depends on the effect you want. sometimes the photographer doesn't wish to be flattering.
i've seen some stunning stuff shot on 16mm film with a 2mm lens up real close. it makes their nose look a metre long and their neck seem far away, but it's often just what you need.
their model is amoral (in the sense of there's no moral dimension at all - good or bad). it merely requires a good or evil intention to make IV good or evil.
they appear to be regular venture capitalists who would like the IP as a condition of funding. this is actually good for small inventors who would otherwise not be able to (easily) realise their inventions, certainly not before someone better funded could develop them first.
i'm all for stifling innovation where "innovation" = "another stupid goddamn phone i don't want, round corners or no round corners".
it seems if there's an innovation out there that has the potential to become a disruptive, essential new technology, IV is going to be right on it. fair enough i suppose - they aim to get very rich, and so long as R&D is being done i say let them.
but the protection racket thing is rather disturbing. i suppose it's all a matter of who they shake down. some "innovations" in silicon valley are so frivolous that they almost deserve a shakedown...
effectively saying "if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all", while saying something quite nasty in the same post?
comes across as one of those aspies that go from idolatry to outright hate at the slightest infraction of their own standard (that changes minute-to-minute).
you really think a nation-wide health program would pay retail price for vaccines?
travel shots are one thing, herd immunity is another.
i know it sounds alien to say such a thing, but just because they're a pharmaceutical company, it doesn't mean that EVERY action of theirs is evil.
now, i personally question the ethics of manufacturers of homoeopathic remedies - selling bottles of water (AUD$ 0.4 per bottle btw) for upward of 20 bucks and it does nothing whatsoever.
just because homoeopathic companies aren't necessarily multinationals, doesn't mean they can't be callous and potentially evil as well.
this world is made up of shades of grey. but there's also colours if you look closely enough.
bitcoin will never be accepted if it's anonymous. money laundering and what not. it's just too easy to take all scrutiny away from currency - both good and bad.
bitcoin pushes all the right anarchistic buttons with me, but my pragmatic side says that it's just too easy for arseholes to avoid justice (arseholes who just want to shit all over everyone).
where the security v freedom tradeoff is a soft threshold, bitcoins sort of require a hard threshold at 100% freedom 0% security, and not negotiable by design.
if people didn't have a tendency to be such cunts, bitcoins would already be the standard.
problem is that to prove the item was or was not stolen would probably mean revealing a source. that IS something that the press has a little protection about. they can traffic in ALLEGEDLY stolen goods (okay, we all know the phone was hot, but the truth is a matter for the courts:) all they want so long as to prove it is to reveal a source. if that source was working for foxconn, they could even flee the country and seek asylum or end up as another foxconn suicide...
gizmodo being butthurt at apple's butthurt at their outing the iphone 4 does not make the article at hand a lie.
and the reach-around modpoints being handed to all the apple supporting posts while all the posts with a little bit of question to them are -1s is incredibly suspicious.
i always browse at -1 anyway, but it's not exactly in the spirit of the moderation system that the most insightful posts are -1 but only in Apple related threads.
also, UK is more kind to the operating temperature ranges of rails. snow will cause delays, sure, but the US has some places that are so hot the tracks will just buckle.
all that says to me is that the roads must be very good between San Jose and San Fran.
i live 12km from my work, and the car trip ranges from just a bit longer to twice as long as the train trip. and the rail system here is moderately fucked.
doesn't help that Australian drivers are probably some of the worst in the world (certainly of anywhere i've been, except Adelaide where they're daft and aggressive as hell instead of just daft and a bit aggressive).
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sort of like a Fresnel lens, only using metamaterials and thus only applicable to a narrow range.
depends on the effect you want. sometimes the photographer doesn't wish to be flattering.
i've seen some stunning stuff shot on 16mm film with a 2mm lens up real close. it makes their nose look a metre long and their neck seem far away, but it's often just what you need.
also, real estate pics.
i'm ambivalent about the whole thing.
their model is amoral (in the sense of there's no moral dimension at all - good or bad). it merely requires a good or evil intention to make IV good or evil.
they appear to be regular venture capitalists who would like the IP as a condition of funding. this is actually good for small inventors who would otherwise not be able to (easily) realise their inventions, certainly not before someone better funded could develop them first.
i'm all for stifling innovation where "innovation" = "another stupid goddamn phone i don't want, round corners or no round corners".
it seems if there's an innovation out there that has the potential to become a disruptive, essential new technology, IV is going to be right on it. fair enough i suppose - they aim to get very rich, and so long as R&D is being done i say let them.
but the protection racket thing is rather disturbing. i suppose it's all a matter of who they shake down. some "innovations" in silicon valley are so frivolous that they almost deserve a shakedown...
and those Stroopwafels are addictive.
yes.
effectively saying "if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all", while saying something quite nasty in the same post?
comes across as one of those aspies that go from idolatry to outright hate at the slightest infraction of their own standard (that changes minute-to-minute).
you thinking what i'm thinking?
a Mars mission Kickstarter project?
it kills you that you don't have a red pen for the internet, doesn't it?
oh, come on mods, lighten up!
you really think a nation-wide health program would pay retail price for vaccines?
travel shots are one thing, herd immunity is another.
i know it sounds alien to say such a thing, but just because they're a pharmaceutical company, it doesn't mean that EVERY action of theirs is evil.
now, i personally question the ethics of manufacturers of homoeopathic remedies - selling bottles of water (AUD$ 0.4 per bottle btw) for upward of 20 bucks and it does nothing whatsoever.
just because homoeopathic companies aren't necessarily multinationals, doesn't mean they can't be callous and potentially evil as well.
this world is made up of shades of grey. but there's also colours if you look closely enough.
i seem to remember Sony stores opening long before apple stores...
you mean the pipe that the first half of the sentence you quoted negated? i'd have to reach for it first.
maybe you shouldn't have rolled all those joints with your reading comprehension notes :)
bitcoin will never be accepted if it's anonymous. money laundering and what not. it's just too easy to take all scrutiny away from currency - both good and bad.
bitcoin pushes all the right anarchistic buttons with me, but my pragmatic side says that it's just too easy for arseholes to avoid justice (arseholes who just want to shit all over everyone).
where the security v freedom tradeoff is a soft threshold, bitcoins sort of require a hard threshold at 100% freedom 0% security, and not negotiable by design.
if people didn't have a tendency to be such cunts, bitcoins would already be the standard.
then there is no true I
which is probably why the Chinese tend to mostly have gripes with peace-loving types.
they'll just send in the drop-bears.
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before posting your troll article, look up Betteridge's Law, and realize that most of us here are aware of it.
problem is that to prove the item was or was not stolen would probably mean revealing a source. that IS something that the press has a little protection about. they can traffic in ALLEGEDLY stolen goods (okay, we all know the phone was hot, but the truth is a matter for the courts :) all they want so long as to prove it is to reveal a source. if that source was working for foxconn, they could even flee the country and seek asylum or end up as another foxconn suicide...
not insightful! this is a logical fallacy.
gizmodo being butthurt at apple's butthurt at their outing the iphone 4 does not make the article at hand a lie.
and the reach-around modpoints being handed to all the apple supporting posts while all the posts with a little bit of question to them are -1s is incredibly suspicious.
i always browse at -1 anyway, but it's not exactly in the spirit of the moderation system that the most insightful posts are -1 but only in Apple related threads.
i've seen the older (transparent shell kind) mac pro keyboards go through the dishwasher before.
dry them on top of a coffee machine where the cups go.
if you just use the vodka you get a much cleaner keyboard.
but what would they do with the filtered water? think of the people with crustacean allergies!
i was about to mention the many mines in Australia (including the largest in the world), but what you say applies equally here.
exactly.
also, UK is more kind to the operating temperature ranges of rails. snow will cause delays, sure, but the US has some places that are so hot the tracks will just buckle.
all that says to me is that the roads must be very good between San Jose and San Fran.
i live 12km from my work, and the car trip ranges from just a bit longer to twice as long as the train trip. and the rail system here is moderately fucked.
doesn't help that Australian drivers are probably some of the worst in the world (certainly of anywhere i've been, except Adelaide where they're daft and aggressive as hell instead of just daft and a bit aggressive).
when i was in France they didn't complain a lot about taxes.
and they were dressed very well and their cheese and wine were amazing.