Sounds like you're describing the whole "trusted computing" initiative. I don't doubt that's where MS is trying to go.
That's one of many reasons why I simply use Linux with a Windows 2000 VM for those games and other software I can't live without (and won't run in Wine).
Whales are also a lot more intelligent, possibly in the same ballpark as humans.
I think I have a copy of "Day of the Dolphin" somewhere I bought used. I need to dig it out and read it. "Pha loves Pa".
Of course, given that mankind has little compunction about killing his own kind, I don't suppose finding out whales are intelligent is going to deter many people.
I would imagine that the camera is built to take into account the sensitivity of the sensor across the spectrum when converting the RGB + Luminance to RGB for output. It would be similar to the same calibration necessary to to get the colors right in the first place. You would have to figure out how the sensor reacts to the R, G, and B wavelength and apply a gamma transformation (or whatever, I'm not photography or light expert) to what the sensors detect to get a result that represents what the human eye would see in the first place. Adding the luminance channel makes it more complicated, but it's still the same kind of problem.
Actually, it still amazes me how complicated color really is.
I don't know how many times I've seen this kind of crap in code, or worse in API documentation. While your example is more relevant to the TV show, this is much more common, and worse because instead of saying "I won't bother writing real documentation" like the above example, it implies that it _is_ real documentation.
I think you missed his point. The point is not tragedy vs. comedy, the point is that life just doesn't end. It goes on. The ending of the show didn't wrap everything up in a tight bow, and of course, it gives you the chance to think about what it meant, other than just watching Fat Tony get whacked or not, and being given a simple concrete ending. (We are talking about "The Simpsons", right?). From what I've read, it sounds like a good ending to me.
I've never watched "The Sopranos" BTW, it's just that I'm interested in these kinds of stories, i.e., reaction of fans of TV show to something big and/or daring by the producers.
Actually, I've always had trouble with voices, since my early teens, long before there would have been any damage from loud music. At 42, my hearing seems fine, although I still have problems with people talking in noisy environments. I still listen to lots of loud music, but at least I know I won't go deaf by time I'm 40.
Actually, it raised an interesting question. Let's say Quebec (or any other place) did become a state, and someone who was born in that place before it was part of the U.S. wanted to become President. I guess they wouldn't be allowed because of the requirement that the President be a native-born American.
Actually, I just looked it up:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;
So someone born in that new State before that State was a State _would_ be eligible to be President, or in fact lived in that State at the time it becomes a State. Of course, it occurred to me that none of the Founding Fathers could have been natural-born U.S. Citizens since there wasn't a U.S. at the time, and I imagine some of them were even born in England or elsewhere.
So the Senator of Quebec, assuming he or she was a Quebecois[e] at the time it became a State could become President. Of course, I'm sure any Quebecoix in this reality would scoff at the idea.
For my next trick, I will solve the legal status of the AI's invented by President Gore.
It's even funnier than that. About 8 years ago I found and downloaded imagemaps of all the planets (including a nice artistic one for Pluto), as well as several of the larger moons and using POV-Ray, wrapped them around spheres with some nice shadow, and printed them out on sticker stock to mount on the walls of my son's bedroom. They turned out really well, and in fact are still there, although the kids have since switched rooms. Anyhow, the one planet I couldn't find an imagemap for was Earth. I searched and searched, but no Earth. About a year later I was finally able to find an Earth, and nowadays with MODIS and whatnot, there's so much data it's not funny, but around 1999, I couldn't find one anywhere.
The good news is that you can send unbreakably encrypted messages over long distances instantaneously. The downside is that the people who receive your messages are complaining about President Kucinich's proposed tax legislation and how expensive produce is since California fell into the sea, and all the foreign aid we've given to Mexico because of it, and whether Quebec's Senator is eligible to be the U.S. President because when he was born, it _was_ a foreign country, and they have no idea what the hell your warning about terrorist activity at Kennedy airport is all about.
$100 isn't so bad. I figure I probably spend $35-50 a month on soft drinks. That's pretty sad, I know.
Your friend should see a doctor or perhaps an allergist. As to a 40-year-old having acne... I sympathize. I'm 42 and I never entirely got over acne. It's not bad now or anything, but it's more than 99.9% of the other people my age have.
There's a fine line between the paranoia too many people (especially living in this "Chicken Little" society) have about modern additives and food processing and the legitimate fact that some of this stuff really is bad for you. Our food industry is increasingly being taken over by mega-agriculture and other huge moneyed interests that are doing many things clearly not in the interests of healthy people. And the government is a huge enabler... the absurd cheapness of sugar and similar products has to be contributing to public health problems in a significant way. Poor people in the U.S. are vastly more likely to be overweight than underweight... yet likely suffering from some effects of malnutrition. Just as our society is suffering from an intellectual diet of "Twinkies", we are suffering from a literal diet of Twinkies, and both are very damaging.
BTW, I really like Twinkies, although I prefer Tastykakes. When I was a kid, Tastykakes were regional and you couldn't get them in the Southeast. Now I've got a box of Butterscotch Krimpets and Kandykakes (or whatever they're called now, they used to be "Tandytakes") in my fridge as a special treat. I'm no health food nut or anything, I just don't want to be poisoned.
This year in February almost three of the servers crashed due to another DDoS
"Almost three"? Would that be "two"? Just funnin' ya, I assume you meant "almost crashed."
DoD thinking about bombing the source of the DDoS is pretty crazy. I mean, what if it's a script kiddie in my neightborhood?;-)
Seriously though, I'm sure that was just "tough talk". I can't imagine any scenario where military action wouldn't backfire in an unprecedented way, and that's even given the context that this administration has rewritten the book on military action backfiring.
Blocking ads?! What are you some kind of terrorist? Don't you know blocking ads is as Unamerican as doubting the Gospel of Global Warming or questioning the latest immigration reform bill? It's probably a Hate Crime too. The Thought Police have been notified.
Don't tell the government but I own one of those subversive Neuros II's. I was a holdout for years and the only music player that was even remotely what I wanted was the Neuros. My primary criterion was the ability to play OGG's. Once you got past that, pickin's were slim. I love my Neuros and would never trade it. Sure, it's big black boxy with cheesy buttons, but with 80GB on board and I can organize the files the way I want (without the need for some lame software that thinks I can't do the job and insists on doing it for me), it does everything I want.
I haven't used an iPod, and I'm sure it's decent, but I did have a Mac for the better part of a year and I thought iTunes was pretty awful. Give me my organized directory tree of music and Winamp any day of the week. Of course, I'm the kind of commie who shops at eMusic, because practically anything I'd ever want on ITMS, I already have on CD. Besides, DRM makes the saints cry.
You're right, if we had to build another Pentagon today it would cost 50 billion dollars, take 20 years to build and end up with a computer system that would be obsolete now, assuming it could be made to work. Oh, and when someone flushed the toilets all the lights would go out in Crystal City.
Although I never cared for his politics, I would have loved to have seen some real and lasting results from Al Gore's project on government efficiency, it was sorely needed 12 years ago, and now things are 3 times worse. I don't think it's possible to reform our government any more.
In other words, "The future ain't as cool as it used to be."
Take Disneyworld's "Tomorrowland" for a great example. I haven't been to Disneyworld in about 20 years, but by the 1980's Tomorrowland was looking really dated. It was a 1960's version of the future, which today looks like the 1960's. When they renovated Tomorrowland, they went for a more "classic", less "realistic" futuristic look, which (from what little I've seen in photographs) won't look any more dated in the 2010's than in the 1990's.
In fact, I would say that that's the reason for the whole "steampunk" genre in the first place. In science fiction, the "future" looks too much like today, but for the addition of breakthroughs in physics and technology, like FTL travel, real AI, etc, there really isn't as much visually to excite us as there used to be, maybe because thanks to photorealistic computer graphics, we've seen it all.
Thanks, man! This looks really cool... I'm seriously considering getting one because it would save me a significant amount of money, and I figure would pay for itself in about 2 or 3 months if I switched to using it. Plus like you said, you can control the additives.
In addition to sodium benzoate, I've heard some bad stuff about the brominated vegetable oil that is used in small quantities in Mountain Dew (my favorite) and other drinks. The bromine is the culprit, which is nasty stuff and accumulates in your body. I don't recall the specifics of why it's used in the product or what effects it has, but it's yet another questionable ingredient that I consume an unreasonable quantity of.
Plus I get tired of the occasional smartass who eventually remarks, "Just how much of that stuff do you drink?". It's kind of like my Dad who used to always ask, so how much do you spend on CDs anyway? Like it was any of his business... "Dad I make almost as much money as you did when you retired, I think I can manage my money myself. How much did you spend on that Corvette you just bought?" In both cases I usually give a grossly exaggerated answer.
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Does the government REALLY understand what it's getting into?
Yes they do, it's the same business they've been in for many years.
"You've got money: Give it to me!"
Sounds like you're describing the whole "trusted computing" initiative. I don't doubt that's where MS is trying to go.
That's one of many reasons why I simply use Linux with a Windows 2000 VM for those games and other software I can't live without (and won't run in Wine).
I wanted to say, "An ad hominem attack is likely to be a tort. If it was an ad homonym attack, it's likely to be a torte." But that's a homophone.
Whales are also a lot more intelligent, possibly in the same ballpark as humans.
I think I have a copy of "Day of the Dolphin" somewhere I bought used. I need to dig it out and read it. "Pha loves Pa".
Of course, given that mankind has little compunction about killing his own kind, I don't suppose finding out whales are intelligent is going to deter many people.
I would imagine that the camera is built to take into account the sensitivity of the sensor across the spectrum when converting the RGB + Luminance to RGB for output. It would be similar to the same calibration necessary to to get the colors right in the first place. You would have to figure out how the sensor reacts to the R, G, and B wavelength and apply a gamma transformation (or whatever, I'm not photography or light expert) to what the sensors detect to get a result that represents what the human eye would see in the first place. Adding the luminance channel makes it more complicated, but it's still the same kind of problem.
Actually, it still amazes me how complicated color really is.
void ContrabulateGrommetron( Grommetron * pGrommetron ) {
}
I don't know how many times I've seen this kind of crap in code, or worse in API documentation. While your example is more relevant to the TV show, this is much more common, and worse because instead of saying "I won't bother writing real documentation" like the above example, it implies that it _is_ real documentation.
I think you missed his point. The point is not tragedy vs. comedy, the point is that life just doesn't end. It goes on. The ending of the show didn't wrap everything up in a tight bow, and of course, it gives you the chance to think about what it meant, other than just watching Fat Tony get whacked or not, and being given a simple concrete ending. (We are talking about "The Simpsons", right?). From what I've read, it sounds like a good ending to me.
I've never watched "The Sopranos" BTW, it's just that I'm interested in these kinds of stories, i.e., reaction of fans of TV show to something big and/or daring by the producers.
"Unintelligent Design"?
Is that like "Despite the fact that God created the Universe, people keep getting stupider"?
Or is it some sly jab at Windows?
Or maybe it's a scientific theory derived from studying governments!
Actually, I've always had trouble with voices, since my early teens, long before there would have been any damage from loud music. At 42, my hearing seems fine, although I still have problems with people talking in noisy environments. I still listen to lots of loud music, but at least I know I won't go deaf by time I'm 40.
No degree needed. People don't normally start going deaf at 35.
I happen to agree with your comment, but you are still a troll and it is still flamebait and it is definitely not informative.
Microsoft really kicked themselves in the balls
I'm just glad it wasn't me for a change. I don't really hate Microsoft, but it sure seems like they hate me.
Actually, Anonymous, I think you're right. I took it to mean when the state adopted the Constitution.
Actually, it raised an interesting question. Let's say Quebec (or any other place) did become a state, and someone who was born in that place before it was part of the U.S. wanted to become President. I guess they wouldn't be allowed because of the requirement that the President be a native-born American.
Actually, I just looked it up:
So someone born in that new State before that State was a State _would_ be eligible to be President, or in fact lived in that State at the time it becomes a State. Of course, it occurred to me that none of the Founding Fathers could have been natural-born U.S. Citizens since there wasn't a U.S. at the time, and I imagine some of them were even born in England or elsewhere.
So the Senator of Quebec, assuming he or she was a Quebecois[e] at the time it became a State could become President. Of course, I'm sure any Quebecoix in this reality would scoff at the idea.
For my next trick, I will solve the legal status of the AI's invented by President Gore.
It's even funnier than that. About 8 years ago I found and downloaded imagemaps of all the planets (including a nice artistic one for Pluto), as well as several of the larger moons and using POV-Ray, wrapped them around spheres with some nice shadow, and printed them out on sticker stock to mount on the walls of my son's bedroom. They turned out really well, and in fact are still there, although the kids have since switched rooms. Anyhow, the one planet I couldn't find an imagemap for was Earth. I searched and searched, but no Earth. About a year later I was finally able to find an Earth, and nowadays with MODIS and whatnot, there's so much data it's not funny, but around 1999, I couldn't find one anywhere.
The good news is that you can send unbreakably encrypted messages over long distances instantaneously. The downside is that the people who receive your messages are complaining about President Kucinich's proposed tax legislation and how expensive produce is since California fell into the sea, and all the foreign aid we've given to Mexico because of it, and whether Quebec's Senator is eligible to be the U.S. President because when he was born, it _was_ a foreign country, and they have no idea what the hell your warning about terrorist activity at Kennedy airport is all about.
As technology improves, you can do more with less, but no amount of technology is going to make a limited resource like spectrum, infinite.
Yeah, but when you have worldwide petabit wireless, infinity will seem like it's in the same neighborhood.
I think the spectrum will be essentially infinite someday in the next couple decades, but it isn't now.
Nevertheless, only the big companies and the government are seeing any advantage over this allegedly public resources.
They control the means of production, but do as little as possible while the actual workers do everything.
Get with the program. That's so 20th. This is Web 2.0:
They control the means of production, but do as little as possible while the actual users do everything.
The sad thing is that "Micro$oft" was an old joke when a lot of people around here were in kindergarten.
$100 isn't so bad. I figure I probably spend $35-50 a month on soft drinks. That's pretty sad, I know.
Your friend should see a doctor or perhaps an allergist. As to a 40-year-old having acne... I sympathize. I'm 42 and I never entirely got over acne. It's not bad now or anything, but it's more than 99.9% of the other people my age have.
There's a fine line between the paranoia too many people (especially living in this "Chicken Little" society) have about modern additives and food processing and the legitimate fact that some of this stuff really is bad for you. Our food industry is increasingly being taken over by mega-agriculture and other huge moneyed interests that are doing many things clearly not in the interests of healthy people. And the government is a huge enabler... the absurd cheapness of sugar and similar products has to be contributing to public health problems in a significant way. Poor people in the U.S. are vastly more likely to be overweight than underweight... yet likely suffering from some effects of malnutrition. Just as our society is suffering from an intellectual diet of "Twinkies", we are suffering from a literal diet of Twinkies, and both are very damaging.
BTW, I really like Twinkies, although I prefer Tastykakes. When I was a kid, Tastykakes were regional and you couldn't get them in the Southeast. Now I've got a box of Butterscotch Krimpets and Kandykakes (or whatever they're called now, they used to be "Tandytakes") in my fridge as a special treat. I'm no health food nut or anything, I just don't want to be poisoned.
This year in February almost three of the servers crashed due to another DDoS
;-)
"Almost three"? Would that be "two"? Just funnin' ya, I assume you meant "almost crashed."
DoD thinking about bombing the source of the DDoS is pretty crazy. I mean, what if it's a script kiddie in my neightborhood?
Seriously though, I'm sure that was just "tough talk". I can't imagine any scenario where military action wouldn't backfire in an unprecedented way, and that's even given the context that this administration has rewritten the book on military action backfiring.
Blocking ads?! What are you some kind of terrorist? Don't you know blocking ads is as Unamerican as doubting the Gospel of Global Warming or questioning the latest immigration reform bill? It's probably a Hate Crime too. The Thought Police have been notified.
Don't tell the government but I own one of those subversive Neuros II's. I was a holdout for years and the only music player that was even remotely what I wanted was the Neuros. My primary criterion was the ability to play OGG's. Once you got past that, pickin's were slim. I love my Neuros and would never trade it. Sure, it's big black boxy with cheesy buttons, but with 80GB on board and I can organize the files the way I want (without the need for some lame software that thinks I can't do the job and insists on doing it for me), it does everything I want.
I haven't used an iPod, and I'm sure it's decent, but I did have a Mac for the better part of a year and I thought iTunes was pretty awful. Give me my organized directory tree of music and Winamp any day of the week. Of course, I'm the kind of commie who shops at eMusic, because practically anything I'd ever want on ITMS, I already have on CD. Besides, DRM makes the saints cry.
You're right, if we had to build another Pentagon today it would cost 50 billion dollars, take 20 years to build and end up with a computer system that would be obsolete now, assuming it could be made to work. Oh, and when someone flushed the toilets all the lights would go out in Crystal City.
Although I never cared for his politics, I would have loved to have seen some real and lasting results from Al Gore's project on government efficiency, it was sorely needed 12 years ago, and now things are 3 times worse. I don't think it's possible to reform our government any more.
In other words, "The future ain't as cool as it used to be."
Take Disneyworld's "Tomorrowland" for a great example. I haven't been to Disneyworld in about 20 years, but by the 1980's Tomorrowland was looking really dated. It was a 1960's version of the future, which today looks like the 1960's. When they renovated Tomorrowland, they went for a more "classic", less "realistic" futuristic look, which (from what little I've seen in photographs) won't look any more dated in the 2010's than in the 1990's.
In fact, I would say that that's the reason for the whole "steampunk" genre in the first place. In science fiction, the "future" looks too much like today, but for the addition of breakthroughs in physics and technology, like FTL travel, real AI, etc, there really isn't as much visually to excite us as there used to be, maybe because thanks to photorealistic computer graphics, we've seen it all.
Thanks, man! This looks really cool... I'm seriously considering getting one because it would save me a significant amount of money, and I figure would pay for itself in about 2 or 3 months if I switched to using it. Plus like you said, you can control the additives.
In addition to sodium benzoate, I've heard some bad stuff about the brominated vegetable oil that is used in small quantities in Mountain Dew (my favorite) and other drinks. The bromine is the culprit, which is nasty stuff and accumulates in your body. I don't recall the specifics of why it's used in the product or what effects it has, but it's yet another questionable ingredient that I consume an unreasonable quantity of.
Plus I get tired of the occasional smartass who eventually remarks, "Just how much of that stuff do you drink?". It's kind of like my Dad who used to always ask, so how much do you spend on CDs anyway? Like it was any of his business... "Dad I make almost as much money as you did when you retired, I think I can manage my money myself. How much did you spend on that Corvette you just bought?" In both cases I usually give a grossly exaggerated answer.