Ok, many of you seem to not understand me. I have a teacher, and he is not going away any time soon, nor am I looking to replace him. I am not looking to escape practicing a lot, either. I just wanted to know if there was other software out there to help you make even more out of your regular practice.
Heh. I am not looking to avoid practice, as some of the posters might think. I know the violin requires a lot of practice. I am just wondering if there is any particular software you have found useful in the long, hard road to mastering your chosen instrument, and wether you've felt like you've made more progress with it or not.
But I am quite clear on the "requiring practice" bit, since I also play the guitar and the piano.
The minutia used by AFIS and most other fingerprint sistems is just a list of points in the loops, whorls, and other curves in your fingerprint. I've seen systems using 34 and 64 such points.
The way fingerprint authentication works is that the image from your fingerprint is analyzed, and the minutia points are extracted and compared to the stored minutia, and a match score is assigned to this comparison. If the score surpasses a certain threshold, then the match is deemed as positive.
More points and higher match scores (or percentages) are used the more secure you want your auth system to be, but depending on the quality of the fingerprints (people with cuts on their fingertips, scrapes and whatnot) raising the threshold and the amount of minutia points will become a liability, requiring you to try many times, or giving false negatives.
For the usual tin-foil slashdot crowd, no this is not an image of your fingerprint, and faking a fingerprint based on a bunch of minutia points is really hard. Current fingerprint readers are not easy to dupe (like the big bricks used by the INS in some airports). So, settle down kids.
MARLA: You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me your sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole! Is that a pretty accurate description of our relationship, Tyler?
Firefox downloads an.exe file, but when I double-click on it I get nothing. If I try to run it from the command line I get the following error: "cannot execute binary file". This happens on a Fedora Core 2 box. What's wrong?
Yes. Anything with Linux on it is better. It will also cure cancer, end world hunger, bring world peace, create new jobs that will not be outsourced to India, fight terrorism, and release Half-Life 2 before schedule...
Yay for Loonix. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Still, OpenBSD is waaaaay more secure than most (if not all) Linux distros. Why don't we use it instead?
Remember the 640Kb barrier? As soon as it was broken, we found ways to use the larger amounts of memory available to us. Same thing happens to bandwidth.
Remember people used think twice before downloading a small sound clip on a 28.8 modem, but think nothing of torrenting a movie on a 768 Kbps DSL link.
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We, IT workers, have an attitude problem. Most people have not studied anything IT related. They are _not_supposed_ to know anything about _OUR_ job. The users you support are probably doctors, nurses, brewers, cooks, accountants, etc., who want a _TOOL_ that just works. They don't want to learn anything about something that is not central to their occupations, because they don't have the time or interest to do so. Deal with it, it's your job. Is it right that people don't care what's inside the magic box? I will ask you wether you know enough about your own body to operate on yourself or on someone else. Do you know how to operate a nuclear power plant? Do you play baseball like a pro? Can you cook a delicious (by _my_ standards) meal in under 30 minutes? Do you know how to make a movie? Can you repair an outboard boat engine? Do you know how to clean and zero a rifle? Have you manufactured your very own VLSI silicon? Have you brewed you very own dark ale? Built an X-Prize winning spaceship? Can you build a stealth plane? Do you race cars? Have you found the cure for cancer? As you can probably see, you are not required to know all of this stuff. Nobody is required to. And there's lots of other stuff that it's okay to be ignorant about. Yet, we, IT workers, think we know everything, and everybody else is an idiot. I wonder how we got so arrogant. I'd like to see you mechanic call you a dumbass next time you drag your car to the shop (OMFG!!! that idiot can't fix a simple automatic transmission!!!!). It's only fair.
I've been using Fedora Core 2 since Test 1, and I have been upgrading via yum, and as of now, I'm using my Radeon 9600 with X.org and the stock Fedora kernel with no problems. I have not tried anything that uses OpenGL.
Congratulations! You have now started the Editor Holy Wars thread! I will now reply with a "omfg u f4g 3m4c5 1s t3h r0x0r5!!1!"... Keep it coming, guys!!!!
At the office we're using a lot of.NET right now (most of the guys are using VB.NET, which I hate, but I'm going off on a tangent here...). We have a lot of old code and libs using C/C++, so I usually create wrappers using Managed C++. Interop is kinda weird (I don't think I really understand Interop), but the classes I create using Managed C++ usually work just fine. From what you're trying to do, I guess you are using Mono (am I right?). Isn't there some sort of Managed C++ for Mono? You might find it easier to write a wrapper over libkabc using C++ and exposing it as a.NET class for your C# code.
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I read the title as NASA Scientists Simulate BackHoe Collision...
Hoek on phoniks woerk for me!
Ok, many of you seem to not understand me. I have a teacher, and he is not going away any time soon, nor am I looking to replace him.
I am not looking to escape practicing a lot, either. I just wanted to know if there was other software out there to help you make even more out of your regular practice.
Heh. I am not looking to avoid practice, as some of the posters might think. I know the violin requires a lot of practice. I am just wondering if there is any particular software you have found useful in the long, hard road to mastering your chosen instrument, and wether you've felt like you've made more progress with it or not.
But I am quite clear on the "requiring practice" bit, since I also play the guitar and the piano.
The minutia used by AFIS and most other fingerprint sistems is just a list of points in the loops, whorls, and other curves in your fingerprint. I've seen systems using 34 and 64 such points.
The way fingerprint authentication works is that the image from your fingerprint is analyzed, and the minutia points are extracted and compared to the stored minutia, and a match score is assigned to this comparison. If the score surpasses a certain threshold, then the match is deemed as positive.
More points and higher match scores (or percentages) are used the more secure you want your auth system to be, but depending on the quality of the fingerprints (people with cuts on their fingertips, scrapes and whatnot) raising the threshold and the amount of minutia points will become a liability, requiring you to try many times, or giving false negatives.
For the usual tin-foil slashdot crowd, no this is not an image of your fingerprint, and faking a fingerprint based on a bunch of minutia points is really hard. Current fingerprint readers are not easy to dupe (like the big bricks used by the INS in some airports). So, settle down kids.
Yeah, cool, well, actually getting any sort of input to the brain seems to be a big part of, if not THE actual problem.
Jeez.
why this announcement would come out on Yahoo! Finance
Are these those famous Olestra chips everybody talks about?
*Waves hand* This is not the grave you're looking for.
MARLA: You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me your sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole! Is that a pretty accurate description of our relationship, Tyler?
JACK (V.O.): We've just lost cabin pressure.
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
In other news, Colin Powell resigned today. White House sources say he spent all his time talking about a "Gold edition" and a "steam cache".
Firefox downloads an .exe file, but when I double-click on it I get nothing. If I try to run it from the command line I get the following error: "cannot execute binary file".
This happens on a Fedora Core 2 box. What's wrong?
Yes. Anything with Linux on it is better. It will also cure cancer, end world hunger, bring world peace, create new jobs that will not be outsourced to India, fight terrorism, and release Half-Life 2 before schedule...
Yay for Loonix. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Still, OpenBSD is waaaaay more secure than most (if not all) Linux distros. Why don't we use it instead?
How much data can a person consume?
As much data as can be provided.
Remember the 640Kb barrier? As soon as it was broken, we found ways to use the larger amounts of memory available to us. Same thing happens to bandwidth.
Remember people used think twice before downloading a small sound clip on a 28.8 modem, but think nothing of torrenting a movie on a 768 Kbps DSL link.
We, IT workers, have an attitude problem.
Most people have not studied anything IT related. They are _not_supposed_ to know anything about _OUR_ job.
The users you support are probably doctors, nurses, brewers, cooks, accountants, etc., who want a _TOOL_ that just works. They don't want to learn anything about something that is not central to their occupations, because they don't have the time or interest to do so. Deal with it, it's your job.
Is it right that people don't care what's inside the magic box? I will ask you wether you know enough about your own body to operate on yourself or on someone else. Do you know how to operate a nuclear power plant? Do you play baseball like a pro? Can you cook a delicious (by _my_ standards) meal in under 30 minutes? Do you know how to make a movie? Can you repair an outboard boat engine? Do you know how to clean and zero a rifle? Have you manufactured your very own VLSI silicon? Have you brewed you very own dark ale? Built an X-Prize winning spaceship? Can you build a stealth plane? Do you race cars? Have you found the cure for cancer?
As you can probably see, you are not required to know all of this stuff. Nobody is required to. And there's lots of other stuff that it's okay to be ignorant about.
Yet, we, IT workers, think we know everything, and everybody else is an idiot. I wonder how we got so arrogant. I'd like to see you mechanic call you a dumbass next time you drag your car to the shop (OMFG!!! that idiot can't fix a simple automatic transmission!!!!). It's only fair.
OMFG... What /. really needs is a "-2, Weird"
as Seagate rolls out 400 gangsta drives?
I wonder where that came from...
Ghost in the Shell: Thermoptic camo.
Just kidding. How do they come up with this stuff?
Are they going to start building fuchikomas (tachikomas?) next?
I've been using Fedora Core 2 since Test 1, and I have been upgrading via yum, and as of now, I'm using my Radeon 9600 with X.org and the stock Fedora kernel with no problems. I have not tried anything that uses OpenGL.
This is Uni... oh, wait... nevermind...
Hey, I took the time to learn vi and it's still ugly... Emacs, OTOH...
Sorry, but I forgot to mention where the original post was...
It's here.
Check the post near the middle of the comments by jbardhan:
...but why would somebody have moved >100k shares yesterday afternoon around 4pm? Check here. That's way out of line with their typical volume...
Beautiful.
Congratulations! You have now started the Editor Holy Wars thread! I will now reply with a "omfg u f4g 3m4c5 1s t3h r0x0r5!!1!"...
Keep it coming, guys!!!!
At the office we're using a lot of .NET right now (most of the guys are using VB.NET, which I hate, but I'm going off on a tangent here...). We have a lot of old code and libs using C/C++, so I usually create wrappers using Managed C++. Interop is kinda weird (I don't think I really understand Interop), but the classes I create using Managed C++ usually work just fine. .NET class for your C# code.
From what you're trying to do, I guess you are using Mono (am I right?). Isn't there some sort of Managed C++ for Mono? You might find it easier to write a wrapper over libkabc using C++ and exposing it as a