I am having a hard time understanding the media excitement over this "milestone."
You can still buy and develop other films that are considered superior to Kodachrome. Meanwhile, you can also simultaneously use a DSLR and operate in a fully digital fashion. The only people who are losing out are the ones with undeveloped Kodachrome in their cameras.
The problem with your argument is many clients (new / small businesses) don't know the value of working WITH a designer. This is kinda like when a person walks into Wal-Mart to buy a socket set. It looks shiny in their toolbox, and they don't know any better until it strips out / twists / breaks when they need to put some real pressure on it.
That's the GP's point though. He doesn't want clients that aren't willing or are too clueless to pay for quality service. If crowdsourcing serves the needs of the cheapest clients, then he is willing to lose their business. Chances are that a highly successful design company would turn its nose up at most of those cheap client projects anyway since the clients would be unwilling to cover costs.
I'd love to see a Tech version of this. I may be completely ignorant and it may already exist but it seems like, since we now know the science of how to see magnetic fields, we could develop an artificial "eye" so to speak, that could do this. It would be neat to look at power lines or just browse the city and see the magnetic fields cast off by different infrastructure.
Be careful, the article was somewhat misleading with its terminology. This phenomenon only shows the bird the magnetic field orientation at the bird's exact location. It can't see local variations in the field at a distance. Basically, it is just a compass superimposed on the bird's vision... you can do the same thing with your iPhone or with a $5 compass.
I don't think it is possible to image magnetic field lines from only a single location with no assumptions. There is no way to sense the field changes without moving your probe through space or seeding the space with sensors.
Texting is useful in lots of circumstances, but perhaps they're not relevant to your lifestyle.
- Communication without disturbing anyone nearby (on public transport, during lessons at school, in the office)
- Communications when the recipient is busy, or might be busy, but can respond later
- A note that doesn't need a reply when the sender doesn't want to be drawn into a conversation (e.g. text parent/partner to say you'll be late)
All of these could be done as well or better by email, but all phones support SMS and only some support email.
Your post highlights the GP's point and illustrates the key difference in communication styles between the older and younger generations.
From the older generation's perspective, there are three types of information. Important issues are relayed over the phone. Less critical insights are relayed over email, snail mail, or in person when time permits. Chatting about useless crap happens after hours or at the water cooler. Also, extended telephone conversations are never acceptable in public. Disturbing people was never an issue, because they had secretaries to answer the phone and protect their privacy.
Lately it has become fashionable to share useless crap about yourself all the time using texting, myspace, facebook, and twitter. Fifteen years ago, individuals engaging in this behavior would have been viewed as vapid and self-involved. Despite being more acceptable today, many members of the older generation still feel this way.
It is important for the younger generation to understand both viewpoints as they leave school and integrate into a workplace that is still managed by many members of the older generation. Also keep in mind that what seems important now becomes less so once you have a demanding job, a few kids, a house or two, and a few sick parents to take care of.
Once view isn't necessarily better than the other. People are just in different places in their lives.
I don't know how your swamp cooler works, but any halfway decent one won't be pumping any extra water into your air. They use heat exchangers to get the cold into the building, and evaporate out the water to the
open air to cool off the heated piping.
If yours is indoors, you're doing it wrong.
Actually, it sounds like you are not familiar with the variety of available evaporation coolers.
There are several different designs that all cool air by evaporation cooling. Some designs circulate all the moisture inside the house, some keep all the moisture outside the house by using a heat exchanger, and some cool in several stages with heat exchangers using a final evaporative stage without a heat exchanger to moisten the mostly cooled air being circulated inside the house.
So two of the three commonly available designs will pump extra water into your air. And in a dry climate, that moisture feels pretty damn good.
... but the technical difficulty with even a sample-return mission is immense.
Don't make more of it than it is. The energy budget is immense, but it is well within our technological capabilities. Congress is just choosing to spend money elsewhere.
Given that the government gets blamed no matter what, if I were in power I'd just do nothing and save the money. You're on your own, kids.
Fuck that. When you are taking 30% of my paycheck upfront and then another 5-10% in secondary taxes, I EXPECT you to solve all my problems, take all my blame, and be happy about it.
That is of course ignoring the professors who write the books for their courses and are happy to have new revisions every year to keep that part of their revenue in tact:)
But not ignoring the much higher percentage of professors who write books or booklets and freely distribute them to students since the main goal of a professor is to teach and not to profit.
How much does one unit cost, and is this actually scalable and affordable for nations where there are landmines? Most of these countries are third-world as the majority of landmines in first-world countries (e.g. Germany) was cleared years ago.
Wha?
This is for military combat operations. Like to clear a path for a lightly armored personnel carrier through a booby-trapped road in Afghanistan or Iraq.
It's not to help third-world countries clear out old mines.
You need to read your own link! What the GP is talking about is not indentured servitude. There is no forced period of employment.
He's saying that people should have to work for their welfare checks. Is that really so onerous? I don't think so. I don't even think it is that new a concept...
But are we going to all give up our cell phones if it turns out that they cause problems with bees?
Probably not. But maybe we could figure out exactly what component of the cell phone usage is bothering the bees and change it so that they stop dying. Maybe all that is needed is a small frequency shift...
It's irrelevant whether she wins. The defendant has already lost - legal fees will cost them double the damages claimed if they fight the case.
Actually, who wins will be quite relevant. Even if Google spends $1M winning this case, they will have precedent that they do not need an idiot warning at the start of their Google Maps app. This will keep other morons from suing them for similar mental failures.
Agreed. Had I paid to see it, I would have asked for my money back.
So if you like a movie, does that mean you pay afterwards? You are a thief. You take the product of someone's labors against their will and offer nothing in return. That has nothing to do with whether what you steal meets your personal standards.
Yes. And every time you fastforward through a TV commercial or get up to go the bathroom during them, you too are a thief.
Or do you watch all the commercials to satisfy your morality? Do you listen to all the commercials on the radio in between songs? Do you read all the banner ads on every webpage you load?
Welcome to 2010. You can't lock media down as easily anymore and you can't charge exorbitant prices for shit and expect everyone to happily pay it. And using your political influence to sway the FBI and the judicial system in your favor is not going to change the popular opinion.
If the movie industry doesn't like it, they can always stop making movies...
True, but natural disasters aren't the only reason I'm glad I don't live in California. Imploding economy, poor leadership, overbearing laws, and similar issues are others.
Name a state without the same problems, and you won't be talking about the USA.
And once they get to an economic level that is closer to what the rest of us enjoy in the Western world, they will start caring. When you are hungry, you only want bread. When you are homeless, you only want shelter. When you have plenty to eat and a decent place to live, you want freedom.
That article's conclusions were misleading and implied that the middle class may not be interested in political freedom anymore. But all of the studies it discussed stated that the middle class still values political freedom, but that it values it less than creature comforts.
This highlights a new tactic by authoritarian regimes in recent decades. They have realized that it is easiest to keep a critical mass of the population comfortable in order to maintain control.
That doesn't mean they aren't primed for revolution. It just means that revolution isn't worth it for them... yet.
Can you even think of a working conditions where you would rather end your life than continue working there?
Your post is completely nonsensical for the following reasons:
1. People with stable minds quit their jobs before committing suicide.
2. Apple does not run the factory. Foxconn does. Apple only has a contract with Foxconn as do many other US companies. In fact, the computer you are typing on likely has components from them. This is one problem you cannot blame on Apple, but rather on the Chinese commercial system.
Think of how frustrating it would be to be incredibly rich and powerful, yet also incredibly horny and impotent due to poor health and too many transplant drugs.
Thanks for pushing your sexual frustration onto the rest of us, Steve.
And shame on you for using the "Think of the children" line. One of your kids is 30 years old (and illegitimate, you horn-dog). I'll bet the rest are in their teens. You better hope they are using porn.
I agree with you on the software front. However I still feel that the hardware is designed more intelligently than most other systems out there. In my opinion, Apple has placed always a high value on case aesthetics, a factor that most other manufacturers did not start addressing until fairly recently. While I do not agree with all of their decisions, they are clearly choosing a compromise between aesthetics, weight, performance, and profit. They are confident in their vision and are willing to lose some customers over it because they are sure that they will gain even more converts.
That said, I am completely horrified by Jobs' recent foray into ramming his morality down his customers throats. Jobs has carefully chosen an issue that will cause puritans and feminists to rally behind him, but the overall concept is unacceptable. As a consumer, I now need to consider how far Apple is willing to go to keep porn off my Apple hardware. Currently, I can not have "porn apps" (except Playboy, because that is an established company), but they tell me to just use Safari when I want porn. Will they eventually block access to Apple-certified pornographic websites in Safari? Will they extend this block to all Apple OSes? The paranoid in me thinks that Jobs would if he though he could get away with it.
What if Jobs decides that violence is not appropriate for Apple software too? Or reading about Microsoft products? Or reading about jailbreaking or hacking Apple products. Will Steve eventually be willing to brick my $5K Mac Pro for violating his principles?
Now I know what you're thinking... it is private software, if you don't like it don't use it. But I already own it. I have supported the development of it by investing time and money into using OS X compatible products and hardware. Steve's morality issues and delusional strongarm tactics didn't exist when I started purchasing his hardware. Now he's changing the rules because he thinks he can get away with it.
Microsoft would be subject to government intervention in a nanosecond if they suddenly decided that they were going to ban other browsers or iTunes from being run in Windows. Or if they decided to wage a war against porn.
In my opinion, his own success has deluded him and his near-death experience pushed him over the edge. Jobs has decided that he has been given supreme mandate to micromanage every aspect of Apple users' experience and he needs to be reigned in. The general public doesn't agree... yet. But if Jobs mental health keeps degrading and he forces Apple to overplay its hand, the public will eventually come around, much like is starting to happen with the Android OS versus the iPhone.
If Jobs isn't careful, he will run his legacy into the ground while he is still alive.
Junior learns by replaying previously observed driving maneuvers and uses that data to select which AI (physics-based or real-world-learned) to use in a given situation.
I am concerned that Junior will not choose the correct AI when encountering a new situation for the first time, because it will have no prior data to assist in AI selection.
IF you read TFA (a novel concept, I know!), it has a longer video which demos several different algorithms which fail variously; and then, ultimately, a final run which combines all of them to succeed. They claim that it is this smoothless combination is what is the real innovation here.
I think that is really cool AI. But I don't know if failing a few times at a driving maneuver is really going to work for me as a passenger though.
Of course, I am sure they will work all the bugs out before this is incorporated into a real car.
Let me fix that for you to say what your mind was thinking before it edited itsoutput for polite conversation:
Having a kid basically means devoting very large chunks of your life to
your own sperm. You're giving up 2 years of doing anything, 3 further years of any daytime activities, then 15 years of having control over your own life. And why? So you can send your own genes off into the wild and ensure the continuation and possible dominance of your DNA on the human species.
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Because that would have been classy.
I am having a hard time understanding the media excitement over this "milestone."
You can still buy and develop other films that are considered superior to Kodachrome. Meanwhile, you can also simultaneously use a DSLR and operate in a fully digital fashion. The only people who are losing out are the ones with undeveloped Kodachrome in their cameras.
The problem with your argument is many clients (new / small businesses) don't know the value of working WITH a designer. This is kinda like when a person walks into Wal-Mart to buy a socket set. It looks shiny in their toolbox, and they don't know any better until it strips out / twists / breaks when they need to put some real pressure on it.
That's the GP's point though. He doesn't want clients that aren't willing or are too clueless to pay for quality service. If crowdsourcing serves the needs of the cheapest clients, then he is willing to lose their business. Chances are that a highly successful design company would turn its nose up at most of those cheap client projects anyway since the clients would be unwilling to cover costs.
Should you only get paid for first time a copy is sold? Yes.
People with normal jobs don't just work a day or two and expect to keep the money rolling in.
This post should not be modded troll. The author is expressing a valid viewpoint... not trying to start trouble.
I'd love to see a Tech version of this. I may be completely ignorant and it may already exist but it seems like, since we now know the science of how to see magnetic fields, we could develop an artificial "eye" so to speak, that could do this. It would be neat to look at power lines or just browse the city and see the magnetic fields cast off by different infrastructure.
Be careful, the article was somewhat misleading with its terminology. This phenomenon only shows the bird the magnetic field orientation at the bird's exact location. It can't see local variations in the field at a distance. Basically, it is just a compass superimposed on the bird's vision... you can do the same thing with your iPhone or with a $5 compass.
I don't think it is possible to image magnetic field lines from only a single location with no assumptions. There is no way to sense the field changes without moving your probe through space or seeding the space with sensors.
Texting is useful in lots of circumstances, but perhaps they're not relevant to your lifestyle. - Communication without disturbing anyone nearby (on public transport, during lessons at school, in the office) - Communications when the recipient is busy, or might be busy, but can respond later - A note that doesn't need a reply when the sender doesn't want to be drawn into a conversation (e.g. text parent/partner to say you'll be late)
All of these could be done as well or better by email, but all phones support SMS and only some support email.
Your post highlights the GP's point and illustrates the key difference in communication styles between the older and younger generations.
From the older generation's perspective, there are three types of information. Important issues are relayed over the phone. Less critical insights are relayed over email, snail mail, or in person when time permits. Chatting about useless crap happens after hours or at the water cooler. Also, extended telephone conversations are never acceptable in public. Disturbing people was never an issue, because they had secretaries to answer the phone and protect their privacy.
Lately it has become fashionable to share useless crap about yourself all the time using texting, myspace, facebook, and twitter. Fifteen years ago, individuals engaging in this behavior would have been viewed as vapid and self-involved. Despite being more acceptable today, many members of the older generation still feel this way.
It is important for the younger generation to understand both viewpoints as they leave school and integrate into a workplace that is still managed by many members of the older generation. Also keep in mind that what seems important now becomes less so once you have a demanding job, a few kids, a house or two, and a few sick parents to take care of.
Once view isn't necessarily better than the other. People are just in different places in their lives.
I don't know how your swamp cooler works, but any halfway decent one won't be pumping any extra water into your air. They use heat exchangers to get the cold into the building, and evaporate out the water to the open air to cool off the heated piping.
If yours is indoors, you're doing it wrong.
Actually, it sounds like you are not familiar with the variety of available evaporation coolers.
There are several different designs that all cool air by evaporation cooling. Some designs circulate all the moisture inside the house, some keep all the moisture outside the house by using a heat exchanger, and some cool in several stages with heat exchangers using a final evaporative stage without a heat exchanger to moisten the mostly cooled air being circulated inside the house.
So two of the three commonly available designs will pump extra water into your air. And in a dry climate, that moisture feels pretty damn good.
... but the technical difficulty with even a sample-return mission is immense.
Don't make more of it than it is. The energy budget is immense, but it is well within our technological capabilities. Congress is just choosing to spend money elsewhere.
Given that the government gets blamed no matter what, if I were in power I'd just do nothing and save the money. You're on your own, kids.
Fuck that. When you are taking 30% of my paycheck upfront and then another 5-10% in secondary taxes, I EXPECT you to solve all my problems, take all my blame, and be happy about it.
You can use it to look at the flares while you wait for the electricity to be fixed.
That is of course ignoring the professors who write the books for their courses and are happy to have new revisions every year to keep that part of their revenue in tact :)
But not ignoring the much higher percentage of professors who write books or booklets and freely distribute them to students since the main goal of a professor is to teach and not to profit.
How much does one unit cost, and is this actually scalable and affordable for nations where there are landmines? Most of these countries are third-world as the majority of landmines in first-world countries (e.g. Germany) was cleared years ago.
Wha?
This is for military combat operations. Like to clear a path for a lightly armored personnel carrier through a booby-trapped road in Afghanistan or Iraq.
It's not to help third-world countries clear out old mines.
You need to read your own link! What the GP is talking about is not indentured servitude. There is no forced period of employment.
He's saying that people should have to work for their welfare checks. Is that really so onerous? I don't think so. I don't even think it is that new a concept...
Most of us call it a job.
But are we going to all give up our cell phones if it turns out that they cause problems with bees?
Probably not. But maybe we could figure out exactly what component of the cell phone usage is bothering the bees and change it so that they stop dying. Maybe all that is needed is a small frequency shift...
It's irrelevant whether she wins. The defendant has already lost - legal fees will cost them double the damages claimed if they fight the case.
Actually, who wins will be quite relevant. Even if Google spends $1M winning this case, they will have precedent that they do not need an idiot warning at the start of their Google Maps app. This will keep other morons from suing them for similar mental failures.
Agreed. Had I paid to see it, I would have asked for my money back.
So if you like a movie, does that mean you pay afterwards? You are a thief. You take the product of someone's labors against their will and offer nothing in return. That has nothing to do with whether what you steal meets your personal standards.
Yes. And every time you fastforward through a TV commercial or get up to go the bathroom during them, you too are a thief.
Or do you watch all the commercials to satisfy your morality? Do you listen to all the commercials on the radio in between songs? Do you read all the banner ads on every webpage you load?
Welcome to 2010. You can't lock media down as easily anymore and you can't charge exorbitant prices for shit and expect everyone to happily pay it. And using your political influence to sway the FBI and the judicial system in your favor is not going to change the popular opinion.
If the movie industry doesn't like it, they can always stop making movies...
True, but natural disasters aren't the only reason I'm glad I don't live in California. Imploding economy, poor leadership, overbearing laws, and similar issues are others.
Name a state without the same problems, and you won't be talking about the USA.
Alaska only has one of the three.
And once they get to an economic level that is closer to what the rest of us enjoy in the Western world, they will start caring. When you are hungry, you only want bread. When you are homeless, you only want shelter. When you have plenty to eat and a decent place to live, you want freedom.
Well, that's always been the assumption, anyway. But apparently things are playing out a little differently in China.
That article's conclusions were misleading and implied that the middle class may not be interested in political freedom anymore. But all of the studies it discussed stated that the middle class still values political freedom, but that it values it less than creature comforts.
This highlights a new tactic by authoritarian regimes in recent decades. They have realized that it is easiest to keep a critical mass of the population comfortable in order to maintain control.
That doesn't mean they aren't primed for revolution. It just means that revolution isn't worth it for them... yet.
Can you even think of a working conditions where you would rather end your life than continue working there?
Your post is completely nonsensical for the following reasons:
1. People with stable minds quit their jobs before committing suicide.
2. Apple does not run the factory. Foxconn does. Apple only has a contract with Foxconn as do many other US companies. In fact, the computer you are typing on likely has components from them. This is one problem you cannot blame on Apple, but rather on the Chinese commercial system.
Think of how frustrating it would be to be incredibly rich and powerful, yet also incredibly horny and impotent due to poor health and too many transplant drugs.
Thanks for pushing your sexual frustration onto the rest of us, Steve.
And shame on you for using the "Think of the children" line. One of your kids is 30 years old (and illegitimate, you horn-dog). I'll bet the rest are in their teens. You better hope they are using porn.
I agree with you on the software front. However I still feel that the hardware is designed more intelligently than most other systems out there. In my opinion, Apple has placed always a high value on case aesthetics, a factor that most other manufacturers did not start addressing until fairly recently. While I do not agree with all of their decisions, they are clearly choosing a compromise between aesthetics, weight, performance, and profit. They are confident in their vision and are willing to lose some customers over it because they are sure that they will gain even more converts.
That said, I am completely horrified by Jobs' recent foray into ramming his morality down his customers throats. Jobs has carefully chosen an issue that will cause puritans and feminists to rally behind him, but the overall concept is unacceptable. As a consumer, I now need to consider how far Apple is willing to go to keep porn off my Apple hardware. Currently, I can not have "porn apps" (except Playboy, because that is an established company), but they tell me to just use Safari when I want porn. Will they eventually block access to Apple-certified pornographic websites in Safari? Will they extend this block to all Apple OSes? The paranoid in me thinks that Jobs would if he though he could get away with it.
What if Jobs decides that violence is not appropriate for Apple software too? Or reading about Microsoft products? Or reading about jailbreaking or hacking Apple products. Will Steve eventually be willing to brick my $5K Mac Pro for violating his principles?
Now I know what you're thinking... it is private software, if you don't like it don't use it. But I already own it. I have supported the development of it by investing time and money into using OS X compatible products and hardware. Steve's morality issues and delusional strongarm tactics didn't exist when I started purchasing his hardware. Now he's changing the rules because he thinks he can get away with it. Microsoft would be subject to government intervention in a nanosecond if they suddenly decided that they were going to ban other browsers or iTunes from being run in Windows. Or if they decided to wage a war against porn.
In my opinion, his own success has deluded him and his near-death experience pushed him over the edge. Jobs has decided that he has been given supreme mandate to micromanage every aspect of Apple users' experience and he needs to be reigned in. The general public doesn't agree... yet. But if Jobs mental health keeps degrading and he forces Apple to overplay its hand, the public will eventually come around, much like is starting to happen with the Android OS versus the iPhone.
If Jobs isn't careful, he will run his legacy into the ground while he is still alive.
You totally miss my point.
Junior learns by replaying previously observed driving maneuvers and uses that data to select which AI (physics-based or real-world-learned) to use in a given situation.
I am concerned that Junior will not choose the correct AI when encountering a new situation for the first time, because it will have no prior data to assist in AI selection.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18889-jupiter-loses-a-stripe.html
anon post to not kharma ho
Thanks for those pics. They make it more clear than the /. links since you can see the Red Spot in both.
It doesn't really look like the belt went anywhere. It just looks like it got a lot lighter. But there is still a distinct band there.
I guess that isn't as thrilling as saying that a belt is gone" though.
IF you read TFA (a novel concept, I know!), it has a longer video which demos several different algorithms which fail variously; and then, ultimately, a final run which combines all of them to succeed. They claim that it is this smoothless combination is what is the real innovation here.
I think that is really cool AI. But I don't know if failing a few times at a driving maneuver is really going to work for me as a passenger though.
Of course, I am sure they will work all the bugs out before this is incorporated into a real car.
Right Toyota?
Having a kid basically means devoting very large chunks of your life to your own sperm. You're giving up 2 years of doing anything, 3 further years of any daytime activities, then 15 years of having control over your own life. And why? So you can send your own genes off into the wild and ensure the continuation and possible dominance of your DNA on the human species.