"I did not have sexual relations with that woman" => he should have paid for somebody to clean that dress. Why lie about it? If it was good enough for JFK, FDR and so on further back, it was good enough for him.
V.S.
"Iraq's WMD pose an immanent threat to the US, requiring we invade immediately" => thousands of dead Iraquis and 1700+ dead US grunts. Why lie about it? So he's liable for murder and war crimes.
I'll take a president who does it to one girl instead of getting some of us KILLED.
And their Law'N'Order focus is a blunder.
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99.999% of cop shops won't be able to afford it or be able to deploy it.
Its a solution (maybe) that's looking for a problem. They're hoping somebody out there is stuck looking a crap load of picures and trying to match a face.
The situation is more complex. To pick a face out of a crowd, you need to scan the crowd and match every face out there against a database full of faces.
The had part is in being able to pick out the faces, not filling the database.
The key caps were clear and you could put any image that you could imagine and the electronics could be set up to send any (and any sequence of) ASCII character(s).
Sorry but I don't think its patentable. That's' not to say some body might make some dough at it if they can get the keycaps OLED prices down low enough. And that's not to say they won't try (and with our Patent Office, when did prior art count for anything?)
Its just a freaking keyboard. (and then there's the key press 'fee; and feedback mechanism to consider. (I still miss my old Selectric keyboard for its solidity and the great 'clunk' sound.)
now we get NerdTV. (You know you need the 'bleeding edge' and early adopters before you get to the generally accessible fun stuff, but since they're not time-locked, it doesn't matter when you 'discover' a series.)
Wait until producers realize that they can use broadband and a content aggregator or Google to skip the entire 'kowtow and then bend-over facing the other way' process that they go through with the current lot of content disseminators.
No more canceled shows until there's no audience for them, not the current trade-off of "we can squeeze more profits with pushing ads on schlock than we can with your high concept stuff, so piss off."
If you're blind, what do you need all the pretty pictures for? Pretty useless is more like it.
That is NOT to say we should all go around poking ourselves in the eyes with pointed sticks. But sensory technology depends on the sensory equipment available.
I personally think that HDTV as a quality barrier is fine (720i is fine since I can't quite fit 1080i on my monitor.)
Its the CONTENT that is being ladled at me that I object to.
I also object to being forced to watch parts of, or miss entirely, what I would watch because they can't time shift.
Broadcasting with ads makes no sense in a narrow receiver world. We have the technology and were gonna use it.
Actually, the very mind-numbingness of the content, combined with the fact that all the 'good' shows are always getting canceled because they don't pull in a bigger audience per dollar spent on production, are killing the goose that crapped all over the golden egg.
I'm looking forward to the first shows being 'podcast' over the net (with DRM, just like iTunes, heck, maybe ON iTunes for all I know,) that I can download when I want to pay for the content, and watched, as often as I want and when I want to watch them.
Conbine that with Google or a specialized content aggregator (like iTunes) that is watching out for interesting content and organizing it, and you've got a winner.
The digital revolution will be the death of broad casting. Everybody will be happy except the current model media outlets. They're going away too. The best part is that since they're not in the production business, there might be agony but there won't be screaming. And the concept of Neilson ratings will become obsolete.
The content producers will be happy because they will collect revenues asychronously directly from their audience.
The necessity for 'selling' some humourless media exec on the merits of some comedy show will be obviated. It wont be about trying to compete with some other show at a specific time slot.
Its going to become a question of values. Is my content worth it that my audience will pay me to watch it and pay me for more of it.
And remember records, CDs, DVDs, MP3s and iTunes, or mail, emails, web sites, or slashdot engines, blogs and podcasts were just the beginning on the long continuum of asynchonous communication.
Her, uh, 'groonblid'* would LOVE to get a fast line because she can hardly play her on-line games. When she lived downtown, her Sympatico account was great but now, she's got a Jones for even half the speed.
*My ex-wife married another woman. Ain't life in Canada great? I think so. She's happy, her 'groonblid's happy and I'm happy married to somebody else. Win-win all around. (When you can't compete, best not to beat yourself up about it.)
I guess Microsoft's policy of not wanting any talented people working for them extends to their technicians and it just sounds so bad that not even they dare put it out there.
What would be the audio version of Windows anyway?
Nails on a blackboard for usability. Cars crashes for stability. Wood breaking, flies buzzing and mosquitoes getting slapped for security.
Nah. I don't think I'm being fair there.
An audio version of Microsoft would have to be a loud, wet-sounding fart in a crowded elevator. And then silence, followed by gagging sounds.
Can you imagine how inane Clippy would sound? Like Bullwinkle J Moose discussing the food in Potsilvasia.
I don't think a non paper issue of any book is going to sell well. The difference between a physical book in your hand and an e copy is still too large.
I might go for it is it was the size, weight and shape of a paperback and had 4 colour 600 ppi, but I would still resent the powering of the thing.
Apple has shown that a company and the artists can make some dough at this.
The net can serve as a distribution channel, with DRM and the Beeb, or any one else for that matter, can make some dough from this DIRECTLY without having to rely on the availability of some commercial channel who might be willing (for some dough) to carry their shows.
Actually, look for for production companies to test market their shows directly to the internet to figure out if there is any demand.
Who needs some expensive theatre to play a movie for only three weeks when you can stream it on demand directly to the consumer. (I expect that this will really take off for TV shows since most PC monitor resolution exceed TV and you can even download HDTV with the appropriate codecs.)
for example, an untreated diabetics' eyes show some filaments that will disappear when he starts geting treatment.
And diabetes is only one disease which affects the patterns which can be detected in the iris. Many other diseases affect both the radial disposition and the radial pattern. The medical books are filled with disease effects on the eyes.
While iris scanning for recognition is useless, it IS extremely useful as a diagnostic tool in medecine.
For personal identification, you would want to scan the blood vessels in the retina. Those are relatively more stable under a wider range of biological conditions.
But the eyes is a bag of watery tissue. Its subject to varying degrees deformation under a wide variety of physical and bioogical conditions.
How would you like to be refused admision to your work place when all you did was eat some food containing some mono sodium glutemate for lunch? It that easy to screw your patterns.
That means that LIBOR (London Inter Bank Offering Rates) could still get through. This is essential for the world economy.
In case you didn't know, that means that mortgage rates in the 'States could be set.
In addition to the deals that banks can work out between themselves, the LIBOR rates, apart from eliciting comments on Rense.com about America being nothing more than a branch plant economy to our British overlords, are a fundamental component of the banking rates in the states. (Why do you think that London is so imporant? Its not the food or the beer [Smithwicks excepted].:-)
The rates for the mortgage on a shot-gun shack in "Scrote, Arkansas" are set in London.
That is the beauty of market rates. But the "market" is in London.
You don't want to know what he pays for a pair of gloves.
Sounds like the kind of mangling that I
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read once.
The book was called "Gone To Be Snakes Now" and I wish I still had a copy or could find a copy.
It was utterly incomprehensible to my then young mind. Either the writing was an act of wanton arboricide or it was as brilliant as 'The Iluminatus Trilogy" which I encountered later in my lfe and was able to appreciate.
the parking lot when they determine that they were ripped off when they didn't buy the cheap-ass product as the front of the aisle, but instead wandered further into the store?
As a Wall*Mart clerk once told me, "If they're that stupid, fuck 'em." I don't think that the'll auto-censoring phones. Even Microsoft is into porn these days.
with a scroll wheel for my Mac (actualy make that Macs,) and it works just fine. The right mouse button works fine (pops up the same menus as pop-and-hold-for-two-seconds but instantly) and the wheel works fine too (scrolling through the XCode docs a lot easier.)
I only use the Apple while the mouse batteries are recharging.
I've also got some issues with AirPort topology (the GUI has never heard of it. It assumes a single server/client[s] installation).
Maybe its the antenas, maybe its the transmitters, but it sucks that I get better reception from the neighbor's WAP through the floor/ceiling than I can get from my own unobstructed AirPort WAP from 50 feet away.
I know about the inverse square rule with distance but it sucks that the none of the Airport set up software can understand about repeaters. I can only have a star network.
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God damn it. Say the word in your head, if you have to. Say it out loud, if you have to, but its amateur. AMATEUR!
r &searchmode=term )
(Its got an etymology. Just google it or look at http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=amateu
Nobody could have got that virus carrying, spam spewing, spywware ridden, worm eaten pile of code past any decent code review.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman" => he should have paid for somebody to clean that dress. Why lie about it? If it was good enough for JFK, FDR and so on further back, it was good enough for him.
V.S.
"Iraq's WMD pose an immanent threat to the US, requiring we invade immediately" => thousands of dead Iraquis and 1700+ dead US grunts. Why lie about it? So he's liable for murder and war crimes.
I'll take a president who does it to one girl instead of getting some of us KILLED.
99.999% of cop shops won't be able to afford it or be able to deploy it.
Its a solution (maybe) that's looking for a problem. They're hoping somebody out there is stuck looking a crap load of picures and trying to match a face.
The situation is more complex. To pick a face out of a crowd, you need to scan the crowd and match every face out there against a database full of faces.
The had part is in being able to pick out the faces, not filling the database.
The key caps were clear and you could put any image that you could imagine and the electronics could be set up to send any (and any sequence of) ASCII character(s).
Sorry but I don't think its patentable. That's' not to say some body might make some dough at it if they can get the keycaps OLED prices down low enough. And that's not to say they won't try (and with our Patent Office, when did prior art count for anything?)
Its just a freaking keyboard. (and then there's the key press 'fee; and feedback mechanism to consider. (I still miss my old Selectric keyboard for its solidity and the great 'clunk' sound.)
now we get NerdTV. (You know you need the 'bleeding edge' and early adopters before you get to the generally accessible fun stuff, but since they're not time-locked, it doesn't matter when you 'discover' a series.)
Wait until producers realize that they can use broadband and a content aggregator or Google to skip the entire 'kowtow and then bend-over facing the other way' process that they go through with the current lot of content disseminators.
No more canceled shows until there's no audience for them, not the current trade-off of "we can squeeze more profits with pushing ads on schlock than we can with your high concept stuff, so piss off."
If you're blind, what do you need all the pretty pictures for? Pretty useless is more like it.
That is NOT to say we should all go around poking ourselves in the eyes with pointed sticks. But sensory technology depends on the sensory equipment available.
I personally think that HDTV as a quality barrier is fine (720i is fine since I can't quite fit 1080i on my monitor.)
Its the CONTENT that is being ladled at me that I object to.
I also object to being forced to watch parts of, or miss entirely, what I would watch because they can't time shift.
Broadcasting with ads makes no sense in a narrow receiver world. We have the technology and were gonna use it.
Actually, the very mind-numbingness of the content, combined with the fact that all the 'good' shows are always getting canceled because they don't pull in a bigger audience per dollar spent on production, are killing the goose that crapped all over the golden egg.
I'm looking forward to the first shows being 'podcast' over the net (with DRM, just like iTunes, heck, maybe ON iTunes for all I know,) that I can download when I want to pay for the content, and watched, as often as I want and when I want to watch them.
Conbine that with Google or a specialized content aggregator (like iTunes) that is watching out for interesting content and organizing it, and you've got a winner.
The digital revolution will be the death of broad casting. Everybody will be happy except the current model media outlets. They're going away too. The best part is that since they're not in the production business, there might be agony but there won't be screaming. And the concept of Neilson ratings will become obsolete.
The content producers will be happy because they will collect revenues asychronously directly from their audience.
The necessity for 'selling' some humourless media exec on the merits of some comedy show will be obviated. It wont be about trying to compete with some other show at a specific time slot.
Its going to become a question of values. Is my content worth it that my audience will pay me to watch it and pay me for more of it.
And remember records, CDs, DVDs, MP3s and iTunes, or mail, emails, web sites, or slashdot engines, blogs and podcasts were just the beginning on the long continuum of asynchonous communication.
I for one see better things ahead.
Her, uh, 'groonblid'* would LOVE to get a fast line because she can hardly play her on-line games. When she lived downtown, her Sympatico account was great but now, she's got a Jones for even half the speed.
*My ex-wife married another woman. Ain't life in Canada great? I think so. She's happy, her 'groonblid's happy and I'm happy married to somebody else. Win-win all around. (When you can't compete, best not to beat yourself up about it.)
Apart for the Gimli Glider ( http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html ) it went pretty smoothly.
Of course it would be utter carnage in the skies over (or on the landings in) the United States.
I guess Microsoft's policy of not wanting any talented people working for them extends to their technicians and it just sounds so bad that not even they dare put it out there.
What would be the audio version of Windows anyway?
Nails on a blackboard for usability.
Cars crashes for stability.
Wood breaking, flies buzzing and mosquitoes getting slapped for security.
Nah. I don't think I'm being fair there.
An audio version of Microsoft would have to be a loud, wet-sounding fart in a crowded elevator. And then silence, followed by gagging sounds.
Can you imagine how inane Clippy would sound? Like Bullwinkle J Moose discussing the food in Potsilvasia.
But nobody will be able to get the signal! (And there'll be too many f*cking ads! It will be unwatchable.)
lets you boot from any damn device selectable by keyboard, unlike my slackware box with its firmware bios flash problem.
My files have got so largeand/or their architecture so complex that I burn to DVD (Not even CD-ROMs have enough space.)
Hopefully that will last me for a while...
the music. I'm beginning to wonder if Omar had something when he banned music.
They make it awkward to use because they don't really want it.
I'm sure a PDF form emailed back to them in XML would be a universally usable, platform agnostic, way for them to receive the information.
than a sparkler. (legally anyway :)
It is largely ignored for the smal stuff but still...
I'm not going to buy the stupid book anyway.
I don't think a non paper issue of any book is going to sell well. The difference between a physical book in your hand and an e copy is still too large.
I might go for it is it was the size, weight and shape of a paperback and had 4 colour 600 ppi, but I would still resent the powering of the thing.
Book are an okay form. Leave 'em alone.
Apple has shown that a company and the artists can make some dough at this.
The net can serve as a distribution channel, with DRM and the Beeb, or any one else for that matter, can make some dough from this DIRECTLY without having to rely on the availability of some commercial channel who might be willing (for some dough) to carry their shows.
Actually, look for for production companies to test market their shows directly to the internet to figure out if there is any demand.
Who needs some expensive theatre to play a movie for only three weeks when you can stream it on demand directly to the consumer. (I expect that this will really take off for TV shows since most PC monitor resolution exceed TV and you can even download HDTV with the appropriate codecs.)
Yeah! Somebody's finally 'getting it.'
for example, an untreated diabetics' eyes show some filaments that will disappear when he starts geting treatment.
And diabetes is only one disease which affects the patterns which can be detected in the iris. Many other diseases affect both the radial disposition and the radial pattern. The medical books are filled with disease effects on the eyes.
While iris scanning for recognition is useless, it IS extremely useful as a diagnostic tool in medecine.
For personal identification, you would want to scan the blood vessels in the retina. Those are relatively more stable under a wider range of biological conditions.
But the eyes is a bag of watery tissue. Its subject to varying degrees deformation under a wide variety of physical and bioogical conditions.
How would you like to be refused admision to your work place when all you did was eat some food containing some mono sodium glutemate for lunch? It that easy to screw your patterns.
That means that LIBOR (London Inter Bank Offering Rates) could still get through. This is essential for the world economy.
:-)
In case you didn't know, that means that mortgage rates in the 'States could be set.
In addition to the deals that banks can work out between themselves, the LIBOR rates, apart from eliciting comments on Rense.com about America being nothing more than a branch plant economy to our British overlords, are a fundamental component of the banking rates in the states. (Why do you think that London is so imporant? Its not the food or the beer [Smithwicks excepted].
The rates for the mortgage on a shot-gun shack in "Scrote, Arkansas" are set in London.
That is the beauty of market rates. But the "market" is in London.
You don't want to know what he pays for a pair of gloves.
read once.
The book was called "Gone To Be Snakes Now" and I wish I still had a copy or could find a copy.
It was utterly incomprehensible to my then young mind. Either the writing was an act of wanton arboricide or it was as brilliant as 'The Iluminatus Trilogy" which I encountered later in my lfe and was able to appreciate.
the parking lot when they determine that they were ripped off when they didn't buy the cheap-ass product as the front of the aisle, but instead wandered further into the store?
As a Wall*Mart clerk once told me, "If they're that stupid, fuck 'em." I don't think that the'll auto-censoring phones. Even Microsoft is into porn these days.
with a scroll wheel for my Mac (actualy make that Macs,) and it works just fine. The right mouse button works fine (pops up the same menus as pop-and-hold-for-two-seconds but instantly) and the wheel works fine too (scrolling through the XCode docs a lot easier.)
I only use the Apple while the mouse batteries are recharging.
I've also got some issues with AirPort topology (the GUI has never heard of it. It assumes a single server/client[s] installation).
Maybe its the antenas, maybe its the transmitters, but it sucks that I get better reception from the neighbor's WAP through the floor/ceiling than I can get from my own unobstructed AirPort WAP from 50 feet away.
I know about the inverse square rule with distance but it sucks that the none of the Airport set up software can understand about repeaters. I can only have a star network.