This will be really helpful to woefully overworked food inspectors. Currently inspection of food is pretty much a visual thing: if it looks okay, it passes. This device will help do more thorough testing.
Of course, it'll be nicer when a dozen years from now, every butcher shop in the country has one. I can hear Sam the Butcher offering to check the rib roast for Alice before he serves her up the meat!;)
Of course it goes without saying that no amount of devices like this can replace throughly cooking and washing your food before you eat it. Don't use the same knife on the salad that you used to cut the chicken, etc.
No, this is just a myth. Bob Hoskins is, in fact, CGI. I invite you to go watch Super Mario Bros the Movie. No human would have the self-decency to have appeared in that thing (except Mojo Nixon!)
Any solution that you pay $1M for is a custom solution.
I'm pretty sure that the US Congress will need a customer solution. I can't really seem them going to egghead.com and buying something off-the-shelf. Anyways, a million bucks is nothing! I'd be impressed if Congress kept it that low. I mean really, a million bucks. Thats like a dozen wrenches or something!:)
In those films *everything* was CGI. Toy Story didn't have a human actor appearing in it. Neither did Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or Ants or whatnot. I think thats the difference between this film and the others.
This may not be a troll per se but it certainly seems to me that you're trying to start a debate between those who hated TPM and the few who loved it.:)
Citing "security concerns" is just a way for Germany to encourage the use of products from German-based companies. Right now Germany needs to do all it can to encourage economic growth at home. In former East Germany, unemployment is rampant. Its as high as 20% in some places.
I believe that they can't simply bar American software for various trade legalities. So they need to use "security concerns" as a cover to justify this. It doesn't mean that MS has backdoors in its code; rather the *rumor* that such things exist is the perfect reason for the German's to use software from their country.
I spent some time trying to learn to program in various languages. C...C++...Java...even Visual Basic (yeah, yeah, yeah). But at some point in all of them I got frustrated and gave up. I would love to learn how to find an object-oriented tutorial in C++ that skips, say, the concepts of private/public/protected/friend.
In Python everything is public. Yeah there can be some problems with this, but it makes learning the language *so* much easier. I can spend my time learning algorithms, not the nuances of a language. Once I've got the algorithm mastered, I can port it fairly easy to another language.
This is why I really like Python. I picked it up really quickly; much faster than any other language I tried. In fact, I picked up a book on it about three weeks ago. Today I completed my first *real* program for work. So in three weeks I learned enough of a language to write a program that'll automatically check a remote FTP site, insure that daily files backed up, and that they're the right size. I don't know many languages that can go from zero to that in three weeks.
So I guess I consider myself to be a bit emotional about Python.
I advise people not to use Python for the following reasons: 1) Python has had license issues. Guido does not want to relinquish final control over Python, and he wants to get paid for what other language implementors do for free. 2) Python is defined by it's implementation. There's no standard for developers to rely on. That means ultimately you are at the mercy of the good or bad judgement of the Python team. 3) New versions break old programs. I do NOT want my customers to have to have 2 or 3 versions of Python installed. 4) There are better alternatives. Lisp or Ruby.
Ahem...lets look at this statement this way.
I advise people not to use Linux for the following reasons: 1) Linux has had license issues. Linus does not want to relinquish final control over Linux, and he wants to get paid for what other language implementors do for free. 2) Linux is defined by it's implementation. There's no standard for developers to rely on. That means ultimately you are at the mercy of the good or bad judgement of the Linux kernel team. 3) New versions break old programs. I do NOT want my customers to have to have 2 or 3 versions of Linux kernels installed. 4) There are better alternatives. MacOS or Windows.
Yeah, its not a *perfect* fit, but pretty damn close.
At first the lack of semicolons and curly-braces was really a little disconcerting. "How will Python know the function has ended?!" I wondered.
Well, after a week of using it I actually came to prefer Python's indentation method to the traditional semicolon/curly-brace way of C/C++/Java. To me, the logic of the code tends to be easier to follow.
Anyone know why the Pig Latin thing was removed from Aimster? From their site it looked like it was running afoul of the DMCA laws, but it didn't give any details.
Post away! This is your change to earn some karma!:)
When I look back on Pong it looks so primitive and antiquated. Yet I can remember being entranced by it for hours. Not too long ago, a friend and I played it against one another and it was a blast.
I guess that despite all the nice graphics that have occured since then, the most important element in making a game is the gameplay. Some games that look gorgeous seem to have let the gameplay fall to a secondary position, while other games that are fairly old still get thousands of players a day.
It will be nice when gameplay and graphics get combined.
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On paper vehicles like this are great. If I could hook up my car to a railroad and have a hands-free drive to work for a half hour, that would be great!
Unfortunately, I would also be giving up the ability to drive the twelve hours north from San Francisco to Eugene, Oregon. And this, really, is what kills concept vehicles like this. In exchange for the intangible promise of a cleaner atmosphere and smaller gas bills, you give up a great deal of freedom and autonomy.
If someone could make a car powered by alternative-fuels, that lets me drive as far as I'd like, I think it would be a huge success. Until then, I don't think any of these are going to get beyond the prototype stage.
The page that you linked too was already featured in an older Slashdot article. Maybe that's why it was rejected when you submitted it.
I know this is a bit off-topic from the original discussion, and I hope the moderators aren't too vicious with me, but...it would be really nice to have stories that are rejected given a reason why. Nothing fancy. In this case just "Already run" or something.
So, just don't read what you're not interested in.
I generally try to avoid the stuff thats not interesting. For example, I'll never see any more Jon Katz stuff. But I'd like to read the occasional humorous story. Unfortunately, this wasn't very funny, nor newsworthy enough to merit posting on Slashdot.
This story was barely funny, at best. I don't think it was worthy of front page on Slashdot. Particularly when there are other's that have been submitted and rejected that are much more interesting.
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I can think of one billionaire I'd love to see shot into space.
Of course, it'll be nicer when a dozen years from now, every butcher shop in the country has one. I can hear Sam the Butcher offering to check the rib roast for Alice before he serves her up the meat! ;)
Of course it goes without saying that no amount of devices like this can replace throughly cooking and washing your food before you eat it. Don't use the same knife on the salad that you used to cut the chicken, etc.
I understood the DoD chose Linux over Windows because they didn't want their soldiers to take orders from General Protection Fault! :)
(It had to be said.)
No, this is just a myth. Bob Hoskins is, in fact, CGI. I invite you to go watch Super Mario Bros the Movie. No human would have the self-decency to have appeared in that thing (except Mojo Nixon!)
I'm pretty sure that the US Congress will need a customer solution. I can't really seem them going to egghead.com and buying something off-the-shelf. Anyways, a million bucks is nothing! I'd be impressed if Congress kept it that low. I mean really, a million bucks. Thats like a dozen wrenches or something! :)
In those films *everything* was CGI. Toy Story didn't have a human actor appearing in it. Neither did Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or Ants or whatnot. I think thats the difference between this film and the others.
This may not be a troll per se but it certainly seems to me that you're trying to start a debate between those who hated TPM and the few who loved it. :)
Without a doubt the only causes Taco has donated to is his anime DVD fund.
Secondly, drop that smarmy attitude unless your country invented the Internet.
I believe that they can't simply bar American software for various trade legalities. So they need to use "security concerns" as a cover to justify this. It doesn't mean that MS has backdoors in its code; rather the *rumor* that such things exist is the perfect reason for the German's to use software from their country.
I really dig Python's for-loop. for x in list: print x Much easier to use!
In Python everything is public. Yeah there can be some problems with this, but it makes learning the language *so* much easier. I can spend my time learning algorithms, not the nuances of a language. Once I've got the algorithm mastered, I can port it fairly easy to another language.
This is why I really like Python. I picked it up really quickly; much faster than any other language I tried. In fact, I picked up a book on it about three weeks ago. Today I completed my first *real* program for work. So in three weeks I learned enough of a language to write a program that'll automatically check a remote FTP site, insure that daily files backed up, and that they're the right size. I don't know many languages that can go from zero to that in three weeks.
So I guess I consider myself to be a bit emotional about Python.
Ahem...lets look at this statement this way.
I advise people not to use Linux for the following reasons: 1) Linux has had license issues. Linus does not want to relinquish final control over Linux, and he wants to get paid for what other language implementors do for free. 2) Linux is defined by it's implementation. There's no standard for developers to rely on. That means ultimately you are at the mercy of the good or bad judgement of the Linux kernel team. 3) New versions break old programs. I do NOT want my customers to have to have 2 or 3 versions of Linux kernels installed. 4) There are better alternatives. MacOS or Windows.
Yeah, its not a *perfect* fit, but pretty damn close.
Well, after a week of using it I actually came to prefer Python's indentation method to the traditional semicolon/curly-brace way of C/C++/Java. To me, the logic of the code tends to be easier to follow.
Post away! This is your change to earn some karma! :)
I guess that despite all the nice graphics that have occured since then, the most important element in making a game is the gameplay. Some games that look gorgeous seem to have let the gameplay fall to a secondary position, while other games that are fairly old still get thousands of players a day.
It will be nice when gameplay and graphics get combined.
Unfortunately, I would also be giving up the ability to drive the twelve hours north from San Francisco to Eugene, Oregon. And this, really, is what kills concept vehicles like this. In exchange for the intangible promise of a cleaner atmosphere and smaller gas bills, you give up a great deal of freedom and autonomy.
If someone could make a car powered by alternative-fuels, that lets me drive as far as I'd like, I think it would be a huge success. Until then, I don't think any of these are going to get beyond the prototype stage.
I know this is a bit off-topic from the original discussion, and I hope the moderators aren't too vicious with me, but...it would be really nice to have stories that are rejected given a reason why. Nothing fancy. In this case just "Already run" or something.
I generally try to avoid the stuff thats not interesting. For example, I'll never see any more Jon Katz stuff. But I'd like to read the occasional humorous story. Unfortunately, this wasn't very funny, nor newsworthy enough to merit posting on Slashdot.
Just my opinion.
This story was barely funny, at best. I don't think it was worthy of front page on Slashdot. Particularly when there are other's that have been submitted and rejected that are much more interesting.
I want to say what a masterful troll you are. Excellent work!
I understand NASA will get this project restored when they learn how to keep a balloon inflated! :)
Hope this helps.
For those too lazy to use google, the painting in question can be found here.