That's what is chilling about this article. MS sees that Apple is making money hand-over-turtleneck with their walled garden approach and the "obvious" conclusion is that people want a walled garden that is MS colored instead of apple colored and by damn, that's what they'll get.
At what point do people realize that the walled garden is a trap?
Seeing as how screenplays for Snow Crash have been kicking around almost as long as the book itself, I'm amazed it finally got picked up. Still, I don't have high hopes. What made the book great for me were the odd turns of phrase, the staccato pacing, and the entirely correct number of giant penis avatars wandering around The Street.
How are they going to represent Vitaly Chernobyl's Nuclear Fuzz Grunge? Are we going to get the glorious Nipponese rap styling of Sushi-K?
How much in the future will this take place? Are they going to whitewash Hiro?
Obviously, these are all rhetorical and after what Disney did to John Carter of Mars... well.
Yeah, those damn socialists and their trash washing. Good thing that the US scores higher on every measure of economic and personal success than Germany.
Oh, there are tons of options. If your tastes lean toward the gourmand you can select any continent that suits your fancy. I hear that Antarctic Sex Tourism is a real challenge, while Eurasian Sex Tourism is satisfyingly simple.
If you're more the gourmet type, you can really narrow it down for maximum enjoyment, Red-Headed Flemmish Goat-Heard Sex Tourism for example is considered by many to be the brass ring of the hobby.
Really, you're only limited by your imagination and budget, so get out there and live it up!
There is an electronics superstore here called Frys that does this exact same thing.
If you bring back any sort of product, even defective, they will open the box, make sure that all of the parts are there, inspect it, and then re-shrinkwrap the box and slap on a 10% off price sticker.
They do this with everything. The worst is electronic components that are static sensitive, as the inspection involves taking the item out of the static bag, handling it, then putting it back, all without static protection.
Ahh yes, the outlet of the mid-life "what the fuck happened to me? I should have been a rockstar." crisis. Some guys buy fast cars, some guys get in to extreme sports, some guys get in to Asian sex tourism. I suppose, by those standards, that this was one of the more mild mid-life freakouts.
And of course their own movie on demand product is exempt from the bandwidth limits which is what makes the whole thing smell like bullshit. Why does it matter where the traffic is coming from? Its not like Comcast is getting charged more for anyone's NetFlix usage unless they make the choice to invest in bigger Tier 1 pipes.
Everyone is arguing about data usage but seems to have skipped over the whole "Well, of course our service that competes with NetFlix is going to get preferential treatment" which is essentially the opposite of network neutrality.
I guess the solution was just to do it, and give everyone the finger in the process.
Which is why this bill won't go anywhere. Hell, it hasn't even been introduced to committee according to the article. I agree with you that a bill designed as a spiteful measure has no place in our code of laws.
Where it will die in committee due to other Senators and House members that are in the pockets of corporations and wealthy individuals who depend on those tax loopholes for their ivory back-scratchers and cheap labor. So, either way, it sounds like wasted time.
Probably that all of those roads he drove on, the police and firefighters that protected his property, airports that serviced his private jet and the Air Traffic Control system that kept it safe, along with the initial investment in the infrastructure that was required for him to make his billions was somehow free.
F-stop is only part of how you control depth of field. If you're shooting landscapes and you don't have an aperture small enough to get the depth of field you want, the only solution is to do a front tilt. This extends your plane of focus beyond the depth of field and allows you to get your foregrounds and backgrounds in sharp focus, even if the required DOF is huge. This is built in to LF cameras, but you can also get the same effect on medium format and 35mm equivalents by using tilt-shift adapters.
Product and architectural photographers make extensive use of large format cameras and their abilities to either control or distort perspective, focus areas, and DOF. Typically, these options aren't available to cameras that have their lens elements in fixed barrels.
Who is going to pay a team of digital artists $100 an hour to create a 3D model of something when you can just tell Jimmy Olsen to go take a picture of it for a pittance?
Professional photographers, even freelance ones, don't work for a pittance. Newspapers and news websites LOVE croud sourced images because they are free. Most people get warm fuzzies when their terrible point and shoot picture of a cat appears in the paper or some big site and they'll gleefully hand over the rights to whoever asks. This is in stark contrast to all of those pesky photographers who demand funny things like money and credit for their work, and sometimes even recognition that they've just risked their life for that half-page full-bleed, full-color image you just ran on page 1.
Real pictures look trashy on eBay because real professional photographers aren't taking them. Getting rid of glare and getting the proper depth of field are beginner level, and most people don't even have that. A good light box can be home built for a few dollars. Most of the really good depth of field comes from a large format camera with motions, and while the digital ones are expensive they can be rented for cheap.
Still, you're right in that a lot of component pictures are CGI, but it isn't because competent photographers can't get the shots, its because someone decided it was cheaper.
Aircraft autopilot failures are exceptionally rare, and considering how they have to deal with a much more complex environment I can say that I'd trust the driverless car a lot more than I'd trust someone on the phone, emotionally distressed, or chemically impaired.
That really depends on how the system in the car responds to traffic. If they respond like people and accelerate and decelerate rapidly in response to the stimulus of another car moving, then we're not going to have a much better commute time. There will be some gains as (assuming something like a 95% driver-less car density) in that there will be fewer accidents and fewer people driving erratically, but if the patterns of movement don't change, traffic won't either.
Building in a larger buffer between cars and giving preference to a lower average speed in traffic to a higher burst speed would go a long way in alleviating jams. Even driving like this in traditional cars helps, but not if you're the only one.
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That's what is chilling about this article. MS sees that Apple is making money hand-over-turtleneck with their walled garden approach and the "obvious" conclusion is that people want a walled garden that is MS colored instead of apple colored and by damn, that's what they'll get.
At what point do people realize that the walled garden is a trap?
For some reason, I always imagined Sushi-K as fat and blubbery.
Seeing as how screenplays for Snow Crash have been kicking around almost as long as the book itself, I'm amazed it finally got picked up. Still, I don't have high hopes. What made the book great for me were the odd turns of phrase, the staccato pacing, and the entirely correct number of giant penis avatars wandering around The Street.
How are they going to represent Vitaly Chernobyl's Nuclear Fuzz Grunge? Are we going to get the glorious Nipponese rap styling of Sushi-K?
How much in the future will this take place? Are they going to whitewash Hiro?
Obviously, these are all rhetorical and after what Disney did to John Carter of Mars... well.
Yeah, how will the whole Raven/Dentata scene get handled? Really, its not huge to the plot, so if that gets left out I wouldn't be terribly upset.
Yeah, the Rat Thing plowing through the fuel storage tank and taking out Rife in a huge fireball of awesome seems pretty damn Hollywood to me.
Sweet Jesus, that whole scene needs to bring the noise.
Its more the vinegar that prevents bacterial and mold growth, but you're essentially correct.
Yeah, those damn socialists and their trash washing. Good thing that the US scores higher on every measure of economic and personal success than Germany.
Oh, wait, right...
Pffft, that's a high school elective in Thailand. Along with Moped Driving and Staging Military Coups.
Oh, there are tons of options. If your tastes lean toward the gourmand you can select any continent that suits your fancy. I hear that Antarctic Sex Tourism is a real challenge, while Eurasian Sex Tourism is satisfyingly simple.
If you're more the gourmet type, you can really narrow it down for maximum enjoyment, Red-Headed Flemmish Goat-Heard Sex Tourism for example is considered by many to be the brass ring of the hobby.
Really, you're only limited by your imagination and budget, so get out there and live it up!
There is an electronics superstore here called Frys that does this exact same thing.
If you bring back any sort of product, even defective, they will open the box, make sure that all of the parts are there, inspect it, and then re-shrinkwrap the box and slap on a 10% off price sticker.
They do this with everything. The worst is electronic components that are static sensitive, as the inspection involves taking the item out of the static bag, handling it, then putting it back, all without static protection.
Ahh yes, the outlet of the mid-life "what the fuck happened to me? I should have been a rockstar." crisis. Some guys buy fast cars, some guys get in to extreme sports, some guys get in to Asian sex tourism. I suppose, by those standards, that this was one of the more mild mid-life freakouts.
I wonder how many more corporate jets Meg is going to buy now. That's what Carly did after she cut jobs after all.
And of course their own movie on demand product is exempt from the bandwidth limits which is what makes the whole thing smell like bullshit. Why does it matter where the traffic is coming from? Its not like Comcast is getting charged more for anyone's NetFlix usage unless they make the choice to invest in bigger Tier 1 pipes.
Everyone is arguing about data usage but seems to have skipped over the whole "Well, of course our service that competes with NetFlix is going to get preferential treatment" which is essentially the opposite of network neutrality.
I guess the solution was just to do it, and give everyone the finger in the process.
Which is why this bill won't go anywhere. Hell, it hasn't even been introduced to committee according to the article. I agree with you that a bill designed as a spiteful measure has no place in our code of laws.
Where it will die in committee due to other Senators and House members that are in the pockets of corporations and wealthy individuals who depend on those tax loopholes for their ivory back-scratchers and cheap labor. So, either way, it sounds like wasted time.
Probably that all of those roads he drove on, the police and firefighters that protected his property, airports that serviced his private jet and the Air Traffic Control system that kept it safe, along with the initial investment in the infrastructure that was required for him to make his billions was somehow free.
Wait, what? If marginal and capital gains tax rates keep falling, more people will leave the US for lower taxes? How does that work exactly?
F-stop is only part of how you control depth of field. If you're shooting landscapes and you don't have an aperture small enough to get the depth of field you want, the only solution is to do a front tilt. This extends your plane of focus beyond the depth of field and allows you to get your foregrounds and backgrounds in sharp focus, even if the required DOF is huge. This is built in to LF cameras, but you can also get the same effect on medium format and 35mm equivalents by using tilt-shift adapters.
Product and architectural photographers make extensive use of large format cameras and their abilities to either control or distort perspective, focus areas, and DOF. Typically, these options aren't available to cameras that have their lens elements in fixed barrels.
Who is going to pay a team of digital artists $100 an hour to create a 3D model of something when you can just tell Jimmy Olsen to go take a picture of it for a pittance?
Professional photographers, even freelance ones, don't work for a pittance. Newspapers and news websites LOVE croud sourced images because they are free. Most people get warm fuzzies when their terrible point and shoot picture of a cat appears in the paper or some big site and they'll gleefully hand over the rights to whoever asks. This is in stark contrast to all of those pesky photographers who demand funny things like money and credit for their work, and sometimes even recognition that they've just risked their life for that half-page full-bleed, full-color image you just ran on page 1.
Real pictures look trashy on eBay because real professional photographers aren't taking them. Getting rid of glare and getting the proper depth of field are beginner level, and most people don't even have that. A good light box can be home built for a few dollars. Most of the really good depth of field comes from a large format camera with motions, and while the digital ones are expensive they can be rented for cheap.
Still, you're right in that a lot of component pictures are CGI, but it isn't because competent photographers can't get the shots, its because someone decided it was cheaper.
Wait, Houston has planning?
Aircraft autopilot failures are exceptionally rare, and considering how they have to deal with a much more complex environment I can say that I'd trust the driverless car a lot more than I'd trust someone on the phone, emotionally distressed, or chemically impaired.
That really depends on how the system in the car responds to traffic. If they respond like people and accelerate and decelerate rapidly in response to the stimulus of another car moving, then we're not going to have a much better commute time. There will be some gains as (assuming something like a 95% driver-less car density) in that there will be fewer accidents and fewer people driving erratically, but if the patterns of movement don't change, traffic won't either.
Building in a larger buffer between cars and giving preference to a lower average speed in traffic to a higher burst speed would go a long way in alleviating jams. Even driving like this in traditional cars helps, but not if you're the only one.
Yeah, because all of those times that aircraft took off between 1931 and 2001 that resulted in them being blown up by terrorist actions.