It's the equivelent of Ford bringing out a new car every couple of years that weighs twice as much as the last one, and conveniently engine manufacturers making engines just big enough to push it along.
If you're going to do the car analogy thing, at least think it through.
Ford IS the engine manufacturer for its own vehicles. The equivalent would be Microsoft producing the hardware needed to support the new OS. Microsoft does not do this, so your analogy is meaningless. What you were trying to say was obvious, of course -- but it's still wrong, for the same reason car/computer, or VCR/computer, or similar analogies are usually wrong: quite simply, a computer does a hell of a lot more than the other things people typically compare it against.
If I could use my car to simultaneously fold cancer-fighting protiens, stream music from the other side of the planet, check my e-mail every five minutes, monitor a bunch of RSS feeds, file-serve to a couple of other machines in the house, spool remotely printed documents, and recompress a DVD image -- all while I write and debug software in the foreground -- I probably wouldn't be all that surprised if the car's behavior seemed as quirky as you feel the typical PC behaves.
Heck, now that I mention it, at the moment I own four cars, two trucks, and a few motorcycles, and they honestly aren't all that amazingly reliable. They do break down. They do require service. And those pieces of junk only do one or two things -- go places (though not without *significant* amounts of attention and effort on my part), and some of them play music (and getting them to do that well was extremely expensive).
Car manufacturers ought to be deeply embarassed compared to what computer and operating system manufacturers have been able to achieve...
You're living in the past. The distant past. My XP box goes into hibernation in about six seconds. I move the mouse, and it's up and running in about 15 seconds, most of which is spent waiting for the BIOS to come up. This is my main development machine, so it's almost always running with a pretty significant workload. It doesn't crash, and I don't reboot. Several of the other machines at my house have a scheduled power saving sequence that starts with blanking the monitor and goes all the way through standby then hibernation. You're either trolling or just full of shit. Since you finish your post with the retarded suggestion that moving to laptops is the best way for your almight Linux to property handle APM, I'll assume you're just full of shit. HAND.
Speaking as part-owner of one 450 acre tree farm, and part-owner of another 778 acre tree farm, I can assure you that most paper does actually come from tree farms. The best and most obvious reason is that it's simply a lot easier to harvest wood from tree farms. Undergrowth is controlled, quality and yields are known, roads are available... the good reasons go on and on. In fact, in order to make paper, you only need trees that are about two years old. Three to five is better, but two works just fine. It's very, very easy to indefinitely sustain the production of paper.
Generally tree farming is most profitable when you can do it nearly year-round, so it is done more often in the southeast. Slash pine occurs naturally. About the only thing that is displaced by most tree farms in this area is a bit of uninteresting (and certainly not endagered) undergrowth of various types. So no "local trees" are destroyed for "special trees".
Finally, a great deal of effort goes into the care and maintenance of even small tree farms like mine. To some degree this is even regulated by various state and federal forestry groups.
Your entire post is speculation, and isn't even remotely close to accurate.
It was the first one to do it on a regular and frequent basis, by a long shot.
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I'm finding that slow/stupid users are the biggest problem. The best approach is to get into an all-out free-association mode and type whatever comes to mind. But of course, you have to be able to type well, and you have to be reasonably intelligent. Far, far too many images are going to be labeled "man," "woman," and "map"...
I do suspect that they're using this to train image recognition software...
Of course, you only have 90 seconds, so while you're screwing around zooming the image, the other guy has already decided you're a moron, or a slow typist, or in the bathroom, or otherwise not going to help his score, and reloaded the site to get a different pairing.
Why would you assume things like bones, blood, and all the other tissues of the body could somehow be rendered completely transparent yet functional normally, but not the rods and cones in your eye? It's easy to dream up a lot of explanations if you're also willing to accept an absurdity such as invisibility: perhaps the rods and cones are so sparsely distributed that they are effectively invisible to nearby observers. Or perhaps the rods and cones only subtly deflect the incoming photons instead of absorbing them. Or maybe the invisibility process is so fabulously amazing that your rods and cones are altered to emit the same light they absorb.
In fact, I submit that since the rest of your head and the surrounding eye tissue is transparent, you could actually see in every direction at once, simultaneously.
I suppose it's a question of semantics. Fully automated trading *is* illegal. Automated trade execution requires a person in the loop (setting thresholds for example) and is highly regulated. I actually know a lot about this, I was writing market-timing fraud detection software for a living as recently as last year.
As for the question of "Why?", the answer is on the page you linked. Black Tuesday, for example.
Big deal, computer models have influenced trading for decades. And not only would it be "irresponsible" to fully automate trading (as the article states), it would also be "illegal". Computer-driven market analysis and prediction is a huge industry -- the big firms spend vast amounts of money on it. I'm not seeing what's newsworthy here, for slash or for El Reg.
Only in everyone's favourite 'most important' country, would Joule be classified as not having significant meaning in poular culture. Travel to the outside world, where people use decimal measurement systems, and you'll see kilojoules in the nutritional information of everything in your supermarket.
You're on an American-homed, American-run website trafficked largely by American users.
You're exactly right. My little brother drives a forklift in a 10,000 sqft subzero area of an even larger freezer warehouse. Different areas are kept at different temps. He works the coldest section which is used to store steaks and shrimp. He has to wear an enormous arctic-explorer-looking insulated coat, giant insulated gloves, and these military boots I bought for him that inflate (creating an air barrier). The workers are only allowed in the cooler for 15 minutes at a time. And this is in the middle of Florida where the outside temperature passes the 100 degree mark most days. I'd be worried about bearing fluid thickening or siezing up completely.
The Sleep function sucks. This way you have the script engine running all the time, and you have to load the script at start-up. Putting this into the scheduler would be far more efficient, and while somebody might think to check the registry Run lines or other common places for stashing startup stuff, few people pay any attention to the scheduler. Or you could whip up a simple Service and name it something misleading and innocent-sounding, and practically guarantee nobody would mess with it. Plus that would give you access to far more interesting and useful information than you can grab with VBS, and depending on how the machines are administrated, you could lock it down quite a bit more aggressively.
I'm disappointed. I haven't been reading/. at all lately, but I would have thought *somebody* would have responded to the details of the script by now.
(3) choose not to play the MSFT security patch and upgrade revenue stream game - buy an Apple Mac, or reformat your hard drive and install any of these: linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris 10 x86, QNX.
Yeah, none of those ever require patches or updates. P.S. Never bitch about "revenue stream" in the same breath as recommending a Mac.
So I downloaded Firefox, then had to download a zip program to unzip.
Seems like it would have been smarter and easier to either (1) download the self-installing Firefox EXE, or (2) use the built-in support for ZIP files. (Since you were installing Firefox, I'm assuming you were installing WinXP which has always had native unzip capability.)
This further leads me to wonder what unzip software you chose, or more precisely, where you chose to download it from, since there are plenty of freeware or try-before-you-buy shareware unzippers available from countless legit sites.
Warez? Yeah, but it isn't your fault you got zapped...
Part of the way corruption of the courts is accomplished by not giving the courts enough money to operate.... "The crippling loss of nearly one-third of their staff have left our courts unable to hear criminal cases such as car theft, shoplifting, prostitution, fraud and identity theft."
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35 Books and 3 movies say the Bush administration is the most corrupt the U.S. has ever had
OMG! TEH PRESIDENT WANTS TO STEAL MY CAR!!!1!
Seriously, what the fuck does your tired and dull anti-Bush rant have to do with the topic? (n.b. This is a rhetorical question.)
Blow me. I was trying to help the original poster who clearly didn't know the correct word to use. The AC was trying to play the hero by pouncing on an obvious typo. The point was obvious, it just wasn't worthy of recognition. Much like your own.
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It's the equivelent of Ford bringing out a new car every couple of years that weighs twice as much as the last one, and conveniently engine manufacturers making engines just big enough to push it along.
If you're going to do the car analogy thing, at least think it through.
Ford IS the engine manufacturer for its own vehicles. The equivalent would be Microsoft producing the hardware needed to support the new OS. Microsoft does not do this, so your analogy is meaningless. What you were trying to say was obvious, of course -- but it's still wrong, for the same reason car/computer, or VCR/computer, or similar analogies are usually wrong: quite simply, a computer does a hell of a lot more than the other things people typically compare it against.
If I could use my car to simultaneously fold cancer-fighting protiens, stream music from the other side of the planet, check my e-mail every five minutes, monitor a bunch of RSS feeds, file-serve to a couple of other machines in the house, spool remotely printed documents, and recompress a DVD image -- all while I write and debug software in the foreground -- I probably wouldn't be all that surprised if the car's behavior seemed as quirky as you feel the typical PC behaves.
Heck, now that I mention it, at the moment I own four cars, two trucks, and a few motorcycles, and they honestly aren't all that amazingly reliable. They do break down. They do require service. And those pieces of junk only do one or two things -- go places (though not without *significant* amounts of attention and effort on my part), and some of them play music (and getting them to do that well was extremely expensive).
Car manufacturers ought to be deeply embarassed compared to what computer and operating system manufacturers have been able to achieve...
You're living in the past. The distant past. My XP box goes into hibernation in about six seconds. I move the mouse, and it's up and running in about 15 seconds, most of which is spent waiting for the BIOS to come up. This is my main development machine, so it's almost always running with a pretty significant workload. It doesn't crash, and I don't reboot. Several of the other machines at my house have a scheduled power saving sequence that starts with blanking the monitor and goes all the way through standby then hibernation. You're either trolling or just full of shit. Since you finish your post with the retarded suggestion that moving to laptops is the best way for your almight Linux to property handle APM, I'll assume you're just full of shit. HAND.
Speaking as part-owner of one 450 acre tree farm, and part-owner of another 778 acre tree farm, I can assure you that most paper does actually come from tree farms. The best and most obvious reason is that it's simply a lot easier to harvest wood from tree farms. Undergrowth is controlled, quality and yields are known, roads are available... the good reasons go on and on. In fact, in order to make paper, you only need trees that are about two years old. Three to five is better, but two works just fine. It's very, very easy to indefinitely sustain the production of paper.
Generally tree farming is most profitable when you can do it nearly year-round, so it is done more often in the southeast. Slash pine occurs naturally. About the only thing that is displaced by most tree farms in this area is a bit of uninteresting (and certainly not endagered) undergrowth of various types. So no "local trees" are destroyed for "special trees".
Finally, a great deal of effort goes into the care and maintenance of even small tree farms like mine. To some degree this is even regulated by various state and federal forestry groups.
Your entire post is speculation, and isn't even remotely close to accurate.
It was the first one to do it on a regular and frequent basis, by a long shot.
I'm finding that slow/stupid users are the biggest problem. The best approach is to get into an all-out free-association mode and type whatever comes to mind. But of course, you have to be able to type well, and you have to be reasonably intelligent. Far, far too many images are going to be labeled "man," "woman," and "map"...
I do suspect that they're using this to train image recognition software...
Your example brought a tear to my eye. A tear of joy.
Of course, you only have 90 seconds, so while you're screwing around zooming the image, the other guy has already decided you're a moron, or a slow typist, or in the bathroom, or otherwise not going to help his score, and reloaded the site to get a different pairing.
Google cites the CMU work in the Help page for the Labeler website.
No evil corporate subterfuge here. Read the help:
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/help.html
How was Google Image Labeler developed?
Google Image Labeler is based in part on technology licensed from and developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
Why would you assume things like bones, blood, and all the other tissues of the body could somehow be rendered completely transparent yet functional normally, but not the rods and cones in your eye? It's easy to dream up a lot of explanations if you're also willing to accept an absurdity such as invisibility: perhaps the rods and cones are so sparsely distributed that they are effectively invisible to nearby observers. Or perhaps the rods and cones only subtly deflect the incoming photons instead of absorbing them. Or maybe the invisibility process is so fabulously amazing that your rods and cones are altered to emit the same light they absorb.
In fact, I submit that since the rest of your head and the surrounding eye tissue is transparent, you could actually see in every direction at once, simultaneously.
How's that for a fucked up spin on human vision?
I suppose it's a question of semantics. Fully automated trading *is* illegal. Automated trade execution requires a person in the loop (setting thresholds for example) and is highly regulated. I actually know a lot about this, I was writing market-timing fraud detection software for a living as recently as last year.
As for the question of "Why?", the answer is on the page you linked. Black Tuesday, for example.
Big deal, computer models have influenced trading for decades. And not only would it be "irresponsible" to fully automate trading (as the article states), it would also be "illegal". Computer-driven market analysis and prediction is a huge industry -- the big firms spend vast amounts of money on it. I'm not seeing what's newsworthy here, for slash or for El Reg.
Only in everyone's favourite 'most important' country, would Joule be classified as not having significant meaning in poular culture. Travel to the outside world, where people use decimal measurement systems, and you'll see kilojoules in the nutritional information of everything in your supermarket.
You're on an American-homed, American-run website trafficked largely by American users.
Get over it.
Go back and watch some original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or something.
You do realize that many of us are lumping that cartoon into the "new crap" category, right?
You're exactly right. My little brother drives a forklift in a 10,000 sqft subzero area of an even larger freezer warehouse. Different areas are kept at different temps. He works the coldest section which is used to store steaks and shrimp. He has to wear an enormous arctic-explorer-looking insulated coat, giant insulated gloves, and these military boots I bought for him that inflate (creating an air barrier). The workers are only allowed in the cooler for 15 minutes at a time. And this is in the middle of Florida where the outside temperature passes the 100 degree mark most days. I'd be worried about bearing fluid thickening or siezing up completely.
The Sleep function sucks. This way you have the script engine running all the time, and you have to load the script at start-up. Putting this into the scheduler would be far more efficient, and while somebody might think to check the registry Run lines or other common places for stashing startup stuff, few people pay any attention to the scheduler. Or you could whip up a simple Service and name it something misleading and innocent-sounding, and practically guarantee nobody would mess with it. Plus that would give you access to far more interesting and useful information than you can grab with VBS, and depending on how the machines are administrated, you could lock it down quite a bit more aggressively.
/. at all lately, but I would have thought *somebody* would have responded to the details of the script by now.
I'm disappointed. I haven't been reading
The fucking THIRD LINK is a link to TUBGIRL.
Fuck all you lazy mods who rank my "Troll" mod as unfair.
Click the third link and suffer the consequences, you lazy assclowns.
Not to mention the spelling errors and indescent language...
*sigh*
(3) choose not to play the MSFT security patch and upgrade revenue stream game - buy an Apple Mac, or reformat your hard drive and install any of these: linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris 10 x86, QNX.
Yeah, none of those ever require patches or updates.
P.S. Never bitch about "revenue stream" in the same breath as recommending a Mac.
So I downloaded Firefox, then had to download a zip program to unzip.
Seems like it would have been smarter and easier to either (1) download the self-installing Firefox EXE, or (2) use the built-in support for ZIP files. (Since you were installing Firefox, I'm assuming you were installing WinXP which has always had native unzip capability.)
This further leads me to wonder what unzip software you chose, or more precisely, where you chose to download it from, since there are plenty of freeware or try-before-you-buy shareware unzippers available from countless legit sites.
Warez? Yeah, but it isn't your fault you got zapped...
35 Books and 3 movies say the Bush administration is the most corrupt the U.S. has ever had
OMG! TEH PRESIDENT WANTS TO STEAL MY CAR!!!1!
Seriously, what the fuck does your tired and dull anti-Bush rant have to do with the topic?
(n.b. This is a rhetorical question.)
New spacecraft design almost usually runs overschedule and overbudget.
:)
You appear to have misspelled "NASA" at the start of your sentence.
Blow me. I was trying to help the original poster who clearly didn't know the correct word to use. The AC was trying to play the hero by pouncing on an obvious typo. The point was obvious, it just wasn't worthy of recognition. Much like your own.
Annoying.
Want to explain why you capitalized it's, Captain Grammar?
You appear to have left out the funny part.