I help out with Appleseed shoots from time to time, which are popular and getting more so.
They are intended to teach what you describe and do a good job of it. Mostly attended by normals. Lots of parents who grew up shooting but don't do it any longer, and want to teach their kids to do it properly. The anti-government types preparing for the end of the world are few and far between.
It is very hard, believing in individual liberty and the 2nd Amendment and all that, to watch people do stupid things with guns and not want something to be done about it.
That wasn't really the administration, as much as it was inherent silliness in our electoral procedures. That a presidential election can turn into a 'fisaco' is the root of the problem.
falsified WMD claims, unprovoked war in Iraq, downplaying of civilian causalities, torture of prisoners, McCarthyism in a different name, stripping of the rights of LGBTs, the USA PATRIOT Act, illegal wiretapping, harassment of the media, payoffs of the media, stripping of bankruptcy protection, and the alienation of our allies?
Taco has this thing about emerging media player technology where he establishes a nearly impossible set of requirements and then denegrates each new hardware release because it does not meet each and every one of them.
For whatever reason it appears he builds a media catalog consisting of as many disparate file formats, sizes, bitrates, pixel depths, containers, and codecs as he possibly can then salts them out across spinning hard drives, thumb drives, burned CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, 3.5" floppies, SSDs, and Firewire interface Zip drives, all attached to a network, some segments of which are token ring, via a smattering of obscure operating systems. He complains when no one builds a device that caters to his specific blend of geekery. This thing won't upsample a full duplex ogg vorbis DVD rip in NTSC to 1080p and simultaneously serve it to my laptop and video ipod running rockbox? Think I'll wait to buy.
You'd think he would have learned his lesson with audio, but he did not.
Which is being purchased by Apache Energy, and Apache is buying some BP assets.
Bang, BP's involvement now established for the purposes of conspiracy propagation.
I don't think that is unfortunate for Apple, and I doubt Apple does either. It always happens with new Apple products that Slashdot lists out the people who won't or can't buy them.
Apple clearly does not care about certain parts of the market.
Someone above called Ping a social shopping network. That is what it is. It is the logical extension of the product 'reviews' already in itunes, half of which are reviews of previous reviews and people trying to engage in arguments. Move all that crap into a social network format so people can have product recommendations delivered to them in some sort of wall format.
So people who don't own computers and go to the library to use the internet probably aren't people Apple cares about. Apple has no desire to operate in the long tail. They want comfortable margins and the economies that come along with having a narrow range of physical products that can act as portals to their digital store. No doubt they'd love their products in the hands of every person on the planet, but they aren't going to sacrifice their margins to make that happen.
If it is the same camera as in the iphone 4, it is better than many. Different from 'better than most', of course.
The color is oversaturated but that is what most people want. Focus is usually sharp and tap-to-focus is more intuitive for most people than center focus and recompose, or whatever other half working focus wizardry is being tried these days. Low light performance is not good at all and the painfully white flash blows highlights inside whatever meager range it has, but on camera direct flash sucks universally anyway.
The main deficiency is that it is hard to hold steady, which is exacerbated by having to tap the screen to capture the photo.
And people making $20k per year are a lot richer than these people, who collectively spend about $1US per week on food.
So why aren't you suggesting that we ramp up the marginal rate on the $20k bracket as well?
We call them the Clovis Culture and based on their point making they were most likely related to the Soultrean industry, so European. Mitochondrial DNA that 'native' Americans share with southern Europeans supports that. So pre-Spain Spainards set foot in the Americas, then left or were killed off or the like, then came back and rediscovered the place. But there were probably some pre-Clovis cultures, so maybe not.
This was developed 60 years ago. I don't know but would expect that if you were pitching a project to Dow management today you'd need a faster time to market.
I don't see where entitlement is involved in any way. Publishers/distributors offer a set of terms to which a content creator can agree or not. There is no 'why' or any balancing of who contributed what, just terms freely offered and freely accepted by the two parties involved.
You could argue that prior to widespread digital distribution there was no practical way to distribute content on large scale without entering into an agreement above, but that is just acknowledgement of the value that the distributors are offering in their contracts.
If we are going to descend into the depths of pedantry together I'll have to point out that, no, it hasn't all already been developed.
I have some that used to belong to my uncle. The article is about the last roll manufactured. The summary even suggests that if anyone has any exposed Kodachome they need to have it to the only joint still developing it by 10 December.
When do you think the right time will be to make the call?
I ask because since I've been coming here various people on Slashdot have been suggesting that widespread acceptance of Linux on the desktop was just around the corner. Like here, in 2003. Certainly before that, at least by a couple of years.
In the 7 years since the link, what progress has Linux made on the desktop? In terms of either overall market share or in closing the delta between it and Windows/OSX?
I've not seen any really convincing arguments. Most of them fall back on some grand conspiracy to keep Linux down, or on people just being too stupid to understand the advantages of Linux. I'm genuinely interested in why, during the worst global economic times any of us will probably ever see, free software has not made great strides.
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Help me understand how installing a free broswer plugin distributed by Microsoft, in order to view a single image on a web site, constitutes selling my soul.
That is an inversion of purposes, between the headline and the article.
The Slashdot editors have dug down past simpleton level grammar and emerged not at the bottom of the scale, but somehow at the top, and turned the industry on its ear.
I'm not the AC, I don't even know what 'bold hands' means in this context.
But I do have an iphone 4 and can indeed make it lose its signal entirely if I hold it a certain way. But this is in areas where I would have had no signal at all on the edge iphone it replaced, regardless of how I held it, so the thing is a net gain for me.
As for manning up, if logging in constitutes manning up to you, you need to man up.
Yes but that is a quote from a complaint and it needs to be a damning as it can be as long as there is a kernel of truth to it.
I'm in an area where all the carriers have spotty signals. I am left handed. I have an iphone 4. If I purposely bridge the gap in question it degrades the reception enough to prevent me from making calls when I'm in an area with a weak signal. So indeed there are situations where the issue makes it 'difficult or impossible'.
Luckily for me I don't naturally hold the phone that way, but it would indeed be annoying if I did. I've been using a cell phone for 15 years and would not be interested in adapting to a new phone's peculiarities.
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I help out with Appleseed shoots from time to time, which are popular and getting more so.
They are intended to teach what you describe and do a good job of it. Mostly attended by normals. Lots of parents who grew up shooting but don't do it any longer, and want to teach their kids to do it properly. The anti-government types preparing for the end of the world are few and far between.
It is very hard, believing in individual liberty and the 2nd Amendment and all that, to watch people do stupid things with guns and not want something to be done about it.
Taco puts it up to 'magic buttons', but in magic there are no buttons.
Insurance chap disco more community slighter fraction?
Have you forgotten the Florida recount fiasco
That wasn't really the administration, as much as it was inherent silliness in our electoral procedures. That a presidential election can turn into a 'fisaco' is the root of the problem.
falsified WMD claims, unprovoked war in Iraq, downplaying of civilian causalities, torture of prisoners, McCarthyism in a different name, stripping of the rights of LGBTs, the USA PATRIOT Act, illegal wiretapping, harassment of the media, payoffs of the media, stripping of bankruptcy protection, and the alienation of our allies?
You win this round AC.
Taco has this thing about emerging media player technology where he establishes a nearly impossible set of requirements and then denegrates each new hardware release because it does not meet each and every one of them.
For whatever reason it appears he builds a media catalog consisting of as many disparate file formats, sizes, bitrates, pixel depths, containers, and codecs as he possibly can then salts them out across spinning hard drives, thumb drives, burned CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, 3.5" floppies, SSDs, and Firewire interface Zip drives, all attached to a network, some segments of which are token ring, via a smattering of obscure operating systems. He complains when no one builds a device that caters to his specific blend of geekery. This thing won't upsample a full duplex ogg vorbis DVD rip in NTSC to 1080p and simultaneously serve it to my laptop and video ipod running rockbox? Think I'll wait to buy.
You'd think he would have learned his lesson with audio, but he did not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bcryQUuDwM
Which is being purchased by Apache Energy, and Apache is buying some BP assets. Bang, BP's involvement now established for the purposes of conspiracy propagation.
Do those sites have stock quotes too?
Because 'many hours ago' this event hadn't happened yet, and if the sites were reporting on it they are either oracles or terrorists.
Either way I can make me some money.
I don't think that is unfortunate for Apple, and I doubt Apple does either. It always happens with new Apple products that Slashdot lists out the people who won't or can't buy them.
Apple clearly does not care about certain parts of the market.
Someone above called Ping a social shopping network. That is what it is. It is the logical extension of the product 'reviews' already in itunes, half of which are reviews of previous reviews and people trying to engage in arguments. Move all that crap into a social network format so people can have product recommendations delivered to them in some sort of wall format.
So people who don't own computers and go to the library to use the internet probably aren't people Apple cares about. Apple has no desire to operate in the long tail. They want comfortable margins and the economies that come along with having a narrow range of physical products that can act as portals to their digital store. No doubt they'd love their products in the hands of every person on the planet, but they aren't going to sacrifice their margins to make that happen.
If it is the same camera as in the iphone 4, it is better than many. Different from 'better than most', of course.
The color is oversaturated but that is what most people want. Focus is usually sharp and tap-to-focus is more intuitive for most people than center focus and recompose, or whatever other half working focus wizardry is being tried these days. Low light performance is not good at all and the painfully white flash blows highlights inside whatever meager range it has, but on camera direct flash sucks universally anyway.
The main deficiency is that it is hard to hold steady, which is exacerbated by having to tap the screen to capture the photo.
And people making $20k per year are a lot richer than these people, who collectively spend about $1US per week on food. So why aren't you suggesting that we ramp up the marginal rate on the $20k bracket as well?
Frankly, I have about 1/2 of that in accounts now at 40. I plan on having about 1/20th of that by the time I retire
I don't know whether to channel math nazi or grammar nazi.
almost exactly
These English units sound great, where do I sign up?
It may finally answer who was phone though. Hackers was phone.
Yes earlier.
We call them the Clovis Culture and based on their point making they were most likely related to the Soultrean industry, so European. Mitochondrial DNA that 'native' Americans share with southern Europeans supports that. So pre-Spain Spainards set foot in the Americas, then left or were killed off or the like, then came back and rediscovered the place. But there were probably some pre-Clovis cultures, so maybe not.
This was developed 60 years ago. I don't know but would expect that if you were pitching a project to Dow management today you'd need a faster time to market.
I don't see where entitlement is involved in any way. Publishers/distributors offer a set of terms to which a content creator can agree or not. There is no 'why' or any balancing of who contributed what, just terms freely offered and freely accepted by the two parties involved.
You could argue that prior to widespread digital distribution there was no practical way to distribute content on large scale without entering into an agreement above, but that is just acknowledgement of the value that the distributors are offering in their contracts.
If we are going to descend into the depths of pedantry together I'll have to point out that, no, it hasn't all already been developed.
I have some that used to belong to my uncle. The article is about the last roll manufactured. The summary even suggests that if anyone has any exposed Kodachome they need to have it to the only joint still developing it by 10 December.
When do you think the right time will be to make the call?
I ask because since I've been coming here various people on Slashdot have been suggesting that widespread acceptance of Linux on the desktop was just around the corner. Like here, in 2003. Certainly before that, at least by a couple of years.
In the 7 years since the link, what progress has Linux made on the desktop? In terms of either overall market share or in closing the delta between it and Windows/OSX?
I've not seen any really convincing arguments. Most of them fall back on some grand conspiracy to keep Linux down, or on people just being too stupid to understand the advantages of Linux. I'm genuinely interested in why, during the worst global economic times any of us will probably ever see, free software has not made great strides.
Help me understand how installing a free broswer plugin distributed by Microsoft, in order to view a single image on a web site, constitutes selling my soul.
And Firefox is open source, and there is no way to be sure of it.
That is an inversion of purposes, between the headline and the article.
The Slashdot editors have dug down past simpleton level grammar and emerged not at the bottom of the scale, but somehow at the top, and turned the industry on its ear.
Which industry? I have no idea.
Or combine your recycling idea and the submitter's plans to live in a fuselage?
I'm not the AC, I don't even know what 'bold hands' means in this context.
But I do have an iphone 4 and can indeed make it lose its signal entirely if I hold it a certain way. But this is in areas where I would have had no signal at all on the edge iphone it replaced, regardless of how I held it, so the thing is a net gain for me.
As for manning up, if logging in constitutes manning up to you, you need to man up.
Yes but that is a quote from a complaint and it needs to be a damning as it can be as long as there is a kernel of truth to it.
I'm in an area where all the carriers have spotty signals. I am left handed. I have an iphone 4. If I purposely bridge the gap in question it degrades the reception enough to prevent me from making calls when I'm in an area with a weak signal. So indeed there are situations where the issue makes it 'difficult or impossible'.
Luckily for me I don't naturally hold the phone that way, but it would indeed be annoying if I did. I've been using a cell phone for 15 years and would not be interested in adapting to a new phone's peculiarities.