It would be very useful to take pictures much closer than 50 cm. A snapshot of page from a phone book, a map scribbled on a napkin or to show off a particularily long nose hair, 50 cm is too far away to be useful for many tasks.
If nobody ever commited a crime the first person to come along who did would own the world. Locking down your machine is the same, if there weren't viruses the first person to create one would root every functional box.
No, not 'nuff said. The tradeoff with the Foveon sensor is the stacked detectors for each color component create much more noise in the bottom component. In the end it will mostly come down to which sensor type can be produced more practically.
Drink two Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, lay your head down on a nice fluffly towel and fall asleep listening to the soft beeps from a Sub-Ether Sensormatic. When you wake up you will find Thursday is thankfully over, unless you had three Gargle Blasters, in which case it's probably Thursday again.
You are granted a copyright the instant you create the work, not when you registered it. The only reason to register is to provide definite proof of the latest date you could have possibly created that work. Registering the collection provides that proof for every item contained within.
Intuit also makes tax software for Canadians, QuickTax. I've bought it many years in a row, but last year was the last. The amount of advertising they force on the user is crazy, it's enough to question why you have to pay money for the software in the first place.
QuickTax, however, is second only to their accounting software QuickBooks. One quarter of the opening user interface is a list of links called "Company Solutions", which are nothing but advertisements. I have nothing against ads but it annoys me when good software is abused by bad marketting.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Can anybody explain to me why the "Forward" button can't be set to a location by a page author? If I'm reading a 10 page article it would sure make sense so use the Forward button instead of clickomg some tiny "Next page" link at the bottom of the article. Well?
If you climb into an airplane and the pilot says "Sure hope we don't lose this baby (*pats futuruistic Garmin all-in-one unit*)." then get out of the plane as fast as you can. If the airplane and/or pilot can't handle the loss of any one piece of avionics then you need to fly with someone else. Naturally losing avionics during an IFR approach to minimums would suck, but the plan is it would be very rare to lose all of the criticals at once.
Employee satisfaction and well-being is consistently associated with success.
Absolutely not.
Well, maybe only if those employees are MBAs. I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of techies here would be much more statisfied at an interesting job at a company doing marginally than a meaningless job at a company that's raking it in.
How the company is doing has very little to do with my "employee satistfaction". Give me an interesting job, reasonable hours, freedom to be creative and enough tools to get the job done, and I'll be a happy camper.
Hey, not being able to hear birds might actually be an advantage.
Being around birders I noticed they were concentrating on birds that make noise. While Rufus-sided Towhees and Nuthackes have cute calls, you just might spot something everybody misses because they're distracted.
Even better, Starlings will be MUCH less annoying.
I was part of the team that implemented an early version of the Rigel software used by Kim Rossmo.
At least in the early version, the algorithm was very simple. It was so simple you would have though it would never be useful. The beauty is that the algorithm doesn't need to pinpoint the house, just the neighborhood. It was much better to have a simple and easily provable algorithm than get another half a block of accuracy.
The available databases to convert from street address to spatial locations sucked. To me a big part of the magic was converting addresses where a crime occured to a UTM coordinate.
Most importantly, the magic of Rigel and Kim Rossmo is not the geoprofiling algorithms, but the marketting and public relations.
The replies to this article are astonishing! I seriously can't believe the heresay and outright wrong information can come from a bunch of supposidly smart people. Man, if you don't know your facts, please don't make yourself look stupid.
1. The discussion about how many "pixels" in a 35mm frame are meaningless without context. Do you mean for similar noise levels, the same resolution?
2. Digital images are absolutely archival with proper data management. You wouldn't stick slides in a dusty moldy basement, and you shouldn't leave your images in a 50 year old format on 40 year old CD-Rs. Some film and paper photographic processes are very archival but the majority are not.
3. The contrast range of digital is generally higher than that of slide or negative film.
4. Consumer digital cameras are not the state of the art and you cannot judge the state of the art with them.
5. You cannnot say what someone else needs in a camera. Pros don't necesarily need 6MP or full frame CCDs.
6. If you write, IANAP (I am not a photographer) then stop right there. If someone wrote IANAP (I am not a programmer) in a discussion about the best algorithm for adding two binary coded decimals you would stop reading.
7. Digital SLR bodies handle much like film SLR bodies. No delays, similar ruggedness, etc.
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Only Office 2003 professional supports XML which is going to seriously curtail it's usage. See Microsofts overview of the editions of Office.
It would be very useful to take pictures much closer than 50 cm. A snapshot of page from a phone book, a map scribbled on a napkin or to show off a particularily long nose hair, 50 cm is too far away to be useful for many tasks.
Why didn't I think of that! Moderated to a +12: Type-Os
If nobody ever commited a crime the first person to come along who did would own the world. Locking down your machine is the same, if there weren't viruses the first person to create one would root every functional box.
By chance did this "crack" of encrypted IP addresses happen to involve tcpdump and setting to clock ahead? Just asking.
No, not 'nuff said. The tradeoff with the Foveon sensor is the stacked detectors for each color component create much more noise in the bottom component. In the end it will mostly come down to which sensor type can be produced more practically.
Sorry, try again. VA Linux SuperSparrow. Or maybe a
Do what I do for Thursdays:
Drink two Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, lay your head down on a nice fluffly towel and fall asleep listening to the soft beeps from a Sub-Ether Sensormatic. When you wake up you will find Thursday is thankfully over, unless you had three Gargle Blasters, in which case it's probably Thursday again.
You are granted a copyright the instant you create the work, not when you registered it. The only reason to register is to provide definite proof of the latest date you could have possibly created that work. Registering the collection provides that proof for every item contained within.
This is like saying an author should copyright each invididual word or a film maker each frame. Copyright the collection, not each photograph.
See the following page for a list of more of the similar type of illusion:
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http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/r
How is an RFID tag more useful than just printing a serial number on the outside of the tire?
Intuit also makes tax software for Canadians, QuickTax. I've bought it many years in a row, but last year was the last. The amount of advertising they force on the user is crazy, it's enough to question why you have to pay money for the software in the first place.
QuickTax, however, is second only to their accounting software QuickBooks. One quarter of the opening user interface is a list of links called "Company Solutions", which are nothing but advertisements. I have nothing against ads but it annoys me when good software is abused by bad marketting.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
You can copyright a distinct collection as if it was an individual work.
Can anybody explain to me why the "Forward" button can't be set to a location by a page author? If I'm reading a 10 page article it would sure make sense so use the Forward button instead of clickomg some tiny "Next page" link at the bottom of the article.
Well?
If you climb into an airplane and the pilot says "Sure hope we don't lose this baby (*pats futuruistic Garmin all-in-one unit*)." then get out of the plane as fast as you can. If the airplane and/or pilot can't handle the loss of any one piece of avionics then you need to fly with someone else. Naturally losing avionics during an IFR approach to minimums would suck, but the plan is it would be very rare to lose all of the criticals at once.
And in Version 2: New better compression and enhanced security!
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The description of the hardware in the FAQ is two and a half years old (Last Modified: 6/13/00). It should be What kind of hardware did Slashdot used to run on?
Employee satisfaction and well-being is consistently associated with success.
Absolutely not.
Well, maybe only if those employees are MBAs. I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of techies here would be much more statisfied at an interesting job at a company doing marginally than a meaningless job at a company that's raking it in.
How the company is doing has very little to do with my "employee satistfaction". Give me an interesting job, reasonable hours, freedom to be creative and enough tools to get the job done, and I'll be a happy camper.
Hey, not being able to hear birds might actually be an advantage.
Being around birders I noticed they were concentrating on birds that make noise. While Rufus-sided Towhees and Nuthackes have cute calls, you just might spot something everybody misses because they're distracted.
Even better, Starlings will be MUCH less annoying.
Who cares how long it takes if you're not home?
I was part of the team that implemented an early version of the Rigel software used by Kim Rossmo.
At least in the early version, the algorithm was very simple. It was so simple you would have though it would never be useful. The beauty is that the algorithm doesn't need to pinpoint the house, just the neighborhood. It was much better to have a simple and easily provable algorithm than get another half a block of accuracy.
The available databases to convert from street address to spatial locations sucked. To me a big part of the magic was converting addresses where a crime occured to a UTM coordinate.
Most importantly, the magic of Rigel and Kim Rossmo is not the geoprofiling algorithms, but the marketting and public relations.
The replies to this article are astonishing! I seriously can't believe the heresay and outright wrong information can come from a bunch of supposidly smart people. Man, if you don't know your facts, please don't make yourself look stupid.
1. The discussion about how many "pixels" in a 35mm frame are meaningless without context. Do you mean for similar noise levels, the same resolution?
2. Digital images are absolutely archival with proper data management. You wouldn't stick slides in a dusty moldy basement, and you shouldn't leave your images in a 50 year old format on 40 year old CD-Rs. Some film and paper photographic processes are very archival but the majority are not.
3. The contrast range of digital is generally higher than that of slide or negative film.
4. Consumer digital cameras are not the state of the art and you cannot judge the state of the art with them.
5. You cannnot say what someone else needs in a camera. Pros don't necesarily need 6MP or full frame CCDs.
6. If you write, IANAP (I am not a photographer) then stop right there. If someone wrote IANAP (I am not a programmer) in a discussion about the best algorithm for adding two binary coded decimals you would stop reading.
7. Digital SLR bodies handle much like film SLR bodies. No delays, similar ruggedness, etc.