Hopefully nature has provided you with some compensatory ability like the ability to attract chicks in a similar manner. I used to have a friend who was so bad that way that waitresses would follow him out of restaurants. Just the halo effect was enough to keep me booked every Friday.
1. Methods of production 2. Methods of delivery - encapsulation, control release, etc. 3. Methods for analyzing how much of it you have. 4. Methods for combining it with something else to make it work better. 5. Methods to identify a genetic deficiency making it likely you will stop producing it in the future.
If I was doing something like this I'd be looking to build a good domain model of what I was doing and then a ORM tool to map that to the data. I'd also be looking for a dynamically typed language to write in, one that is supported by.Net for its native access to the data artifacts that you have.
Well, my cable service doesn't charge extra for HDTV content, and the HDTV cable box is the same price as the standard box, so I didn't feel I was paying a lot for questionable content. I must say that the main benefit in current HDTV is sporting events - they are gorgeous in HD. The remaining content in HD is very spotty.
But that is not the only reason why I bought an HDTV. You see, I like movies.
Plain old ordinary DVDs - a good DVD player is essential - are far better on an HDTV than they are on a standard TV. While they are not up to full-blown HDTV quality, they are a lot closer to HD quality than they are to standard TV quality. An HDTV plus a Netflix subscription gives you plenty of good quality source material. One of the interesting things is that while the SciFi channel is broadcasting in NTSC, they are producing their new content in 16:9 for DVD. This means that those Netflix DVDs look far better than the broacast of teh same show.
As far as HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? I am not interested until the format wars end. Right now I am quite happy with the appearence of DVDs on my HDTV.
I have a Leap chair which I like a lot. But in general I've found that you don't need to spend that much to get a good chair - Steelcase chairs like the Critereon are very good as well and can be found at a much better price.
While I don't think you need to pay big money for a chair, you do need a decent chair. Those $50 Staples chairs are murder for me.
And yes, exercise helps a lot. Build up your abs with crunches and you will help support your spine.
The problems that prevent digital sensors from blowing away film are that pixel densities that approach film resolution are too noisy, and digital sensors don't have the ability to handle as wide a range of light intensities as film does.
It would seem to me that evaluating the effectiveness of this software vs Brazil would be a rather pointless exercise. Brazil is known for having a extraordinarily creative approach to the game, and marvelous individual talent, almost beyond what could be expected from human performance. The result of their approach is extreme unpredictability. When it works it is astonishing in its results, and it generates acutally beauty and grace, when it doesn't work it results in surprisingly uninspired play. It is almost chaotic.
Nobody would normally expect the "Socceroos", a team of mediocre skills to be able to compete with Brazil. They are totally outmanned respect in every respect, talent, culture, skill and tradition. The evaluation of this softwware needs to be done at a different level, looking at its predictions and result. And more likely the predictions should be made examining a different data set than what a match against Brazil would provide.
If it is like other Samsung video players the attention to details like black level etc. won't be that great. I'd wait on this one unless you have money to burn.
I don't like spindles because they are sequential access. For the slim jewel cases I use the database / numerical location technique. Even regular size jewel cases are a pain when it comes to finding them because it isn't a lot of fun scanning the titles on the spine. For disks that I don't access very often I use binders that hold about 500.
The old saw is to not optimize until you have to. Write in an interpreted language, but be ready to dive into native code when the need for speed arises.
I have a Compaq laptop that is not functional due to old age; I am curious as to whether or not I can reuse the Windows XP license that came with that machine on another. Any ideas?
Uhhhh.... maybe because these contractors are handling classified information such as the location of various and sundry nuclear waepons and other realtively sensitive information??????
they can drop their pencils immediately and leave without severance pay, or they can do an unpleasant chore with severance pay.
The other option is to spend as much time as possible findong another job. The market isn't bad right now, and once you have that job who cares about severence pay that you would have to pay a very high tax rate on anyway.
Did you try farting in the machine? Maybe the methane would set off a flammable gas detection algorithm, throw an alarm and force an evacuation of the airport. The result might be the removal of these machines from the checking process, or a sign reading "please do not break wind whilst in the security machine!!"
What kind of demented thing is this? Verizon is laying fiber so it can do an end run around cable franchising and supply TV, VOIP and broadband to customers. The cablecos are responding by rolling out higher speed broadband (like CableVision's Boost). How is that justification for some sort of Verizon puff-piece???
Resolution of a scanned image? Well, there are a couple of problems with this. The scanning process is what determines the resolution during the conversion to a digital format. If you take the original film image and blow it up optically vs. blowing up a digital image you will find that the film image continues to look good LONG after the digital image is heavily pixelated. The other part of the equation is that film has a much wider dynamic range than digital. That range is in itself a huge reason to use film over digital.
What is sad about this is that the twin-lens reflex or 4x5 view camera takes VASTLY superior photos compared the junk coming out of a cell phone camera. A 4x5 camera has HUGE negatives with resolution equivalent to 100's of millions of pixels. Equip such a thing with a classic Rhodenstock lens and there is no modern camera that can beat it. There are reasons that quality photo magazines like Arizona Highways don't take digital images. Not only does the resolution of digital cameras not stack up to large format film, but the dynamic range doesn't either.
The same thing applies to iPODs. These are the modern equivalent to AM car radios. Only the speakers are 100 times smaller, and therefore even crappier.
Piffle. The original Star Trek series started in 1966 and included visions of computing technology that we haven't achieved today including a voice interface to the computer. Characters in the series used something similar to a modern cellphone, and carried around data wafers that are close analogs to flash memory cards. Some episodes included obviously self-aware AI's.
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Hopefully nature has provided you with some compensatory ability like the ability to attract chicks in a similar manner. I used to have a friend who was so bad that way that waitresses would follow him out of restaurants. Just the halo effect was enough to keep me booked every Friday.
There are a lot of opportunities for patents -
1. Methods of production
2. Methods of delivery - encapsulation, control release, etc.
3. Methods for analyzing how much of it you have.
4. Methods for combining it with something else to make it work better.
5. Methods to identify a genetic deficiency making it likely you will stop producing it in the future.
etc.
Mosquitos do not have venom.
Yet.
Now this would definitely bring DDOS attacks to a new level.
Great, I hope they get this to work because my doctor says I will probably need knee replacement surgery in about 10 years.
If I was doing something like this I'd be looking to build a good domain model of what I was doing and then a ORM tool to map that to the data. I'd also be looking for a dynamically typed language to write in, one that is supported by .Net for its native access to the data artifacts that you have.
Well, my cable service doesn't charge extra for HDTV content, and the HDTV cable box is the same price as the standard box, so I didn't feel I was paying a lot for questionable content. I must say that the main benefit in current HDTV is sporting events - they are gorgeous in HD. The remaining content in HD is very spotty.
But that is not the only reason why I bought an HDTV. You see, I like movies.
Plain old ordinary DVDs - a good DVD player is essential - are far better on an HDTV than they are on a standard TV. While they are not up to full-blown HDTV quality, they are a lot closer to HD quality than they are to standard TV quality. An HDTV plus a Netflix subscription gives you plenty of good quality source material. One of the interesting things is that while the SciFi channel is broadcasting in NTSC, they are producing their new content in 16:9 for DVD. This means that those Netflix DVDs look far better than the broacast of teh same show.
As far as HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? I am not interested until the format wars end. Right now I am quite happy with the appearence of DVDs on my HDTV.
Imagine a Beowulf clus....
I have a Leap chair which I like a lot. But in general I've found that you don't need to spend that much to get a good chair - Steelcase chairs like the Critereon are very good as well and can be found at a much better price.
While I don't think you need to pay big money for a chair, you do need a decent chair. Those $50 Staples chairs are murder for me.
And yes, exercise helps a lot. Build up your abs with crunches and you will help support your spine.
Sounds like a erectile dysfunction drug.
The problems that prevent digital sensors from blowing away film are that pixel densities that approach film resolution are too noisy, and digital sensors don't have the ability to handle as wide a range of light intensities as film does.
It would seem to me that evaluating the effectiveness of this software vs Brazil would be a rather pointless exercise. Brazil is known for having a extraordinarily creative approach to the game, and marvelous individual talent, almost beyond what could be expected from human performance. The result of their approach is extreme unpredictability. When it works it is astonishing in its results, and it generates acutally beauty and grace, when it doesn't work it results in surprisingly uninspired play. It is almost chaotic.
Nobody would normally expect the "Socceroos", a team of mediocre skills to be able to compete with Brazil. They are totally outmanned respect in every respect, talent, culture, skill and tradition. The evaluation of this softwware needs to be done at a different level, looking at its predictions and result. And more likely the predictions should be made examining a different data set than what a match against Brazil would provide.
If it is like other Samsung video players the attention to details like black level etc. won't be that great. I'd wait on this one unless you have money to burn.
I don't like spindles because they are sequential access. For the slim jewel cases I use the database / numerical location technique. Even regular size jewel cases are a pain when it comes to finding them because it isn't a lot of fun scanning the titles on the spine. For disks that I don't access very often I use binders that hold about 500.
Again these are indexed in a database.
I use Linux for the vast bulk of my needs, but once in a while I need to run something on Windows - a game, a tax prep package, whatever.
The old saw is to not optimize until you have to. Write in an interpreted language, but be ready to dive into native code when the need for speed arises.
I have a Compaq laptop that is not functional due to old age; I am curious as to whether or not I can reuse the Windows XP license that came with that machine on another. Any ideas?
Uhhhh.... maybe because these contractors are handling classified information such as the location of various and sundry nuclear waepons and other realtively sensitive information??????
they can drop their pencils immediately and leave without severance pay, or they can do an unpleasant chore with severance pay.
The other option is to spend as much time as possible findong another job. The market isn't bad right now, and once you have that job who cares about severence pay that you would have to pay a very high tax rate on anyway.
Did you try farting in the machine? Maybe the methane would set off a flammable gas detection algorithm, throw an alarm and force an evacuation of the airport. The result might be the removal of these machines from the checking process, or a sign reading "please do not break wind whilst in the security machine!!"
It's a battery, not capacitor. Citizen claims an expected battery life of between 15 to 30 years. I have an Ecodrive watch that is now 9 years old.
What kind of demented thing is this? Verizon is laying fiber so it can do an end run around cable franchising and supply TV, VOIP and broadband to customers. The cablecos are responding by rolling out higher speed broadband (like CableVision's Boost). How is that justification for some sort of Verizon puff-piece???
Resolution of a scanned image? Well, there are a couple of problems with this. The scanning process is what determines the resolution during the conversion to a digital format. If you take the original film image and blow it up optically vs. blowing up a digital image you will find that the film image continues to look good LONG after the digital image is heavily pixelated. The other part of the equation is that film has a much wider dynamic range than digital. That range is in itself a huge reason to use film over digital.
What is sad about this is that the twin-lens reflex or 4x5 view camera takes VASTLY superior photos compared the junk coming out of a cell phone camera. A 4x5 camera has HUGE negatives with resolution equivalent to 100's of millions of pixels. Equip such a thing with a classic Rhodenstock lens and there is no modern camera that can beat it. There are reasons that quality photo magazines like Arizona Highways don't take digital images. Not only does the resolution of digital cameras not stack up to large format film, but the dynamic range doesn't either.
The same thing applies to iPODs. These are the modern equivalent to AM car radios. Only the speakers are 100 times smaller, and therefore even crappier.
Piffle. The original Star Trek series started in 1966 and included visions of computing technology that we haven't achieved today including a voice interface to the computer. Characters in the series used something similar to a modern cellphone, and carried around data wafers that are close analogs to flash memory cards. Some episodes included obviously self-aware AI's.