This is a crucially important developmental time in their life. At this stage in school, you get incredibly bright kids who are increasingly bored and get out of the habit of actually exercising their intellect and interests, and get a lot of smart kids turning to self-destructive behavior out of this sheer boredom and a sense of pointlessness about their activities.
If your concern is well-roundedness, then *exposure to new experiences* is what you should be actively seeking for them, not locking them in the same stale environment for unnecessary *years* for no more reason than "gotta jump through these hoops".
If a device warrants dragging around with me, even around the house, I'd much MUCH rather it be pocketable. I currently have a Nokia N800 and it works great for exactly the purposes you describe, and I'm waiting for my Pandora to arrive.
This will foster the development of better anonymous networks and the adoption of proper encryption techniques to defend against these crazy laws.
The obvious next step is that anonymity and encryption will become illegal, and ISPs will require snooping each connection to check that the protocols you use are either unencrypted or have a.gov back door.
I fully agree with your sentiment, but it was the exact same situation with the iPhone, and it sold like gangbusters. Do not underestimate the purchasing power of Apple customers.:-P
What AutoIt does is take a hash of the pixels in a rectangular area. If you interactively capture an area's hash when the screen is in the desired state, then that area can be scanned during the script run to see when/if it matches the desired hash again. The area's location can be relative to a window, control, screen, etc, and the software can scan around various locations in case it moved.
There's no lossiness in any of the image manipulation, but the same pixels need to show up.
I did this exact same thing in AutoIt, except that it needs exact matches of images instead of a fuzzy recognizer. (Plus, I also had rule triggers and state vs just a single list of imperative commands)
The fuzzy match is a nice addition, but this automation concept has been available for years.
Yet every Blu-Ray movie I've seen just looks like a blocky, compressed mess, containing FAR more severe compression and movement artifacts than was typical on DVDs. But then again, I notice such things immediately where others don't.
I used to use a 12"x12" digitizer tablet when working with AutoCAD back in the early 90s. The tablet overlay had a ton of controls to click, and the puck itself had 16 assignable buttons. It was incredibly useful to have all that functionality assigned and available right on the mouse while working with complex GUI-oriented programs.
Everything in life should be free, but it isn't. Grow up.
It is in Sweeden.
Is your food free? Is your gasoline free? Are your clothes free? Is your housing free? I'm not talking about programs for the poor, but across the board for every individual.
Can you get stuff built for you for free? Can businesses get employees for free? Can you hire expertise for free? Is your governmental presence free (as in 0% taxes)?
Everything has a value chain and expenses driving behind the scenes. In terms of priority, why do people clamor for rights to free, quality, expert-delivered education when even basic sustenance is not free? Higher education, by definition of the term, is an upsell in life. While some countries choose to subsidize those expenses, I can't see any objective mandate as to why every society must be required to foot the bill for that.
Besides, many of the problems the USA faces are not based on the fact that things must be paid for by the customers themselves, but that the costs for many things (education, insurance, and health care in particular) have skyrocketed out of control due to predatory and monopolistic practices feeding off the market unchecked.
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So I guess all of this behavior is perfectly fine in 2d virtual worlds, or textual virtual worlds.
This is a crucially important developmental time in their life. At this stage in school, you get incredibly bright kids who are increasingly bored and get out of the habit of actually exercising their intellect and interests, and get a lot of smart kids turning to self-destructive behavior out of this sheer boredom and a sense of pointlessness about their activities.
If your concern is well-roundedness, then *exposure to new experiences* is what you should be actively seeking for them, not locking them in the same stale environment for unnecessary *years* for no more reason than "gotta jump through these hoops".
If a device warrants dragging around with me, even around the house, I'd much MUCH rather it be pocketable. I currently have a Nokia N800 and it works great for exactly the purposes you describe, and I'm waiting for my Pandora to arrive.
The Pandora can run off of USB power. Whether it counts as a netbook or not is up to your definition, as it's basically a handheld computer.
This will foster the development of better anonymous networks and the adoption of proper encryption techniques to defend against these crazy laws.
The obvious next step is that anonymity and encryption will become illegal, and ISPs will require snooping each connection to check that the protocols you use are either unencrypted or have a .gov back door.
Give him a car analogy, like he's driving with his "Check Engine" or oil light on.
I fully agree with your sentiment, but it was the exact same situation with the iPhone, and it sold like gangbusters. Do not underestimate the purchasing power of Apple customers. :-P
What AutoIt does is take a hash of the pixels in a rectangular area. If you interactively capture an area's hash when the screen is in the desired state, then that area can be scanned during the script run to see when/if it matches the desired hash again. The area's location can be relative to a window, control, screen, etc, and the software can scan around various locations in case it moved.
There's no lossiness in any of the image manipulation, but the same pixels need to show up.
I did this exact same thing in AutoIt, except that it needs exact matches of images instead of a fuzzy recognizer. (Plus, I also had rule triggers and state vs just a single list of imperative commands)
The fuzzy match is a nice addition, but this automation concept has been available for years.
Gesundheit!
Who will fast track patents that patents track fast will who?
Fixed that for you.
Can't recipients of false DMCA claims charge the sender to be fined, or to collect a fee from them?
Yet every Blu-Ray movie I've seen just looks like a blocky, compressed mess, containing FAR more severe compression and movement artifacts than was typical on DVDs. But then again, I notice such things immediately where others don't.
But these go to 11!
What's next, 8000x50 pixel desktop displays? Give me some height already.
I'd buy a device that is only 600 pixels tall only if it were handheld and a good price. For a laptop, no way. That's not a usable screen height.
So if I have a pot wired across the power receiver, I can twiddle it until it matches. If people know the factors being sampled, they can adjust them.
are a million to one, he said!
I used to use a 12"x12" digitizer tablet when working with AutoCAD back in the early 90s. The tablet overlay had a ton of controls to click, and the puck itself had 16 assignable buttons. It was incredibly useful to have all that functionality assigned and available right on the mouse while working with complex GUI-oriented programs.
Bring on the buttons.
I still have my old x.com credit card. It's a great geeky X-Com commemorative, even though it has nothing to do with the game. :-D
Everything in life should be free, but it isn't. Grow up.
It is in Sweeden.
Is your food free?
Is your gasoline free?
Are your clothes free?
Is your housing free?
I'm not talking about programs for the poor, but across the board for every individual.
Can you get stuff built for you for free?
Can businesses get employees for free?
Can you hire expertise for free?
Is your governmental presence free (as in 0% taxes)?
Everything has a value chain and expenses driving behind the scenes. In terms of priority, why do people clamor for rights to free, quality, expert-delivered education when even basic sustenance is not free? Higher education, by definition of the term, is an upsell in life. While some countries choose to subsidize those expenses, I can't see any objective mandate as to why every society must be required to foot the bill for that.
Besides, many of the problems the USA faces are not based on the fact that things must be paid for by the customers themselves, but that the costs for many things (education, insurance, and health care in particular) have skyrocketed out of control due to predatory and monopolistic practices feeding off the market unchecked.
Everything in life should be free, but it isn't. Grow up.
At last, we now know why the solar system is immune to status effects.
See, you can get a lot higher up without a kid inside.
Yes, I did read the article, which doesn't really list the side effects of this being a legal right. What I said is one such effect.