Oh, but Georges are everywhere. Your IT department probably has one. Read some of those tickets. You'll want to be more prepared to help yourself after a few of those.
Oh, come now, don't be so picky! He clearly meant to say such people would be flushing their security and their liberty down multiple toilets. The appended "e" was simply a fat-finger mistake.
Good music would quickly get widespread attention from the masses. All you'd have to do is browse a forum occasionally. Good music would float to the top, bad music sinks into obscurity.
Popular music would float to the top, sure, but popular and good are not equivalent concepts. Like free jazz much? Some of it is excellent, but none of it is popular.
At least the Internet music distribution model makes it more likely obscure bits of music will remain in the available catalog... something that's a huge problem in the present paradigm.
Troll or otherwise, you're just wrong. Windows is not the problem. It's the lazy and/or stupid bureaucrats you find in every IT department (top to bottom, much of the time) who admin it that are the problem. The tools they're given to work with would make no difference in their mindset and approach.
If Americans aren't doing it the way you want it, why not grab the ball and run with it yourself? What is stopping you? And what is the "logical route"? Care to elaborate on that?
The real ally I referred to is Israel. And you are right, they don't always pay back in kind. But as you point out, they're not hijacking US planes, taking US hostages, or trying to fsck over the US economy any way they can either.
And no, I haven't forgotten 9/11. FWIW, I was less than three miles from the Pentagon that morning and someone I worked with was on the very plane that crashed into it, smartass.
Incidentally, the populist revolution didn't serve the minority Kurdish or Jewish communities, or westernized Persians in Iran very well. The revolution may have been largely peaceful, but it wasn't exactly 100% support. A lot of those people died as result of the power shift, or were shoved in a very dark hole never to be heard from again. Or if they were lucky, maybe they fled the country (and left a large chunk of their family behind to try and get by in a place that hates them) -- I've met a few of those poor bastards, can't say I got the impression they blame the US for their situation.
I'm not a nut of any kind. I'm just an American, weary of the world constantly asking for stuff from us then criticizing us for getting involved in world affairs. Maybe the UN and EU should stop dithering and do their share for once.
And there is a 4th choice you left out: they could have gone in and done the job themselves, but we all know what unilateral action nets anyone in the court of world opinion.
It was 1 of 3 choices. Do nothing, Back a murderer, back a zealot. They chose to back the murderer. Not only back him but to encourage and fund his war.
It was more like, pit a fascist murderer against a murdering zealot, to keep both of them busy and away from a real ally. Subterfuge is a valid strategy.
You do realize for a long time the US backed Saddam directly? America is good to it's people. Less so then most western powers but more so then the third world or the former warsaw pact countries. However it backs the worst allies. So if the submitters problem was with china and Myanmar then he really should boycott the US for Iraq, egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, much of Africa and much of South America.
I love it when someone brings this up. So they backed Saddam.... It would have made more sense to back the Ayatollah instead (after he kept a bunch of it's citizens hostage and brutalized them as a first course)? Then they would have been funding Iranian 10-year olds sent in wave to clear minefields with their feet. That doesn't exactly conjur up a nicer, cleaner image. You can't back out of that saying they should just stay out altogether. It'd just be a race to see who can wipe Israel off the map first.
It's not so much a shortsighted, bad choice as it is the most tolerable of a set of potential bad choices.
Agreed. Most of the time I could deal without a pointing device at all. There are some things, like resizing graphics imported into PowerPoint or some of the video editing apps I have to use, where a pointing device of some sort is pretty much a requirement.
I got trapped in a conference room with a bunch of people doing that once with no mouse and a notebook with nubbin. Ouch. Index finger was raw after 12 hours. It sounds stupid, I know, but there was literally no time to stop and go get a mouse. Now I make sure there's at least one in the bag at all times, if not a USB drawing tablet as well. The WACOM drawing tablets trump damn near anything as a pointing device, BTW.
Have to partially disagree. Rubbing the clit point all day hurts my finger. But I hate the track pad too. The behavior of the trackpad on the MacBooks and MacBook Pros is much more configurable than any non-Apple notebook I've ever used, at least.
More practically, mice are fairly portable and avoid the stupid one-button problem on the Macs nicely.
and I've replaced it with this and this and couldn't be happier. If you're looking for something with a similar lifespan, look no further.
I carried my little white 2001 iBook in a gym bag back and forth to the office for 4 years, before retiring it for it's final year to home only as a couch computer. It finally gave up the ghost after 5.5 years, and two drops to the linoleum covered floor in my living room -- once from 2 feet, once from three and a half. I wish Apple still used the bullet proof glass for iBook cases. That iBook sure took a beatin' before it belly-uped .
As long as you and everyone else keep waiting, it will never happen. Change occurs when people get fed up and do something about it themselves rather than waiting on someone else to solve the problem for them.
Hammer meets nails. Very good.
An equivalent amount of funding put into community policing programs or Neighborhood Watches would likely be far more effective than a camera program could ever be. When citizens start paying attention and giving a shit about what happens in their neighborhoods, things change. Buying lots of cameras and cops only seems to grow bigger tax bills.
We've seen the effectiveness of 10,000 cameras in crime prevention. I think that with a proper learning algorithm, cameras could surpass the ineptitude of current officers.
Yeah, probably not.
They may not have a significant deterrent effect, but they can still be useful in creating a description of a suspect after a crime has occurred. Better descriptions can result in better leads which can lead to arrests and convictions. If used in this way, they wouldn't need constant monitoring by expensive computer or human systems. When something happens, you just check the stored video from cameras near the scene.
And if the chain of custody of the video is properly maintained it can be used as evidence in some jurisdictions, where there would otherwise be nothing but eye witness testimony.
If cameras are to be used at all, that's how they're application should be approached. Wiz-bang behavior recognition algorithms will be a) expensive; b) will not add any value to their use as a tool for actually apprehending criminals; c) nor will it likely work very well for reasons others have already adequately expressed.
I hate the idea of being watched in public, but if we must, it may as well be in a way that is actually practical and at least occasionally useful. Not to mention, in a way that keeps the cops operating in a reactive mode rather than a proactive one. It's when the balance tips to the latter that the real Big Brother problems start.
Some guy has nothing better to do at his public llama petting zoo one day, so he decides to sit out in a lawn chair with a bunch of printed advertisements for some store. They said they'd give him a dollar for every sale they made when their customer mentioned the llama zoo. I head into the zoo and he hands me a copy of it. I drop it as soon as I get by him, or refuse to take it at all, or take it and rip it in half right in front of him, or feed it to one of the llamas. Or perhaps he's holding a live monkey and asks me to take a shot at it before I go into the zoo. If my response is that I'd rather not take a swing at his monkey or that I trash/ignore/deface the piece of paper handed to me, a reasonable response would be for the llama herder to hop out of his lawn chair shouting, "thief. THEIF!"
Perhaps he'd be better off putting a small rack next to the entrance that says "Support Our Favorite Merchants" or somesuch and drop his ads there?
He'd certainly blend in better with sane folks, I'd think.
Once the ad is in my possesion, do I not have the right to destroy or ignore it, or write important phone numbers on the back of it?
I'm making images of different types of files. If there is text in the original file (word processing files, spreadsheets, slide presentations, etc.), that gets extracted during the imaging process and loaded into a database for searching. Some things don't have embedded text but have a textual component of some sort (think jpeg photograph of a stop sign). Or I'll get documents previously imaged by someone else and don't get OCR or extracted text. In those two cases, the image is OCRed and the OCR text is loaded into a database to make the image collection text searchable.
What would be nice would be to have both an image comparison and a text search. Text search is good for a lot of things, but falls down when it just isn't there and/or can't be generated. In that case, an image comparison would possibly fill the gap. And faster is always better.
No, I hadn't. Didn't know they existed until just now. Thanks! The demo you linked to advertises a device with an SDK, which may be worth looking into.
Something like this could certainly be another trick for the proverbial bag. The one area where something like this would fail is when it comes to concept-based searching, where you'd pretty much have to have the text to feed an algorithm. For instance, "in the dog house," and "in big trouble" have similar meanings to a (US) human, but a garden variety keyword search wouldn't hit for both of them unless you searched for trouble, dog and house. Some of the linguistic and concept based search technologies would catch turns of phrase without you having to specifically search for the different variances of the same concept. That's pretty neat until you throw in a bunch of photographs in the same collection, at which point text searches are little if any help at all.
Double-byte characters are another dimension of the same problem, squished together if you will. Most of the software commonly in use (which means software I have to use that runs on Windows) for my purpose has little or no support for it. You may be able to extract the text and load it in a database, but you won't be able to search on it. Just ran into that today. That's a limitation of the present state of the software I'm using that will probably be dealt with in the near term. But honestly, I don't read any double-byte languages, so I'd probably be just as well off with an image-based comparison. Especially if it were faster than a text search that yielded the same results. Something like this would be killer for deduplication.
Pictures are fun, but I wonder if it would be accurate enough to locate similar images of documents (and to what degree). It would be really cool (for me anyway) if it could look at, say, a million pdfs or tiffs that don't have embedded text and come back with everything similar/identical.
I frequently have to create large collections of images from all sorts of file types -- some text-based, some graphics -- that get housed in a collection of images for easy, standardized review. If there were something that could avoid the step of extracting text from them, or later OCRing them and still end up with a searchable image collection, well, that would be exceedingly cool. It would cut the initial time outlay I have to devote to virtually any given project I have to deal with by 25 to 50%.
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Oh, but Georges are everywhere. Your IT department probably has one. Read some of those tickets. You'll want to be more prepared to help yourself after a few of those.
Is it just yor external email or email or external emais from you hole area?
Oh, come now, don't be so picky! He clearly meant to say such people would be flushing their security and their liberty down multiple toilets. The appended "e" was simply a fat-finger mistake.
At least the Internet music distribution model makes it more likely obscure bits of music will remain in the available catalog... something that's a huge problem in the present paradigm.
Probably the same brain-dead Slashdotter to whom you would have to explain that published works may be "copyrighted" but not "copywritten."
Troll or otherwise, you're just wrong. Windows is not the problem. It's the lazy and/or stupid bureaucrats you find in every IT department (top to bottom, much of the time) who admin it that are the problem. The tools they're given to work with would make no difference in their mindset and approach.
If Americans aren't doing it the way you want it, why not grab the ball and run with it yourself? What is stopping you? And what is the "logical route"? Care to elaborate on that?
Awesome!! I told my wife I needed those heated leather seats!
And no, I haven't forgotten 9/11. FWIW, I was less than three miles from the Pentagon that morning and someone I worked with was on the very plane that crashed into it, smartass. Incidentally, the populist revolution didn't serve the minority Kurdish or Jewish communities, or westernized Persians in Iran very well. The revolution may have been largely peaceful, but it wasn't exactly 100% support. A lot of those people died as result of the power shift, or were shoved in a very dark hole never to be heard from again. Or if they were lucky, maybe they fled the country (and left a large chunk of their family behind to try and get by in a place that hates them) -- I've met a few of those poor bastards, can't say I got the impression they blame the US for their situation.
I'm not a nut of any kind. I'm just an American, weary of the world constantly asking for stuff from us then criticizing us for getting involved in world affairs. Maybe the UN and EU should stop dithering and do their share for once.
Oh, but it pays. Quite handsomely. Sometimes a little suffering is worth it. ;)
It's not so much a shortsighted, bad choice as it is the most tolerable of a set of potential bad choices.
Who said anything about Windows? Backup and start over, sir.
I got trapped in a conference room with a bunch of people doing that once with no mouse and a notebook with nubbin. Ouch. Index finger was raw after 12 hours. It sounds stupid, I know, but there was literally no time to stop and go get a mouse. Now I make sure there's at least one in the bag at all times, if not a USB drawing tablet as well. The WACOM drawing tablets trump damn near anything as a pointing device, BTW.
Trolling for what? It's a review of products I've owned. My gods, you're dumb.
More practically, mice are fairly portable and avoid the stupid one-button problem on the Macs nicely.
I carried my little white 2001 iBook in a gym bag back and forth to the office for 4 years, before retiring it for it's final year to home only as a couch computer. It finally gave up the ghost after 5.5 years, and two drops to the linoleum covered floor in my living room -- once from 2 feet, once from three and a half. I wish Apple still used the bullet proof glass for iBook cases. That iBook sure took a beatin' before it belly-uped .
An equivalent amount of funding put into community policing programs or Neighborhood Watches would likely be far more effective than a camera program could ever be. When citizens start paying attention and giving a shit about what happens in their neighborhoods, things change. Buying lots of cameras and cops only seems to grow bigger tax bills.
They may not have a significant deterrent effect, but they can still be useful in creating a description of a suspect after a crime has occurred. Better descriptions can result in better leads which can lead to arrests and convictions. If used in this way, they wouldn't need constant monitoring by expensive computer or human systems. When something happens, you just check the stored video from cameras near the scene.
And if the chain of custody of the video is properly maintained it can be used as evidence in some jurisdictions, where there would otherwise be nothing but eye witness testimony.
If cameras are to be used at all, that's how they're application should be approached. Wiz-bang behavior recognition algorithms will be a) expensive; b) will not add any value to their use as a tool for actually apprehending criminals; c) nor will it likely work very well for reasons others have already adequately expressed.
I hate the idea of being watched in public, but if we must, it may as well be in a way that is actually practical and at least occasionally useful. Not to mention, in a way that keeps the cops operating in a reactive mode rather than a proactive one. It's when the balance tips to the latter that the real Big Brother problems start.
BillyWitchDoctor.com deals mostly in chicken.
Some guy has nothing better to do at his public llama petting zoo one day, so he decides to sit out in a lawn chair with a bunch of printed advertisements for some store. They said they'd give him a dollar for every sale they made when their customer mentioned the llama zoo. I head into the zoo and he hands me a copy of it. I drop it as soon as I get by him, or refuse to take it at all, or take it and rip it in half right in front of him, or feed it to one of the llamas. Or perhaps he's holding a live monkey and asks me to take a shot at it before I go into the zoo. If my response is that I'd rather not take a swing at his monkey or that I trash/ignore/deface the piece of paper handed to me, a reasonable response would be for the llama herder to hop out of his lawn chair shouting, "thief. THEIF!"
Perhaps he'd be better off putting a small rack next to the entrance that says "Support Our Favorite Merchants" or somesuch and drop his ads there?
He'd certainly blend in better with sane folks, I'd think.
Once the ad is in my possesion, do I not have the right to destroy or ignore it, or write important phone numbers on the back of it?
What would be nice would be to have both an image comparison and a text search. Text search is good for a lot of things, but falls down when it just isn't there and/or can't be generated. In that case, an image comparison would possibly fill the gap. And faster is always better.
Something like this could certainly be another trick for the proverbial bag. The one area where something like this would fail is when it comes to concept-based searching, where you'd pretty much have to have the text to feed an algorithm. For instance, "in the dog house," and "in big trouble" have similar meanings to a (US) human, but a garden variety keyword search wouldn't hit for both of them unless you searched for trouble, dog and house. Some of the linguistic and concept based search technologies would catch turns of phrase without you having to specifically search for the different variances of the same concept. That's pretty neat until you throw in a bunch of photographs in the same collection, at which point text searches are little if any help at all.
Double-byte characters are another dimension of the same problem, squished together if you will. Most of the software commonly in use (which means software I have to use that runs on Windows) for my purpose has little or no support for it. You may be able to extract the text and load it in a database, but you won't be able to search on it. Just ran into that today. That's a limitation of the present state of the software I'm using that will probably be dealt with in the near term. But honestly, I don't read any double-byte languages, so I'd probably be just as well off with an image-based comparison. Especially if it were faster than a text search that yielded the same results. Something like this would be killer for deduplication.
I frequently have to create large collections of images from all sorts of file types -- some text-based, some graphics -- that get housed in a collection of images for easy, standardized review. If there were something that could avoid the step of extracting text from them, or later OCRing them and still end up with a searchable image collection, well, that would be exceedingly cool. It would cut the initial time outlay I have to devote to virtually any given project I have to deal with by 25 to 50%.