Well, not with the first generation at least. The claim is that the current model is sensitive to motions as small as two microns in all six axis of movement and can provide real time feedback. If someone was going to create a remote surgery setup, which might prove useful in some emergencies and specific situations, I can think of a lot worse interface methods to build it around.
Now, no you would never want to use something like this in preference to a live surgeon. However, for remote places like the arctic/antarctic stations and other situations where flying a patient out or a surgeon in for some specific emergency just isn't going to happen, well, it's better than nothing.
It is reproducible. It gets reproduced constantly in both controlled and natural conditions. Evolution is not a result, it is a process. The process of evolution is easy to document in single celled organisms in almost real-time. It can be followed in plant breeding over longer periods and there are many, many long term mammal and avian breeding experiments (aka domesticated animals) that have tracked the process over the course of thousands of years. The experiments have been run and the process is observable and documented and reproducible.
Well how much more wrong can it get than AIDs? I mean, what could happen, it kills you a little faster? If they have even 50/50 survival/success rate people will line up for this.
That is the position of the GP. The parent post directly above me said
No thanks.
Google took that approach with picassa and the results are horrible.
Native GTK please. If gimp, pidgin, sylpheed, gvim, etc. can be cross platform, then certainly it wouldn't be too large a task for a company the size of Adobe to do the port the other way around.
Exactly. What the telcos are doing is more like if your local gas company started putting an additive in the gas that required you to either buy all you appliances directly from them or purchase conversion kits if you want to use someone else's.
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Yeah, it couldn't possibly be a massive undertaking to port almost 15 years of built up code, working across an entire suite of interconnected programs, to a completely differnt set of APIs. They should get on that right away!
Please note, of the programs you listed, combined they are a drop in the bucket in terms of code base and complexity compared to the full Adobe Suite. You may not agree with commercial software and that is fine, but don't try and pass it off as less than it is.
Personally, I think that a law explicitly preventing internet access providers from supplying any service except the pipe would be one of the healthiest things that could be done. It would prevent conflict of interest situations and promote real competition. Similar to how the movie studios are no longer allowed to own theater chains.
Having the access and content sides of the internet separated means that things like VOIP providers get an equal playing field. The internet provider no longer has the incentive to sabotage them. In a couple years, it will keep them from messing with video download providers in the same way.
You obviously do not use any 3D modeling software. Hundreds of commands. Many of which are used only occasionally. And frequent switching between software packages/versions.
My current work flow has me using 3DS Max, Photoshop, Illustrator, Combustion and a few smaller miscellaneous programs. I'd be shocked if between them there are less than a thousand hotkeys. In the past, I have used Lighwave and Maya. Those 2 and 3DS share 90% of their possible commands (in the same way that all word programs have certain basic functions). I doubt that there is more than a dozen shared hotkeys between them, and those are as likely to be accidental as intentional. Ability to display commands? Priceless.
Hell, I switch between Windows and OSX constantly. Having the keyboard update to remind me that Apple-C and CTRL-C are different buttons would be nice.
Well, that's not quite what they say. They say it sucks as a TEXT input device, at least in comparison to other keyboards. On the other hand, as a context sensitive input/output device it sounds like it works exactly as promised. As someone who spends a lot of time switching between programs that have several hundred possible hotkeys each, I would love one of these. In a couple years, I expect to buy the $200 descendant.
Why? Because whether my monthly bill covers the ISP's cost for the month is not my problem. They have entered into a contract with me. I signed a piece of paper that said that in exchange for X amount of dollars, I get a certain connection speed. Sometimes caps may be listed as well. Fair enough as long as it's in print. It's a contract that both parties have agreed to. One party pays, and the other provides a service.
Now, when the ISP comes back and tells me that they can't actually afford to keep up their end of the deal, why shouldn't I be mad? If they couldn't afford to sell me what they did, they should not have advertised it.
By advertising false rates and then not complying with their contracts, the ISPs are preventing me from shopping around to find the deal that best suits my needs.
See, demand (as in people would like to see it), yes. Lost sales? No. I suspect that for the limited PR boot it would give them, porting an entire suite of legacy programs onto a moving software target just isn't worth it.
One reason that many 3D apps have a linux version or history is that large render farms have traditionally been *nix based and professional animation has always needed large render farms.
Actually, the return on investment is really easy to work out.
Photoshop is not, and was never intended to be, sold as a consumer application. It's market is professionals. At the moment, if you are a professional in one of a number of fields you use Photoshop. If you don't use Photoshop, you can't do professional work if only because you can't open the files your collaborators are sending and can't send the ones clients are expecting.
So, what is the market for Photoshop on Linux? Professionals who are more interested in Open Source principles than in earning a paycheque through their profession. I can tell you right now, that's a damn small group, and unlikely to buy it even if it was available. So, where is the payoff for Adobe here?
Yeah, instead they are taking care of Afghanistan (remember it?) now that America has committed almost all their forces to Iraq. Damn Europeans (and Canadians!)
Well, right now we have the Conservatives, the Liberals, the Bloc and the NDP. That makes 4. In the past decade or so, there was the Reform party and the Alliance. If you go back into the 80s and 90s I think you can add another one or two that had seats in parliament. Heck, the Green party tends to come close to a seat or two each election. Also always a few independents with seats.
Yeah, and look what happened to the Liberals when they got comfortable. I don't think the number of parties in control matters quite as much as having the afraid for their jobs.
Just to note, the only bills that can bring down the government are budgets. They can also designate other bills as a non-confidence bill when they want to signal that the other parties better be serious if they want to oppose it. No one is going to bring down the government and trigger an election over a minor bill.
Biggest difference in Canada? We have a habit of tossing out political parties that piss us off. We can get away with it because there are 4-5 major parties active at any one time, so easy enough to out with the old and in with the new. And there is always a couple parties that have to compete to be the new big dogs.
And when we get rid of a party, they are gone. In 1993, one of the Conservative parties passed unpopular tax laws. They went from controlling 57% of the seats to controlling.6% (2 out of 295). Do that once or twice and your politicians will get the message.
That may be the ugliest piece of hardware I have ever laid my eyes on.
As for an iPhone killer? Why is everything these days an iPhone killer? This abomination does not compete with the iPhone in any way. Completely different design (if you can call it that) aesthetic. It's not based on a touch screen. Any mention of an iPhone killer exists only to drive people to the site so they can have a look. If the title was 'Dell subsidy designs cellphone, beats it with ugly stick' they would not get as much traffic.
Actually, it would be easy enough to do. Just keep track of everything they post or host as well as the source code of all their web pages. Three strikes right? I suspect it would take all of 6 months to find three instances where an intern has used a chunk of code from someone else's template or a designer uses a bit of a CC image in an advertisement.
Well, in this case, every one of them is going to fall into the category of those who play and buy video games. Now, if you are advertising hair care products, paying for ad time on PA is going to be pretty hit-and-miss. If you are advertising a videogame, you are in better luck in 2 ways. First, every eyeball that sees it is a potential sale and you can use the webpage hit #s as a rough guide buying your ad. Second, it becomes a safe assumption that every click on that ad equals one person who has become more interested and aware of the product through the placement of the ad. It makes judging the effectiveness of the money spent very easy.
The only online advertising that this will hurt are the mass spam adds. Anything being targeted at a specific demographic can be easily and verifiably checked. As an example, anyone who runs adds on a site like Penny-Arcade can be quite sure that any click throughs are exactly the type of people they want to reach. Click throughs from adds run on Slashdot? They know the type of people doing the clicks. Random Click-here-for-hyped-product-of-the-moment? Not so much.
Personally, I think this is a good sign. Adds targeting specific audiences and communities tend to be more respectful and interesting. If these findings promote that kind of advertising instead of flashing spams adds designed to distract, then hooray!
Actually, it might be more accurate to say that the Chinese are happily buying up US debt, not dollars. And there is nothing wrong with credit, whether you are talking people or countries. But when you sign that mortgage, you had better be damn sure you can handle the payments.
Whoever wrote this obviously didn't do too much research for the article. They managed to get through an entire section on the feasibility and cost of a space hotel without stumbling across Bigelow Aerospace, who actually has a test bed in orbit right now.
A robotic mission makes sense in a situation where the variables are known. A robot can be designed to take care of almost any fixed situation. As long as you know where you are going, roughly what you will find and what you will do once you get there, robotic missions are a really great idea.
Where human missions are useful is where the variables are not known. If you are not sure what will need to be done, or if depending on your initial finding the rest of the mission will change unpredictably, you need people in the loop. While the resources needed to get them there and keep them alive are initially higher than most robotic missions would be, having humans on the scene gives you far greater flexibility.
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Well, not with the first generation at least. The claim is that the current model is sensitive to motions as small as two microns in all six axis of movement and can provide real time feedback. If someone was going to create a remote surgery setup, which might prove useful in some emergencies and specific situations, I can think of a lot worse interface methods to build it around.
Now, no you would never want to use something like this in preference to a live surgeon. However, for remote places like the arctic/antarctic stations and other situations where flying a patient out or a surgeon in for some specific emergency just isn't going to happen, well, it's better than nothing.
Or more likely living somewhere in the world that uses a sane temperature scale, aka Celsius. Which is, you know, EVERYWHERE except the good ol' USA.
For what it's worth 20 C = 68 F
It is reproducible. It gets reproduced constantly in both controlled and natural conditions. Evolution is not a result, it is a process. The process of evolution is easy to document in single celled organisms in almost real-time. It can be followed in plant breeding over longer periods and there are many, many long term mammal and avian breeding experiments (aka domesticated animals) that have tracked the process over the course of thousands of years. The experiments have been run and the process is observable and documented and reproducible.
Well how much more wrong can it get than AIDs? I mean, what could happen, it kills you a little faster? If they have even 50/50 survival/success rate people will line up for this.
Which is what I was replying to.
Exactly. What the telcos are doing is more like if your local gas company started putting an additive in the gas that required you to either buy all you appliances directly from them or purchase conversion kits if you want to use someone else's.
Yeah, it couldn't possibly be a massive undertaking to port almost 15 years of built up code, working across an entire suite of interconnected programs, to a completely differnt set of APIs. They should get on that right away!
Please note, of the programs you listed, combined they are a drop in the bucket in terms of code base and complexity compared to the full Adobe Suite. You may not agree with commercial software and that is fine, but don't try and pass it off as less than it is.
Personally, I think that a law explicitly preventing internet access providers from supplying any service except the pipe would be one of the healthiest things that could be done. It would prevent conflict of interest situations and promote real competition. Similar to how the movie studios are no longer allowed to own theater chains.
Having the access and content sides of the internet separated means that things like VOIP providers get an equal playing field. The internet provider no longer has the incentive to sabotage them. In a couple years, it will keep them from messing with video download providers in the same way.
You obviously do not use any 3D modeling software. Hundreds of commands. Many of which are used only occasionally. And frequent switching between software packages/versions.
My current work flow has me using 3DS Max, Photoshop, Illustrator, Combustion and a few smaller miscellaneous programs. I'd be shocked if between them there are less than a thousand hotkeys. In the past, I have used Lighwave and Maya. Those 2 and 3DS share 90% of their possible commands (in the same way that all word programs have certain basic functions). I doubt that there is more than a dozen shared hotkeys between them, and those are as likely to be accidental as intentional. Ability to display commands? Priceless.
Hell, I switch between Windows and OSX constantly. Having the keyboard update to remind me that Apple-C and CTRL-C are different buttons would be nice.
Well, that's not quite what they say. They say it sucks as a TEXT input device, at least in comparison to other keyboards. On the other hand, as a context sensitive input/output device it sounds like it works exactly as promised. As someone who spends a lot of time switching between programs that have several hundred possible hotkeys each, I would love one of these. In a couple years, I expect to buy the $200 descendant.
Why? Because whether my monthly bill covers the ISP's cost for the month is not my problem. They have entered into a contract with me. I signed a piece of paper that said that in exchange for X amount of dollars, I get a certain connection speed. Sometimes caps may be listed as well. Fair enough as long as it's in print. It's a contract that both parties have agreed to. One party pays, and the other provides a service.
Now, when the ISP comes back and tells me that they can't actually afford to keep up their end of the deal, why shouldn't I be mad? If they couldn't afford to sell me what they did, they should not have advertised it.
By advertising false rates and then not complying with their contracts, the ISPs are preventing me from shopping around to find the deal that best suits my needs.
See, demand (as in people would like to see it), yes. Lost sales? No. I suspect that for the limited PR boot it would give them, porting an entire suite of legacy programs onto a moving software target just isn't worth it.
One reason that many 3D apps have a linux version or history is that large render farms have traditionally been *nix based and professional animation has always needed large render farms.
Actually, the return on investment is really easy to work out.
Photoshop is not, and was never intended to be, sold as a consumer application. It's market is professionals. At the moment, if you are a professional in one of a number of fields you use Photoshop. If you don't use Photoshop, you can't do professional work if only because you can't open the files your collaborators are sending and can't send the ones clients are expecting.
So, what is the market for Photoshop on Linux? Professionals who are more interested in Open Source principles than in earning a paycheque through their profession. I can tell you right now, that's a damn small group, and unlikely to buy it even if it was available. So, where is the payoff for Adobe here?
Yeah, instead they are taking care of Afghanistan (remember it?) now that America has committed almost all their forces to Iraq. Damn Europeans (and Canadians!)
Well, right now we have the Conservatives, the Liberals, the Bloc and the NDP. That makes 4. In the past decade or so, there was the Reform party and the Alliance. If you go back into the 80s and 90s I think you can add another one or two that had seats in parliament. Heck, the Green party tends to come close to a seat or two each election. Also always a few independents with seats.
Yeah, and look what happened to the Liberals when they got comfortable. I don't think the number of parties in control matters quite as much as having the afraid for their jobs.
Just to note, the only bills that can bring down the government are budgets. They can also designate other bills as a non-confidence bill when they want to signal that the other parties better be serious if they want to oppose it. No one is going to bring down the government and trigger an election over a minor bill.
Biggest difference in Canada? We have a habit of tossing out political parties that piss us off. We can get away with it because there are 4-5 major parties active at any one time, so easy enough to out with the old and in with the new. And there is always a couple parties that have to compete to be the new big dogs.
.6% (2 out of 295). Do that once or twice and your politicians will get the message.
And when we get rid of a party, they are gone. In 1993, one of the Conservative parties passed unpopular tax laws. They went from controlling 57% of the seats to controlling
That may be the ugliest piece of hardware I have ever laid my eyes on.
As for an iPhone killer? Why is everything these days an iPhone killer? This abomination does not compete with the iPhone in any way. Completely different design (if you can call it that) aesthetic. It's not based on a touch screen. Any mention of an iPhone killer exists only to drive people to the site so they can have a look. If the title was 'Dell subsidy designs cellphone, beats it with ugly stick' they would not get as much traffic.
Actually, it would be easy enough to do. Just keep track of everything they post or host as well as the source code of all their web pages. Three strikes right? I suspect it would take all of 6 months to find three instances where an intern has used a chunk of code from someone else's template or a designer uses a bit of a CC image in an advertisement.
Well, in this case, every one of them is going to fall into the category of those who play and buy video games. Now, if you are advertising hair care products, paying for ad time on PA is going to be pretty hit-and-miss. If you are advertising a videogame, you are in better luck in 2 ways. First, every eyeball that sees it is a potential sale and you can use the webpage hit #s as a rough guide buying your ad. Second, it becomes a safe assumption that every click on that ad equals one person who has become more interested and aware of the product through the placement of the ad. It makes judging the effectiveness of the money spent very easy.
The only online advertising that this will hurt are the mass spam adds. Anything being targeted at a specific demographic can be easily and verifiably checked. As an example, anyone who runs adds on a site like Penny-Arcade can be quite sure that any click throughs are exactly the type of people they want to reach. Click throughs from adds run on Slashdot? They know the type of people doing the clicks. Random Click-here-for-hyped-product-of-the-moment? Not so much.
Personally, I think this is a good sign. Adds targeting specific audiences and communities tend to be more respectful and interesting. If these findings promote that kind of advertising instead of flashing spams adds designed to distract, then hooray!
Actually, it might be more accurate to say that the Chinese are happily buying up US debt, not dollars. And there is nothing wrong with credit, whether you are talking people or countries. But when you sign that mortgage, you had better be damn sure you can handle the payments.
Whoever wrote this obviously didn't do too much research for the article. They managed to get through an entire section on the feasibility and cost of a space hotel without stumbling across Bigelow Aerospace, who actually has a test bed in orbit right now.
A robotic mission makes sense in a situation where the variables are known. A robot can be designed to take care of almost any fixed situation. As long as you know where you are going, roughly what you will find and what you will do once you get there, robotic missions are a really great idea.
Where human missions are useful is where the variables are not known. If you are not sure what will need to be done, or if depending on your initial finding the rest of the mission will change unpredictably, you need people in the loop. While the resources needed to get them there and keep them alive are initially higher than most robotic missions would be, having humans on the scene gives you far greater flexibility.