Modify that. _Technically_ it works. When there was an old white-haired, white Republican talking about how Obama reflects the best historic values of the Republican party (WTF for an opening night rouser?), there was sound. Went away for a few minutes and there is a young black guy on the screen and CNN notes "no sound". Okie-Dokie.
Thinking maybe just as well it isn't convenient to watch this sausage being made.
Sheesh, we even had a story about McCain's tech platform (once he finally formulated one).
It specifically says that he believes in protecting children from porn and the RIAA's War on Sharing, but NOT 'prescriptive' legislation like Net Neutrality.
OK. Same as Biden then. At least we don't have a choice.
Obviously controversial, but I agree in the main. The judge clearly _does_ understand one thing about the internet that distinguishes it from other media.
Knows about as much about the internets as McCain.
And a Democrat. If oil and gas lobbyists love Republicans, Hollywood seems to love Democrats. Imperfect correlation, but what real-world correlation isn't?
Hard rain coming with a Congress and Executive branch who have no respect for citizen rights. There really was a reason this stuff got put in the constitution in the first place. Reagan administration, wasn't it, when "Civics" was demoted in the secondary curriculum?
Didn't even put in the air conditioner this summer, but I haven't seen winters in the upper Midwest _anything_ like my childhood. '68-'69 the cumulative blizzards were so bad we got out of the house through the front door because we couldn't push the back screen door leading to the garage open, the snow plow backed up a hill a block and took four runs at our block to get through, the resulting "canal" was something you dropped down four-five feet into to walk downtown, it's sort of interesting to drive when you are in a sunken grid and can't see around corners, and they called off school so many times they told the country kids to find somebody to live with in the city because they weren't going to call off school any more. I have a picture of my high school girlfriend on a memorable snow drift out of town that is about 2-1/2 times her height. You have to understand that North Dakota highways have really wide and deep ditches. That snow bank is actually on a ditch deeper than a car. Love to show you the picture on my DSL vanity server, but, you know....
Three or four years ago, my cat chased a fly around outside in Minneapolis in February. Now _that_ is freakish.
People who dissect cats don't keep pets?
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Sometimes comes up in relation to cats. Never had a cat that didn't recognmize itself in the mirror. Routinely I can make eye contact with a cat in the mirror and it will turn toward the real me. Unravel the ramifications for a systems analysis of the AI.
But we had generally adopted adults. When we got kittens a few years ago, they didn't seem to recognize themselves in a mirror for many weeks. Which makes me wonder whether psychologists have often made the mistake of dismissing developmental psychology in other species. Perhaps thinking that kittens are more "pure" subjects?
Lesser mammels are pretty amazing too. Try to figure out what is going on when a squirrel or chipmunk runs a cat in circles around a tree. Risk-taking play behavior is an "interesting" way to ensure survival of the fittest.
Figures that the more alien the species, the harder to connect. Octopi would be an extreme example. If the estimates that they are as smart as dogs is true, it puts calamari in a different light. I'm good on the judgment that earthworms don't have the brain structures for consciousness, but we are only beginning to explore consciousness in humans much less the comparative physiology.
Or just run XP on top of linux with the free/built-in qemu or kvm. Not exactly a gamer's option but it runs Photoshop and Illustrator fine. Would prefer testing Flash movies was faster on the higher end but it's usable. Plays YouTube streams smoothly on my bottom-of-the-line 4200+ X2 as an example on the lower end. Works particularly conveniently camped out in it's own panel running in a 1280x1024 window on my wife's 20" wide.
Yeah. Daikon in my case. Isn't that just an indication these people _won't_ be retrained as rocket scientists? I hate auto-check-outs and never use them. More work for me, I assume more profit for the supermarket instead of lower prices, and I get to pay for somebody's unemployment/retraining. And, to be honest, you go back to the same place every week, there is the sociological angle as some of them become "familiar strangers". Why do I want to crap on them?
Nonetheless, "reprogramable" object recognition simple enough for a supermarket manager to use is a good hack.
one in three or four would be really high in my experience.
Of course, of course, any proprietary monopoly would have issues, but the truth is that I'm happier with Flash as the ubiquitous video presenter than I was back in the day of.wmv everywhere.
I've got one that relates to the RIAA. I had my storage locker broken into with literally _every_ box (a lot -- think Rubik's Cube with U Haul boxes) opened and ransacked in '06**, but since I could not think of even ONE THING in the whole mess that was _missing_, the police couldn't think of what crime to pursue. So when a file is copied, what is _missing_?
** an entirely different discussion in paranoia in the year of our Lord Dubya, but I digress
he was told he couldn't even photograph the lobby of a Hyatt Hotel."
SciFi convention last month. Had a guy who shoots extras for DVDs like actor interviews talking about small time film making. I think it is widely known that the rights to every street scene in Manhattan are reserved but he told the story of shooting an actor interview in London and getting a release from the hotel to allow the _suite_ as a background. It isn't just people you have to get releases from and it can be crazy. If Budweiser doesn't approve of your movie, that Bud sign in a bar scene could be a bitch to reshoot around.
There is nothing power hates and fears more than being held up to ridicule. Fortunately, those who wield it almost always act in ways that hold them up to even more ridicule.
Think you are right. Been running Lenny for the duration a little modified with a couple things pinned. Testing an Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit on another drive. Leaning this week toward wiping the Ubuntu. Ubuntu is pretty but they seem to break as much as they add. Accommodate a nit here and there like the article _very_ nicely details and Debian is just the more stable foundational code.
Porn, you set up a kiddie porn front and nab the downloaders. Sit back for easy fishing. How do you effectively set up a site that says, "Over here, I'm a rube. Phish me! Fleece me! Pwn me!"
Pretty sad "test". But if the average person has gotten 6-7 correct over about a decade and half of sampling, it's probably an embarrassingly accurate indicator of the problem.
Shouldn't a 9th grader ace those questions? If you aren't supposed to get out of school until you are at least 16, a lot of time is being wasted with little effect.
But what about an analogy from amateur radio? Used to be if an "Elmer" (mentor), gave you his 20-year old transmitter, you were grateful. I think it's been decades since the American Radio Reley League warned about that. If it isn't half-new, nobody wants it now, will use it, or will benefit from the learning experience.
I've looked at some of the charity sites and it seems a 1 ghz PIII is the least most want. I upgraded a K6-III 400 mhz machine I have sitting around (admittedly with 1/2 a gig of ram) from Xubuntu GG to HH this weekend. Booting is slow. Won't deny it. Program loading is slow. Won't deny it. But you are talking about an up-to-date OS that has the programs for everything most people would want and actual program execution speed is usable. The only thing it won't do is play videos decently with a X2 16 meg AGP card. Actually, it'll play a YouTube video without skipping or stuttering. It'll just play it at 1 fps. To me, someone with no computer at all in Chad, should be happy to have one that good.
All those yellow lines that magically appear and disappear on the football fields?
All those "billboards" that are not really there on the stadium wall?
EXACTLY. This is late breaking news on the way-back machine circa, what, 1975?
I used to watch the Olympics back in the 60s when it was LIVE. Sure, there was a lot of time with the announcers picking their noses and spending five minutes running through the life history of the next guy up on the slalom. Sure it was off prime-time one way or the other. But, dammit, it was LIVE. When it became an edited and packaged product, I totally lost interest. And that was like decades ago.
Maybe if I cared enough to set myself up for live sat feed today?
Kids didn't have credit cards when I was in high school but every lock in our school except the outside doors (which we could sometimes tape or the like) and the principal's office were simple spring locks. Take seconds to open any of them with a piece of plastic. We got so fluid at it we were observed once from a distance and just lied, "Hey, what do you mean? It was unlocked. We were just snooping around." and he didn't push it. Did stupid stuff like swapping teachers' home room desks on different floors or laying out chairs in the auditorium to spell out expletives. A separate group we taught unfortunately got into more hardcore vandalism.
All well and good, it really is, but a full 9 stones is a little gimmicky. It's a little like leaving a chess master his right half and saying, "Lots of luck".
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Modify that. _Technically_ it works. When there was an old white-haired, white Republican talking about how Obama reflects the best historic values of the Republican party (WTF for an opening night rouser?), there was sound. Went away for a few minutes and there is a young black guy on the screen and CNN notes "no sound". Okie-Dokie.
Thinking maybe just as well it isn't convenient to watch this sausage being made.
Feeding Lenny mplayer the URL works. With sound, for better or worse.
Sheesh, we even had a story about McCain's tech platform (once he finally formulated one).
It specifically says that he believes in protecting children from porn and the RIAA's War on Sharing, but NOT 'prescriptive' legislation like Net Neutrality.
OK. Same as Biden then. At least we don't have a choice.
Obviously controversial, but I agree in the main. The judge clearly _does_ understand one thing about the internet that distinguishes it from other media.
Do they mean to say that a fire can cause a building to collapse?
Name another steel skyscraper fire where the building collapsed.
There was certainly smoke coming out of the towers where the planes hit. I don't remember a lot of smoke around WTC7.
Knows about as much about the internets as McCain.
And a Democrat. If oil and gas lobbyists love Republicans, Hollywood seems to love Democrats. Imperfect correlation, but what real-world correlation isn't?
You think?
Hard rain coming with a Congress and Executive branch who have no respect for citizen rights. There really was a reason this stuff got put in the constitution in the first place. Reagan administration, wasn't it, when "Civics" was demoted in the secondary curriculum?
Didn't even put in the air conditioner this summer, but I haven't seen winters in the upper Midwest _anything_ like my childhood. '68-'69 the cumulative blizzards were so bad we got out of the house through the front door because we couldn't push the back screen door leading to the garage open, the snow plow backed up a hill a block and took four runs at our block to get through, the resulting "canal" was something you dropped down four-five feet into to walk downtown, it's sort of interesting to drive when you are in a sunken grid and can't see around corners, and they called off school so many times they told the country kids to find somebody to live with in the city because they weren't going to call off school any more. I have a picture of my high school girlfriend on a memorable snow drift out of town that is about 2-1/2 times her height. You have to understand that North Dakota highways have really wide and deep ditches. That snow bank is actually on a ditch deeper than a car. Love to show you the picture on my DSL vanity server, but, you know....
Three or four years ago, my cat chased a fly around outside in Minneapolis in February. Now _that_ is freakish.
Sometimes comes up in relation to cats. Never had a cat that didn't recognmize itself in the mirror. Routinely I can make eye contact with a cat in the mirror and it will turn toward the real me. Unravel the ramifications for a systems analysis of the AI.
But we had generally adopted adults. When we got kittens a few years ago, they didn't seem to recognize themselves in a mirror for many weeks. Which makes me wonder whether psychologists have often made the mistake of dismissing developmental psychology in other species. Perhaps thinking that kittens are more "pure" subjects?
Lesser mammels are pretty amazing too. Try to figure out what is going on when a squirrel or chipmunk runs a cat in circles around a tree. Risk-taking play behavior is an "interesting" way to ensure survival of the fittest.
Figures that the more alien the species, the harder to connect. Octopi would be an extreme example. If the estimates that they are as smart as dogs is true, it puts calamari in a different light. I'm good on the judgment that earthworms don't have the brain structures for consciousness, but we are only beginning to explore consciousness in humans much less the comparative physiology.
Or just run XP on top of linux with the free/built-in qemu or kvm. Not exactly a gamer's option but it runs Photoshop and Illustrator fine. Would prefer testing Flash movies was faster on the higher end but it's usable. Plays YouTube streams smoothly on my bottom-of-the-line 4200+ X2 as an example on the lower end. Works particularly conveniently camped out in it's own panel running in a 1280x1024 window on my wife's 20" wide.
Yeah. Daikon in my case. Isn't that just an indication these people _won't_ be retrained as rocket scientists? I hate auto-check-outs and never use them. More work for me, I assume more profit for the supermarket instead of lower prices, and I get to pay for somebody's unemployment/retraining. And, to be honest, you go back to the same place every week, there is the sociological angle as some of them become "familiar strangers". Why do I want to crap on them?
Nonetheless, "reprogramable" object recognition simple enough for a supermarket manager to use is a good hack.
one in three or four would be really high in my experience.
Of course, of course, any proprietary monopoly would have issues, but the truth is that I'm happier with Flash as the ubiquitous video presenter than I was back in the day of .wmv everywhere.
Baby steps.
I've got one that relates to the RIAA. I had my storage locker broken into with literally _every_ box (a lot -- think Rubik's Cube with U Haul boxes) opened and ransacked in '06**, but since I could not think of even ONE THING in the whole mess that was _missing_, the police couldn't think of what crime to pursue. So when a file is copied, what is _missing_?
** an entirely different discussion in paranoia in the year of our Lord Dubya, but I digress
My last install (MythDora 4) was basically a pigeon pecking "yes" at the prompts for all hardware and drivers.
Then there are the dozens of configuration screens but we're not talking about those, right?
Nonetheless, it's all the PVR we want and we're happy with it.
he was told he couldn't even photograph the lobby of a Hyatt Hotel."
SciFi convention last month. Had a guy who shoots extras for DVDs like actor interviews talking about small time film making. I think it is widely known that the rights to every street scene in Manhattan are reserved but he told the story of shooting an actor interview in London and getting a release from the hotel to allow the _suite_ as a background. It isn't just people you have to get releases from and it can be crazy. If Budweiser doesn't approve of your movie, that Bud sign in a bar scene could be a bitch to reshoot around.
There is nothing power hates and fears more than being held up to ridicule. Fortunately, those who wield it almost always act in ways that hold them up to even more ridicule.
Think you are right. Been running Lenny for the duration a little modified with a couple things pinned. Testing an Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit on another drive. Leaning this week toward wiping the Ubuntu. Ubuntu is pretty but they seem to break as much as they add. Accommodate a nit here and there like the article _very_ nicely details and Debian is just the more stable foundational code.
Porn, you set up a kiddie porn front and nab the downloaders. Sit back for easy fishing. How do you effectively set up a site that says, "Over here, I'm a rube. Phish me! Fleece me! Pwn me!"
Pretty sad "test". But if the average person has gotten 6-7 correct over about a decade and half of sampling, it's probably an embarrassingly accurate indicator of the problem.
Shouldn't a 9th grader ace those questions? If you aren't supposed to get out of school until you are at least 16, a lot of time is being wasted with little effect.
Junked toxic waste? Right. Bad.
But what about an analogy from amateur radio? Used to be if an "Elmer" (mentor), gave you his 20-year old transmitter, you were grateful. I think it's been decades since the American Radio Reley League warned about that. If it isn't half-new, nobody wants it now, will use it, or will benefit from the learning experience.
I've looked at some of the charity sites and it seems a 1 ghz PIII is the least most want. I upgraded a K6-III 400 mhz machine I have sitting around (admittedly with 1/2 a gig of ram) from Xubuntu GG to HH this weekend. Booting is slow. Won't deny it. Program loading is slow. Won't deny it. But you are talking about an up-to-date OS that has the programs for everything most people would want and actual program execution speed is usable. The only thing it won't do is play videos decently with a X2 16 meg AGP card. Actually, it'll play a YouTube video without skipping or stuttering. It'll just play it at 1 fps. To me, someone with no computer at all in Chad, should be happy to have one that good.
All those yellow lines that magically appear and disappear on the football fields?
All those "billboards" that are not really there on the stadium wall?
EXACTLY. This is late breaking news on the way-back machine circa, what, 1975?
I used to watch the Olympics back in the 60s when it was LIVE. Sure, there was a lot of time with the announcers picking their noses and spending five minutes running through the life history of the next guy up on the slalom. Sure it was off prime-time one way or the other. But, dammit, it was LIVE. When it became an edited and packaged product, I totally lost interest. And that was like decades ago.
Maybe if I cared enough to set myself up for live sat feed today?
Kids didn't have credit cards when I was in high school but every lock in our school except the outside doors (which we could sometimes tape or the like) and the principal's office were simple spring locks. Take seconds to open any of them with a piece of plastic. We got so fluid at it we were observed once from a distance and just lied, "Hey, what do you mean? It was unlocked. We were just snooping around." and he didn't push it. Did stupid stuff like swapping teachers' home room desks on different floors or laying out chairs in the auditorium to spell out expletives. A separate group we taught unfortunately got into more hardcore vandalism.
assuming a linear relationship.
All well and good, it really is, but a full 9 stones is a little gimmicky. It's a little like leaving a chess master his right half and saying, "Lots of luck".
But what about all the _other_ great things about Vista? Like......ummm, you know.
Can Diebold give us our constitution back or raise the dead?