Firefighters have been hampered by a lack of moisture from the sky and on the ground.
No shit, sherlock. Fires rage where the moisture isn't.
And no, I'm not merely being snarky about people living in semi-arid areas. I live in one, right in the so-called "red zone" forest interface, and we have no fires right now because we're getting all the rain this year.
He held on to an extremely high-paying job for which he was abjectly unqualified. He got paid hugely for fucking up year after year. Now, tell me exactly how it was a mistake on his part to hang on to that job???
Yes, creating software without having to know shit about software development has been the wet dream of the business monkeys at MS ever since they took the company over from the geeks.
That wet dream pre-dates MS by a couple of decades;-)
It most certainly was not. It may well have been against hospital policy, but there is no law restricting a doctor from carrying around his patients' records and studying them where ever he wants to.
It's Glenn's own word [theguardian.com]! I'm in a civil union with my "partner" and I don't particularly mind this term. Although I agree it can be confusing, most of the time people get what you mean by context. When I marry him this November, i'll call him my "husband" but not before then. You can blame the homophobes for creating this dual tier of unions but it does exist and I might as well use the proper confusing term as much as possible to emphasize just how idiotic it was that until just recently I couldn't get married.
And in a written article, without any context to convey whether this is a personal or business relationship, the term "life partner" would be much better.
you have hard facts. 2007 google study said about six years for all enterprise and consumer grade magnetic disks, however for low utilization disks most fail in only three years (contrary to most people's expectations)
Bullshit. That's not at all what the google study said.
In fact, it said absolutely nothing about the six year timeframe, since it only had 4-5 years of data;-)
There is no way they will ever get approval with the cronyism walking around to ever have someone generate all of their own electricity.
How the hell does bullshit like this get modded up, when right now you can buy your choice of any of a large number of: wind-based generators, photovoltaic systems, petroleum-fuel based generators--and even a few, very expensive, fuel cells.
Go find a 100% efficient condensing boiler and get back to me.
As a response to, well, that which you were responding to, your comment makes absolutely no sense. Even high-efficiency condensing boilers have waste heat. Add the waste heat to that which is captured and, presto, 100%!
It could just be a particularly poor JBIG implementation: the format and decompressor is standardized, but the standard doesn't specify how to find the matches, so various companies have their own proprietary versions.
The issue here seems to be the lossy mode of JBIG2...
Maybe, maybe not. I don't know if that's a contributor or not. But I do know how many copiers scan in black-and-white;-)
What they do is scan in a lower resolution of grayscale, then interpolate upwards by pattern-matching small blocks of grayscale and substituting the "most likely" higher-resolution block of black-and-white pixels, from a smallish subset of all possible combinations, that subset being based on the most common patterns of pixels in text documents. You can see then, how a small bit of noise, could cause a match to the wrong pattern, and change whether or not a 6 is an 8, or some such.
The thing is, that many of the other things being discussed by/.ers in this thread (smoothing algorithm filling holes, JBIG, and so on) are more likely to make a somewhat more random substitution that to a human might still look like noise. But when this algorithm goes wrong it can produce something that looks like perfectly clean text.
This is what happens when they try to be too clever and pretend that they're scanning at substantially higher resolution than the optics of the device allow; these algorithms are intended to produce sharper cleaner results than merely using some form of curve-fitting interpolation. (Also, they're intended to require extremely minimal processing, usually being implemented in custom tiny hardware instead of even having a CPU involved.)
And back full circle to your suggestion, my guess would be that if JBIG is contributing here, it's only with documents where the initial gray -> b&w upsampling already fucked up the image.
Well I heard it was revealed by the wife of a partner. Slightly better but not by much.
Was the wife legal counsel to J.K. Rowling? No? Well, then, it was revealed by the partner. That he revealed it to his wife first, or perhaps only, is completely irrelevant.
eight core processors are dumb. though not for the reason he gave. they are dumb because nothing supports 8 cores, so 99% of the time, the extra 2-6 cores are totally wasted. if the software would catch up to the hard ware, we might see more use in 8+ cores
Uhhmmm. Image & video processing libraries? You know, the ones used by camera apps, and video chat apps.
Uhhmmm. Rendering libraries? You know, the ones used by games.
My guess is you can easily see the difference between 600 dpi and 2400 dpi print, especially for a photo. Print something on your 600 dpi printer that came from a fashion magazine. Resolution is worse on screens than on paper but no the cutoff isn't where you think it is.
As long as you're talking about dots that are simply on or off, yes. As soon as you start using dots whose size can be modulated, the comparisons get much fuzzier (haha), and of course fewer dots are needed.
Raw talent is a component of skill. Without talent, skill is limited. Period. The fact the he thinks he's seen skill without talent, just means he doesn't understand the subject matter well enough to be talking about this.
Why exactly should your college defend you when you comit a crime?
Well, it wasn't even his college...
But what he did should most certainly not be a crime (just a civil tort instead), and he was charge not just with the "crimes" he committed but a number he most certainly did not commit, and MIT was in a position to know for a fact that the charges were wildly exaggerated, and universities are supposed to represent and defend academic freedom, and as an alum I am deeply disappointed in the administration's behavior.
Then why do nurses and doctors bitch so much if the servers have so much as a hiccup? They spend more time on various software programs than they do with actual patients.
Just because they don't like being held up by being unable to do the things they are required to do with those systems, does NOT mean those things contribute in any way at all the care of patients.
Humans are not brought into heat by the absence of young, and killing offspring is directly opposed to the core of evolutionary theory, which rewards the widest possible range of mates to guarantee diverse genetic combinations and the maximum chances for survival and spread of strong genes.
Male squirrels will gnaw the nuts off their male offspring if the mother neglects to defend them constantly. Last I checked squirrels seemed to be enjoying reasonable reproductive success;-)
Unless you lick the thing, have particularly sweaty hands, an open wound, or something else to bypass skin resistance.
Resistance varies widely, that's true, but 5V is still not enough; it's not only your skin that has resistance, although skin provides the majority of resistance, some is provided by the stuff inside--still talking of course externally applied, not leads implanted into your heart;-)
As an extremely rough guideline, in industrial safety standards, 42.4V is widely considered the threshold between potentially (haha) lethal and not, and UL/ECMA etc regulations are based on that (that's DC I think, with the AC cutoff being 60V). But there is also a documented case of a death from contact with 42V, and so one could assume the possibility of death from even lower voltages if one is freakishly unlucky. Still, 24V is getting into the "really safe" zone, and there's no way in hell you're going to be killed by 5V. (Again, externally applied. A normal heart runs on close to 1V signals...)
Really? In English? I don't know where you getting your dictionary, but the several I referenced stated...
Interesting, first one I checked was "death or injury", but that was my local desktop widget, which claims to use the New Oxford American Dictionary. Their online version has an absolutely horrible user interface, so I'll spare you the trouble with a direct link.
Merriam-Webster, as you say, is "death" only, as is an old old copy of the Webster's New Universal Unabridged.
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Firefighters have been hampered by a lack of moisture from the sky and on the ground.
No shit, sherlock. Fires rage where the moisture isn't.
And no, I'm not merely being snarky about people living in semi-arid areas. I live in one, right in the so-called "red zone" forest interface, and we have no fires right now because we're getting all the rain this year.
He held on to an extremely high-paying job for which he was abjectly unqualified. He got paid hugely for fucking up year after year. Now, tell me exactly how it was a mistake on his part to hang on to that job???
Yes, creating software without having to know shit about software development has been the wet dream of the business monkeys at MS ever since they took the company over from the geeks.
That wet dream pre-dates MS by a couple of decades ;-)
This was quite illegal.
It most certainly was not. It may well have been against hospital policy, but there is no law restricting a doctor from carrying around his patients' records and studying them where ever he wants to.
It's Glenn's own word [theguardian.com]! I'm in a civil union with my "partner" and I don't particularly mind this term. Although I agree it can be confusing, most of the time people get what you mean by context. When I marry him this November, i'll call him my "husband" but not before then. You can blame the homophobes for creating this dual tier of unions but it does exist and I might as well use the proper confusing term as much as possible to emphasize just how idiotic it was that until just recently I couldn't get married.
And in a written article, without any context to convey whether this is a personal or business relationship, the term "life partner" would be much better.
you have hard facts. 2007 google study said about six years for all enterprise and consumer grade magnetic disks, however for low utilization disks most fail in only three years (contrary to most people's expectations)
Bullshit. That's not at all what the google study said.
In fact, it said absolutely nothing about the six year timeframe, since it only had 4-5 years of data ;-)
There is no way they will ever get approval with the cronyism walking around to ever have someone generate all of their own electricity.
How the hell does bullshit like this get modded up, when right now you can buy your choice of any of a large number of: wind-based generators, photovoltaic systems, petroleum-fuel based generators--and even a few, very expensive, fuel cells.
Go find a 100% efficient condensing boiler and get back to me.
As a response to, well, that which you were responding to, your comment makes absolutely no sense. Even high-efficiency condensing boilers have waste heat. Add the waste heat to that which is captured and, presto, 100%!
Given that the average HDD dies after only 4 years...
Sorry, not even close.
Don't all these devices have bluetooth transceivers already?
It could just be a particularly poor JBIG implementation: the format and decompressor is standardized, but the standard doesn't specify how to find the matches, so various companies have their own proprietary versions.
Yes, excellent point which I had overlooked.
The issue here seems to be the lossy mode of JBIG2...
Maybe, maybe not. I don't know if that's a contributor or not. But I do know how many copiers scan in black-and-white ;-)
Well, shit, should have RTFA. So, it doesn't happen if you don't get PDF out, but just take TIFF, which, IIRC, does not support JBIG.
Still, I wonder if there's any processing internal before compression that makes it more likely for JBIG to find false matches.
The issue here seems to be the lossy mode of JBIG2...
Maybe, maybe not. I don't know if that's a contributor or not. But I do know how many copiers scan in black-and-white ;-)
What they do is scan in a lower resolution of grayscale, then interpolate upwards by pattern-matching small blocks of grayscale and substituting the "most likely" higher-resolution block of black-and-white pixels, from a smallish subset of all possible combinations, that subset being based on the most common patterns of pixels in text documents. You can see then, how a small bit of noise, could cause a match to the wrong pattern, and change whether or not a 6 is an 8, or some such.
The thing is, that many of the other things being discussed by /.ers in this thread (smoothing algorithm filling holes, JBIG, and so on) are more likely to make a somewhat more random substitution that to a human might still look like noise. But when this algorithm goes wrong it can produce something that looks like perfectly clean text.
This is what happens when they try to be too clever and pretend that they're scanning at substantially higher resolution than the optics of the device allow; these algorithms are intended to produce sharper cleaner results than merely using some form of curve-fitting interpolation. (Also, they're intended to require extremely minimal processing, usually being implemented in custom tiny hardware instead of even having a CPU involved.)
And back full circle to your suggestion, my guess would be that if JBIG is contributing here, it's only with documents where the initial gray -> b&w upsampling already fucked up the image.
Well I heard it was revealed by the wife of a partner. Slightly better but not by much.
Was the wife legal counsel to J.K. Rowling? No? Well, then, it was revealed by the partner. That he revealed it to his wife first, or perhaps only, is completely irrelevant.
I mean, were those fetal stem cells or adult stem cells that they used?
eight core processors are dumb. though not for the reason he gave. they are dumb because nothing supports 8 cores, so 99% of the time, the extra 2-6 cores are totally wasted. if the software would catch up to the hard ware, we might see more use in 8+ cores
Uhhmmm. Image & video processing libraries? You know, the ones used by camera apps, and video chat apps.
Uhhmmm. Rendering libraries? You know, the ones used by games.
Uhhmmm. Speech recognition? Speech Synthesis?
My guess is you can easily see the difference between 600 dpi and 2400 dpi print, especially for a photo. Print something on your 600 dpi printer that came from a fashion magazine. Resolution is worse on screens than on paper but no the cutoff isn't where you think it is.
As long as you're talking about dots that are simply on or off, yes. As soon as you start using dots whose size can be modulated, the comparisons get much fuzzier (haha), and of course fewer dots are needed.
Raw talent is a component of skill. Without talent, skill is limited. Period. The fact the he thinks he's seen skill without talent, just means he doesn't understand the subject matter well enough to be talking about this.
Why exactly should your college defend you when you comit a crime?
Well, it wasn't even his college...
But what he did should most certainly not be a crime (just a civil tort instead), and he was charge not just with the "crimes" he committed but a number he most certainly did not commit, and MIT was in a position to know for a fact that the charges were wildly exaggerated, and universities are supposed to represent and defend academic freedom, and as an alum I am deeply disappointed in the administration's behavior.
Then why do nurses and doctors bitch so much if the servers have so much as a hiccup? They spend more time on various software programs than they do with actual patients.
Just because they don't like being held up by being unable to do the things they are required to do with those systems, does NOT mean those things contribute in any way at all the care of patients.
Humans are not brought into heat by the absence of young, and killing offspring is directly opposed to the core of evolutionary theory, which rewards the widest possible range of mates to guarantee diverse genetic combinations and the maximum chances for survival and spread of strong genes.
Male squirrels will gnaw the nuts off their male offspring if the mother neglects to defend them constantly. Last I checked squirrels seemed to be enjoying reasonable reproductive success ;-)
The difference is if they lie, there's not much you as an employee can do about it. However, if you lie, they can fire you.
Uhm, you can "fire" them any day you decide to do so.
Unless you lick the thing, have particularly sweaty hands, an open wound, or something else to bypass skin resistance.
Resistance varies widely, that's true, but 5V is still not enough; it's not only your skin that has resistance, although skin provides the majority of resistance, some is provided by the stuff inside--still talking of course externally applied, not leads implanted into your heart ;-)
As an extremely rough guideline, in industrial safety standards, 42.4V is widely considered the threshold between potentially (haha) lethal and not, and UL/ECMA etc regulations are based on that (that's DC I think, with the AC cutoff being 60V). But there is also a documented case of a death from contact with 42V, and so one could assume the possibility of death from even lower voltages if one is freakishly unlucky. Still, 24V is getting into the "really safe" zone, and there's no way in hell you're going to be killed by 5V. (Again, externally applied. A normal heart runs on close to 1V signals...)
It is efficiency. They're cutting testing & qa staff. That's what customers are for!
Really? In English? I don't know where you getting your dictionary, but the several I referenced stated...
Interesting, first one I checked was "death or injury", but that was my local desktop widget, which claims to use the New Oxford American Dictionary. Their online version has an absolutely horrible user interface, so I'll spare you the trouble with a direct link.
Merriam-Webster, as you say, is "death" only, as is an old old copy of the Webster's New Universal Unabridged.
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