My left eye is much worse than my right eye... with my left eye there’s not much difference (apart from one having colour) between the top and bottom images from about 30 inches (fairly normal viewing distance). By comparison, with my right eye it’s probably closer to 48 inches before the difference in clarity is unnoticeable.
However, that image takes up only a fraction of my viewing range, so it’s really a couple of orders of magnitude worse – that’s actually all you’d be able to see.
It’s obviously nowhere near good enough to drive, but given the choice between total blindness and that, I’d take it. It would be enough to navigate on foot, at least enough to avoid obstacles and stay on the sidewalk.
Bonus points if it has an infra-red camera so I can see in the dark...
logically the selling of someone else's copyrighted work is not hypocritical; just don't then expect protection of 'your' work, because that _would_ be hypocritical
That’s the whole point. The mere fact that you’re trying to sell it implies that you expect people not to just take it from you.
They didn’t just steal the recipe. They stole the whole article and reprinted it without her permission (though they did at least attribute it to her).
In fact the recipes themselves didn’t belong to her – they were taken from old cookbooks. They would probably be considered public domain, I think.
To finish off that hopelessly confusing statement, the Dutch (who call themselves Nederlanders) come from a country which English-speaking people call the Netherlands, while the Pennsylvania Dutch (deutsch) actually came from Germany (Deutschland).
In reality it’s not much different from having severe fear of heights. I know how stupid it is, I know I’m not getting anywhere, but goddamnit I have grabbed the nearest something solid and I am not letting go.
I almost said Christmas/Valentine’s day, but then you’d also have to include “her birthday”, “their anniversary” and probably a few other holidays to be all-inclusive.
Facebook doesn’t “know” when I’ll get dumped. Aggregated data, which happened to be obtained from facebook, revealed that the average person is more likely to get dumped at certain times of the year, but that’s useless when making a prediction for an individual.
fuck back when I lived in Ontario they had a "sewer tax".. that's right you pay for the frigging sewer underneath your house in addition to your normal yearly federal and provisional tax
What, you think that pipeline is maintained for free? You think they treat your shit and dispose of it for free?
Where I live the sewers are included as a line-item in the water bill, but that’s just semantics. You’re paying for it one way or another.
I can only assume no one's that excited by huge sight-replacing devices with 512 "taxel" resolution*, except as a step toward better things.
*I've tried to imagine this and even asked Google to come up with an image that showed what this might 'look' like and come up with nothing
What I found indicated that the 512 taxels are arranged in a 32x16 grid (a 4x2 arrangement of 8x8 separate electrode grids).
Obviously it’s tactile, not visual, but I took an image off google images, reduced it to 32x16, grayscaled it, and scaled it back up using the Sinc (Lanczos3) method. This was the result.
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Is there any way to buy the ebook without a credit or debit card... I'd like to use something like a visa gift card.
That’s a credit card.
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Modern languages don't have IO interface comparable to decent line-number BASIC. I'm talking about commands and functions like these in gwbasic: screen, locate, print, p(re)set, line, input, inkey$, sound, timer.
Yeah, that was what really turned me off C back when I was first trying to write simple programs. None of the C books told how to do “simple” stuff like the equivalent of LOCATE, COLOR, CLS, SOUND... they were all focused on learning to program (write algorithms). I knew how to write an algorithm already.
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That’s not LOGO, it’s Python. LOGO syntax doesn’t use parentheses.
I invite you to look at your TCP connections and all those instances of svchost.exe running on your system... and you never had to click "Allow" to let them communicate over the net.
Remember, it was the Democrats who were in power with a super majority, they didn't have to give the Republicans a bone and yet they tried.
Why would the Republicans want a bone if the Democrats were writing themselves a steak?
I can’t find the reference but I remember reading of a study where it was determined that workers, when given the choice between everyone receiving no raise that year or personally receiving a small raise but their co-workers getting a large one, overwhelmingly chose to have everyone get no raise.
When you’re paying for the steak, too, that just adds injury to insult.
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My left eye is much worse than my right eye... with my left eye there’s not much difference (apart from one having colour) between the top and bottom images from about 30 inches (fairly normal viewing distance). By comparison, with my right eye it’s probably closer to 48 inches before the difference in clarity is unnoticeable.
However, that image takes up only a fraction of my viewing range, so it’s really a couple of orders of magnitude worse – that’s actually all you’d be able to see.
It’s obviously nowhere near good enough to drive, but given the choice between total blindness and that, I’d take it. It would be enough to navigate on foot, at least enough to avoid obstacles and stay on the sidewalk.
Bonus points if it has an infra-red camera so I can see in the dark...
logically the selling of someone else's copyrighted work is not hypocritical; just don't then expect protection of 'your' work, because that _would_ be hypocritical
That’s the whole point. The mere fact that you’re trying to sell it implies that you expect people not to just take it from you.
Just tell me; I hate guessing.
No, it is hypocritical. You’re trying to make money off what you took for free from somebody who created it and was trying to make money off it.
Well, assuming they're not behind a pay wall, they are in the public domain.
That is not what “public domain” means. Just because something is freely available to the public does not mean it is in the public domain.
The original website had a © notice at the bottom. It is not public domain.
Well, for one thing, one of them is hypocritical.
They didn’t just steal the recipe. They stole the whole article and reprinted it without her permission (though they did at least attribute it to her).
In fact the recipes themselves didn’t belong to her – they were taken from old cookbooks. They would probably be considered public domain, I think.
I've had more relationships come out of friendships
Um, that’s what normal people call the “friend zone”, and I have no idea how it seems to have worked so well for you.
To finish off that hopelessly confusing statement, the Dutch (who call themselves Nederlanders) come from a country which English-speaking people call the Netherlands, while the Pennsylvania Dutch (deutsch) actually came from Germany (Deutschland).
It has to be split out at some point anyway, to decide how much money the public works department gets to budget for sewer maintenance.
Scratch that, it’s actually a TED talk by David McCandless.
Good catch.
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They pretend they don’t care.
In reality it’s not much different from having severe fear of heights. I know how stupid it is, I know I’m not getting anywhere, but goddamnit I have grabbed the nearest something solid and I am not letting go.
I’m actually not scared of heights, though.
No, I don’t think so. If my hand had a problem, it’d tell me. Unlike a girlfriend.
I almost said Christmas/Valentine’s day, but then you’d also have to include “her birthday”, “their anniversary” and probably a few other holidays to be all-inclusive.
There is another theory that young women wait to break up with their boyfriends until right after Christmas so he’ll have to get them something.
Facebook doesn’t “know” when I’ll get dumped. Aggregated data, which happened to be obtained from facebook, revealed that the average person is more likely to get dumped at certain times of the year, but that’s useless when making a prediction for an individual.
Besides which, I’d need a girlfriend first.
fuck back when I lived in Ontario they had a "sewer tax".. that's right you pay for the frigging sewer underneath your house in addition to your normal yearly federal and provisional tax
What, you think that pipeline is maintained for free? You think they treat your shit and dispose of it for free?
Where I live the sewers are included as a line-item in the water bill, but that’s just semantics. You’re paying for it one way or another.
I can only assume no one's that excited by huge sight-replacing devices with 512 "taxel" resolution*, except as a step toward better things.
*I've tried to imagine this and even asked Google to come up with an image that showed what this might 'look' like and come up with nothing
What I found indicated that the 512 taxels are arranged in a 32x16 grid (a 4x2 arrangement of 8x8 separate electrode grids).
Obviously it’s tactile, not visual, but I took an image off google images, reduced it to 32x16, grayscaled it, and scaled it back up using the Sinc (Lanczos3) method. This was the result.
Is there any way to buy the ebook without a credit or debit card ... I'd like to use something like a visa gift card.
That’s a credit card.
Modern languages don't have IO interface comparable to decent line-number BASIC. I'm talking about commands and functions like these in gwbasic: screen, locate, print, p(re)set, line, input, inkey$, sound, timer.
Yeah, that was what really turned me off C back when I was first trying to write simple programs. None of the C books told how to do “simple” stuff like the equivalent of LOCATE, COLOR, CLS, SOUND... they were all focused on learning to program (write algorithms). I knew how to write an algorithm already.
That’s not LOGO, it’s Python. LOGO syntax doesn’t use parentheses.
I invite you to look at your TCP connections and all those instances of svchost.exe running on your system... and you never had to click "Allow" to let them communicate over the net.
And I invite you to use SysInternals’ Process Explorer and find out what those actually are.
So what’s the Javascript you type in the address bar to have it give you 1%?
Remember, it was the Democrats who were in power with a super majority, they didn't have to give the Republicans a bone and yet they tried.
Why would the Republicans want a bone if the Democrats were writing themselves a steak?
I can’t find the reference but I remember reading of a study where it was determined that workers, when given the choice between everyone receiving no raise that year or personally receiving a small raise but their co-workers getting a large one, overwhelmingly chose to have everyone get no raise.
When you’re paying for the steak, too, that just adds injury to insult.