I doubt that this technique will knock animators or traditional animation out of business. Animation is art. Did the video camera kill painting? Did the internet kill reading?
Did CDs make Vinyl manufacturing go out of business?
Most of them to make a difference, but some are around...
But if you haven't noticed... When was the last hand drawn animation released in the theaters? I can't remember, but we've had like 5 CGI movies in the paste year or two.
Much like the old vinyl manufactures, hand drawn animations will go the way of "hey that is cool vintage you got there!" rather than mainstream.
Also, I would like to point out the people in the photography inustry that use digital cameras far outweigh anyone who useds old film... Much less anyone who paints.
Those skills are left for true artists... Or those who don't mind not being paid much.
For baseball cards that's small potatos, but for things like real estate it can make a huge difference in whether a transaction is profitable or not.
IANAL (and I'm not a real estate agent) but from my understanding if you sell your house and then take that money you earned to buy a new one, then the same thing happens. Had you just put the money in the bank instead of buying a new house, then you are taxed on that money.
Of course you still have to pay taxes on the house and property from whatever state and local authories deems needed for real estate ownership, but it is usually less than the Feds income.
Are they mad? How the hell are you going to be able to send an email or write a program using the joypad?
I have a USB keyboard for the PS2. I never used it that much but it currently resides as a keyboard for an old iMac. Its kind of quaint and small form factor. Heck... It even doesn't have any windows keys.
Should I be arrested for calling you every night and threaten to shoot you and your children, even if I don't actually own a gun?
You mean threaten to shoot you and your children if you or your children go into his yard.
I can call you every day and tell you this fact if you enter my private property (aka National Sovereignty) that I'm going to shoot you. Heck... I might get into trouble if I don't post this information on my fence.
But the key issue here is whether or not North Korea has a bomb, but rather they still are pretty damned good with that combat knife... And if your kid happens to be named Seoul, I wouldn't let him wander into anyone's yard any time soon.
If you copy a small section or a single graph in Excel and paste it into Powerpoint as an object... It pastes the entire file.
Even if all you can see is just a small fraction of the file in powerpoint.
What I usually recommend it paste special as bit map or copy it as a picture (by holding down the shift key in excel and then going to Edit > Copy picture) and then paste into Powerpoint.
For some reason it looks nicer, keeps your PPT file size down, and you won't have people messing around with your numbers. *coughs*
Doesn't the iPod just work like an external hard drive when you plug it in without iTunes? How would working with that be a pain and pointless?
I should have clarified this a bit...
It isn't that hard to transfer Mp3s without iTunes installed. In fact you can do with the folowing command line in OS X terminal: cp -R/Volumes/ipodname/iPod_Control/Music local_music_path
But seriously... How many people do you know that aren't a techie that would know how to do that?
How many average Joes or Grandmas are going to get an iPod and install some other software than what came with it.
I'd wager these people are having hard enough time installing iTunes much less run something from command line or install some 3rd party software.
They can't compete with iTunes because 90% of people get iPods and iTunes is the only thing that works with it.
I think the confusion here is the difference between iTunes the application and iTunes the music store.
Everyone who owns and iPod uses iTunes to transfer music to it (well you can work around this but its a pain and pointless unless you a techie)
But not everyone who owns an iPod uses iTunes to purchase their music nor everyone who purcashed songs from iTunes have an iPod (albeit they can only listen to it on iTunes and rip it to cds).
In fact for someone to fill a 60gb iPod with music from iTunes, they would need to spend over $10,000 to do so which make this fact unlikley.
Personally, I rip CDs into MP3s and put them on my iPod, wheras I have a hunch that perhaps many people get their Mp3s from houses of ill repute... *coughs* Pirate bay *coughs*
However, Apple's goal was not to make money off iTunes the music store or force people to be able to only use music on iPods that they've purchased from them.
It is a nice benefit to them that people purchase songs, but their real and true goal was to use the iTunes music service to sell iPods.
I have a feeling though that Micrsoft has this goal in reverse. In which they intend to sell Zunes at a loss to get people to buy music from their service and somehow fail horribly in this process.
Magic the Gathering never intended to have such a problem, but people realized they could take cards and sell them to other people at game shops and conventions. Then Ebay exasperated the problem...
I'm more of a Yugi-Oh fan myself *coughs* and I suppose the same thing applies but I play mostly online.
However, that said... Even with the "Uber" cards, you can't simply win with them...
With Yugi-Oh, I tend to win with just using one draw monsters with about 1000-1900 HP attack (you can't draw any higher than that without sacrificing other monsters in play) and then stack them with items/weapons that increase their attack HP.
While the other player has to wait til he gets the right cards for Fusion of his super 4000 HP attack monster, chances are I'll be beating down his monsters and attacking his life points directly (unless he is a bastard and has setup reversal traps or traps that prevent monsters above level 3 or 4 from attacking... which forces me to keep my deck filled with anti-trap cards or even weaker monsters which I can just augementate with my weapon cards)
I don't know about PoxNora, but I can say that other card games (when done right) can often be about how you play the cards rather than getting the super cards into play.
Translation through a computer in life or death situations makes me sad inside.
As opposed to shouting incoherently at the top of your lungs and waving arms frantically in a bad game of charades until someone gets frustrated enough to start shooting to made the strange noises coming out of the other man go away?
Raising kids is hard work (got 2 me'self), and it is **your** work, not the state's or school's work or myspace's work!
Not to mention a whole lot more exspensive than a $600 vasectomy!
But seriously...
Many people either breed for the wrong reasons or for no reason at all. Not that there is anything wrong with having children, but if you rationally look at the having a child through an emotionaless logical kind of way... You start to seriously consider being that crazy old cat lady or just turning gay.
Many people seem to think that having kids will make them happy by creating a being that uncoditionally loves them and gives them some biological meaning in some way... Well... Maybe... But chances are you are going to have a tough time of it if you plan to live vicariously through them or use that child as a means for your own happiness without putting much effort of your own.
No, an idiot is someone that thinks giving MS $500 and their rootkit-altering driver is a good way to make money.
Hasn't stopped Sony.
But seriously, $500 is chump change to organized spammers, phishers, and malware authors and I'm sure they would spending an extra few bucks set up fake Last Vegas Limited Liability Corporations just to get access.
Why bother using YouTube for it, when you know that already having a popular video is enough to get it seeded?
1st Reason - Most content on YouTube is good enough to watch, but doesn't warrent a download to watch it a second time. 2nd Reason - It is hard to run bit torrent at work. *coughs*
Are there people out there who use voice as their main method of inputing text? For older people who type incredibly slow would this software be worthwhile using for composing emails?
I knew a few old people who asked about it and tried it, but I think the real holy grail for voice recognition is not a replacement for typing text, but for rather understanding context of what you are wanting it to do.
You know... "Computer go to Red Alert!" like Star Trek.
But in our case it would be...
"Computer. Go to email and tell me if Bob sent a message." "Computer. Go to Slashdot and alert me if there is a dupe."
But that would require more AI to understand what you are telling it to do rather than just type what you are saying... Of course which will have to happen first with 100% accuracy before we will see context driven voice recognition.
SO glad that YouTube will now be sheltered by "the good guys"... assuming they stay the good guys *cautious glance over shoulder*
I'm more than happy with that. At least now Youtube will have Google Adsense ads rather than Myspaces "epileptic punch the monkey you win a frigging iPod PS3 viagra sweepstakes" flash banner ads with 400 double click pop ups and unders.
The Chinese could really come out looking like good guys if they then turned it over to SK for re-unification ala Germany.
North Korea's collapse and re-unification with the South is the last thing wanted by China and South Korea.
South Korea knows if they assimilated North Korea their economy would be ruined much like West Germany's was with East, but only worse because of the abject poverty this time around.
They would perfer North Korea stay indpedendant economically for now.
As for China... NK is a buffer state between it and the west. If war were to break out over Taiwan... Well...
Slashdot Mirror
So the point is valid; jack the price of electricity and we have new incentives to save power.
If one could get all their power from renewable resources... Say... Solar panels on their roof?
Wouldn't saving power be a moot point?
I doubt that this technique will knock animators or traditional animation out of business. Animation is art. Did the video camera kill painting? Did the internet kill reading?
Did CDs make Vinyl manufacturing go out of business?
Most of them to make a difference, but some are around...
But if you haven't noticed... When was the last hand drawn animation released in the theaters? I can't remember, but we've had like 5 CGI movies in the paste year or two.
Much like the old vinyl manufactures, hand drawn animations will go the way of "hey that is cool vintage you got there!" rather than mainstream.
Also, I would like to point out the people in the photography inustry that use digital cameras far outweigh anyone who useds old film... Much less anyone who paints.
Those skills are left for true artists... Or those who don't mind not being paid much.
For baseball cards that's small potatos, but for things like real estate it can make a huge difference in whether a transaction is profitable or not.
IANAL (and I'm not a real estate agent) but from my understanding if you sell your house and then take that money you earned to buy a new one, then the same thing happens. Had you just put the money in the bank instead of buying a new house, then you are taxed on that money.
Of course you still have to pay taxes on the house and property from whatever state and local authories deems needed for real estate ownership, but it is usually less than the Feds income.
Are they mad? How the hell are you going to be able to send an email or write a program using the joypad?
I have a USB keyboard for the PS2. I never used it that much but it currently resides as a keyboard for an old iMac. Its kind of quaint and small form factor. Heck... It even doesn't have any windows keys.
The millions upon millions of laymen who bought the lion's share of iPods barely even realize it's an issue.
Are you saying that million of laymen don't fill iPods with songs they buy from iTMS?
Or that they just don't notice the DRM problem until they suffer a fatal hard drive crash?
Should I be arrested for calling you every night and threaten to shoot you and your children, even if I don't actually own a gun?
You mean threaten to shoot you and your children if you or your children go into his yard.
I can call you every day and tell you this fact if you enter my private property (aka National Sovereignty) that I'm going to shoot you. Heck... I might get into trouble if I don't post this information on my fence.
But the key issue here is whether or not North Korea has a bomb, but rather they still are pretty damned good with that combat knife... And if your kid happens to be named Seoul, I wouldn't let him wander into anyone's yard any time soon.
Funny thing about Excel, Word, and Powerpoint...
If you copy a small section or a single graph in Excel and paste it into Powerpoint as an object... It pastes the entire file.
Even if all you can see is just a small fraction of the file in powerpoint.
What I usually recommend it paste special as bit map or copy it as a picture (by holding down the shift key in excel and then going to Edit > Copy picture) and then paste into Powerpoint.
For some reason it looks nicer, keeps your PPT file size down, and you won't have people messing around with your numbers. *coughs*
Could one recofigure one of these devices to broadcast to regular TV?
Or would that be against FCC rules?
Doesn't the iPod just work like an external hard drive when you plug it in without iTunes? How would working with that be a pain and pointless?
/Volumes/ipodname/iPod_Control/Music local_music_path
I should have clarified this a bit...
It isn't that hard to transfer Mp3s without iTunes installed. In fact you can do with the folowing command line in OS X terminal: cp -R
But seriously... How many people do you know that aren't a techie that would know how to do that?
How many average Joes or Grandmas are going to get an iPod and install some other software than what came with it.
I'd wager these people are having hard enough time installing iTunes much less run something from command line or install some 3rd party software.
They can't compete with iTunes because 90% of people get iPods and iTunes is the only thing that works with it.
I think the confusion here is the difference between iTunes the application and iTunes the music store.
Everyone who owns and iPod uses iTunes to transfer music to it (well you can work around this but its a pain and pointless unless you a techie)
But not everyone who owns an iPod uses iTunes to purchase their music nor everyone who purcashed songs from iTunes have an iPod (albeit they can only listen to it on iTunes and rip it to cds).
In fact for someone to fill a 60gb iPod with music from iTunes, they would need to spend over $10,000 to do so which make this fact unlikley.
Personally, I rip CDs into MP3s and put them on my iPod, wheras I have a hunch that perhaps many people get their Mp3s from houses of ill repute... *coughs* Pirate bay *coughs*
However, Apple's goal was not to make money off iTunes the music store or force people to be able to only use music on iPods that they've purchased from them.
It is a nice benefit to them that people purchase songs, but their real and true goal was to use the iTunes music service to sell iPods.
I have a feeling though that Micrsoft has this goal in reverse. In which they intend to sell Zunes at a loss to get people to buy music from their service and somehow fail horribly in this process.
Magic the Gathering never intended to have such a problem, but people realized they could take cards and sell them to other people at game shops and conventions. Then Ebay exasperated the problem...
I'm more of a Yugi-Oh fan myself *coughs* and I suppose the same thing applies but I play mostly online.
However, that said... Even with the "Uber" cards, you can't simply win with them...
With Yugi-Oh, I tend to win with just using one draw monsters with about 1000-1900 HP attack (you can't draw any higher than that without sacrificing other monsters in play) and then stack them with items/weapons that increase their attack HP.
While the other player has to wait til he gets the right cards for Fusion of his super 4000 HP attack monster, chances are I'll be beating down his monsters and attacking his life points directly (unless he is a bastard and has setup reversal traps or traps that prevent monsters above level 3 or 4 from attacking... which forces me to keep my deck filled with anti-trap cards or even weaker monsters which I can just augementate with my weapon cards)
I don't know about PoxNora, but I can say that other card games (when done right) can often be about how you play the cards rather than getting the super cards into play.
So, unless someone toes a liberal party line their opinion has no value?
As they say... The facts have a liberal bias.
Translation through a computer in life or death situations makes me sad inside.
As opposed to shouting incoherently at the top of your lungs and waving arms frantically in a bad game of charades until someone gets frustrated enough to start shooting to made the strange noises coming out of the other man go away?
Raising kids is hard work (got 2 me'self), and it is **your** work, not the state's or school's work or myspace's work!
Not to mention a whole lot more exspensive than a $600 vasectomy!
But seriously...
Many people either breed for the wrong reasons or for no reason at all. Not that there is anything wrong with having children, but if you rationally look at the having a child through an emotionaless logical kind of way... You start to seriously consider being that crazy old cat lady or just turning gay.
Many people seem to think that having kids will make them happy by creating a being that uncoditionally loves them and gives them some biological meaning in some way... Well... Maybe... But chances are you are going to have a tough time of it if you plan to live vicariously through them or use that child as a means for your own happiness without putting much effort of your own.
No, an idiot is someone that thinks giving MS $500 and their rootkit-altering driver is a good way to make money.
Hasn't stopped Sony.
But seriously, $500 is chump change to organized spammers, phishers, and malware authors and I'm sure they would spending an extra few bucks set up fake Last Vegas Limited Liability Corporations just to get access.
Why bother using YouTube for it, when you know that already having a popular video is enough to get it seeded?
1st Reason - Most content on YouTube is good enough to watch, but doesn't warrent a download to watch it a second time.
2nd Reason - It is hard to run bit torrent at work. *coughs*
Or Laser hair removal... Seriously... Its only $1700 for your face.
Are there people out there who use voice as their main method of inputing text? For older people who type incredibly slow would this software be worthwhile using for composing emails?
I knew a few old people who asked about it and tried it, but I think the real holy grail for voice recognition is not a replacement for typing text, but for rather understanding context of what you are wanting it to do.
You know... "Computer go to Red Alert!" like Star Trek.
But in our case it would be...
"Computer. Go to email and tell me if Bob sent a message."
"Computer. Go to Slashdot and alert me if there is a dupe."
But that would require more AI to understand what you are telling it to do rather than just type what you are saying... Of course which will have to happen first with 100% accuracy before we will see context driven voice recognition.
To be fair, the German Guards in Wolfenstein have gotten a bad rap.
SO glad that YouTube will now be sheltered by "the good guys" ... assuming they stay the good guys *cautious glance over shoulder*
I'm more than happy with that. At least now Youtube will have Google Adsense ads rather than Myspaces "epileptic punch the monkey you win a frigging iPod PS3 viagra sweepstakes" flash banner ads with 400 double click pop ups and unders.
The bubble will burst on this purchase. There's too much copyright infringement going on @ Youtube.
You mean Google's images, cache, and even video doesn't run into the same problems?
I think it is safe to safe Google has enough IP lawyers and knowhow to take care of any problems they run into.
The president is LEGALLY allowed to ignore anyone and everyone, with the sole exception being Congress.
And the Supreme Court.
Why do you still need the advertisers?
You mean like the original reason they created cable? You would pay for the cable and not have ads?
Well... That didn't last too long.
The Chinese could really come out looking like good guys if they then turned it over to SK for re-unification ala Germany.
North Korea's collapse and re-unification with the South is the last thing wanted by China and South Korea.
South Korea knows if they assimilated North Korea their economy would be ruined much like West Germany's was with East, but only worse because of the abject poverty this time around.
They would perfer North Korea stay indpedendant economically for now.
As for China... NK is a buffer state between it and the west. If war were to break out over Taiwan... Well...
Chemical weapons are essentially only useful on human targets.
Like FMJ bullets?
Bombs are at least able to destroy infrastruture and equipment.
Like nuclear bombs?
The point of the grandparent was that weapons kill, but some have taboos while those with greater destructive capability are still in use.