I'm wondering how the technology behind the 3DS will work on a screen you can rotate? Will you get 3D in both orientations? How much will the picture quality (in either orientation) be affected while 3D is off?
I'm another 3G user and I did update to iOS4, never found it quite as horrible as others have reported, but at this point I'm afraid to update to the latest. My phone reports OS as 4.1 (8B117). Should I be updating?
I hope your intent is to point out how the WIN32 API made sure that ModParentUp did not stop working when ModParentUpEx was added later, and again when ModParentUpEx64 was added more recently.
Well seat belt laws go beyond advice and suggestion to the point of coercion (i.e. Don't do what -we- think is good for -you- and you will be punished), so I don't think that's a good example. But as far as this topic goes, I agree. No ethical issue at all.
It's not even really a question in the study being described. From TFA:
"There's lots of discussion about nudging technologies - whether it's ethical, whether it's not - but people still get to choose,"
There, that's as much as TFA talks about ethics.
How about asking whether -advertising- is ethical? At least these 'nudging technologies' are intended to -help- the person affected.
I think I've read this before and it's great, but where he asks Console makers to participate, he runs smack against the business model that has Console makers (except for Nintendo apparently) selling hardware well below cost in order to make the money later on games. With this business model, allowing the Console to have a useful life separate from running lucrative games, is like asking for people to walk away with your money. I imagine this is the bottom-line reason why PS3's no longer have an Other-OS option.
I've played with Scratch and it seems useful for introducing some programming concepts, but try to do anything meaningful (i.e. large) with it and the drawbacks of this approach to programming become apparent. However, if they ever release version 2.0 which apparently may support "user defined blocks", a.k.a. functions, that would be a great help.
Another way the PC (and I believe the Mac) is not "just another device" was spelled out clearly in the new iTunes T&C I read yesterday: Purchases from the iBookstore are NOT readable on "Computers", only "Devices". Your computer can only store your purchases in order to sync the down to your iOS device.
One of the patients did test a 'hybrid hand' for a while and then opted for the amputation. In the picture it looks like a whole separate hand sitting just below his non-functioning biological hand. I suspect the answer to your question is that within the limits of today's technology, a prosthetic placed -around- the immobile hand would look and work nothing like a real hand. Think of the exoskeletions in Aliens for instance. Would it make sense to keep the immobile hand if it meant walking around with something the size of a basketball at the end of your arm - and it didn't work as well?
I wasn't responding to any comment about web-based technology. The parent comment referred to: "people out there who decided to use ActiveX to provide remote graphical interfaces to industrial controls". I was involved near the start of OPC. This is exactly one of the use cases it was designed to support. Direct connection on the plant floor with Active-X based GUI displays talking to COM-based servers talking to the hardware, and remote connection between displays and those same servers via DCOM. By "remote" I basically mean LAN based.
I read the first blog post and immediately recalled my experience playing with Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/
Looks like almost the exact same approach. My short experience with Scratch suggested that interesting apps could indeed be written in the framework, but that the complexity of any 'real' app would soon become burdensome in such a visual programming environment.
Interesting point, but I'd say that as long as the option remains to -not buy- the product, even if it means doing without, then nobody is really 'forced' to do anything.
For the record, I don't own a Blue Ray player or even a full 1080p TV. I seem to be doing fine.
As to your concern about "the overall leaching of the lower class" I suggest you have better targets to choose, such as the tobacco companies, whose product is both physically addictive and destructive, and the lower classes can't seem to escape at all. I have met a lot of people who can't work for various reasons and depend on social support. They aren't concerned about HD vs. 3D etc because they're lucky to have steady housing let alone afford an advanced TV. Yet so many of them are smokers at $9 a pack.
I'll add to this vote. I even survived the extended 're-release' version. Calling Pandora's precious ore bloody UNOBTAINIUM was by far by most heinous sin of that movie - the rest was fine.
This really seems like a desperate attempt by Tivo to remain relevant.
Yeah I got that sense too. Especially in this section:
He also sees the DVD going the way of the CD, (sales of which will be overtaken by digital music next year) as streaming video grabs more and more market share. TiVo already partnered with Netflix to create the Watch Instantly streaming-movie service on TiVo HD-compatible set-top boxes.
In the future, likely deals with cable television providers like Comcast and tablet makers such as Apple will allow consumers to customize their television viewing experience. For example, Richard said software integration with mobile devices could allow you to remove those annoying banner ads that sometimes show up advertising one television show as you watch another.
Tablets and other mobile devices will afford future TV viewers the ability to open a second screen on their television that's linked to the content they're viewing. Consumers will be able to exchange comments with online friends about the show, or they'll be able to search for information about the television series or movie they're watching, he said.
"So if you like the shoes that woman's wearing on the show while you're watching it, you can search for them and buy them online," Richard said.
1. Watch Instantly: does he mean something other/more amazing with what you can do with PC, Wii, XBox, PS3, IPhone, IPad, and numerous TVs and BlueRay players?
2. No way content providers are ever going to allow customization to -take away- ads. If anything you'll get more 'targeted' advertising.
3. That last one is a hoot. It's the big whammy industry pundits drag out over and over again to explain why their tech is so great: it will grease the wheels of commerce like never before. Look, the viewing public is not -quite- that stupid. Get over yourself.
Do religious people attend church or theology classes to learn about physics?
Sadly, considering that there are fundies who are opposed to Einstein's Theory of Relativity (apparently because it advocates something being 'relative' rather than 'absolute'), I think they just might.
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I'm wondering how the technology behind the 3DS will work on a screen you can rotate? Will you get 3D in both orientations? How much will the picture quality (in either orientation) be affected while 3D is off?
It's always disturbing to hear a software company say, "here's a population of users, and they don't matter to us."
I think this is really all that needs to be said about this post.
I'm another 3G user and I did update to iOS4, never found it quite as horrible as others have reported, but at this point I'm afraid to update to the latest. My phone reports OS as 4.1 (8B117). Should I be updating?
Soon.
I hope your intent is to point out how the WIN32 API made sure that ModParentUp did not stop working when ModParentUpEx was added later, and again when ModParentUpEx64 was added more recently.
I immediately take it as the British English tendency to treat 'names of entities' as plural, as in "Apple have been evil for less than 5 years".
Well seat belt laws go beyond advice and suggestion to the point of coercion (i.e. Don't do what -we- think is good for -you- and you will be punished), so I don't think that's a good example. But as far as this topic goes, I agree. No ethical issue at all.
"There's lots of discussion about nudging technologies - whether it's ethical, whether it's not - but people still get to choose,"
There, that's as much as TFA talks about ethics.
How about asking whether -advertising- is ethical? At least these 'nudging technologies' are intended to -help- the person affected.
I actually facepalmed before seeing it in the tags. Honestly.
I think I've read this before and it's great, but where he asks Console makers to participate, he runs smack against the business model that has Console makers (except for Nintendo apparently) selling hardware well below cost in order to make the money later on games. With this business model, allowing the Console to have a useful life separate from running lucrative games, is like asking for people to walk away with your money. I imagine this is the bottom-line reason why PS3's no longer have an Other-OS option.
I've played with Scratch and it seems useful for introducing some programming concepts, but try to do anything meaningful (i.e. large) with it and the drawbacks of this approach to programming become apparent. However, if they ever release version 2.0 which apparently may support "user defined blocks", a.k.a. functions, that would be a great help.
The first product codenamed "Knights Corner" will target Intel's 22nm process and use Moore's Law to scale to more than 50 Intel cores.
Nonsense marketing babble. Moore's Law is predictive. You can't use it to MAKE anything happen.
Another way the PC (and I believe the Mac) is not "just another device" was spelled out clearly in the new iTunes T&C I read yesterday: Purchases from the iBookstore are NOT readable on "Computers", only "Devices". Your computer can only store your purchases in order to sync the down to your iOS device.
What happened to that un uh um oo ee oo ah ah standardized naming system?
They gave up when they realized it would have to be extended to include ting tang walla walla bing bang.
One of the patients did test a 'hybrid hand' for a while and then opted for the amputation. In the picture it looks like a whole separate hand sitting just below his non-functioning biological hand. I suspect the answer to your question is that within the limits of today's technology, a prosthetic placed -around- the immobile hand would look and work nothing like a real hand. Think of the exoskeletions in Aliens for instance. Would it make sense to keep the immobile hand if it meant walking around with something the size of a basketball at the end of your arm - and it didn't work as well?
We'll be fine as long as we keep Single Female Lawyer (aka Ally McBeal) on the air. Oh wait...
I wasn't responding to any comment about web-based technology. The parent comment referred to: "people out there who decided to use ActiveX to provide remote graphical interfaces to industrial controls". I was involved near the start of OPC. This is exactly one of the use cases it was designed to support. Direct connection on the plant floor with Active-X based GUI displays talking to COM-based servers talking to the hardware, and remote connection between displays and those same servers via DCOM. By "remote" I basically mean LAN based.
There's a whole 15 year-old standards effort dedicated to this purpose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLE_for_process_control
I read the first blog post and immediately recalled my experience playing with Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/
Looks like almost the exact same approach. My short experience with Scratch suggested that interesting apps could indeed be written in the framework, but that the complexity of any 'real' app would soon become burdensome in such a visual programming environment.
Interesting point, but I'd say that as long as the option remains to -not buy- the product, even if it means doing without, then nobody is really 'forced' to do anything.
For the record, I don't own a Blue Ray player or even a full 1080p TV. I seem to be doing fine.
As to your concern about "the overall leaching of the lower class" I suggest you have better targets to choose, such as the tobacco companies, whose product is both physically addictive and destructive, and the lower classes can't seem to escape at all. I have met a lot of people who can't work for various reasons and depend on social support. They aren't concerned about HD vs. 3D etc because they're lucky to have steady housing let alone afford an advanced TV. Yet so many of them are smokers at $9 a pack.
I'll add to this vote. I even survived the extended 're-release' version. Calling Pandora's precious ore bloody UNOBTAINIUM was by far by most heinous sin of that movie - the rest was fine.
To be fair, that reactor is 150 million km away. Still, prolonged exposure to its radiation is proven to cause cancer. Shut 'er down now!
Same here. TOS is not available for instant streaming. Too bad - I was going to fire it up right away.
This really seems like a desperate attempt by Tivo to remain relevant.
Yeah I got that sense too. Especially in this section:
He also sees the DVD going the way of the CD, (sales of which will be overtaken by digital music next year) as streaming video grabs more and more market share. TiVo already partnered with Netflix to create the Watch Instantly streaming-movie service on TiVo HD-compatible set-top boxes.
In the future, likely deals with cable television providers like Comcast and tablet makers such as Apple will allow consumers to customize their television viewing experience. For example, Richard said software integration with mobile devices could allow you to remove those annoying banner ads that sometimes show up advertising one television show as you watch another.
Tablets and other mobile devices will afford future TV viewers the ability to open a second screen on their television that's linked to the content they're viewing. Consumers will be able to exchange comments with online friends about the show, or they'll be able to search for information about the television series or movie they're watching, he said. "So if you like the shoes that woman's wearing on the show while you're watching it, you can search for them and buy them online," Richard said.
1. Watch Instantly: does he mean something other/more amazing with what you can do with PC, Wii, XBox, PS3, IPhone, IPad, and numerous TVs and BlueRay players?
2. No way content providers are ever going to allow customization to -take away- ads. If anything you'll get more 'targeted' advertising.
3. That last one is a hoot. It's the big whammy industry pundits drag out over and over again to explain why their tech is so great: it will grease the wheels of commerce like never before. Look, the viewing public is not -quite- that stupid. Get over yourself.
Do religious people attend church or theology classes to learn about physics?
Sadly, considering that there are fundies who are opposed to Einstein's Theory of Relativity (apparently because it advocates something being 'relative' rather than 'absolute'), I think they just might.