1) If you get the least bit motion sick, don't go see it at the high frame frate in 3D. Normally I don't, even when seeing IMAX/OMNIMAX, but this film I did.
As a counter point, I went on Friday with my sister and another friend who are prone to feeling motion sickness when watching 3d movies.
They both found that with the HFR actually made the movie as a whole easier to watch. (For my sister in particular, it was the first 3d movie she'd been able to watch without feeling motion sick throughout.)
They did, however, have some vertigo from some of the pan shots looking downward.
And the rich could probably avoid being taxed on some stuff by attending more company promotional and marketing events. You'll still get them on private dinners at expensive restaurants etc, but not on the big ticket items - yachts, planes, maybe even property (Disney won't have to pay tax on Disneyland, the tax is just on the people buying the tickets right?).
Haven't you just described things being flipped? In your corporate yacht scenario the individual doesn't get taxed, but the company pays tax when they purchase the yacht.
In the Disneyland example, they're being taxed on the materials for every new ride they build, the fabric for the costumes they buy, etc.
If you're going to be leaving drawings out where they'll be exposed to sunlight, whether or not the inks are light fast is going to be important if you want to use your drawings in the future.
Some cheap pens will fade rapidly and be difficult to read (especially for thin lines) in a matter of months.
(As a note, this is why I tend to stick to pencil)
- Bring US patent law in line with other countries - Emphasize just how much easier we're making it for inventors in other countries to file in the US - Add a little more to US patent law - Put pressure on other countries to follow our lead - Wake up and all the world has adopted our model
Each of those examples calls for more than just a barometer:
a) Measure the height of the barometer, and carefully laying it end to end on the side of the building, find how many barometer-lengths high the building is.
Requires the barometer, some type of measurement device, and a ladder or other way of scaling the building.
b) Measure the length of the shadow of the barometer and the length of the shadow of the building. Using proportions, work out the height of the building
Requires the barometer and some type of measurement device.
c) Locate the custodian of the building. Say to him, 'If you tell me how high your building is, I'll give you this barometer".
My neighbor's dog come into my yard and damage my yard...my neighbor has to pay for restitution
Except Monsanto didn't plant it or own the original seed, a neighboring farmer did. If your neighbor's dog digs up your yard, the dog's owner is liable, not the pet store where he bought it.
Except from Monsanto's perspective the neighboring farmer doesn't own the seed -- he just licenses it.
Say we modify the analogy a little -- assume the neighbor's dog is attacking someone in your yard.
If the pet store knows the dog has a history of attacking people and rents the dog to your neighbor without telling him of the dog's history, who should be liable when the dog attacks someone?
Because it's used for accessing corporate email. In many organizations, that's the only choice if someone wants to access their mail on a phone.
The biggest selling point is that it keeps corporate data segregated from the rest of what's on the device. (If someone's phone is lost / stolen or leaves a company the end result is that it allows for a remote wipe command to clear out just the data for Good)
Last I had looked at it (close to a year ago), usability was lagging behind the native email clients for Android / iOS, but they did seem to be making slow progress.
The original posting talks about "signing up" in the general context of creating an account on a site.
The article, however, seems pretty clear in talking about "signing" up to receive emails. (And very clearly puts forward that "no option == spam")
Looking at the two modes of failure for a user receiving emails you can have: - False positives: user starts receiving email, but doesn't want it - False negatives: user doesn't get any email, but does want it
The main debate in the original article boils down to: - Single opt-in results in fewer false negatives, but more false positives - Double opt-in results in fewer false positives, but more false negatives
At which point the question is one of whether it's better to optimize for fewer false positives or fewer false negatives.
In the context of the original article, if someone is signing up to receive emails, both of the following situations will lead to the original user not receiving the emails that they requested: - If they misspell their address and the email goes to someone else - If they enter a different address purposefully and it goes to someone else
For the user signing up for messages, the opt-in message isn't something they specifically wanted -- it's a barrier that prevents them from getting what they wanted (as such, a double opt-in request could be seen as a false positive). For someone whose email was entered in a form by someone else, any message they receive may be seen as a false positive (including a double opt-in request).
Two angry men with guns who prefer to use intimidation rather than follow the law show up at his doorstep -- I fail to see any way in which that isn't potentially life threatening.
I'd considered this sort of thing a while back -- there's really no need to use a set list of passwords.
Assuming that the passwords are being hashed, you can have a lookup table where you store: (Password hash) + (Current # of accounts using that hash)
By setting a threshold for the ratio of (Current # of accounts using a hash) to (Total # of accounts), you can reasonably control the average entropy of passwords in the system.
For example, if you have 100,000 users in a system and set a threshold of 2%, the system would stop allowing anyone else to use that password.
Would be an interesting experiment to see what ratio comes up with the best balance between being secure vs. being too annoying to users.
The big downside of that type of dynamic system is that for low numbers of users, it may become easier to brute force which passwords are in use by iterating through the "change password" process. (Setting a limit on how many times an account can change their password in a given day would help slightly, but might not do much to stop a distributed attack)
In the case of Hotmail (or any other large provider), they're already starting with a large data set, so they'd be able to avoid that issue.
A large-scale, coordinated boycott of all air travel would probably have some effect.
Might not even take much more to set off than a few major "think of the children" ad campaigns funded by companies with a vested interest in increasing road travel...
Yes, that's intentionally a "=" and not "==" -- Gamestop does indeed open most of their stock so they can put the empty cases out on the floor for display.
Well, something tells me this is in response to legal activity. There are surely going to be new laws, probably not ones specifically in response to hacking activity, but others that allow various governments all sorts of access to records to track down hackers.
The idealist in me wants to believe that we could also get more laws passed holding corporations more accountable for lax security.
If you look at the solutions for "editing" sites that scale, ultimately you'll find that what you're really looking for isn't a better visual editor, but rather a content management platform.
WordPress has a pretty decent track record for longevity, but there are plenty of other options out there as well.
Put it on an ipad hoping that it would fix the crashing issues with Safari & the search in page feature... nope, still crashes!
Amazingly easy to reproduce, too... just open a page with a large amount of text (i.e. a 500KB faq from gamefaqs), enter text in the search bar, click find in page, safari crashes after a slight delay.
Oops, that should be 1:3 ratio...
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Minor mistake -- that should be 1:3 ratio of PG:R...
Box office data shows PG R for profit
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Looking at some data for box office revenues, it looks like PG movies are actually the most profitable segment of the market.
Most years in recent history show a ratio of 1 PG-rated movie being released to every R-rated movie, yet the percentages of total gross have remained close to one another in recent history:
Here in Michigan (and presumably elsewhere as well), there's an alternative calculation for "use tax" that you can enter in that's based on your income.
Since you're only obligated to pay the lesser of the two amounts, if you order a large amount online it's often in your best interest to just go with the calculation and forget about trying to keep track of purchases.
(In most years, I think I've wound up paying $50-60 or so with the default amount.)
When you look back to Kinect's beginnings, this news is somewhat more interesting in the light that the original "Project Natal" team that came up with it included Johnny Chung Lee (noted for Wii-mote hacks he did at Carnegie Mellon before working for Microsoft):
If I were MS, Sony, or Nintendo, I'd be paying close attention to people in the community that start doing interesting things with this and put them on my short-list for recruiting people to develop next-generation hardware.
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And two things I have to say:
1) If you get the least bit motion sick, don't go see it at the high frame frate in 3D. Normally I don't, even when seeing IMAX/OMNIMAX, but this film I did.
As a counter point, I went on Friday with my sister and another friend who are prone to feeling motion sickness when watching 3d movies.
They both found that with the HFR actually made the movie as a whole easier to watch. (For my sister in particular, it was the first 3d movie she'd been able to watch without feeling motion sick throughout.)
They did, however, have some vertigo from some of the pan shots looking downward.
And the rich could probably avoid being taxed on some stuff by attending more company promotional and marketing events. You'll still get them on private dinners at expensive restaurants etc, but not on the big ticket items - yachts, planes, maybe even property (Disney won't have to pay tax on Disneyland, the tax is just on the people buying the tickets right?).
Haven't you just described things being flipped? In your corporate yacht scenario the individual doesn't get taxed, but the company pays tax when they purchase the yacht.
In the Disneyland example, they're being taxed on the materials for every new ride they build, the fabric for the costumes they buy, etc.
If you're going to be leaving drawings out where they'll be exposed to sunlight, whether or not the inks are light fast is going to be important if you want to use your drawings in the future.
Some cheap pens will fade rapidly and be difficult to read (especially for thin lines) in a matter of months.
(As a note, this is why I tend to stick to pencil)
There's also the finding that many types of thermal paper contain much larger amounts of BPA than food packaging:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/28/study-finds-bpa-in-store-receipts-health-effects-as-yet-unclear/
Would be interesting if the link between obesity and eating fast food was only partly due to the food itself and partly due to handling the receipts.
- Bring US patent law in line with other countries
- Emphasize just how much easier we're making it for inventors in other countries to file in the US
- Add a little more to US patent law
- Put pressure on other countries to follow our lead
- Wake up and all the world has adopted our model
Each of those examples calls for more than just a barometer:
a) Measure the height of the barometer, and carefully laying it end to end on the side of the building, find how many barometer-lengths high the building is.
Requires the barometer, some type of measurement device, and a ladder or other way of scaling the building.
b) Measure the length of the shadow of the barometer and the length of the shadow of the building. Using proportions, work out the height of the building
Requires the barometer and some type of measurement device.
c) Locate the custodian of the building. Say to him, 'If you tell me how high your building is, I'll give you this barometer".
Requires the barometer and a custodian.
What pet store would have a rent-a-dog program?
It's at least been tried:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/30dogs.html
Though apparently they ran into problems (not due to liability, though):
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/07/28/a-dog-for-a-day.html
My neighbor's dog come into my yard and damage my yard...my neighbor has to pay for restitution
Except Monsanto didn't plant it or own the original seed, a neighboring farmer did. If your neighbor's dog digs up your yard, the dog's owner is liable, not the pet store where he bought it.
Except from Monsanto's perspective the neighboring farmer doesn't own the seed -- he just licenses it.
Say we modify the analogy a little -- assume the neighbor's dog is attacking someone in your yard.
If the pet store knows the dog has a history of attacking people and rents the dog to your neighbor without telling him of the dog's history, who should be liable when the dog attacks someone?
Because it's used for accessing corporate email. In many organizations, that's the only choice if someone wants to access their mail on a phone.
The biggest selling point is that it keeps corporate data segregated from the rest of what's on the device. (If someone's phone is lost / stolen or leaves a company the end result is that it allows for a remote wipe command to clear out just the data for Good)
Last I had looked at it (close to a year ago), usability was lagging behind the native email clients for Android / iOS, but they did seem to be making slow progress.
If you design it before the invention of the hairpin?
The original posting talks about "signing up" in the general context of creating an account on a site.
The article, however, seems pretty clear in talking about "signing" up to receive emails. (And very clearly puts forward that "no option == spam")
Looking at the two modes of failure for a user receiving emails you can have:
- False positives: user starts receiving email, but doesn't want it
- False negatives: user doesn't get any email, but does want it
The main debate in the original article boils down to:
- Single opt-in results in fewer false negatives, but more false positives
- Double opt-in results in fewer false positives, but more false negatives
At which point the question is one of whether it's better to optimize for fewer false positives or fewer false negatives.
In the context of the original article, if someone is signing up to receive emails, both of the following situations will lead to the original user not receiving the emails that they requested:
- If they misspell their address and the email goes to someone else
- If they enter a different address purposefully and it goes to someone else
For the user signing up for messages, the opt-in message isn't something they specifically wanted -- it's a barrier that prevents them from getting what they wanted (as such, a double opt-in request could be seen as a false positive). For someone whose email was entered in a form by someone else, any message they receive may be seen as a false positive (including a double opt-in request).
Seems a little backward that there would be complaints that workers might look out their windows and see grass, trees, and other natural things.
Everything I've read on productivity and mental health would suggest it would be beneficial to have a less "urban" view out your window.
Two angry men with guns who prefer to use intimidation rather than follow the law show up at his doorstep -- I fail to see any way in which that isn't potentially life threatening.
I'd considered this sort of thing a while back -- there's really no need to use a set list of passwords.
Assuming that the passwords are being hashed, you can have a lookup table where you store:
(Password hash) + (Current # of accounts using that hash)
By setting a threshold for the ratio of (Current # of accounts using a hash) to (Total # of accounts), you can reasonably control the average entropy of passwords in the system.
For example, if you have 100,000 users in a system and set a threshold of 2%, the system would stop allowing anyone else to use that password.
Would be an interesting experiment to see what ratio comes up with the best balance between being secure vs. being too annoying to users.
The big downside of that type of dynamic system is that for low numbers of users, it may become easier to brute force which passwords are in use by iterating through the "change password" process. (Setting a limit on how many times an account can change their password in a given day would help slightly, but might not do much to stop a distributed attack)
In the case of Hotmail (or any other large provider), they're already starting with a large data set, so they'd be able to avoid that issue.
A large-scale, coordinated boycott of all air travel would probably have some effect.
Might not even take much more to set off than a few major "think of the children" ad campaigns funded by companies with a vested interest in increasing road travel...
Gamestop's view is that New = Opened
Yes, that's intentionally a "=" and not "==" -- Gamestop does indeed open most of their stock so they can put the empty cases out on the floor for display.
Well, something tells me this is in response to legal activity. There are surely going to be new laws, probably not ones specifically in response to hacking activity, but others that allow various governments all sorts of access to records to track down hackers.
The idealist in me wants to believe that we could also get more laws passed holding corporations more accountable for lax security.
If you look at the solutions for "editing" sites that scale, ultimately you'll find that what you're really looking for isn't a better visual editor, but rather a content management platform.
WordPress has a pretty decent track record for longevity, but there are plenty of other options out there as well.
Put it on an ipad hoping that it would fix the crashing issues with Safari & the search in page feature... nope, still crashes!
Amazingly easy to reproduce, too... just open a page with a large amount of text (i.e. a 500KB faq from gamefaqs), enter text in the search bar, click find in page, safari crashes after a slight delay.
Minor mistake -- that should be 1:3 ratio of PG:R...
Looking at some data for box office revenues, it looks like PG movies are actually the most profitable segment of the market.
Most years in recent history show a ratio of 1 PG-rated movie being released to every R-rated movie, yet the percentages of total gross have remained close to one another in recent history:
http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/?view2=mpaa&chart=byyear&yr=2010&view=releasedate&p=.htm
In other news, developers come up with a great way to drum up press for a game that otherwise no one would have paid any attention to.
Here in Michigan (and presumably elsewhere as well), there's an alternative calculation for "use tax" that you can enter in that's based on your income.
Since you're only obligated to pay the lesser of the two amounts, if you order a large amount online it's often in your best interest to just go with the calculation and forget about trying to keep track of purchases.
(In most years, I think I've wound up paying $50-60 or so with the default amount.)
So what you're saying is that under current law scanning ceases to be legal as soon as teens start posing suggestively?
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/12/0450237/Why-Natal-Is-a-Big-Deal
If I were MS, Sony, or Nintendo, I'd be paying close attention to people in the community that start doing interesting things with this and put them on my short-list for recruiting people to develop next-generation hardware.