I don't believe a constitutional amendment has ever been amended. But I am seriously considering going to law school to find out. Creating an amendment in the first place is difficult, and it only takes a very small population % to defeat a proposal. I would imagine removing an amendment would be an order of magnitude more difficult, as the same small population % could defeat it. And after 219 years people have become partial to the first ten, as removing one of them would also invalidate the Bill of Rights. And that is precisely the moment the terrorists win.
How many car bombs have we seen lately to justify these actions?
The justification is that they cannot see the car bombs without the scanner, and lives could be lost if we wait for a catalyst. Didn't you get the memo? "Live free or die" was changed to "Die free or live". Stark future indeed.
Turns out Fallout 3 is a more reliable source than Google Maps.
Because major game developers go on field trips to actually see the place for themselves. They didn't use Google Earth...:) Though suddenly I really want to see Google Wasteland... any mashup artists in the house?
Proficiency in ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL... makes you stand out from the crowd. Market yourself as a specialist.
Indeed. Aren't these exactly the kind of people that were in demand to mitigate Y2K? Not as if a FUBAR like that won't happen again. And again. And again. Nobody has the budget to rewrite entrenched systems into higher level code these days.
Rights are inalienable and you have them even if the government is a Tyrant that does not recognize those rights.
Sounds good on paper. If it's you and two G-men in a room, and those two guys decide to beat you to death, writing a letter to your congressman will not solve anything after the fact.
Speaking as a student of law and philosophy, we like to think that morality and duty makes discussions of "rights" more important than children inventing rules on a playground. But it isn't like that out in the real world. Rights only matter if people and governments respect them. Laws only work on people and governments that care about consequences of breaking them.
If only there were some way of counting major releases, such that one could tell how many there were, and by extension, know how many versions had been released prior...
So sayeth Junior J. Junior III. Who didn't have a Great-grandfather, because his DNA was open sourced.
OP needs an app that supports reading and writing IPTC metadata. Pretty straightforward.
Parent is right that Picasa has inconsistent and proprietary behavior. It uses INI files in each folder that store most of the developing and album information in plaintext. So you can tweak and recover that to a certain degree. But it has a separate database for caption data. If you make a caption change and commit changes to disk, the captions are not updated in the JPG or the INI. (AFAIK)
I use Adobe Lightroom for both personal and professional work. So far very impressed with the newest version 3.0. Because of Picasa and Lightroom's non-destructive editing, you do have to export files to commit image adjustments.
All of the metadata tagging and keywording you do in Lightroom is written into the file itself (providing you have it set to save those changes instantly, or you can save on command). Using IPTC and other standard formats means that apps like Picasa and Flickr can read that information. And those standard tags are automatically picked up by any decent OS searching tool like Spotlight.
Because when I want to take a ten minute break for random browsing, I *really* want to shut down everything I'm in the middle of doing and reboot twice.
OTOH, if more porn sites said they were best viewed on Linux, I'm sure it would help market.. er... penetration.
I would be happy to set my google.com background to black. But yeah, no reason not to make it as customizable as iGoogle. Just don't scare folks.
> I recall reading that they would like to remove the "I'm feeling lucky" > button (because no one uses it), but they can't. Users simply can't > handle large changes.
I think they also realize that every "cool and viral" news story about Google usually refers to clicking I'm feeling lucky.
The fact that it is disused means that when the top pagerank doesn't give the desired result they can probably get away with fudging results for the lulz. It's possible for a top pagerank to change more than once per day.
I guess the fact that 'remove Google background' was the seventh most searched for phrase today might have had something to do with it.
So we should all search for "why is Google becoming evil?" a couple times a day? So crazy it might work.
By not putting an access control mechanism on a data interface you are essentially granting everyone access. Whether the courts rule this way has nothing to do with the technical and practical realities of the situation.
But the people who make the laws seldom understand the technical and practical realities of the situation. The people who exploit them do. Therefore most written law and court rulings are made with more concern about the motivation, than how easy (in computer terms) something can be done. Because the people most likely to do it are the ones looking to exploit it.
Unlike walking around naked with your curtains open, it's very unlikely a grandmother will happen to glance through 114,000 e-mail addresses.
I love this video, but I think it's telling that even a minuscule lab experiment produces a seeping puddle around the beakers. Clean up isn't clean either.
I have a few friends that play games this much. On consoles. The thing is, however, that it doesnt make them good. Console players IME tend to have a lot less 'skill'; ie- twitch reflexes and battlefield awareness.
I think that has little to do with who plays what and more to do with the environment they choose to play in. A PC gaming rig is much more likely, historically speaking, to have a higher fidelity in display, audio, and input devices.
I don't need a whole hand to count the number of console games that support multiple displays, and I'd wager more people use stereo instead of positional audio with their TV. A console is more likely to be played at a lower resolution on a bigger display, sitting back on a couch in a living room with the dog or other family distractions. Some console games I don't mind playing while lying down, which certainly isn't conducive to alertness, and I'm fine with falling asleep controller-in-hand. It's entertainment.
As a controller junkie I will choose developer sanctioned auto-aim assist rather than the grubby sandbox of PC aimbot mods. So game developers are the biggest influence in what skills are required by the player. I played flight sims in the days when, if you didn't own a Thrustmaster flight stick with its own dedicated controller card, you weren't serious. Then Freelancer came out and suddenly you could pilot with a mouse and frakking beat the game. That was unsettling. Flight sims haven't been the same since, because developers went mainstream and accessible. I think the RTS is still the only genre that truly benefits from a keyboard and mouse, because they haven't perfected radial menus yet, and even MMOs are getting menu accessible.
Moral of the story, play PC games if you want to have a challenge. Consoles are fun if you like games with stories.
Uhh.. Activision, PopCap and LucasArts would like to have a word with you...
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I don't believe a constitutional amendment has ever been amended. But I am seriously considering going to law school to find out.
Creating an amendment in the first place is difficult, and it only takes a very small population % to defeat a proposal.
I would imagine removing an amendment would be an order of magnitude more difficult, as the same small population % could defeat it. And after 219 years people have become partial to the first ten, as removing one of them would also invalidate the Bill of Rights.
And that is precisely the moment the terrorists win.
How many car bombs have we seen lately to justify these actions?
The justification is that they cannot see the car bombs without the scanner, and lives could be lost if we wait for a catalyst.
Didn't you get the memo? "Live free or die" was changed to "Die free or live".
Stark future indeed.
I would imagine that it's simply a matter of the word memorial being attributed to FDR more than Lincoln, for some reason.
FDR is SEO. Lincoln gets spamdexed. Also, most recent results at the top. ;) Date bias.
Turns out Fallout 3 is a more reliable source than Google Maps.
Because major game developers go on field trips to actually see the place for themselves. They didn't use Google Earth... :)
Though suddenly I really want to see Google Wasteland... any mashup artists in the house?
iMbezzle?
There's an app for that too.
I don't love video games more than sex, but I certainly get to play around more that way.
May be why I hang out on Joystiq instead.
Proficiency in ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL ... makes you stand out from the crowd. Market yourself as a specialist.
Indeed. Aren't these exactly the kind of people that were in demand to mitigate Y2K?
Not as if a FUBAR like that won't happen again. And again. And again.
Nobody has the budget to rewrite entrenched systems into higher level code these days.
Rights are inalienable and you have them even if the government is a Tyrant that does not recognize those rights.
Sounds good on paper. If it's you and two G-men in a room, and those two guys decide to beat you to death, writing a letter to your congressman will not solve anything after the fact.
Speaking as a student of law and philosophy, we like to think that morality and duty makes discussions of "rights" more important than children inventing rules on a playground. But it isn't like that out in the real world. Rights only matter if people and governments respect them. Laws only work on people and governments that care about consequences of breaking them.
While we are on the topic, anyone seen a good solution to scan, OCR, and reconvert existing crappy pdfs to improve them?
I think they are called interns. Photoshoop's Content-Aware Fill isn't very good with charts or handwriting.
If only there were some way of counting major releases, such that one could tell how many there were, and by extension, know how many versions had been released prior...
So sayeth Junior J. Junior III. Who didn't have a Great-grandfather, because his DNA was open sourced.
the utility of /.?
I can't understand you. Please speak English.
Can we get back to dealing with real criminals?
You mean lawyers that fish for clients?
I wonder if it comes in an envelope that says "You may have already won a lawsuit for $3,000,000 dollars!!"
Truman Burbank is alive and well and living in Fiji.
OP needs an app that supports reading and writing IPTC metadata. Pretty straightforward.
Parent is right that Picasa has inconsistent and proprietary behavior. It uses INI files in each folder that store most of the developing and album information in plaintext. So you can tweak and recover that to a certain degree. But it has a separate database for caption data. If you make a caption change and commit changes to disk, the captions are not updated in the JPG or the INI. (AFAIK)
I use Adobe Lightroom for both personal and professional work. So far very impressed with the newest version 3.0. Because of Picasa and Lightroom's non-destructive editing, you do have to export files to commit image adjustments.
All of the metadata tagging and keywording you do in Lightroom is written into the file itself (providing you have it set to save those changes instantly, or you can save on command). Using IPTC and other standard formats means that apps like Picasa and Flickr can read that information. And those standard tags are automatically picked up by any decent OS searching tool like Spotlight.
Because when I want to take a ten minute break for random browsing, I *really* want to shut down everything I'm in the middle of doing and reboot twice.
OTOH, if more porn sites said they were best viewed on Linux, I'm sure it would help market.. er... penetration.
I would be happy to set my google.com background to black. But yeah, no reason not to make it as customizable as iGoogle. Just don't scare folks.
> I recall reading that they would like to remove the "I'm feeling lucky"
> button (because no one uses it), but they can't. Users simply can't
> handle large changes.
I think they also realize that every "cool and viral" news story about Google usually refers to clicking I'm feeling lucky.
The fact that it is disused means that when the top pagerank doesn't give the desired result they can probably get away with fudging results for the lulz. It's possible for a top pagerank to change more than once per day.
I guess the fact that 'remove Google background' was the seventh most searched for phrase today might have had something to do with it.
So we should all search for "why is Google becoming evil?" a couple times a day? So crazy it might work.
By not putting an access control mechanism on a data interface you are essentially granting everyone access. Whether the courts rule this way has nothing to do with the technical and practical realities of the situation.
But the people who make the laws seldom understand the technical and practical realities of the situation.
The people who exploit them do.
Therefore most written law and court rulings are made with more concern about the motivation, than how easy (in computer terms) something can be done. Because the people most likely to do it are the ones looking to exploit it.
Unlike walking around naked with your curtains open, it's very unlikely a grandmother will happen to glance through 114,000 e-mail addresses.
Talk about oppressive, did they HAVE to split it up in to eight pages?
I love this video, but I think it's telling that even a minuscule lab experiment produces a seeping puddle around the beakers. Clean up isn't clean either.
From that example, speculate on what will happen in the Gulf.
Eventually nature will sort itself out. Likely, none of us will live long enough to see it.
Using inmates at an internet-addiction boot camp as slave labor for your WoW gold-farming business...
Don't forget about the Pokéwalkers chained.. I mean strapped to their legs.
They might as well ask for a BAJILLION!
It's Bajillionty.
The only Too Big To Fail that matters.
Ergo, only Lando Calrissian can save us. It works every time.
Twelve video cards with twelve ports? That's just gross.
I have a few friends that play games this much. On consoles. The thing is, however, that it doesnt make them good. Console players IME tend to have a lot less 'skill'; ie- twitch reflexes and battlefield awareness.
I think that has little to do with who plays what and more to do with the environment they choose to play in. A PC gaming rig is much more likely, historically speaking, to have a higher fidelity in display, audio, and input devices.
I don't need a whole hand to count the number of console games that support multiple displays, and I'd wager more people use stereo instead of positional audio with their TV. A console is more likely to be played at a lower resolution on a bigger display, sitting back on a couch in a living room with the dog or other family distractions. Some console games I don't mind playing while lying down, which certainly isn't conducive to alertness, and I'm fine with falling asleep controller-in-hand. It's entertainment.
As a controller junkie I will choose developer sanctioned auto-aim assist rather than the grubby sandbox of PC aimbot mods. So game developers are the biggest influence in what skills are required by the player. I played flight sims in the days when, if you didn't own a Thrustmaster flight stick with its own dedicated controller card, you weren't serious. Then Freelancer came out and suddenly you could pilot with a mouse and frakking beat the game. That was unsettling. Flight sims haven't been the same since, because developers went mainstream and accessible. I think the RTS is still the only genre that truly benefits from a keyboard and mouse, because they haven't perfected radial menus yet, and even MMOs are getting menu accessible.
Moral of the story, play PC games if you want to have a challenge. Consoles are fun if you like games with stories.
Uhh.. Activision, PopCap and LucasArts would like to have a word with you...