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(Most) 1088i vids play back flawlessly on my bottom-end C2D with CoreAVC, where the ffmpeg staggers and stutters through the same material. Best $15 I've spent in a while.
Well, not to question the integrity or competence of the journalist who wrote the story, but I question the integrity and competence of the journalist who wrote the story.
This one mentions that he was sued for not paying child support. I'm guessing a significant portion of that $8k was child support, not actual alimony. I feel strongly that if you willfully create a life, you should be held responsible for it/them, and it shouldn't take a court order to make it happen.
Although I do think alimony is complete BS. But that's what prenups are for.
Actually, they rely on the precipitation caused by the Himalayas; the glaciers are incidendal. The mountains force all of water vapor to condense as the air rises to pass over them, thus it's rainy in India and dry in Tibet. Granted, at some point the mountains will erode, and glacial melting may well facilitate that erosion, however it is unlikely that this will happen at any time in the relevant future, nor that, in 50 million years, anyone will look back and say "Those 20th Century bastards.. if only they'd saved the glaciers, the Himalayas would still be foothills instead of plains."
The issue, if I may, is saving the humans, who are not nearly so resilient, and to whom, heaven knows why, many of us seem to have a sentimental attachment. Perhaps it has something to do with being human ourselves.
That's just more nonsense. Humans are as resilient as pretty much any creature on the planet, except perhaps cockroaches, especially where climate is concerned. The average temperature would have to rise pretty substantially -- which would almost definately be checked by evaporative cooling from the oceans -- in order for climate to be unsurvivable. We may experience more stormy weather, but maybe building for that is what we should be focusing our energies on rather than trying to change something we can't -- the climate.
More importantly, people (and especially businesses) don't want their private data to be on "the internet." Ford doesn't want its latest CAD design on the net, Becky doesn't want her "Lilac Tears" on the net (ok, maybe she does, but she's too ashamed to put it there on purpose), Bob doesn't want his finances online (the fact that it's already there and his computer has been r00ted already aside), and GAMERS don't want their refresh rate to be a factor of their ping time. It may be in an intangible form, but having data on one's own system just feels more secure, and it's hard to change the way people feel, and keeping data offline IS important to many business and government entities. The current concept of the OS will only go away if desktop computing goes away, which is not bloody likely unless/until regulation requires it.
Although I hear California is already proposing a 5 day waiting period for computer purchases.
*Radar is the acronym for Radio Decetion and Ranging. I was thinking of the two attributes a nav radar system typically measures, which are range and direction.
I have to travel generally North East through many states.
Hopefully less of the former and more of the latter, unless you're trying to travel through Canada to get there. NYC is only 2 degrees (~149mi) north of Sacramento. For comparison purposes, LA is 4 degrees (~312mi) south of Sac.
So what you (and just about everyone else, myself included) REALLY need is a map and/or some signs, rather than some supposed "inherent sense of direction" that you seem to believe we possess. What you believe you know (travel northeast) contradicts what you actually know (follow I80 until it turns into I90). And while you could probably get there following road signs, you'd be wise to consult an atlas along the way, and there's no reason a robot should be handicapped when that information is available to every other driver as well. Sure, it should have general rules to guide itself when information is lacking, but that's not always feasible, as evidenced by Mr. Kim this past week.
They must use perceptive powers to avoid colliding with other drivers or running down pedestrians and following the rules of the road instead of range finders and lasers and GPS-based speed limit adherance and other such nonsense.
Baby steps. You don't learn to drive on the freeway, and neither should "autonomous" vehicles. By the way, it's not the vehicles which are learning here -- it's their designers. We don't really want vehicles to run over people in order to learn that it's wrong. Radar (which is an acronym of Range and Finder, by the way) is an effective "perceptive power" for machines. It's fast and accurate, and Lexus uses it for distance sensing cruise control in many of their models.
Also there's no hyphen between fore and knowledge. It's just one word.
Well informally, my 4 & 5 year olds always say "we've seen this before" about half the time when we watch some new movie. Whether they're just remembering an ad or what, I can't be sure, but false memories are absolutely not relegated to adulthood (in fact, they're more prominant in childhood IIRC). If false memories are one of the triggers for deja vu, then I'm guessing very young children experience it as well, although they lack the vocabulary to express it, and probably take it for granted since a large portion of their experiences are "new" anyway.
Right, I get that. They SEE what's on the paper. Do they SEE what's stored in the computer? Not unless the programmer (or presumably, hacker) wants them to. There's no way to verify whether the result produced on paper = the result stored. It's a red herring, a placebo, and it creates a false sense of security. The only way to be sure, as I said, would be to count the paper records in their entirety, and then what's the point of using a computer? It's just a high-tech typewriter at that point. Which is fine, I guess, but we need to stop trusting software when there will always been a weak point in the chain to exploit. Paper ballots and human counting isn't infalliable, but they're very very transparent, which is really more important. If computers printed out the votes, and then THOSE PRINTOUTS were counted, then fine. Anything else is a farce.
Hmm, that's weird. I use credit cards for almost all my transactions precicely because I can just call my bank and have the charges reversed if anything happens. You're not liable for fraudulent use of your card, and the definition of "fraud" encompasses almost anything dealing with a transaction. I do the same thing on PayPal (despite their ceaceless pleas to add my bank account information) because I'd much rather deal with my bank's dispute system (a 5 minute phone call) versus PayPal's "resolution" (aka your accounts are now frozen) system.
If you want me to say, "New standard?" text STKPD1. If you want me to say, "Programmers use lights?" text STKPD2. If you want me to say, "Linux developers subsequently start work on LINDOWS (Light is not a Darkness or Windows Simulator), then get sued for their choice of name," text STKPD3. If you want me to say, "Ariba!" and dance around a sombrero, text STKPD4.
Squandered? SQUANDERED?!? My God, man, we have moving walkways in almost every airport in the country, and you've obviously forgotten entirely about a certain powdered substance when, which added to water, becomes a deliciously refreshing beverage. TANG!
I can't even imagine a life without sipping a nice cup of Tang while strolling down a moving walkway at the airport, but I guess some people are never satisfied.
When given an interesting problem in their domain, the lower ones will take almost forever to come up with a bad answer, and the top ones will give a great answer almost off the top of their heads.
Nice platitude. The reality is that complex problems take real work to solve, regardless of one's expertise. Of course you were sufficiently vague with "interesting problem" rather than "difficult problem" and "answer" rather than "solution" such that your phrase could be construed to mean just about anything, so you'd probably make a good lawyer as well.
Good points all, but no way in hell do we need to subsidize the elderly. People are already determined to get old -- the last thing we need to do is encourage it.
We don't hold anyone accountable for what they do here, not our politicians, not corporate CEOs, and definitely not morons who hurt themselves or break the law.
Hey, that's not our fault! It's just how we were raised...
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(Most) 1088i vids play back flawlessly on my bottom-end C2D with CoreAVC, where the ffmpeg staggers and stutters through the same material. Best $15 I've spent in a while.
Well, not to question the integrity or competence of the journalist who wrote the story, but I question the integrity and competence of the journalist who wrote the story.
This one mentions that he was sued for not paying child support. I'm guessing a significant portion of that $8k was child support, not actual alimony. I feel strongly that if you willfully create a life, you should be held responsible for it/them, and it shouldn't take a court order to make it happen.
Although I do think alimony is complete BS. But that's what prenups are for.
Hans Reiser has pled not guilty to murdering his wife and invoked his right to a speedy trial.
Ironically, his alleged alibi is that he was busy murdering Linux at the time.
You've obviously never read this story also, as fate may have it, posted by Hemos.
If you replace "cheese" with "babes," then yes.
Don't tell anyone, but I heard that robots are already responsible for pouring the majority of liquids into bottles in the first place.
Actually, they rely on the precipitation caused by the Himalayas; the glaciers are incidendal. The mountains force all of water vapor to condense as the air rises to pass over them, thus it's rainy in India and dry in Tibet. Granted, at some point the mountains will erode, and glacial melting may well facilitate that erosion, however it is unlikely that this will happen at any time in the relevant future, nor that, in 50 million years, anyone will look back and say "Those 20th Century bastards.. if only they'd saved the glaciers, the Himalayas would still be foothills instead of plains."
The issue, if I may, is saving the humans, who are not nearly so resilient, and to whom, heaven knows why, many of us seem to have a sentimental attachment. Perhaps it has something to do with being human ourselves.
That's just more nonsense. Humans are as resilient as pretty much any creature on the planet, except perhaps cockroaches, especially where climate is concerned. The average temperature would have to rise pretty substantially -- which would almost definately be checked by evaporative cooling from the oceans -- in order for climate to be unsurvivable. We may experience more stormy weather, but maybe building for that is what we should be focusing our energies on rather than trying to change something we can't -- the climate.
Glad you caught that, I thought I might have been a little too subtle.
More importantly, people (and especially businesses) don't want their private data to be on "the internet." Ford doesn't want its latest CAD design on the net, Becky doesn't want her "Lilac Tears" on the net (ok, maybe she does, but she's too ashamed to put it there on purpose), Bob doesn't want his finances online (the fact that it's already there and his computer has been r00ted already aside), and GAMERS don't want their refresh rate to be a factor of their ping time. It may be in an intangible form, but having data on one's own system just feels more secure, and it's hard to change the way people feel, and keeping data offline IS important to many business and government entities. The current concept of the OS will only go away if desktop computing goes away, which is not bloody likely unless/until regulation requires it.
Although I hear California is already proposing a 5 day waiting period for computer purchases.
I tried both, but neither would recognize SCDA.exe as a valid executable.. whatever that means.
Hmm.. I guess my Asus P5B, C2D 6700, 2GB ram, and gf7900 are just showing their age.
Although, for the record, it DOES resume from hibernation just fine. It's only once I type in the password that the BSOD shows up.
Because Joe Websurfer doesn't have a lobbiest bending the ear of Congress.
*Radar is the acronym for Radio Decetion and Ranging. I was thinking of the two attributes a nav radar system typically measures, which are range and direction.
I have to travel generally North East through many states.
Hopefully less of the former and more of the latter, unless you're trying to travel through Canada to get there. NYC is only 2 degrees (~149mi) north of Sacramento. For comparison purposes, LA is 4 degrees (~312mi) south of Sac.
So what you (and just about everyone else, myself included) REALLY need is a map and/or some signs, rather than some supposed "inherent sense of direction" that you seem to believe we possess. What you believe you know (travel northeast) contradicts what you actually know (follow I80 until it turns into I90). And while you could probably get there following road signs, you'd be wise to consult an atlas along the way, and there's no reason a robot should be handicapped when that information is available to every other driver as well. Sure, it should have general rules to guide itself when information is lacking, but that's not always feasible, as evidenced by Mr. Kim this past week.
They must use perceptive powers to avoid colliding with other drivers or running down pedestrians and following the rules of the road instead of range finders and lasers and GPS-based speed limit adherance and other such nonsense.
Baby steps. You don't learn to drive on the freeway, and neither should "autonomous" vehicles. By the way, it's not the vehicles which are learning here -- it's their designers. We don't really want vehicles to run over people in order to learn that it's wrong. Radar (which is an acronym of Range and Finder, by the way) is an effective "perceptive power" for machines. It's fast and accurate, and Lexus uses it for distance sensing cruise control in many of their models.
Also there's no hyphen between fore and knowledge. It's just one word.
Well informally, my 4 & 5 year olds always say "we've seen this before" about half the time when we watch some new movie. Whether they're just remembering an ad or what, I can't be sure, but false memories are absolutely not relegated to adulthood (in fact, they're more prominant in childhood IIRC). If false memories are one of the triggers for deja vu, then I'm guessing very young children experience it as well, although they lack the vocabulary to express it, and probably take it for granted since a large portion of their experiences are "new" anyway.
Right, I get that. They SEE what's on the paper. Do they SEE what's stored in the computer? Not unless the programmer (or presumably, hacker) wants them to. There's no way to verify whether the result produced on paper = the result stored. It's a red herring, a placebo, and it creates a false sense of security. The only way to be sure, as I said, would be to count the paper records in their entirety, and then what's the point of using a computer? It's just a high-tech typewriter at that point. Which is fine, I guess, but we need to stop trusting software when there will always been a weak point in the chain to exploit. Paper ballots and human counting isn't infalliable, but they're very very transparent, which is really more important. If computers printed out the votes, and then THOSE PRINTOUTS were counted, then fine. Anything else is a farce.
Hmm, that's weird. I use credit cards for almost all my transactions precicely because I can just call my bank and have the charges reversed if anything happens. You're not liable for fraudulent use of your card, and the definition of "fraud" encompasses almost anything dealing with a transaction. I do the same thing on PayPal (despite their ceaceless pleas to add my bank account information) because I'd much rather deal with my bank's dispute system (a 5 minute phone call) versus PayPal's "resolution" (aka your accounts are now frozen) system.
If you want me to say, "New standard?" text STKPD1.
If you want me to say, "Programmers use lights?" text STKPD2.
If you want me to say, "Linux developers subsequently start work on LINDOWS (Light is not a Darkness or Windows Simulator), then get sued for their choice of name," text STKPD3.
If you want me to say, "Ariba!" and dance around a sombrero, text STKPD4.
The same way the light gets out.
Squandered? SQUANDERED?!? My God, man, we have moving walkways in almost every airport in the country, and you've obviously forgotten entirely about a certain powdered substance when, which added to water, becomes a deliciously refreshing beverage. TANG!
I can't even imagine a life without sipping a nice cup of Tang while strolling down a moving walkway at the airport, but I guess some people are never satisfied.
Also, only regions receiving light can be seen, which explains why no recent pictures of Thailand are available
Oh thank God. I thought Thailand had finally had enough and just left.
When given an interesting problem in their domain, the lower ones will take almost forever to come up with a bad answer, and the top ones will give a great answer almost off the top of their heads.
Nice platitude. The reality is that complex problems take real work to solve, regardless of one's expertise. Of course you were sufficiently vague with "interesting problem" rather than "difficult problem" and "answer" rather than "solution" such that your phrase could be construed to mean just about anything, so you'd probably make a good lawyer as well.
Good points all, but no way in hell do we need to subsidize the elderly. People are already determined to get old -- the last thing we need to do is encourage it.
We don't hold anyone accountable for what they do here, not our politicians, not corporate CEOs, and definitely not morons who hurt themselves or break the law.
Hey, that's not our fault! It's just how we were raised...