I've been lax, in a way, in my pruning of late so the findimagedupes program found about 28000 groups of near duplicate images. Finding that many was a surprise and that's why I started looking to see if a program had been written yet for the next step, finding the better image.
I wrote a little script that prunes the identical files but now run into the problem of non-identical files that contain the same or nearly the same image.
Thanks, I will look at this.
It's not just that there are occasional duplicates but, in some subject matters, so many duplicates that the storage requirements become a nuisance.
And if it were normal porn it wouldn't be so much of a problem as JPEG loses aren't so noticeable in images of natural items or settings but this is cartoon porn where people should have used.gif to start and the loses along what should be sharply defined lines becomes more noticeable.
Now you have a situation where you need someone who not only understand COBOL but JAVA as well. Most of the code will likely translate pretty easily but there are going to be some things that won't work the way they figured.
I remember a little bit of COBOL I was involved in while on a work term at university and someone had used an odd assignment to prune the first few characters from a long string. I warned them at the time that the assignment was iffy and a different compiler could produce a result they wouldn't expect but they dismissed it. Now, what will happen when these sorts of odd assignments are passed through a COBOL to Java translator? That's where you end up needing someone who can work with both languages.
Well, aren't you a scary reply. You're kenp and I'm kpoole.
Can you guess what my first name is? Is your middle initial "G"? Was it painting pictures or painting walls?
I've often thought of emulating an artist I see doing very well on an auction site. Maybe I've done it and am suffering a split personality.
Response time had nothing to do with getting a response from a human at the IT shop I worked at. If a human couldn't answer the call within 20 seconds, a voice messaging system took over and took a message so a human could call back. That was counted as a successful customer contact.
You'll always find that managers can measure time more easily than they can measure actual customer satisfaction so that's what they'll measure first. Then they measure how many trouble calls were closed and by who. At the same shop, a fellow was called to account for why he had only closed two trouble calls that week. It turned out he shouldn't have closed any that week since he was away on course but the others in his group called him into a couple of problems they couldn't handle. The management forgot that they had actually sent him away for the course and were ready to discipline him for not doing his allotment of trouble calls that week.
I love computers. I love problem solving. I love helping people. BUT, the idea of getting involved with another shop like that where all the consideration is given to time management, poor metrics for customer satisfaction and 7x24 pager coverage just makes me sick to my stomach.
I thought there was a hot or not website out in the wild a few years ago. Are they trying to patent that or have they made some significant change to putting your picture up and having people rate you not or not?
I'm in Canada and find, via *69, that these calls are coming from telemarketers with phone numbers in the United States. So, the list is working. We're not getting calls from Canada we're getting them from the States and, likely, there are equivalent scenarios being used to get around do-not-call lists for the States.
Since the calls are coming from the States you can try to put your number on their list but they won't accept an area code outside of the U.S.
So, that's how you get around the list. Originate your calls for one country from another country that doesn't abide by the do-not-call list. What's going to be needed now are cross border agreements that each country will help enforce the other's do-not-call lists.
The Environmental Protestantism movement is already underway but there's no money to be made in it so it gets nowhere. All the big money is already hooked into supporting the indulgences system.
Your first comment seems to indicate that all we need to do is nudge the climate to some course other than the one it is one now. The amount of energy needed to produce such a random change might be small but suppose you put a small amount of energy into the process and nudge it into a direction worse that the one we are on.
Your second comment is even more problematic.
First, you agree that if we try to force a change the system might react in a way we cannot foresee then you suggest that all we need to do is keep the existing system from changing.
The natural state of the climate is that it is always in a state of change driven by the Sun, which is inconsistent in how much energy it radiates, as the energy source and including processes we haven't completed listed and interactions we cannot map (because we haven't found all the processes.)
If you try to freeze changes in one part of the climate you'll create other changes in other parts.
To keep the climate the same you have to offset ALL the natural processes that are at work to create the next natural change in the climate and, if you believe in man driven global warming, you have to have to offset the effects of man's activities as well. That's not a small nudge, that's driving the climate in a certain direction.
But, what do I know, some one else has already called me a moron.
Yes, water vapor is the major green house gas only being augmented by carbon dioxide.
This just points out that most of the people in the global warming camp know about as much real science as most kindergarten classes.
A more sensible fellow was interviewed on TV recently who said that most of our climate change is driven by the Sun and that the best way for us to spend our capital in regards to climate change is to learn to adapt. The climate is composed of myriad systems that we still haven't enumerated, cannot properly inter-relate (since we don't know them all) and already contain enough energy that we couldn't drive them in a particular direction if we wanted. AND, if somehow we did manage to force a change, the system would likely react in a way we wouldn't be able to foresee.
What was the line in that old Monty Python skit, about adapt and move on. That's our key to surviving, adapt to changing conditions and move on.
I imagine that if you encrypt your data and then refuse to give them the password it would be treated something along the lines of refusing to give a breathalyzer sample. In their eyes, the only reason you'd refuse is because you're trying to hide something illegal.
The solution is to have nothing on your notebook, keep all your work or pr0n on your machine at home and access it via some remote desktop service or home server.
I'm surprised we haven't seen more of the environmental and global warming backlash over this since they're increasing both the amount of free heavy metals and carbon dioxide in the air with these programs.
The monarchy is only a figurehead. We control our own constitution now.
And, it sounds like the government might actually be listening to the people at times other than when an election is due.
Here's another fan of the circular slide rule. You could fit what would be a long slide rule in your shirt pocket by using a circular one. Imagine trying to keep a 12" straight slide rule in your shirt pocket. You could with a circular one.
All they need to do is start paying off the internet radio stations in the same way they pay off the old school radio stations.
The simple solution for the internet radio stations might be to go completely indie but does the new royalty schedule cover artists that are not in the RIAA? I have heard some say that it does not matter whether the artist is a member or not but the RIAA still has the right to collect royalties. The so far unaffiliated artists then have only to join the RIAA to collect the royalties, or their stipend of the royalties, from the RIAA. If that is so then even internet radio stations streaming only music from artists independent of the RIAA will still have to pay.
Not saying it's fair or right but is it true? (expecting it to be true since it seems so unreasonably biased in favor of the RIAA and they ave the money to make it so.)
It seems that they got what they want in larger royalties but they're effectively shutting down the businesses that would pay those royalties. Exactly what do they think they've won here?
I'm not an internet radio listener but the logic of forcing your revenue stream, however pitiful you think it might be, out of business doesn't seem to be right for anyone involved.
yuo have a sphere that is exceedingly round. They been very careful to make certain it is very precise but to calculate the volume of the sphere don't you depend on a transcendental number call Pi that can be calculated out to so many places but hasn't an end so you're end result for the volume of the thing is going the depend on how namy digits of Pi you decide to bring into the equation.
How many digits along do you need to go to reach the point where one more digit of pi results in one half an atom's worth of volume?
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This is a very interesting service that might answer a different sort of question that I hear in the forums I frequent. Thanks.
I've been lax, in a way, in my pruning of late so the findimagedupes program found about 28000 groups of near duplicate images. Finding that many was a surprise and that's why I started looking to see if a program had been written yet for the next step, finding the better image. I wrote a little script that prunes the identical files but now run into the problem of non-identical files that contain the same or nearly the same image.
Thanks, I will look at this. It's not just that there are occasional duplicates but, in some subject matters, so many duplicates that the storage requirements become a nuisance.
And if it were normal porn it wouldn't be so much of a problem as JPEG loses aren't so noticeable in images of natural items or settings but this is cartoon porn where people should have used .gif to start and the loses along what should be sharply defined lines becomes more noticeable.
Now you have a situation where you need someone who not only understand COBOL but JAVA as well. Most of the code will likely translate pretty easily but there are going to be some things that won't work the way they figured. I remember a little bit of COBOL I was involved in while on a work term at university and someone had used an odd assignment to prune the first few characters from a long string. I warned them at the time that the assignment was iffy and a different compiler could produce a result they wouldn't expect but they dismissed it. Now, what will happen when these sorts of odd assignments are passed through a COBOL to Java translator? That's where you end up needing someone who can work with both languages.
Well, aren't you a scary reply. You're kenp and I'm kpoole. Can you guess what my first name is? Is your middle initial "G"? Was it painting pictures or painting walls? I've often thought of emulating an artist I see doing very well on an auction site. Maybe I've done it and am suffering a split personality.
Response time had nothing to do with getting a response from a human at the IT shop I worked at. If a human couldn't answer the call within 20 seconds, a voice messaging system took over and took a message so a human could call back. That was counted as a successful customer contact. You'll always find that managers can measure time more easily than they can measure actual customer satisfaction so that's what they'll measure first. Then they measure how many trouble calls were closed and by who. At the same shop, a fellow was called to account for why he had only closed two trouble calls that week. It turned out he shouldn't have closed any that week since he was away on course but the others in his group called him into a couple of problems they couldn't handle. The management forgot that they had actually sent him away for the course and were ready to discipline him for not doing his allotment of trouble calls that week. I love computers. I love problem solving. I love helping people. BUT, the idea of getting involved with another shop like that where all the consideration is given to time management, poor metrics for customer satisfaction and 7x24 pager coverage just makes me sick to my stomach.
Yeah, here it is ... http://www.hotornot.com/
I thought there was a hot or not website out in the wild a few years ago. Are they trying to patent that or have they made some significant change to putting your picture up and having people rate you not or not?
I'm in Canada and find, via *69, that these calls are coming from telemarketers with phone numbers in the United States. So, the list is working. We're not getting calls from Canada we're getting them from the States and, likely, there are equivalent scenarios being used to get around do-not-call lists for the States. Since the calls are coming from the States you can try to put your number on their list but they won't accept an area code outside of the U.S. So, that's how you get around the list. Originate your calls for one country from another country that doesn't abide by the do-not-call list. What's going to be needed now are cross border agreements that each country will help enforce the other's do-not-call lists.
The Environmental Protestantism movement is already underway but there's no money to be made in it so it gets nowhere. All the big money is already hooked into supporting the indulgences system.
Your first comment seems to indicate that all we need to do is nudge the climate to some course other than the one it is one now. The amount of energy needed to produce such a random change might be small but suppose you put a small amount of energy into the process and nudge it into a direction worse that the one we are on. Your second comment is even more problematic. First, you agree that if we try to force a change the system might react in a way we cannot foresee then you suggest that all we need to do is keep the existing system from changing. The natural state of the climate is that it is always in a state of change driven by the Sun, which is inconsistent in how much energy it radiates, as the energy source and including processes we haven't completed listed and interactions we cannot map (because we haven't found all the processes.) If you try to freeze changes in one part of the climate you'll create other changes in other parts. To keep the climate the same you have to offset ALL the natural processes that are at work to create the next natural change in the climate and, if you believe in man driven global warming, you have to have to offset the effects of man's activities as well. That's not a small nudge, that's driving the climate in a certain direction. But, what do I know, some one else has already called me a moron.
Yes, water vapor is the major green house gas only being augmented by carbon dioxide. This just points out that most of the people in the global warming camp know about as much real science as most kindergarten classes. A more sensible fellow was interviewed on TV recently who said that most of our climate change is driven by the Sun and that the best way for us to spend our capital in regards to climate change is to learn to adapt. The climate is composed of myriad systems that we still haven't enumerated, cannot properly inter-relate (since we don't know them all) and already contain enough energy that we couldn't drive them in a particular direction if we wanted. AND, if somehow we did manage to force a change, the system would likely react in a way we wouldn't be able to foresee. What was the line in that old Monty Python skit, about adapt and move on. That's our key to surviving, adapt to changing conditions and move on.
I imagine that if you encrypt your data and then refuse to give them the password it would be treated something along the lines of refusing to give a breathalyzer sample. In their eyes, the only reason you'd refuse is because you're trying to hide something illegal. The solution is to have nothing on your notebook, keep all your work or pr0n on your machine at home and access it via some remote desktop service or home server.
I'm surprised we haven't seen more of the environmental and global warming backlash over this since they're increasing both the amount of free heavy metals and carbon dioxide in the air with these programs.
The monarchy is only a figurehead. We control our own constitution now. And, it sounds like the government might actually be listening to the people at times other than when an election is due.
The nail in their coffin was that they didn't own the Unix code. It still belongs to Novell who are currently distributing SuSE Linux.
Here's another fan of the circular slide rule. You could fit what would be a long slide rule in your shirt pocket by using a circular one. Imagine trying to keep a 12" straight slide rule in your shirt pocket. You could with a circular one.
All they need to do is start paying off the internet radio stations in the same way they pay off the old school radio stations. The simple solution for the internet radio stations might be to go completely indie but does the new royalty schedule cover artists that are not in the RIAA? I have heard some say that it does not matter whether the artist is a member or not but the RIAA still has the right to collect royalties. The so far unaffiliated artists then have only to join the RIAA to collect the royalties, or their stipend of the royalties, from the RIAA. If that is so then even internet radio stations streaming only music from artists independent of the RIAA will still have to pay. Not saying it's fair or right but is it true? (expecting it to be true since it seems so unreasonably biased in favor of the RIAA and they ave the money to make it so.)
It seems that they got what they want in larger royalties but they're effectively shutting down the businesses that would pay those royalties. Exactly what do they think they've won here? I'm not an internet radio listener but the logic of forcing your revenue stream, however pitiful you think it might be, out of business doesn't seem to be right for anyone involved.
yuo have a sphere that is exceedingly round. They been very careful to make certain it is very precise but to calculate the volume of the sphere don't you depend on a transcendental number call Pi that can be calculated out to so many places but hasn't an end so you're end result for the volume of the thing is going the depend on how namy digits of Pi you decide to bring into the equation. How many digits along do you need to go to reach the point where one more digit of pi results in one half an atom's worth of volume?