It's a clever idea. I won't begrudge them the patent. I'm even kind of in favor of it; it's kind of a robots.txt file for the real world.
But, like robots.txt, clients (cameras) should treat it as advisory only and be free to ignore it. I certainly wouldn't buy a camera in which it couldn't be disabled. It's way too open to abuse. Not just in prohibiting photos in random public venues, but I can easily imagine advertisers jumping on this. For the price of an IR transmitter you can stuff a watermark into everyone's cameras whenever they're taking a photo near your storefront, billboard, or any random place you can conceal a transmitter. As a photographer, even if your camera ignored such signals you'd probably have a problem taking any pictures In popular tourist areas with the IR glare imposed by advertisers.
And that's not to mention assholes who would set up concealed transmitters for laughs. Imagine the hilarity messing with someone's holiday snaps, intermittently disabling flash and other features, or writing obscenities into the watermarks. Why, it'd be almost as much fun as running around CES with a TV-B-Gone.
I was about to say the same thing. It's not the law that matters, it's that you can't get caught agreeing with the other side. You know the law is going to be passed by the majority party. Even if you want it to pass you, a minority congressman, vote against it so it doesn't seem like you're siding with the enemy. If the parties were switched you'd get the same thing in reverse -- the Ds would vote it in and the Rs would vote against it in protest. Either way, the end result is the same.
The two papers reported Leuthard backed continuing to use current nuclear plants until the end of their lifespans, not building any new ones, and expanding alternative energy sources such as water power.
Ah. So in other words they don't have a plan yet. Unless you count "hoping really hard that something revolutionary will happen before our existing nuke plants wear out" to be a plan.
It's either that or you're a dirty anti-American socialist. There's no middle ground; you're either with us or against us. Now, you ain't no good-fer-nothin' socialist, are you boy?
Why do students need graphing calculators to sit exams?
You're obviously old. I had a similar reaction when my kid was doing his high school Algebra II homework. The problem involved finding a linear regression for a curve. He whipped out the TI, and I told him to do it longhand. I didn't want him to use the calculator as a crutch, I wanted him to practice doing it himself, like he'd have to on the exam. He couldn't do it. I flipped through the book to see how it was teaching them to do it and found this:
"(1) Enter the points into your graphing calculator. (2) Press the 'Fit Curve' button."
If you are a C-programmer developing programs which run on Linux, you always create 2 code paths ? One which compiles and runs on Linux 2.2.x/gcc 2.95.x ? And some #ifdef where you take advantage of the newer features which Linux and other modern operating systems offer you ?
Yes. You know that "./configure" command which is the first step in building 99% of the source code packages out there? Guess what that's doing. Setting up a bazillion different #defines to adapt code to different platforms, architectures, compilers, and libraries. Any significant C project which tries to be in the least bit cross-platform has a lot of code devoted to ironing out the wrinkles.
Amen. When I was starting my engineering degree back in 1984, my dad (a banker) asked an engineer buddy of his what would be most helpful for me. The engineer told him to get me an HP calculator, despite the fact that it was pretty expensive. Best advice ever. The complex matrix functions on that HP-15C were a godsend in my EE courses. I still have (and use) that calculator. I also have an HP-42S that someone gave me, and my prize possession: an HP-16C programmer's calculator. I'm a programmer now, and the 16C gets daily use.
Sadly, those are antiques now. These days it's all about the graphing calculators. I have a feeling that my teenage kids think my precious HPs are as quaint as I think slide rules are.
I dunno. I always found power management just annoying.
I think that's a very clear indicator that you've never had a machine "where power management actually, really works".
Really. I close the lid and put it away. I open the lid and use it again. We're talking less than 10 seconds between opening the lid and using it. Apple nailed this one.
It does not take any kind of internet crackpot to view the side view photo of the drywell lid in #4 and draw a proper conclusion that the containment may have been breeched.
No, I'd say that's exactly what it takes. I'm no expert in reactor design, but I look at that photo and wonder just what the Blue Meanies have done to that poor Yellow Submarine. Pepperland is in danger!
Which, btw, is as credible an explanation as a layman looking at the blurry YouTube-quality still and coming to the conclusion that it "may have been breeched". Yeah, it may have been. And it may not have been. But I have no basis for drawing a conclusion from that photo.
Yeah, but we're mostly screwed because the majority of people seem to think the Dems and Reps are somehow different from each other. They put on such a big show of squabbling over half a percent of the budget, people forget that they agree on the other 99.5%.
Despite what many people believe, GIFs aren't limited to 256 colors.
Which is interesting but irrelevant, since these images (the ones I've looked at closely, anyway) each use just one colormap. Or at least, each frame in the animation uses the same colormap.
I'm actually more impressed that he managed to reduce photos to 256 colors and still have them look good than I am by the animation.
And unlikely to run on my 5 year old hardware, anyway. But I'm with you, I wait until games go on deep discount. I bought Bioshock 1 & 2 from Steam just a couple days ago for $5 each.
Bah, forget I posted that. Now that I've actually read the article I see that the Teensy does a better job and is cheaper. But the point still stands -- when you can get something like this for $20 or $25, why bother ripping apart a keyboard and tracing out the circuit?
The only downside is it has to be a working keyboard so you can use a multimeter to know what pins goes to what key. It's tedious but not terribly hard. Once you know the key matrix you have for the princely sum of 9 dollars a USB dongle that you can wire up how ever you want.
But Unix time is defined as having exactly 86400 seconds in a day. No more, no less. Leap seconds cannot be represented, which makes this format unacceptable for any serious long-term use. But that probably doesn't matter since time_t is going to overflow in 2038 anyway. If the Mayan end-of-epoch in 2012 or the Apophis asteroid in 2036 don't destroy us first...
If a command line could be written as: "Take this image, resize it by 50% and increase the contrast 10%" then people would use CLIs all the time.
Oh, dear God, it's addle-pated thinking like that which brought us AppleScript. It sounds like a great idea, until you realize just how many permutations there are in English of expressing the same instructions. You end up with code that's easily readable, but only writable if you happen to phrase things exactly like the language developer would. And do it consistently, to boot. Otherwise you end up frustrated because one English phrase works, but other phrases which mean the same in English don't.
Give me arcane (with good docs) but unambiguous every time.
(Mind you, when someone finally creates a parser which can actually understand colloquial natural language as well as a human, I'll be first in line to buy it. But I think some of Watson's wacky answers on Jeopardy show how close and yet how far we still are from that.)
Son, when I was your age, we didn't have GOTO. We had a stack pointer which had to be managed by hand, and WE LIKED IT.
Stack pointer? You were lucky. I started learning assembly on a Unisys machine which didn't even have a stack. The return address was placed in a reserved position at the beginning of the subroutine. Recursion? Ha!
I place blame squarely where it belongs -- with 3M. Any regime, oppressive or otherwise, would fall apart within hours if it were denied Post-It notes and Scotch tape. When will 3M learn that by selling to the Middle East they're directly responsible for the violation of basic human rights!
As others have said, start with the modern (2005 onward) era. It's not a reboot of the series in the sense that the new Battlestar Galactica was. It carries the history (and baggage) of all the earlier shows, but it's plenty accessible if you've never seen any of them. And it benefits from having modern production values, as opposed to the campy B-movie production the series had before.
Each season has an overall story arc, so it's helpful to watch the shows within a season sequentially. Most episodes stand on their own, so watching them sequentially isn't strictly necessary. Seasons build upon one another, too. Watch them in order if you can, but don't worry about it if you can't.
And don't expect rigorous continuity. It's a fun adventure show. It's not hard science fiction. Sit back, enjoy the ride, and don't think too hard about the Doctor casually doing something in one episode that in a previous episode would have destroyed all time and space.
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Imagine fifty people a day walking in singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may thinks it's a movement.
(Not only did I start humming it when I read the story, I went and put it on the stereo and sang along. With four-part harmony and feeling.)
It's a clever idea. I won't begrudge them the patent. I'm even kind of in favor of it; it's kind of a robots.txt file for the real world.
But, like robots.txt, clients (cameras) should treat it as advisory only and be free to ignore it. I certainly wouldn't buy a camera in which it couldn't be disabled. It's way too open to abuse. Not just in prohibiting photos in random public venues, but I can easily imagine advertisers jumping on this. For the price of an IR transmitter you can stuff a watermark into everyone's cameras whenever they're taking a photo near your storefront, billboard, or any random place you can conceal a transmitter. As a photographer, even if your camera ignored such signals you'd probably have a problem taking any pictures In popular tourist areas with the IR glare imposed by advertisers.
And that's not to mention assholes who would set up concealed transmitters for laughs. Imagine the hilarity messing with someone's holiday snaps, intermittently disabling flash and other features, or writing obscenities into the watermarks. Why, it'd be almost as much fun as running around CES with a TV-B-Gone.
I was about to say the same thing. It's not the law that matters, it's that you can't get caught agreeing with the other side. You know the law is going to be passed by the majority party. Even if you want it to pass you, a minority congressman, vote against it so it doesn't seem like you're siding with the enemy. If the parties were switched you'd get the same thing in reverse -- the Ds would vote it in and the Rs would vote against it in protest. Either way, the end result is the same.
It's just green vs. purple, nothing more complex than that.
Ah. So in other words they don't have a plan yet. Unless you count "hoping really hard that something revolutionary will happen before our existing nuke plants wear out" to be a plan.
It's either that or you're a dirty anti-American socialist. There's no middle ground; you're either with us or against us. Now, you ain't no good-fer-nothin' socialist, are you boy?
You're obviously old. I had a similar reaction when my kid was doing his high school Algebra II homework. The problem involved finding a linear regression for a curve. He whipped out the TI, and I told him to do it longhand. I didn't want him to use the calculator as a crutch, I wanted him to practice doing it himself, like he'd have to on the exam. He couldn't do it. I flipped through the book to see how it was teaching them to do it and found this:
"(1) Enter the points into your graphing calculator. (2) Press the 'Fit Curve' button."
I gave up trying to help him.
Yes. You know that "./configure" command which is the first step in building 99% of the source code packages out there? Guess what that's doing. Setting up a bazillion different #defines to adapt code to different platforms, architectures, compilers, and libraries. Any significant C project which tries to be in the least bit cross-platform has a lot of code devoted to ironing out the wrinkles.
Amen. When I was starting my engineering degree back in 1984, my dad (a banker) asked an engineer buddy of his what would be most helpful for me. The engineer told him to get me an HP calculator, despite the fact that it was pretty expensive. Best advice ever. The complex matrix functions on that HP-15C were a godsend in my EE courses. I still have (and use) that calculator. I also have an HP-42S that someone gave me, and my prize possession: an HP-16C programmer's calculator. I'm a programmer now, and the 16C gets daily use.
Sadly, those are antiques now. These days it's all about the graphing calculators. I have a feeling that my teenage kids think my precious HPs are as quaint as I think slide rules are.
I think that's a very clear indicator that you've never had a machine "where power management actually, really works".
Really. I close the lid and put it away. I open the lid and use it again. We're talking less than 10 seconds between opening the lid and using it. Apple nailed this one.
No, I'd say that's exactly what it takes. I'm no expert in reactor design, but I look at that photo and wonder just what the Blue Meanies have done to that poor Yellow Submarine. Pepperland is in danger!
Which, btw, is as credible an explanation as a layman looking at the blurry YouTube-quality still and coming to the conclusion that it "may have been breeched". Yeah, it may have been. And it may not have been. But I have no basis for drawing a conclusion from that photo.
Yeah, but we're mostly screwed because the majority of people seem to think the Dems and Reps are somehow different from each other. They put on such a big show of squabbling over half a percent of the budget, people forget that they agree on the other 99.5%.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Which is interesting but irrelevant, since these images (the ones I've looked at closely, anyway) each use just one colormap. Or at least, each frame in the animation uses the same colormap.
I'm actually more impressed that he managed to reduce photos to 256 colors and still have them look good than I am by the animation.
I stand humbled in your presence, sir.
Ha. We've got you beat over here on the left side of the pond. Our politicians babble incoherently at softball questions. No "frying" necessary.
And unlikely to run on my 5 year old hardware, anyway. But I'm with you, I wait until games go on deep discount. I bought Bioshock 1 & 2 from Steam just a couple days ago for $5 each.
As usual, Randall Munroe said it best.
Yeah! Stick it to the Man, Anonymous! Show those Sony bastards that--
Ooh, 10% off and a free t-shirt if I pre-order Infamous 2. Done and done!
Bah, forget I posted that. Now that I've actually read the article I see that the Teensy does a better job and is cheaper. But the point still stands -- when you can get something like this for $20 or $25, why bother ripping apart a keyboard and tracing out the circuit?
But is it worth the hassle when you can buy a ready-to-use interface board for $30 more?
But Unix time is defined as having exactly 86400 seconds in a day. No more, no less. Leap seconds cannot be represented, which makes this format unacceptable for any serious long-term use. But that probably doesn't matter since time_t is going to overflow in 2038 anyway. If the Mayan end-of-epoch in 2012 or the Apophis asteroid in 2036 don't destroy us first...
Oh, dear God, it's addle-pated thinking like that which brought us AppleScript. It sounds like a great idea, until you realize just how many permutations there are in English of expressing the same instructions. You end up with code that's easily readable, but only writable if you happen to phrase things exactly like the language developer would. And do it consistently, to boot. Otherwise you end up frustrated because one English phrase works, but other phrases which mean the same in English don't.
Give me arcane (with good docs) but unambiguous every time.
(Mind you, when someone finally creates a parser which can actually understand colloquial natural language as well as a human, I'll be first in line to buy it. But I think some of Watson's wacky answers on Jeopardy show how close and yet how far we still are from that.)
Stack pointer? You were lucky. I started learning assembly on a Unisys machine which didn't even have a stack. The return address was placed in a reserved position at the beginning of the subroutine. Recursion? Ha!
I place blame squarely where it belongs -- with 3M. Any regime, oppressive or otherwise, would fall apart within hours if it were denied Post-It notes and Scotch tape. When will 3M learn that by selling to the Middle East they're directly responsible for the violation of basic human rights!
That sounds bad, until you stop to consider that it's barely 0.001 kilosieverts per hour. No problem.
As others have said, start with the modern (2005 onward) era. It's not a reboot of the series in the sense that the new Battlestar Galactica was. It carries the history (and baggage) of all the earlier shows, but it's plenty accessible if you've never seen any of them. And it benefits from having modern production values, as opposed to the campy B-movie production the series had before.
Each season has an overall story arc, so it's helpful to watch the shows within a season sequentially. Most episodes stand on their own, so watching them sequentially isn't strictly necessary. Seasons build upon one another, too. Watch them in order if you can, but don't worry about it if you can't.
And don't expect rigorous continuity. It's a fun adventure show. It's not hard science fiction. Sit back, enjoy the ride, and don't think too hard about the Doctor casually doing something in one episode that in a previous episode would have destroyed all time and space.
Maybe this lets Sprint charge their exorbitant per-kilobyte data fee for everything you do with GV and your Sprint number.