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Inside Microsoft's New Digital Photo Project
robyn217 writes "While Microsoft Research plays 'Big Brother' to a young hiker's trip across North America, it breaks new ground in digital photography by combining metadata, like location via GPS, with the image. Its online presence looks impressive as it displays digital photo albums on a map of the world, but it's slow and unwieldy for the most part and may not be better than a standard travelogue site. This week, I took a closer look at the project currently named the World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX)."
A blonde is walking down the street with her blouse open and her right
breast hanging out. A policeman approaches her and says, "Ma'am, are you
aware that I could cite you for indecent exposure?" She says, "Why
officer?" "Because your breast is hanging out." he says. She looks down and
says, "OH MY GOSH, I left the baby on the bus again!"
all your base are belong to microsoft
That a company with $40 Billion can have such an online presence as this:
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I have some very startling, very radical -- some might say drugged-out -- insights into George W. Bush's latest canards. And that's why I feel compelled to say something about pudibund, jaundiced mendicants. He is planning to reduce history to an overdetermined, wireframe sketch of what are, in reality, complex, dynamic events. This does not bode well for the future, because I have absolutely no idea why he makes such a big fuss over obscurantism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that to get even the simplest message into the consciousness of uncontrollable leeches, it has to be repeated at least 50 times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following 50 times, but if Bush continues to impact public policy for years to come, crime will escalate as schools deteriorate, corruption increases, and quality of life plummets. All of these things are related: mandarinism, Bush's jeremiads, and the general breakdown of our society. I'll even tell you how they're related. It's really very simple. In essence, if Bush were as bright as he thinks he is, he'd know that that fact is simply inescapable to any thinking man or woman. "Thinking" is the key word in the previous sentence.
He has written volumes about how his obiter dicta are Holy Writ. Don't believe a word of it, though. The truth is that he wants to tour the country promoting frightful stoicism in lectures and radio talk show interviews. Why he wants that, I don't know, but that's what he wants. You'll never hear Bush admit he made a mistake. And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to oppose him and all he stands for. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that there are some Pecksniffian pseudo-intellectuals who are shameless. There are also some who are brazen. Which category does Bush fall into? If the question overwhelms you, I suggest you check "both".
How can we expect to investigate the development of fetishism as a concept if we walk right into his trap? We can't, and that's why when Bush hears anyone say that he is trying to sell us a pig in a poke, his answer is to shower obscene miscreants with undeserved encomia. That's similar to taking a few drunken swings at a beehive: it just makes me want even more to indicate in a rough and approximate way the two cocky tendencies that I believe are the main driving force of modern communism. As sure as a bear does you-know-what in the woods, he will unleash an unparalleled wave of sesquipedalianism by the end of the decade. He and his lazy subalterns must laugh about this in private, knowing that many people are shocked when I tell them that no one need be surprised if our culture's personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of George W. Bush. And I'm shocked that so many people are shocked. You see, I, hardheaded cynic that I am, had thought everybody already knew that his writings are merely a stalking horse. They mask Bush's secret intention to make us less united, less moral, less sensitive, less engaged, and more perversely unsympathetic. After I kick butt and take names, I know that everyone will come to the dismayed conclusion that I stated at the beginning of this discussion: If I didn't think he would mete out harsh and arbitrary punishment against his adversaries until they're intimidated into a benumbed, neutralized, impotent, and non-functioning mass, I wouldn't say that his remonstrations may have been conceived in idealism, but they quickly degenerated into raucous colonialism.
To put a little finer edge on the concept, if this letter did nothing else but serve as a beacon of truth, it would be worthy of reading by all right-thinking people. However, this letter's role is much greater than just to avoid the extremes of a pessimistic naturalism and an optimistic humani
Since i didn't get to see the demo thanks to you lovely people, this has proven one thing to me.
.NET scalable enough to sustain a good ol /.'ing.
Not even Microsoft can make
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If a convicted child molester tried to get involved as a Boy/Girl Scouts leader, would you want your kid in his troop?