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by 9999 15y ago
I timed it recently, and it was almost 16 minutes of straight ads ( not trailers for unreleased films mind you, ads for movies coming out on bluray, newspapers, an anti-piracy PSA, etc.). This is in addition to having to sit through count
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by 9999 15y ago
It could be awesome if they licensed the technology to someone else, but because of the way the tech works, you're going to inherently have lower resolution and (more importantly to photojournalists) bad low light performance. It reminds me
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by 9999 15y ago
Except for delivering images to an editor seconds after they've been shot. Best case scenario for a photo-journalist using film back then would have been a couple of hours for an E6 run, even the very first Kodak DCS with its pcmcia storag
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by 9999 15y ago
It created too many divergent paths for developers to follow. One of the great strengths of the flash runtime was how much easier it was to write something that would run in any browser, all with one clear API and one set of ui components t
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by 9999 15y ago
When adobe eventally pause to ponder the Doom hanging over the flash ecosystem, they will realize that it was Flex that killed it.
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by 9999 15y ago
The early digital cameras had some tremendous advantages even back when Kodak was just strapping digital backs on the rear of Nikon F3s. Those cameras were immediately adopted by photo-journalists. The Lytro tech is at best a mildly intere
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by 9999 15y ago
I suppose in the sense that they are both celebrating greatness, they are similar, but Nike's ads were generally about celebrating great athletes and they filmed them performing while they were still in their prime for the express purpose o
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by 9999 15y ago
Your goodfellas analogy is pretty close to perfect (and I know quite a few paulis myself, hell, I'm a Pauli). That being said, the author's suggestion of a vastly larger amount of equity with the right founders in place might convince me. B
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by 9999 15y ago
Didn't Sun also employ this strategy to somewhat better effect? I can see a group of architects hating something like that due to the nature of their work and the proliferation of tools they need at their desk, and for some types of softwa
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by 9999 15y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Lighting, ceilings and floor choice are tremendously important in workspace design, and that place looks, frankly, like most other poorly designed office spaces. Once you commit to open plan, you've alread
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by 9999 15y ago
Unfortunately there are a few assumptions being made here that don't really jive with car usage in practice. 96% usage? People's schedules aren't that flexible, my spouse and I commute at the same time to different places, and a large chun
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by 9999 15y ago
White balance and exposure definitely are useful settings for pros, but even for pros I don't see the post-process focus selection being all that useful, certainly not considering the tradeoffs they made. Personally I shoot with just about
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by 9999 15y ago
"A camera where focusing an image is abstracted away so that the consumer doesn't have to think about it would be a huge step forward. (Think post-shot auto-focus with optional tweaking for when the camera doesn't get it right). " Almost ev
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by 9999 15y ago
Lytro's light field is a bullshit product that very few photographers and even fewer consumers will actually give a shit about. Nikon, Canon, etc. have made far more significant advances in the last five years than Lytro. Here is a short
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by 9999 15y ago
That doesn't really answer my question (and I am a potential customer). How exactly does zencoder add value to justify their additional costs? Converting video with ffmpeg is trivial in my experience. What exactly does zencoder do that
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by 9999 15y ago
Sorry, but I can't help but feel that it wouldn't be that difficult to get similar performance by setting up a free AMI for people to do exactly this sort of thing using their own EC2 instance. What kind of value does zencoder actually add
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by 9999 15y ago
Dude, are you sure you want to do that? I've got this buddy that's got this crazy thing going on on some gas giant. They're way past angel stage, they've got catered meals every day, a band practice room, a fooz ball table, and a carbonite
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by 9999 15y ago
"one of the few" != "the only"
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by 9999 15y ago
Basically, yes. Someone will probably come along and hem and haw about the various competing sound APIs that everyone is working on right now. Then someone will say that Flash can do crazy 3D games, but Canvas/JS can't. Then someone will
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by 9999 15y ago
"But Apple doesn't want web applications to be able to compete with the capabilities of native apps that they make a profit on in their app store." I don't actually hear that many people repeating this, but to expand a little bit on this, i
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by 9999 15y ago
It was big in Japan. A lot of dudes made a ton of money off Flash Lite development.
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by 9999 15y ago
Bullshit: "Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary." Well, except for the SWF format, the mxmlc SWF compiler, the Tamarind interpreter, most of the popular video codecs, the FLV container format, AMF, RTMP... And I could go on. Huh.
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by 9999 15y ago
Flash on IE is Active X.
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by 9999 15y ago
Yes, they put some effort into mobile Flash (specifically flash lite) development when they could justify the cost with the revenue they were receiving from handset manufacturers that licensed it. Then the iPhone came out without Flash. T
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by 9999 15y ago
Stallman has once again said exactly what I would expect Stallman to say. I admire(d) and respect(ed) both Stallman and Jobs. Even if their views are diametrically opposed (although I wouldn't say Jobs' position is actually at the complet
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by 9999 15y ago
The best teachers I had in highschool all seemed to despise their principals, precisely because they were nothing more than overpaid bureaucrats. The best case scenario was a principal that just stayed out of the way. Of course, it's the
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by 9999 15y ago
>keep schools open until 6 Sounds great, how do you fund it? >keep school in session 11 months out of the year Ditto. >let principals hire/fire based on merit Seems legit, do we really have to BREAK the unions to do that? The t
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by 9999 15y ago
I would certainly prefer this.
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by 9999 15y ago
Give me your energetic, your rich, Your striding elite yearning to oppress, The vaunted gild of your desolate shore. Send these, the landowners, first-class-turbulence-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the door for those with gold!
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by 9999 15y ago
Hold your horses. Tell us more about this rock throwing, window breaking, glass making job creation plan of yours. This has been the most viable job creation plan I've heard of to date.

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