After cropping, I may end up with a 1-2 megapixel image (sometimes much lower)
Try image stacking. A program I've used successfully for this is PhotoAcute.
Provided your body+lens combo is in their database, you can stack multiple near-identical images (use Burst or Auto-bracket mode) and get "super resolution". Of course, this doesn't work so well if your subject is moving. If your body+lens combo isn't in their database, you can volunteer a couple hours of your time to make a set of ~ 100 specific images they can use to create a profile for your gear. If they accept it, they'll offer you a free license for the software. I have no connection with the company other than being a satisfied customer.
There are a few things more important than security: time to delivery and budget.
Your project manager is only doing part of the job if s/he doesn't include a Risk calculation as part of the budget. Risk is a cost. Security holes increase the Risk.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
Not to disagree with the general intent on your post, but the golden rule isn't well worded. I'd hate to be in a room with a masochist who followed it.
Actually, the wording he has above is quite eloquent. Using the word 'unto' instead of 'to' changes the whole meaning of the message. Basically comes down to 'do not do things to others that you would not want them to do to you'. This way, it focuses mostly on inaction than action.
Um, it sure doesn't "change the whole meaning" when you look at the original Greek text, which simply uses a second person plural pronoun in the dative case and no preposition at all. The distinction you're trying to make simply does not exist in the original text. Better not depend too much on someone else's translation; best to do it yourself.
Obviously, because if this person was female they wouldn't be training to be a girl.
Knowning how to behave as a girl or a boy is learned. Usually most of it is learned by the age of 6 years, but let's face it, unless you're stagnating, you should be learning new things about what it means to be whatever you are all the time, as you pass through the stages of life.
We're still primates. We still have tribes. If you want to belong to a tribe you have to look and act pretty much like the other members. Only so much deviation is allowed, in any given tribe.
If you want to sell something to someone, you have to look, talk and act like you belong to their tribe. This helps them trust you.
If you want to become a more powerful member of your own tribe, you need to look and talk and act like the more powerful members do, so they will look at you and say, "Hmmm, s/he looks and talks and acts like one of us. Maybe we should let him/her join our exalted ranks."
In other words, one of the keys to climbing the ladder is: Always look and act and communicate like the people one rung up from you. This increases the chances they'll trust you enough to let you in.
It's just anthropology. We're wired that way. No amount of complaining will change that.
Most of the work I do is page layout, and the typical pages I work on have a vertical orientation
Sounds like you would benefit from a dual monitor setup with one of the monitors in portrait orientation. This is surprisingly easy to do nowadays, and not expensive. Apologies if I've stated the obvious.
We took a funny approach here - inspired by the Mac vs PC ads. I (the PHB) played the PC; my younger and better-looking security guy played the Mac. We got some laughs, and we told some scary stories too, and it was really quite effective. -- .nosig
Get a membership at one of the science centers that is part of ASTC (most of them in NA seem to be) and you can get free admission in essentially all of the other ASTC member institutions via their "passport program". The ASTC also lists their members....
I second that.
And if you happen to find yourself in Regina, Saskatchewan, there's an ASTC member here. Also, we have a small but very nice natural history museum with some excellent dioramas illustrating Saskatchewan's many ecological zones (it's not all just flat prairie, though that might be the impression you get if you don't stray far from Highway #1).
NASA is under orders to retain all data from planetary missions, including lunar missions. Once the data as been recovered, what are NASA's plans to archive and prevent the data from being lost over the next 40, or 400 years? How will they plan on making the data available to general public?
Writing it on papyrus and burying it in the sands of Egypt ought to get us through at least the next 2,000 years. It worked pretty well for the past couple of millenia.
I find this ridiculous. I think if you did a study on HOW OFTEN THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS you will find it happens in such a low percentage of cases - probably under 1% or even 1/2 of 1% - that it's not reasonable to be concerned about it.
Anecdotal evidence: It's happened to me 3 times in the last 10 years across ~140 Intel-style servers, all with hardware RAID controllers and Direct Attached Storage (DAS). One drive fails, the rest of them get extra-stressed, causing one or two more to fail. The result: Hours of downtime while you restore from backup. Leading to cranky users. Bah, who needs their old business anyway.
IBM's web site even has instructions on how to try to recover as much data as possible from a dual-drive failure on their ServeRAID cards.
Having a distributed hot spare *should* help in theory. Even so, hot-swapping a defunct drive in a hardware RAID on DAS is something I prefer to do outside of prime time hours, and I strongly recommend checking the status of the last backup before proceeding.
no one will care if you drop the backup tape cartridge
One of our vendors offered a tape handling course. They claim that, with LTO, you can scramble bits on a tape if you drop it. I've never tried it myself.
Humanity WILL go extinct - it's a question of WHEN not IF... we either go extinct WITH issue (i.e., we evolve into another species)....
Agreed. And there is no guarantee that evolving into the next species will preserve or enhance intelligence. Conditions could arise where the species reproduces better with different physical characteristics and less intelligence. There are already lots of good looking but stupid people reproducing with one another, and some very intelligent people who, unfortunately, have trouble getting a date.
If you were born in 1973 and JFK was shot in 1961, were you alive when he was shot?
Elbot fails that one. It replies: "I have computed that before. The answer is: 3935!" All in all, it does a pretty poor job of mathematical questions posed using words, e.g., "What is the square root of four?".
Well, the auditors seem to expect it... as do the vendors when we call for support - "Oh, you say foobar isn't working... well it looks like you're 15 revisions behind; why don't you just fix that and call me when you're done. Oh, your policies state you need to test and certify them? Well I guess I won't be hearing from you for a while, then."
You can achieve almost the same thing with less liver damage and 24x7 pseudo-happiness by getting a whopping big dose of a tricyclic antidepressant. Your quality & efficiency at work may slide - it's going to anyway - but at least you won't care very much.
I believe 'whose' is also the possessive pronoun of 'which' - unless you're aware of a 'whiches' or something similar? One is not compelled to use the circumlocution "of which". See, for example, http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/049.html
Lesson is, if people slowed down on the Cable, starbucks, restaurants and other money pits in their lives, a vast majority of them could afford nice things.
If they cut back on those, then they could afford nice things like... maybe cable, Starbucks & restaurants? Not sure what other "nice things" you think they should choose over those ones, not sure why you get to be the arbiter of their taste. You may have an argument hidden in there, but this particular example doesn't work.
Read the article, then go to the web site. The web site translates FROM English TO the other languages. So there are no secrets revealed here. Unless you plan on revealing your personal secrets to someone from 3000 years ago by sending them through some sort of time machine.
and all the authors ought to have at least rough drafts of their stories on their personal computers.
Nonsense. They shouldn't allow files to be stored on their personal computers. Local hard drives fail all the time. That is why all files must be stored on network drives so that they can be properly... er.... backed... up....:-$
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After cropping, I may end up with a 1-2 megapixel image (sometimes much lower)
Try image stacking. A program I've used successfully for this is PhotoAcute. Provided your body+lens combo is in their database, you can stack multiple near-identical images (use Burst or Auto-bracket mode) and get "super resolution". Of course, this doesn't work so well if your subject is moving. If your body+lens combo isn't in their database, you can volunteer a couple hours of your time to make a set of ~ 100 specific images they can use to create a profile for your gear. If they accept it, they'll offer you a free license for the software. I have no connection with the company other than being a satisfied customer.
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Your project manager is only doing part of the job if s/he doesn't include a Risk calculation as part of the budget. Risk is a cost. Security holes increase the Risk.
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2.5x = x so x = zero. Do the math.
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Um, it sure doesn't "change the whole meaning" when you look at the original Greek text, which simply uses a second person plural pronoun in the dative case and no preposition at all. The distinction you're trying to make simply does not exist in the original text. Better not depend too much on someone else's translation; best to do it yourself.
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Knowning how to behave as a girl or a boy is learned. Usually most of it is learned by the age of 6 years, but let's face it, unless you're stagnating, you should be learning new things about what it means to be whatever you are all the time, as you pass through the stages of life.
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Dude. Self-modifying code. It always ends in tears. You should know better.
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[Citation needed]. (And remember, for something to be a prohibition, it needs to include a verb in the imperative, e.g., "thou shalt not".)
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If you want to sell something to someone, you have to look, talk and act like you belong to their tribe. This helps them trust you.
If you want to become a more powerful member of your own tribe, you need to look and talk and act like the more powerful members do, so they will look at you and say, "Hmmm, s/he looks and talks and acts like one of us. Maybe we should let him/her join our exalted ranks."
In other words, one of the keys to climbing the ladder is: Always look and act and communicate like the people one rung up from you. This increases the chances they'll trust you enough to let you in.
It's just anthropology. We're wired that way. No amount of complaining will change that.
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Most of the work I do is page layout, and the typical pages I work on have a vertical orientation
Sounds like you would benefit from a dual monitor setup with one of the monitors in portrait orientation. This is surprisingly easy to do nowadays, and not expensive. Apologies if I've stated the obvious.
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We took a funny approach here - inspired by the Mac vs PC ads. I (the PHB) played the PC; my younger and better-looking security guy played the Mac. We got some laughs, and we told some scary stories too, and it was really quite effective.
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.nosig
Get a membership at one of the science centers that is part of ASTC (most of them in NA seem to be) and you can get free admission in essentially all of the other ASTC member institutions via their "passport program". The ASTC also lists their members....
I second that.
And if you happen to find yourself in Regina, Saskatchewan, there's an ASTC member here. Also, we have a small but very nice natural history museum with some excellent dioramas illustrating Saskatchewan's many ecological zones (it's not all just flat prairie, though that might be the impression you get if you don't stray far from Highway #1).
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NASA is under orders to retain all data from planetary missions, including lunar missions. Once the data as been recovered, what are NASA's plans to archive and prevent the data from being lost over the next 40, or 400 years? How will they plan on making the data available to general public?
Writing it on papyrus and burying it in the sands of Egypt ought to get us through at least the next 2,000 years. It worked pretty well for the past couple of millenia.
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1. Mother eats plant 2. Plant grows inside mother 3. Mother morphs 4. Diametrically opposed sons are born 5. Decades of hilarity ensue
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6. Profit!
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I find this ridiculous. I think if you did a study on HOW OFTEN THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS you will find it happens in such a low percentage of cases - probably under 1% or even 1/2 of 1% - that it's not reasonable to be concerned about it.
Anecdotal evidence: It's happened to me 3 times in the last 10 years across ~140 Intel-style servers, all with hardware RAID controllers and Direct Attached Storage (DAS). One drive fails, the rest of them get extra-stressed, causing one or two more to fail. The result: Hours of downtime while you restore from backup. Leading to cranky users. Bah, who needs their old business anyway.
IBM's web site even has instructions on how to try to recover as much data as possible from a dual-drive failure on their ServeRAID cards.
Having a distributed hot spare *should* help in theory. Even so, hot-swapping a defunct drive in a hardware RAID on DAS is something I prefer to do outside of prime time hours, and I strongly recommend checking the status of the last backup before proceeding.
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no one will care if you drop the backup tape cartridge
One of our vendors offered a tape handling course. They claim that, with LTO, you can scramble bits on a tape if you drop it. I've never tried it myself.
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Hey, you kids, get off my internet!
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Agreed. And there is no guarantee that evolving into the next species will preserve or enhance intelligence. Conditions could arise where the species reproduces better with different physical characteristics and less intelligence. There are already lots of good looking but stupid people reproducing with one another, and some very intelligent people who, unfortunately, have trouble getting a date.
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Elbot fails that one. It replies: "I have computed that before. The answer is: 3935!" All in all, it does a pretty poor job of mathematical questions posed using words, e.g., "What is the square root of four?".
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Sorry, but Japan is #4, after Canada, China and Mexico. http://dataweb.usitc.gov/scripts/cy_m3_run.asp
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Well, the auditors seem to expect it... as do the vendors when we call for support - "Oh, you say foobar isn't working... well it looks like you're 15 revisions behind; why don't you just fix that and call me when you're done. Oh, your policies state you need to test and certify them? Well I guess I won't be hearing from you for a while, then."
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I believe 'whose' is also the possessive pronoun of 'which' - unless you're aware of a 'whiches' or something similar? One is not compelled to use the circumlocution "of which". See, for example, http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/049.html
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Read the article, then go to the web site. The web site translates FROM English TO the other languages. So there are no secrets revealed here. Unless you plan on revealing your personal secrets to someone from 3000 years ago by sending them through some sort of time machine.
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