"It's not that hard to render HTML code to an image, which you can feed to the OCR software."
And you could also just render the HTML into an image and present this on your human-powered CAPTCHA-defeating site (and lower your bandwidth costs too, since it'll be smaller than this bloated HTML).
I remember seeing Usenet messages about D many years back, but I was always put off by the tone of the messages, always one of superiority. Those aren't the kind of people I want to deal with when asking questions about a new language or discussions about the technical advantages and disadvantages of constructs. Every time I brush up to something about D, I always encounter this tone and turn away.
Dude, Vista is so advanced it can figure out if a single bit is from a media file or from your shopping list! If it's from a media file, it randomly modifies it to prevent you from killing musicians by starving them to death.
I agree; the only justification for criticizing people for their stupidity is if it puts other people at risk (potential offspring excluded) or burdens them in some significant way.
How about keeping an archive of the environment used to build a particular machine's ROM? Then if you want to verify the machine, you restore that archive, examine the code, and verify that building based on that code generates an identical image as the machine's ROM (the archive contains all the tools too, since different versions might generate different code). Unmatching image = tampered with.
What about parasites and diseases adapting to a large population of (genetically) identical clones? Even if the cloning were the same as what occurs when you have identical twins, the latter process never produces that many. I think that many plants are cloned in this way, so that would be a good place to look at how parasites and diseases have responded to a genetic monoculture.
Plug everything into a power strip and turn it off when you're not watching. As an added bonus, the devices are isolated from the power line so they aren't having to endure any of the crap that comes over from time to time. I bet you can even get a remote-controlled power strip, reducing the number of always-active devices to one (the power strip).
Power bricks allow reduced cost by avoiding the need for safety testing of every new electronic device. The brick deals with high voltage and current, so it gets tested once. Then you build 100 products using that power brick model and they are all guaranteed safe (at least electrically) because they are isolated by the brick.
Just a question, if I use one of these, do I merely incur virtual debts? If so, this is great, as I don't play any online games, so the virtual bill collector will never be able to find me!
"You can even watch 'bread crumbs' appear on the map as the phone moves around (cost: one talk-time minute apiece)."
I don't know which is worse, the invasion of privacy or the insane prices these services will be sold at. Hmmm, maybe that's a good thing. Anyway, doesn't the damn phone already "check in" and report its location regularly anyway, without extra cost?
And oddly, nobody on the plane saw who killed him. "He just died suddenly. I'm not sure what happened. All I remember is that I had this sudden feeling of peace and only later realized that someone had died."
This sounds like a decent device, allowing easy connection of multiple computers to a bunch of devices without having to swap cables. The main question is what constitues a particular computer using a device. If the driver only connects to the device when absolutely needed, then disconnects (assuming there is such a USB event), then you won't have any problems sharing the printer for example. But if the driver wants to keep in constant communication with a device, even when it's not in active use, then the first computer to connect will monopolize that device, presumably ending only when you unplug that computer's USB and then initiate a connection from another computer. I wouldn't be surprised if the latter is common, since I doubt USB was designed with multiple masters in mind.
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"It's not that hard to render HTML code to an image, which you can feed to the OCR software."
And you could also just render the HTML into an image and present this on your human-powered CAPTCHA-defeating site (and lower your bandwidth costs too, since it'll be smaller than this bloated HTML).
Please also inform your son about the difference between theft and copyright infringement.
I remember seeing Usenet messages about D many years back, but I was always put off by the tone of the messages, always one of superiority. Those aren't the kind of people I want to deal with when asking questions about a new language or discussions about the technical advantages and disadvantages of constructs. Every time I brush up to something about D, I always encounter this tone and turn away.
Dude, Vista is so advanced it can figure out if a single bit is from a media file or from your shopping list! If it's from a media file, it randomly modifies it to prevent you from killing musicians by starving them to death.
I'm more of a UNIX newbie, so I'd have thought he could simply telnet to his American machine and run Lynx.
How about the operating system breakdown for people wanting to view these EU videos?
I agree; the only justification for criticizing people for their stupidity is if it puts other people at risk (potential offspring excluded) or burdens them in some significant way.
Oh, wait, there isn't any! Nevermind.
Hurry up people, my virtual domain names* are going fast! Buy them before it's too late.
* Domain names only valid on my local network. Reliability not guaranteed.
How about keeping an archive of the environment used to build a particular machine's ROM? Then if you want to verify the machine, you restore that archive, examine the code, and verify that building based on that code generates an identical image as the machine's ROM (the archive contains all the tools too, since different versions might generate different code). Unmatching image = tampered with.
What about parasites and diseases adapting to a large population of (genetically) identical clones? Even if the cloning were the same as what occurs when you have identical twins, the latter process never produces that many. I think that many plants are cloned in this way, so that would be a good place to look at how parasites and diseases have responded to a genetic monoculture.
Plug everything into a power strip and turn it off when you're not watching. As an added bonus, the devices are isolated from the power line so they aren't having to endure any of the crap that comes over from time to time. I bet you can even get a remote-controlled power strip, reducing the number of always-active devices to one (the power strip).
Power bricks allow reduced cost by avoiding the need for safety testing of every new electronic device. The brick deals with high voltage and current, so it gets tested once. Then you build 100 products using that power brick model and they are all guaranteed safe (at least electrically) because they are isolated by the brick.
"50GB HDD: A nice upgrade from the 500GB ones? Sure. An innovation? Well, the number is bigger than it was last year."
Two words: Get perpendicular
I can do that in less than a minute, though I can't top Prot: "Adios aloha. I'm already back."
Two times higher (greater) would mean three times the value:
2x + x = 3x
"Try and be part of the solution."
I do, by walking/riding my bike/riding the bus/driving only a couple of times a month.
So the $0 of piracy is outstripping (hah) legal sales? I guess n * 0 > 0 for large values of n...
Just a question, if I use one of these, do I merely incur virtual debts? If so, this is great, as I don't play any online games, so the virtual bill collector will never be able to find me!
"You can even watch 'bread crumbs' appear on the map as the phone moves around (cost: one talk-time minute apiece)."
I don't know which is worse, the invasion of privacy or the insane prices these services will be sold at. Hmmm, maybe that's a good thing. Anyway, doesn't the damn phone already "check in" and report its location regularly anyway, without extra cost?
"When all is said and done, you are left with nothing. Even if you win."
Some winnings... so basically if you're chosen as a suspect, you lose no matter what, even if you're innocent.
And oddly, nobody on the plane saw who killed him. "He just died suddenly. I'm not sure what happened. All I remember is that I had this sudden feeling of peace and only later realized that someone had died."
Apparently it's not possible to hear a difference in quality between the two, so you have to give her some credit.
Next problem: how to deal with a hundred foot tall cell tower sticking out of the top of the plane.
This sounds like a decent device, allowing easy connection of multiple computers to a bunch of devices without having to swap cables. The main question is what constitues a particular computer using a device. If the driver only connects to the device when absolutely needed, then disconnects (assuming there is such a USB event), then you won't have any problems sharing the printer for example. But if the driver wants to keep in constant communication with a device, even when it's not in active use, then the first computer to connect will monopolize that device, presumably ending only when you unplug that computer's USB and then initiate a connection from another computer. I wouldn't be surprised if the latter is common, since I doubt USB was designed with multiple masters in mind.
In the year 2006, TheRaven64 was informed that there is no company named "Apple Computers".