I believe that MPEG 7 includes support for encoding of shapes and regions, and would support searches for items by characteristics. If true, that could make searching image databases really nice.
I wish to point out that Microsoft did not invent the tablet PC.
Ten years ago I was priviledged to work with the people at Go Corporation, who created the PenPoint operating system for tablet PCs. I had hands-on exposure to a working 386-based tablet PC and was excited about them coming to market. Go was well along with a solid operating system.
Then Microsoft stepped in, conned details of Go's technology, and announced their Windows for Pens. Microsoft succeeded in killing off Go, and then immediately buried Windows for Pens.
We could have had tablets 10 years ago except for Microsoft.
Nonetheless, tablets are awesome and will drive another wave of innovation. I remember editing text by touching a paragraph and sliding it with my finger to where it should go. And the drawing tools in one application I saw were hot. There was 'What you DO is what you GET' drawing, no mouse piloting or standalone stylus position errors.
AP news update: "At a press conference, US Attorney General John Ashcroft declared planet Quaoar as a possible terrorist hideout for Bin Laden, and said he is sending FBI agents there to search for Al Qaida. He commented: "Anything that starts with a 'Q' is suspect."
There's also Ray Bradbury's famous "The Pedestrian", concerning law enforcement by robot patrol cars and what happens when you remove the judgement of a human from the loop.
Jay Roach is going to butcher the movie, I predict. The kind of hamfisted crap in Austin Powers is nothing like the subtle irony in Hitchhiker's Guide. I figure he'll probably cast Brad Pitt as Ford Prefect and Andre Dice Clay as Zaphod. Of course, Dick Cheney could do a cameo as Marvin the Paranoid Android.
The types of conflict are a bit more subtle. There are the goals of the protagonist versus some other agent conflicting with those goals. The interesting permutations come about from the combinations of the types of goals and the kinds of goal conflict and the sources of goal conflict and the types of agents.
There are several classes of how the conflictor opposes the protagonist's goals, and in complex stories, the classes might change dynamically:
deliberately - sentient externals (other men or agents such as a terminator or a computer) with their own goals),or
external non-deliberately targeted - non-sentient Nature, for example, with a storm, or
internal non-deliberately targeted - in the case of Man Against Himself, one's internal self can sometimes act against his own goals, but not deliberately; it just comes out of what one is.
Also, in any good story, there are both major conflicts (the macro conflict of the story) and minor conflicts (the series of micro conflicts of various types as the protagonist moves forward to resolving the major conflict).
When you put it all together, a story can be structured with satisfying complexity. It's the hacks in Hollywood who don't know how to do this well. Fortunately, a simple PERL script can outcreate all of them.:)
Many, if not all, monitors are given a fire retardant spray internally. The problem with this is, it's toxic. So if your monitor smells bad, this is possibly really bad news. I had seen an article about this once but cannot locate it. It is a genuine hazard.
I have a real problem with getting adequate bass out of my in-wall $5000 speakers. You see, I live in a cardboard box and the roof tends to cave in and the garbage cans outside rattle a whole lot.
I plan to heavily network it soon, though. Once I find a few more refrigerator boxes I should have enough room for LAN parties.
I don't need a fingerprint lock on my wine cellar, because when I can afford a bottle of port, it doesn't last too long anyway.
Leo seems to support only a linear tree structure. That seems restrictive. I would argue that a directed flow diagram is a better way to show the overall structural relationships of code modules. Thus a more graphic IDE would be better, something like Visio combined with an editor. I used to create prototypes in pseudocode diagrammed in Micrografix Flowcharter, which supported hyperlinks from graphic objects. So I could draw flowcharts and click on a node and jump to the underlying code text.
I do not agree with Jack's philosophy. If the only goal of a programming language were to provide instructions, we'd all be writing assembly language. The power of computers is that they support creating intellectual power tools. Why should a human have to remember 1001 esoteric rules in order to write bugfree code? Let the machine do the heavy lifting. An ultra high-level PL environment would let you tell it a story, and it would fill in the details for you. Which would you rather do: drive 3000 miles with a map in one hand every step of the way, or simply get on a plane?
I think a programming language and its usage environment should provide an intellectual buffer between the ideas of a programmer and the specific mechanization of those ideas. They should be power tools for expressing thoughts and organizing them. Documentation should be a natural part of that environment, integrated into the expression of the code.
My mother was severely injured by an exploding 7-Up glass bottle decades ago. After the lawsuit, everybody started putting caution notices on glass bottles. After a while the industry shifted to plastic, of course for many reasons. But that was one.
Vanilla Coke tastes like I'm drinking perfume. I believe the 'vanilla' in it is not real vanilla but synthetic, some glycol. Anyway, it disagrees with me too.
Help! Can Cowboy Neal help me remove my previous posts on kitten-skinning, DUI while yakking on cell phones, and compulsively purchasing Microsoft software? Oh yeah, and the ones on my KKK and Nazi membership. By the way, I collect knives and moths.
So, does your company offer free lattes? I won't work without them.
So let me get this straight - if I hold a radio up to my telephone and play a song for a friend on the other end, can the RIAA sue the phone company to make them block my calls?
Few people know that cavemen had wristwatches too. They used vibrating rocks along with extremely small sabertoothed tiger nostril hairs to achieve a timing accuracy of +/- one second per second.
At the company I work for, the Indian head of marketing mandated that we hire all field application engineers through his Indian pal's agency. As a result, we have 4 H1Bs brought in cheaper than Americans. And two of them do not speak English clearly. I would say that in this case, H1B allowed a company to not hire Americans but rather perform reverse discrimination.
In a number of other cases here in Silicon Valley, the same thing had happened at companies where I worked a contract. So this is not an isolated incident.
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I believe that MPEG 7 includes support for encoding of shapes and regions, and would support searches for items by characteristics. If true, that could make searching image databases really nice.
What's the big deal? I've found alien bacteria on papadums at cheap Indian buffets. And they were darned tasty, too.
I wish to point out that Microsoft did not invent the tablet PC. Ten years ago I was priviledged to work with the people at Go Corporation, who created the PenPoint operating system for tablet PCs. I had hands-on exposure to a working 386-based tablet PC and was excited about them coming to market. Go was well along with a solid operating system. Then Microsoft stepped in, conned details of Go's technology, and announced their Windows for Pens. Microsoft succeeded in killing off Go, and then immediately buried Windows for Pens. We could have had tablets 10 years ago except for Microsoft. Nonetheless, tablets are awesome and will drive another wave of innovation. I remember editing text by touching a paragraph and sliding it with my finger to where it should go. And the drawing tools in one application I saw were hot. There was 'What you DO is what you GET' drawing, no mouse piloting or standalone stylus position errors.
I bet American was really flushed with pride over that patent...
why wasn't this story called "Go to the toilet...and die!? ...
Because that's the name of the next James Bond video game?
Some guy with a Linux laptop just ran by me, claiming he could jam the mothership's electronics. I haven't the faintest idea what he meant.
AP news update: "At a press conference, US Attorney General John Ashcroft declared planet Quaoar as a possible terrorist hideout for Bin Laden, and said he is sending FBI agents there to search for Al Qaida. He commented: "Anything that starts with a 'Q' is suspect."
There's also Ray Bradbury's famous "The Pedestrian", concerning law enforcement by robot patrol cars and what happens when you remove the judgement of a human from the loop.
What confuses the hell out of me is Captain Doctor Cowboy Neal.
Actually, a DVD collecting all episodes was just released. The video quality is limited by the original video.
Jay Roach is going to butcher the movie, I predict. The kind of hamfisted crap in Austin Powers is nothing like the subtle irony in Hitchhiker's Guide. I figure he'll probably cast Brad Pitt as Ford Prefect and Andre Dice Clay as Zaphod. Of course, Dick Cheney could do a cameo as Marvin the Paranoid Android.
The types of conflict are a bit more subtle. There are the goals of the protagonist versus some other agent conflicting with those goals. The interesting permutations come about from the combinations of the types of goals and the kinds of goal conflict and the sources of goal conflict and the types of agents.
:)
There are several classes of how the conflictor opposes the protagonist's goals, and in complex stories, the classes might change dynamically:
deliberately - sentient externals (other men or agents such as a terminator or a computer) with their own goals),or
external non-deliberately targeted - non-sentient Nature, for example, with a storm, or
internal non-deliberately targeted - in the case of Man Against Himself, one's internal self can sometimes act against his own goals, but not deliberately; it just comes out of what one is.
Also, in any good story, there are both major conflicts (the macro conflict of the story) and minor conflicts (the series of micro conflicts of various types as the protagonist moves forward to resolving the major conflict).
When you put it all together, a story can be structured with satisfying complexity. It's the hacks in Hollywood who don't know how to do this well. Fortunately, a simple PERL script can outcreate all of them.
Many, if not all, monitors are given a fire retardant spray internally. The problem with this is, it's toxic. So if your monitor smells bad, this is possibly really bad news. I had seen an article about this once but cannot locate it. It is a genuine hazard.
I have a real problem with getting adequate bass out of my in-wall $5000 speakers. You see, I live in a cardboard box and the roof tends to cave in and the garbage cans outside rattle a whole lot. I plan to heavily network it soon, though. Once I find a few more refrigerator boxes I should have enough room for LAN parties. I don't need a fingerprint lock on my wine cellar, because when I can afford a bottle of port, it doesn't last too long anyway.
I agree and disagree with Jack.
Leo seems to support only a linear tree structure. That seems restrictive. I would argue that a directed flow diagram is a better way to show the overall structural relationships of code modules. Thus a more graphic IDE would be better, something like Visio combined with an editor. I used to create prototypes in pseudocode diagrammed in Micrografix Flowcharter, which supported hyperlinks from graphic objects. So I could draw flowcharts and click on a node and jump to the underlying code text.
I do not agree with Jack's philosophy. If the only goal of a programming language were to provide instructions, we'd all be writing assembly language. The power of computers is that they support creating intellectual power tools. Why should a human have to remember 1001 esoteric rules in order to write bugfree code? Let the machine do the heavy lifting. An ultra high-level PL environment would let you tell it a story, and it would fill in the details for you. Which would you rather do: drive 3000 miles with a map in one hand every step of the way, or simply get on a plane?
I think a programming language and its usage environment should provide an intellectual buffer between the ideas of a programmer and the specific mechanization of those ideas. They should be power tools for expressing thoughts and organizing them. Documentation should be a natural part of that environment, integrated into the expression of the code.
My mother was severely injured by an exploding 7-Up glass bottle decades ago. After the lawsuit, everybody started putting caution notices on glass bottles. After a while the industry shifted to plastic, of course for many reasons. But that was one.
Vanilla Coke tastes like I'm drinking perfume.
I believe the 'vanilla' in it is not real vanilla but synthetic, some glycol. Anyway, it disagrees with me too.
Help! Can Cowboy Neal help me remove my previous posts on kitten-skinning, DUI while yakking on cell phones, and compulsively purchasing Microsoft software? Oh yeah, and the ones on my KKK and Nazi membership. By the way, I collect knives and moths.
So, does your company offer free lattes? I won't work without them.
So let me get this straight - if I hold a radio up to my telephone and play a song for a friend on the other end, can the RIAA sue the phone company to make them block my calls?
First curry on the moon. Wow! Soon to be followed by renaming regions. Sea of Papadums, Tandoori Mare, and the unforgettable Dark Side of Ganoosh.
Don't do it nude, either.
I use the Cowboy Neal technique to view hyperspace. Cross-eyed and painless.
Few people know that cavemen had wristwatches too. They used vibrating rocks along with extremely small sabertoothed tiger nostril hairs to achieve a timing accuracy of +/- one second per second.
Yes, but it's ever so much better than cellphone cancer.
At the company I work for, the Indian head of marketing mandated that we hire all field application engineers through his Indian pal's agency. As a result, we have 4 H1Bs brought in cheaper than Americans. And two of them do not speak English clearly. I would say that in this case, H1B allowed a company to not hire Americans but rather perform reverse discrimination.
In a number of other cases here in Silicon Valley, the same thing had happened at companies where I worked a contract. So this is not an isolated incident.