No, because in a dark room, you are manipulating light, using light-sensitive chemicals on special paper. the resolution is incredibly higher.
With a digital image, it's a representation, in pixels, of the light captured by the ccd. so, the quality of the image is limited by the resolution of the ccd.
even if it's a scan of the picture, once again, the resolution is limited, so "dodge and burn" amounts to sifting for evidence with a backhoe.
What's most likely to happen is yes, a World Gov't will take power, probably soon, and probably dominated by US influence. Not because the US has the biggest guns, not because George W is the most eloquent, but because for a small minority the American Dream is still alive and kicking and it's not being humped in Las Vegas. It's humping, all over the TV and radio, and it's humping it's way onto the net. Good/bad don't really apply, it's just the almost innevitable by-product of all that commercial mass.
But, in my view, human society works in waves. kind of like a sine wave (or cosine, depending on your POV) fluctuating from equal extremes. So what will happen is, we will get our glorious World Government, and it will be good. There will be much rejoicing, until things start to go to buggery, and due to numerous factors that baffle even sociologists, we will end up in another Dark Ages, or maybe Grey. But there will be a Grand Unification, until all the Great Unified start to remember how much they hate each other, and they fragment back into smaller Special Interest Tribes. Think Roman Empire on a global scale.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty
and when I'm not.
The problem here in Canada is not with "canadian big business" because in the sense that every-one understands that term, big-biz comes from the US. Yes, there are a few "big-ego" businesses such as Rogers, Bell Globalmedia, and Canwest Global (Nortel doesn't qualify anymore), but Roger's is subsidized by M$ (you know it's true) and Bell and Canwest are at least partly foreign owned (I'm not 100% sure about this...) and are just outlets for the Big 4 Networks of the US. Even Molson Canadian isn't (I AM CANADIAN, one of the greatest lies of our times). One of my old man's favorite beefs is the progressive Americanization of our country. Our curency is all but pegged to the US $, and 79% of our trade is with the south. And 80% of that? Auto parts from GM, Daimler Crysler and Ford to be assembled up here.
The point about fragmentation is well founded as well; I live on the West Coast, and my general feeling is that I'm still living in the HBC NorthWest territories. "Canada" is really the old Upper and Lower Canada (above and below the Ottawa river.) Just take a look at the last fed. elections. Quebec and Ontario decide the elections, the other provinces and territories don't even swing the vote.
The point of this rant; Canadian national identity is rapidly being blured by a new ideology. Product theory is the socio-political system of our generation, whereby corps compete for the mindshare of the population in order to squeze the most out of your disposable income. Gov't just sits at the top and makes sure they get first crack at the pot. It's more than capitalism, since natural monopolies are favoured.
A true sign of US dominance over Canada. My Dell Canada PC corrects me when I type "colour", "grey" and "metre". On a whole, we just don't give a rat's ass. I don't think we ever did. Up until after the 2nd War we just did what Britain advised, then until the Commonwealth began to disintigrate we followed that (still the Crown), now Uncle Sam lets us play with a few of his old, obsolete rockets whenever we let him take our lunch money and brand new toys.
I'm thinking of moving to Taiwan. I just wonder if they have good high-speed internet?
Cynical; damn right! I'm Irish!
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty
and when I'm not.
My program included a Software Engineering option stressing OO software design, and the whole course was based on Java. There were a lot of grumblings from the peanut gallery when introductory java concepts were reviewed, since most of us had been working on Java from the very begining. Problem was, when i started, I arrived right in the middle of the transition between Java and C++ in the Intro to OOP, and had a hell of a time learning the concepts, *and* a whole new language (and Java was h0t sh1t at the time).
However, in the OO S.Eng course, the first thing we learned was UML, and IMHO, that is the best way to learn OOP, then apply your abstractions and inheritance to whatever language you want.
Of course, different people have different learning styles. Myself, it took me 6 months to figure out that in Japanese -te form verbs are equivalent to -ing verbs in English. Once I had something for the new concepts to relate to, I was happily a-conjugatin'! Too bad there's nothing like that for kanji, or I'd be able to *read* most of my tankoubon...
And I leave you with some words of wisdom from L. Flon quoted in the "Cow" book
There is no prgramming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from writing bad programs.
I rest my case.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty
and when I'm not.
The only way that MS would be able to "force" providers to use IIS would be to make IIS the only server able to deliver IE readable content. Read: MSHTML. They tried this and failed miserably. I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
I used to get into arguments with self-professed experts about this all the time, and seeing as i've read the biography of the man that put the whole project together, almost singlehandedly, i was inclined to believe i had my facts straight.
I haven't read the book for a long time, but A Man Called Intrepid is what it is, written by William Stevenson, about Sir William Stevenson, the master spy code-named Intrepid. Stevenson was a canadian, and served as Churchill's liason to the US during the US's neutrality and helped Bill Donovon, Roosevelt's main inteligence man, create the OSS (precursor to the CIA). Stevenson was behind everything the british did in the Secret War, trained all the spies, helped design most of their equipment. From Russia With Love actually gives some really good examples of this gear, and guess where Ian Flemming got all his inspiration? He was one of Intrepid's men.
But, back to the Enigma. The British built Collosus, the 1st computer (yes, it predates ENIAC) at Bletchley to crack the Enigma, but very few people know that in august, 1939 an Enigma was smuggled out of Poland. The Czechs attacked a convoy that was being escorted by Heydrich. Intrepid had his agents blow up a typewriter and scatter the parts so the germans thought that the machine was destroyed. The allies paid dearly for that however, since Heydrich went on a killing spree untill he was assasinated by Intrepid's ppl.
All transmissions that were intercepted by the Bletchly people were codename ULTRA. One of these ULTRA interceptions allowed the British to organize the evacuation at Dunkirk. Tonnes of equipment was lost on the beaches, but without that pre-warning, there's no way the British could have mobilized enough transport to get those men out. As it was, only the rear guard that were swarmed by the Germans were captured.
Through ULTRA, the US knew about the planned attack on Pearl Harbour. This is a sorely contentious issue, and many contend that the Japanese attacked sooner than expected. However, the official reasons for tho coverup were to not reveal the source (PURPLE was the code that the Japanese used, basically similare to ENIGMA), and to serve as a match to stir the US to war.
So, there you are, the real history of the ENIGMA. They remained secret until 1972, 10 years after the defection of Philby, a top BSC exec, and a deeply planted Russian spy. Philby was, ironically, in charge of anti-Soviet operations. A naval Enigma was found as well. A U-boat got torpedoed, and the crew thought it was sinking, and the crew hopped ship, figuring it went down. but the british (or americans, don't remember which) got a crew of 3 on, found it wasn't sinking that fast, so they sent a prize crew on and got the Enigma, charts etc, while the German crew were shipped off to a POW camp. I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
You're an idiot and a bigot hiding under the guise of an elightened speaker. It's not a cultural thing. I love hipocrites, really, I do. I'd just like to point out that The Republic of China (Taiwan)was originally a dictatorship founded by fleeing Nationalists, ruled by a despot. Taiwan became a democracy under Chiang Kai Chek's son (don't remember his name) and "at the request" of the US. Taiwan's democracy was little more than lip service to gain a powerful ally against The People's Republic of China. Now, haiving had a taste of freedom, the Taiwanese are unlikely to give it up without a fight, but the average PRC citizen is not likely to want to give up their gov't. Why? Read Plato's The Cave. I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
It will be interesting to see which sites were "tested" and exactly what problems occured...
Yeah, no kidding. Another post says the whole study being bogus, but I wouldn't go that far. It does sound a little hastily done tho... I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
I'd say most of the problems these sites are having are because the owners simply weren't prepared for the onslaught of the buying season.
The surveyors particularly said that Amazon had a good business model that should be emulated. Now, while this is likely to flood the courts with more patent disputes, this just means that Amazon has more experience with the heavy customer load of Christmas
"The answer is it may not be better to go to the Web . . . yet." The yet is the important part. E-commerce is still new, and the bugs are being worked out. I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
Without getting into the argument of what the skull is, seeing as I really have no basis to state either way, I just want to comment on your statement;
And if they did (have DNA), why would it be compatible with human DNA?
I have to question this argument because our knowledge of DNA is sketchy at best. Yes, we know how it works, and what it does, but the Human Genome Project still hasn't documented *everything*. I may be talking out of my ass, (genetics isn't one of my strong suits) and I'm not saying that Grey/Human DNA mixes are posible, but I'm not willing to dismiss the posibility outright.
That's just me tho... I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
I think the main reaction to Gov't regs is that regulation is a catch-all solution that tends to be heavy handed. That's where the meat-industry analogy falls apart.
by comparing to the meat-industry, you assume that you are dealing with a certain demographic; meat-producers. But the net's so diverse. You have college students, kids playing games, minority groups sharing resources. when my grandfather had ALS, the net was one of the ways that he stayed in touch w/ the world, and other ppl w/ als. So, a solution that works for one group is most-likely out of touch w/ another group.
I'm sure we all remember the imfamous Comm. Decency Act. On the cover, it sounds reasonable; get rid of the smut that pervades the net. The problem was, a) it amounted to censorship, contradicting one of gov't's other "regulations", and b) it went too far. Breast cancer discussions, homo-sexual group forums. All of this would have been banned, because it contained "sexual content".
Westerners have a funny habit of condemning countries like Russia and China for "infringing on basic rights", and yet, they'll allow their own government to do so, in the name of "protecting democracy". Don't think that/.'ers are anarchists and want to "overthrow" the establishment. Bah. Some other fool'd just dupe everyone and start all over again. Rather, these "watchdogs" are just trying to make sure that our democracy doesn't just happen once every four years.
Still pretty fly for a GwaiJai. I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
STring Manipulation is built into PERL, not so with C. I haven't done a lot of development with C++, but as I understand it, it's al *extension* of C, so... I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
The bug is worth a billion dollars. You know why? Because Toshiba said so. I trust their opinion more than yours. That's an abrupt turnaround... I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
it still happened, and eco-systems have adapted over the last 70 years without them. Bah, stupid humans go messing with this kinda shight all the time.
How does this apply to monitoring private property tho'? Of course you could be using this as some sleazy spy thing, but what if you suspect someone's routinely going into your office/house/whatever, and you want proof?
You catch them on video, but they get off, cuz they didn't know they were being taped?
Public stock *can* be voting stock. There are two types of stock; Common Shares, and Prefered shares. Prefered shares are paid before Common shares, and the ammount of return is known in advance. Prefered shareholders also get first crack at the assets if the firm is dissolved, or goes belly up. But, prefered stock gives no voting rights. So, prefered stock is safe, but the value is fixed, and you have no say.
Common stock is the stuff that fluctuates on the market. Without having read the whole document (too boring) I'd say that RH is issueing common stock, and the present owners are using their pre-emptive rights to maintain a controlling interest.
Heh. My guess is that one of them picked up on it first, and the other jumped on the bandwagon. Rather than squabble about it, they've decided it's mutually beneficial to "team up".
I think he means that the nonsense will be used to abuse. We all pretty much agree that the study is hokey, but what will be the implications of the results?
What about having built-in support for all the distributions? If it's a small issue, it shouldn't be that dificult. If it's a big issue, why don't they show a little respect to their target audience; open-source it!
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The Quake executable is closed, but the gamex86.dll is open so people can make mods.
Valve did the same. I don't know about Unreal (gave up after oggling the scenery).
I'm mostly new to Linux, so I don't know what diferences there are between distributions, but it would seem to me (knowing a few details about OSes in general) that the file system is the same for all Linux distros, since that's a part of the kernel, right?
So, it sounds, to me, that RH is trying to; what's that word again? oh yeah, monopolize, Linux.
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With a digital image, it's a representation, in pixels, of the light captured by the ccd. so, the quality of the image is limited by the resolution of the ccd.
even if it's a scan of the picture, once again, the resolution is limited, so "dodge and burn" amounts to sifting for evidence with a backhoe.
But, in my view, human society works in waves. kind of like a sine wave (or cosine, depending on your POV) fluctuating from equal extremes. So what will happen is, we will get our glorious World Government, and it will be good. There will be much rejoicing, until things start to go to buggery, and due to numerous factors that baffle even sociologists, we will end up in another Dark Ages, or maybe Grey. But there will be a Grand Unification, until all the Great Unified start to remember how much they hate each other, and they fragment back into smaller Special Interest Tribes. Think Roman Empire on a global scale.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
The point about fragmentation is well founded as well; I live on the West Coast, and my general feeling is that I'm still living in the HBC NorthWest territories. "Canada" is really the old Upper and Lower Canada (above and below the Ottawa river.) Just take a look at the last fed. elections. Quebec and Ontario decide the elections, the other provinces and territories don't even swing the vote.
The point of this rant; Canadian national identity is rapidly being blured by a new ideology. Product theory is the socio-political system of our generation, whereby corps compete for the mindshare of the population in order to squeze the most out of your disposable income. Gov't just sits at the top and makes sure they get first crack at the pot. It's more than capitalism, since natural monopolies are favoured.
A true sign of US dominance over Canada. My Dell Canada PC corrects me when I type "colour", "grey" and "metre". On a whole, we just don't give a rat's ass. I don't think we ever did. Up until after the 2nd War we just did what Britain advised, then until the Commonwealth began to disintigrate we followed that (still the Crown), now Uncle Sam lets us play with a few of his old, obsolete rockets whenever we let him take our lunch money and brand new toys.
I'm thinking of moving to Taiwan. I just wonder if they have good high-speed internet?
Cynical; damn right! I'm Irish!
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
However, in the OO S.Eng course, the first thing we learned was UML, and IMHO, that is the best way to learn OOP, then apply your abstractions and inheritance to whatever language you want.
Of course, different people have different learning styles. Myself, it took me 6 months to figure out that in Japanese -te form verbs are equivalent to -ing verbs in English. Once I had something for the new concepts to relate to, I was happily a-conjugatin'! Too bad there's nothing like that for kanji, or I'd be able to *read* most of my tankoubon...
And I leave you with some words of wisdom from L. Flon quoted in the "Cow" book
I rest my case.I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
...about this whole project, but i just realized that they have litterally millions of these in Asia. Japan, Taipei.
Props for the tetris part. gotta admit that's cool.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
The only way that MS would be able to "force" providers to use IIS would be to make IIS the only server able to deliver IE readable content. Read: MSHTML. They tried this and failed miserably.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
I used to get into arguments with self-professed experts about this all the time, and seeing as i've read the biography of the man that put the whole project together, almost singlehandedly, i was inclined to believe i had my facts straight.
I haven't read the book for a long time, but A Man Called Intrepid is what it is, written by William Stevenson, about Sir William Stevenson, the master spy code-named Intrepid. Stevenson was a canadian, and served as Churchill's liason to the US during the US's neutrality and helped Bill Donovon, Roosevelt's main inteligence man, create the OSS (precursor to the CIA). Stevenson was behind everything the british did in the Secret War, trained all the spies, helped design most of their equipment. From Russia With Love actually gives some really good examples of this gear, and guess where Ian Flemming got all his inspiration? He was one of Intrepid's men.
But, back to the Enigma. The British built Collosus, the 1st computer (yes, it predates ENIAC) at Bletchley to crack the Enigma, but very few people know that in august, 1939 an Enigma was smuggled out of Poland. The Czechs attacked a convoy that was being escorted by Heydrich. Intrepid had his agents blow up a typewriter and scatter the parts so the germans thought that the machine was destroyed. The allies paid dearly for that however, since Heydrich went on a killing spree untill he was assasinated by Intrepid's ppl.
All transmissions that were intercepted by the Bletchly people were codename ULTRA. One of these ULTRA interceptions allowed the British to organize the evacuation at Dunkirk. Tonnes of equipment was lost on the beaches, but without that pre-warning, there's no way the British could have mobilized enough transport to get those men out. As it was, only the rear guard that were swarmed by the Germans were captured.
Through ULTRA, the US knew about the planned attack on Pearl Harbour. This is a sorely contentious issue, and many contend that the Japanese attacked sooner than expected. However, the official reasons for tho coverup were to not reveal the source (PURPLE was the code that the Japanese used, basically similare to ENIGMA), and to serve as a match to stir the US to war.
So, there you are, the real history of the ENIGMA. They remained secret until 1972, 10 years after the defection of Philby, a top BSC exec, and a deeply planted Russian spy. Philby was, ironically, in charge of anti-Soviet operations.
A naval Enigma was found as well. A U-boat got torpedoed, and the crew thought it was sinking, and the crew hopped ship, figuring it went down. but the british (or americans, don't remember which) got a crew of 3 on, found it wasn't sinking that fast, so they sent a prize crew on and got the Enigma, charts etc, while the German crew were shipped off to a POW camp.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
You're an idiot and a bigot hiding under the guise of an elightened speaker. It's not a cultural thing.
I love hipocrites, really, I do.
I'd just like to point out that The Republic of China (Taiwan)was originally a dictatorship founded by fleeing Nationalists, ruled by a despot. Taiwan became a democracy under Chiang Kai Chek's son (don't remember his name) and "at the request" of the US. Taiwan's democracy was little more than lip service to gain a powerful ally against The People's Republic of China. Now, haiving had a taste of freedom, the Taiwanese are unlikely to give it up without a fight, but the average PRC citizen is not likely to want to give up their gov't. Why? Read Plato's The Cave.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
that's probably the cause of most of the delays; lousy stock DBs...
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
It will be interesting to see which sites were "tested" and exactly what problems occured...
Yeah, no kidding. Another post says the whole study being bogus, but I wouldn't go that far. It does sound a little hastily done tho...
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
I'd say most of the problems these sites are having are because the owners simply weren't prepared for the onslaught of the buying season.
The surveyors particularly said that Amazon had a good business model that should be emulated. Now, while this is likely to flood the courts with more patent disputes, this just means that Amazon has more experience with the heavy customer load of Christmas
"The answer is it may not be better to go to the Web . . . yet."
The yet is the important part. E-commerce is still new, and the bugs are being worked out.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
Without getting into the argument of what the skull is, seeing as I really have no basis to state either way, I just want to comment on your statement;
And if they did (have DNA), why would it be compatible with human DNA?
I have to question this argument because our knowledge of DNA is sketchy at best. Yes, we know how it works, and what it does, but the Human Genome Project still hasn't documented *everything*. I may be talking out of my ass, (genetics isn't one of my strong suits) and I'm not saying that Grey/Human DNA mixes are posible, but I'm not willing to dismiss the posibility outright.
That's just me tho...
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
I think the main reaction to Gov't regs is that regulation is a catch-all solution that tends to be heavy handed. That's where the meat-industry analogy falls apart.
/.'ers are anarchists and want to "overthrow" the establishment. Bah. Some other fool'd just dupe everyone and start all over again. Rather, these "watchdogs" are just trying to make sure that our democracy doesn't just happen once every four years.
by comparing to the meat-industry, you assume that you are dealing with a certain demographic; meat-producers. But the net's so diverse. You have college students, kids playing games, minority groups sharing resources. when my grandfather had ALS, the net was one of the ways that he stayed in touch w/ the world, and other ppl w/ als. So, a solution that works for one group is most-likely out of touch w/ another group.
I'm sure we all remember the imfamous Comm. Decency Act. On the cover, it sounds reasonable; get rid of the smut that pervades the net. The problem was, a) it amounted to censorship, contradicting one of gov't's other "regulations", and b) it went too far. Breast cancer discussions, homo-sexual group forums. All of this would have been banned, because it contained "sexual content".
Westerners have a funny habit of condemning countries like Russia and China for "infringing on basic rights", and yet, they'll allow their own government to do so, in the name of "protecting democracy". Don't think that
Still pretty fly for a GwaiJai.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
STring Manipulation is built into PERL, not so with C. I haven't done a lot of development with C++, but as I understand it, it's al *extension* of C, so...
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
The bug is worth a billion dollars. You know why? Because Toshiba said so. I trust their opinion more than yours.
That's an abrupt turnaround...
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
it still happened, and eco-systems have adapted over the last 70 years without them. Bah, stupid humans go messing with this kinda shight all the time.
How does this apply to monitoring private property tho'? Of course you could be using this as some sleazy spy thing, but what if you suspect someone's routinely going into your office/house/whatever, and you want proof?
You catch them on video, but they get off, cuz they didn't know they were being taped?
Not in my experience...
bloody yanks...
Public stock *can* be voting stock. There are two types of stock; Common Shares, and Prefered shares. Prefered shares are paid before Common shares, and the ammount of return is known in advance. Prefered shareholders also get first crack at the assets if the firm is dissolved, or goes belly up. But, prefered stock gives no voting rights. So, prefered stock is safe, but the value is fixed, and you have no say.
Common stock is the stuff that fluctuates on the market. Without having read the whole document (too boring) I'd say that RH is issueing common stock, and the present owners are using their pre-emptive rights to maintain a controlling interest.
Heh. My guess is that one of them picked up on it first, and the other jumped on the bandwagon. Rather than squabble about it, they've decided it's mutually beneficial to "team up".
I think he means that the nonsense will be used to abuse. We all pretty much agree that the study is hokey, but what will be the implications of the results?
What about having built-in support for all the distributions? If it's a small issue, it shouldn't be that dificult. If it's a big issue, why don't they show a little respect to their target audience; open-source it!
The Quake executable is closed, but the gamex86.dll is open so people can make mods.
Valve did the same. I don't know about Unreal (gave up after oggling the scenery).
I'm mostly new to Linux, so I don't know what diferences there are between distributions, but it would seem to me (knowing a few details about OSes in general) that the file system is the same for all Linux distros, since that's a part of the kernel, right?
So, it sounds, to me, that RH is trying to; what's that word again? oh yeah, monopolize, Linux.