The use of a special pattern in bill designs is how they can prevent graphics tools from manipulating those images. Why couldn't that also be used in the printer itself or printer drivers? (Certainly there's be some buffering requirement so that entire pages could be examined prior to actually printing, but it's possible.)
You know, not only did I not think that robot was great at roller-skating, I just can't think of any real use for a roller-skating robot even if it were a real ace at the sport. Meanwhile, my house could use cleaning, and there aren't any robots to do it for me (well, Roomba et al, but I'm talking real cleaning). I think there needs to be a reevaluation of priorities in the robot design field. Who needs another goddamned dancing/skating/stairclimbing robot?
Why does everything new have to be immediately 100% useful to you? Knowledge is built through experimentation. Doing interesting (or even amusing) brings new blood into the field.
If you're that concerned about the direction of research in that area, spend some of your own resources (time, money, whatever) to ensure it goes the way you want it to.
Roll of the moderation dice. Moderators are just like you and I--and at various times may *be* you or I--and as such aren't omniscient or even necessarily agree with one another.
The only time you see these folks change their mind about issues such as gay marriage or stem cells is when it touches them emotionally such as when Dick Cheny's daughter is gay or Nancy Reagan's husband develops Alzhiemer's.
One wonders what would have happened had Mr. Reagan needed some medicinal marijuana to relieve his symptoms. Would Mrs. "Just Say No" Reagan have said no?
stadion (n) - A massive elemental particle generated by certain sporting events that reacts adversely with the human brain, causing anger and belligerent behavior.
I remember on a previous article, it was argued that if terrorist communications were to be jammed, etc, but there was no given reason for outage - then terrorists would know they are being jammed.
And how would they differentiate this from the generally poor service many telecom companies provide? Sufficiently unpredictable jamming is indistinguishable from crappy service.
The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons sufficient to produce over
25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough doses to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.
U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them.
From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them.
So out of all of this, in your opinion, a gallon of Sarin gas means that we "found the WMDs"?
If SpaceShipOne reaches the 100km mark on Monday, will the other competitors just give in, or will they too try to prove that they have the design and technology to reach space?
I certainly hope so, if only to avoid monoculture and promote competition.
If there was only one type of commercial LEO spacecraft, and they found a serious flaw in its design, the entire commercial LEO fleet could end up grounded.
The whole point of Java is that you don't *need* to build Java apps like Eclipse to run them - you just copy the.class files in a directory and start it up.
Unless you try to run a 1.5 app/applet using a 1.4 or earlier JRE/JDK and it uses any VM or library changes present only in 1.5.
Linux is also subverting good, honest children to criminal behaviour, communism and encouraging them to move to harder drugs such as Heavy Metal music. Not to mention occultism and role playing games.
+1 Funny, perhaps, but +1 Resembles People I Know as well.
Harvey Korman was also great in Blazing Saddles, and Madeline Kahn was excellent in both Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Both were in High Anxiety, which wasn't all that spectacular.
All in all, Mel Brooks has some good films and some not-so-good films. I don't think any particular actor has had any significant influence on that.
A lot of people whinge about single-player games, but I usually prefer them - I'm pretty crap at multiplayer stuff, as there's always that perfect-shot teenager with nanosecond reflexes waiting to kill me time after time.
Many "real" games have the concept of handicaps to level the playing field for players. ISTR Q3A has some kind of handicapping capability but I haven't ever seen anyone actually use it. Do other games have that concept and actually use it? (Beyond the handicapping of the game itself via difficulty levels, of course.)
You'd think obscenely good players wouldn't mind using that, since it would provide more of a challenge and extra things to boast about.
A competent administrator with a system setup correctly from the start will almost always trump any OS with a bad administrator and / or bad setup.
Something I've noticed is that under Linux and other Unix-style systems: when you screw something up it TELLS you. Sometimes cryptically, but it tells you, and you often need to fix it before it will go away. Without competant administration, these cause large headaches, as they never get solved and are painful.
Under Windows (and Microsoft software in general), they're so used to GPFs and other spectacular programmatic explosions that all recent tools are heavily padded to absorb problems without passing them along to the user. This means that problems often mask themselves as random service unavailabilities, peculiar error conditions, and generally hard-to-isolate problems. Without competant administration, a company can limp along, and will often blame the OS for the poorly-administered software, while the bad administrator continues performing badly.
In summary, (IMHO of course) Microsoft's software suffers fools gladly, whereas Linux does not.
If you'd like an opposing view, make sure to read Clay Shirky's take on the semantic web.
His writings appear to have some uncorrected logical fallacies.
Consider the following assertions:
Count Dracula is a Vampire
Count Dracula lives in Transylvania
Transylvania is a region of Romania
Vampires are not real
You can draw only one non-clashing conclusion from such a set of assertions -- Romania isn't real.
You can conclude the following from those statements:
Count Dracula is not real
Count Dracula lives in a region of Romania
I'd like to see the mystery step that combines these to conclude that Romania isn't real; at most, you could say that Romania houses something that isn't real. The conclusion he makes isn't supported by any logic.
More importantly, these are dumbed-down semantics. The assertion that a fictional character lives somewhere real needs to be qualified that this occurs in a certain set of fictional stories, not real life. The fact that these unqualified statements are represented in this example ontology means that the ontology is insufficient, not that this method isn't useful.
Another example in that article:
US citizens are people
The First Amendment covers the rights of US citizens
Nike is protected by the First Amendment
You could conclude from this that Nike is a person, and of course you would be right.
This is even factually incorrect. The First Amendment doesn't actually say anything about US citizens; it restricts the US Congress from certain actions, period, not for certain people.
Ignoring this, you can make one conclusion and reduce this to the following:
the First Amendment covers the rights of people
Nike is protected by the First Amendment
Concluding that Nike is a person from this is a logical fallacy. (Nothing in these logical statements says the First Amendment might not also cover the disposition of small peanut butter sandwiches with blueberry jam, which set Nike might then be an element of.)
I find it hard to treat this article with much weight, given its fast-and-loose treatment of logic and ontological assertions.
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Is there an overwhelming reason to use port 8090? Not everyone lives behind a firewall that allows access to that port.
The use of a special pattern in bill designs is how they can prevent graphics tools from manipulating those images. Why couldn't that also be used in the printer itself or printer drivers? (Certainly there's be some buffering requirement so that entire pages could be examined prior to actually printing, but it's possible.)
http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?an swer=10559&query=non-personal&topic=&type= f
Bush would preface that statement with, "Blah is very important to the American people."
Kerry would mention that he has a plan for blah, and that you should visit his website to see what it is.
Nader would go on at length about how the DNC is trying to get them ripped off as many state ballots as possible.
You know, not only did I not think that robot was great at roller-skating, I just can't think of any real use for a roller-skating robot even if it were a real ace at the sport. Meanwhile, my house could use cleaning, and there aren't any robots to do it for me (well, Roomba et al, but I'm talking real cleaning). I think there needs to be a reevaluation of priorities in the robot design field. Who needs another goddamned dancing/skating/stairclimbing robot?
Why does everything new have to be immediately 100% useful to you? Knowledge is built through experimentation. Doing interesting (or even amusing) brings new blood into the field.
If you're that concerned about the direction of research in that area, spend some of your own resources (time, money, whatever) to ensure it goes the way you want it to.
Roll of the moderation dice. Moderators are just like you and I--and at various times may *be* you or I--and as such aren't omniscient or even necessarily agree with one another.
This is very insightful. I had known about these potential super-tsunami landslide sites, but never thought about the terrorist connection.
Little trivia fact for the global warming pundits: There are more trees in North America now than there were in 1970. It's true.
I think this should have instead been modded -1, Unciteful.
The only time you see these folks change their mind about issues such as gay marriage or stem cells is when it touches them emotionally such as when Dick Cheny's daughter is gay or Nancy Reagan's husband develops Alzhiemer's.
One wonders what would have happened had Mr. Reagan needed some medicinal marijuana to relieve his symptoms. Would Mrs. "Just Say No" Reagan have said no?
hence the word "nova", meaning 'new'
Except in Chevrolet-importing, Spanish-speaking nations, of course.
when a hero goes
on a journey, towns see a
stranger visiting
stadion (n) - A massive elemental particle generated by certain sporting events that reacts adversely with the human brain, causing anger and belligerent behavior.
I remember on a previous article, it was argued that if terrorist communications were to be jammed, etc, but there was no given reason for outage - then terrorists would know they are being jammed.
And how would they differentiate this from the generally poor service many telecom companies provide? Sufficiently unpredictable jamming is indistinguishable from crappy service.
You don't say why. Do you have a reason?
They found over a gallon of Sarrin Gas in Iraq.
What about these? From the 2003 State of the Union Address: (my emphasis added)So out of all of this, in your opinion, a gallon of Sarin gas means that we "found the WMDs"?
A convincing argument.
If SpaceShipOne reaches the 100km mark on Monday, will the other competitors just give in, or will they too try to prove that they have the design and technology to reach space?
I certainly hope so, if only to avoid monoculture and promote competition.
If there was only one type of commercial LEO spacecraft, and they found a serious flaw in its design, the entire commercial LEO fleet could end up grounded.
The whole point of Java is that you don't *need* to build Java apps like Eclipse to run them - you just copy the .class files in a directory and start it up.
Unless you try to run a 1.5 app/applet using a 1.4 or earlier JRE/JDK and it uses any VM or library changes present only in 1.5.
Java doesn't magically spirit away versioning issues.
Linux is also subverting good, honest children to criminal behaviour, communism and encouraging them to move to harder drugs such as Heavy Metal music. Not to mention occultism and role playing games.
+1 Funny, perhaps, but +1 Resembles People I Know as well.
Harvey Korman was also great in Blazing Saddles, and Madeline Kahn was excellent in both Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Both were in High Anxiety, which wasn't all that spectacular.
All in all, Mel Brooks has some good films and some not-so-good films. I don't think any particular actor has had any significant influence on that.
Forget the ring. The ring is popcus
ITYM "bupkis"
A lot of people whinge about single-player games, but I usually prefer them - I'm pretty crap at multiplayer stuff, as there's always that perfect-shot teenager with nanosecond reflexes waiting to kill me time after time.
Many "real" games have the concept of handicaps to level the playing field for players. ISTR Q3A has some kind of handicapping capability but I haven't ever seen anyone actually use it. Do other games have that concept and actually use it? (Beyond the handicapping of the game itself via difficulty levels, of course.)
You'd think obscenely good players wouldn't mind using that, since it would provide more of a challenge and extra things to boast about.
My post was discussing what happens under Windows and Linux with bad administration.
From your description of your organization, it doesn't sound like you fall into this category.
Anyone save a copy? It appears to have either been pulled or slashdotted at the time I write this.
A competent administrator with a system setup correctly from the start will almost always trump any OS with a bad administrator and / or bad setup.
Something I've noticed is that under Linux and other Unix-style systems: when you screw something up it TELLS you. Sometimes cryptically, but it tells you, and you often need to fix it before it will go away. Without competant administration, these cause large headaches, as they never get solved and are painful.
Under Windows (and Microsoft software in general), they're so used to GPFs and other spectacular programmatic explosions that all recent tools are heavily padded to absorb problems without passing them along to the user. This means that problems often mask themselves as random service unavailabilities, peculiar error conditions, and generally hard-to-isolate problems. Without competant administration, a company can limp along, and will often blame the OS for the poorly-administered software, while the bad administrator continues performing badly.
In summary, (IMHO of course) Microsoft's software suffers fools gladly, whereas Linux does not.
His writings appear to have some uncorrected logical fallacies.
You can conclude the following from those statements:
- Count Dracula is not real
- Count Dracula lives in a region of Romania
I'd like to see the mystery step that combines these to conclude that Romania isn't real; at most, you could say that Romania houses something that isn't real. The conclusion he makes isn't supported by any logic.More importantly, these are dumbed-down semantics. The assertion that a fictional character lives somewhere real needs to be qualified that this occurs in a certain set of fictional stories, not real life. The fact that these unqualified statements are represented in this example ontology means that the ontology is insufficient, not that this method isn't useful.
Another example in that article:This is even factually incorrect. The First Amendment doesn't actually say anything about US citizens; it restricts the US Congress from certain actions, period, not for certain people.
Ignoring this, you can make one conclusion and reduce this to the following:
- the First Amendment covers the rights of people
- Nike is protected by the First Amendment
Concluding that Nike is a person from this is a logical fallacy. (Nothing in these logical statements says the First Amendment might not also cover the disposition of small peanut butter sandwiches with blueberry jam, which set Nike might then be an element of.)I find it hard to treat this article with much weight, given its fast-and-loose treatment of logic and ontological assertions.
Of course people would still have to download it, where did the grandparent imply otherwise???
And here I even quoted it in my post: (emphasis added)
What a perfect (and missed) opportunity for NASA to use BitTorrent instead of a huge zip file.