actually, i can imagine the "cold death" scenario making for some interesting interstellar turf wars - fighting for mass to keep a home star burning while all the stars slowly go out.
investigating him to be charged... and most likely they'll come up with nothing (though they may still be able to extract a few more words from Bradley Manning, if his face is still intact enough to speak).
i've yet to hear anything but paranoid speculation that the US will go after Assange when the UK send him to Sweden.
say what you will about the EAW, and the circumstances involved in issuing it, the guy has a case to answer, and he doesn't seem to realise that clearing his name is the best way to win back the trust of the world. right now he's just a paranoid manchild who things didn't go right for, and he's grumbling.
you know what, as an avid mac-hater (their design philosophy of removing functions rather than adding them, buying useful programs and sinking them, and mostly their zombie horde fan base), i have to agree with them here.
it doesn't matter if such an attempt is a cynical PR exercise - it's costing them money and they're still trying to make things better. so long as such an attempt is being made, there's still a little hope for the system.
and importantly, it wouldn't be happening if us consumers weren't holding Apple to a certain standard and voting with our feet if they don't live up to it.
the vendor controls the invisible hand. they need to use it to bitch-slap suppliers more, rather than simply giving the cheapest supplier an invisible hand job.
most of the knowledge required is freely available. it's a bit of a stretch to say that one scientist developed the whole program, ran the centrifuges and piles, developed the high explosive lenses, then built and dropped the bomb.
you can patent a design for a transmission, but you cannot patent a cog that interlocks with another cog in order to transmit power between an engine and a wheel.
likewise, an entire program should probably be patentable, but not one of the piddly functions that drive it.
there's several solutions, the best of both worlds being sign up but DON'T OVERSHARE.
don't "like" stuff, make no reference to products or specific activities in your status updates, etc. just post with the knowledge that anything you say can and will be sold to the highest bidder.
as happens on every site that requires login. even posting as AC will still log your IP and correlate it with whatever the cookie can grab hold of.
as an apple h8er, i'll concede that their screen is the best in the tablet market, but it's in no way accurate (especially when it's crusted with grease marks).
domestic LCD/LED/plasmas are all shit in this regard if left at factory settings, but at least when you calibrate them they can actually reproduce the whole gamut. the current crop of netbook and tablet displays can't do full saturation at all, meaning if you tweak a picture to look good on one, i'll look like a bad, over-colourful joke on a proper screen.
* disclaimer: i worked for years as a telecine colourist
action movies are often shot with extremely fast shutter speeds, essentially removing the motion blur.
also, you need to swap the word "fact" with "myth".
Japanese movies are coming out at 30fps progressive, now that digital projection is commonplace.
Best practice with cinematography is that the camera should not be moved too fast, on account of the 24fps shutter making motion very staccato, and the faster things move, the more obvious the flickering becomes. some slow graceful pans can appear completely smooth in a cinema, but since Dogma and the Bourne movies popularised hand-held, all the best practice cinematography rules have been thrown out the window, in spite of how shitty the result looks.
btw, 100fps.com is not a good resource. it's simplistic and plain wrong in parts. not a bad place to start, but you'll spend a lot of time being corrected if you do start there.
perhaps they should use their Public Relations Industrial Complex to educate the community and attempt to change their values.
there's nothing wrong with old dogs - they do learn new tricks.
i've had family pets from animal shelters (the RSPCA - an actually respectable organization), and that fact made them special in a way.
it wouldn't be hard for PETA to spend the dosh it spends splashing pornstars in the headlines or making stupid Mario pics on actually educating people who simply want to hear that yes, they can adopt animals and yes, the animals will be loving companions. it's not a hard sell.
there doesn't seem to be an awful lot of public property anymore. i don't call that an excuse. private property that is a park, should be either allowed to be treated as one, or have a bigass fence built around it.
property rights perhaps need to be more like trademarks - if you don't defend them they disappear.
of course there's a lot of problems with this idea, but some countries actually have a similar thing operating.
Slashdot Mirror
the sun's gotta die eventually.
actually, i can imagine the "cold death" scenario making for some interesting interstellar turf wars - fighting for mass to keep a home star burning while all the stars slowly go out.
investigating him to be charged... and most likely they'll come up with nothing (though they may still be able to extract a few more words from Bradley Manning, if his face is still intact enough to speak).
if there were a warrant, i'll start to worry.
bigass [citation needed]
i've yet to hear anything but paranoid speculation that the US will go after Assange when the UK send him to Sweden.
say what you will about the EAW, and the circumstances involved in issuing it, the guy has a case to answer, and he doesn't seem to realise that clearing his name is the best way to win back the trust of the world. right now he's just a paranoid manchild who things didn't go right for, and he's grumbling.
politicians hide themselves away. they only started the war. why should they go out to fight? they leave that all to the poor.
yeah.
you know what, as an avid mac-hater (their design philosophy of removing functions rather than adding them, buying useful programs and sinking them, and mostly their zombie horde fan base), i have to agree with them here.
it doesn't matter if such an attempt is a cynical PR exercise - it's costing them money and they're still trying to make things better. so long as such an attempt is being made, there's still a little hope for the system.
and importantly, it wouldn't be happening if us consumers weren't holding Apple to a certain standard and voting with our feet if they don't live up to it.
well done, everybody!
the vendor controls the invisible hand. they need to use it to bitch-slap suppliers more, rather than simply giving the cheapest supplier an invisible hand job.
we all just discovered one of your rage buttons, and will file it under "trolling for fun and profit"
i was expecting the old governor to say "knives and stabbing weapons"
mods!
i had to eat my words.
most of the knowledge required is freely available. it's a bit of a stretch to say that one scientist developed the whole program, ran the centrifuges and piles, developed the high explosive lenses, then built and dropped the bomb.
you're talking about ideas.
ideas cannot be patented.
you can patent a design for a transmission, but you cannot patent a cog that interlocks with another cog in order to transmit power between an engine and a wheel.
likewise, an entire program should probably be patentable, but not one of the piddly functions that drive it.
there's several solutions, the best of both worlds being sign up but DON'T OVERSHARE.
don't "like" stuff, make no reference to products or specific activities in your status updates, etc. just post with the knowledge that anything you say can and will be sold to the highest bidder.
as happens on every site that requires login. even posting as AC will still log your IP and correlate it with whatever the cookie can grab hold of.
xrandr --output LVDS1 --scale 2x2
yes, much hyperbole.
colour accuracy has never been worse.
as an apple h8er, i'll concede that their screen is the best in the tablet market, but it's in no way accurate (especially when it's crusted with grease marks).
domestic LCD/LED/plasmas are all shit in this regard if left at factory settings, but at least when you calibrate them they can actually reproduce the whole gamut. the current crop of netbook and tablet displays can't do full saturation at all, meaning if you tweak a picture to look good on one, i'll look like a bad, over-colourful joke on a proper screen.
* disclaimer: i worked for years as a telecine colourist
action movies are often shot with extremely fast shutter speeds, essentially removing the motion blur.
also, you need to swap the word "fact" with "myth".
Japanese movies are coming out at 30fps progressive, now that digital projection is commonplace.
Best practice with cinematography is that the camera should not be moved too fast, on account of the 24fps shutter making motion very staccato, and the faster things move, the more obvious the flickering becomes. some slow graceful pans can appear completely smooth in a cinema, but since Dogma and the Bourne movies popularised hand-held, all the best practice cinematography rules have been thrown out the window, in spite of how shitty the result looks.
btw, 100fps.com is not a good resource. it's simplistic and plain wrong in parts. not a bad place to start, but you'll spend a lot of time being corrected if you do start there.
perhaps they should use their Public Relations Industrial Complex to educate the community and attempt to change their values.
there's nothing wrong with old dogs - they do learn new tricks.
i've had family pets from animal shelters (the RSPCA - an actually respectable organization), and that fact made them special in a way.
it wouldn't be hard for PETA to spend the dosh it spends splashing pornstars in the headlines or making stupid Mario pics on actually educating people who simply want to hear that yes, they can adopt animals and yes, the animals will be loving companions. it's not a hard sell.
Survivor: PETA
sounds like a reality show i'd watch.
+1 interesting, informative, insightful.
i love it when "balanced reporting" involves putting the "sky is falling" and the "nothing's happening" people in the same room.
shades of grey suck. it's all about contrast.
there doesn't seem to be an awful lot of public property anymore. i don't call that an excuse. private property that is a park, should be either allowed to be treated as one, or have a bigass fence built around it.
property rights perhaps need to be more like trademarks - if you don't defend them they disappear.
of course there's a lot of problems with this idea, but some countries actually have a similar thing operating.
multiple [citation needed]s
very interesting. i wonder if Apple will retcon this onto siri's documentation and force an update?
yeah, Apple never ever did that. ever.