Watch Instantly has progressively gotten better. You should check out the new Starz Play selection. There are some quality titles. I'm actually watching Natural Born Killers right now on my 32inch 720p, fullscreen is approximately the quality of a 1 gig XVID. Certainly not DVD quality... more like a VHS.
Now if only they'd add more Crime Documentaries... (COPS anyone?)
I've also heard rumors that NetFlix watch instantly is coming to XBOX 360... so the move to silverlight is less than suprising.
I don't think it is NetFlix's choice to adopt Silverlight. They released a press release to their Mac users before, stating that it is the movie companies (probably MPAA) stipulated which DRM they can use. But, true to their word, they finally are opening Watch Instantly to Mac users. Lets hope that the Linux port of Silverlight gets thrown in the mix too.
I know Microsoft products are unpopular, but sadly, the adage "No one ever got fired for buying (trusting) Microsoft" probably applies here.
Businesses for one. Have you tried using the customer support web-chat feature? The support personnel are often as useful as a pseudo-intelligent set of predefined responses.
From my limited understanding, the algorithm is a dedicated clustering algorithm (it actually incorporates k-means), but it also utilizes a graph-cut algorithm for segmentation.
you still need a weight function to determine how similar two vertices are. This is where domain knowledge comes into play. A clustering algorithm without a measure of similarity between points is useless.
Medical device companies and universities have been working on this problem for years. It just isn't ready for prime-time usage. People go to school for about a decade to become a pathologist, and replicating that kind of domain knowledge isn't an easy task.
If you are a non-programmer, I understand how it seems like a trivial task to identify abnormal cells in tissue. We can naturally recognize similar/dissimilar cells with our vision, but to do this with a computer requires some serious mathematics, namely using a clustering algorithm.
I am actually researching this problem next semester, particularly how well a certain clustering algorithm works when applied to the problem, so I guess thats where I am coming from.
From my smartphone experiences, there isn't even a decent web browser for the WinCE platform. Opera sucks slightly less than IE mobile. About half the websites I tried to use functioned correctly. Fahgeddabout it
If you own a truck and some basic tools, I'd recommend learning small engine repair. Fix lawnmowers, generators, scooters, etc. I'm sure you could find more than enough business if your rates are reasonable (I'd say $25 - $30/hr).
Ahh, the wisdom of Florida's courts. This is probably the most harmless white-collar crime ever, and yet the man gets 15 months in prison. No better way to turn an ordinary citizen into a hardened criminal. If it was jail, it would be a little more understandable, but since he is going to a Florida prison (among the worst in the country), may God have mercy on him. Minimum security prisons (if DOC is nice enough to send him to one) aren't a cake-walk either.
Seriously, fine the man, put him on probation with a suspended sentence before sending him to prison for an utterly victimless crime.
1. There are at least 3 ways of doing this, the old fashioned way, having PHP dynamically generate a (like the old fashioned way), or use DOM to append the script tag from within javascript. 2. Event.observe(window, 'load', function(event){ alert("your wish has been granted by prototype"); });
I don't think you have every seen a legit Catholic school uniform. Skirts are hemmed below the knees, usually with stockings. Girls and boys are traditionally separated, however I don't think this is the case in most modern Catholic schools. I think you are confusing catholic school uniforms with what you see in the media. The Catholic Church is sexually repressive, as a confirmed Catholic, I have been educated in the Church's stance regarding sexuality.
Again, I think the hot Catholic schoolgirl uniform is a misconception, given that the Catholic Church is very anti-premarital sex. You would get sent home if your uniform does not conform to regulations.
When the f*** is someone going to take the initiative, like Al Gore did in creating the internet, to reform the U.S. patent protocol. If it is an algorithm, that is a legitimate patent. There are certain classes of patents, especially technology ones referring to a design methodology, that should not be patented.
All this is going to do is provide ammunition for frivolous lawsuits, and there are plenty of those already with ambulance chasers. Its just a sickening waste of public funds.
There is a hell of a lot more stuff to know. In ancient Africa there were people who recorded the oral traditions of their culture with songs. That was there job. People still memorize the Quran, front-to-back, in fact it is all that is taught in some schools. A few people had the job of memorizing considerable amounts of information, while others toiled in the fields.
We are a hell of a lot more educated than any generation before us. It's common for people to spend 16-20 years in school. You'd be middle aged about 300 years ago by the time you were entering the work force.
I think that any college educated person has the same amount of information in their brain as someone who recored a hundred hours of oral history and song.
When I was 14-ish, I liked to futz-around rather than program seriously. If he is like me, and has a short attention span, buy him 3-4 books on programming, and point him to as many free source code websites as possible. Ebay has some cheap books I'm sure. Ideally, get him books on 2 different languages, and find ones that are moderately comprehensive.
The other 2 should be like coloring books for programmers, although I didn't understand nearly enough of the math at the time, DirectX in 24 hours was cool.
In a perfect world, yes. But the ideal picture of a programmer/math-dude isn't being at the end of a beer bong.
I think that once you are employed, it doesn't matter what you do on the weekends. But at a job interview, I'd rather not have someone know how I spend my Friday nights.
I disabled my facebook account a few months ago because it occurred to me that someone is probably harvesting all the data that they can find off that site. Being someone who parties (too much;-) ), I was constantly deleting tagged pictures of myself drinking off that website. I was damn glad that I did, because my BOSS at my uni went on looked at my facebook account before he hired me.
It would not suprise me if someone started offering money to purchase facebook accounts, just to harvest information, for say the price of $0.10 a friend w/ an account. I have a wild imagination, but with data mining being a really hot field, who knows what could be done with this information, it might even cost me a job in the future.
The future of privacy (or lack thereof), has me vigilant, even paranoid.
I was like 10 when that show came out, and I'm 22 now. I didn't give a shit about tits then dude, it was a good sci-fi show about battling demons and vampires, that mixed-in some good non-vampire story elements.
You really can't find too many shows where the title character isn't attractive. If the story was shit, no amount of T and A would have kept it going for like 7 seasons.
About the silver bullet, I didn't say we don't need it. I just said it was unlikely.
Re: Re: motorcycle parking, yea anything over 1000cc would be off-limits if I designed this project. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about the effects of subsidies;-)
Even the Oracle himself said you can't expect a 10% return on the S&P anymore... No one knows "at any point in time", but last summer, I'd say it was in oil futures. Ahhh... I remember wonderfully when I first heard "sub-prime lending", my fund plummeted, and I decided to bail and get a motorcycle. If only I had about a billion in investment capital instead of a couple thousand, then I'm sure my finance minions would have diversified me into some futures, and with even my grandma saying last winter "Gas prices are going to hit $4 a gallon this summer", I'd start pumping in even more money.
What people don't really want to hear right now, is that the gas prices aren't really due to a REAL shortage. Speculation and inflation are the real reason.
Nah.... Pickens is already set for life, I doubt he is looking to financially profit from this campaign. He is a respected philanthropist, but he is old, and I think he is just throwing his money around trying to secure his legacy, much like Rockafeller did at the end of his life, and like Gore did at the end of his political career.
We all know a silver-bullet is unlikely for the energy "crisis". It is a looming inevitability, but media scare-mongering has the average american thinking that something has to be done NOW (but how many are willing to trade those SUVs?). Changing the world takes time...
The best short-term solution is government regulation of automobiles, through taxation and incentives. Offer an incentive to drive ULEVs, put additional sales tax on anything that averages less than 22 mpg on the highway. Offering subsidized motorcycle/SmartCar parking in urban centers would be a wise incentive as well.
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while it is an interesting article, I fail to see how your post is relevant to my post and TFA... am I missing something?
Watch Instantly has progressively gotten better. You should check out the new Starz Play selection. There are some quality titles. I'm actually watching Natural Born Killers right now on my 32inch 720p, fullscreen is approximately the quality of a 1 gig XVID. Certainly not DVD quality... more like a VHS.
Now if only they'd add more Crime Documentaries... (COPS anyone?)
I've also heard rumors that NetFlix watch instantly is coming to XBOX 360... so the move to silverlight is less than suprising.
I don't think it is NetFlix's choice to adopt Silverlight. They released a press release to their Mac users before, stating that it is the movie companies (probably MPAA) stipulated which DRM they can use. But, true to their word, they finally are opening Watch Instantly to Mac users. Lets hope that the Linux port of Silverlight gets thrown in the mix too.
I know Microsoft products are unpopular, but sadly, the adage "No one ever got fired for buying (trusting) Microsoft" probably applies here.
Businesses for one. Have you tried using the customer support web-chat feature? The support personnel are often as useful as a pseudo-intelligent set of predefined responses.
From my limited understanding, the algorithm is a dedicated clustering algorithm (it actually incorporates k-means), but it also utilizes a graph-cut algorithm for segmentation.
you still need a weight function to determine how similar two vertices are. This is where domain knowledge comes into play. A clustering algorithm without a measure of similarity between points is useless.
In all seriousness, how else do you assign a weight between two vertices without domain knowledge?
Medical device companies and universities have been working on this problem for years. It just isn't ready for prime-time usage. People go to school for about a decade to become a pathologist, and replicating that kind of domain knowledge isn't an easy task.
If you are a non-programmer, I understand how it seems like a trivial task to identify abnormal cells in tissue. We can naturally recognize similar/dissimilar cells with our vision, but to do this with a computer requires some serious mathematics, namely using a clustering algorithm.
I am actually researching this problem next semester, particularly how well a certain clustering algorithm works when applied to the problem, so I guess thats where I am coming from.
From my smartphone experiences, there isn't even a decent web browser for the WinCE platform. Opera sucks slightly less than IE mobile. About half the websites I tried to use functioned correctly. Fahgeddabout it
If you own a truck and some basic tools, I'd recommend learning small engine repair. Fix lawnmowers, generators, scooters, etc. I'm sure you could find more than enough business if your rates are reasonable (I'd say $25 - $30/hr).
Ahh, the wisdom of Florida's courts. This is probably the most harmless white-collar crime ever, and yet the man gets 15 months in prison. No better way to turn an ordinary citizen into a hardened criminal. If it was jail, it would be a little more understandable, but since he is going to a Florida prison (among the worst in the country), may God have mercy on him. Minimum security prisons (if DOC is nice enough to send him to one) aren't a cake-walk either.
Seriously, fine the man, put him on probation with a suspended sentence before sending him to prison for an utterly victimless crime.
1. There are at least 3 ways of doing this, the old fashioned way, having PHP dynamically generate a (like the old fashioned way), or use DOM to append the script tag from within javascript.
2. Event.observe(window, 'load', function(event){ alert("your wish has been granted by prototype"); });
I'm sure it's common practice, I was just trying to defend my religion from someone who called it "sick".
I don't think you have every seen a legit Catholic school uniform. Skirts are hemmed below the knees, usually with stockings. Girls and boys are traditionally separated, however I don't think this is the case in most modern Catholic schools. I think you are confusing catholic school uniforms with what you see in the media. The Catholic Church is sexually repressive, as a confirmed Catholic, I have been educated in the Church's stance regarding sexuality.
Again, I think the hot Catholic schoolgirl uniform is a misconception, given that the Catholic Church is very anti-premarital sex. You would get sent home if your uniform does not conform to regulations.
When the f*** is someone going to take the initiative, like Al Gore did in creating the internet, to reform the U.S. patent protocol. If it is an algorithm, that is a legitimate patent. There are certain classes of patents, especially technology ones referring to a design methodology, that should not be patented.
All this is going to do is provide ammunition for frivolous lawsuits, and there are plenty of those already with ambulance chasers. Its just a sickening waste of public funds.
There is a hell of a lot more stuff to know. In ancient Africa there were people who recorded the oral traditions of their culture with songs. That was there job. People still memorize the Quran, front-to-back, in fact it is all that is taught in some schools. A few people had the job of memorizing considerable amounts of information, while others toiled in the fields.
We are a hell of a lot more educated than any generation before us. It's common for people to spend 16-20 years in school. You'd be middle aged about 300 years ago by the time you were entering the work force.
I think that any college educated person has the same amount of information in their brain as someone who recored a hundred hours of oral history and song.
When I was 14-ish, I liked to futz-around rather than program seriously. If he is like me, and has a short attention span, buy him 3-4 books on programming, and point him to as many free source code websites as possible. Ebay has some cheap books I'm sure. Ideally, get him books on 2 different languages, and find ones that are moderately comprehensive.
The other 2 should be like coloring books for programmers, although I didn't understand nearly enough of the math at the time, DirectX in 24 hours was cool.
And suddenly from behind me,
this guy stood up and said
"Ehhh... hold my Leine"
And said "Doncha know,
that's a rocket ya know"
FYI: Brett Favre doesn't throw bad passes, its just his arthritis.
In a perfect world, yes. But the ideal picture of a programmer/math-dude isn't being at the end of a beer bong.
I think that once you are employed, it doesn't matter what you do on the weekends. But at a job interview, I'd rather not have someone know how I spend my Friday nights.
I disabled my facebook account a few months ago because it occurred to me that someone is probably harvesting all the data that they can find off that site. Being someone who parties (too much ;-) ), I was constantly deleting tagged pictures of myself drinking off that website. I was damn glad that I did, because my BOSS at my uni went on looked at my facebook account before he hired me.
It would not suprise me if someone started offering money to purchase facebook accounts, just to harvest information, for say the price of $0.10 a friend w/ an account. I have a wild imagination, but with data mining being a really hot field, who knows what could be done with this information, it might even cost me a job in the future.
The future of privacy (or lack thereof), has me vigilant, even paranoid.
I was like 10 when that show came out, and I'm 22 now. I didn't give a shit about tits then dude, it was a good sci-fi show about battling demons and vampires, that mixed-in some good non-vampire story elements.
You really can't find too many shows where the title character isn't attractive. If the story was shit, no amount of T and A would have kept it going for like 7 seasons.
About the silver bullet, I didn't say we don't need it. I just said it was unlikely.
Re: Re: motorcycle parking, yea anything over 1000cc would be off-limits if I designed this project. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about the effects of subsidies ;-)
Even the Oracle himself said you can't expect a 10% return on the S&P anymore... No one knows "at any point in time", but last summer, I'd say it was in oil futures. Ahhh... I remember wonderfully when I first heard "sub-prime lending", my fund plummeted, and I decided to bail and get a motorcycle. If only I had about a billion in investment capital instead of a couple thousand, then I'm sure my finance minions would have diversified me into some futures, and with even my grandma saying last winter "Gas prices are going to hit $4 a gallon this summer", I'd start pumping in even more money.
What people don't really want to hear right now, is that the gas prices aren't really due to a REAL shortage. Speculation and inflation are the real reason.
He is already a rich hedge-fund manager. He wants recognition for philanthropy, not money.
Nah.... Pickens is already set for life, I doubt he is looking to financially profit from this campaign. He is a respected philanthropist, but he is old, and I think he is just throwing his money around trying to secure his legacy, much like Rockafeller did at the end of his life, and like Gore did at the end of his political career.
We all know a silver-bullet is unlikely for the energy "crisis". It is a looming inevitability, but media scare-mongering has the average american thinking that something has to be done NOW (but how many are willing to trade those SUVs?). Changing the world takes time...
The best short-term solution is government regulation of automobiles, through taxation and incentives. Offer an incentive to drive ULEVs, put additional sales tax on anything that averages less than 22 mpg on the highway. Offering subsidized motorcycle/SmartCar parking in urban centers would be a wise incentive as well.