It sucks when someone innocent gets hurt in a riot. Whose fault is it? The rioters, plain and simple. What should happen to the rioters? They should be arrested, plain and simple.
You are correct to state that my friend's picture should not be posted-- but you ignored another key point of my post. I have looked at ALL of the pictures on their website, and every single person whose photo was posted was engaged in illegal activity in AT LEAST one of the photos of that person. (some people made multiple appearances, but seemed to be consistently numbered.) Additionally, not all people in the pictures were numbered and listed as wanted, and finally, many of the pictures were cropped to eliminate innocent bystanders.
If the cops read the riot act, it was against the law to BE there. So I ask my original question again-- if these people committed a crime (and they have all been photographed doing so) how is this different than a wanted poster?
The people in these pictures are clearly rioting, and most are actively involved in destructive activities. (smashing, stealing, burning, adding fuel to fires, etc...) How is this any different than traditional wanted posters, except that the pictures are on the web and the people involved are mostly students from my alma mater?
It's pretty standard for law enforcement to offer rewards for tips to find criminals. The people rioting are idiots. I lived right smack in the middle of another one of these riots at Purdue when the Women's team won-- people actually climbed up the side of the house my apartment was in, pulled down fairly large trees, burned furniture and garbage in the middle of major streets, etc...
In fact, coming home from the computer lab in MSEE one night I had the misfortune to witness a naked drunk guy playing the PU fight song on a tuba. An even less fortunate friend was unintentionally gassed since he had to pass the riot's center on the way home. Nobody would have been gassed at all of the rioting retards had found something better to do.
I fail to see how anyone's rights are being infringed in any way here. These people comitted a crime, and the police are offering a reward to anyone who helps track them down.
Toshiba is now selling laptops with NVidia's GeForce2 Go chipset (basically a GeForce2 MX squeezed into a laptop). Sounds like the easiest route to me! It's got built-in ethernet and sound, too. And a built-in subwoofer? (I'm skeptical on this piece, but who knows?)
Scientific theories are just that-- theories. No good scientist will claim that a theory is fact, just that it's the best match to reality they could come up with given the information, equipment, and methodologies they had access to at the time. If any of those things improve and a new perspective is gained, theories are revised in short order to be more accurate. When things prove wrong, they are scrapped.
This is a lot like you and I writing code-- these folks do their best to find answers that fit in with our (admittedly limited) knowledge of the universe, and they're not going to get it right at first. Unless you write perfect, bug-free code the first time every time, I suggest you cut the scientists some slack. At least they admit they were wrong, fix the theories to fit the new information, and try to improve. Using the willingness of science to admit and attempt to correct its mistakes against it hardly seems fair to me.
I suspect that if someone can find strong scientific evidence for the tale in Genesis, that you will find science quick to accept it. (I can certainly vouch for myself! Prove it, and I will see you in church 28 times a week.) On the other hand, just claiming something is true and being unwilling to budge hardly makes you more right than another person. Just more stubborn.
I must have missed the bit where they go out of their way to make sure I can opt out. Do I need to send them a letter, or what? Not that I really care as long as its anonymous, but what if the company gets sold? Then they'll find out just how many cartoons I watch. Oh, the shame.
But it is very difficult to get my fellow americans to think in any terms except their immediate personal gain. A friend of mine at work the other day was complaining that new car emissions testing was going to be done with a wide-open throttle rather than at idle, preventing the "emissions workaround" that many high-powered vehicles use. (Tuned for low emissions at idle, throw it out the window and go for power once the throttle is open) I just couldn't seem to convince him that there was any benefit that made the tradeoff of a few horsepower worthwhile. Absolutely amazing that people can be so uncaring about the population as a whole.
It doesn't take much to make a difference in your personal energy usage-- but nobody over here seems to care.
The MX has a "digital vibrance control" which produces a much nicer effect than turning up your contrast. You don't get any of that washed-out effect, and the colors are much brighter but don't oversaturate (unless you REALLY crank it...) and the contrast stays quite good.
But it does a wonderful job of making games a lot less drab. I can't imagine it not being a feature on the GF3, even though it's not available (to my knowledge) on the standard (non-MX) GF2 cards.
Interactive Intelligence (www.inter-intelli.com) sells stuff like that. They still use normal phones, but they can be cheapo $15 phones since all of the intelligence is moved to the PC.
According to the article, the scientists used "unique high magnetic field Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry" to analyze the bacteria. Do these words actually mean something together? Or is it like saying that I put together a "open-source XML cross-platform NUMA per-pixel internet back-end serial port integration ecommerce rasterizer"?
The cross-hairs were on the cameras, not pre-printed on the film. Things are very bright on the moon, owing to the lack of an atmosphere, and the fact that the earth is around 100x brighter in the sky than the moon is on earth. Very bright light bleeds into dark areas on film. (Have you ever accidentally overexposed a picture?) In pictures of bright objects (well-lit mountains, etc...) where the crosshairs overlap the both bright and dark areas, they appear to slide behind the bright objects because the bright light bled into the (very very narrow) dark area created by the crosshairs.
I didn't see the show, but if the nasa guy said that there were crosshairs on all the pictures, he was mistaken. There were crosshairs on all the *cameras*.
Wow! Boats that are on top of the water and under the water at the same time? Remarkable! And all this time, I thought that boats were either 100% above the waterline, or completely submerged. How do you get them to balance partway submerged like that? Is it magic? I thought it was just a special-effects embellishment when the titanic sank slowly in the movie... I figured in real life it was skipping along on top of the waves until it zinged that iceberg, and then it instantly became submerged. Technology is amazing. With super-boats like these, we will surely catch those giant squid.
You are confusing two seperate pieces of this issue. Hatch is opposed to Napster because it does facilitate copyright infringement. (It can be argued, and frequently is on slashdot, that the noninfringing uses of napster should be enough to keep it from being shut down) Let's be honest-- most napster users are using it to infringe on copyright. Hatch is a musician, and this bothers him, so he wants it shut down. Understandable. He is even more worried, however, that shutting it down will give rise to some form of infinitely scalable super-fast ultra-gnutella/freenet that will be anonymous, untraceable, decentralized, and unsueable. I imagine that scares him a bit, too.
On the other hand, you have the issue of the DMCA and online music publishing. Hatch helped write the DMCA, because in his (misguided, but understandable) view it would encourage the development of legitimate online music sales. Much to his surprise, the record companies took the DMCA and are using it to screw the heck out of everybody involved-- but STILL haven't gotten around to selling their music online. Which was his whole point: "we'll give you some additional copyright protections if it will help you move online more quickly". So now hatch is fighting for compulsory licensing to get the record companies in gear.
I'm all for it. Hatch may have been misguided in the beginning, but he is really starting to understand just how nasty the record companies are.
According to the article, this new drive is a USB drive. Transfer speed is significantly better than the old sluggish floppy bus.
I would fully agree that bootable USB devices would be fantastic, though!
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I don't know a lot about the project these sounds are being recorded for, but I would imagine that discarding huge chunks of audio information (how do you think mp3's get so small?) that human beings can't hear is probably not a good way to go. If he is doing computer analysis of the sounds, wouldn't it be better to analyze a non-lossy recording? That way, even audio cues that a person can't hear (and that would be discarded by a lossy psychoacoustic model tuned for human beings) could be analyzed. Who knows? Maybe frogs do weird things with phase or overlapping near-frequency tones that we simply don't hear.
www.evga.com has PCI nvidia cards. Their PCI GeForce2 MX is product number 032-P1-NV29-01. You can look it up by going "products" from the sidebar, and getting a list of all the nvidia cards by selecting the manufacturer and clicking "submit". Hope this helps...
Bad, bad english habit (yo always makes me think "you know?", but of course, isn't a question). No japanese points for me today.:( Did I muck up anything else?
I have quite a ways to go, but I'm working on it.:)
I may not be the most fluent speaker in the world, but I'm learning, and it is nice to be able to get a japanese-speaking movie that will play in my DVD player so I can get a little practice.
You are also rather rude for no discernable reason other than that you don't seem to like anime much. Not a problem-- there are a number of things I don't like as well.
My recommendation is to not buy anime. For the rest of us, though, having a choice is good. Do you like having a choice between operating systems? Me too. Choice bewteen types of movies? Same here. Choice as to what language I can watch them in? Apparently, you're not concerned-- but why shouldn't there be a choice for the Japanese speakers among us anyway?
There's a lot of talk in this article about how buying a DVD is supporting the MPAA/DVD-CCA mess, and that as such you should boycott DVDs. I agree entirely with this sentiment, but not with the action taken. Don't let their stupidity take something you enjoy out of your life-- you can buy DVDs and still feel all warm and fuzzy by doing the following:
1. Make sure you've got the tools to do whatever you want (legally) with your DVDs. DeCSS, speed ripper, a region-free drive, etc...
2. Buy used DVDs whenever possible. Most movies I want to buy have been available for long enough that there are 10,000 copies of them on ebay for next-to-nothing. Used DVDs pay no additional "a$$hole tax" to the MPAA.
3. If you really want to get a new DVD (in my case, I ordered Mononoke in advance), make a matching donation to the EFF. Do this everytime. If the movie costs $25, send $25 to the EFF. This way, while the movie studio is making a bit of profit from the movie, the EFF is getting the full amount to use in their fight. (Thanks to the slashdot poster who suggested this many months ago-- I think it's an outstanding idea!!)
Just for the record, when I use my Motorola Timeport (look! it's a StarTAC! oh, wait... it's silver...) to check my yahoo mail account, I only had to enter the login and password once. I don't know if it's the site, the gateway, or the phone saving the data, but you do only have to type it once.
Now I just start my browser (4 clicks), and then press 5 (for yahoo) and 1 (for mail) and I'm reading my list. 6 clicks isn't bad.
On the other hand, sending mail of any length is out of the question unless you're REALLY stuck somewhere for a while.
As a plus, the timeport is pretty much just a phone-- the screen is tiny (4 lines) and wap access is more or less tacked on as an afterthought. Works for me, though... small, long battery life, and a quick way to see if anything important is lurking in my inbox.
Are slide rules really no longer being manufactuerd by anyone as the article suggests? Surely somebody somewhere is still producing these things. If anybody has any good links to a source, let me know!
There have been several posts asking "why can't I do this on my PC?", so I thought it best to put this out here. There is a software-based Tivo-like program called ShowShifter at www.showshifter.com that is in beta. No linux version yet, but the bits and pieces for a linux recorder are already there-- there are linux drivers for the very common BT848 video-capture chipset and software for encoding, as well as nifty scheduling tools like cron. If somebody wrapped it up in a nice GUI, we'd already be done!
Hauppage's WinTV cards do this for standard TV. The low end starts at around $50, and there are (unofficial, I think) linux drivers and software. There are also a number of free projects in the works that will offer Tivo-style digital video recording using these cards soon. (You can already set up recording with cron)
I noticed that MSNBC has been running really slow, and has replaced their front page with a really stripped-down "light" version because of the "heavy load". CNN seems fine, abcnews.com seems fine, etc...
Is MSNBC just more popular than everything else, or is their.asp architecture showing its limits?
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It sucks when someone innocent gets hurt in a riot. Whose fault is it? The rioters, plain and simple. What should happen to the rioters? They should be arrested, plain and simple.
You are correct to state that my friend's picture should not be posted-- but you ignored another key point of my post. I have looked at ALL of the pictures on their website, and every single person whose photo was posted was engaged in illegal activity in AT LEAST one of the photos of that person. (some people made multiple appearances, but seemed to be consistently numbered.) Additionally, not all people in the pictures were numbered and listed as wanted, and finally, many of the pictures were cropped to eliminate innocent bystanders.
If the cops read the riot act, it was against the law to BE there. So I ask my original question again-- if these people committed a crime (and they have all been photographed doing so) how is this different than a wanted poster?
The people in these pictures are clearly rioting, and most are actively involved in destructive activities. (smashing, stealing, burning, adding fuel to fires, etc...) How is this any different than traditional wanted posters, except that the pictures are on the web and the people involved are mostly students from my alma mater?
It's pretty standard for law enforcement to offer rewards for tips to find criminals. The people rioting are idiots. I lived right smack in the middle of another one of these riots at Purdue when the Women's team won-- people actually climbed up the side of the house my apartment was in, pulled down fairly large trees, burned furniture and garbage in the middle of major streets, etc...
In fact, coming home from the computer lab in MSEE one night I had the misfortune to witness a naked drunk guy playing the PU fight song on a tuba. An even less fortunate friend was unintentionally gassed since he had to pass the riot's center on the way home. Nobody would have been gassed at all of the rioting retards had found something better to do.
I fail to see how anyone's rights are being infringed in any way here. These people comitted a crime, and the police are offering a reward to anyone who helps track them down.
Toshiba is now selling laptops with NVidia's GeForce2 Go chipset (basically a GeForce2 MX squeezed into a laptop). Sounds like the easiest route to me! It's got built-in ethernet and sound, too. And a built-in subwoofer? (I'm skeptical on this piece, but who knows?)
Scientific theories are just that-- theories. No good scientist will claim that a theory is fact, just that it's the best match to reality they could come up with given the information, equipment, and methodologies they had access to at the time. If any of those things improve and a new perspective is gained, theories are revised in short order to be more accurate. When things prove wrong, they are scrapped.
This is a lot like you and I writing code-- these folks do their best to find answers that fit in with our (admittedly limited) knowledge of the universe, and they're not going to get it right at first. Unless you write perfect, bug-free code the first time every time, I suggest you cut the scientists some slack. At least they admit they were wrong, fix the theories to fit the new information, and try to improve. Using the willingness of science to admit and attempt to correct its mistakes against it hardly seems fair to me.
I suspect that if someone can find strong scientific evidence for the tale in Genesis, that you will find science quick to accept it. (I can certainly vouch for myself! Prove it, and I will see you in church 28 times a week.) On the other hand, just claiming something is true and being unwilling to budge hardly makes you more right than another person. Just more stubborn.
I must have missed the bit where they go out of their way to make sure I can opt out. Do I need to send them a letter, or what? Not that I really care as long as its anonymous, but what if the company gets sold? Then they'll find out just how many cartoons I watch. Oh, the shame.
But it is very difficult to get my fellow americans to think in any terms except their immediate personal gain. A friend of mine at work the other day was complaining that new car emissions testing was going to be done with a wide-open throttle rather than at idle, preventing the "emissions workaround" that many high-powered vehicles use. (Tuned for low emissions at idle, throw it out the window and go for power once the throttle is open) I just couldn't seem to convince him that there was any benefit that made the tradeoff of a few horsepower worthwhile. Absolutely amazing that people can be so uncaring about the population as a whole.
It doesn't take much to make a difference in your personal energy usage-- but nobody over here seems to care.
The MX has a "digital vibrance control" which produces a much nicer effect than turning up your contrast. You don't get any of that washed-out effect, and the colors are much brighter but don't oversaturate (unless you REALLY crank it...) and the contrast stays quite good.
But it does a wonderful job of making games a lot less drab. I can't imagine it not being a feature on the GF3, even though it's not available (to my knowledge) on the standard (non-MX) GF2 cards.
Interactive Intelligence (www.inter-intelli.com) sells stuff like that. They still use normal phones, but they can be cheapo $15 phones since all of the intelligence is moved to the PC.
According to the article, the scientists used "unique high magnetic field Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry" to analyze the bacteria. Do these words actually mean something together? Or is it like saying that I put together a "open-source XML cross-platform NUMA per-pixel internet back-end serial port integration ecommerce rasterizer"?
The cross-hairs were on the cameras, not pre-printed on the film. Things are very bright on the moon, owing to the lack of an atmosphere, and the fact that the earth is around 100x brighter in the sky than the moon is on earth. Very bright light bleeds into dark areas on film. (Have you ever accidentally overexposed a picture?) In pictures of bright objects (well-lit mountains, etc...) where the crosshairs overlap the both bright and dark areas, they appear to slide behind the bright objects because the bright light bled into the (very very narrow) dark area created by the crosshairs.
I didn't see the show, but if the nasa guy said that there were crosshairs on all the pictures, he was mistaken. There were crosshairs on all the *cameras*.
Wow! Boats that are on top of the water and under the water at the same time? Remarkable! And all this time, I thought that boats were either 100% above the waterline, or completely submerged. How do you get them to balance partway submerged like that? Is it magic? I thought it was just a special-effects embellishment when the titanic sank slowly in the movie... I figured in real life it was skipping along on top of the waves until it zinged that iceberg, and then it instantly became submerged. Technology is amazing. With super-boats like these, we will surely catch those giant squid.
You are confusing two seperate pieces of this issue. Hatch is opposed to Napster because it does facilitate copyright infringement. (It can be argued, and frequently is on slashdot, that the noninfringing uses of napster should be enough to keep it from being shut down) Let's be honest-- most napster users are using it to infringe on copyright. Hatch is a musician, and this bothers him, so he wants it shut down. Understandable. He is even more worried, however, that shutting it down will give rise to some form of infinitely scalable super-fast ultra-gnutella/freenet that will be anonymous, untraceable, decentralized, and unsueable. I imagine that scares him a bit, too.
On the other hand, you have the issue of the DMCA and online music publishing. Hatch helped write the DMCA, because in his (misguided, but understandable) view it would encourage the development of legitimate online music sales. Much to his surprise, the record companies took the DMCA and are using it to screw the heck out of everybody involved-- but STILL haven't gotten around to selling their music online. Which was his whole point: "we'll give you some additional copyright protections if it will help you move online more quickly". So now hatch is fighting for compulsory licensing to get the record companies in gear.
I'm all for it. Hatch may have been misguided in the beginning, but he is really starting to understand just how nasty the record companies are.
According to the article, this new drive is a USB drive. Transfer speed is significantly better than the old sluggish floppy bus.
I would fully agree that bootable USB devices would be fantastic, though!
I don't know a lot about the project these sounds are being recorded for, but I would imagine that discarding huge chunks of audio information (how do you think mp3's get so small?) that human beings can't hear is probably not a good way to go. If he is doing computer analysis of the sounds, wouldn't it be better to analyze a non-lossy recording? That way, even audio cues that a person can't hear (and that would be discarded by a lossy psychoacoustic model tuned for human beings) could be analyzed. Who knows? Maybe frogs do weird things with phase or overlapping near-frequency tones that we simply don't hear.
Has anybody bothered to check if it's magnetic or not? Sounds like it's made of steel, so it's possible-- but I'm curious to see how far they went.
www.evga.com has PCI nvidia cards. Their PCI GeForce2 MX is product number 032-P1-NV29-01. You can look it up by going "products" from the sidebar, and getting a list of all the nvidia cards by selecting the manufacturer and clicking "submit". Hope this helps...
Bad, bad english habit (yo always makes me think "you know?", but of course, isn't a question). No japanese points for me today. :( Did I muck up anything else?
:)
I have quite a ways to go, but I'm working on it.
I may not be the most fluent speaker in the world, but I'm learning, and it is nice to be able to get a japanese-speaking movie that will play in my DVD player so I can get a little practice.
You are also rather rude for no discernable reason other than that you don't seem to like anime much. Not a problem-- there are a number of things I don't like as well.
My recommendation is to not buy anime. For the rest of us, though, having a choice is good. Do you like having a choice between operating systems? Me too. Choice bewteen types of movies? Same here. Choice as to what language I can watch them in? Apparently, you're not concerned-- but why shouldn't there be a choice for the Japanese speakers among us anyway?
Watashi-wa nihongo no gakuse desu, yo?
There's a lot of talk in this article about how buying a DVD is supporting the MPAA/DVD-CCA mess, and that as such you should boycott DVDs. I agree entirely with this sentiment, but not with the action taken. Don't let their stupidity take something you enjoy out of your life-- you can buy DVDs and still feel all warm and fuzzy by doing the following:
1. Make sure you've got the tools to do whatever you want (legally) with your DVDs. DeCSS, speed ripper, a region-free drive, etc...
2. Buy used DVDs whenever possible. Most movies I want to buy have been available for long enough that there are 10,000 copies of them on ebay for next-to-nothing. Used DVDs pay no additional "a$$hole tax" to the MPAA.
3. If you really want to get a new DVD (in my case, I ordered Mononoke in advance), make a matching donation to the EFF. Do this everytime. If the movie costs $25, send $25 to the EFF. This way, while the movie studio is making a bit of profit from the movie, the EFF is getting the full amount to use in their fight. (Thanks to the slashdot poster who suggested this many months ago-- I think it's an outstanding idea!!)
Just for the record, when I use my Motorola Timeport (look! it's a StarTAC! oh, wait... it's silver...) to check my yahoo mail account, I only had to enter the login and password once. I don't know if it's the site, the gateway, or the phone saving the data, but you do only have to type it once.
Now I just start my browser (4 clicks), and then press 5 (for yahoo) and 1 (for mail) and I'm reading my list. 6 clicks isn't bad.
On the other hand, sending mail of any length is out of the question unless you're REALLY stuck somewhere for a while.
As a plus, the timeport is pretty much just a phone-- the screen is tiny (4 lines) and wap access is more or less tacked on as an afterthought. Works for me, though... small, long battery life, and a quick way to see if anything important is lurking in my inbox.
Are slide rules really no longer being manufactuerd by anyone as the article suggests? Surely somebody somewhere is still producing these things. If anybody has any good links to a source, let me know!
There have been several posts asking "why can't I do this on my PC?", so I thought it best to put this out here. There is a software-based Tivo-like program called ShowShifter at www.showshifter.com that is in beta. No linux version yet, but the bits and pieces for a linux recorder are already there-- there are linux drivers for the very common BT848 video-capture chipset and software for encoding, as well as nifty scheduling tools like cron. If somebody wrapped it up in a nice GUI, we'd already be done!
I just got a USB mouse (logitech optical) and the sample rate is light years better when used as a USB mouse rather than with its PS/2 adapter.
I highly recommend it. It was even auto-detected and configured by my Mandrake 7.2 install!
Hauppage's WinTV cards do this for standard TV. The low end starts at around $50, and there are (unofficial, I think) linux drivers and software. There are also a number of free projects in the works that will offer Tivo-style digital video recording using these cards soon. (You can already set up recording with cron)
I noticed that MSNBC has been running really slow, and has replaced their front page with a really stripped-down "light" version because of the "heavy load". CNN seems fine, abcnews.com seems fine, etc...
.asp architecture showing its limits?
Is MSNBC just more popular than everything else, or is their