You should be able to do everything without using the damn mouse at all - does that mean that PCs should be shipped without a mouse to make sure?
It's a daft justification for a very good point though - you really should be able to do everything with menus, and also with keyboard shortcuts or the arrow keys. I can tell you there are things I, as a keyboard jockey who hates mice, want to do for which keyboard shortcuts don't exist.
No, it's OK, there are millions of them out there quietly hibernating for as long as possible, in boxes, in attics where they have been safely and warmly tucked up by Apple owners who WANT A SECOND FUCKING BUTTON!
Bill Gates was crazy when he said hardware will be free
Yeah, and the CueCat people really proved him wrong...
Justin.
How can 'Don't Click...' be worth 20 bucks?
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I mean, really, once you've read the title, you're most of the way there..!
Except that most people will need to click on the blue E to go to getfirefox to, err, get firefox. Maybe the 20 bucks is for explaining how to install BitTorrent;-)
That's cos IE is auto-loaded during your machine's startup. You are still waiting for it to load, you just don't know it.
That isn't to say that there's no improvement to be done on FF or anything else, my Linux boxen are too slow (ob: which I rarely do) becuase I want them to come up like a cd player: Click! Ready!
So all the time I (black hat) am clever enough to just decrypt stuff and use the information without getting caught, the game plan is to concentrate on the script kiddies. Kewl;-)
Freely available - check (whether you want it or not) Freely copied - check (it even does it for you) Changes must be distributed - check (virus-A, virus-B etc)
TFA says that they got only 48 hours notice and that it is a breach of contract. By all means have morality in business (I'd salute you for it!) but you can't just break deals on a whim.
But honestly, why would you block Google ads? They're unintrusive and result in money going to the 'don't be evil' people, thus setting a good example to all the other moronic flash-abusing ad-gits (whom we all block immediately - wankers)!
The 2038 cookie info on the other hand, is a jolly good point.
I think my point - that restricting P2P writers in California won't change a damn thing - is perfectly valid!
To follow your analogy, it would be like requiring all cars made in California to have a hi-vis paint job, but not preventing anyone from importing cars - or even any way to tell if someone has done so.
Sure we should understand laws, but some of them are just redundant and need to be laughed at. Don't take this sort of thing seriously, or the idiot senator will think "Hey, I must have been on to something!". Better to take the piss;-)
I take it this idiot senator believes all the world's coders live in the US, right? And that Russians and Poles and Brits and Aussies are all too backward to write P2P code..?
Justin. Bored with idiot yank politicians from GWB to AS and on.
Among his other acts were the declaration (after a vote, no less) that the Pope was infallible (which, because he, the Pope, was infallible, must be right - right?) and the abduction of a jewish couple's child after the child had been secretly baptised by a servant, on the grounds that a 'christian' child must be brought up by christians. Nutter.
Incidentally, it has been suggested that his empire-building paved the way for the powerful modern vatican, and was a direct response to the formation of the modern state of Italy, which had removed a lot of the power of the church. So possibly not such a nutter. Nah, only kidding: Nutter!
To quote the Guardian "...the British Museum's decision to chip off all the penises on Greek statues in its possession, to save the blushes of its Victorian visitors. (This act of egregious vandalism is remediable; the penises lie in a drawer at the museum and can be restored.)"
Ta for the info... interesting stuff. I've been doing a lot of work with motion sensors and stuff, so I'm familiar with the problems of having no continuous data (both in time and space). As pixel densities and processing speeds go up, the problems you detail should be alleviated though.
I'd still bet that your problem is solved (whether by algorithms or processing power) before human face recognition is solved;-)
Please note the inverted commas: 'easy'. I was speaking relatively.
I meant in comparison to things like faces, which the parent poster was commenting (and I agree) are very hard.
Here's how you do it: Look for slightly curved lines. Examine curvature (due to lens) to infer distance. Convert to 3d model of lines. Look for lines which are parallel. Infer planes.
[I'm a physicist and mathematician by the way. Your terminology may vary.]
I disagree. It's 'pretty easy' to find flat surfaces in a picture, and almost all buildings are made of those. Then 'all' you have to do is search a database for a matching set of planes. Not absurdly difficult, and prolly much easier than a general handwriting reader or face recognition.
Perhaps America could get back those outsourced jobs by being paid to police the world? Well, it would make a change from Don Rumsfeld doing it on a voluntary basis;-)
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You should be able to do everything without using the damn mouse at all - does that mean that PCs should be shipped without a mouse to make sure?
It's a daft justification for a very good point though - you really should be able to do everything with menus, and also with keyboard shortcuts or the arrow keys. I can tell you there are things I, as a keyboard jockey who hates mice, want to do for which keyboard shortcuts don't exist.
Justin.
No, it's OK, there are millions of them out there quietly hibernating for as long as possible, in boxes, in attics where they have been safely and warmly tucked up by Apple owners who WANT A SECOND FUCKING BUTTON!
J.
Yeah, and the CueCat people really proved him wrong...
Justin.
I mean, really, once you've read the title, you're most of the way there..!
;-)
Except that most people will need to click on the blue E to go to getfirefox to, err, get firefox. Maybe the 20 bucks is for explaining how to install BitTorrent
Justin.
That's cos IE is auto-loaded during your machine's startup. You are still waiting for it to load, you just don't know it.
That isn't to say that there's no improvement to be done on FF or anything else, my Linux boxen are too slow (ob: which I rarely do) becuase I want them to come up like a cd player: Click! Ready!
Justin.
So all the time I (black hat) am clever enough to just decrypt stuff and use the information without getting caught, the game plan is to concentrate on the script kiddies. Kewl ;-)
Justin.
Freely available - check (whether you want it or not)
Freely copied - check (it even does it for you)
Changes must be distributed - check (virus-A, virus-B etc)
What else is there? Oh yes...
Pain in the arse to Microsoft - check!
Justin.
Most interestingly of all, there's no requirement to specify what laws they are breaking.
So, business, yes. Just not necessarily good business.
J.
TFA says that they got only 48 hours notice and that it is a breach of contract. By all means have morality in business (I'd salute you for it!) but you can't just break deals on a whim.
Justin.
But honestly, why would you block Google ads? They're unintrusive and result in money going to the 'don't be evil' people, thus setting a good example to all the other moronic flash-abusing ad-gits (whom we all block immediately - wankers)!
The 2038 cookie info on the other hand, is a jolly good point.
Justin.
I think my point - that restricting P2P writers in California won't change a damn thing - is perfectly valid!
;-)
To follow your analogy, it would be like requiring all cars made in California to have a hi-vis paint job, but not preventing anyone from importing cars - or even any way to tell if someone has done so.
Sure we should understand laws, but some of them are just redundant and need to be laughed at. Don't take this sort of thing seriously, or the idiot senator will think "Hey, I must have been on to something!". Better to take the piss
Justin.
I take it this idiot senator believes all the world's coders live in the US, right? And that Russians and Poles and Brits and Aussies are all too backward to write P2P code..?
Justin.
Bored with idiot yank politicians from GWB to AS and on.
Seeing as Pius IX was around about 150 years ago, and Dante about 900 years ago, I suspect your memory may be at fault ;-)
J.
See, loads less than six-and-a-half minutes.
J.
Among his other acts were the declaration (after a vote, no less) that the Pope was infallible (which, because he, the Pope, was infallible, must be right - right?) and the abduction of a jewish couple's child after the child had been secretly baptised by a servant, on the grounds that a 'christian' child must be brought up by christians. Nutter.
Incidentally, it has been suggested that his empire-building paved the way for the powerful modern vatican, and was a direct response to the formation of the modern state of Italy, which had removed a lot of the power of the church. So possibly not such a nutter. Nah, only kidding: Nutter!
Justin.
To quote the Guardian "...the British Museum's decision to chip off all the penises on Greek statues in its possession, to save the blushes of its Victorian visitors. (This act of egregious vandalism is remediable; the penises lie in a drawer at the museum and can be restored.)"
J.
Ta for the info... interesting stuff. I've been doing a lot of work with motion sensors and stuff, so I'm familiar with the problems of having no continuous data (both in time and space). As pixel densities and processing speeds go up, the problems you detail should be alleviated though.
;-)
I'd still bet that your problem is solved (whether by algorithms or processing power) before human face recognition is solved
J.
Please note the inverted commas: 'easy'. I was speaking relatively.
I meant in comparison to things like faces, which the parent poster was commenting (and I agree) are very hard.
Here's how you do it: Look for slightly curved lines. Examine curvature (due to lens) to infer distance. Convert to 3d model of lines. Look for lines which are parallel. Infer planes.
[I'm a physicist and mathematician by the way. Your terminology may vary.]
Justin.
I disagree. It's 'pretty easy' to find flat surfaces in a picture, and almost all buildings are made of those. Then 'all' you have to do is search a database for a matching set of planes. Not absurdly difficult, and prolly much easier than a general handwriting reader or face recognition.
J.
Google only caches the text, the images are still requested from the original server, which in this case is the now burning George Foreman Grill.
J.
Like many sites, "fuckthis" as user&pass will get you in. If you find a site where it doesn't please create that user/pass ;-)
J.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
;-)
Perhaps America could get back those outsourced jobs by being paid to police the world? Well, it would make a change from Don Rumsfeld doing it on a voluntary basis
J.
Sunbird is 0.2... it's undergoing heavy development, but even the /. abstract said 'by the middle of next year'.
J.
Strange... I've seen a few drivers do it. Or do they not count?
J.
Do you think makers of photocopiers should be closed down under the RIAA? Or the Yellow Pages for advertising copy-shops?
Welcome to the New Corporate America, where all your rights are belong to <insert major copyright holders here>
Justin.