What really pisses me off about network branding is this "CNN has learned that baked beans make you fart" crap! I wouldn't mind if it really was a network specific journalistic scoop, but invariably it's some days old news that has just filtered up to the level of the networks attention. If you want cutting edge news then netowrk TV is not the place to go.
Actually CNN is one of the best - at least they don't have garbage stories such as ABC news declaring Bentonite *CLAY* a "potent" and "troubling" Anthrax additive.
,i>I scrapped the idea after the experiments mentioned above, - dating anyone stupid enough to be fooled by a bot that simple wouldn't be my idea of fun...:)
Maybe not, but you'd have no trouble coming up with conversation to keep them intersted! If you didn't feel like talking, then a piece of tin foil would probably keep them amused for hours. Kind of like a Tagamochi with tits!
So is a wrist worn X (X=calculator,TV,cellphone,GPS,camera) always a bloated watch in your eyes, and not a wrist worn X? Or, does it only deserve that criticism if it also tells time?
PARC invented GUIs. They invented bitmapped displays. They invented windows. They invented pointers and mice.
PARC also invented a few other nifty things such ethernet, smalltalk/OO programming...
The Xerox Star was the worlds first ever graphical workstation (before then it was dumb terminals or vector displays for air traffic controllers, etc). Apple copied the Star to make the Lisa then Mac, and Micro$oft attempted to copy the Mac to make Windows 1.0...
After a decade or so of intensive research, Microsoft enhanced the GUI by adding the talking paper clip.
Well, getting video down a 28.8Kbps pipe is difficult, but not impossible - that's precisely what H.26L (the successor to H.263+) aims to do. The prime contendor for H.26L uses a pretty conventional wavelet based method.
Of course video compression is only one way to transmit a video stream. More generally it's about being able to recreate the stream at the other end... Fractal image "compression" is a simple example of this type of approach.
Huh? Do you really have a problem with Borders keeping an eye on (or denying entrance to) people who've shoplifted there before?! This "reformed criminal" stuff is nonsense - people who have stolen before are MUCH more likely to be those who steal again. If you don't want the embarassment of being asked to leave the store as a known shoplifter, then just don't steal stuff!
I think the only real problem here is the number of false positives, and how they are going to handle that - it'd be pretty bogus to be trailed by security guards just because you look like someone who is a thief.
The last few days the site is hosed half the time. Now, I can handle not being able to login, or links not working correctly, but now today my config choices are ignored and I'm getting this John Katz shite again. Unacceptable.
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Interesting that at least one does - thanks. I couldn't find any mention of it on their web site though - do you have any idea what they charge for the this? Same as for regular ADSL? Is this a standard service they offer, or something you negotiated with them?
Unfortunately I'm not in their locale anyway, but I'm intested to have an idea of how this works so maybe I can approach my current ISP (I'm over the 17,500' official limit from the CO, so the telco won't install ADSL).
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Has anyone successfully convinced their ISP to provide internet access for them this way - i.e. to order that "alarm circuit" from your house to the ISP and have a DSL model located at the ISP to which they give you a net connection? If so, then how did they handle support (say you want to reset the DSL model at their end)?
Maybe I'm a bit cynical, but I find it hard to see an ISP offering this personalized level of service...
Not only would overclocking not be possible because there's no clock, but also the "see if it'll go faster" notion doesn't apply - an async design already goes as fast as it possibly can - each gate provides it's output as soon as it's inputs are themselves all available - no sooner, no later.
"pretty darn fast" doesn't help if it doesn't have a smart algorithm! I've yet to see anything that manages to return good relevent search hits like google.
The only feature I'd like to see added to Google would be search results within subsections of the web: commercial or non-commercial
What's amusing also is that in order to photograph these ridiculous scenes, the person sitting "in front of" the computer has to be positioned off to one side of the monitor and looking at it from a 45 degree angle - that way the photographer can get their face and the screen in the photo.
Another amusing this to notice is how often extreme close-ups are used for winter storm news reporting - usually becuase there's not actually enough snow to make a more panoramic shot look impressive.
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Seems like the movie people could learn somthing here too - how to make sequels that are as good as or better than the original.
The reason I switched to Linux wasn't because the OS was free but because I wanted to start a hobby developemnt project, and wasn't about to pay what Microsoft charges for development tools. With Linux not only is the OS free but also the C++ compiler, debugger, editor, etc etc. Not only that, but for serious development work IMO a Unix command line environment beats the crap out of some Win-Bollocks IDE.
So, anyway, perhaps a more interesting question is how much have you spent on your development environment.
As far as Linux itself, I bought RedHat 5.2 retail, and Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 (crap) from cheapbytes. I'm considering buying SuSE (retail).
Or how about both - imagine your doctors surprise when he finds a camera up your butt! Even better your butt-cam should be able to snap a great picture of your doc as it emerges from your ass.
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What really pisses me off about network branding is this "CNN has learned that baked beans make you fart" crap! I wouldn't mind if it really was a network specific journalistic scoop, but invariably it's some days old news that has just filtered up to the level of the networks attention. If you want cutting edge news then netowrk TV is not the place to go.
Actually CNN is one of the best - at least they don't have garbage stories such as ABC news declaring Bentonite *CLAY* a "potent" and "troubling" Anthrax additive.
Just 4 easy steps:
1) Pick up your phone and dial the voice transcription service (any number will do)
2) Give the transcription start command: "bin laden"
3) Play the sample to be transcribed
4) E-mail carnivore@fbi.gov to receive your free transcript!
,i>I scrapped the idea after the experiments mentioned above, - dating anyone stupid enough to be fooled by a bot that simple wouldn't be my idea of fun... :)
Maybe not, but you'd have no trouble coming up with conversation to keep them intersted! If you didn't feel like talking, then a piece of tin foil would probably keep them amused for hours. Kind of like a Tagamochi with tits!
Well, duh... it IS just a "jacked up ELIZA program". It's a chat bot hack, not a serious AI effort.
Here's a sig upgrade:
/bin/laden
rm -rf
So is a wrist worn X (X=calculator,TV,cellphone,GPS,camera) always a bloated watch in your eyes, and not a wrist worn X? Or, does it only deserve that criticism if it also tells time?
Want to back that up with a link or reference?
Primitive GUIs ?
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I'd give Xerox PARC a better shout out than that!
PARC invented GUIs. They invented bitmapped displays. They invented windows. They invented pointers and mice.
PARC also invented a few other nifty things such ethernet, smalltalk/OO programming
The Xerox Star was the worlds first ever graphical workstation (before then it was dumb terminals or vector displays for air traffic controllers, etc). Apple copied the Star to make the Lisa then Mac, and Micro$oft attempted to copy the Mac to make Windows 1.0
After a decade or so of intensive research, Microsoft enhanced the GUI by adding the talking paper clip.
Well, getting video down a 28.8Kbps pipe is difficult, but not impossible - that's precisely what H.26L (the successor to H.263+) aims to do. The prime contendor for H.26L uses a pretty conventional wavelet based method.
Of course video compression is only one way to transmit a video stream. More generally it's about being able to recreate the stream at the other end... Fractal image "compression" is a simple example of this type of approach.
You could be on to something there! :-)
Huh? Do you really have a problem with Borders keeping an eye on (or denying entrance to) people who've shoplifted there before?! This "reformed criminal" stuff is nonsense - people who have stolen before are MUCH more likely to be those who steal again. If you don't want the embarassment of being asked to leave the store as a known shoplifter, then just don't steal stuff!
I think the only real problem here is the number of false positives, and how they are going to handle that - it'd be pretty bogus to be trailed by security guards just because you look like someone who is a thief.
Funny you should say that...
If you read the article, it says that the US does use face recognition - the exact same system in fact - at the Mexico border.
The last few days the site is hosed half the time. Now, I can handle not being able to login, or links not working correctly, but now today my config choices are ignored and I'm getting this John Katz shite again. Unacceptable.
Interesting that at least one does - thanks. I couldn't find any mention of it on their web site though - do you have any idea what they charge for the this? Same as for regular ADSL? Is this a standard service they offer, or something you negotiated with them?
Unfortunately I'm not in their locale anyway, but I'm intested to have an idea of how this works so maybe I can approach my current ISP (I'm over the 17,500' official limit from the CO, so the telco won't install ADSL).
Has anyone successfully convinced their ISP to provide internet access for them this way - i.e. to order that "alarm circuit" from your house to the ISP and have a DSL model located at the ISP to which they give you a net connection? If so, then how did they handle support (say you want to reset the DSL model at their end)?
Maybe I'm a bit cynical, but I find it hard to see an ISP offering this personalized level of service...
Not only would overclocking not be possible because there's no clock, but also the "see if it'll go faster" notion doesn't apply - an async design already goes as fast as it possibly can - each gate provides it's output as soon as it's inputs are themselves all available - no sooner, no later.
The 2.2 series is still the stable kernel, not 2.4, and will probably be so for the next year. Thus spake Mr. Cox on the LKML.
Yeah, I know it's bogus - 2.3.x should never have been dubbed 2.4 until it was stable (esp. with the rotten VM), but there you have it.
I tried 2.4 and got bitten by the VM, so am thinking (being lazy) of switching to SuSE who have large file support merged into the 2.2 kernel.
The link seems to confirm the story rather than refute it. They make it quite clear that Bush Sr was wowed by the basic scanner - unfamiliar with it.
"pretty darn fast" doesn't help if it doesn't have a smart algorithm! I've yet to see anything that manages to return good relevent search hits like google.
The only feature I'd like to see added to Google would be search results within subsections of the web: commercial or non-commercial
What's amusing also is that in order to photograph these ridiculous scenes, the person sitting "in front of" the computer has to be positioned off to one side of the monitor and looking at it from a 45 degree angle - that way the photographer can get their face and the screen in the photo.
Another amusing this to notice is how often extreme close-ups are used for winter storm news reporting - usually becuase there's not actually enough snow to make a more panoramic shot look impressive.
Seems like the movie people could learn somthing here too - how to make sequels that are as good as or better than the original.
Has Stallman ever tried to rub his underpants on your head?
Wrong.
1) HDTV is way higher resolution than NTSC analog broadcast, which is why it (HDTV) takes way more bandwidth
2) NSTC color encoding is just crap compared to PAL or digital (hence "never twice same color")
If fact, about the only thing WORSE than broadcast NTSC is VHS.
The reason I switched to Linux wasn't because the OS was free but because I wanted to start a hobby developemnt project, and wasn't about to pay what Microsoft charges for development tools. With Linux not only is the OS free but also the C++ compiler, debugger, editor, etc etc. Not only that, but for serious development work IMO a Unix command line environment beats the crap out of some Win-Bollocks IDE.
So, anyway, perhaps a more interesting question is how much have you spent on your development environment.
As far as Linux itself, I bought RedHat 5.2 retail, and Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 (crap) from cheapbytes. I'm considering buying SuSE (retail).
Or how about both - imagine your doctors surprise when he finds a camera up your butt! Even better your butt-cam should be able to snap a great picture of your doc as it emerges from your ass.