Yeah, then what? That would be like a cop falsely identifying a person and stopping, questioning or even arresting them. Happens constantly. A friend of my father had an "identity twin", who had the same name, last reported place of residence was in the same street, was born in the same town, just his birth year had the numbers switched. The twin was a wanted criminal, and whenever sombody checked his ID, esp. abroad, the officials would at least take a long look at him.
Immagine many thousands of shops checking dozens of faces a minute (or more) against millions of faces in the database. Even if that could be done, you would have to forget about a human cross-checking all matches.
Anyway, just using credit-card information or even the shops "club-card" is much more economical.
Plus the software doesn't get tired and loses concentration, needs no breaks, and doesn't glue its eyes on the busty blonde instead of the guy with the mask.
"...a guard at the top of the castle gates spots something in the distance, just beyond the walls. What could it be? Its...GPL'ed source code for a giant wooden penguin! Imediatly, guards from different corridors of the castle rush to percieve what appeared to be a gift from the gods. All at once, they hoisted the behemoth bird onto a make shift wagon and hauled it within the castle. Being paranoid bastards, many of the open source inspired defenders of the castle take a look at the source code, but others, not so patient, want to see that big wooden penguin, and just compile away. Later on that night, the wooden bird's bottom opened, releasing thousands upon thousands of Bill Gates' shock troops, sent to terrorize the castle and townspeople."
Our source in Paramount told us that the time traveling baddies backing the Sulibans are fascist Terrans from the alternative mirror universe, trying to alter history so that the Earth follows a more aggressive path which will leave it in control of the galaxy in the mirror universe, rather than at the mercy of The Dominion, Cardassians, Borg, Klingons, Romulans etc.
So their main goal is to change the federation in "our"/the ST universe to be different (like theirs, to be precise) to the one that made Kirk the man who "fucked up" their Spock, which lead to the downfall of the alternative Federation.
Let's just hope we don't end up with a case of "I got a speeding ticket a few years back, and they won't let me into Tesco because I'm a known criminal.
Well, you may not be allowed to vote in presidential elections in states like Florida.
First, ATOMIK has higher movement efficiency for stylus typing than any other existing touch keyboards. This was achieved by a Metropolis optimization algorithm in which the keyboard was treated as a "molecule" and each key as an "atom". The "atomic" interactions among all of the keys drove the movement efficiency - defined by the summation of all Fitts's law movement times between every pair of keys,
weighted by the statistical frequency of the corresponding pair of letters in English - towards the minimum.
Well, then why didn't they sell a single one of them? Maybe bacause it would have cost a couple of thousand dollars? That's the problem with everything PARC did, if they sold it at all, it cost an arm and a leg.
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Well, there is the XBox (with or without bundled games or HW, nobody knows) for $299 SRP. But you can't pre-order that, you have to buy one of the super-dooper-bundles for something between $499 and $1200 (thats four times what the console costs) - and it looks like the customer can't even decide which one he is offered.
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Yeah, go get your gun and defend yourself, while I go fetch some popcorn.
Yeah, then what? That would be like a cop falsely identifying a person and stopping, questioning or even arresting them. Happens constantly. A friend of my father had an "identity twin", who had the same name, last reported place of residence was in the same street, was born in the same town, just his birth year had the numbers switched. The twin was a wanted criminal, and whenever sombody checked his ID, esp. abroad, the officials would at least take a long look at him.
Immagine many thousands of shops checking dozens of faces a minute (or more) against millions of faces in the database. Even if that could be done, you would have to forget about a human cross-checking all matches.
Anyway, just using credit-card information or even the shops "club-card" is much more economical.
Plus the software doesn't get tired and loses concentration, needs no breaks, and doesn't glue its eyes on the busty blonde instead of the guy with the mask.
"...a guard at the top of the castle gates spots something in the distance, just beyond the walls. What could it be? Its...GPL'ed source code for a giant wooden penguin! Imediatly, guards from different corridors of the castle rush to percieve what appeared to be a gift from the gods. All at once, they hoisted the behemoth bird onto a make shift wagon and hauled it within the castle. Being paranoid bastards, many of the open source inspired defenders of the castle take a look at the source code, but others, not so patient, want to see that big wooden penguin, and just compile away. Later on that night, the wooden bird's bottom opened, releasing thousands upon thousands of Bill Gates' shock troops, sent to terrorize the castle and townspeople."
Yeah, sure, so what do you call those people who say that there can't be any Viruses for Linux? Target group.
All nice and stuff, but the Itanic is still just a hot dog. Maybe McKinley will be more usefull (for more than just a handfull of applications).
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/9419/1.ht ml (in german).
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of posts looking for a Shakespearean version of DeCSS.
You'd have a point if video editing and 3D rendering were in the same niche and Apple had much of a share in 3D rendering.
There's also a SuSE PPC distro.
If you say "our stores" to them, they'll declare you a unionist/communist and call the cops.
The actual reason why this is unfair is because they only find those who got cought shoplifting, not those who are good at it.
First they came for the shoplifter. Because I was afraid they could one day come for me, I shot the cops.
Hell, why do people mind being watched by cameras, but not by other humans? Are they afraid it will steal their soul?
"Anakin and Silent Jar Jar Strike Back"
Well, then why didn't they sell a single one of them? Maybe bacause it would have cost a couple of thousand dollars? That's the problem with everything PARC did, if they sold it at all, it cost an arm and a leg.
Well, there is the XBox (with or without bundled games or HW, nobody knows) for $299 SRP. But you can't pre-order that, you have to buy one of the super-dooper-bundles for something between $499 and $1200 (thats four times what the console costs) - and it looks like the customer can't even decide which one he is offered.
... or a month earlier, depending on how the bug (that isn't one, really) pans out.