, but you can learn to read new words faster by phonetics. At least this is what my elementary-school teacher friends tell me.
Heh, bull. Define read. Outloud? Sure. Just read read? Fuck man, you can give me a random jumble of letters, tell me it has a meaning, and I'll 'member it 'til the end of time!
make that 349525 frames with 1 megabyte of storage per pixel.
Quite frankly with that much storage space I would say store 64bits for the visible spectrum and use another 24 for the infrared spectrum, and if CCDs ever get advanced enough, another 16bits or so for the ultraviolet.
With the visible + infrared though, that is 11 bytes, or a mere 95325 frames per individual pixel, hehe.
I don't know how they differ, but the article suggests he's having some success.
American Sign Language is complex as hell, apparently Australian Sign Language is a fair bit simpler.
Australian Sign Language might very well be closer to an artificial language then American Sign Language is, American Sign Language is a bona fide natural language with all the complexities and baggage that goes along with such (and actually from the computer's perspective, a good deal more complexity then is even normal for a natural language!). Australian Sign Language being an artificial language (or at least not having evolved yet into a full blown natural language) would explain why the computer is able to translate it so well.
Yah your right ASL is a bit of a bad choice of a TLA here, having to fully type out both acronyms sucks!
Phonics has a steeper learning curve, but it's faster long term---you have to learn five symbol/sound rules (instead of one) to read have, but once you've learned ~ 60, you can read every word in the English language (assuming you've heard the word spoken:)
Huh? That is the EXACT opposite of what I have heard everybody else say.
Not to mention what I have witnessed in reality.
First off full reading is FAR faster, a phonical reader has to 'relearn' each word that they read each time that they read it, eew ick.
And a full reader need not even be able to pronounce a word to 'read' it, they just look at it. Hell there are words that I read daily that I still have never said or heard pronounced!
Pie menus have been used in products, including Connected TV [connected.tv], The Sims, Unix SimCity for TCL/Tk, Maya, Habitat, Neverwinter Nights, Return to Zork, Logitech's mouse driver, UniPress Emacs, and the open source piewm window manager for X11.
And damn nearly half of the SNES RPGs ever made.
I always considered them damn annoying myself, but at least they where intuitive.
Here's a usability idea: use the mouse intelligently. Keep one hand on a decent three button mouse that fits your palm, the other hand on the keyboard, and you have LMB, CMB, RMB, Ctrl, Alt, Shift and Meta to do all your work. All you need is for the application to support it, or your system to map the actions to what you want. Think about it. You never have to move your hands (if you have a trackball, that's literal), you'll learn it quickly, and you'll never accidently perform a gesture if you sneeze at the wrong time.
I bought a nine button mouse and mapped the various extra buttons to keyboard hotkeys.
Solved allll my browsing problems.:P (err what problems?)
I think that a lot of fans of "non-hip" music have just gotten to the point where they don't even try to collect recordings any more. Why should they? Record stores basically shit on them and the alternative distribution systemss don't work very well for anything but Britny and dubs of live Grateful Dead concerts. :-D
I will be the first to admit it. I do not buy cd's because I can download all the music I like for free and burn them.
And I'll be the first to admit (well ok not likely the first) that I just don't even LISTEN TO RIAA crap./. has already posted a fair number of stories over the years showing that even listening to RIAA music helps further its popularity and eventually the RIAA's revenues.
Well, I do occasionally accidently overhear a bit of RIAA produced drudge, but it is not willingly. ^_^
yes, but wouldn't an evil villian want to have there enemys made into jewlery they can wear?
I would perfer using them as a focus for my laser death beamy thing (which, always seem to, for whatever reason, require a huge diamond of some kind).
Though with the carat requirements of most laser death thingies, I would likely need to get multiple arch enemies compressed into one uber diamond of death and destruction. . . .
I'd get a SCSI scanner and laugh at those people with Parallel scanners.
I have a SCSI scanner! Cheap off of ebay.:-D Weighs a ton, but the high ass DPI and such are uber sweet!:) (Non-interpolated of course, heh. 2400DPI native.:) )
Once again, western ideals here folks. Lots of sites in Japan have very explict no linking policies, and it is considered perfectly polite to make such requests (and down right rude to not obey them!)
While I will admit that commerical sites with no linking policies/is/ rather st00pid, the fact is that:
The site belongs to the owner
The owner is paying for bandwidth and hosting
The owner can invite who ever they want on to their site.
Now granted/sueing/ over such issues is rather stupid, but if some site sends you a 'please take down your link to our site' letter then hey, it IS their site. They where actualy nice enough to warn you, they could have just shoved up a HTTP referer block and said screw you to your content. (admitedly many of the idiot admins who do the cease and desist letters are to stupid to figure out how to do such but. . . . heh)
Compaq was really big on combined Torx and regular flat heads for the longest time.
Oddly enough I actualy liked those screws, they tended to work rather well. Especialy since borth a torx or a flathead screwdriver could remove them!:)
Tis the thread size that counts, not the head, and even the bizzare companies tend to use standard thread sizes. I have a goodly collection of eye glass repair screws of all sorts of sizes, so if I ever needed to replace a laptop screw that is likely the first place I would delve into for parts.
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, but you can learn to read new words faster by phonetics. At least this is what my elementary-school teacher friends tell me.
Heh, bull. Define read. Outloud? Sure. Just read read? Fuck man, you can give me a random jumble of letters, tell me it has a meaning, and I'll 'member it 'til the end of time!
In Windows land we just reinstall the entire OS to fix pretty much everything.
Amazingly enough with XP I have actually seen cases where less and less things work with each continuous fresh install of the OS though, heh.
Ok ok ok ok I feel stupid now.
I divided 2^20 by 24 not by 3, heh.
make that 349525 frames with 1 megabyte of storage per pixel.
Quite frankly with that much storage space I would say store 64bits for the visible spectrum and use another 24 for the infrared spectrum, and if CCDs ever get advanced enough, another 16bits or so for the ultraviolet.
With the visible + infrared though, that is 11 bytes, or a mere 95325 frames per individual pixel, hehe.
Quantum memory could be veeerrry fun in this instance. :-D Very small, lots of storage space, yuuuuum!
:)
Imagine giving each pixel a few megabytes of data, heh.
Lets see, 24 bit images, and given one megabyte of storage per pixel, that is (rounding down) 43690 frames, yaah!
I don't know how they differ, but the article suggests he's having some success.
American Sign Language is complex as hell, apparently Australian Sign Language is a fair bit simpler.
Australian Sign Language might very well be closer to an artificial language then American Sign Language is, American Sign Language is a bona fide natural language with all the complexities and baggage that goes along with such (and actually from the computer's perspective, a good deal more complexity then is even normal for a natural language!). Australian Sign Language being an artificial language (or at least not having evolved yet into a full blown natural language) would explain why the computer is able to translate it so well.
Yah your right ASL is a bit of a bad choice of a TLA here, having to fully type out both acronyms sucks!
Phonics has a steeper learning curve, but it's faster long term---you have to learn five symbol/sound rules (instead of one) to read have, but once you've learned ~ 60, you can read every word in the English language (assuming you've heard the word spoken :)
Huh? That is the EXACT opposite of what I have heard everybody else say.
Not to mention what I have witnessed in reality.
First off full reading is FAR faster, a phonical reader has to 'relearn' each word that they read each time that they read it, eew ick.
And a full reader need not even be able to pronounce a word to 'read' it, they just look at it. Hell there are words that I read daily that I still have never said or heard pronounced!
Pie menus have been used in products, including Connected TV [connected.tv], The Sims, Unix SimCity for TCL/Tk, Maya, Habitat, Neverwinter Nights, Return to Zork, Logitech's mouse driver, UniPress Emacs, and the open source piewm window manager for X11.
And damn nearly half of the SNES RPGs ever made.
I always considered them damn annoying myself, but at least they where intuitive.
Here's a usability idea: use the mouse intelligently. Keep one hand on a decent three button mouse that fits your palm, the other hand on the keyboard, and you have LMB, CMB, RMB, Ctrl, Alt, Shift and Meta to do all your work. All you need is for the application to support it, or your system to map the actions to what you want. Think about it. You never have to move your hands (if you have a trackball, that's literal), you'll learn it quickly, and you'll never accidently perform a gesture if you sneeze at the wrong time.
:P (err what problems?)
I bought a nine button mouse and mapped the various extra buttons to keyboard hotkeys.
Solved allll my browsing problems.
Why the hell is the high quality version a GIF file?
Oh no, candidates are going to aggravate and thus isolate the 12-16 year old female demographic! The elections will be in turmoil!!!
Oh waaaaiiiiiit. . . .
I think that a lot of fans of "non-hip" music have just gotten to the point where they don't even try to collect recordings any more. Why should they? Record stores basically shit on them and the alternative distribution systemss don't work very well for anything but Britny and dubs of live Grateful Dead concerts.
:-D
I will be the first to admit it. I do not buy cd's because I can download all the music I like for free and burn them.
/. has already posted a fair number of stories over the years showing that even listening to RIAA music helps further its popularity and eventually the RIAA's revenues.
And I'll be the first to admit (well ok not likely the first) that I just don't even LISTEN TO RIAA crap.
Well, I do occasionally accidently overhear a bit of RIAA produced drudge, but it is not willingly. ^_^
What are you, twelve years old?
Slate has been around for years. Almost as long as Salon (if not longer.)
God I feel old, I remember when Slate was "that big new MS controlled thingy, their first venture into Media!"
Weeeeeird, to now think that MS (once the definite underdog in Internet media content) is now, err;
huge.
man scary thought. -_-
in the past, if an music release SUCKED.....we said "man that SUCKED!"
In the past if I said that I got modded down -1 troll and yelled at that I need to 'embrace creativity' or some bull like that.
Does this finaly mean that when something is crud people will actualy admit to it and move on?
No?
Darnit.
*sighs* I guess that means more idiots listening to rap then. Bleck.
When 'they' came for the martians I didn't worry coz', you know, I'm not a martian.
:P
I think you know the rest.
Quite frankly, anybody who starts out with taking out the hard core rockers + rappers ain't half bad in my book.
and animal porn sites.
Isn't that where the list of canidates already is garnered from?
yes, but wouldn't an evil villian want to have there enemys made into jewlery they can wear?
I would perfer using them as a focus for my laser death beamy thing (which, always seem to, for whatever reason, require a huge diamond of some kind).
Though with the carat requirements of most laser death thingies, I would likely need to get multiple arch enemies compressed into one uber diamond of death and destruction. . . .
Until I remembered that I don't listen to RIAA crap.
yah.
. I mean if I'm not home I do not like missing calls so I like this feature.
:-D
Oh.
I am to miss calls when I am home.
I'd get a SCSI scanner and laugh at those people with Parallel scanners.
:-D Weighs a ton, but the high ass DPI and such are uber sweet! :) (Non-interpolated of course, heh. 2400DPI native. :) )
I have a SCSI scanner! Cheap off of ebay.
Once again, western ideals here folks. Lots of sites in Japan have very explict no linking policies, and it is considered perfectly polite to make such requests (and down right rude to not obey them!)
/is/ rather st00pid, the fact is that:
/sueing/ over such issues is rather stupid, but if some site sends you a 'please take down your link to our site' letter then hey, it IS their site. They where actualy nice enough to warn you, they could have just shoved up a HTTP referer block and said screw you to your content. (admitedly many of the idiot admins who do the cease and desist letters are to stupid to figure out how to do such but. . . . heh)
While I will admit that commerical sites with no linking policies
The site belongs to the owner
The owner is paying for bandwidth and hosting
The owner can invite who ever they want on to their site.
Now granted
My eyes have been permanently wounded by trolls posting that link here.
/really/ nasty stuff. :P
You don't get out much do you?
If that is all it takes to damage your eyes. . . . heh, stay away from the
Compaq was really big on combined Torx and regular flat heads for the longest time.
:)
Oddly enough I actualy liked those screws, they tended to work rather well. Especialy since borth a torx or a flathead screwdriver could remove them!
Tis the thread size that counts, not the head, and even the bizzare companies tend to use standard thread sizes. I have a goodly collection of eye glass repair screws of all sorts of sizes, so if I ever needed to replace a laptop screw that is likely the first place I would delve into for parts.
a Dell tech was at my house next day with a little bag of screws.
And pardon me dear sir, but what the holy heck is your excuse for not having your OWN little baggy of screws?
(I actualy have a chest of screws sorted by thread size but. . . . thats me, heh)
Cost of cell phone with unlimited local: 34 dollars a month if you have cricket service in your area.
I get 2 POTS lines in my city for $25 a month.
Unfortunately there are $25 of taxes on top of that. (!!!)