I think the Japanese and Chinese markets have completely ignored the SMS thing because of the character sets involved. If 160 latin characters can be compressed into about 128 bytes, how many hanzi can fit? Maybe forty? That's probably enough for some thoughts like "Meet you at train station at 11am" but nothing really more complicated than that.
Databases "get every larger"? WTF? Maybe it's a second language for the poster, but as far as I know, CmdrTaco is a plain white-bread murriken who has had a couple of decades to practice the language.
I worked on one of the earliest MMOs, Meridian 59. Yeah, I know it was tiny compared to the "big boys" when Ultima Online came out, but it was still a lot bigger than the eight-player LAN games that were the competition back then.
Anyway, there were two very strong reasons not to get into real-money transactions. Bugs and Gambling. Any bug in the code would be exploited, and of course every MMO has shown this to be true. Unexpected object duplication or money transaction bugs will either rip off the company, or rip off other players. Also, any game that has real-money transactions could catch the ire of the US authorities who have a schizophrenic and protectionist attitude towards gambling. If you can turn real-money into virtual things, and then do a game of skill or chance, and then most crucially convert the virtual things to real-money, that's legally a gamble (for the players) and a legal gamble (for the company).
The term 'fair use' refers to a doctrine of defense against copyright infringement, not trademark infringement. And while the courts have routinely said that names like "walmartsucks" and "dontbuyverizon" are clearly not going to create confusion in the marketplace, a name like "wikipediaart" just does not seem clear-- is it associated or not? The design of the front page may or may not help the defense on that question.
It's an interesting indicator of the swing and countervailing political views of a given paper. I've noticed that in "blue state" papers, the comments are often very conservative and red-meat. Conversely, browse a rural paper and you'll find quite a bit of commenting coming from a relatively blue/liberal point of view. It's almost entirely ugly illiterate trash, but it's an outlet for those who may feel oppressed in the general population in which they live.
I can only wish that I had control of some global Mormon conspiracy network, that this were a money-making proposition, and that my powers of persuasion could possibly move ICANN to adopt a content regulatory system.
In other words, "ICANN seeks to build a for-profit, faith-based censorship network hegemony."
They may see this as a precedent, toward full-blown corporate sponsorship. Fast forward: "NASA presents the Microsoft Mission to Mars, Version Four, bringing Microsoft Software to All Reaches of the Known Universe. Let's check in with Chief Bacteria Detection Evangelist, and Microsoft Executive Steven Sinofsky... any bugs up there?"
In many parts of the US, you find fewer Mexicans but more Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and other latino populations. The language is Spanish, but there are dialects. Just as Louisiana French and Quebecois French and Parisian French are dialects.
The fact that we see two and three languages on products owes at least as much to NAFTA as to who buys what. Making one package design that serves a whole continent saves the company some money.
If I load the front page, all the content appears nearly instantly. Then the whole world freezes for about two seconds before the new bright green search button appears next to the search field. I can't scroll or do anything with the page until the godawful javascript decides to finish whatever it wants to do. True for my versions of Camino and Firefox. Just because Chrome has some fancy-dancy new speedup for JS doesn't mean we all have that browser, nor should we fill up pages with new heavy features with little benefit to users.
It's a start. Now, if only the courts would actually pay attention to the technical merits-- that an IP address is not an individual, that giving anonymous WiFi service is like any other conduit, that just using BitTorrent or Kazaa is not illegal in and of itself, etc.
CAR's first ride in the Tata Nano felt far more significant and exciting than a first drive in a Ferrari or Lamborghini
Wow, that's some hyperbole. A tuktuk is a sort of moped with a roof, and this Nano is a tuktuk with doors. Maybe he's talking about his first ride in a cardboard box in the "exciting" traffic flows in India - go ahead and search for that in YouTube.
The dynamic range of our linear sensors is the weakest part of the chain. Film sucks compared to modern digital in all ways except their response curve: many films don't capture light levels in a linear way, so they can discriminate details in the clouds in a bright sky even while capturing details in the shadows. Almost all digital sensors are on the order of 9~12 stops of acceptable dynamic range, and they've been there for nearly a decade.
Cameras tend to expose for the midrange automatically. To avoid blowing the highlights, which is very visible on a screen or printout of our photos, we have to artificially adjust that exposure, called "stopping down," until we capture details in the highlights, at the expense of detail in the shadows.
There are some combinatorial techniques to achieving high dynamic range; you take multiple exposures and mathematically or artistically mix them to achieve both shadow and highlight details. But this technique is not well suited to movies or still-shots of moving scenes.
Sensors need to get a LOT better at achieving a dynamic range of 20 stops or more.
By way of metaphor, it seems like Josh is the only Integer Unit in a CPU burdened with processing lots of integer-heavy code.
Sorry, I didn't understand what you said there. Can you explain interoffice politics in terms of a carburetor, windshield washer pump, or an overhead cam?
And I'm sure that all the hiring-freezes, paycuts, forced unpaid furloughs, capital freezes, capital audits, travel restrictions, quarter-by-quarter purchase order approval budget oversight procedures, executive-authorization-required-for-new-staplers, and restructurings that we see in most of the Fortune 1000 have nothing to do with this.
If a company is a physical thing, an apparatus, then it is constructed in large part by the people who staff it. All people are unique, and any permutation of a group of people forms a unique subculture. The team either gels or it doesn't, in a unique pattern of ways. Real patents document how to reproduce the results, and anyone is free to try, once the sanctioned monopoly rights have expired. Therefore, a company does not need patent protection, as it will be impossible to reproduce the same mechanism.
I was glad to see Firewire 800 on it, but it would be much better if they just gave an eSATA jack on the back. With appropriate storage, it would be just right to run XBMC.app under the television to serve movies. I already have an older Mac Mini serving as the family dictionary/browser/billpay machine and light server, but wifi just isn't fast enough to do significant data transfers.
So the value of the device is now significantly less than $399. I can't test my final app's "out of box experience" on it. Since apps can publish interfaces to their individual capabilities, I can't test mashup compatibility with third-party apps. I can't give it to my coworkers to use it as a regular daily phone with other apps for general walkaround usability testing. There's no way I'm going to pay full retail price for a hobbled device.
Even the 800x480 of a Nokia N810 is a bit cramped for normal desktop style window managers. I hate to contemplate what it would be like to use anything like them on the 320x480 screen that is the G1. And I really don't think it's worth building up an Android netbook distro just to rip it back down to use desktop window managers-- if you want that, then run Linux on it already and forget about the Android application stack.
US Copyright law specifically disallows the copyright claim against presentation of architecture. However, there are stupid cities who buy sculptures from asshole artists, where the artist retains copyright claim against the presentation of said sculptures. (See Chicago's "bean".) The city should simply state flat out: it's a public work of art, photographs of the presentation is just a fact of life.
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[A]sking those among the open source community who have 'variously described Mono as a trap, a kludge, or simply a waste of effort' to look past Miguel de Icaza and Mono's associations with Microsoft... The more Mono evolves, the less likely Microsoft is to use patent claims or some other dirty trick to bring down the platform.
Mono is in a precarious, teetering position. Somewhere between tepid and antagonistic reaction amongst professional and casual developers, a designer community that is seen as a puppet or apprentice to the hegemony, and not even a clear path forward for compatibility. Be distinct, or be identical, but there's no way to be both.
Er, maybe you didn't get the joke, but a 99.9%-complete torrent means that pretty much every file in the collection will be broken/corrupt/incomplete... sorta like watching the p0rn channel without a cable descrambler when you were a little kid.
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I think the Japanese and Chinese markets have completely ignored the SMS thing because of the character sets involved. If 160 latin characters can be compressed into about 128 bytes, how many hanzi can fit? Maybe forty? That's probably enough for some thoughts like "Meet you at train station at 11am" but nothing really more complicated than that.
Databases "get every larger"? WTF? Maybe it's a second language for the poster, but as far as I know, CmdrTaco is a plain white-bread murriken who has had a couple of decades to practice the language.
As any Scot will tell you, if you adopt PLAID to protect your secrets, your backdoor is wiiiide open.
I worked on one of the earliest MMOs, Meridian 59. Yeah, I know it was tiny compared to the "big boys" when Ultima Online came out, but it was still a lot bigger than the eight-player LAN games that were the competition back then.
Anyway, there were two very strong reasons not to get into real-money transactions. Bugs and Gambling. Any bug in the code would be exploited, and of course every MMO has shown this to be true. Unexpected object duplication or money transaction bugs will either rip off the company, or rip off other players. Also, any game that has real-money transactions could catch the ire of the US authorities who have a schizophrenic and protectionist attitude towards gambling. If you can turn real-money into virtual things, and then do a game of skill or chance, and then most crucially convert the virtual things to real-money, that's legally a gamble (for the players) and a legal gamble (for the company).
The term 'fair use' refers to a doctrine of defense against copyright infringement, not trademark infringement. And while the courts have routinely said that names like "walmartsucks" and "dontbuyverizon" are clearly not going to create confusion in the marketplace, a name like "wikipediaart" just does not seem clear-- is it associated or not? The design of the front page may or may not help the defense on that question.
It's an interesting indicator of the swing and countervailing political views of a given paper. I've noticed that in "blue state" papers, the comments are often very conservative and red-meat. Conversely, browse a rural paper and you'll find quite a bit of commenting coming from a relatively blue/liberal point of view. It's almost entirely ugly illiterate trash, but it's an outlet for those who may feel oppressed in the general population in which they live.
In other words, "ICANN seeks to build a for-profit, faith-based censorship network hegemony."
They may see this as a precedent, toward full-blown corporate sponsorship. Fast forward: "NASA presents the Microsoft Mission to Mars, Version Four, bringing Microsoft Software to All Reaches of the Known Universe. Let's check in with Chief Bacteria Detection Evangelist, and Microsoft Executive Steven Sinofsky... any bugs up there?"
In many parts of the US, you find fewer Mexicans but more Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and other latino populations. The language is Spanish, but there are dialects. Just as Louisiana French and Quebecois French and Parisian French are dialects.
The fact that we see two and three languages on products owes at least as much to NAFTA as to who buys what. Making one package design that serves a whole continent saves the company some money.
If I load the front page, all the content appears nearly instantly. Then the whole world freezes for about two seconds before the new bright green search button appears next to the search field. I can't scroll or do anything with the page until the godawful javascript decides to finish whatever it wants to do. True for my versions of Camino and Firefox. Just because Chrome has some fancy-dancy new speedup for JS doesn't mean we all have that browser, nor should we fill up pages with new heavy features with little benefit to users.
It's a start. Now, if only the courts would actually pay attention to the technical merits-- that an IP address is not an individual, that giving anonymous WiFi service is like any other conduit, that just using BitTorrent or Kazaa is not illegal in and of itself, etc.
Wow, that's some hyperbole. A tuktuk is a sort of moped with a roof, and this Nano is a tuktuk with doors. Maybe he's talking about his first ride in a cardboard box in the "exciting" traffic flows in India - go ahead and search for that in YouTube.
PvP comic's take on the LolBat. http://www.pvponline.com/2008/06/30/interlude-the-adventures-of-lolbat/
The dynamic range of our linear sensors is the weakest part of the chain. Film sucks compared to modern digital in all ways except their response curve: many films don't capture light levels in a linear way, so they can discriminate details in the clouds in a bright sky even while capturing details in the shadows. Almost all digital sensors are on the order of 9~12 stops of acceptable dynamic range, and they've been there for nearly a decade.
Cameras tend to expose for the midrange automatically. To avoid blowing the highlights, which is very visible on a screen or printout of our photos, we have to artificially adjust that exposure, called "stopping down," until we capture details in the highlights, at the expense of detail in the shadows.
There are some combinatorial techniques to achieving high dynamic range; you take multiple exposures and mathematically or artistically mix them to achieve both shadow and highlight details. But this technique is not well suited to movies or still-shots of moving scenes.
Sensors need to get a LOT better at achieving a dynamic range of 20 stops or more.
Sorry, I didn't understand what you said there. Can you explain interoffice politics in terms of a carburetor, windshield washer pump, or an overhead cam?
And I'm sure that all the hiring-freezes, paycuts, forced unpaid furloughs, capital freezes, capital audits, travel restrictions, quarter-by-quarter purchase order approval budget oversight procedures, executive-authorization-required-for-new-staplers, and restructurings that we see in most of the Fortune 1000 have nothing to do with this.
If a company is a physical thing, an apparatus, then it is constructed in large part by the people who staff it. All people are unique, and any permutation of a group of people forms a unique subculture. The team either gels or it doesn't, in a unique pattern of ways. Real patents document how to reproduce the results, and anyone is free to try, once the sanctioned monopoly rights have expired. Therefore, a company does not need patent protection, as it will be impossible to reproduce the same mechanism.
I was glad to see Firewire 800 on it, but it would be much better if they just gave an eSATA jack on the back. With appropriate storage, it would be just right to run XBMC.app under the television to serve movies. I already have an older Mac Mini serving as the family dictionary/browser/billpay machine and light server, but wifi just isn't fast enough to do significant data transfers.
So the value of the device is now significantly less than $399. I can't test my final app's "out of box experience" on it. Since apps can publish interfaces to their individual capabilities, I can't test mashup compatibility with third-party apps. I can't give it to my coworkers to use it as a regular daily phone with other apps for general walkaround usability testing. There's no way I'm going to pay full retail price for a hobbled device.
Even the 800x480 of a Nokia N810 is a bit cramped for normal desktop style window managers. I hate to contemplate what it would be like to use anything like them on the 320x480 screen that is the G1. And I really don't think it's worth building up an Android netbook distro just to rip it back down to use desktop window managers-- if you want that, then run Linux on it already and forget about the Android application stack.
US Copyright law specifically disallows the copyright claim against presentation of architecture. However, there are stupid cities who buy sculptures from asshole artists, where the artist retains copyright claim against the presentation of said sculptures. (See Chicago's "bean".) The city should simply state flat out: it's a public work of art, photographs of the presentation is just a fact of life.
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Mono is in a precarious, teetering position. Somewhere between tepid and antagonistic reaction amongst professional and casual developers, a designer community that is seen as a puppet or apprentice to the hegemony, and not even a clear path forward for compatibility. Be distinct, or be identical, but there's no way to be both.
Er, maybe you didn't get the joke, but a 99.9%-complete torrent means that pretty much every file in the collection will be broken/corrupt/incomplete... sorta like watching the p0rn channel without a cable descrambler when you were a little kid.
You make a silly joke, but electric cars may be required to make "engine" noise for the benefit of (blind) pedestrians.