in favor of laser projection systems which allow you to interact with the projected image. And you won't really think of it as interacting with a computer.
Re voice interfaces, Intel has been saying that it will be around the time CPUs hit the 10 GHz range.
Although people have this fundamental right to view materials of their choice in their home are you saying that there is then an implied right to produce any such material? I think the regulation would happen on the production end.
So the next approach in legislation may follow a health and safety angle, and use the risk of AIDS, herpes, and other STDs that the thespians may be subject to acquiring through performance of their craft.
Although there was a split, the price comparison of ca. 50 5 years ago vs. now is split-adjusted. Also, they haven't been paying a dividend over that entire 5 year period and the yield, at current prices, is only a little over 1%. So, even at a P/E of 35, MSFT is overvalued.
The plane can do the tracking for you. If it's on final approach it will track the glideslope under computer control, so you would just need to correlate the vertical alignment once you get it pointed down the runway. Still sounds like a difficult thing to accomplish given the distance.
Add "goggles on" to your pre-landing checklist, just in case.
Suppliers were due to have ability to tag at the pallet/case level. At current tag prices that's not to bad of a hit. However, the tags are the trivial part of an implementation. It's getting the data from the tags into your information infrastructure that will kill you. I've seen demos where pallets of case goods were trucked S-L-O-W-L-Y through an array of antennas and even at that rate one or more items on the manifest were not recognized. So, what do you do? 1) Check off each item visually? 2) Run around the warehouse looking for the missing items? or 3) Read the boxes with a barcode scanner? Bentonville, we have a problem.
The professional you refer to in the past was a custom printer, but that person is now being replaced by a digital imaging specialist who modifies the image in Photoshop before sending to a digital printer.
But, most common is the traditional quickie lab that people have been sending their rolls of film to. For the most part the employees of these labs don't exert the quality control they are capable of over the production of prints going through the lab, instead giving the customers the blame for any shortcoming in the print - e.g. "You overexposed it". The professional labs have similar problems with quality control. Unfortunately photography is one of those glamour professions that attracts people who will work for small change, so it's often difficult to hire someone who gives a crap.
Digital printers such as the Epson 2200 produce color prints at least as good as those produced by professional photo labs and with permanancy rivaling or surpassing that of professional labs.
Analog photography is quickly going away. Labs across the country (USA) are ditching their film processing machines and going totally digital.
There are more efficient fabrication methods than that used for the silicon used in chips. Evergreen Solar (ESLR) pulls silicon ribbons out of the melt. They just announced a process that is three times more productive than other fabrication methods and will have some larger furnaces online soon. With these efficiencies as lowering cost of wind power (why does this have to be an either/or proposition anyway?), green energy will be price competitive with fossil fuels much sooner than we might have thought a year ago.
Precisely. Also when deploying in a production environment you want version stability -- Oracle n.m is going to be certified on RH q.p so you want v. q.p to be around when you need to support an Oracle n.m installation, which may be what a particular application has been developed and tested on, and you want that version supported, i.e. bugs fixed without requiring you to "upgrade" to a non-supported version in Oracle's eyes.
This support costs money and RedHat is entitled to charge what the market will bear, which is perhaps one reason RHAT has been making a move to the upside of late.
In a meeting with a potential investor in a startup I was with, he made a great point: "It's easy to sit in a room with a bunch of other folks and delude yourselves into thinking you've got a great idea".
So what if the company provides stock options? What are the realistic expectations the company is going to be successful enough for the options to ever be worth anything? Will your seemingly large position be increasingly diminished as new investor money dilutes the share pool? Would you be better protected with a restricted stock grant? Look at the total compensation package, including protection from dilution of your options, after you have thoughtfully considered the delusional aspects of signing on with a new company making grand claims.
Good point. In the Mississippian period American Indian village at Moundville, Alabama, of all of the burials, only the achondroplastic dwarves were buried face down. In this case, perhaps, dwarfism was a crime.
You're almost there. RFID is a good anti-forgery measure. The serial number on the chip must show up in the passport database. Also, when the passport is issued the photo can be stored digitally, making it easy to authenticate the stored photo against the photo on the passport.
Mr. KERRY (for himself and Mr. Chafee) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by them to the resolution (S. Res. 98) expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; as follows:
On page 4, line 13, after `period,' insert the following:
`(ii) provides countries with incentives and flexibility in reducing emissions cost-effectively by using the market-oriented approaches of emissions budgets, emissions trading, and appropriate joint implementation with all Parties,
`(iii) includes credible compliance mechanisms, and
`(iv) provides appropriate recognition for countries that undertake emissions reductions prior to the start of the mandated reductions;'.
Mod parent up. Towns want to attract new businesses and established businesses want more customers. Free wi-fi is a perk that attracts new business and brings folks to town.
One way to generate interest is to approach the local chamber of commerce with the idea. Businesses could pay into a common fund to pay for the bandwidth and equipment needed to light up the town, and get advertising exposure on a splash screen when people connect.
Work up a nice, short presentation and present it at one of the chamber meetings. Get some of the local officials invited to the presentation. Think of the objections people might raise and have an answer for those objections. If someone raises an objection that you don't have an answer for, offer to have an answer at the next meeting if one can be scheduled to pursue the matter further. Good luck.
I think you're correct. In this type of voice recognition you define a grammar that establishes the words the application expects to hear in a particular state. A state transition occurs when a response matching the grammar is heard.
The motion sensing webcam is a great idea. They can upload images to the internet during the crime, so even if the camera is stolen you know who did it.
They're not ultralights, but aircraft under a certain weight and performance limits, with reduced requirements for pilot certification and medical requirements. For example, you don't need a third class medical, just a valid drivers license. Airplanes have to be under 1320 lbs. gross weight. See http://www.sportpilot.org/ -- this actually has the potential for a revolution in aviation, even if cars don't fly.
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in favor of laser projection systems which allow you to interact with the projected image. And you won't really think of it as interacting with a computer.
Re voice interfaces, Intel has been saying that it will be around the time CPUs hit the 10 GHz range.
You left out the forced organ donation option, bullet to the base of the skull. Have fun.
Although people have this fundamental right to view materials of their choice in their home are you saying that there is then an implied right to produce any such material? I think the regulation would happen on the production end.
So the next approach in legislation may follow a health and safety angle, and use the risk of AIDS, herpes, and other STDs that the thespians may be subject to acquiring through performance of their craft.
Although there was a split, the price comparison of ca. 50 5 years ago vs. now is split-adjusted. Also, they haven't been paying a dividend over that entire 5 year period and the yield, at current prices, is only a little over 1%. So, even at a P/E of 35, MSFT is overvalued.
If gullible were a word I might agree with you.
The plane can do the tracking for you. If it's on final approach it will track the glideslope under computer control, so you would just need to correlate the vertical alignment once you get it pointed down the runway. Still sounds like a difficult thing to accomplish given the distance.
Add "goggles on" to your pre-landing checklist, just in case.
Suppliers were due to have ability to tag at the pallet/case level. At current tag prices that's not to bad of a hit. However, the tags are the trivial part of an implementation. It's getting the data from the tags into your information infrastructure that will kill you. I've seen demos where pallets of case goods were trucked S-L-O-W-L-Y through an array of antennas and even at that rate one or more items on the manifest were not recognized. So, what do you do? 1) Check off each item visually? 2) Run around the warehouse looking for the missing items? or 3) Read the boxes with a barcode scanner? Bentonville, we have a problem.
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Anyone know what the current health status of the guy that ate DDT to prove how safe it was?
The professional you refer to in the past was a custom printer, but that person is now being replaced by a digital imaging specialist who modifies the image in Photoshop before sending to a digital printer.
But, most common is the traditional quickie lab that people have been sending their rolls of film to. For the most part the employees of these labs don't exert the quality control they are capable of over the production of prints going through the lab, instead giving the customers the blame for any shortcoming in the print - e.g. "You overexposed it". The professional labs have similar problems with quality control. Unfortunately photography is one of those glamour professions that attracts people who will work for small change, so it's often difficult to hire someone who gives a crap.
Digital printers such as the Epson 2200 produce color prints at least as good as those produced by professional photo labs and with permanancy rivaling or surpassing that of professional labs.
Analog photography is quickly going away. Labs across the country (USA) are ditching their film processing machines and going totally digital.
There are more efficient fabrication methods than that used for the silicon used in chips. Evergreen Solar (ESLR) pulls silicon ribbons out of the melt. They just announced a process that is three times more productive than other fabrication methods and will have some larger furnaces online soon. With these efficiencies as lowering cost of wind power (why does this have to be an either/or proposition anyway?), green energy will be price competitive with fossil fuels much sooner than we might have thought a year ago.
Precisely. Also when deploying in a production environment you want version stability -- Oracle n.m is going to be certified on RH q.p so you want v. q.p to be around when you need to support an Oracle n.m installation, which may be what a particular application has been developed and tested on, and you want that version supported, i.e. bugs fixed without requiring you to "upgrade" to a non-supported version in Oracle's eyes.
This support costs money and RedHat is entitled to charge what the market will bear, which is perhaps one reason RHAT has been making a move to the upside of late.
In a meeting with a potential investor in a startup I was with, he made a great point: "It's easy to sit in a room with a bunch of other folks and delude yourselves into thinking you've got a great idea".
So what if the company provides stock options? What are the realistic expectations the company is going to be successful enough for the options to ever be worth anything? Will your seemingly large position be increasingly diminished as new investor money dilutes the share pool? Would you be better protected with a restricted stock grant? Look at the total compensation package, including protection from dilution of your options, after you have thoughtfully considered the delusional aspects of signing on with a new company making grand claims.
Are there not code analyzers to warn of possible buffer overflow opportunities?
Good point. In the Mississippian period American Indian village at Moundville, Alabama, of all of the burials, only the achondroplastic dwarves were buried face down. In this case, perhaps, dwarfism was a crime.
You're almost there. RFID is a good anti-forgery measure. The serial number on the chip must show up in the passport database. Also, when the passport is issued the photo can be stored digitally, making it easy to authenticate the stored photo against the photo on the passport.
If your business processes aren't covered in their code library, they will be.
Mod parent up. Kerry authored an ammendment to the bill:
KERRY (AND CHAFEE) AMENDMENT NO. 987 (Senate - July 24, 1997)
[Page: S8101] GPO's PDF
(Ordered to lie on the table.)
Mr. KERRY (for himself and Mr. Chafee) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by them to the resolution (S. Res. 98) expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; as follows:
On page 4, line 13, after `period,' insert the following:
`(ii) provides countries with incentives and flexibility in reducing emissions cost-effectively by using the market-oriented approaches of emissions budgets, emissions trading, and appropriate joint implementation with all Parties,
`(iii) includes credible compliance mechanisms, and
`(iv) provides appropriate recognition for countries that undertake emissions reductions prior to the start of the mandated reductions;'.
Forum for the unaligned
Time to disintermediate
The record pimps and the RIAA
Mod parent up. Towns want to attract new businesses and established businesses want more customers. Free wi-fi is a perk that attracts new business and brings folks to town.
One way to generate interest is to approach the local chamber of commerce with the idea. Businesses could pay into a common fund to pay for the bandwidth and equipment needed to light up the town, and get advertising exposure on a splash screen when people connect.
Work up a nice, short presentation and present it at one of the chamber meetings. Get some of the local officials invited to the presentation. Think of the objections people might raise and have an answer for those objections. If someone raises an objection that you don't have an answer for, offer to have an answer at the next meeting if one can be scheduled to pursue the matter further. Good luck.
I recall a guy in an IBM lab back about '93 that was working with Dragon Dictate code on OS2. Do you happen to know if Via Voice derived from Dragon?
I think you're correct. In this type of voice recognition you define a grammar that establishes the words the application expects to hear in a particular state. A state transition occurs when a response matching the grammar is heard.
The motion sensing webcam is a great idea. They can upload images to the internet during the crime, so even if the camera is stolen you know who did it.
They're not ultralights, but aircraft under a certain weight and performance limits, with reduced requirements for pilot certification and medical requirements. For example, you don't need a third class medical, just a valid drivers license. Airplanes have to be under 1320 lbs. gross weight. See http://www.sportpilot.org/ -- this actually has the potential for a revolution in aviation, even if cars don't fly.