When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Or not. This is just way too simplistic an argument. There are plenty of governments which have feared their people, yet acted barbarically against them.
A government in fear of the people could also lash out against the people to protect itself. In general, fear is not a good foundation for human relationships and organization, including politics. Cooperation is a much better idea. Then people are invested in the goals they are trying to achieve. Fear doesn't actually achieve anything, especially not liberty. You'll just get a bunch of paranoid people covering their asses, too afraid to do what it takes to move forward.
Why would you need to? All hard drives have a self-wiping function if you wait long enough. With today's quality control standards, you usually don't have to wait very long.
Last time I used my induction stove to cook water for noodles
"Cooking" water?
I think the term you are looking for is "heating" or "boiling." When you heat water, and then allow it to cool, it is just the same as water that was never heated. Cooking implies a permanent change to the material that has been cooked. For example, when you cook a raw chicken, and then let it cool, it doesn't revert to being a raw chicken.
Virtual sticky notes? That's not nearly robust enough. What if the virtual adhesive fails, and you lose your notes? I use a nail gun to attach wood carvings of my notes to my monitor. Far more secure.
We have a major problem with a general lack of interest in science, math, and engineering in this country. If a story like this can prominently feature the fact that this guy is an engineer and used principles of physics (regardless of how basic) to solve a serious problem, maybe that will inspire one or two people to get into the field. Every little bit helps.
No, it really doesn't. If this is how you are looking to get people into engineering, then you are truly desperate and scraping the bottom of the barrel. If a hairdresser did this, would you expect more people to choose hairdressing as a career?
Furthermore, are the kind of people who get inspired to be engineers by this story the people you would want to trust to engineer critical infrastructure? I would want somebody with a little more depth than that in such a position.
You have a point about the Internet supposedly replacing paper, but if you think delivering direct-mail advertisements is evil then I would suggest you look for some perspective.
Firstly, I never actually outright declared it to be evil. Personally, I don't really believe in the concept of evil, but apparently Google does, or they never would have mentioned the word in their mission statement, so that kind of of sets off alarm bells in the first place.
Secondly, it's not about the actual delivering of direct-mail advertising. It's about the encouragement thereof. It's also about value statements. The companies that mail junk advertising aren't claiming to be bastions of goodness. They just want to make a quick buck. It is what it is.
But Google proclaiming to be so wonderful, while simultaneously promoting dodgy activities (whether "evil" or not) is certainly highly questionable.
Only under the broadest definitions of "CGI." The imagery is not so much generated by the computer, but interpolated by it. Is a photograph from a digital camera "CGI" because it is processed and interpolated digitally?
Then it's a hybrid of stop motion and computer animation that goes beyond things like simple color correction and aligning misaligned frames.
Under your strict sensibilities, how is digital color correction or alignment not CGI? Interpolated motion blur is basically just color correction for motion rather than hue.
The process of producing stop motion video is very similar to producing time lapse, which I have much more interest in
Not really. All you need for time-lapse is an intervalometer (timer) whether an external unit, or one built into your camera; and some way of stitching the shots together into a movie (video editing application).
The tools are common and easily accessible, and in little need of improvement. You just need to go out and do it.
Encouraging the wasteful printing of advertising material and the associated wastage of fuel to deliver it, and annoy people in the process? That's not really a good thing to do. I thought the whole deal with the internet was that we didn't need to send send information on a physical medium.
They can go for the best Office/Documents/Outlook integration possible - and who would not love it? I have not seen many phones which can properly format a moderately complex.docx file as of now - this is where Windows Mobile 7 can enter the market and capture it.
Yeah, but if you've seen the direction Microsoft is taking with Windows Phone 7, that's not it. They are going for "social networking" and "iPhone/Android knock-off," not "Mobile Business Computing."
Who cares? They can be recharged. How often is it that you don't use an electronic device for YEARS(!!!!!) but suddenly care about it being immediately available? Even then, it's likely that your batteries have already leaked and corroded the battery contacts in the YEARS(!!!!!) that you let it sit unused.
I just don't get what the big deal is. It's pretty stupid to be using disposable batteries in this day and age.
No warrant, not invited, attempting to tamper with something of mine means risking lawful execution by Castle Doctrine law.
Do you even understand what "execution" means? If it's an execution, then it's obviously not self-defense, and therefore not subject to "Castle Doctrine." Only the State can legally execute executions.
Apple: Make an appointment with a Genius at their pleasure, waste my time to take it to them, wait for them to fix it and then come back an pick it up.
Or, you could buy from an Apple vendor that offers corporate-level support.
I would love to stick with Final Cut and the mac platform... but I am able to buy 2X the machine for 1/2 the money AND have enough left over to buy new video camera gear.
What? A decent video camera costs twice what a Mac Pro costs (and that's not even including accessories). You're not going to get a camera worth using for half the price of a Mac Pro.
for the price of ONE Mac Pro quad core that can do AVCHD editing smoothly
Again, WTF? Why would you edit in AVCHD? It's not even possible in FCP. You convert the AVCHD to Apple ProRes for editing. But again, if you're in the Mac Pro realm, you're not even recording in AVCHD in the first place.
Underpowered also means runs on a quartet of AAA's for months...
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but these days you can get these amazing batteries that are capable of being recharged and re-used. I know! Absolutely mind-blowing.
The last straw for me was in 2000 (2001?) when I bought a wildly overpriced network walkman NW-MS9 "MP3" player that wouldn't play MP3s
Why would you do that? Everybody knew those things were shitty. The PS3, on the other hand, is a decent product. With your track record, you probably shouldn't be giving product advice, or even trusting your own instincts.
Sony makes some great products and some incredibly shitty ones. Making blanket judgements based on brand alone, rather than the merits of individual products, is pretty unintelligent.
No worries. Jobs will follow with his release of iGoogleTV (err... ooops... I mean, iTV), without flash and with tight control over access to porn. By that time, the fanboys/girls will already have children of their own, be interested in protecting them (from exposure to Flash) and still look kool when having guests.
So, you support children being exposed to flashers? Pervert.
I do care and do know the difference. Presumably many people prefer proper thin-crust pizza
As do I. I'm not sure why you're taking my statements as endorsements for shitty pizza.
otherwise said pizza chains would have made inroads in places other than the US and the UK.
But they have. They are all over the world. They may not carry the "Pizza Hut" or "Dominoes" brand, but fast-food pizza made with pre-formed bases is a global phenomenon.
And even though I probably eat more frozen pizza than restaurant pizza, if I actually do pay to eat out at a restaurant, I prefer to get a proper pizza...
And, you've just proved my argument by admitting that the majority of pizza you eat is of the pre-formed variety. It doesn't matter if it is sold at a restaurant or not. I'm simply talking about the majority of pizzas sold.
Also, way to undermine your pizza snob argument. I never cook frozen pizzas or eat fast-food pizzas unless I'm at a party or something where it's the only food. I usually make my own from scratch, including the dough.
I have been to dozens of European countries, and haven't seen pizza fast food chains in small towns anywhere but the UK.
Perhaps because they're not your thing, so you don't look for them?
Also, don't you think that arguing about this is sort of pointless?
Well yeah. But when people post such obvious falsehoods, I'm going to call them on it. Because I like reality and truth and stuff, rather than nostalgic myths.
I would suspect that over time, the costs have shifted towards marketing more than real innovation factors.
I'm not sure why you would suspect that. Have you seen the credits for a modern game? Massive amounts of talent there. Meanwhile, back in the day, the games were created by one or a handful of people - while the elaborate box art and marketing had little to do with the game.
Most famously, there is E.T on the Atari 2600, where they paid a massive amount of money for the marketing power of the E.T brand, but the game was a primitive piece of shit, even for its time, that was rushed to market. The 80s was full of this kind of stuff. Today, even the film marketing tie-in games are held to a much higher standard. The emphasis on creativity and innovation is much higher than it was back then. It's a more competitive market, after all.
I live in Europe, maybe that's the reason - there only a few Domino/Papa John/Pizza Hut outlets in major cities;
Whatever.
You're just citing exceptions that prove the rule. Worldwide, I'd bet that the majority of pizzas sold are of the fast-food variety. I'd also bet that most people who buy pizza for the convenience don't really care whether the dough is hand-made or pre-formed. They just want comfort food with minimum effort.
I also think that your generalizations about Europe probably don't hold water. Europe is a big place. What is true for your corner of continent is not necessarily true in another place.
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When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Or not. This is just way too simplistic an argument. There are plenty of governments which have feared their people, yet acted barbarically against them.
A government in fear of the people could also lash out against the people to protect itself. In general, fear is not a good foundation for human relationships and organization, including politics. Cooperation is a much better idea. Then people are invested in the goals they are trying to achieve. Fear doesn't actually achieve anything, especially not liberty. You'll just get a bunch of paranoid people covering their asses, too afraid to do what it takes to move forward.
and has a simple unobtrusive DRM platform.
Is that something like a condom with only three razor-sharp titanium spikes, rather than six?
Why would you need to? All hard drives have a self-wiping function if you wait long enough. With today's quality control standards, you usually don't have to wait very long.
Last time I used my induction stove to cook water for noodles
"Cooking" water?
I think the term you are looking for is "heating" or "boiling." When you heat water, and then allow it to cool, it is just the same as water that was never heated. Cooking implies a permanent change to the material that has been cooked. For example, when you cook a raw chicken, and then let it cool, it doesn't revert to being a raw chicken.
Virtual sticky notes? That's not nearly robust enough. What if the virtual adhesive fails, and you lose your notes? I use a nail gun to attach wood carvings of my notes to my monitor. Far more secure.
have you tried ionice?
Yes, I didn't just try ionice, I tried twiice.
We have a major problem with a general lack of interest in science, math, and engineering in this country. If a story like this can prominently feature the fact that this guy is an engineer and used principles of physics (regardless of how basic) to solve a serious problem, maybe that will inspire one or two people to get into the field. Every little bit helps.
No, it really doesn't. If this is how you are looking to get people into engineering, then you are truly desperate and scraping the bottom of the barrel. If a hairdresser did this, would you expect more people to choose hairdressing as a career?
Furthermore, are the kind of people who get inspired to be engineers by this story the people you would want to trust to engineer critical infrastructure? I would want somebody with a little more depth than that in such a position.
I don't think they've privatized the postal service even in the US, the beacon of free-marketeers.
Beacon, Lisa? Or bacon?
You have a point about the Internet supposedly replacing paper, but if you think delivering direct-mail advertisements is evil then I would suggest you look for some perspective.
Firstly, I never actually outright declared it to be evil. Personally, I don't really believe in the concept of evil, but apparently Google does, or they never would have mentioned the word in their mission statement, so that kind of of sets off alarm bells in the first place.
Secondly, it's not about the actual delivering of direct-mail advertising. It's about the encouragement thereof. It's also about value statements. The companies that mail junk advertising aren't claiming to be bastions of goodness. They just want to make a quick buck. It is what it is.
But Google proclaiming to be so wonderful, while simultaneously promoting dodgy activities (whether "evil" or not) is certainly highly questionable.
IOW, using CGI....
Only under the broadest definitions of "CGI." The imagery is not so much generated by the computer, but interpolated by it. Is a photograph from a digital camera "CGI" because it is processed and interpolated digitally?
Then it's a hybrid of stop motion and computer animation that goes beyond things like simple color correction and aligning misaligned frames.
Under your strict sensibilities, how is digital color correction or alignment not CGI? Interpolated motion blur is basically just color correction for motion rather than hue.
The process of producing stop motion video is very similar to producing time lapse, which I have much more interest in
Not really. All you need for time-lapse is an intervalometer (timer) whether an external unit, or one built into your camera; and some way of stitching the shots together into a movie (video editing application).
The tools are common and easily accessible, and in little need of improvement. You just need to go out and do it.
It's possible to simulate motion blur by moving the models while photographing each frame
It's trivial to simulate realistically in digital images with simple algorithms. I don't see how it's an issue.
Encouraging the wasteful printing of advertising material and the associated wastage of fuel to deliver it, and annoy people in the process? That's not really a good thing to do. I thought the whole deal with the internet was that we didn't need to send send information on a physical medium.
They can go for the best Office/Documents/Outlook integration possible - and who would not love it? .docx file as of now - this is where Windows Mobile 7 can enter the market and capture it.
I have not seen many phones which can properly format a moderately complex
Yeah, but if you've seen the direction Microsoft is taking with Windows Phone 7, that's not it. They are going for "social networking" and "iPhone/Android knock-off," not "Mobile Business Computing."
Can they hold their charge for YEARS!?
Who cares? They can be recharged. How often is it that you don't use an electronic device for YEARS(!!!!!) but suddenly care about it being immediately available? Even then, it's likely that your batteries have already leaked and corroded the battery contacts in the YEARS(!!!!!) that you let it sit unused.
I just don't get what the big deal is. It's pretty stupid to be using disposable batteries in this day and age.
No warrant, not invited, attempting to tamper with something of mine means risking lawful execution by Castle Doctrine law.
Do you even understand what "execution" means? If it's an execution, then it's obviously not self-defense, and therefore not subject to "Castle Doctrine." Only the State can legally execute executions.
Apple: Make an appointment with a Genius at their pleasure, waste my time to take it to them, wait for them to fix it and then come back an pick it up.
Or, you could buy from an Apple vendor that offers corporate-level support.
I would love to stick with Final Cut and the mac platform... but I am able to buy 2X the machine for 1/2 the money AND have enough left over to buy new video camera gear.
What? A decent video camera costs twice what a Mac Pro costs (and that's not even including accessories). You're not going to get a camera worth using for half the price of a Mac Pro.
for the price of ONE Mac Pro quad core that can do AVCHD editing smoothly
Again, WTF? Why would you edit in AVCHD? It's not even possible in FCP. You convert the AVCHD to Apple ProRes for editing. But again, if you're in the Mac Pro realm, you're not even recording in AVCHD in the first place.
Underpowered also means runs on a quartet of AAA's for months...
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but these days you can get these amazing batteries that are capable of being recharged and re-used. I know! Absolutely mind-blowing.
The last straw for me was in 2000 (2001?) when I bought a wildly overpriced network walkman NW-MS9 "MP3" player that wouldn't play MP3s
Why would you do that? Everybody knew those things were shitty. The PS3, on the other hand, is a decent product. With your track record, you probably shouldn't be giving product advice, or even trusting your own instincts.
Sony makes some great products and some incredibly shitty ones. Making blanket judgements based on brand alone, rather than the merits of individual products, is pretty unintelligent.
I wonder how long until Sony will start to feel the cannibalistic effects (on PSP) of having Android able to support games...
I'm guessing an extremely long fucking time.
No worries. Jobs will follow with his release of iGoogleTV (err... ooops... I mean, iTV), without flash and with tight control over access to porn. By that time, the fanboys/girls will already have children of their own, be interested in protecting them (from exposure to Flash) and still look kool when having guests.
So, you support children being exposed to flashers? Pervert.
I do care and do know the difference. Presumably many people prefer proper thin-crust pizza
As do I. I'm not sure why you're taking my statements as endorsements for shitty pizza.
otherwise said pizza chains would have made inroads in places other than the US and the UK.
But they have. They are all over the world. They may not carry the "Pizza Hut" or "Dominoes" brand, but fast-food pizza made with pre-formed bases is a global phenomenon.
And even though I probably eat more frozen pizza than restaurant pizza, if I actually do pay to eat out at a restaurant, I prefer to get a proper pizza...
And, you've just proved my argument by admitting that the majority of pizza you eat is of the pre-formed variety. It doesn't matter if it is sold at a restaurant or not. I'm simply talking about the majority of pizzas sold.
Also, way to undermine your pizza snob argument. I never cook frozen pizzas or eat fast-food pizzas unless I'm at a party or something where it's the only food. I usually make my own from scratch, including the dough.
I have been to dozens of European countries, and haven't seen pizza fast food chains in small towns anywhere but the UK.
Perhaps because they're not your thing, so you don't look for them?
Also, don't you think that arguing about this is sort of pointless?
Well yeah. But when people post such obvious falsehoods, I'm going to call them on it. Because I like reality and truth and stuff, rather than nostalgic myths.
I would suspect that over time, the costs have shifted towards marketing more than real innovation factors.
I'm not sure why you would suspect that. Have you seen the credits for a modern game? Massive amounts of talent there. Meanwhile, back in the day, the games were created by one or a handful of people - while the elaborate box art and marketing had little to do with the game.
Most famously, there is E.T on the Atari 2600, where they paid a massive amount of money for the marketing power of the E.T brand, but the game was a primitive piece of shit, even for its time, that was rushed to market. The 80s was full of this kind of stuff. Today, even the film marketing tie-in games are held to a much higher standard. The emphasis on creativity and innovation is much higher than it was back then. It's a more competitive market, after all.
I live in Europe, maybe that's the reason - there only a few Domino/Papa John/Pizza Hut outlets in major cities;
Whatever.
You're just citing exceptions that prove the rule. Worldwide, I'd bet that the majority of pizzas sold are of the fast-food variety. I'd also bet that most people who buy pizza for the convenience don't really care whether the dough is hand-made or pre-formed. They just want comfort food with minimum effort.
I also think that your generalizations about Europe probably don't hold water. Europe is a big place. What is true for your corner of continent is not necessarily true in another place.