I've seen what Photoshop CS3's auto levels function does to some photos. It gets it right most of the time and when there needs to be little adjustment, it makes a little one and for really bad ones, it makes big adjustments. You could say it's judging the quality of the input image. Well it's right about 75% of the time. When it usually gets confused is when a picture is supposed to look significantly reg, green, or blue and it has no way of knowing that so it screws it up horribly while trying to tone it down. So I'm figuring any automated system won't possibly be remotely as smart as a human when it comes to sorting the "best" photos out front. It will probably just have a huge bias towards certain types of images.
Why would they make up the opposite of gravity when, if I'm not mistaken, the other 3 forces in the universe are capable of pushing and pulling. Wouldn't it be simpler to just say one of those is responsible? Anyway, I read a while ago that the singularity of a black hole makes such a dent in space that it goes right through to somewhere else. But of course you can't go in one cuz you'll get destroyed. But since the singularity is infinitely small but large enough to exist, it doesn't have a measurable radius. So if particles all spin into it in the same direction, it will rotate it faster and faster and theoretically spin faster than the speed of light since you can't say "oh well, the outside edge is traveling at ____ speed" because it doesn't really have an outside edge to measure rotational speed at a given point. And somehow they think when that happens, it's no longer capable of emitting gravity. So my point is, if there's a particle created inside a black hole that generates the opposite of gravity and it's still emitting gravity, it will still be too violent to get near. And if it stopped emitting gravity, the opposing "spread out" force would blow the thing up, especially since it's spinning so fast. With no inward force and all outward force, it would just spread out and dissolve or whatever. So no matter what, we're probably not going to be able to use a black hole as a useful wormhole. We're gonna have to build a stargate and dial it up!
How about that one couple thousand year old computer/clock/astronomical/big gear thing that I read about on slashdot like a year ago. That thing was pretty bad ass lol. Did they ever find out what that thing did? Was it compatible with the Divx codec?
If they want to improve their business, why would they want to buy Yahoo?! They're worse than microsoft when it comes to their reputation for online advertising. All they do is put up uncontrolled ads pushing spyware, invade your privacy, and try and get you to install ad-pkaced toolbars. Wouldn't they buy a company that's...oh you know...GOOD? Yahoo has turned into a greedy version of AOL. They should just die. Speaking of that, their company is tanking so that's another reason why Microsoft shouldn't be interested. If they wanted to improve their own business, they just wouldn't buy some failing company with a horrible reputation that everyone with a brain hates. I think this all has something to do with SBC and Microsoft being an ISP.
using an object instantiated on one page on the next page is a huge pain. If you serialize it, there can't be any object used in the class that makes the object you want to serialize.
I thought for business purposes a lot of people use those two open source ASP pieces of software on their servers. You ever try writing...ANYTHING in php that's remotely complicated or God help us all...object oriented! I was just through that nightmare a couple weeks ago. It's like you've got to trick php into doing what you want it to cuz it sure as hell wasn't designed for it.
actually I was thinking more of V for Vendetta. I can see the slashdot story now: "Man in mask blows up parliament." I dunno why british citizens put up with all the tracking and spying bullshit as it is right now. Hopefully someone will get a clue and realize that would suck and start blowing crap up. Or at least go to a government meeting lol.
my web host ipowerweb registered my domain name through OnlineNIC under their own company's contact info, in my name. I couldn't do anything with the domain cuz technically they owned it cuz it was their account. If I sent a request for domain transfer, they'd receive and ignore it without even asking me. Trust me, I talked to their support. They do that. There's no way to transfer to domain cuz they'll always say no to the request notification. And I transferred to a new host because my old one had about 75% uptime on FTP connections and 90% uptime for the rest of the site and forget e-mail. I could connect to the e-mail part of the server maybe once a week if I was lucky. THEY SUCKED. So the moral of the story is, always use an outside registrar for your domain to ensure you have control over it
well at least now we know redundency is a foreign concept to them. If there's ever a war, all we have to do is slice some cables and the entire...what like middle east and part of asia or something loses their ability to launch cyber attacks and communicate? Not very bright over there, are they? Even worse, don't foreign companies own the fiber cables and they're just leasing them? Forget slicing them, they could say "we don't like your country anymore" and disconnect them and apparently they have no backup connections at all. They're taking one small step for stupid network design and one giant leap for stupidity in general.
how can you read it? This is one of the most poorly written articles ever. The guy can't even form a sentence properly. I'm through the whole first page and I'm not even sure what this article is about. Some guy was trading a bought the wrong stocks and then something about programming?
Guess who the biggest offender is? WEB HOSTS! I lost my old domain because I had my old domain host use their registrar. And guess what happened when I didn't renew with they cuz they sucked? They re-registered it "for my convenience" and sat on. I had to go to.net instead! That should be soooooo illegal under monopoly/anticompetition laws.
Okay first of all, if it's government run you know they're gonna spy on everyone everywhere with it. I won't be able to ping a website without it getting permanently logged. And secondly, if I recall, it'll take about the same $100 billion to fix our ridiculously outdated, inefficient, unreliable, unadapting power infrastructure too. I say we do that first. If my computer's got power at least I can play Oblivion but what can I do with no power and an internet connection?
you're right. When you think about it, the amount of electromagnetic and same spectrum interference can only go up from here really. My limit is one disconnect or five packets delayed more than 1000 milliseconds PER MONTH or I'm continously pissed at anything wireless. And living next to a huge power transformer station...well let's just say I run a 50 foot cable through my house now. LAN is never going to die in favor of wireless. The fastest way to get a news broadcast with no delay from the other side of the world is fiber under the ocean and that's never going to change.
lol that's all I got. They gotta change the name to the Penguin Patrol! Lol jk, I have something more constructive. I don't recall a story recently about any police databases getting hacked cuz they run insecure or worse, unpatched Microsoft software but wouldn't that suck if it did? I mean most of that stuff in their databases is public info anyway in the US at least but some of it isn't. So hurray for switching to something way more secure seeing as how the should probably have some security, you know.
Okay for all the complainers out there, consider this. If Windows didn't come with a web browser at all, how would you go to the site to download Firefox or Opera? There's some basic capabilities that an OS needs to have, deal with it. If your product is really better, it will catch on. That's why Sound Editor (go look, it's seriously still in the accessories folder and hasn't changed since windows 95) hasn't taken the audio editing world by storm.
hey the girlscouts got their cookies but what do the boyscouts have? I think they should merge with the other BSA and be junior company raiders. That'd be a real fund raiser and everyone knows boys like guns.
Speaking of that, how can private armed people run into a company? Dunno about your work but at the hospital where I worked if anyone but the government walked in with guns, we killed them.
they based it on the rate at which we find new ones compared to the volume of space and some other stuff. So it's a pretty good estimation. To estimate we found "all of them" we'd have to have not found any for like 500 years or something.
Two GPUs on a single card? Who the hell needs that kind of power?
Hey, it's not often that the next graphic card released by a company is almost twice as fast. I assume this one has to be at least close. Probably 180% or more faster than the previous one. Usually it's like 20% faster than the one before it. I finally found a game my BFG 6600GT OC can't run maxed out (Oblivion) and let's pretend that was currently the top of the line card. Okay so then they make one with 2 GPUs. It could run the hell out of Oblivion. You know that's actually kinda funny cuz if they seriously did just make a dual core version of my card, it would be fast enough to run just about anything. Okay so for now, it's ridiculously overpowered but that just means it'll be fast for longer.
that reminds me. I bet they just had a "You know, we probably should have picked a different name" moment like all the not so wisely named sites out there that took off. I mean youtube is like you and tube, I mean it's genius! But you gotta wonder if the Flickr creator ever sat down and thought "too bad flicker was already taken" lol. I know I've had one of those moments. I've now written 36 very popular stories on a certain site and now 20,000 people read each one and I'm stuck with my stupid nickname that I pulled out of my ass in 30 seconds the first time. So yeah, do you think the owner of the pirate bay ever walked into the office one day and asked someone "you think the name's why they're suing us?" They might have done better with Happyland or Distributed Data Inc.
P.S. for all you literal people out there, this post was mostly half joking and not serious
no cuz you'd have to kill every single one. The AIDS virus doesn't need the immune system, it just attacks it. I'm a big fan of running 100% of a person's blood through a heating machine that would heat it up to hot enough to kill them then cooling it down and pumping it back in. That wouldn't kill the ones in cells though.
it seems thinner than a skull but who knows. My question is, once it makes you remember what channel the sci fi network is on, will your (infrared based) remote work? Ooh you know what would be even funnier! I'm thinking it pulses IR light in patterns cuz otherwise just plain old beaming from the sun would do it too like other ppl commented. And to get through your head, they're gonna be DAMN BRIGHT so if some escaped out part of the helmet the light pulses might change your TV. So then you'd be sitting there with the helmet on and you hit the on switch and the TV starts wildly changing channels and the volume and stuff and you're like "OMG I can't control TVs with my mind with this on!" They'll have to list that on the side effects to the treatment on the commercial. "May cause dry mouth, phantom third arm syndrome, and feeling that you can control TVs with your mind"
they're like fat guys in beaters with shotguns on Cops. They gotta come out eventually. If there's something waiting in your bloodstream to massacre them, they might find it hard to reproduce effectively. Which brings up an interesting point. There's gotta be some signal that says "hey, you're sick, make tons of white blood cells" but it's always like 2 days too slow and sometimes too little too late. Why not synthesize that hormone or neurotransmitter and give someone a super dose of it to give them a crazy abnormal amount of white blood cells as fast as possible? Yes, I know, that wouldn't cure AIDS (well AIDS by definition yes, HIV no). Or better yet, why not just cut out the middle man and find a way to synthesize the exact matching antibodies for them and just pump someone full of them? That's how it works, right? White blood cells catch a virus, make an antibody for it, then release a bunch of it I think. In fact, why not just capture the antibodies the white blood cell gives off, see what they're made out of, and make them. Or find out what pattern white blood cells use to build their antibodies, make the pattern one for a given virus, and send it to a bunch of white blood cells in a test tube and have them synthesize antibodies for us. If I was a scientist, I'd shoot for that.
where were you? We already did and it's called Zinc. You spray it in your nose and the viruses can't do anything. I'm never sick for more than 24 hours now. Anyway, screw that, they should cure AIDS. I mean seriously, how hard is that? In fact, how is it that nobody's even found a way to destroy virus cells in general? We have antibacterial drugs that kill almost all bacteria indescriminantly. Where's the antivirus meds?
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I've seen what Photoshop CS3's auto levels function does to some photos. It gets it right most of the time and when there needs to be little adjustment, it makes a little one and for really bad ones, it makes big adjustments. You could say it's judging the quality of the input image. Well it's right about 75% of the time. When it usually gets confused is when a picture is supposed to look significantly reg, green, or blue and it has no way of knowing that so it screws it up horribly while trying to tone it down. So I'm figuring any automated system won't possibly be remotely as smart as a human when it comes to sorting the "best" photos out front. It will probably just have a huge bias towards certain types of images.
Why would they make up the opposite of gravity when, if I'm not mistaken, the other 3 forces in the universe are capable of pushing and pulling. Wouldn't it be simpler to just say one of those is responsible? Anyway, I read a while ago that the singularity of a black hole makes such a dent in space that it goes right through to somewhere else. But of course you can't go in one cuz you'll get destroyed. But since the singularity is infinitely small but large enough to exist, it doesn't have a measurable radius. So if particles all spin into it in the same direction, it will rotate it faster and faster and theoretically spin faster than the speed of light since you can't say "oh well, the outside edge is traveling at ____ speed" because it doesn't really have an outside edge to measure rotational speed at a given point. And somehow they think when that happens, it's no longer capable of emitting gravity. So my point is, if there's a particle created inside a black hole that generates the opposite of gravity and it's still emitting gravity, it will still be too violent to get near. And if it stopped emitting gravity, the opposing "spread out" force would blow the thing up, especially since it's spinning so fast. With no inward force and all outward force, it would just spread out and dissolve or whatever. So no matter what, we're probably not going to be able to use a black hole as a useful wormhole. We're gonna have to build a stargate and dial it up!
How about that one couple thousand year old computer/clock/astronomical/big gear thing that I read about on slashdot like a year ago. That thing was pretty bad ass lol. Did they ever find out what that thing did? Was it compatible with the Divx codec?
that's in the service pack 1 update. You get jacking, ctrl-alt-del finger position, and DEATH GRIP!
If they want to improve their business, why would they want to buy Yahoo?! They're worse than microsoft when it comes to their reputation for online advertising. All they do is put up uncontrolled ads pushing spyware, invade your privacy, and try and get you to install ad-pkaced toolbars. Wouldn't they buy a company that's...oh you know...GOOD? Yahoo has turned into a greedy version of AOL. They should just die. Speaking of that, their company is tanking so that's another reason why Microsoft shouldn't be interested. If they wanted to improve their own business, they just wouldn't buy some failing company with a horrible reputation that everyone with a brain hates. I think this all has something to do with SBC and Microsoft being an ISP.
using an object instantiated on one page on the next page is a huge pain. If you serialize it, there can't be any object used in the class that makes the object you want to serialize.
I thought for business purposes a lot of people use those two open source ASP pieces of software on their servers. You ever try writing...ANYTHING in php that's remotely complicated or God help us all...object oriented! I was just through that nightmare a couple weeks ago. It's like you've got to trick php into doing what you want it to cuz it sure as hell wasn't designed for it.
actually I was thinking more of V for Vendetta. I can see the slashdot story now: "Man in mask blows up parliament." I dunno why british citizens put up with all the tracking and spying bullshit as it is right now. Hopefully someone will get a clue and realize that would suck and start blowing crap up. Or at least go to a government meeting lol.
my web host ipowerweb registered my domain name through OnlineNIC under their own company's contact info, in my name. I couldn't do anything with the domain cuz technically they owned it cuz it was their account. If I sent a request for domain transfer, they'd receive and ignore it without even asking me. Trust me, I talked to their support. They do that. There's no way to transfer to domain cuz they'll always say no to the request notification. And I transferred to a new host because my old one had about 75% uptime on FTP connections and 90% uptime for the rest of the site and forget e-mail. I could connect to the e-mail part of the server maybe once a week if I was lucky. THEY SUCKED. So the moral of the story is, always use an outside registrar for your domain to ensure you have control over it
well at least now we know redundency is a foreign concept to them. If there's ever a war, all we have to do is slice some cables and the entire...what like middle east and part of asia or something loses their ability to launch cyber attacks and communicate? Not very bright over there, are they? Even worse, don't foreign companies own the fiber cables and they're just leasing them? Forget slicing them, they could say "we don't like your country anymore" and disconnect them and apparently they have no backup connections at all. They're taking one small step for stupid network design and one giant leap for stupidity in general.
how can you read it? This is one of the most poorly written articles ever. The guy can't even form a sentence properly. I'm through the whole first page and I'm not even sure what this article is about. Some guy was trading a bought the wrong stocks and then something about programming?
Guess who the biggest offender is? WEB HOSTS! I lost my old domain because I had my old domain host use their registrar. And guess what happened when I didn't renew with they cuz they sucked? They re-registered it "for my convenience" and sat on. I had to go to .net instead! That should be soooooo illegal under monopoly/anticompetition laws.
Okay first of all, if it's government run you know they're gonna spy on everyone everywhere with it. I won't be able to ping a website without it getting permanently logged. And secondly, if I recall, it'll take about the same $100 billion to fix our ridiculously outdated, inefficient, unreliable, unadapting power infrastructure too. I say we do that first. If my computer's got power at least I can play Oblivion but what can I do with no power and an internet connection?
you're right. When you think about it, the amount of electromagnetic and same spectrum interference can only go up from here really. My limit is one disconnect or five packets delayed more than 1000 milliseconds PER MONTH or I'm continously pissed at anything wireless. And living next to a huge power transformer station...well let's just say I run a 50 foot cable through my house now. LAN is never going to die in favor of wireless. The fastest way to get a news broadcast with no delay from the other side of the world is fiber under the ocean and that's never going to change.
lol that's all I got. They gotta change the name to the Penguin Patrol! Lol jk, I have something more constructive. I don't recall a story recently about any police databases getting hacked cuz they run insecure or worse, unpatched Microsoft software but wouldn't that suck if it did? I mean most of that stuff in their databases is public info anyway in the US at least but some of it isn't. So hurray for switching to something way more secure seeing as how the should probably have some security, you know.
Okay for all the complainers out there, consider this. If Windows didn't come with a web browser at all, how would you go to the site to download Firefox or Opera? There's some basic capabilities that an OS needs to have, deal with it. If your product is really better, it will catch on. That's why Sound Editor (go look, it's seriously still in the accessories folder and hasn't changed since windows 95) hasn't taken the audio editing world by storm.
well they must not have put heroin and/or crack in theirs like the girlscouts
hey the girlscouts got their cookies but what do the boyscouts have? I think they should merge with the other BSA and be junior company raiders. That'd be a real fund raiser and everyone knows boys like guns.
Speaking of that, how can private armed people run into a company? Dunno about your work but at the hospital where I worked if anyone but the government walked in with guns, we killed them.
they based it on the rate at which we find new ones compared to the volume of space and some other stuff. So it's a pretty good estimation. To estimate we found "all of them" we'd have to have not found any for like 500 years or something.
that reminds me. I bet they just had a "You know, we probably should have picked a different name" moment like all the not so wisely named sites out there that took off. I mean youtube is like you and tube, I mean it's genius! But you gotta wonder if the Flickr creator ever sat down and thought "too bad flicker was already taken" lol. I know I've had one of those moments. I've now written 36 very popular stories on a certain site and now 20,000 people read each one and I'm stuck with my stupid nickname that I pulled out of my ass in 30 seconds the first time. So yeah, do you think the owner of the pirate bay ever walked into the office one day and asked someone "you think the name's why they're suing us?" They might have done better with Happyland or Distributed Data Inc.
P.S. for all you literal people out there, this post was mostly half joking and not serious
no cuz you'd have to kill every single one. The AIDS virus doesn't need the immune system, it just attacks it. I'm a big fan of running 100% of a person's blood through a heating machine that would heat it up to hot enough to kill them then cooling it down and pumping it back in. That wouldn't kill the ones in cells though.
it seems thinner than a skull but who knows. My question is, once it makes you remember what channel the sci fi network is on, will your (infrared based) remote work? Ooh you know what would be even funnier! I'm thinking it pulses IR light in patterns cuz otherwise just plain old beaming from the sun would do it too like other ppl commented. And to get through your head, they're gonna be DAMN BRIGHT so if some escaped out part of the helmet the light pulses might change your TV. So then you'd be sitting there with the helmet on and you hit the on switch and the TV starts wildly changing channels and the volume and stuff and you're like "OMG I can't control TVs with my mind with this on!" They'll have to list that on the side effects to the treatment on the commercial. "May cause dry mouth, phantom third arm syndrome, and feeling that you can control TVs with your mind"
they're like fat guys in beaters with shotguns on Cops. They gotta come out eventually. If there's something waiting in your bloodstream to massacre them, they might find it hard to reproduce effectively. Which brings up an interesting point. There's gotta be some signal that says "hey, you're sick, make tons of white blood cells" but it's always like 2 days too slow and sometimes too little too late. Why not synthesize that hormone or neurotransmitter and give someone a super dose of it to give them a crazy abnormal amount of white blood cells as fast as possible? Yes, I know, that wouldn't cure AIDS (well AIDS by definition yes, HIV no). Or better yet, why not just cut out the middle man and find a way to synthesize the exact matching antibodies for them and just pump someone full of them? That's how it works, right? White blood cells catch a virus, make an antibody for it, then release a bunch of it I think. In fact, why not just capture the antibodies the white blood cell gives off, see what they're made out of, and make them. Or find out what pattern white blood cells use to build their antibodies, make the pattern one for a given virus, and send it to a bunch of white blood cells in a test tube and have them synthesize antibodies for us. If I was a scientist, I'd shoot for that.
where were you? We already did and it's called Zinc. You spray it in your nose and the viruses can't do anything. I'm never sick for more than 24 hours now. Anyway, screw that, they should cure AIDS. I mean seriously, how hard is that? In fact, how is it that nobody's even found a way to destroy virus cells in general? We have antibacterial drugs that kill almost all bacteria indescriminantly. Where's the antivirus meds?