses.
It doesn't cost any more to write a good screenplay.
Actors are still a significant portion of the budget, more so than VFX in most features. And long gone are the days where directors have to shoot a film with a VFX supervisor sitting over their shoulder saying "Yeah that shot will be really hard, don't you want to do a lock off?" If anything the exact opposite is happening, directors are more and more just shooting regardless of everything being perfect and assume that the VFX will fix everything amiss. If anything that should make the films better if it means the director isn't being slowed down waiting for the art department to finish moving around background details.
If there weren't VFX in films the budgets would definitely shrink. But they wouldn't re-allocate those funds to the writing or directing it would just disappear from the budget.
Lastly I disagree with the premise that things are getting worse let alone that VFX are to blame. There was tons of garbage produced in the 50s, 60s, 70s,80s and 90s. For every Transformers there is a Steven Seagal movie or Santa Clause vs the Martians.
Crappy movies aren't a new phenomenon nor are they becoming more prevalent--it just seems that way because we forget all the shit we blocked out over a 10 year period and remember the 1 maybe 2 movies a year that were good.
Look back over the last 10 years: LOTR Gladiator Letters from Iwo Jima (A movie only made thanks to CG) The Assasination of Jessie James Sweeney Todd etc etc...
I think the 00s were one of the best decades for film. And a large number of the films leaned on CG to help tell their stories. Imagine Gladiator without Rome and the Coliseum.
Microsoft tried locking out third parties from altering the kernel and they all cried anti-competitive and demanded API access... and now we have "anti-virus" programs that are hostage-ware that integrate into Microsoft's "security center". All so that we could get shitty Norton.
Cloning poses a problem as well. If we could have a child from every cell nucleus then every skin cell we shed is a lost potential life as well.
Most "life at conception"ers also ignore artificial insemination which results in dozens of fertilized eggs in the process.
Lastly the best case against Pro-Life viewpoints is that it means that most pro-lifers are terrible human beings. If it's a human life. And it's being murdered, then they're complacent. If you lived near a concentration camp that was unguarded wouldn't it be your duty to kill the Nazis? How many pro-life activists have even bothered picketing in the last 12 months? In their world view abortion is murder--and their reaction to mass murder all across the country is... to make a negative Facebook post.
I would hope that if people really thought Abortion == Murder they would be more proactive in their civil disobedience. Until they are regularly chaining themselves to abortion clinic doors in protest at least once a month I don't believe them when they tell me that abortion is an equivalent. Their actions prove that they view a fetus as a unique condition in which normal morality does not apply.
Not quite. A great idea that is hacked together will almost certainly be "borrowed" and better implemented by someone else, making them a fortune. The world still gets changed, I suppose.
Which is why we have intellectual property so that ideas and not just effort can be legally protected.
I can tell in two seconds if it's an ad I've already seen, and in that case, forcing me to watch it again is just annoying me and wasting your bandwidth.
Which is why Coca Cola has been so successful. They realized that they only needed to show someone their ads once and would hook them for life. No.. wait, that's not right..
In the sense that what he wants has roughly zero bearing on what Congress actually does, yeah.
Or more importantly what the American people *actually* want as opposed to what they complain about.
"Cut the size of government! Oh but not that--or that... or that..." "Get out of Iraq! Oh but don't do it in such a way that destabilizes the country or doesn't fix it." "Create more jobs! Oh but don't cut taxes or increase spending!"
Who says there has to be a law. People bitch and moan about government intrusion but the government can act unconstitutionally if they "ASK" and private businesses don't offer 1/10th or 1/100th the rights that the government has to respect.
Why go through all the trouble of passing laws when private businesses (In this case the registrar) can just put in a clause that says "We may rescind your DNS at any time for activity which support piracy."
Then all the government has to do is just say "Hey ______ Company, ________.net/.com/.tv appears to support piracy." Gone. No court order. No legal system. Just good old fashioned private business.
And give me 2 weeks. Dell sold me on this fancy new phone--but won't sell it. How many people are waiting for [insert form factor] phone to have WP7 on it?
The solution seems simple. Remove the banks from the equation?
Why offer low interest loans to bankers who then loan it to us for higher interest rates and then use our deposits to invest in the stock market when we could just have the federal reserve hire investors to buy stocks with federal reserve dollars. Middle man removed! Economy saved!
The story is about companies threatening to leave if Ireland attempts to readjust its tax rates to meet its needed revenue. I would say that does have something to do with their low tax rates.
When someone comes JUST for the tax rates then you're in a race to the bottom. As soon as an even more desparate company comes along you're going to lose a lot of business. On the other hand if you build your industry on a more stable companies who actually want to locate there you have much more freedom to manage revenue.
Ireland is discovering the dark side of a bribe based economy.
Many states are also stuck in this same "incentive" sinkhole right now. The businesses that are there came thanks to bribes and now are threatening to leave for someone offering a better bribe.
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It's not American it's human. People identify more personally with faces than text. If you see a picture of a starving child you're more than 3x as likely to give than if you're presented with a message on hunger/poverty. We want to fix what we see. Hence the title of the banner is "A personal appeal".
What I do have is a couple UNIX boxes that are completely capable of fetching data over a network and displaying it on screen. There's absolutely no reason I should have to buy another piece of hardware to do that.
You're right. Install Windows and your hardware should work fine.
Netflix is essentially saying, "This open source stuff rocks! But we aren't going to allow you to run our product on it."
No what they said if you RTFA is that *Sometimes* open source rocks for some things and other times commercial proprietary software rocks and other times home built rocks.
I bet you can use many aspects of the NetflixAPI on linux--just not the video streaming portion.
Well maybe the open source community should develop a better DRM system for Netflix to use which satisfies the studios.
I also don't like your implication that because I use Windows I don't give back to the open source community.
I probably put in 10x as many hours of development into free and open tools than your average linux user.
Don't you know that Open Source is only for Linux!?
With Moonlight?
My laptop is a tablet. It's not Windows that's really the problem. It's the lack of Tablet centric apps.
I use ArtRage which is designed for a tablet and it works great. Most other apps though just assume you have a mouse. But as far as using windows is concerned it works fine.
Allocating all the funds towards "yet another explosion" instead of ... well virtually all other expenses.
It doesn't cost any more to write a good screenplay.
Actors are still a significant portion of the budget, more so than VFX in most features. And long gone are the days where directors have to shoot a film with a VFX supervisor sitting over their shoulder saying "Yeah that shot will be really hard, don't you want to do a lock off?" If anything the exact opposite is happening, directors are more and more just shooting regardless of everything being perfect and assume that the VFX will fix everything amiss. If anything that should make the films better if it means the director isn't being slowed down waiting for the art department to finish moving around background details.
If there weren't VFX in films the budgets would definitely shrink. But they wouldn't re-allocate those funds to the writing or directing it would just disappear from the budget.
Lastly I disagree with the premise that things are getting worse let alone that VFX are to blame. There was tons of garbage produced in the 50s, 60s, 70s,80s and 90s. For every Transformers there is a Steven Seagal movie or Santa Clause vs the Martians.
Crappy movies aren't a new phenomenon nor are they becoming more prevalent--it just seems that way because we forget all the shit we blocked out over a 10 year period and remember the 1 maybe 2 movies a year that were good.
Look back over the last 10 years:
LOTR
Gladiator
Letters from Iwo Jima (A movie only made thanks to CG)
The Assasination of Jessie James
Sweeney Todd etc etc...
I think the 00s were one of the best decades for film. And a large number of the films leaned on CG to help tell their stories. Imagine Gladiator without Rome and the Coliseum.
The Teabaggers would have probably boycotted Amazon for supporting "terrorists" if they did host Wikileaks. Either way they lose customers.
As I said before, buy stuff, unpack it and return it the next day, that actually hurts if millions of people would do it.
Or just change return policy to be less generous and more obnoxious.
Yeah but what's the server demands of each of those visitors?
Animoto downloads, processes and encodes video and audio. Cars.gov and Slashdot are ASCII jockies.
Yeah I can't see any difference between this and a fish-eye lens with a lat/long transform applied to it.
Two Canon 5Ds with 8mm lenses a foot apart would be considerably more effective and cover the same FOV.
Microsoft tried locking out third parties from altering the kernel and they all cried anti-competitive and demanded API access... and now we have "anti-virus" programs that are hostage-ware that integrate into Microsoft's "security center". All so that we could get shitty Norton.
Except that I just install Live Mesh and My Documents are on all of my computers but synchronized to a web-server.
Cloning poses a problem as well. If we could have a child from every cell nucleus then every skin cell we shed is a lost potential life as well.
Most "life at conception"ers also ignore artificial insemination which results in dozens of fertilized eggs in the process.
Lastly the best case against Pro-Life viewpoints is that it means that most pro-lifers are terrible human beings. If it's a human life. And it's being murdered, then they're complacent. If you lived near a concentration camp that was unguarded wouldn't it be your duty to kill the Nazis? How many pro-life activists have even bothered picketing in the last 12 months? In their world view abortion is murder--and their reaction to mass murder all across the country is... to make a negative Facebook post.
I would hope that if people really thought Abortion == Murder they would be more proactive in their civil disobedience. Until they are regularly chaining themselves to abortion clinic doors in protest at least once a month I don't believe them when they tell me that abortion is an equivalent. Their actions prove that they view a fetus as a unique condition in which normal morality does not apply.
At least the totalitarian state gives the illusion of a legal/court system.
Not quite. A great idea that is hacked together will almost certainly be "borrowed" and better implemented by someone else, making them a fortune. The world still gets changed, I suppose.
Which is why we have intellectual property so that ideas and not just effort can be legally protected.
You're saying a small 300 pound reciprocating engine is as efficient as an industrial sized turbine?
I can tell in two seconds if it's an ad I've already seen, and in that case, forcing me to watch it again is just annoying me and wasting your bandwidth.
Which is why Coca Cola has been so successful. They realized that they only needed to show someone their ads once and would hook them for life. No.. wait, that's not right..
In the sense that what he wants has roughly zero bearing on what Congress actually does, yeah.
Or more importantly what the American people *actually* want as opposed to what they complain about.
"Cut the size of government! Oh but not that--or that... or that..."
"Get out of Iraq! Oh but don't do it in such a way that destabilizes the country or doesn't fix it."
"Create more jobs! Oh but don't cut taxes or increase spending!"
Who says there has to be a law. People bitch and moan about government intrusion but the government can act unconstitutionally if they "ASK" and private businesses don't offer 1/10th or 1/100th the rights that the government has to respect.
Why go through all the trouble of passing laws when private businesses (In this case the registrar) can just put in a clause that says "We may rescind your DNS at any time for activity which support piracy."
Then all the government has to do is just say "Hey ______ Company, ________.net/.com/.tv appears to support piracy." Gone. No court order. No legal system. Just good old fashioned private business.
And give me 2 weeks. Dell sold me on this fancy new phone--but won't sell it. How many people are waiting for [insert form factor] phone to have WP7 on it?
The solution seems simple. Remove the banks from the equation?
Why offer low interest loans to bankers who then loan it to us for higher interest rates and then use our deposits to invest in the stock market when we could just have the federal reserve hire investors to buy stocks with federal reserve dollars. Middle man removed! Economy saved!
The story is about companies threatening to leave if Ireland attempts to readjust its tax rates to meet its needed revenue. I would say that does have something to do with their low tax rates.
When someone comes JUST for the tax rates then you're in a race to the bottom. As soon as an even more desparate company comes along you're going to lose a lot of business. On the other hand if you build your industry on a more stable companies who actually want to locate there you have much more freedom to manage revenue.
Ireland is discovering the dark side of a bribe based economy.
Many states are also stuck in this same "incentive" sinkhole right now. The businesses that are there came thanks to bribes and now are threatening to leave for someone offering a better bribe.