It involves three real-time steps: taking images of a subject with 48 cameras, transmitting the images over a network, and implanting them in a virtual world.
OK, so when does it get real enough for porn? That is, after all, the goal to which all web technology aspires!
Even today, scholars seem not to notice the relevance of these facts.
Because today, the 60's culture of experimentation (in expansion of rights, in lifestyles, and, yes, in chemical ingestion) is decried as nothing but selfish hedonism without actually examining that it might have also been the roots of a culture that allowed technical advances to expand and flourish. Of course, in this dangerous world, we could never let anything like that happen again!
He was the co-inventor (with Kent Beck) of the "CRC Card" method used in object oriented analysis and design. He is also one of the "Three Extremos" (the others were Beck and Ron Jefferies) who were early promoters of XP and agile methods in general.
The entire execution of this confict has been nothing short of a total cluster fsck. From the minute we started "planning", but ignoring the manpower needed to secure the nation, its weapons, or its people; to the time we ignored the pleas of the Iraqi people to give them jobs, while handing them over to firms like Haliburton; to today when we have heard that we can't find a couple of hundred of thousand *tons* of high explosives; this administration has shown its incompetence.
And who takes the responsibility? No one. Not the C-in-C, not the Secretary of Defense, not the Director of National Security. No, the responsibility always ends up somewhere south of the White House.
Harry Truman had a plaque on his desk saying, "The buck stops here." Now we have a President that (supposedly) has good intentions but takes no responsibility for seeing them carried out properly, nor does he deal with the people who made the bad execution decisions in the first place. This, of ocurse is in line with his past performace in other executive endeavors. In fact, someone who should make him a plaque saying, "Get that buck away from me!" I hope that people who vote for this clown like sending people to die for the fsck-ups of this incompetent administration because that is *precisely* what's happening.
So when do the poor and oppressed of the thrid world nations start offering their spare kidneys, lungs and children to the wealthy elite?
They already do - the children at least.
For those of you who are unaware enough to write something like this, thinking you're making a joke, thousands of third world children are sold into the sex trade each day. Southeast Asia is the capital of a booming sex trade that is funded by vistors from the first world (as well as by their own populace). Given the HIV rates, it is, quite literally, a death sentence for the child. So it goes...
Allawi and his speech-writers write in Arabic for an Iraqi audience. Of course he is going to get help on a speech delivered in English for an American audience.
Yes! Because when the Chinese Prime Minister speaks before Congress, he writes in Mandarin for a Chinese audience and, of course, he gets help from the President's speechwriters. Same with The German and French Prime Ministers, too (except for the language and naionality of the audience).
People who put forth this argument are being extremely patronizing to Iraqis because they're effective;y saying, "God knows there's not a single Godforsaken heathen in that country who knows English well enough to help her Prime Minister write a proper speech to our Congress."
This kind of statement is not one that raises confidence that our country is truly interested in letting the Iraqis gain sovreignity.
Even if Iraq were completely independent, it would make sense, IMHO, to run it by the presidential writers to make sure it has the right style, etc.
Certainly! Because every time the Chinese Prime Minister speaks before Congress, he vets it with the Presidential re-election campaign. And every time the German Prime Minister speaks to Congress...
Knowing that he took the time to vet his speech with the President's re-election campaign gives me a lot more confidence in him as a "world class" independent leader.
That's right. HMO's and shoe store chains run iSeries. Financial guys with the bucks are hardcore zSeries men (though they may keep a couple of iSeries hanging about to talk with the ATMs).
About 35 to 50 points of IQ, as far as I can tell.
Yeah, I'm prejudiced. I'll vote for the smarter guy every time. Smart presidents just seem to do better than stupid ones - regardless of the party. That being said, D's are usually smarter than R's (less likely to be susceptible to weird religious beliefs, looking toward the future rather than sticking in the past, etc.). Heck, all-in-all, I had a grudging admiration for Bush Sr. because he was a somewhat worldly, relatively smart guy - even if it was in a weird sort of "Tri-lateral Commission, Let's control the world" sort of way. But his son? Dumber than a box a hammers and what a sorry job he's done. Stupid, stupid, stupid...
No. They use slander, innuendo, and selective reporting only. It's much harder to get caught when you don't leave a paper trail. Besides, genius boy, until someone who's actually credible (i.e., not the Republican usual suspects) tells me they're forged, why the hell should I believe a bunch of Fox news watching mouth breathers telling me they are?
Wouldn't that be about the same if Jerry Springer decided to anchor the news?
You might want to look into Springer's history. Even though his current show is schlock (and even he admits it has no value other than some rather dubious entertainment), he has the training and background, if he ever chooses so, to go back to being a fairly good journalist (or politician, for that matter).
There are two steps to an operation like these, speech to text, and understanding the text you get out. Speech recognition gives you the first part, but you still have to be able to pull apart the sentence and figure out what it means.
In fact, converting the speech to text and then trying to analyze the text without sound-level annotations might give bad results, as tonal or emotional content would be lost. You need both simultaneously to really understand what's being said.
... which of the other three candidates would you recommend voting for and why?
Do you feel more comfortable with the social restrictions that the R's are trying to impose or with the tax increases and regulatory restrictions that the D's are imposing (I assume that both are equally bad in their support for the police neo-state)? Or do you think that any 3'rd party support is good so you'd endorse Nader?
Some global warming models predict more and bigger hurricanes...Nah, it's just God sendin' Jeb a message about tryin' to swing the Florida vote. That boy gonna get a lightin' bolt up his anus if he don't stop dickin' aroun'...
Personally I am of the opinion that they are rabid dogs...not only do rabid dogs bite, but they spread disease, and they all need to be killed.
Your view underlines the reason why we will never win a war on terror. Understand that terrorism is, first and foremost, a political act using theological and moral stances only to gain support among the unwashed masses. The people planning these acts are no more rabid than we would be if we saw our country attacked and our views marginalized. The veil of civility anf fair play that shields us internally from this sort of chaos is paper thin and has been maintained because of our relative affluence. By giving in to an irrational and emotional analysis of the problem, choosing to see people only as "rabid dogs", you have insured that you will never deal witht he political issues that bring them into being and will never be able to solve the problem.
Professional and Union do not belong in the same sentence.
In most cases (and in the sense you speak) neither does Professional and IT or Programming or even Engineering. Get it through your heads that the only professional trades are the ones that actually have liability for their mistakes (beyond the amazing invisible hand of the marketplace) - think Physician, Lawyer, Accountant (and I'd disagree with Physician in HMO, Lawyer in large law firm, and Accountant in Big 5 firm at that) - and you'll understand why Union does go together with occupations like IT and Programming (and Engineering in most cases).
And outsourcing labor is not only equivalent to a tech advance -- it actually is one.
The development and dissemination of the communications system that allowed the outsourcing to take place is the technical advance. Outsourcing is simply a consequence of that advance, not an advance in itself. The technology of call centers has not advanced. The processes and procedures of those enterprises did not change. If this is a technical advance, I could say moving a factory down the block is one too, since that is, effectively, all that is happening.
That difference MUST (mathematically) result in either lower prices or higher profits. So dollar wise... it transfers wealth to the consumers and companies at the expense of the workers.
Not necessarily. The profits can sit for years as untaxed and unused wealth before they are redistributed through the market. How much good does money invested in bonds or held in cash reserves do for the economy? Yes, I know that it helps keep interest rates down, but that only encourages the working class to go into debt, transferring even more money to the rentier class. All I see right now is a shell game set up to give the working class and the third world trinkets while concentrating wealth long term in the hands of a few. Neo-feudalism, here we come!
when you encourage ignorant, apathetic people to vote...
... with any luck they will become less apathetic about voting and, therefore, less ignorant. That's the hope, at least. I would assume that those who stay apathetic following registration would still not vote and not sway the outcome. Those who were not apathetic after registration would also do what they could to educate themselves so that their vote would be better informed. Those who were moved to vote, but so apathetic as to keep themselves ignorant would probably be in the minority.
I still withhold judgement because (a) it's not clear to me that he was isolationist enough to the rest of the world (other than WRT Commies, of course:-), and (b) it might not have been "him", because I'm not sure that he was all there when he was there, if ya know what I mean...
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OK, so when does it get real enough for porn? That is, after all, the goal to which all web technology aspires!
Because today, the 60's culture of experimentation (in expansion of rights, in lifestyles, and, yes, in chemical ingestion) is decried as nothing but selfish hedonism without actually examining that it might have also been the roots of a culture that allowed technical advances to expand and flourish. Of course, in this dangerous world, we could never let anything like that happen again!
He was the co-inventor (with Kent Beck) of the "CRC Card" method used in object oriented analysis and design. He is also one of the "Three Extremos" (the others were Beck and Ron Jefferies) who were early promoters of XP and agile methods in general.
Plus, he's an all around nice guy.
I don't know! Is George Bush proud to have the endorsement of the Iranian mullahs?
Ultimately, yes you can.
The entire execution of this confict has been nothing short of a total cluster fsck. From the minute we started "planning", but ignoring the manpower needed to secure the nation, its weapons, or its people; to the time we ignored the pleas of the Iraqi people to give them jobs, while handing them over to firms like Haliburton; to today when we have heard that we can't find a couple of hundred of thousand *tons* of high explosives; this administration has shown its incompetence.
And who takes the responsibility? No one. Not the C-in-C, not the Secretary of Defense, not the Director of National Security. No, the responsibility always ends up somewhere south of the White House.
Harry Truman had a plaque on his desk saying, "The buck stops here." Now we have a President that (supposedly) has good intentions but takes no responsibility for seeing them carried out properly, nor does he deal with the people who made the bad execution decisions in the first place. This, of ocurse is in line with his past performace in other executive endeavors. In fact, someone who should make him a plaque saying, "Get that buck away from me!" I hope that people who vote for this clown like sending people to die for the fsck-ups of this incompetent administration because that is *precisely* what's happening.
I seriously doubt his opponent could do worse.
They already do - the children at least.
For those of you who are unaware enough to write something like this, thinking you're making a joke, thousands of third world children are sold into the sex trade each day. Southeast Asia is the capital of a booming sex trade that is funded by vistors from the first world (as well as by their own populace). Given the HIV rates, it is, quite literally, a death sentence for the child. So it goes...
Yes! Because when the Chinese Prime Minister speaks before Congress, he writes in Mandarin for a Chinese audience and, of course, he gets help from the President's speechwriters. Same with The German and French Prime Ministers, too (except for the language and naionality of the audience).
People who put forth this argument are being extremely patronizing to Iraqis because they're effective;y saying, "God knows there's not a single Godforsaken heathen in that country who knows English well enough to help her Prime Minister write a proper speech to our Congress."
This kind of statement is not one that raises confidence that our country is truly interested in letting the Iraqis gain sovreignity.
Certainly! Because every time the Chinese Prime Minister speaks before Congress, he vets it with the Presidential re-election campaign. And every time the German Prime Minister speaks to Congress...
Knowing that he took the time to vet his speech with the President's re-election campaign gives me a lot more confidence in him as a "world class" independent leader.
That's right. HMO's and shoe store chains run iSeries. Financial guys with the bucks are hardcore zSeries men (though they may keep a couple of iSeries hanging about to talk with the ATMs).
... is either "The Spaceballs Christmas Special" or the Broadway production.
Yeah, I'm prejudiced. I'll vote for the smarter guy every time. Smart presidents just seem to do better than stupid ones - regardless of the party. That being said, D's are usually smarter than R's (less likely to be susceptible to weird religious beliefs, looking toward the future rather than sticking in the past, etc.). Heck, all-in-all, I had a grudging admiration for Bush Sr. because he was a somewhat worldly, relatively smart guy - even if it was in a weird sort of "Tri-lateral Commission, Let's control the world" sort of way. But his son? Dumber than a box a hammers and what a sorry job he's done. Stupid, stupid, stupid...
That's why I'm voting Kerry.
No. They use slander, innuendo, and selective reporting only. It's much harder to get caught when you don't leave a paper trail. Besides, genius boy, until someone who's actually credible (i.e., not the Republican usual suspects) tells me they're forged, why the hell should I believe a bunch of Fox news watching mouth breathers telling me they are?
You might want to look into Springer's history. Even though his current show is schlock (and even he admits it has no value other than some rather dubious entertainment), he has the training and background, if he ever chooses so, to go back to being a fairly good journalist (or politician, for that matter).
Not for this guy.
Where's Bill Gates when we need him for a tester?
In fact, converting the speech to text and then trying to analyze the text without sound-level annotations might give bad results, as tonal or emotional content would be lost. You need both simultaneously to really understand what's being said.
Do you feel more comfortable with the social restrictions that the R's are trying to impose or with the tax increases and regulatory restrictions that the D's are imposing (I assume that both are equally bad in their support for the police neo-state)? Or do you think that any 3'rd party support is good so you'd endorse Nader?
Well, we already know that this is true of the far right...
Some global warming models predict more and bigger hurricanes...Nah, it's just God sendin' Jeb a message about tryin' to swing the Florida vote. That boy gonna get a lightin' bolt up his anus if he don't stop dickin' aroun'...
Amen...
Your view underlines the reason why we will never win a war on terror. Understand that terrorism is, first and foremost, a political act using theological and moral stances only to gain support among the unwashed masses. The people planning these acts are no more rabid than we would be if we saw our country attacked and our views marginalized. The veil of civility anf fair play that shields us internally from this sort of chaos is paper thin and has been maintained because of our relative affluence. By giving in to an irrational and emotional analysis of the problem, choosing to see people only as "rabid dogs", you have insured that you will never deal witht he political issues that bring them into being and will never be able to solve the problem.
In most cases (and in the sense you speak) neither does Professional and IT or Programming or even Engineering. Get it through your heads that the only professional trades are the ones that actually have liability for their mistakes (beyond the amazing invisible hand of the marketplace) - think Physician, Lawyer, Accountant (and I'd disagree with Physician in HMO, Lawyer in large law firm, and Accountant in Big 5 firm at that) - and you'll understand why Union does go together with occupations like IT and Programming (and Engineering in most cases).
The development and dissemination of the communications system that allowed the outsourcing to take place is the technical advance. Outsourcing is simply a consequence of that advance, not an advance in itself. The technology of call centers has not advanced. The processes and procedures of those enterprises did not change. If this is a technical advance, I could say moving a factory down the block is one too, since that is, effectively, all that is happening.
Not necessarily. The profits can sit for years as untaxed and unused wealth before they are redistributed through the market. How much good does money invested in bonds or held in cash reserves do for the economy? Yes, I know that it helps keep interest rates down, but that only encourages the working class to go into debt, transferring even more money to the rentier class. All I see right now is a shell game set up to give the working class and the third world trinkets while concentrating wealth long term in the hands of a few. Neo-feudalism, here we come!
... with any luck they will become less apathetic about voting and, therefore, less ignorant. That's the hope, at least. I would assume that those who stay apathetic following registration would still not vote and not sway the outcome. Those who were not apathetic after registration would also do what they could to educate themselves so that their vote would be better informed. Those who were moved to vote, but so apathetic as to keep themselves ignorant would probably be in the minority.
I still withhold judgement because (a) it's not clear to me that he was isolationist enough to the rest of the world (other than WRT Commies, of course :-), and (b) it might not have been "him", because I'm not sure that he was all there when he was there, if ya know what I mean...