This is news? Anyone else run a NES on those dozen or so emulators that already has pixel-smoothing options?
Yes, this is news. Most scientific and technological advancement is iterative improvement. This paper describes an improvement in the state-of-the-art for vectorizing pixel art (which is not the same as pixel-smoothing, though a vectorized image is usually re-rasterized for display).
Seriously, read the paper. The algorithm described will require some basic understanding of splines and graph algorithms, but it's surprisingly accessible for a graphics/vision paper. Also, shiny pictures.
...in many schools the dirty little secret is that the curve takes the average "D" or "F" up to a "C..."
How is that a "dirty little secret"? There is social and administrative pressure for grades to have a specific distribution; said distribution is very wasteful of any reasonable numeric range of scores. Fitting grades to a curve allows a professor to be very liberal about scoring—providing more information for training/fitting/learning, depending on how they score—without imposing a permanent "grade" penalty. If anything, the dirty little secret is that grade inflation is expected by American culture.
Or did you skip your AI courses? You know, the ones where you learn that feedback is required for learning, and poor feedback (i.e. A/B/C grades) results in slower training/fitting/learning for the best candidate students. Thinking that a curve exists to bump a "D" up to a "C" is the wrong way to analyze a curve, because letter grades are an artificial result of the learning process.
Look up SEC reg SHO. You can't legally do it in the first 30 days.
I did, and I cannot find any references to any 30-day rule for short sales, provided that either you are a market maker or that you can borrow shares (which is restricted in the first 30 days).
If the only fun in playing games was easy succes then why are multiplayer games so popular where you have to compete against players who are in general more skilled than you?
Because you still get positive feedback, even if you suck. You can go 1:10 in a FPS game against a godlike player, but that one kill just feels so good because they had it coming to them. Also, there is no cumulative penalty for mistakes in many games: everyone respawns the same. Games that allow for a higher skill disparity or cumulative penalties tend to be less popular with casual gamers, because they lack that positive feedback.
Saddly you can't short sell the stock for the first 30 days.
Investopedia disagrees with you. All you need is a cozy relationship with an institutional organization that is willing to buy the stock. Maybe not something that a retail trader can do, but probably within the means of a professional trader.
However, there's no getting out from under thermodynamics : if you're getting power from the sun, that can only happen if some plant is not receiving it
Plants absorb limited wavelengths of light (chlorophyll is green, therefore it reflects green and must absorb something else). Maybe someone can devise a solar panel that sits above the terrestrial level and absorbs the complement of the plant's absorbed spectrum, transmitting the rest to our leafy overlords...
So who pays the bill? Innocent bystanders when Sony raises their prices...
I don't think so... Millions of PS3 customers are already mad at Sony. If gaming-related prices go up after this fiasco—especially the creation of a subscription fee for PSN—that will be enough to push many of their customers over to XBox.
Power companies typically like average customers, not peak customers (although they do like customers who use lots of power at off-peak times)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is only true if you are charged a flat (amortized) rate for electricity. If you are using a "smart" meter that charges you based on the market rate at any point in time, the the power company shouldn't give a rat's ass that you are a peak customer, because you are paying for it.
That may be true for those savages in the middle east that stone people to death, but hardly that's the case in western culture.
Are you claiming that western culture is somehow above morbid curiosity and vengeance? How else do you explain Gapers delay(block) (purportedly coined in Chicago) or Faces of Death, a USA-produced movie advertised entirely about watching people die? How about YouTube animal cruelty, many from the USA or UKA (according to TFA)? Get off of your xenophobic horse.
Once some one has your mac address (assuming they have the real one) they know the manufacturer of your device. From there they can figure out where it was sold and they tie that to a credit card or bank card if you didn't pay cash.
Are you telling me that if I tell you 00:50:ba:* you can identify where I bought my NIC? And you can tie it to my credit card? You must be a spook in full collusion with D-Link (for the credit card and inventory records), in which case the mac address reveal is probably the least of my worries. If you look in my windows while you're wardriving, you might even see me, too!
Hong Kong, the world's freest economy, has an unemployment rate of 3.4.
Hong Kong is also tiny (pop. 7 million) in comparison to the USA (pop. 307 million, unemployment 9.2). It's also pretty obvious that organizations don't scale linearly due to communication overhead (bus contention - hey, news for nerds). I don't think you can point two job markets and conclude that government rules explain the difference when one is orders of magnitude larger than the other.
My publisher recommends that you alternate he and she, which leads to some really weird sentences
What??? That sounds like a terrible idea. Political correctness should not get in the way of writing comprehension. Alternating he/she could easily be done by chapter, without constantly jarring a reader's mental image of the referred subject.
Software is one of those industries which is moving so fast that being anchored in the past is a huge disadvantage. If you're young and have a "mentor" who is over 35 I think you're going to hear a lot of prejudice against the good new ideas
I was exactly in this position a few years ago. My mentor definitely showed prejudice towards some of my new-fangled ideas. Likewise, I disdained some of his old-fashioned approaches that just seem klunky and unsafe now. Fortunately, he's smart and he knows that what's important is getting shit done, so our technological gaps always boiled down to implementations rather than interfaces. I still learned a lot about the business and operational sides from him, which was probably the biggest win.
Put more bluntly: If your mentor is getting in the way because of the generational technology gap, the problem is the individual and not the industry.
I thought good colleges ding you for going "above and beyond" the requirements...or at least they should.
Why should they ding overachievers? My university certainly didn't. Take for example many of the courses offered dually for undergrad and graduate students. The primary difference is that graduates had to complete every problem, whereas undergraduates could cherry pick the easiest N. Undergraduates who chose to solve all problems had better mastery over the subject matter, due to the extra practice.
More important to your coding skills is your ability to follow directions;-)
Oh, nevermind. When I hear "good college" I think about an emphasis on learning and research. Sounds like you are talking about colleges where training is emphasized.
It happened right about when you purchased a plasma TV, right? There you go.
Really? In all of the research I did, I found that the worst latency came from LCD TVs, not plasmas. It tended to be due to image "enhancement" algorithms that are more popular with high-end LCDs than high-end plasmas. Check out this "official" plasma input lag thread. Those guys do some pretty serious tests.
I guess it's great for the content providers and their DRM, but when I can't play a single player game because either their servers are down, or I don't happen to have a connection at the time is annoying and stupid.
FWIW, I do own a PS3 and I haven't been prevented from playing single-player games nor watching Netflix. In fact, the Netflix application claims to require a PSN connection, but if you keep allowing the PSN authentication to fail you discover that the warning is more bark than bite.
Have you ever tried to tell your wife she can't have something?
Yes on both accounts. It's not really a problem. We regularly patronize or avoid stores/brands for moral reasons. Have you considered that your problem here is with communication? Look at this difference:
Dear, I run the tech in this house and you are not buying Sony! The foot is down!
vs.
Dear, we should not buy Sony products because they have repeatedly demonstrated unethical business practices [citations provided]. They lie to their customers and treat them like thieves.
This is not changed by the presence of children. In fact, you have a decent chance at spinning it as a moralistic example in your favor.
You're ignoring the awesomeness that is 12. It's so divisible! Want to divide it in half? In third? In fourth? In fifth? Well, no fifth.. but sixth! Ten isn't nearly as nice, apart from the finger-counting.
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Yes, this is news. Most scientific and technological advancement is iterative improvement. This paper describes an improvement in the state-of-the-art for vectorizing pixel art (which is not the same as pixel-smoothing, though a vectorized image is usually re-rasterized for display).
Seriously, read the paper. The algorithm described will require some basic understanding of splines and graph algorithms, but it's surprisingly accessible for a graphics/vision paper. Also, shiny pictures.
How is that a "dirty little secret"? There is social and administrative pressure for grades to have a specific distribution; said distribution is very wasteful of any reasonable numeric range of scores. Fitting grades to a curve allows a professor to be very liberal about scoring—providing more information for training/fitting/learning, depending on how they score—without imposing a permanent "grade" penalty. If anything, the dirty little secret is that grade inflation is expected by American culture.
Or did you skip your AI courses? You know, the ones where you learn that feedback is required for learning, and poor feedback (i.e. A/B/C grades) results in slower training/fitting/learning for the best candidate students. Thinking that a curve exists to bump a "D" up to a "C" is the wrong way to analyze a curve, because letter grades are an artificial result of the learning process.
I did, and I cannot find any references to any 30-day rule for short sales, provided that either you are a market maker or that you can borrow shares (which is restricted in the first 30 days).
s/problem/tasty snack/
Because you still get positive feedback, even if you suck. You can go 1:10 in a FPS game against a godlike player, but that one kill just feels so good because they had it coming to them. Also, there is no cumulative penalty for mistakes in many games: everyone respawns the same. Games that allow for a higher skill disparity or cumulative penalties tend to be less popular with casual gamers, because they lack that positive feedback.
Investopedia disagrees with you. All you need is a cozy relationship with an institutional organization that is willing to buy the stock. Maybe not something that a retail trader can do, but probably within the means of a professional trader.
Plants absorb limited wavelengths of light (chlorophyll is green, therefore it reflects green and must absorb something else). Maybe someone can devise a solar panel that sits above the terrestrial level and absorbs the complement of the plant's absorbed spectrum, transmitting the rest to our leafy overlords...
I don't think so... Millions of PS3 customers are already mad at Sony. If gaming-related prices go up after this fiasco—especially the creation of a subscription fee for PSN—that will be enough to push many of their customers over to XBox.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is only true if you are charged a flat (amortized) rate for electricity. If you are using a "smart" meter that charges you based on the market rate at any point in time, the the power company shouldn't give a rat's ass that you are a peak customer, because you are paying for it.
Are you claiming that western culture is somehow above morbid curiosity and vengeance? How else do you explain Gapers delay(block) (purportedly coined in Chicago) or Faces of Death, a USA-produced movie advertised entirely about watching people die? How about YouTube animal cruelty, many from the USA or UKA (according to TFA)? Get off of your xenophobic horse.
Are you telling me that if I tell you 00:50:ba:* you can identify where I bought my NIC? And you can tie it to my credit card? You must be a spook in full collusion with D-Link (for the credit card and inventory records), in which case the mac address reveal is probably the least of my worries. If you look in my windows while you're wardriving, you might even see me, too!
Maybe you should find out where that guy works now.
Hong Kong is also tiny (pop. 7 million) in comparison to the USA (pop. 307 million, unemployment 9.2). It's also pretty obvious that organizations don't scale linearly due to communication overhead (bus contention - hey, news for nerds). I don't think you can point two job markets and conclude that government rules explain the difference when one is orders of magnitude larger than the other.
What??? That sounds like a terrible idea. Political correctness should not get in the way of writing comprehension. Alternating he/she could easily be done by chapter, without constantly jarring a reader's mental image of the referred subject.
I was exactly in this position a few years ago. My mentor definitely showed prejudice towards some of my new-fangled ideas. Likewise, I disdained some of his old-fashioned approaches that just seem klunky and unsafe now. Fortunately, he's smart and he knows that what's important is getting shit done, so our technological gaps always boiled down to implementations rather than interfaces. I still learned a lot about the business and operational sides from him, which was probably the biggest win.
Put more bluntly: If your mentor is getting in the way because of the generational technology gap, the problem is the individual and not the industry.
Why should they ding overachievers? My university certainly didn't. Take for example many of the courses offered dually for undergrad and graduate students. The primary difference is that graduates had to complete every problem, whereas undergraduates could cherry pick the easiest N. Undergraduates who chose to solve all problems had better mastery over the subject matter, due to the extra practice.
Oh, nevermind. When I hear "good college" I think about an emphasis on learning and research. Sounds like you are talking about colleges where training is emphasized.
FTFY
Really? In all of the research I did, I found that the worst latency came from LCD TVs, not plasmas. It tended to be due to image "enhancement" algorithms that are more popular with high-end LCDs than high-end plasmas. Check out this "official" plasma input lag thread. Those guys do some pretty serious tests.
That's easy to remember: Rouge is a color, and Rogue is the class that gets snake attacks while flanking.
Yes, that's exactly what I was able to do. Just keep trying to login and ignoring the error messages.
FWIW, I do own a PS3 and I haven't been prevented from playing single-player games nor watching Netflix. In fact, the Netflix application claims to require a PSN connection, but if you keep allowing the PSN authentication to fail you discover that the warning is more bark than bite.
Yes on both accounts. It's not really a problem. We regularly patronize or avoid stores/brands for moral reasons. Have you considered that your problem here is with communication? Look at this difference:
vs.
This is not changed by the presence of children. In fact, you have a decent chance at spinning it as a moralistic example in your favor.
Do you have a reference for that zebra-marking research? A five-minute google exercise didn't reveal anything, and I'm interested.
You're ignoring the awesomeness that is 12. It's so divisible! Want to divide it in half? In third? In fourth? In fifth? Well, no fifth.. but sixth! Ten isn't nearly as nice, apart from the finger-counting.