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They _could_ have inserted out-of-order frames as they were completed, and she could have been commenting on witnessing the video moving from flat vector gfx to jelly bean gfx.
I think Terri Schiavo would have aced this experiment and stuck through it, too bad she's still not around.
Not much, but both cameras can use the cheaper Canon lenses, and these cameras aren't the ones you are putting $40k lenses on unless you are renting. If you are buying the $40k lense you are buying an Epic, Alexa, or high end Sony. $15k for a complete Red rig is pretty good and can be used to do some serious work.
How is this Paul's doing?
I was thinking the same thing. Aggressive negotiation with suppliers is a feature of monopsonies.

Edit: I've thought about it some more. There are parallels but important differences.

The main one is products. Apple design the products themselves, have a very limited product range, and are more intimately involved in manufacturing than Walmart is.

Walmart has a much more complex supply chain problem. Thousands of products, with a changing mix based on seasons and perishability, taken from far more sources and distributed to far more locations.
But they were perfectly willing to ruin Final Cut Pro X for creative professionals (and only re-released the previous version after a huge backlash)?
Fxphd has some traing material on the Epic that would work for e Scarlet probably.
Maybe the key to writing great code is to not use Java.
Apple is loving the level of platform control they get from the iOS App Store even more.
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{% for profanity in all_profanities %}
{{ profanity }} USCIS
{% endfor %}

I feel better now.
I'm a potential customer who has been researching the available options for web screenshots. I need to be able to download 1024x1000 screenshots of websites in real time available through an API similar to what you have.

I'm sure there are a number of potential customers just like me who have their own unique requirements. But you'll never know if what you're building is in line with what your customers need until you launch. Good luck.
They've often been considered one of the best supply chain operations in the world, and aggressively drive their suppliers to lower prices and increase volume.

One classic anecdote is that leading up to a hurricane, Walmart did some data mining and found that poptarts sold like crazy when hurricane watches were declared. Within hours they had dozens of trucks heading to the Florida coast filled with poptarts and they made a lot of money that way.

Unless you have a fast, flexible logistics system and the analytical smarts to back it up, you can't exploit changing circumstances like that.

Edit. Source of Walmart anecdote is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/business/yourmoney/14wal.h...
I think there are a number of tiers in the market.

Peter Jackson probably doesn't care about the difference in price, but there are a number of student and indie directors/producers who certainly feel the difference between $4k/day and $400/day.
It doesn't matter when you get there (well, unless you're so late that the market is flooded and it's impossible to get your name out there). If you were to be first to launch, they'd come after you with overlapping features. Then what? And what about another company that comes to try to take advantage of the same space? And another after that...

If it truly is a good market, it will be crowded soon. As long as you aren't entering a crowded market (and one competitor is not crowded) than I'd go for it. This assumes you can do a better job than the competitor and have something to differentiate yourself with. If you are truly overlapping than pivot. Hell, even a change in your marketing strategy alone could be tremendous. Just differentiate through the way you position and brand your product.

You do have only a months work into this, so feel free to abandon it. However, if you get into the habit of abandoning anything where you're not first to the market... I can only assume you'll never go towards anything because, let's face it, what are the odds you'll ever be first in something entirely new? Very slim.
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I find profanity offensive in general.

It's not words themselves that matter. It's what people mean by them. Saying "please", vacuous as it might be, communicates consideration. Profanity communicates the opposite.

Of course, it isn't that simple; language is language and context is everything. Sometimes someone swearing at you means, "Some people would be offended by this, but I know you can take it." The inconsiderate language is a compliment. Sometimes it means, "We don't have time for social niceties; this is important." It's like pounding your fist on a table or slamming a door. But by itself, the meaning is closer to, "I don't care about you, because I just don't."

Profanity can certainly be used well, but without a redeeming purpose the vibe is somewhere between stupidity and rudeness. I find that offensive. Not as in, "I'm wounded", but as in, "that's unpleasant."

Some of it's cultural, too. One family may be big on courtesy -- always saying, "please pass the butter" at dinner. Just reaching across the table at that house would give a lot of offense because it violates how they show consideration to each other. In another house, everyone may just reach for everything all the time, and it doesn't mean anything.

Profanity is a lot like that. In some crowds, any uncensored profanity is highly offensive, a nine out of ten. In others, vocabulary alone can't push the needle past two, and you need to start in with creative graphic descriptions if you really mean to offend.

People have a couple of different reactions to that.

Some people, particularly the folks with a high pain threshold, just assume their culture is better. They swear a lot and the subtext is, "I don't care if you're offended because I think your culture sucks anyway." Hardly polite.

Other folks try to speak the language of the crowd they're in. If you say "X is sh*t" to a mixed group, some will hear "X is stinky socks" while others will hear "X is bestiality and I hate you." If you're pretty sure where on the spectrum your crowd falls, you can go ahead and use the expression. If it's mixed, though, you had best go ahead and use whichever of the two phrases it is you actually mean.
Soon to be 1.5 major operating systems (since Windows 8 Metro apps are going to be locked down in exactly the way people fear is coming from Apple evolving the Mac App Store).
Same here. That americans even have the term "F-bomb" as if it's something explosive is very amusing. The main article goes on at length for such a mild word as 'shit'. He's complaining about the mildest of swear words being used not in a professional publication nor a boardroom sales pitch, but on a personal blog site, and then as a slide for a talk. Talks are usually about a meeting of peers, communicating on a peer level is usually expected.

From personal experience with long history of doing phone support, swearing helps. My rule of thumb is swear to one 'level' less than the user. If they're saying 'fuck', you can say 'shit', if they're saying 'shit', you don't swear. I've found that if you're not swearing and they are a lot, it puts them offside and they feel uncomfortable. One more unnecessary thing to manage.

But the author's sensitivities are ratchetted way too high. Do I want to 'help' my industry 'outlaw' swearing? Fuck no. I'm more interested in the content of what someone says than the way in which they say it. I'd rather listen to a profanity-laden speech about a tech topic than a slick-as-snot marketroid drone on about nothing important. It's 2011 - we should be offended by context, not by mere words.
I would argue that real security requires a deeper approach like QubesOS takes - http://wiki.qubes-os.org/trac/wiki/SecurityGoals . Constraining and inconveniencing users for the sake of false sense of security doesn't feel like something that needs to be attempted in 2012.

But to be fair - I think the hardware is only now starting to get fast and capable enough for doing security via virtualization. So up until now may be OS vendors did not really have the luxury of thinking along those lines but it doesn't hurt to start thinking now.

Apple could really leapfrog if they worked with the hardware vendors to make Mac OS X something like QubesOS but much more usable. On top of it if they had a saner programming language that makes it darn near impossible to make security goof ups, real security still has a chance!
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I agree that exploit is the right word here, but probably not for the reason you chose it.
ruthless. they handle so much more volume than any other retailer that suppliers are willing to sign anything just to be a part of it. all losses are passed back to the suppliers, which enables wal-mart to take huge risks.

the sibling comment to mine references a huge volume of pop-tarts being shipped to florida in preparation for a hurricane. if during mid-shipment the weather changed, wal-mart would call up the supplier, cancel the order, and all the trucks would return the pop tarts to their suppliers at no cost to wal-mart. with pop tarts it isn't such a big deal because they don't spoil, but farmers who supply wal-mart will get shipments of spoiled produce returned to them if wal-mart decides they don't need quite as much volume that week. and they just have to deal with it, because they can make more money getting screwed by wal-mart than they can selling to ethical companies.
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I ended up clicking over to the (very interesting) wikipedia definition.

Does anyone know what the purpose of the Maple syrup handle is?
Xcode and Safari will get special exemptions, of course.

But putting aside short-run user backlash, do you really think Apple gives a damn whether Firefox, Chrome or VLC run on OS X? Judging by iOS, they might actually prefer it if they didn't.

After that you're left with archiving, text editors and Dropbox (which Apple might well want to replace with iCloud in the long run), which doesn't sound like that much to me.
I disagree because it shows what dedication can bring - even when you are not getting a ROI or anywhere near instant gratification - an important lesson for those who are looking to grow a startup and see it succeed - because it's not an overnight thing (usually). I think it appeals to the hacker side of many - and just because it isn't straight up tech related does not mean it doesn't belong here.

I will agree that there is hive minded voting - I've complained about it plenty of times - but in this case I think my up vote made sense and that's without me realizing who was posting it (just like I didn't bother even seeing what your handle was until I started typing this). Hope that gives you a point of view from one person (who didn't down vote you).
I didn't say it was Paul's doing.

Edit: Ok I see what gave you that impression. The Gates comment. I don't mean to imply that this behavior is brought on by Paul at all.
Another one of Kina's videos also seem to go the artistic route - in this case using DVD cases as dominoes with a flip art effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840NbiFF1zM&feature=relmf...
This is anecdotal evidence from them coming to speak at my college, but... Walmart controls almost all of it's logistics. Whereas its competitors use other shipping companies, and have inventory sit in 3rd party warehouses, Walmart builds huge distribution centers that service multiple Walmart stores.

The distribution centers mean they can purchase huge levels of inventory at discounted terms. Running their own logistics means that they can break up pallets into smaller shipments appropriate for each store. So stores need less space to carry inventory, and they can purchase and store huge amounts at lower cost per sq. ft.

The other thing the logistics does is gives them an advantage in transportation cost. Although (I've heard) the margins in ground transport are slim, running your own ground transport saves money, allowing for lower prices to the consumer.

Walmart's size also contributes to their "efficiency". They can buy in larger quantities than their competitors and try to exert downward pressure on suppliers' prices. They can also nab exclusives and put them on the shelves for less than competitors.
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Indeed. Apple's become very, very good at boiling frogs slowly. And I believe there are already at least a few APIs that are only for App Store apps.
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As a longtime Mac user (since the 80s) , it pains me to think my next purchase won't be a Macintosh, but I can't ignore the writing on the wall any longer. Apple used to be about freedom and creativity - now they just want to give the best user experience while keeping users safe and maximizing profits. Not an all-together horrible goal, but also not the kind of computer I want to use. I want a computer, not a toaster or a microwave. People have for years called mac kid computers, and I never really agreed with them before now. This kind of development really puts the final nail in the coffin though. These computers are made for people who simply want a locked down boring experience. It's a sign of the times, just look at the TSA.
The article's author hints at innuendo, euphemisms, dysphemisms and doublespeak as alternatives to swearing.

I love wordplay and regularly engage in it with my friends. But to write an article using wordplay as the basic tool for explaining anything other than wordplay is worse than being offensive. You run the risk of alienating a lot of English-as-second-language folks for a start, as they lack a lot of the fluency required. But even further, I've learned heavily and repeatedly that there are considerable differences between what many American English and British English speakers can take from talking in metaphor. British English speakers (and the British themselves, in particular) live and breathe metaphor.

I find that most people who can't understand speaking in metaphor are either English-second-language; American English speakers; or Brit English speakers who have dropped out of education early and have very little socialisation.

It's not to say there aren't American English folks who don't understand metaphor well, it's just that it's so common for them to misunderstand it. If you hear an individual saying "But that's not literally what I said" to defend what they have actually have said between-the-lines, it's unlikely that they're a British English speaker.
Wouldn't Apple remove it from the App Store for non-compliance at some point? That's what they do on the iOS side.
I've noticed this new iPhone app "The Eatery" doing this. It's fairly annoying, but as long as I keep my facebook friends list trimmed to "actual friends" then I don't mind so much.
This article from 2003 is still relevant
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
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Of course, when we're talking cost, you'll most likely have the Scarlet on a support system, so it's an easy matter to add a Ki Pro Mini on the back, attach with HD-SDI, and record ProRes 422 (at 1080p) onto CF cards at a wide variety of bitrates.

Extra cost ($3k). Compared to $50k+ for Alexa, it's still a great price/deal.
What is argued in this article was argued much earlier this year on Quora.

http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/What-would-be-a-good-use-of...
Twitter Lists may not be popular, for exactly the reasons you describe, but they're really useful for two purposes: if you follow a LOT of people (for whatever reason), you can use Twitter for 'people whose posts I actually want to read' and if you use it for news consumption, you can make lists for that. I use it especially for the latter; being someone who follows iOS jail breaking, 99% of the time, Twitter is the original source for all of the news related to that.
Funny how quaint the excerpt on data seems now. "Walmart has 460 tb of data, experts suggest Internet has half that."
Either opportunistic or exploitive are appropriate -those words are not always negative, to me they also have a descriptive meaning. If they saw a trend and they took steps to fulfill the foreseen demand, it's all good. I'm sure people were happy WalMart had that in stock, rather than think 'this WalMart, they're using this hurricane in an underhanded way to sell me more poptarts'.
It's a coincidence. Not everything in my life has to do with my employer. FWIW, note that I work from home on open source and many of our projects are on GitHub. Zach and I are cool. No one's in a twist, we just differ on how to reach an audience.
They probably make more money from ads by autocorrecting.
For the ones (such as me) who went "mono-what?", a monopsony is the situation where one unique buyer buys from different sellers. It's the opposite of a monopoly, where an unique seller sells to different buyers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony

Thanks for teaching me something Jacques :)
They could have, but I have a feeling they didn't. There's also the fact that in the last frame they shot, she's wearing the space suit that is, in fact, what she's wearing at the end of the video.
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> When the iPad 2 debuted, the finished devices were packed in plain boxes and Apple employees monitored every handoff point—loading dock, airport, truck depot, and distribution center —to make sure each unit was accounted for.

When I went to WWDC10, I was struck by the small detail of the conference security wearing black polos with the Apple logo and "Security" under the logo. At most conferences, the security is wearing jackets straight out of action movie central casting (e.g. "SECURITY"). I thought that was a nice small detail - to attire the rent-a-cops in Apple gear. But, now, reading this, I think they may have been full time Apple security staff. Security is paramount.
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Context is far more important than profanity. Saying 'please' in the right way can be highly offensive, depending on context.

Despite being 'the magic word', there's nothing magic about 'please'. It's just a word. It's the context it's used in that communicates consideration or not.
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I don't really care, personally, but this is about more than just me.
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You have the cart before the horse. He's not preventing the relationship by using profanity, it's those other people that are preventing the relationship by refusing it due to profanity. It's very rare to have a user of profanity refuse to talk to someone else simply because they're not swearing.
Unless you run your own smtp and pop/imap mail servers, there is no way to be sure no one will read your emails.

I think you really want to encrypt your email for that kind of peace of mind. Of course you need buy in from your contacts.
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This is just speculation, but I'd appreciate if browsers could detect <time> tags and give me a context menu with various options related to times (add to calendar / view what was in my calendar on a past date, copy in alternate format...)
The link that you put in your post is in it's entirety about how they are not tracking you and not logging these requests for each user. The quoted portion you mentioned is just pointing out that in order to get a count of the +1's on a page you have to send a request to google to see that count. There is no conceivable way for it to show information without requesting it first.

This isn't some sneaky side effect of the button, it is literally just the only functionality of the extension. They will probably still patch this to at least have a setting to not display +1's on https websites, but I don't really see where all this tracking talk came from.
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If you're writing people off as "too far outside your value system to be worth bothering with" because they happen to find swearing offensive, you're missing out on knowing a lot of really awesome people

No, not so far. Its pretty much a 1-1 correlation. Offended by sounds and symbols => holds irrational beliefs => easily convinced to support abhorrent acts.

In fact if I meet someone who is utterly unphased by continuous war, hunger, famine, rape, and torture, then they are guaranteed to be offended by a simple sound and make a huge fucking deal about it.
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