I went to a McD's and asked what the guy recommends. He said "the restaurant down the street." Sure enough, the pictures of McD's burgers were representative of the type of burger I could expect...at the restaurant down the street.
I think there's a lot of room here for false positives. I don't want to be the target of an advertising (or worse yet hate) campaign just because I fell into some arbitrary category based on the stereotypes of self righteous fools in the ivory tower. Unfortunately, I think the only way to beat this (meaning this particular scheme) is to avoid fbook entirely. Anyways, my friends don't need fbook to know who they are. There's enough people selling my information as it is so I don't think I need to actively help them but putting info on fbook.
Sort of. The liver converts the toxins, read ammonia, into a safe chemical, read urea, and that's what the kidneys filter. I'm not sure but I don't think the urea would pass through the intestine walls back into the blood stream if ingested. It's more likely that it will dehydrate you due to osmosis since the kidneys do a great job of concentrating the urea. I don't believe we have digestive enzymes that work on urea so it would probably just pass through you. As for other toxins, if the body can get it out of the bloodstream once it can do it again. There's actually an old Japanese tradition of drinking your morning piss. I don't know of any health benefits, but as far as I know it didn't really do them any harm either.
As for tomatoes, I've heard of urea fertilizers, but it's usually bad practice to put waste from humans or carnivores on crops because you can pass on E. Coli and various diseases that way.
I mean that the goal of the project is not to have a 3d model to view, but rather to use a 3d model to make it easier to find 2d pictures. Check the videos on their site.
No, it's designed to help you find images of a particular location and then it shows you the original photos. The 3d model part is kinda misleading as they're just using it to calculate the relative positions of where the pictures were taken and then browse it like a giant 3d menu. The summary gave me the impression that they built a photo realistic 3d model of the city, but it's just a glorified image browser. You could argue it's like Google image search, but it seems that they did actually copy the pictures instead of just linking to the originals on Flickr. Still, it's some pretty neat photo processing.
noone ever got a kickback for switching to a free product / service
a lot of companies need someone to sue if they have trouble with the software. the more money the provider has the better this sort of contingency plan looks
Typically not, but Touchstone did make Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Mickey got a cameo appearance in the film and they used the film as the inspiration for a new area of the DisneyLand park, Toon Town. Even that was only PG though so you're probably right.
I would imagine most of those fees would go under development costs since it's required to get the product on the shelf. Maybe there's also per use fees for using NFL logo's in ads, but that's probably small in comparison.
I can only speak for myself, but when I first started using Linux I chose Slackware (this was version 7) because it worked the best for me. Of the half dozen distros I tried it was the one that just worked on my hardware. I never thought of it as a bare bones system. I had access to everything I wanted via a straightforward package manager and I didn't have to install anything I didn't want. I've since moved on to other distros, but much of what I learned in my Slackware days has served me well with other Linux distros and on Unix. In fact, I've yet to find a *nix system that I wasn't comfortable with (once I had access to a terminal that is). All systems force you to learn something; it's more about what you learn. I think there will always be a certain amount of nostalgia associated with Slackware just because it was the first formal distro. Maybe some of its popularity isn't entirely rational, but to its credit it's still a solid and versatile system. It seems to me that the entire Linux culture is based on choice and freedom anyway so if people want to use it more power to them.
Normally getting an auditor is a good CYA technique. However, deliberately misleading the auditor is essentially fraudulent misrepresentation. Even so, the auditor should actually perform an audit - not just sit back and sign off on a prepared demo. That's like a CPA just checking your totals without actually looking at your books.
Most users just want to use the Internet and many of them still don't know or care what an OS is. Even if they know they're running Windows they often can't tell you which version.
hardly any mainstream Linux distributions
They only need one. Besides, most of the Linux netbooks have used heavily customized distros instead of providing off the shelf mainstream distros.
Since when do ID people look at evidence? In the Pennsy ID trial the ID proponents admitted to not running any of the experiments they proposed. Yes, in science when a theory doesn't fit the evidence you either adjust it or throw it out. For example, experiments looking for the ether led to the dismissal of both the particle and wave theories of light. They gave way to the theory of relativity which is still being rigorously tested because scientists don't take anything for granted.
Compare that with dogmatic writings that get promoted as absolute unchanging truth in spite of being full of internal contradictions as well contradictions with history and with science.
There is some precedence for preventing private distribution of public material. There was a company in Missouri a few years back charging a large fee to get a copy of freely available documents about your home. Since that was already illegal they got shut down. If it wasn't I suspect you'd end up with so many copy cats that it would eventually be difficult to find the actual government site.
India has a similar problem with all sorts of fake government offices popping up trying to rip off tourists.
You mean make everything digital so we can just read it on our own devices? Wow! What if we call them "computers." We can even have portable versions called "laptops," "netbooks," and "e-readers." Oh, we could even distribute the copies digitally - we'll call it "Internet"!! I can hardly wait!!! Then all we'd have to worry about is big companies like Amazon deleting books that I've already purchased. But they'd never do that, would they?
I don't think finding uses for technology is what's holding us back.
Ad's? How.... unprofitable... for the news media anyway
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mmm, cgi pr0n lite ... all those 0's and 1's ... so hot! baby you look so good in airbrush
how did that bad religion song go? something like...
i love my computer, you're always in the mood
i get so turned on, when i turn on you
Wouldn't it be easier to just come out and say all the pictures in those ads have been modified?
No, that would be like labeling the unmodified pictures.
I went to a McD's and asked what the guy recommends. He said "the restaurant down the street." Sure enough, the pictures of McD's burgers were representative of the type of burger I could expect...at the restaurant down the street.
Isn't most Malaysian food just a knockoff of other foods (including Chinese) in the first place?
I think there's a lot of room here for false positives. I don't want to be the target of an advertising (or worse yet hate) campaign just because I fell into some arbitrary category based on the stereotypes of self righteous fools in the ivory tower. Unfortunately, I think the only way to beat this (meaning this particular scheme) is to avoid fbook entirely. Anyways, my friends don't need fbook to know who they are. There's enough people selling my information as it is so I don't think I need to actively help them but putting info on fbook.
alright, flame away
Sort of. The liver converts the toxins, read ammonia, into a safe chemical, read urea, and that's what the kidneys filter. I'm not sure but I don't think the urea would pass through the intestine walls back into the blood stream if ingested. It's more likely that it will dehydrate you due to osmosis since the kidneys do a great job of concentrating the urea. I don't believe we have digestive enzymes that work on urea so it would probably just pass through you. As for other toxins, if the body can get it out of the bloodstream once it can do it again. There's actually an old Japanese tradition of drinking your morning piss. I don't know of any health benefits, but as far as I know it didn't really do them any harm either.
As for tomatoes, I've heard of urea fertilizers, but it's usually bad practice to put waste from humans or carnivores on crops because you can pass on E. Coli and various diseases that way.
I'd rather people rally behind a mantra such as "Once we've proven something false, stop saying it's true."
I mean that the goal of the project is not to have a 3d model to view, but rather to use a 3d model to make it easier to find 2d pictures. Check the videos on their site.
No, it's designed to help you find images of a particular location and then it shows you the original photos. The 3d model part is kinda misleading as they're just using it to calculate the relative positions of where the pictures were taken and then browse it like a giant 3d menu. The summary gave me the impression that they built a photo realistic 3d model of the city, but it's just a glorified image browser. You could argue it's like Google image search, but it seems that they did actually copy the pictures instead of just linking to the originals on Flickr. Still, it's some pretty neat photo processing.
noone ever got a kickback for switching to a free product / service
a lot of companies need someone to sue if they have trouble with the software. the more money the provider has the better this sort of contingency plan looks
Typically not, but Touchstone did make Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Mickey got a cameo appearance in the film and they used the film as the inspiration for a new area of the DisneyLand park, Toon Town. Even that was only PG though so you're probably right.
I would imagine most of those fees would go under development costs since it's required to get the product on the shelf. Maybe there's also per use fees for using NFL logo's in ads, but that's probably small in comparison.
I can only speak for myself, but when I first started using Linux I chose Slackware (this was version 7) because it worked the best for me. Of the half dozen distros I tried it was the one that just worked on my hardware. I never thought of it as a bare bones system. I had access to everything I wanted via a straightforward package manager and I didn't have to install anything I didn't want. I've since moved on to other distros, but much of what I learned in my Slackware days has served me well with other Linux distros and on Unix. In fact, I've yet to find a *nix system that I wasn't comfortable with (once I had access to a terminal that is). All systems force you to learn something; it's more about what you learn. I think there will always be a certain amount of nostalgia associated with Slackware just because it was the first formal distro. Maybe some of its popularity isn't entirely rational, but to its credit it's still a solid and versatile system. It seems to me that the entire Linux culture is based on choice and freedom anyway so if people want to use it more power to them.
Normally getting an auditor is a good CYA technique. However, deliberately misleading the auditor is essentially fraudulent misrepresentation. Even so, the auditor should actually perform an audit - not just sit back and sign off on a prepared demo. That's like a CPA just checking your totals without actually looking at your books.
most users still want to run MS-Windows
Most users just want to use the Internet and many of them still don't know or care what an OS is. Even if they know they're running Windows they often can't tell you which version.
hardly any mainstream Linux distributions
They only need one. Besides, most of the Linux netbooks have used heavily customized distros instead of providing off the shelf mainstream distros.
an ARM netbook from Nokia
I'd like an ARM netbook too but not from Nokia. Always Innovating looks more promising http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/
if you don't make money in dollars or spend money in dollars you don't pay income tax or sales tax in dollars
-from the Wampum is Totally Awesome handbook
our government's not that tech savvy: jocogov.org
I heard the iWork doesn't have a sleep mode. You can only use the buddy device iBreakForCoffee.
Since when do ID people look at evidence? In the Pennsy ID trial the ID proponents admitted to not running any of the experiments they proposed. Yes, in science when a theory doesn't fit the evidence you either adjust it or throw it out. For example, experiments looking for the ether led to the dismissal of both the particle and wave theories of light. They gave way to the theory of relativity which is still being rigorously tested because scientists don't take anything for granted.
Compare that with dogmatic writings that get promoted as absolute unchanging truth in spite of being full of internal contradictions as well contradictions with history and with science.
There is some precedence for preventing private distribution of public material. There was a company in Missouri a few years back charging a large fee to get a copy of freely available documents about your home. Since that was already illegal they got shut down. If it wasn't I suspect you'd end up with so many copy cats that it would eventually be difficult to find the actual government site.
India has a similar problem with all sorts of fake government offices popping up trying to rip off tourists.
You can't stifle initiative; you just channel it into less attractive alternatives.
You mean make everything digital so we can just read it on our own devices? Wow! What if we call them "computers." We can even have portable versions called "laptops," "netbooks," and "e-readers." Oh, we could even distribute the copies digitally - we'll call it "Internet"!! I can hardly wait!!! Then all we'd have to worry about is big companies like Amazon deleting books that I've already purchased. But they'd never do that, would they?
I don't think finding uses for technology is what's holding us back.
Ad's? How.... unprofitable... for the news media anyway
If newspapers devoted this much energy to the actual content and quality of journalism, maybe they wouldn't be hurting so much for revenue.
I think that's lower than some of Microsoft's other products. Redmond must be celebrating...