I expect the bug is because it is trying clean up the scanned image. Trying to account for what it thinks is missing data. 14.13m^2, 21.11m^2, 17.42m^2
It see 3 blocks of information that probably roughly looks the same to the software accounting for errors. The amount of pixels used in each are fairly close. I expect the scanner sees the three blocks and thinks they are the same, and tries to find the block that seems the most sharp and reproduces them over the other spots.
Scanning isn't pixel perfect you get a different match. So the image cleaning processor will probably try to clean the numbers differently.
Because technology alternates back and forth on this stuff. Early Computers did all the work. You had a computer it did all the work for you and only you. Then we got the mainframe One Big computer with terminals so people use the terminals and the data gets saved on the Mainframe(s). Then came the PC, we started to move off the mainframe and ran programs directly on our computer again. Once broad band became cheap enough and popular services began to move to the cloud as on the average your data was safer there, and easier for the company to manage the software. So with cheap and a lot of data we could go back to more of a Personal computing role again. Probably keeping the strong points from the past and making using computing a little more different.
Say you now have a Netflix app that will in the background download what it expects you to watch. Then if you want to watch it it is available even if it is offline. Or your system will host an archive of your data in cases your networks speed is too slow or are offline.
Will their be trade offs you bet. But this type of stuff cycles around. CPU+Storage+Networking+Price Fluctuate over time. So the popular solution will change base on the systems strong points.
Desktops for average Joe Web Browser user, is starting to get out of fashion, and going to Phones and Tablets (I am not touting death to any technology here). But to get the optimal conveniences we are trading off Slower CPU, and Storage to get small form factor at a good price. So many apps are popular on the cloud. Because the servers have the Big CPUs and storage and will just send output to the low end Tablets. Now these tablets are getting faster and more storage so people will want to run more apps on them, thus more apps will be created.
Sure, that is what the Open Source Zealots want. Problem with the Open Source App on a closed source OS... That means the Closed Source software MUST BE BAD.
Open Source doesn't have Any Problems it is perfect! Any problems is because of those greedy closed source programs.
If the site you like does get spammed, then it is your problem. More Spam = more expensive site to run = need for more income = more adds smarter adds ones that go around add blocks.
I am all for ending capatachas however what are the alternatives? Please I would like more discussion on good alternatives, then just busting on an old attempt that works OK.
This Apocalypse stuff is really starting to annoy me. If civilization falls, it will be gradual. And we won't go back to the stone age. Why because we know how to not live in the stone age.
We know about metals and melting ore to to create them. We know about magnets and how they can be used to generate electricity or using electricity to create maniacal energy. We understand that silicon has a semi-conductive state and how to arrange semi-conductors into not gates and not gates into And and Or gates and further on to a computer.
As a group of people we know a lot of stuff. and will not live like in a stone age. Short term we may be living in camps. But we would have a lot of things to help out.
For the most part a towel is more handy. However if you go bare bones, I would suggest a good quality Pocket knife (no extra stuff just the knife). A towel is a nice extra. WD-40 for the wilderness isn't that much use, for the most part you will want more friction not less. Duct tape, has a limited use time until your roll runs out. A knife you can use over and over again, sharpen it on a stone and keep going. You can strip bark and make rope, which can allow you to tie the knife at the end of a stick to make a deadly spear. You can scrape it against some flint to start a fire.
Or you could think of it rationally. You have 1 Icebreaker taking one pass to do what it would take 3 to do.
They are still going to cut as much ice, they need it for shipping. It will just take less time, less fuel, and less ships. Better than the alternative.
This article does seem like it counter evolution the way it was stated.
What was more accurate was the brains were doing something else that would allow for an easy migration to flight.
Such as our thumb, our ancient Monkey like relieves had thumbs, like us, however they didn't use tools, they used them to help with climbing. As we evolved further we found the tools that we had for climbing came in rather handy for tools too.
Evolution has a lot of random elements, and it isn't survival of the fittest per say but survival of the luckiest... However the one who were lucky to be more fit then the other would tend to have an advantage... However not always, sometimes something silly as having a brighter color or a lump in the right spot, did more to attract mates then giving them a normal survival advantage, in some cases due to its random nature becomes more of a problem to normal survival... However it was good enough to get to the next generation.
The Intelligent Design folks state on how perfect the human body is... However we are not perfect by any means. Child Birth complication as a trade-off to being able to walk upright, or our noes when it is stuffed hinders breathing! We are prone to a bunch of aliments. But what we had was good enough to pass onto the next generation. In many ways Trees are more "evolved" then we are, they can survive much more then we can.
We buy insurance to hedge against a major problem. House on fire, theft, car accident, floods, law suites... For the most part stuff you normally don't want to happen to you. The Insurance company job is to cover you in case of the problem. Now they can't operate without making money, and they are for profit. So they will try to make sure they will make their money on the whole. They do this by charging a fee for service. Now the cost of the fee per service needs to be high enough to cover your probability that a problem will occur. So say there is a 1 out of a 100 chance that you will suffer a $100 claim. They will need to charge you at least $1, but that is rather unreasonable because the company has its own expenses, people to manage your claims, you account, payroll, building expenses... etc... Also you expect that they want to make a profit of at least 20%. So you will probably be paying $3 for insurance. Now there is a lot of competition out there. So they are pressured to keep their prices down. Because their prices need to be competitive there isn't much room to be generous. So for your $100 claim. (say your cheap Cell phone got stolen) the insurance company may state because you had your $100 phone for a year its deprecated cost is $50, and they will only give you $50 for it, figuring you can get a used phone off ebay, or take the money and just use it as part of buying a new phone, figuring you would have bought a new phone within the next year. You as the customer would feel scammed because while your phone may be worth $50, in terms of technology. It had your contacts on it and your favorite ringtone, and perhaps it has some more meaning to you.
In short if you want full coverage you will need to pay more. If you want cheap expect to get corners cut. That said, going cheap may still be an option, as this accident may never happen, and you would be better off. Also getting the partial claim, plus the money saved on lower rates may make it better. They account for this stuff too.
Now you could in essence get a loan in place of insurance. However the loan price is based on a 100% chance you will get an accident. So for a Home loan you will be paying 100% your mortgage vs paying 15% of your mortgage. Or you can suffer the consequences of not having insurance. I don't pay for extra insurance on my phone myself. If it gets lost or stolen, then I will loose and need to get a new product. But I can deal with it.
The first thing is to figure out what are the Most Mission Critical systems, and cover them in order of priority, really try to press the criticalcality of the system.
Top Priority: Systems where there is a Downtime has an immediate impact. There is NO Work Around, it needs to run High Priority: Systems where there is downtime work around and they can tolerate it down for a few hours while you mess with it Medium Priority: Systems that can be down for a Day Low Priority: Systems that can be down longer then a day
Try to get the passwords, or make sure you have a passwords and rights to all the systems work in order of priorities. Create a network map, inventory every system, switch and router... Make sure you have access to them. Find the Power Users in the area, they may be able to help you out later on, they may not know everything the sysadmin does but they know their little section and sometimes has tips and tricks that don't get passed on. If there is an issue after he leaves you have contacts. Get the vendor support numbers if available. Working in order or priority find the custom stuff programs/scripts etc... Do an overview on what they do, what language affect what systems... On the second to last day, shadow the old admin, on the Last day do everything, he should only mentor.
After he leaves. CHANGE ALL THE PASSWORDS he knows, and check for back doors in the network to prevent him from entering the system.
Due to short time of transition you will probably stumble a bit, but you should have enough to hit the ground running.
Usually with multi-Core. you can expect to run 8 things at once at full speed. Writing code for parallel processors takes some fore though. Most of the time we just write stuff that follow normal top down. 8 Core Phones work if you have 8 Apps that need to run in real time.
However the trend to more cores is due to the size of the chip getting smaller, but not the performance per chip.
Free Market doesn't prevent selling junk. It is a free market you can sell what you want, Junk or something great.
However if the product fails to meet customer expectation they may not buy the product, buy an other product from that company and give a negative recommendation about the product. So other people can choose not to buy the product. As it is a free market they don't need to buy it.
The problem isn't Free Market. But the biggest supporters of free market are also so anti-Education, they they try to stop research into the product, as someones normal course of action. Preventing Free Markets natural checks and balances.
A controlled market would probably prevent bad phones from being released. But also good ones, as it is near impossible to predict consumer demand. Sure the iPhone was successful... However it could have failed. Even the all mighty Apple with its teams of Fan Boys has made flops, without having any major technical issues, it just wasn't what the market wanted.
I have never heard of the Stratosphere until today. Probably because it wasn't really a good phone. And you have no one to blame except for yourself for buying a phone you didn't know much about. The phone isn't dangerous, and for the most part it works, it just doesn't suit your needs... Sorry.
If you build for the average person, you are doomed to fail. Because 1/2 of the population is above average. Also there are the finer details that a person doesn't fully recognize. The average person cannot tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. However if you have them side by side (with colors/contract/brightness matching) They will see the a difference.
That is if you give the cheaters all the control. The problem with today's systems isn't that we are writing code that slow because of lack of trying. But we have to account for more variables.
Hackers and Cheaters (especially for a system where you pay real money for virtual goods) would have a field day if they could flip a few bits and get some of the most expensive stuff in the game. Then sell online without a bunch of other checks on what the payer is doing.
Today our computers would run lighting fast if it wasn't for all the people who wanted to break in into our systems and take data, and cause problems.
It is a piece of paper that allows you to be insufferably smug. Because you have a DR. in front of your name it somehow makes you an expert in everything. Even though the course work for the most part narrows you field of study to a small section of a field.
Well be sure not to get the Cheap stuff as well. There is a sweet spot in the middle where you get the best bang for the buck.
That said if you have external backups and you mission critical of some data isn't that high where you need it now always. You probably could get by with using cheap stuff and restore from backup if it fails, sure it may take a day to get it back out. But information such as financials information doesn't need to be there all the time for most organizations. But there within a few days you need it.
It would work great if you need Astronaut Paste. The G Forces to fire a projectile into space would be incredible. Most stuff we would shoot up would probably be crushed or unusable.
Emacs A text editor with Mainframe methodology. We have a big honking computer, lets make sure we stuff as many features in it as possible, so we don't need to install other editors.
VI A text editor with a Mini-Computer methodology. The computer isn't as powerful as a mainframe so it is smaller and lighter, without every feature under the sun. However we expect data entry type of people using it so it is designed for fast keyboard interaction.
Granted with Modern PC's we can run either without much of a hassle. However compared to some modern alternatives like Eclipse or Notepad++ they tend to feel more dated.
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I expect the bug is because it is trying clean up the scanned image. Trying to account for what it thinks is missing data.
14.13m^2, 21.11m^2, 17.42m^2
It see 3 blocks of information that probably roughly looks the same to the software accounting for errors. The amount of pixels used in each are fairly close. I expect the scanner sees the three blocks and thinks they are the same, and tries to find the block that seems the most sharp and reproduces them over the other spots.
Scanning isn't pixel perfect you get a different match. So the image cleaning processor will probably try to clean the numbers differently.
Because technology alternates back and forth on this stuff.
Early Computers did all the work. You had a computer it did all the work for you and only you.
Then we got the mainframe One Big computer with terminals so people use the terminals and the data gets saved on the Mainframe(s).
Then came the PC, we started to move off the mainframe and ran programs directly on our computer again.
Once broad band became cheap enough and popular services began to move to the cloud as on the average your data was safer there, and easier for the company to manage the software.
So with cheap and a lot of data we could go back to more of a Personal computing role again. Probably keeping the strong points from the past and making using computing a little more different.
Say you now have a Netflix app that will in the background download what it expects you to watch. Then if you want to watch it it is available even if it is offline.
Or your system will host an archive of your data in cases your networks speed is too slow or are offline.
Will their be trade offs you bet. But this type of stuff cycles around. CPU+Storage+Networking+Price Fluctuate over time. So the popular solution will change base on the systems strong points.
Desktops for average Joe Web Browser user, is starting to get out of fashion, and going to Phones and Tablets (I am not touting death to any technology here). But to get the optimal conveniences we are trading off Slower CPU, and Storage to get small form factor at a good price. So many apps are popular on the cloud. Because the servers have the Big CPUs and storage and will just send output to the low end Tablets. Now these tablets are getting faster and more storage so people will want to run more apps on them, thus more apps will be created.
Sure, that is what the Open Source Zealots want. Problem with the Open Source App on a closed source OS... That means the Closed Source software MUST BE BAD.
Open Source doesn't have Any Problems it is perfect! Any problems is because of those greedy closed source programs.
Mmmm. KoolAid
If the site you like does get spammed, then it is your problem.
More Spam = more expensive site to run = need for more income = more adds smarter adds ones that go around add blocks.
I am all for ending capatachas however what are the alternatives?
Please I would like more discussion on good alternatives, then just busting on an old attempt that works OK.
This Apocalypse stuff is really starting to annoy me. If civilization falls, it will be gradual. And we won't go back to the stone age.
Why because we know how to not live in the stone age.
We know about metals and melting ore to to create them. We know about magnets and how they can be used to generate electricity or using electricity to create maniacal energy. We understand that silicon has a semi-conductive state and how to arrange semi-conductors into not gates and not gates into And and Or gates and further on to a computer.
As a group of people we know a lot of stuff. and will not live like in a stone age. Short term we may be living in camps. But we would have a lot of things to help out.
For the most part a towel is more handy.
However if you go bare bones, I would suggest a good quality Pocket knife (no extra stuff just the knife).
A towel is a nice extra.
WD-40 for the wilderness isn't that much use, for the most part you will want more friction not less.
Duct tape, has a limited use time until your roll runs out. A knife you can use over and over again, sharpen it on a stone and keep going.
You can strip bark and make rope, which can allow you to tie the knife at the end of a stick to make a deadly spear. You can scrape it against some flint to start a fire.
Or you could think of it rationally.
You have 1 Icebreaker taking one pass to do what it would take 3 to do.
They are still going to cut as much ice, they need it for shipping. It will just take less time, less fuel, and less ships. Better than the alternative.
This article does seem like it counter evolution the way it was stated.
What was more accurate was the brains were doing something else that would allow for an easy migration to flight.
Such as our thumb, our ancient Monkey like relieves had thumbs, like us, however they didn't use tools, they used them to help with climbing. As we evolved further we found the tools that we had for climbing came in rather handy for tools too.
Evolution has a lot of random elements, and it isn't survival of the fittest per say but survival of the luckiest... However the one who were lucky to be more fit then the other would tend to have an advantage... However not always, sometimes something silly as having a brighter color or a lump in the right spot, did more to attract mates then giving them a normal survival advantage, in some cases due to its random nature becomes more of a problem to normal survival... However it was good enough to get to the next generation.
The Intelligent Design folks state on how perfect the human body is... However we are not perfect by any means. Child Birth complication as a trade-off to being able to walk upright, or our noes when it is stuffed hinders breathing! We are prone to a bunch of aliments. But what we had was good enough to pass onto the next generation. In many ways Trees are more "evolved" then we are, they can survive much more then we can.
We buy insurance to hedge against a major problem. House on fire, theft, car accident, floods, law suites... For the most part stuff you normally don't want to happen to you. The Insurance company job is to cover you in case of the problem.
Now they can't operate without making money, and they are for profit. So they will try to make sure they will make their money on the whole. They do this by charging a fee for service. Now the cost of the fee per service needs to be high enough to cover your probability that a problem will occur. So say there is a 1 out of a 100 chance that you will suffer a $100 claim. They will need to charge you at least $1, but that is rather unreasonable because the company has its own expenses, people to manage your claims, you account, payroll, building expenses... etc... Also you expect that they want to make a profit of at least 20%. So you will probably be paying $3 for insurance.
Now there is a lot of competition out there. So they are pressured to keep their prices down. Because their prices need to be competitive there isn't much room to be generous. So for your $100 claim. (say your cheap Cell phone got stolen) the insurance company may state because you had your $100 phone for a year its deprecated cost is $50, and they will only give you $50 for it, figuring you can get a used phone off ebay, or take the money and just use it as part of buying a new phone, figuring you would have bought a new phone within the next year.
You as the customer would feel scammed because while your phone may be worth $50, in terms of technology. It had your contacts on it and your favorite ringtone, and perhaps it has some more meaning to you.
In short if you want full coverage you will need to pay more. If you want cheap expect to get corners cut.
That said, going cheap may still be an option, as this accident may never happen, and you would be better off. Also getting the partial claim, plus the money saved on lower rates may make it better. They account for this stuff too.
Now you could in essence get a loan in place of insurance. However the loan price is based on a 100% chance you will get an accident. So for a Home loan you will be paying 100% your mortgage vs paying 15% of your mortgage. Or you can suffer the consequences of not having insurance. I don't pay for extra insurance on my phone myself. If it gets lost or stolen, then I will loose and need to get a new product. But I can deal with it.
The first thing is to figure out what are the Most Mission Critical systems, and cover them in order of priority, really try to press the criticalcality of the system.
Top Priority: Systems where there is a Downtime has an immediate impact. There is NO Work Around, it needs to run
High Priority: Systems where there is downtime work around and they can tolerate it down for a few hours while you mess with it
Medium Priority: Systems that can be down for a Day
Low Priority: Systems that can be down longer then a day
Try to get the passwords, or make sure you have a passwords and rights to all the systems work in order of priorities.
Create a network map, inventory every system, switch and router... Make sure you have access to them.
Find the Power Users in the area, they may be able to help you out later on, they may not know everything the sysadmin does but they know their little section and sometimes has tips and tricks that don't get passed on. If there is an issue after he leaves you have contacts.
Get the vendor support numbers if available.
Working in order or priority find the custom stuff programs/scripts etc... Do an overview on what they do, what language affect what systems...
On the second to last day, shadow the old admin, on the Last day do everything, he should only mentor.
After he leaves. CHANGE ALL THE PASSWORDS he knows, and check for back doors in the network to prevent him from entering the system.
Due to short time of transition you will probably stumble a bit, but you should have enough to hit the ground running.
Sure it forces you to think.
Usually with multi-Core. you can expect to run 8 things at once at full speed. Writing code for parallel processors takes some fore though. Most of the time we just write stuff that follow normal top down. 8 Core Phones work if you have 8 Apps that need to run in real time.
However the trend to more cores is due to the size of the chip getting smaller, but not the performance per chip.
I kinda like the First Doctor, much more serious. Beside I think Cumberbatch could probably handle being a little lighter too.
I don't think you understand free market.
Free Market doesn't prevent selling junk. It is a free market you can sell what you want, Junk or something great.
However if the product fails to meet customer expectation they may not buy the product, buy an other product from that company and give a negative recommendation about the product. So other people can choose not to buy the product. As it is a free market they don't need to buy it.
The problem isn't Free Market. But the biggest supporters of free market are also so anti-Education, they they try to stop research into the product, as someones normal course of action. Preventing Free Markets natural checks and balances.
A controlled market would probably prevent bad phones from being released. But also good ones, as it is near impossible to predict consumer demand.
Sure the iPhone was successful... However it could have failed. Even the all mighty Apple with its teams of Fan Boys has made flops, without having any major technical issues, it just wasn't what the market wanted.
I have never heard of the Stratosphere until today. Probably because it wasn't really a good phone. And you have no one to blame except for yourself for buying a phone you didn't know much about. The phone isn't dangerous, and for the most part it works, it just doesn't suit your needs... Sorry.
He would make an awesome Doctor.
If you build for the average person, you are doomed to fail. Because 1/2 of the population is above average. Also there are the finer details that a person doesn't fully recognize. The average person cannot tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. However if you have them side by side (with colors/contract/brightness matching) They will see the a difference.
That is if you give the cheaters all the control.
The problem with today's systems isn't that we are writing code that slow because of lack of trying. But we have to account for more variables.
Hackers and Cheaters (especially for a system where you pay real money for virtual goods) would have a field day if they could flip a few bits and get some of the most expensive stuff in the game. Then sell online without a bunch of other checks on what the payer is doing.
Today our computers would run lighting fast if it wasn't for all the people who wanted to break in into our systems and take data, and cause problems.
But that was a 3000 player battle. This was a 4000 player battle... It changes everything... Right?
It is a piece of paper that allows you to be insufferably smug. Because you have a DR. in front of your name it somehow makes you an expert in everything. Even though the course work for the most part narrows you field of study to a small section of a field.
I recommended an analysis of the hardware. And a clean install of the software.
Then you can test by changing your system clock.
That is VIM not VI.
Well be sure not to get the Cheap stuff as well. There is a sweet spot in the middle where you get the best bang for the buck.
That said if you have external backups and you mission critical of some data isn't that high where you need it now always. You probably could get by with using cheap stuff and restore from backup if it fails, sure it may take a day to get it back out. But information such as financials information doesn't need to be there all the time for most organizations. But there within a few days you need it.
It would work great if you need Astronaut Paste. The G Forces to fire a projectile into space would be incredible.
Most stuff we would shoot up would probably be crushed or unusable.
Normally the Tech will call the tech with more experience. There is usually some one who is a good stick on call.
Emacs A text editor with Mainframe methodology. We have a big honking computer, lets make sure we stuff as many features in it as possible, so we don't need to install other editors.
VI A text editor with a Mini-Computer methodology. The computer isn't as powerful as a mainframe so it is smaller and lighter, without every feature under the sun. However we expect data entry type of people using it so it is designed for fast keyboard interaction.
Granted with Modern PC's we can run either without much of a hassle. However compared to some modern alternatives like Eclipse or Notepad++ they tend to feel more dated.