I called yellow book once and told them that one of their representatives had left their trash in my yard, littering. I cited the local fine for littering and told them that if they didn't come get it I was calling the police. The next day it was gone.
I beg to differ. I scrolled up to the top of the page, and looked at it with my 26" 1920*1200 LCD. I could read it at about 3 ft. I stood up and walked back 6ft and couldn't read it.
Then I held down control, and pushed up the mouse wheel, doubling the size of that image... Guess what, I COULD read it at that point. Yeah, it's just as blurry as it was when I was 3ft from it, but before at 6ft it was just jagged vertical lines.
I understand your point, subpixel scaling only works on a relatively small scale, but pointing out that it's still as illegible after zooming isn't true.
Sorry, the media matters website completely overloads our reality correction firewall to the point it gives up and blocks it completely. Couldn't read your article but I'll take your word for it.
Regardless of what it actually was, the poster made it sound like my old cell phone using it's weird sort of assistive typing. It was beneficial there because I only had 8 keys to choose from, so I could hit the 1, and by the end of the word it would usually figure out if I wanted an A, B or C. The longer the word the more accurate. But the problem is, it wasn't very natural and you always had to check that it actually put in the word you wanted. Maybe it's not that difficult and maybe your description was more complicated than it really is.
1. Hit a key to activate IME. Is this a modifier, win+I? F12? SysRq+alt+ctrl+Pause? 2. Type a word 3. Computer converts to kanji? Is this subjective or objective? Is it ALWAYS correct, or is there some AI here interpreting what you mean. If not a 1to1 kana to kanji, then is it 90% accurate? 80%? 4. Hit enter and you're done. Ok, so I hit Enter, I'm done. Oops, no I'm not want to keep going. Do I start at 1 or 2?
This may be a fine way to type a letter to someone, write a term paper or something else. But this doesn't sound like a lot fun with programming. Text flows from word to word. Code (or at least in the languages I've written in) don't flow in long sentences. It's a lot of short lines. Can't imagine having to go in and out of context between line 12 and line 13.
I don't agree with the GP's apparent dislike for Kana/Kanji but I do agree with the first part. It seems laborious and I wouldn't want to try to program in it.
My question is this. Is Kanji something that's been around for a long time or something made to accommodate computers?
The problem is there was never a standard for graphing/finance calculators. The only standard that existed was that, when a formula is input correctly (and completely different on each one) they should all have the same correct answer.
In a car, the break and gas peddals are always in the same place, same with the instrument cluster, steering wheel, parking break, etc. I can get in any car, start it up and drive around.
As for a calculator, I can graph a polynomial with a TI 83, but I'd have to get the manual out to do it in an HP39 or Casio. Hell, at one point I had a TI83 and a TI 85 and even those were shockingly different for some functions.
And yes, I agree. If someone will write a GOOD scientific calculator in software, and port it to windows, mac, ipod, android, etc.... They'll put the other calcs out of business.
And these markets are held in place by the instructors who won't learn something new... but I can't blame them entirely. They can tell a student EXACTLY what to push to get a function into their TI83, but I can't expect them to be able to do that for 3 models of calculator.
I agree with him to a point. Psychologically healthy person won't have a problem with this, but some people who are already compromised may completely loose touch with reality.
Everyone I've known playing MMO's had a pretty firm handle on reality, largely because they don't think orcs elves or dragons are real.
Then I've known some second life people who have the line blurred. I can't forget once when someone was trying to convince me of something, then they said, oh, nevermind that was in SL.
And, don't forget the future is going to be like the matrix.
I know this is logistics, but just how would the fire dept find out who holds their mortgage.
And this still doesn't help the 2% of the population without a mortgage.
On the other hand, the mortgage company would have an easier time finding the responsible fire dept. But then the FD would have to staff a book keeper to answer queries.
National database? No, I'm sick of nataional databases.
Firemen don't go into a dangerous situation to search for people who might be there, especially when there are bystanders who say there's no one in there.
Also, firemen don't risk their lives for animals.
Firemen shouldn't be expected to risk their life to save someone's shit when their shit isn't worth $75 a year.
They stopped it from damaging the house next door, so it effected no one but him and who gives a fuck about the pets. Sure I love my dog, but the life of a stranger is worth more to me than a damn pet.
I just got a burn barrel last month. Wasn't really necessary, but really nice to have when we have a lot of boxes. We don't produce a lot of trash. Not trying to be environmental, just not wasteful. Dinner scraps go to the chickens. Yard waste goes to compost. Boxes get burned. We almost never put a full can out to the trash.
Actually got the barrel because the pharmacist my wife works for asked me to burn the personal-info type stuff. It's all paper. No, not HIPAA compliant, but not nearly as bad as throwing it in a dumpster.
Were you there? Do you know the fireman said fuckoff?
or could they have possibly said.
Sir, we'd love to help, and if someone was inside we would. But you see our boss said that if we go in there to save your STUFF he'd fire us. And he's told what to do by the city council would would in turn fire him. And you see, we have kids and in an economy like this, we're not about to risk our jobs.
And Sir, as far as spraying the roof, all that is going to do is prolong the inevitable. The rest of your house is going to keep burning until it all falls left and you have nothing left but a wet roof on top of ashes. And then, we still loose our job.
I don't know that they said that, but since ALL the firefighters I know seem to be extremely dedicated to society, I doubt the said fuck off. Firefighters don't choose that job for the high pay and fame.
What? He was burning trash? How did I miss this one?
This was HIS fire!! So he was stupid enough not to pay for fire coverage and then he lit a fucking fire in his yard? He SHOULD have gotten killed so he could have won a darwin award.
With car insurance, the company knows what the car is worth, how much it costs to fix it, replace it, how fast it can go (more expensive in cars that go 120mph)
With health insurance they know a lot less about you. Your body has many more variables than a car. Your car can be TOTALED and replaced with some other car. They can't TOTAL your body (though they may try.) They could feasibly pay a lot more if you ended up with cancer than they would if you totaled a vehicle.
As far companies, they're counting on most people being well most of the time. That way they have a steady income of money from that company and the plan is that income pays more than it costs to cover the few sick employees. Usually the more employees you have the better the deal you can negotiate. But if they can't plan on that (say your company deals with toxic/asbestos cleanup) you better believe it's still going to be expensive.
Personal health insurance is expensive because there no other payees to dilute the risk.
And incidentally many insurance companies DO offer discounted insurance if you buy it through your company plan, just like with health insurance.
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I called yellow book once and told them that one of their representatives had left their trash in my yard, littering. I cited the local fine for littering and told them that if they didn't come get it I was calling the police. The next day it was gone.
I beg to differ. I scrolled up to the top of the page, and looked at it with my 26" 1920*1200 LCD. I could read it at about 3 ft. I stood up and walked back 6ft and couldn't read it.
Then I held down control, and pushed up the mouse wheel, doubling the size of that image... Guess what, I COULD read it at that point. Yeah, it's just as blurry as it was when I was 3ft from it, but before at 6ft it was just jagged vertical lines.
I understand your point, subpixel scaling only works on a relatively small scale, but pointing out that it's still as illegible after zooming isn't true.
you apparently need to throw some of that horsepower into your webserver. Amazon has some solutions there for you.
I was wondering who was going to reference the Silmarillian first.
You win.
I was thinking the same thing.
Sorry, the media matters website completely overloads our reality correction firewall to the point it gives up and blocks it completely. Couldn't read your article but I'll take your word for it.
Wow, balanced stories from mediamatters? Here, let me go get a counter argument from Glenn Becks website...
I'm not proposing you fill the wings up with water, I said use the gas tanks and fuel lines...
Regardless of what it actually was, the poster made it sound like my old cell phone using it's weird sort of assistive typing. It was beneficial there because I only had 8 keys to choose from, so I could hit the 1, and by the end of the word it would usually figure out if I wanted an A, B or C. The longer the word the more accurate. But the problem is, it wasn't very natural and you always had to check that it actually put in the word you wanted. Maybe it's not that difficult and maybe your description was more complicated than it really is.
1. Hit a key to activate IME. Is this a modifier, win+I? F12? SysRq+alt+ctrl+Pause?
2. Type a word
3. Computer converts to kanji? Is this subjective or objective? Is it ALWAYS correct, or is there some AI here interpreting what you mean. If not a 1to1 kana to kanji, then is it 90% accurate? 80%?
4. Hit enter and you're done. Ok, so I hit Enter, I'm done. Oops, no I'm not want to keep going. Do I start at 1 or 2?
This may be a fine way to type a letter to someone, write a term paper or something else. But this doesn't sound like a lot fun with programming. Text flows from word to word. Code (or at least in the languages I've written in) don't flow in long sentences. It's a lot of short lines. Can't imagine having to go in and out of context between line 12 and line 13.
I don't agree with the GP's apparent dislike for Kana/Kanji but I do agree with the first part. It seems laborious and I wouldn't want to try to program in it.
My question is this. Is Kanji something that's been around for a long time or something made to accommodate computers?
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Yeah, and unfortunately they would deserve that tenure more than many that already have it.
Good point, those wings would make awesome heat sinks. And with the gas tanks and fuel lines, it's pre-made for liquid cooling.
I think the guy should have authorization to talk to tower just like any other.
Tower, AC156D, going to read, over.
Tower, AC156D, taking a piss, over.
Tower, AC156D, tower using microwave, over.
Tower, joining the Mile High club, at 12ft, over.
One with enough computers to stand up to /.
Good point, bet ever word/excel doc he got back has a macro virus.
Hope he virus scans that USB stick before he gets robbed again.
Dude, forget the rest of the thread, you worked on Crystal Quest? I remember playing that on some old Mac ( in color) in middle school (around '90)
The problem is there was never a standard for graphing/finance calculators. The only standard that existed was that, when a formula is input correctly (and completely different on each one) they should all have the same correct answer.
In a car, the break and gas peddals are always in the same place, same with the instrument cluster, steering wheel, parking break, etc. I can get in any car, start it up and drive around.
As for a calculator, I can graph a polynomial with a TI 83, but I'd have to get the manual out to do it in an HP39 or Casio. Hell, at one point I had a TI83 and a TI 85 and even those were shockingly different for some functions.
And yes, I agree. If someone will write a GOOD scientific calculator in software, and port it to windows, mac, ipod, android, etc.... They'll put the other calcs out of business.
And these markets are held in place by the instructors who won't learn something new... but I can't blame them entirely. They can tell a student EXACTLY what to push to get a function into their TI83, but I can't expect them to be able to do that for 3 models of calculator.
I agree with him to a point. Psychologically healthy person won't have a problem with this, but some people who are already compromised may completely loose touch with reality.
Everyone I've known playing MMO's had a pretty firm handle on reality, largely because they don't think orcs elves or dragons are real.
Then I've known some second life people who have the line blurred. I can't forget once when someone was trying to convince me of something, then they said, oh, nevermind that was in SL.
And, don't forget the future is going to be like the matrix.
Drink the koolaid much? ;)
Sorry, I couldn't help it.
It was the FD of a nearby city that does NOT service his area through taxes. They do allow people outside of the city to pay for fire coverage.
They where there to make sure no PEOPLE were killed, and his paying neighbor didn't loose his house.
I know this is logistics, but just how would the fire dept find out who holds their mortgage.
And this still doesn't help the 2% of the population without a mortgage.
On the other hand, the mortgage company would have an easier time finding the responsible fire dept. But then the FD would have to staff a book keeper to answer queries.
National database? No, I'm sick of nataional databases.
Firemen don't go into a dangerous situation to search for people who might be there, especially when there are bystanders who say there's no one in there.
Also, firemen don't risk their lives for animals.
Firemen shouldn't be expected to risk their life to save someone's shit when their shit isn't worth $75 a year.
They stopped it from damaging the house next door, so it effected no one but him and who gives a fuck about the pets. Sure I love my dog, but the life of a stranger is worth more to me than a damn pet.
I just got a burn barrel last month. Wasn't really necessary, but really nice to have when we have a lot of boxes. We don't produce a lot of trash. Not trying to be environmental, just not wasteful. Dinner scraps go to the chickens. Yard waste goes to compost. Boxes get burned. We almost never put a full can out to the trash.
Actually got the barrel because the pharmacist my wife works for asked me to burn the personal-info type stuff. It's all paper. No, not HIPAA compliant, but not nearly as bad as throwing it in a dumpster.
Were you there? Do you know the fireman said fuckoff?
or could they have possibly said.
Sir, we'd love to help, and if someone was inside we would. But you see our boss said that if we go in there to save your STUFF he'd fire us. And he's told what to do by the city council would would in turn fire him. And you see, we have kids and in an economy like this, we're not about to risk our jobs.
And Sir, as far as spraying the roof, all that is going to do is prolong the inevitable. The rest of your house is going to keep burning until it all falls left and you have nothing left but a wet roof on top of ashes. And then, we still loose our job.
I don't know that they said that, but since ALL the firefighters I know seem to be extremely dedicated to society, I doubt the said fuck off. Firefighters don't choose that job for the high pay and fame.
What? He was burning trash? How did I miss this one?
This was HIS fire!! So he was stupid enough not to pay for fire coverage and then he lit a fucking fire in his yard? He SHOULD have gotten killed so he could have won a darwin award.
With car insurance, the company knows what the car is worth, how much it costs to fix it, replace it, how fast it can go (more expensive in cars that go 120mph)
With health insurance they know a lot less about you. Your body has many more variables than a car. Your car can be TOTALED and replaced with some other car. They can't TOTAL your body (though they may try.) They could feasibly pay a lot more if you ended up with cancer than they would if you totaled a vehicle.
As far companies, they're counting on most people being well most of the time. That way they have a steady income of money from that company and the plan is that income pays more than it costs to cover the few sick employees. Usually the more employees you have the better the deal you can negotiate. But if they can't plan on that (say your company deals with toxic/asbestos cleanup) you better believe it's still going to be expensive.
Personal health insurance is expensive because there no other payees to dilute the risk.
And incidentally many insurance companies DO offer discounted insurance if you buy it through your company plan, just like with health insurance.