well, if we're going to be pedantic about things...
And Life DOES exist elsewhere - NOT AS WE KNOW IT. We just have never seen it, and so we only look for planets with water, or signs of.... looking for life as we know it here on earth.
that's a pretty bold assertion. do you have any actual hard evidence that Life DOES exist elsewhere ?
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then, pepper the background with lots of non-letter shapes that will pass both your band-pass and your threshold filter, but that are easily recognized by humans as non-letters (geometric shapes, etc)..
or fill the background with noise that can't be killed by such simple filters.
and, animate the letters to change from non-legible to legible, and back, at different rates, but in the same location(s) - zooms, blurs, distortions, etc..
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then the trick is to defeat your test for background color vs foreground color. so, instead of a solid background color, use a background that uses pixel_color[x,y] = ((x + y) & 0x01).
even better, move the letters around a bit, so that your composite ends up as a big blur of moving letters.
removing execution order from the things that programmers have to keep track of
is that like giving directions to your house, out of order ?
continue past the bank that you will see after your third left off the interstate, until you see the white house with blue shutters on the left. that means you've gone too far and need to turn around and make a right at the intersection you just went through. this assumes you got off the interstate at exit 14. if you didn't, go back and get off at the right exit. unless you got off at exit 15, in which case, you need to take a right at the bottom of the ramp and then you'll see the bank that i previously mentioned.
i tried a version of it a few years ago and wasn't really impressed. the code it made wasn't any faster than what MSVC produced and the EXEs were generally larger.
maybe it's improved since then. dunno. don't care.
I know, I know, stopping kiddies from playing games that they couldn't have bought otherwise is important
"playing games" and using any bit of software that anyone has ever written are not God-given rights that the wicked Copyright Barons are depriving you of.
and, not everyone who publishes software is a "corporate entity". many software writers are people who do it in their spare time, who try to make a little cash from their ideas.
my Nikon D100 (digital) and my Nikon N80 (film) are of identical quality. the former cost roughly 4x the latter. they use the same lenses.
without question, the N80 with good slide film beats the D100 in terms of the images it produces. the colors are better, the resolution is better, the tonal range is better; everything about the image is better, with film. and, for the cost of a good slide scanner, i can get digital copies of the images (while still spending less than 1/2 the price of the D100).
if i spend the money, i can get a print from the slides that beat anything a digital camera and printer can do (simply because the slide itself is better than any CCD).
but i haven't used my N80 in at least a year. when i compare the cost of slide film and development, and the time it takes to get the slides back from the developer to the free and instant results of the D100, there's just no comparison. and, the results from the D100, while not as great as good film, they are good enough for most of what i need it for. so, my N80 is buried under some junk on a closet shelf, and the D100 is in constant use. but it's not because the quality of the D100 or what it makes is better - it's simply cost and convenience.
the Indians, Chinese, Pakistanis and the rest of the various SE Asians will make the products, of course.
but Big Brained Americans will remain on top because their brains are so much bigger and better than those of anyone else in the world. nobody else could possibly come up with the same wonderful products that an American Brain can. no way. not ever. nope
Are seven different 8 character passwords (with numbers and mixed cases) really too much to ask?
yes. when you're forced to change them every 30 days, and you can't repeat any of the last five, you quickly run out of things you can easily remember early in the morning.
but they really need to work on their instructions. it's not really clear that step two has to happen before you can click the image shown in step one... the instructions for step one make it sound like the window will open automatically.
This could be very useful when you need to postprocess an image
not really, since it's specifically an in-process technique. a normal single 2d image doesn't contain the directional information that you get by combining the multiple multi-flash images, so it can't tell you where the actual 3d shapes are.
start an app (like, say Photoshop), wait 10 seconds, get bored staring at the developers' names, and start doing something else. in another ten seconds, PS will come to life and jump to the top of the z-order - no matter what you're doing.
and related... you're playing around in some menus and some other app throws up a popup, your menu disappears. nothing should ever kill your menu.
Slashdot Mirror
http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html#Engl ish
Written English is essentially a variety of Old French invented by somebody who spoke only Saxon and read only Latin.
--Basilius
English is essentially an imprecise dialect of Java, without the object orientation.
--Julian Morrison
English is essentially bad Dutch with outrageously pronounced French and Latin vocabulary.
--Eugene Holman
English is essentially Norse as spoken by a gang of French thugs.
--Benct Philip Jonsson
English is essentially a bizarre dialect of Chinese, pronounced entirely in the first tone.
--John Cowan
English is essentially Low German plus even lower French minus any sense of culture.
--Danny Weir
English is essentially Anglo-Saxon with all the cool bits taken out.
--Thomas Leigh
i'm gonna guess that he has another amp somewhere that's actually driving those speakers.
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sounds like sexual assault to me. have fun in jail.
-- Have you encountered life not of this earth to tell me that it does NOT exist?
errr... WTF ? put down the bong
And Life DOES exist elsewhere - NOT AS WE KNOW IT. We just have never seen it, and so we only look for planets with water, or signs of.... looking for life as we know it here on earth.
that's a pretty bold assertion. do you have any actual hard evidence that Life DOES exist elsewhere ?
then, pepper the background with lots of non-letter shapes that will pass both your band-pass and your threshold filter, but that are easily recognized by humans as non-letters (geometric shapes, etc)..
or fill the background with noise that can't be killed by such simple filters.
and, animate the letters to change from non-legible to legible, and back, at different rates, but in the same location(s) - zooms, blurs, distortions, etc..
then the trick is to defeat your test for background color vs foreground color. so, instead of a solid background color, use a background that uses pixel_color[x,y] = ((x + y) & 0x01).
even better, move the letters around a bit, so that your composite ends up as a big blur of moving letters.
I read that subject too fast and thought it said "Hebrew PONG".
Straight Dope
removing execution order from the things that programmers have to keep track of
is that like giving directions to your house, out of order ?
continue past the bank that you will see after your third left off the interstate, until you see the white house with blue shutters on the left. that means you've gone too far and need to turn around and make a right at the intersection you just went through. this assumes you got off the interstate at exit 14. if you didn't, go back and get off at the right exit. unless you got off at exit 15, in which case, you need to take a right at the bottom of the ramp and then you'll see the bank that i previously mentioned.
Now how do they get the shuttle back to FL so it can be launched again ?
this # could be yours !
i tried a version of it a few years ago and wasn't really impressed. the code it made wasn't any faster than what MSVC produced and the EXEs were generally larger.
maybe it's improved since then. dunno. don't care.
I know, I know, stopping kiddies from playing games that they couldn't have bought otherwise is important
"playing games" and using any bit of software that anyone has ever written are not God-given rights that the wicked Copyright Barons are depriving you of.
and, not everyone who publishes software is a "corporate entity". many software writers are people who do it in their spare time, who try to make a little cash from their ideas.
my Nikon D100 (digital) and my Nikon N80 (film) are of identical quality. the former cost roughly 4x the latter. they use the same lenses.
without question, the N80 with good slide film beats the D100 in terms of the images it produces. the colors are better, the resolution is better, the tonal range is better; everything about the image is better, with film. and, for the cost of a good slide scanner, i can get digital copies of the images (while still spending less than 1/2 the price of the D100).
if i spend the money, i can get a print from the slides that beat anything a digital camera and printer can do (simply because the slide itself is better than any CCD).
but i haven't used my N80 in at least a year. when i compare the cost of slide film and development, and the time it takes to get the slides back from the developer to the free and instant results of the D100, there's just no comparison. and, the results from the D100, while not as great as good film, they are good enough for most of what i need it for. so, my N80 is buried under some junk on a closet shelf, and the D100 is in constant use. but it's not because the quality of the D100 or what it makes is better - it's simply cost and convenience.
the Indians, Chinese, Pakistanis and the rest of the various SE Asians will make the products, of course.
but Big Brained Americans will remain on top because their brains are so much bigger and better than those of anyone else in the world. nobody else could possibly come up with the same wonderful products that an American Brain can. no way. not ever. nope
Lucky for me, I grabbed my copy of CentOS 3 yesterday. I have a feeling all those mirrors are going to be slow for a while.
he's just a fucking child with no sense of responsibility.
Are seven different 8 character passwords (with numbers and mixed cases) really too much to ask?
yes. when you're forced to change them every 30 days, and you can't repeat any of the last five, you quickly run out of things you can easily remember early in the morning.
but they really need to work on their instructions. it's not really clear that step two has to happen before you can click the image shown in step one... the instructions for step one make it sound like the window will open automatically.
ever see Curb Your Enthusiasm ?
This could be very useful when you need to postprocess an image
not really, since it's specifically an in-process technique. a normal single 2d image doesn't contain the directional information that you get by combining the multiple multi-flash images, so it can't tell you where the actual 3d shapes are.
it does happen in XP. at least it happens on the two copies of XP that i use.
start an app (like, say Photoshop), wait 10 seconds, get bored staring at the developers' names, and start doing something else. in another ten seconds, PS will come to life and jump to the top of the z-order - no matter what you're doing.
and related...
you're playing around in some menus and some other app throws up a popup, your menu disappears. nothing should ever kill your menu.