citations? as a digital colourist i would like to see some facts on these displays.
FWIW, the iPad 3's screen is poison for colourists. it's far too orange-biased. it looks beautiful with pics taken with the internal camera, but that means nothing if the pictures are displayed incorrectly, no matter how beautiful it may look. it's like mastering audio on a home theatre.
the people always wanted lolcats but were unable to have them in sufficient number. so they sat, frustrated in a way they couldn't comprehend, in front of their TVs, waiting for something to soften the itch induced by lack of lolcats.
Guernica was painted out of yearning for lolcats.
The Scream was Munch's silent horror at Nature's terrifying scream of no lolcats.
Mona Lisa was looking, amused, at Leonardo's cat with a cheezburger (that man invented more than we'll ever know).
the current situation i think, is that there's a few things still worth watching (HBO stuff mainly), and all of that gets the torrent treatment moments after it screens.
so how to overcome this? there'd be a market for having these episodes on iTunes or similar (or not so similar - without DRM would be amazing) for a small fee.
if all you do is watch Game Of Thrones, you don't need to subscribe to HBO in toto - and you could just get the episode when it's ready, without doing the dodgy-site-search rigmarole that is getting increasingly inconvenient. DRM wouldn't be needed because people wont want to bother uploading the episode that _just aired_ when it's sitting on their machine already, and a price point is trivially easy to figure out with the (ever shifting) audience - online market data is so much more useful than what has come before, and the math exists to find a sweet spot between production/distribution costs and consumer happiness.
the one-way versus N-way argument is very interesting indeed. there will always be a place for stories, and there'll always be a place for spectacle, but i feel it shrinking somewhat.
well, when that stuff flies into my facebook, i'm usually the first to point out the (usually very many) flaws in the otherwise well-intended petition.
if i get unfriended for being slightly more reasonable, it's usually no great loss. and worth it for some of the hilarious flamewars i've seen (Occupy Melbourne is pretty funny in itself. we're likely the most affluent country in the world, and these people think they can stand in solidarity with people who lost their homes, or whatnot).
yeah... it'll be a while before humans can be engineered to be better than much cheaper hardware.
with self-driving cars able to identify people, i can imagine a self-driving tank that is more able to perform IFF than most soldiers in high pressure situations.
i think we'll have ED-209s before artificial wombs.
modern medicine developed alongside more sophisticated warfare and mass transportation amoung other things.
so drugs could fix the tuberculosis that would have killed you, but you didn't look before you crossed the street...
when there's life that's not in total isolation, there will be selection. just not the "surviving in the wilderness" thing, as there's not a lot of wilderness left for most of the population (which is good as we're not really adapted to it these days).
more likely, we will observe such a large decorrelation between phenotype and genotype that racism will become a stupid joke, and extremist groups will have to pick on ideologies instead.
also, not even the Rudd government would spend 1 grand per person on what amounts to a census.
yeah, the polar opposite opinions shit me to tears.
just saying the linked article is in the "sky is falling" camp, which i grow tired of.
i also grow tired of the "nothing to see here" camp.
i'm just saying the truth is always somewhere in between. i'd much rather everything be okay, but i know it's not peachy (and TEPCO isn't really saying it is, either. they use bucketloads of saving-face-speak, but from the beginning i've been able to read between the lines without much difficulty - things are bad, but don't panic is the message).
i'm sure the Japanese of all people are aware of the risk of earthquakes. i'm sure their list of priorities makes some kind of sense. that Cringely guy is pretty much implying they don't have a clue what they're doing and that at the eleventh hour they're going to call up the Americans to please save them. this is kinda insulting - maybe in a business setting that would be the case, but we're talking much higher stakes here, and people do tend to rise to these occasions.
do i have every confidence? of course not. but i don't think we should be donning brown trousers just yet either.
the linked article is quite the troll, too. peppered with terms like "it is my belief", or "probably". it's an interesting opinion, but i call shenanigans on any authority the writer claims (and he claims a lot - talking about TMI like it's at all relevant).
you didn't get my point - the point is that linux is free, the time saving argument for (mostly recreational) home users is kinda moot, because there's plenty of solutions that take no time at all (like sticking with windows on the box you bought).
just saying that someone who is going to the trouble of installing any flavour of linux is not doing so to save time. there's plenty of other reasons.
besides, my gripe with mint was very hardware specific - as in it didn't seem to support the same hardware that the (same vintage) ubuntu distro i had did support. of course everyone else's mileage will vary on that.
also the file manager wasn't as nice an experience for me.
i'm not saying mint was shit, just that it didn't live up to the props it gets from the people that can't get the hang of unity. i found unity to be no worse, and nautilus to be a little better. in the immortal words of Douglas Quaid, "sue me, dickhead".
and besides, switching to linux pretty much throws the time thing out the window, no?
certainly when i set down this path, i did it because i figured it was high time i learnt linux so i had somewhere to go when apple and microsoft finally made their OSs so shitty that i couldn't use them anymore. i needed to invest some time into learning it, but that was the point of the exercise.
how do you expect us to trump earth's limited resources then? perhaps we could look elsewhere for minerals. obviously fossil fuels aren't likely to be found off earth, but it's something to aim for.
also, OP said "self sustaining". one would presume the resource usage would be a one-time thing.
what about safer reactors? it's not unsafe reactors versus renewables (i don't like those odds btw), it's unsafe reactors versus every other form of power generation... including safer reactors which should bloody well have been built before this mess happened.
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citations? as a digital colourist i would like to see some facts on these displays.
FWIW, the iPad 3's screen is poison for colourists. it's far too orange-biased. it looks beautiful with pics taken with the internal camera, but that means nothing if the pictures are displayed incorrectly, no matter how beautiful it may look. it's like mastering audio on a home theatre.
get out much?
i think verbal communication of that kind is not unique to phones, and a skill that people sorta need to have.
a name like that doesn't bode well for it's autocorrect capabilities.
the internet is enabling technology.
the people always wanted lolcats but were unable to have them in sufficient number. so they sat, frustrated in a way they couldn't comprehend, in front of their TVs, waiting for something to soften the itch induced by lack of lolcats.
Guernica was painted out of yearning for lolcats.
The Scream was Munch's silent horror at Nature's terrifying scream of no lolcats.
Mona Lisa was looking, amused, at Leonardo's cat with a cheezburger (that man invented more than we'll ever know).
guess what the Sphinx was?
the current situation i think, is that there's a few things still worth watching (HBO stuff mainly), and all of that gets the torrent treatment moments after it screens.
so how to overcome this? there'd be a market for having these episodes on iTunes or similar (or not so similar - without DRM would be amazing) for a small fee.
if all you do is watch Game Of Thrones, you don't need to subscribe to HBO in toto - and you could just get the episode when it's ready, without doing the dodgy-site-search rigmarole that is getting increasingly inconvenient. DRM wouldn't be needed because people wont want to bother uploading the episode that _just aired_ when it's sitting on their machine already, and a price point is trivially easy to figure out with the (ever shifting) audience - online market data is so much more useful than what has come before, and the math exists to find a sweet spot between production/distribution costs and consumer happiness.
the one-way versus N-way argument is very interesting indeed. there will always be a place for stories, and there'll always be a place for spectacle, but i feel it shrinking somewhat.
well, when that stuff flies into my facebook, i'm usually the first to point out the (usually very many) flaws in the otherwise well-intended petition.
if i get unfriended for being slightly more reasonable, it's usually no great loss. and worth it for some of the hilarious flamewars i've seen (Occupy Melbourne is pretty funny in itself. we're likely the most affluent country in the world, and these people think they can stand in solidarity with people who lost their homes, or whatnot).
all my funny mods are already spent :(
surrogacy is here now, and quite affordable. like everything else, we can outsource it to a developing country.
there's some overzealous mods in this thread. these are questions that need answers, even if there's a certain level of paranoia involved.
insurance companies in particular should not have access to this data. it should be covered by the strictest of privacy law.
best solution to that is a fertility calendar and tickets to an isolated location.
zerg rush!
yeah... it'll be a while before humans can be engineered to be better than much cheaper hardware.
with self-driving cars able to identify people, i can imagine a self-driving tank that is more able to perform IFF than most soldiers in high pressure situations.
i think we'll have ED-209s before artificial wombs.
14 weeks? luxury. my wife was born 16 weeks prem :)
modern medicine developed alongside more sophisticated warfare and mass transportation amoung other things.
so drugs could fix the tuberculosis that would have killed you, but you didn't look before you crossed the street...
when there's life that's not in total isolation, there will be selection. just not the "surviving in the wilderness" thing, as there's not a lot of wilderness left for most of the population (which is good as we're not really adapted to it these days).
more likely, we will observe such a large decorrelation between phenotype and genotype that racism will become a stupid joke, and extremist groups will have to pick on ideologies instead.
also, not even the Rudd government would spend 1 grand per person on what amounts to a census.
yeah, the polar opposite opinions shit me to tears.
just saying the linked article is in the "sky is falling" camp, which i grow tired of.
i also grow tired of the "nothing to see here" camp.
i'm just saying the truth is always somewhere in between. i'd much rather everything be okay, but i know it's not peachy (and TEPCO isn't really saying it is, either. they use bucketloads of saving-face-speak, but from the beginning i've been able to read between the lines without much difficulty - things are bad, but don't panic is the message).
i'm sure the Japanese of all people are aware of the risk of earthquakes. i'm sure their list of priorities makes some kind of sense. that Cringely guy is pretty much implying they don't have a clue what they're doing and that at the eleventh hour they're going to call up the Americans to please save them. this is kinda insulting - maybe in a business setting that would be the case, but we're talking much higher stakes here, and people do tend to rise to these occasions.
do i have every confidence? of course not. but i don't think we should be donning brown trousers just yet either.
thought that was Bad Times.
it'll kick your dog.
the linked article is quite the troll, too. peppered with terms like "it is my belief", or "probably". it's an interesting opinion, but i call shenanigans on any authority the writer claims (and he claims a lot - talking about TMI like it's at all relevant).
"global environmental catastrophe"
them's fightin' words.
gonna need a rundown of the effects this will have.
you didn't get my point - the point is that linux is free, the time saving argument for (mostly recreational) home users is kinda moot, because there's plenty of solutions that take no time at all (like sticking with windows on the box you bought).
just saying that someone who is going to the trouble of installing any flavour of linux is not doing so to save time. there's plenty of other reasons.
besides, my gripe with mint was very hardware specific - as in it didn't seem to support the same hardware that the (same vintage) ubuntu distro i had did support. of course everyone else's mileage will vary on that.
also the file manager wasn't as nice an experience for me.
i'm not saying mint was shit, just that it didn't live up to the props it gets from the people that can't get the hang of unity. i found unity to be no worse, and nautilus to be a little better. in the immortal words of Douglas Quaid, "sue me, dickhead".
you forgot to AC your post...
and besides, switching to linux pretty much throws the time thing out the window, no?
certainly when i set down this path, i did it because i figured it was high time i learnt linux so i had somewhere to go when apple and microsoft finally made their OSs so shitty that i couldn't use them anymore. i needed to invest some time into learning it, but that was the point of the exercise.
how do you expect us to trump earth's limited resources then? perhaps we could look elsewhere for minerals. obviously fossil fuels aren't likely to be found off earth, but it's something to aim for.
also, OP said "self sustaining". one would presume the resource usage would be a one-time thing.
what's not to like about having your car charge in the work carpark all day so you can cruise around all night?
stop at the first sentence. the rest is FUD.
i like the modpoints you got from your silent sockpuppets though.
we need more accidents to compare to :)
otherwise we'll keep using chernobyl and TMI as anchor points (with anything that happens quite likely to be "somewhere between the two").
TMI was a gassy fart and chernobyl was a complete disaster of unimaginable stupidity, and possibly the catalyst for the fall of the soviet union.
it would be difficult to do worse than chernobyl without specifically designing a reactor to blow up in the most awful way possible.
what about safer reactors? it's not unsafe reactors versus renewables (i don't like those odds btw), it's unsafe reactors versus every other form of power generation... including safer reactors which should bloody well have been built before this mess happened.