At first I was going to joke about using TerraServer to help with real estate decisions. (What should I buy today? I'll just give the TerraServer a spin...)
Of course, they no longer let you simply put in an address. (People want to see landmakrs!:P ) So you might want to get your latitude (slt) and longitute (slg) from your url returned by maps.yahoo.com
Make your case known on campus. See if you can get support from student organizations.
Universities tend to be very image conscious organizations. They feel you were making them look bad in the public eye. If you can make thier recent actions against you look worse than what they did to you, they may change their mind very quickly.
High resolution displays like this one are going to require a graphics card that is a generation beyond the current cards in 2 -D computing power.
Even though video cards have gotten more powerful in recent years, it has generally been in the 3rd dimention, rather than the first two were most of us spend our lives working. For instance, most people who work with intel based hardware will only concider nVida video cards. But guess what? My ATI Radeon card is FASTER in 2D display. It is nice that you no longer need an expensive fast video card to work in photoshop. But lack of competition in the world of computing....is a strange thing.
Apple's Display PDF (Quartz?) standard in Mac OS X may actually be the first thing in a while to push 2D acceeration forward.
As OS X gathers momentum...
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As OS X gathers momentum and GUI based Unix apps look at porting to X, GUI independence is going to become a larger issue. Sure, you can run XFree86 under X, but this only reaffirms the (questionable) elegance of Aqua.
Perhaps porting GUI apps to Mac OS X will also raise the bar for GUI design on non-OS X platforms.
Unless you think paying $400 for something that you can get for $26 is somehow fair, I think it's you who needs to stop 'beeing a troll'. Looser.
What about the fact that you can use that $26 256 meg chip in the Apple machine? Why should we be surprised that Apple tries to make money on RAM? What PC builder doesn't?
Isn't it funny how many developers can write their own unix-like-OS, yet a whole team of developers haven't yet fully implement the windows 32 bit libraries of top of linux?
Monitors must be profitable for Apple. Yes, they are expensive. However, if you're looking for a high quality display, there isn't too much more out there. (Maybe your code looks the same on any monitor, but now try to do color correction on a cheap monitor. You may gain a new appreciation for graphic artists.) Apple's recent line of monitors are among the best looking displays I've ever seen. Now why they use that damn Apple Display Connector, I'll never be able to figure that out. (They tried something similar on the first line of PowerPC macs and it failed miserably.)
As for the switch to LCD, I can only assume its being done for the same reason they got rid of the floppy.
Personally, I have a Sony 19" monitor I purchased half a year ago. I'd like it to be the last CRT I ever buy.
and (firewire) isn't designed for daisy-chaining (but someone correct me if I'm wrong on this one.)
You're wrong. It is designed for daisy chaining in a manner very similar to USB. The only reason why most people haven't seen this is because of a lack of Firewire products. You've got your video camera hooked up, now what? (Well, okay, you might have a hard drive and CD-R burner as well - but all three? unlikely. also unlikely that you'd use all three at once.) Yes, there are Firewire hubs, although, like most things Firewire, they're unreasonably expensive.
In nearly every reguard, Firewire is superior to USB. Oh, except for price point!:)
Any time you define art, you close your mind off to part of it.
No, most people would not concider Marcel Duchamp's urinal to be art. But then again, most people really don't have a clue as to what art is. Duchamp's urinal is one of the most revolutionary works of art of the 20th century.
For those who don't like the urinal, concider these things: Its shaped like the virgin mary, or a sittng buddha. You piss in it. It rejects the idea of art being something that can be possesed by the rich - everyday objects can be art.
Back to the main topic.
The computer is not making art. The programmer, in this case, is selecting what he conciders to be art. I'm sure a lot of stuff has found its way into the trash. His code guides its pixeled paint brush.
How is this any different than how most other artist work? They also choose from a wide variety of forms and select which ones they prefer. They train their hands, rather than their computers, as to how paint should be applied.
I know we get excited about computers here, but it really is beside the point.
So, who wants to find a way to take this to the Supreme Court?
It just does not make sense that someone could own the law. The implications of this do nothing but place unreasonable restrictions on the individual. I think it is reasonable to pay $300 for a book on building codes, but one should have other options. This creates a definite financial gain to be made by getting your text made into law. Imagine if Microsoft's End User Agreement became the standard software liscense. It would be concievable that MS could profit off of every piece of commercial software sold.
Additionally, by allowing law to be copyrighted, it restricts discussion of law. If I want to put up a website critical of the building codes and need direct, verbatim quotes, I sure as hell won't get permission to use the building codes directly.
What about laws released under usage liscenses? Could one own the usage liscense while making the law public domain? Does the GPL need to be GPL'ed?:)
True, making all government laws may reduce the amount of money laywers are making off of them. Damn...I'm trying to be sympathetic, but I just can't get there!
I think Apple is doing the right thing. Mac OS X is obviously in its infancy. Apple is not recommending that people install Mac OS X as their primary OS. At this point, the only people using it are early adopters who most likely don't mind frequent updates.
Now, if Mac OS X was mainstream - Apple's default operating system, then I would feel the update cycle is too quick. Joe Average User doesn't like constant updates, even if he isn't forced to install them. This tends to cause version confusion, a tech support nightmare. (Windows 97, anyone?)
There are a million little things that need to be smoothed out in OS X - I don't expect Apple to do it in a series of quarterly updates. Microsoft operates on a large Service Packs that change an unwieldly number of items. Of course, we've all hear horror stories about the service pack that brought down the server.
Personally, I'm waiting for Mac OS X 2 - or is that Mac OS XI?
Too bad Visual Safe Source has eaten a few of my projects in the past. I wouldn't recommend using it if it can at all be avoided. And if it can't, make frequent backups.
All your problems can be fixed with a CVS system! You'll meet people and make friends! No useful information will ever be overwritten! Ever! Coomunications problems are a thing of the past!
Remember! If it works for coders, it can work for everyone! (Yes, that means everyone you know should be running linux as well.)
It appears to me that pricing on CDR disks has been greatly effected by its relation to the dollar. Prices continued to fall until one disk was less than a dollar. When someone is concidering to buy a CDR disc and see that the price is 99 cents, they think, "How cheap! Thats under a dollar!" The price drops. They buy another CDR disc thinking, "Only 20 cents! Thats under a dollar!" The price goes back up. They buy a third disc thinking, "Only 40 cents! Thats under a dollar!" Its kind of like the nine tenths of a cent added on to a gallon of gas. Most people concider such small numbers to be meaningless. The same factor could be at work on computer prices, only operating at the $1,000 mark.
In constrast to what other people are saying, this is not from three different exposures. If that were the case, people would probably have stange outlines of color around them from the thre different exposures. (Not to mention how hard it is to load another sheet of film into a large format camera without moving it.)
It is three simultaneous exposures. The reason why the water looks the way it does it because of the very precise angles involved in spectral reflections. The lenses for each color were only inches apart. However, that variance is enough to cause the precise area of the spectral reflection off the water to shift for each lens.
This would be more obvious if he had taken more pictures of shiny objects. However, to this date, the average Russian still owns little in the way of shiny objects. Besides, they would show a flaw in his process.:)
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At first I was going to joke about using TerraServer to help with real estate decisions. (What should I buy today? I'll just give the TerraServer a spin...)
Then i look it up...and Microsoft has placed it in their HomeAdvisor site.
Of course, they no longer let you simply put in an address. (People want to see landmakrs! :P ) So you might want to get your latitude (slt) and longitute (slg) from your url returned by maps.yahoo.com
Global generalizations are a rediculous liberal myth.
So, are you saying that global generalizations are GLOBALLY a liberal myth? Nice logic.
Global generalizations tend to be used by the ignorant, no matter their political views, liberal or conservative.
Make your case known on campus. See if you can get support from student organizations.
Universities tend to be very image conscious organizations. They feel you were making them look bad in the public eye. If you can make thier recent actions against you look worse than what they did to you, they may change their mind very quickly.
High resolution displays like this one are going to require a graphics card that is a generation beyond the current cards in 2 -D computing power.
Even though video cards have gotten more powerful in recent years, it has generally been in the 3rd dimention, rather than the first two were most of us spend our lives working. For instance, most people who work with intel based hardware will only concider nVida video cards. But guess what? My ATI Radeon card is FASTER in 2D display. It is nice that you no longer need an expensive fast video card to work in photoshop. But lack of competition in the world of computing....is a strange thing.
Apple's Display PDF (Quartz?) standard in Mac OS X may actually be the first thing in a while to push 2D acceeration forward.
As OS X gathers momentum and GUI based Unix apps look at porting to X, GUI independence is going to become a larger issue. Sure, you can run XFree86 under X, but this only reaffirms the (questionable) elegance of Aqua.
Perhaps porting GUI apps to Mac OS X will also raise the bar for GUI design on non-OS X platforms.
I've been gambling on the net for quite a while now.
I'm on my third DSL provider.
Does the artist formerly known as Prince get his own charcter space as well?
Will I need to download a new character set on windows to view it?
Unless you think paying $400 for something that you can get for $26 is somehow fair, I think it's you who needs to stop 'beeing a troll'. Looser. What about the fact that you can use that $26 256 meg chip in the Apple machine? Why should we be surprised that Apple tries to make money on RAM? What PC builder doesn't?
apparently you aren't familiar with karma whoing.
I heard you can't get catch cancer from computers unless you have Microsoft Outlook installed.
Isn't it funny how many developers can write their own unix-like-OS, yet a whole team of developers haven't yet fully implement the windows 32 bit libraries of top of linux?
Monitors must be profitable for Apple. Yes, they are expensive. However, if you're looking for a high quality display, there isn't too much more out there. (Maybe your code looks the same on any monitor, but now try to do color correction on a cheap monitor. You may gain a new appreciation for graphic artists.) Apple's recent line of monitors are among the best looking displays I've ever seen. Now why they use that damn Apple Display Connector, I'll never be able to figure that out. (They tried something similar on the first line of PowerPC macs and it failed miserably.)
As for the switch to LCD, I can only assume its being done for the same reason they got rid of the floppy.
Personally, I have a Sony 19" monitor I purchased half a year ago. I'd like it to be the last CRT I ever buy.
and (firewire) isn't designed for daisy-chaining (but someone correct me if I'm wrong on this one.)
You're wrong. It is designed for daisy chaining in a manner very similar to USB. The only reason why most people haven't seen this is because of a lack of Firewire products. You've got your video camera hooked up, now what? (Well, okay, you might have a hard drive and CD-R burner as well - but all three? unlikely. also unlikely that you'd use all three at once.) Yes, there are Firewire hubs, although, like most things Firewire, they're unreasonably expensive.
In nearly every reguard, Firewire is superior to USB. Oh, except for price point! :)
Clearly, this is due to the Springfield Effect. They have simply passed through new, undiscovered Springfield locations.
Mr. Teapot can answer all your questions.
Any time you define art, you close your mind off to part of it.
No, most people would not concider Marcel Duchamp's urinal to be art. But then again, most people really don't have a clue as to what art is. Duchamp's urinal is one of the most revolutionary works of art of the 20th century.
For those who don't like the urinal, concider these things: Its shaped like the virgin mary, or a sittng buddha. You piss in it. It rejects the idea of art being something that can be possesed by the rich - everyday objects can be art.
Back to the main topic.
The computer is not making art. The programmer, in this case, is selecting what he conciders to be art. I'm sure a lot of stuff has found its way into the trash. His code guides its pixeled paint brush.
How is this any different than how most other artist work? They also choose from a wide variety of forms and select which ones they prefer. They train their hands, rather than their computers, as to how paint should be applied.
I know we get excited about computers here, but it really is beside the point.
So, who wants to find a way to take this to the Supreme Court?
:)
It just does not make sense that someone could own the law. The implications of this do nothing but place unreasonable restrictions on the individual. I think it is reasonable to pay $300 for a book on building codes, but one should have other options. This creates a definite financial gain to be made by getting your text made into law. Imagine if Microsoft's End User Agreement became the standard software liscense. It would be concievable that MS could profit off of every piece of commercial software sold.
Additionally, by allowing law to be copyrighted, it restricts discussion of law. If I want to put up a website critical of the building codes and need direct, verbatim quotes, I sure as hell won't get permission to use the building codes directly.
What about laws released under usage liscenses? Could one own the usage liscense while making the law public domain? Does the GPL need to be GPL'ed?
True, making all government laws may reduce the amount of money laywers are making off of them. Damn...I'm trying to be sympathetic, but I just can't get there!
There is no Windows 97. Confused people would report running "Windows 97" if they were running Windows 95/98 and had Office 97 installed.
I think Apple is doing the right thing. Mac OS X is obviously in its infancy. Apple is not recommending that people install Mac OS X as their primary OS. At this point, the only people using it are early adopters who most likely don't mind frequent updates.
Now, if Mac OS X was mainstream - Apple's default operating system, then I would feel the update cycle is too quick. Joe Average User doesn't like constant updates, even if he isn't forced to install them. This tends to cause version confusion, a tech support nightmare. (Windows 97, anyone?)
There are a million little things that need to be smoothed out in OS X - I don't expect Apple to do it in a series of quarterly updates. Microsoft operates on a large Service Packs that change an unwieldly number of items. Of course, we've all hear horror stories about the service pack that brought down the server.
Personally, I'm waiting for Mac OS X 2 - or is that Mac OS XI?
Too bad Visual Safe Source has eaten a few of my projects in the past. I wouldn't recommend using it if it can at all be avoided. And if it can't, make frequent backups.
Thats right!
All your problems can be fixed with a CVS system! You'll meet people and make friends! No useful information will ever be overwritten! Ever! Coomunications problems are a thing of the past!
Remember! If it works for coders, it can work for everyone! (Yes, that means everyone you know should be running linux as well.)
It appears to me that pricing on CDR disks has been greatly effected by its relation to the dollar. Prices continued to fall until one disk was less than a dollar. When someone is concidering to buy a CDR disc and see that the price is 99 cents, they think, "How cheap! Thats under a dollar!" The price drops. They buy another CDR disc thinking, "Only 20 cents! Thats under a dollar!" The price goes back up. They buy a third disc thinking, "Only 40 cents! Thats under a dollar!" Its kind of like the nine tenths of a cent added on to a gallon of gas. Most people concider such small numbers to be meaningless. The same factor could be at work on computer prices, only operating at the $1,000 mark.
A 3x price hike on CDRs seems like it would make the price difference that much less for buying your favorite linux distribution on CD.
But then again, that might defeat the purpose of free software.
....i'm writing this under Mozilla 0.9 for the Mac and its FAST! Maybe I'll find something to complain about after a while, but right now, its sweet!
I hope he has plenty of glo-plugs, as I know it always took me a few to start my model rockets.
Also, i hope he remember to wrap the parachue right, otherwise it'll just tumble end over end until it gets caught in a tree.
Why didn't the Hooters girls ever help me celebrate my rocket launches?
In constrast to what other people are saying, this is not from three different exposures. If that were the case, people would probably have stange outlines of color around them from the thre different exposures. (Not to mention how hard it is to load another sheet of film into a large format camera without moving it.)
:)
It is three simultaneous exposures. The reason why the water looks the way it does it because of the very precise angles involved in spectral reflections. The lenses for each color were only inches apart. However, that variance is enough to cause the precise area of the spectral reflection off the water to shift for each lens.
This would be more obvious if he had taken more pictures of shiny objects. However, to this date, the average Russian still owns little in the way of shiny objects. Besides, they would show a flaw in his process.