Thy Anonymous Coward, bold yet mysterious. Thy e-peen so small, yet full of self pleasure, tucked in thy hand. Thee take pleasure in boldness, yet lack the courage to face us account-to-account. Like a creepy gym teacher, thee read the stall, dreaming of responding to the scribbling, hoping for the day thy will present thy e-peen. But alas, you're not man enough.
Thy yonder Polygon, abstract yet concrete. From you the children of my loin spawn, deriving, overriding, and perfecting the methods of beauty you have defined. From thy concepts yee encapsulate the very essence of area and parameter, yet remain pure without implimentation. Still yet, thy dynamic children are best left outside of inner loops because virtual table lookups hurt performance. Oh, the resolve of thy methods, the polymorphism of thy soul.
*slap* Reputation comes from good response. If I have bad response, I will probably end up with bad reputation. Reputation is a collective social standing brought about from overall performance.
" Glasses are uncomfortable "... please tell me you didn't honestly just say that on geekdot.org. As a glasses wearer, I can tell you that you get used to them very quickly. Especially when you have a sexy rimless pair like what I have (I'm 6'2, dark hair, pecs like Fabio.) Anyway, what I meant is that this is trying to achieve AR, which is more than just a fancy GUI.
On a side note, I'm currently working on an Augment Reality project myself. My first step is to create structure from motion, which is proving to be a pain in the ass. At the moment, I'm trying to make a primitive version that uses the cvHoughLines2 function together with 3D orientation (x,y,x pitch yaw roll) of camera motion -- I figure if I can have coordinates for my camera motion, I have that much extra data to deduce structure.
Of course, I'd be surprised if I can get it to run in real time without a disgustingly powerful computer. Eh, it's still fun to attempt, even if I fail horribly. I'll probably need to pre-scan areas before it can function, and then it won't be able to update... still, I shall one day have dancing cat chicks in my living room!
Or you can make good use of your volatile primary memory. Sure, you're not protected from power outages, but when the authorities come and unplug your computer to take it down to the station...
Don't be silly. Setup a root account, setup sudo permissions, and then use the sudo authority when you need to do something instead of su or logging into root. You can still have your root, just don't use it unless you absolutely have to, and when you do access it via the terminal from a non-root user.
If you want to prove how secure your systems are, then show us the damn source. Either they're afraid we'll see crap code that's obviously hard to maintain (see: crappy coders cost time, time costs money.) That, or they know it's not secure. Linux has completely open source, and it does fine with security.
No, that's not true. This is an *application* of augmented reality. AR is the idea that computer interfaces can interlace with the environment. This isn't just a fancy way of managing a map, it's a method of interfacing with computational systems. This has the potential to change the way we use computers all together -- instead of phones, or PCs, people might have glasses which work as a personal assistant. This has the potential to be as important as the PC revolution.
I understand your sentiments, but you're missing a subtle point. Life involves self replication, over time small variations within the replications give rise to new variants -- more successful variants obviously have more replicas than others, by definition of being more successful.
Now, for conditions on Earth, we are seeing what is "most successful under these conditions." Now, what we consider "best" is up for debate, but by the usual meaning of the word (stronger, less death, more intelligence, less pain, etc) our system may not be ideal. That is, while our configuration is "most successful" for our system, it may not be "best" (the informal, common language definition of the word.)
This format won't add anything new to the software world, it's just a new complication. There's absolutely nothing new or exciting about this format, we can get the same effect with folders and multiple files -- or just cramming a few files together and splitting them apart when needed. This is just a pathetic attempt to keep control over people's software -- if it's their format, they can dictate what people can do with it. They might as well advertise this as "new exciting ways to force you to use our software how we decide."
Yeah, I doubt tools like Visual Studio will go down easy. I do some of my work in Eclipse, but when I'm working with C++ on Win32, I want my VC++. As for Office... sorry MS, I switch to google docs a few weeks ago.
Adblockers were never intended to completely kill ads. Add blockers were intended to tell obnoxious advertisers to stop flooding a webpage with garbage. The idea is that, given enough people blocking bad ads, the makers will pipe down and stop flooding sites with ugly litter. Look at/. -- the ad system is so nice, I don't even feel the need to click "disable ads." I think Google folk probably know this, so I would not be surprised if we get a Chrome adblock soon.
(Then again, I've recently fallen in love with google after discovered Docs/Calender/Etc...;p)
I was charged with writing POS software where I work. After looking into using scanners, I came across RFID. As it turns out, instead of needing to scan your crap, you can just have a magic wand magically take inventory for you. In fact, after looking into it, I realized I could rig sensors in our storage room to automatically re-take inventory periodically.
I'm sure some people are pushing for RFID for the wrong reasons, but I'm all for it as a replacement for barcodes as far as keeping stock goes. Imagine going to Walmart, and your shopping buggy automatically tells the clerk how much money you owe! Well, that might be a ways off, but it's possible.
I think RFID is an awesome tech, it just has a risk for being abused. Just like barcodes are awesome, but we don't want them on our forehead (unless we're playing shadow run, then it's 'cool.)
I know that's what the article said, but I'm sure there must have been at least some evaluation of the child. That's what I'm interested in, how badly "addicted" these kids are. (Of course, money involved, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't do any evaluation at all...)
Not to knock the hologram, but that looked too limited to be very promising. The augmented reality has a lot more promise, considering its only been a few years since we got Haar Cascades for object recognition, and we've already got real-time facial recognition. Screw laser tag, I'm waiting to fight alien baddies.
Imagine real life way-points for GPS navigation, or mid-air big screen TVs, or general awesome HUD display. A single pair of badass augmented reality glasses could replace all of your monitors (TV, computer, etc) it could give perfect directions (follow the magic glowing green line) virtual computer terminals (say, via an Airport network computer) floating text bubbles for deaf people, insta binoculars, glorified porn, etc.
Geek-oriented marriage is a farce. It doesn't introduce anything we don't already know in other approaches to marriage. Instead of focusing on methods for creating a health relationship, you should focus on how your previous actions affect the current state of your marriage.
I'm unfamiliar with the laws in China regarding how someone gets sent to one of these camps, but I'm sure you probably have serious issues if you end up in one. The problem is that most Internet addicts (the kind who are reading my post right now, instead of working *glare* ) are socially inept -- throwing them into the meat grinder is only going to make them go further into their shell.
Not only as a show of responsibility, I think China should open its methods for evaluation by serious, respected phsychologists. If China makes an honest attempt to improve its treatment, it could probably even help its standing with other countries. As a rule of thumb, politicians aren't what draw countries together, but common goals. China could turn this situation around, and use it to help its people and its standing with the world.
Of course, I'd be surprised if China made this sort of effort (it takes more Democratic Countries long enough to get around to this sort of stuff, what should we really expect from them?)
I opened the game in one tab (Chrome) and the article in another. According to the article, the larger the bubble is the more buttons control its color -- by pressing the button tied to the bubble, the color will change accordingly. The smaller the bubble, the more buttons control it. Once all bubbles become green, you've won the game.
If a bubble only has "one" button tied to it, that we know for a FACT that button must set that bubble to green -- we now don't have to worry about that button! Using similar tactics, this becomes an interesting cat-and-mouse game of whack-the-bubble. If you didn't enjoy the game or felt it's mechanical, give it a second chance and try to figure out how to use strategy -- it's actually really damn fun, and requires a lot of thought and careful reasoning. Don't worry, if it seemed hard at first, you're not a dunce, you're probably just not looking at things the right way.
Many spam messages are propagated by botnets, spoofed IPs, etc, so that isn't a perfect solution. Really, we need to combine different approaches, instead of trying to find a holy-grail.
Not to mention, anyone with a botnet infecting Skype enabled PC boxes can launch a distributed attack, given enough cell phone numbers to target. Imagine a mass-texting botnet. Really, if they can't have completely open-technology, they're not securing their systems properly.
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Thy Anonymous Coward, bold yet mysterious. Thy e-peen so small, yet full of self pleasure, tucked in thy hand. Thee take pleasure in boldness, yet lack the courage to face us account-to-account. Like a creepy gym teacher, thee read the stall, dreaming of responding to the scribbling, hoping for the day thy will present thy e-peen. But alas, you're not man enough.
Thy yonder Polygon, abstract yet concrete. From you the children of my loin spawn, deriving, overriding, and perfecting the methods of beauty you have defined. From thy concepts yee encapsulate the very essence of area and parameter, yet remain pure without implimentation. Still yet, thy dynamic children are best left outside of inner loops because virtual table lookups hurt performance. Oh, the resolve of thy methods, the polymorphism of thy soul.
*slap* Reputation comes from good response. If I have bad response, I will probably end up with bad reputation. Reputation is a collective social standing brought about from overall performance.
" Glasses are uncomfortable "... please tell me you didn't honestly just say that on geekdot.org. As a glasses wearer, I can tell you that you get used to them very quickly. Especially when you have a sexy rimless pair like what I have (I'm 6'2, dark hair, pecs like Fabio.) Anyway, what I meant is that this is trying to achieve AR, which is more than just a fancy GUI.
On a side note, I'm currently working on an Augment Reality project myself. My first step is to create structure from motion, which is proving to be a pain in the ass. At the moment, I'm trying to make a primitive version that uses the cvHoughLines2 function together with 3D orientation (x,y,x pitch yaw roll) of camera motion -- I figure if I can have coordinates for my camera motion, I have that much extra data to deduce structure.
Of course, I'd be surprised if I can get it to run in real time without a disgustingly powerful computer. Eh, it's still fun to attempt, even if I fail horribly. I'll probably need to pre-scan areas before it can function, and then it won't be able to update... still, I shall one day have dancing cat chicks in my living room!
Or you can make good use of your volatile primary memory. Sure, you're not protected from power outages, but when the authorities come and unplug your computer to take it down to the station...
Don't be silly. Setup a root account, setup sudo permissions, and then use the sudo authority when you need to do something instead of su or logging into root. You can still have your root, just don't use it unless you absolutely have to, and when you do access it via the terminal from a non-root user.
Oh, the inner exhibitionist in me is tingling.
If you want to prove how secure your systems are, then show us the damn source. Either they're afraid we'll see crap code that's obviously hard to maintain (see: crappy coders cost time, time costs money.) That, or they know it's not secure. Linux has completely open source, and it does fine with security.
No, that's not true. This is an *application* of augmented reality. AR is the idea that computer interfaces can interlace with the environment. This isn't just a fancy way of managing a map, it's a method of interfacing with computational systems. This has the potential to change the way we use computers all together -- instead of phones, or PCs, people might have glasses which work as a personal assistant. This has the potential to be as important as the PC revolution.
I understand your sentiments, but you're missing a subtle point. Life involves self replication, over time small variations within the replications give rise to new variants -- more successful variants obviously have more replicas than others, by definition of being more successful.
Now, for conditions on Earth, we are seeing what is "most successful under these conditions." Now, what we consider "best" is up for debate, but by the usual meaning of the word (stronger, less death, more intelligence, less pain, etc) our system may not be ideal. That is, while our configuration is "most successful" for our system, it may not be "best" (the informal, common language definition of the word.)
This format won't add anything new to the software world, it's just a new complication. There's absolutely nothing new or exciting about this format, we can get the same effect with folders and multiple files -- or just cramming a few files together and splitting them apart when needed. This is just a pathetic attempt to keep control over people's software -- if it's their format, they can dictate what people can do with it. They might as well advertise this as "new exciting ways to force you to use our software how we decide."
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The funny is so greatly epic I blew a LOLfuze and can no longer laugh.
Yeah, I doubt tools like Visual Studio will go down easy. I do some of my work in Eclipse, but when I'm working with C++ on Win32, I want my VC++. As for Office... sorry MS, I switch to google docs a few weeks ago.
No, I write software for EVE Online, don't you know? I'm talking about POS, as in the station.
Adblockers were never intended to completely kill ads. Add blockers were intended to tell obnoxious advertisers to stop flooding a webpage with garbage. The idea is that, given enough people blocking bad ads, the makers will pipe down and stop flooding sites with ugly litter. Look at /. -- the ad system is so nice, I don't even feel the need to click "disable ads." I think Google folk probably know this, so I would not be surprised if we get a Chrome adblock soon.
;p)
(Then again, I've recently fallen in love with google after discovered Docs/Calender/Etc...
I was charged with writing POS software where I work. After looking into using scanners, I came across RFID. As it turns out, instead of needing to scan your crap, you can just have a magic wand magically take inventory for you. In fact, after looking into it, I realized I could rig sensors in our storage room to automatically re-take inventory periodically.
I'm sure some people are pushing for RFID for the wrong reasons, but I'm all for it as a replacement for barcodes as far as keeping stock goes. Imagine going to Walmart, and your shopping buggy automatically tells the clerk how much money you owe! Well, that might be a ways off, but it's possible.
I think RFID is an awesome tech, it just has a risk for being abused. Just like barcodes are awesome, but we don't want them on our forehead (unless we're playing shadow run, then it's 'cool.)
I know that's what the article said, but I'm sure there must have been at least some evaluation of the child. That's what I'm interested in, how badly "addicted" these kids are. (Of course, money involved, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't do any evaluation at all...)
Not to knock the hologram, but that looked too limited to be very promising. The augmented reality has a lot more promise, considering its only been a few years since we got Haar Cascades for object recognition, and we've already got real-time facial recognition. Screw laser tag, I'm waiting to fight alien baddies.
Imagine real life way-points for GPS navigation, or mid-air big screen TVs, or general awesome HUD display. A single pair of badass augmented reality glasses could replace all of your monitors (TV, computer, etc) it could give perfect directions (follow the magic glowing green line) virtual computer terminals (say, via an Airport network computer) floating text bubbles for deaf people, insta binoculars, glorified porn, etc.
Geek-oriented marriage is a farce. It doesn't introduce anything we don't already know in other approaches to marriage. Instead of focusing on methods for creating a health relationship, you should focus on how your previous actions affect the current state of your marriage.
I'm unfamiliar with the laws in China regarding how someone gets sent to one of these camps, but I'm sure you probably have serious issues if you end up in one. The problem is that most Internet addicts (the kind who are reading my post right now, instead of working *glare* ) are socially inept -- throwing them into the meat grinder is only going to make them go further into their shell.
Not only as a show of responsibility, I think China should open its methods for evaluation by serious, respected phsychologists. If China makes an honest attempt to improve its treatment, it could probably even help its standing with other countries. As a rule of thumb, politicians aren't what draw countries together, but common goals. China could turn this situation around, and use it to help its people and its standing with the world.
Of course, I'd be surprised if China made this sort of effort (it takes more Democratic Countries long enough to get around to this sort of stuff, what should we really expect from them?)
I opened the game in one tab (Chrome) and the article in another. According to the article, the larger the bubble is the more buttons control its color -- by pressing the button tied to the bubble, the color will change accordingly. The smaller the bubble, the more buttons control it. Once all bubbles become green, you've won the game.
If a bubble only has "one" button tied to it, that we know for a FACT that button must set that bubble to green -- we now don't have to worry about that button! Using similar tactics, this becomes an interesting cat-and-mouse game of whack-the-bubble. If you didn't enjoy the game or felt it's mechanical, give it a second chance and try to figure out how to use strategy -- it's actually really damn fun, and requires a lot of thought and careful reasoning. Don't worry, if it seemed hard at first, you're not a dunce, you're probably just not looking at things the right way.
Many spam messages are propagated by botnets, spoofed IPs, etc, so that isn't a perfect solution. Really, we need to combine different approaches, instead of trying to find a holy-grail.
Not to mention, anyone with a botnet infecting Skype enabled PC boxes can launch a distributed attack, given enough cell phone numbers to target. Imagine a mass-texting botnet. Really, if they can't have completely open-technology, they're not securing their systems properly.