Oh yeah. Books. They surely exist somewhere. Just not in my office (hi, boss).
I have a basic understanding of what inflection is, Russian being my mother tongue. I just didn't understand this "4 case markers with a single noun" thingy. Which of the three languages you mention has it? Can you give an example in the "Rabid-1 has bitten children-2 dog-1" style? Will it have something like "children-2-3-7", and what would it mean? Do I misunderstand something? --
Look, normal 35mm frame is 24×36 mm. You can easily have 50 lines/mm of resolution. That'd be 100 pixels/mm (caveman's conversion, I know). 24×36×100×100 = 8.2 Mpixel.
Now if you park your camera on a good tripod and use mirror lock-up, you can get 100 lines/mm. Multiply pixels by 4 and you get the idea.
Now if we start talking medium format (6×4.5 cm or larger)... And if we think about aspiring artists who use 8×10 inches film or even larger... No digital for them, sorry. Not yet. --
The GOF book is THE pattern book. Everything else doesn't come even close. </rant> Seriously, I think it's the best intro pattern book out there. Check it out. --
Um, I know 4 languages including English which is not my mother tongue. That's OK:)
Oh well. It all boils down to a very simple question: if I post something I don't understand, is it (protected) speech? (Obviously it's ok if I know what I'm talking about.) From the legal standpoint it probably is, but I'd not say this is intuitively clear. --
...which includes 12756 SQL requests, 321670 context switches, and 1 (one) manual reboot by CmdrTaco. Whereas all this image-processing stuff can easily fit into L1 cache.
Oh well. I guess these images can be pre-generated in advance as you suggest. Just generate them continiously, throw away older ones, and if some get recycled 2 or 3 times that's ok.:) --
When I "license" a work to someone, can I give them a partial or full right to copy at will and to extend that right to others, even without my consent?
No I don't think it would be very processor-intensive. Did you look at slashcode? Concatenating several pre-generated bitmaps and adding random noize is a very small amount of work, compared to what it already does. --
Interestingly enough, GPL defines source code form as the preferred form for making modifications. So yes, the line can be drawn, but differently for each piece of speech (if you have C code available, then object code isn't speech; if all you have is object code, it's speech). I'm not sure this can be translated to legalese though:) --
Upon each submission, generate a random number and render it to the user as a picture(jpeg or ascii-drawing, for those with text browsers) with some random noise added. Ask the user to enter the same number in the input field. No more authomated postings. --
Who taught you Russian? I want the same crack (s)he was smoking.
mir means village community (this meaning is obsolete) or secular world (as opposed to clergy). mir means peace. mir and mir are homonyms (they weren't even homographs prior to 1918 spelling reform).
zarya means dawn in Russian, as DigitalDragon correctly states. It may mean something else in the language spoken in north-central Nigeria, whatever it is. --
So if I download a piece of real-free software and fix a minor bug that only manifests itself with my particular configuration, then I'm obliged to set up and maintain a public FTP site so everybody can download my fix? Man, that's a heck of a lot of freedom... --
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Unless, of course, it is a really clever FBI-operated mousetrap for poor unsuspecting script kiddies. Hmm... makes one wonder. --
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By the way it just occurred to me that inflection (and especially such "stacked" inflection) will make machine parsing easier.
Yes, and thanks for the info!
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I have a basic understanding of what inflection is, Russian being my mother tongue. I just didn't understand this "4 case markers with a single noun" thingy. Which of the three languages you mention has it? Can you give an example in the "Rabid-1 has bitten children-2 dog-1" style? Will it have something like "children-2-3-7", and what would it mean? Do I misunderstand something?
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This is weird. Sources, please? Google is everybody's friend, but it didn't find anything.
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Look, normal 35mm frame is 24×36 mm. You can easily have 50 lines/mm of resolution. That'd be 100 pixels/mm (caveman's conversion, I know). 24×36×100×100 = 8.2 Mpixel.
Now if you park your camera on a good tripod and use mirror lock-up, you can get 100 lines/mm. Multiply pixels by 4 and you get the idea.
Now if we start talking medium format (6×4.5 cm or larger)... And if we think about aspiring artists who use 8×10 inches film or even larger... No digital for them, sorry. Not yet.
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The GOF book is THE pattern book. Everything else doesn't come even close.
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Seriously, I think it's the best intro pattern book out there. Check it out.
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Oh well. It all boils down to a very simple question: if I post something I don't understand, is it (protected) speech? (Obviously it's ok if I know what I'm talking about.) From the legal standpoint it probably is, but I'd not say this is intuitively clear.
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Oh well. I guess these images can be pre-generated in advance as you suggest. Just generate them continiously, throw away older ones, and if some get recycled 2 or 3 times that's ok. :)
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GPL.
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Oh, so move this image processing to a dedicated box. Should not be very difficult.
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No I don't think it would be very processor-intensive. Did you look at slashcode? Concatenating several pre-generated bitmaps and adding random noize is a very small amount of work, compared to what it already does.
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I take it back. Object code in and by itself may or may not be speech, but an act of posting a piece of object code to one's website should be :)
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You forgot the smiley, Jon.
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Interestingly enough, GPL defines source code form as the preferred form for making modifications. So yes, the line can be drawn, but differently for each piece of speech (if you have C code available, then object code isn't speech; if all you have is object code, it's speech). I'm not sure this can be translated to legalese though :)
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Upon each submission, generate a random number and render it to the user as a picture(jpeg or ascii-drawing, for those with text browsers) with some random noise added. Ask the user to enter the same number in the input field. No more authomated postings.
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Sounds reasonable. Also, I'd disallow the and turn [http://text.like.this] into http://text.like.this instead. At least for ACs and those with karma<0. You know what I mean. This can be done right now. Submission 'bots can be defeated right now, too.
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Disallowing automated postings is very easy. Does /crew want them disallowed? This is the question.
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This will not solve any problem. They will just post more.
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Please use Internet standards when posting to Internet forums. The standard encoding of Russian is KOI8-R, not this Windows shit.
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mir means village community (this meaning is obsolete) or secular world (as opposed to clergy).
mir means peace.
mir and mir are homonyms (they weren't even homographs prior to 1918 spelling reform).
zarya means dawn in Russian, as DigitalDragon correctly states. It may mean something else in the language spoken in north-central Nigeria, whatever it is.
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Should I post my patches back to /. (and get them moderated out of existance)?
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So if I download a piece of real-free software and fix a minor bug that only manifests itself with my particular configuration, then I'm obliged to set up and maintain a public FTP site so everybody can download my fix? Man, that's a heck of a lot of freedom...
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Unless, of course, it is a really clever FBI-operated mousetrap for poor unsuspecting script kiddies. Hmm... makes one wonder.
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Work fine for me. Pity, I was going to make myself an "I slashdotted the gpo.gov!" T-shirt.
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I think /. inserts spaces in any long string, or something like that.
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