I've been a long-time proponent, that HD wasn't the next logical step in video, but stereo vision. Our eyes use 2D with lighting coming from different angles at two receptors to build three dimensional images using our mind. We don't truly see in 3D. Portble movie players like the video ipod will not take off with a 2" screen... but with a special pair of glasses that use a 1/4" lcd projection onto the lenses to create a 3D stereo effect with the device(s) connected via bluetooth broadcast... now we are taking advantage of technology. Super-low power consumption, 3d video, share the experience with your friends... it's how portable video was meant to be. Add a charging pad similar to many digital cameras for the glasses.. no wires.. you've got the ipod video killer. Now if only i could patent a stereo-video encoding format...
We've decided that along with writing stable code, innovation is pretty damn hard too.. so were just going to drag our lazy asses on the coat-tails of oss... what are they going to do, sue?
OK, checked and they were right, here's another example..
If everyone in the world moved to the US state of Texas, the population density per square mile would be 20,705, or almost the same as Paris (20,185) or Toronto (20,420).
"As for "millions of years of evolution"... hell yes, it would wire us to do the opposite of what's beneficial. Humanity hasn't spent any meaningful amount of time on an evolutionary scale as a global organism"
Population Ecology applies to ALL animals, it's not human specific.
Today, those who subscribe to the principles of the American Revolution--individual liberty, limited government, the free market, and the rule of law--call themselves by a variety of terms, including conservative, libertarian, classical liberal, and liberal. We see problems with all of those terms. "Conservative" smacks of an unwillingness to change, of a desire to preserve the status quo. Only in America do people seem to refer to free-market capitalism--the most progressive, dynamic, and ever-changing system the world has ever known--as conservative. Additionally, many contemporary American conservatives favor state intervention in some areas, most notably in trade and into our private lives.
"Classical liberal" is a bit closer to the mark, but the word "classical" connotes a backward-looking philosophy.
Finally, "liberal" may well be the perfect word in most of the world--the liberals in societies from China to Iran to South Africa to Argentina are supporters of human rights and free markets--but its meaning has clearly been corrupted by contemporary American liberals.
The Jeffersonian philosophy that animates Cato's work has increasingly come to be called "libertarianism" or "market liberalism." It combines an appreciation for entrepreneurship, the market process, and lower taxes with strict respect for civil liberties and skepticism about the benefits of both the welfare state and foreign military adventurism.
The market-liberal vision brings the wisdom of the American Founders to bear on the problems of today. As did the Founders, it looks to the future with optimism and excitement, eager to discover what great things women and men will do in the coming century. Market liberals appreciate the complexity of a great society, they recognize that socialism and government planning are just too clumsy for the modern world. It is--or used to be--the conventional wisdom that a more complex society needs more government, but the truth is just the opposite. The simpler the society, the less damage government planning does. Planning is cumbersome in an agricultural society, costly in an industrial economy, and impossible in the information age. Today collectivism and planning are outmoded and backward, a drag on social progress.
Market liberals have a cosmopolitan, inclusive vision for society. We reject the bashing of gays, Japan, rich people, and immigrants that contemporary liberals and conservatives seem to think addresses society's problems. We applaud the liberation of blacks and women from the statist restrictions that for so long kept them out of the economic mainstream. Our greatest challenge today is to extend the promise of political freedom and economic opportunity to those who are still denied it, in our own country and around the world.
A few years ago, when flash memory hit the 512MB capacity, and started being viewed as a replacement to cd-rw, I made the observation that if a Mobo manufacturer ever put a 8gb or greater chip on the motherboard to cache the operating system, and commonly used installed programs, they could do great things in terms of reduced energy, heat, and improved latency.
Give me a bootable NAND C drive built into my mobo damnit! I've been waiting for YEARS! 32 GB is great and all, but i don't need anything over 10GB.. anything over that is rewritable crap that I'd rather store magnetic.
I'm definately a far bigger fan of Havok's sli physics for nvidia than a 1GB video card. I wish ATI would spend half as much effort not making crossfire such a piece of crap.
I've seen our Constitution shredded, Madison's checks-and-balances blown away...
If only the Republicans would conduct the war the way heroic democrats did.
Nothing says freedom like making every news agency clear every report through the federal government and free housing for japanese-americans! Oh, and Canada did it too.
"isn't "natural" population control usually achieved through massive infant mortality rates?"
Not just no, but hell no.
Zoology depends on factors such as how territory is used, how resources are gathered, the sex ratio, mating systems, sexual selection, fitness of species, kin selection, parent-offspring conflict, group selection, and a variety of other factors are determinate in changes in population ecology.
Population is self-limiting, not self-destructive. Even animals choose how much fucking to do.
Anyone who seriously wants to have an educated opinion on "overpopulation" needs to take a zoology course in population ecology.. or a wakeup call.
just look at the population centers of the world, they are centers of prosperity, not savage poverty or scare resources. Besides, if we arranged each person of the world's population inside a 1m square area, it would barely fill the state of Texas. It's not like the earth is really crowded, people just choose to congregate into population areas because it is so beneficial/.
But like someone noticed, prosperity slows population growth, poverty increases it... but do you think millions of years of evolution would wire us to respond in the exact opposite of what is beneficial?
It's interesting to view the variety of responses on this question.
"Population control" is quite a frightening subject once one begins to study the depths of it.
I wrote about five paragraphs after this sentance and deleted it all. I'll just throw out some names of some of the biggest supporters of population control:
Stalin, Hitler, Sanger, Blavatsky..
In zoology, there is ample evidence to show that population growth is self-restraining. That there are several factors, including access to natural resources that control popultion sizes. Why should human intervention even be required? population control has throughout history been a convenient excuse for genocide and the wholesale depopulation of 'undesirable' segments of society. Someone made the suggestion that by eliminating poverty we could control population. Maybe they would agree that population might be more "under control" if we took the shortcut of killing all the poor people.
1. Men's 5000m results (not me)
2. UEWF referee for match (not me)
3. Credits for published rap album (me)
4. Open letter, published political essay (me)
5. allmusic profile (me)
6. allmusic profile (me)
7. Men's 3000m results (not me)
8. Political essay, published contributor (me)
I don't see any real dirt here, unless someone would refuse to hire me because I supported the election of George W. Bush. Clearly, they can't go around hiring facists.
"Scott Pelley that the Bush administration is restricting who he can talk to and editing what he can say. Politicians, he says, are rewriting the science."
You would think if this person was being censored, he wouldn't be able to tell people he was being censored... or is this his cardboard "KIDNAPPED" sign in the back of the passing stationwagon? Either way, what's scientific about this article? Please file this under hysterics, conspiracy, and politics.
I thought I ws riding the train, until you stopped at iTunes and small user-transaction fee models. As the dust settles, the internet will work like radio, the big money will be behind the popular sites, who will use their control over advertising space to lease to other companies, and to promote their own products. The thing is, internet is not 'fixed' like radio. You turn on the radio, and expect music or talk.. what kind of music or talk is at the discretion of the programming director, and fresh content is added daily. Like radio, there is emerging several 'genres' of websites. News, gaming, business, information, application, etc.. Depending on your users to take out a credit card every time you want to make dollar only works if you have a viable product to sell. Television and radio isn't that product.. neither is internet.
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this will be as great as when they brought Family Guy back! Finally, the network is listening;)
There's some decent technical information there, but there's a point I want to make. The budget did so well because we had a democratic president, and a republican congress. what this resulted in is a president that had to really work to push legislation that the congress would even approve. congress wouldn't spend money on most of clinton's spending proposals, and as a result of restrained spending, the economy benefited. There's one thing that makes the private economy more prosperous... less government involvement.
Now I see what you're getting at. I've got a Sony DV-Handycam and I've never had that problem before. I was talking about using it in conjuction with other Sony products as far as seamless interoperatability goes. I don't see any good reason that videotaping a tv screen should produce those results. I can understand the DRM in movie theaters, but televisions? That's retarded. I don't know if that feature is still present, or if maybe I got lucky getting mine from Korea DRM free.
"As for the free CD, it's definitely cool, but I for one would rather download an ISO image in less than an hour than wait for two weeks for that package to arrive from South Africa (that's about as long as it took the two times I've tried it)."
Not everyone in the world has broadband internet access and can download an iso in less than an hour. i've only got a 264k line here in the middle east, and they probably miled me the cd faster than I could download it. Just because it's not the best option to mail for some people, doesn't mean the option should not be available to anyone. I wouldn't have switched to a linux desktop if it hadn't been for Ubuntu's free cd offer.. and neither would 2 people I know. They sent me 20 CDs, and got 3 new users. That's not a bad marketing return if you ask me.
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I've been a long-time proponent, that HD wasn't the next logical step in video, but stereo vision. Our eyes use 2D with lighting coming from different angles at two receptors to build three dimensional images using our mind. We don't truly see in 3D. Portble movie players like the video ipod will not take off with a 2" screen... but with a special pair of glasses that use a 1/4" lcd projection onto the lenses to create a 3D stereo effect with the device(s) connected via bluetooth broadcast... now we are taking advantage of technology. Super-low power consumption, 3d video, share the experience with your friends... it's how portable video was meant to be. Add a charging pad similar to many digital cameras for the glasses.. no wires.. you've got the ipod video killer. Now if only i could patent a stereo-video encoding format...
What more can I say, this is the coolest headline i expect to see all year.
We've decided that along with writing stable code, innovation is pretty damn hard too.. so were just going to drag our lazy asses on the coat-tails of oss... what are they going to do, sue?
OK, checked and they were right, here's another example..
If everyone in the world moved to the US state of Texas, the population density per square mile would be 20,705, or almost the same as Paris (20,185) or Toronto (20,420).
"As for "millions of years of evolution"... hell yes, it would wire us to do the opposite of what's beneficial. Humanity hasn't spent any meaningful amount of time on an evolutionary scale as a global organism"
Population Ecology applies to ALL animals, it's not human specific.
Does Fraud include counterfeiting? Because many people would consider pirated software exactly that.
"Classical liberal" is a bit closer to the mark, but the word "classical" connotes a backward-looking philosophy.
Finally, "liberal" may well be the perfect word in most of the world--the liberals in societies from China to Iran to South Africa to Argentina are supporters of human rights and free markets--but its meaning has clearly been corrupted by contemporary American liberals.
The Jeffersonian philosophy that animates Cato's work has increasingly come to be called "libertarianism" or "market liberalism." It combines an appreciation for entrepreneurship, the market process, and lower taxes with strict respect for civil liberties and skepticism about the benefits of both the welfare state and foreign military adventurism.
The market-liberal vision brings the wisdom of the American Founders to bear on the problems of today. As did the Founders, it looks to the future with optimism and excitement, eager to discover what great things women and men will do in the coming century. Market liberals appreciate the complexity of a great society, they recognize that socialism and government planning are just too clumsy for the modern world. It is--or used to be--the conventional wisdom that a more complex society needs more government, but the truth is just the opposite. The simpler the society, the less damage government planning does. Planning is cumbersome in an agricultural society, costly in an industrial economy, and impossible in the information age. Today collectivism and planning are outmoded and backward, a drag on social progress.
Market liberals have a cosmopolitan, inclusive vision for society. We reject the bashing of gays, Japan, rich people, and immigrants that contemporary liberals and conservatives seem to think addresses society's problems. We applaud the liberation of blacks and women from the statist restrictions that for so long kept them out of the economic mainstream. Our greatest challenge today is to extend the promise of political freedom and economic opportunity to those who are still denied it, in our own country and around the world.
So how many of those downloads were bug fixes?
Give me a bootable NAND C drive built into my mobo damnit! I've been waiting for YEARS! 32 GB is great and all, but i don't need anything over 10GB.. anything over that is rewritable crap that I'd rather store magnetic.
I'm definately a far bigger fan of Havok's sli physics for nvidia than a 1GB video card. I wish ATI would spend half as much effort not making crossfire such a piece of crap.
If only the Republicans would conduct the war the way heroic democrats did.
Nothing says freedom like making every news agency clear every report through the federal government and free housing for japanese-americans! Oh, and Canada did it too.
Clearly, the Reuplicans have gone too far.
we don't even have broadband coverage in like 60% of the united states, and we are seriously talking about broadband access for martians.. c'mon..
Not just no, but hell no.
Zoology depends on factors such as how territory is used, how resources are gathered, the sex ratio, mating systems, sexual selection, fitness of species, kin selection, parent-offspring conflict, group selection, and a variety of other factors are determinate in changes in population ecology.
Population is self-limiting, not self-destructive. Even animals choose how much fucking to do.
Anyone who seriously wants to have an educated opinion on "overpopulation" needs to take a zoology course in population ecology.. or a wakeup call.
just look at the population centers of the world, they are centers of prosperity, not savage poverty or scare resources. Besides, if we arranged each person of the world's population inside a 1m square area, it would barely fill the state of Texas. It's not like the earth is really crowded, people just choose to congregate into population areas because it is so beneficial/.
But like someone noticed, prosperity slows population growth, poverty increases it... but do you think millions of years of evolution would wire us to respond in the exact opposite of what is beneficial?
"Population control" is quite a frightening subject once one begins to study the depths of it.
I wrote about five paragraphs after this sentance and deleted it all. I'll just throw out some names of some of the biggest supporters of population control:
Stalin, Hitler, Sanger, Blavatsky..
In zoology, there is ample evidence to show that population growth is self-restraining. That there are several factors, including access to natural resources that control popultion sizes. Why should human intervention even be required? population control has throughout history been a convenient excuse for genocide and the wholesale depopulation of 'undesirable' segments of society. Someone made the suggestion that by eliminating poverty we could control population. Maybe they would agree that population might be more "under control" if we took the shortcut of killing all the poor people.
1. Men's 5000m results (not me)
2. UEWF referee for match (not me)
3. Credits for published rap album (me)
4. Open letter, published political essay (me)
5. allmusic profile (me)
6. allmusic profile (me)
7. Men's 3000m results (not me)
8. Political essay, published contributor (me)
I don't see any real dirt here, unless someone would refuse to hire me because I supported the election of George W. Bush. Clearly, they can't go around hiring facists.
What is a 'semi-facist'?
Is that like the diet coke of facism?
Why would we need to limit population growth, and how would you ever propose we do this?
You would think if this person was being censored, he wouldn't be able to tell people he was being censored... or is this his cardboard "KIDNAPPED" sign in the back of the passing stationwagon? Either way, what's scientific about this article? Please file this under hysterics, conspiracy, and politics.
I thought I ws riding the train, until you stopped at iTunes and small user-transaction fee models. As the dust settles, the internet will work like radio, the big money will be behind the popular sites, who will use their control over advertising space to lease to other companies, and to promote their own products. The thing is, internet is not 'fixed' like radio. You turn on the radio, and expect music or talk.. what kind of music or talk is at the discretion of the programming director, and fresh content is added daily. Like radio, there is emerging several 'genres' of websites. News, gaming, business, information, application, etc.. Depending on your users to take out a credit card every time you want to make dollar only works if you have a viable product to sell. Television and radio isn't that product.. neither is internet.
this will be as great as when they brought Family Guy back! Finally, the network is listening ;)
There's some decent technical information there, but there's a point I want to make. The budget did so well because we had a democratic president, and a republican congress. what this resulted in is a president that had to really work to push legislation that the congress would even approve. congress wouldn't spend money on most of clinton's spending proposals, and as a result of restrained spending, the economy benefited. There's one thing that makes the private economy more prosperous... less government involvement.
and to think we've only spent $10 trillion on the "war on poverty" since LBJ. That sure is working out well..
Now I see what you're getting at. I've got a Sony DV-Handycam and I've never had that problem before. I was talking about using it in conjuction with other Sony products as far as seamless interoperatability goes. I don't see any good reason that videotaping a tv screen should produce those results. I can understand the DRM in movie theaters, but televisions? That's retarded. I don't know if that feature is still present, or if maybe I got lucky getting mine from Korea DRM free.
Like we need Captain America and the Fantastic Four to intimidate protestors when we can just chase them away with personal hygiene products.
Not everyone in the world has broadband internet access and can download an iso in less than an hour. i've only got a 264k line here in the middle east, and they probably miled me the cd faster than I could download it. Just because it's not the best option to mail for some people, doesn't mean the option should not be available to anyone. I wouldn't have switched to a linux desktop if it hadn't been for Ubuntu's free cd offer.. and neither would 2 people I know. They sent me 20 CDs, and got 3 new users. That's not a bad marketing return if you ask me.