You can use any other software that can handle scanning, and image editing. "United States Of America" to "Untied States of Vespucia" and change the Secretary of the Treasury
The bills don't even have to be perfect. You can even use a carat to change the phrase "This note is legal tender" to "This note is ^not legal tender" and the phrase "Federal Reserve Bank" to "Federal Express Banc" and the phrase "United States of America" to "Untied States of Vespucia".
You could put a portrait of "George Bush" or even "Alfred E. Newman" on the bill and/or change the denomination to $3.14, you could change the Secretary of the Treasury's signature to 'Pee Wee Herman'.
Then you would have a bill that could be fired out of the back of your getaway van in a crowded place to distract the mobs of people into picking up bills blocking the way of the persuing police. Or just drop them on the trading floor of the NYSE...
If you removed the anti-drug prohibitions from sports, I bet ( with a few exceptions such as weightlifting ) that most sports would still be dominated by healthy drug-free competitors.
We DO choose not to provide health care to those who cannot afford it so that we do not have to pay for it: namely people in other countries. We let people get sick, go all the way through a course of easily treatable and gruesome illness, to their deathbed where they die unaided, just because they are too poor to afford medical care. It happens all the time in Africa & places like that.
Sorry, but individual to individual, an affluent resident of a first world country owes no more to a poor countryman than to a poor person from another country. Why should such a person, even a charitable one, wish to pay to provide very high quality cancer treatment costing $50000.00 to a homeless countryman when that same $50000.00 could save 500 lives in a third world counrty?
The answer is that choice has nothing to do with it. The aid is taken with force by a government that is elected by rich and poor alike, where the poor are more numerous though less likely to vote. If money is power then power is also money.
But more importantly: I always wanted a siamese twin, or at least a parasitic twin head growing out of my ass. Now, with stem cell cloning, I can graft a copy of myself onto myself, I can have a copy of my butt with a copy of my butt implanted onto it implanted on my butt.
Once upon a time, there was a power grid without any software. This is true because electricity predates computers. What did they do then?
I bet they had much wider safety margins built into the system which prevented blackouts. But these safety margins probably cost money ( I say this without knowing a thing about the electrical system ) they probably mean a less efficient use of resources. So power companies buy GE's software. They don't buy it so that they can have an added measure of blackout prevention, they buy it because it enables them to cut out expensive/inefficient safety margins without (supposedly) sacrificing reliability. They do this to lower their cost of providing electricity to you.
Yeah I was going to say that too before I saw it expressed so eloquently in your post..
So instead I'll have to say this: Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four, Lord I'm fi-ve hundred yocto-zepto-atto-fermi-pico-nano-micro-milli-centi -deci-deka-hecta-kilo-mega-giga-tera-peta-exa-zett a-yotta-angstroms away from home. Away from home awway from home....
In most cases, I would agree that jerks should not be rewarded for their jerky behavior, heck, when someone beeps at me at a light that just turned green, I stop and count to three to piss them off if I saw they light change and think they are being too hasty with the horn.
However, I don't see that swearing at an automated answering program makes you a jerk. I swear at my computer all the time. If companies want to give obnoxiously irate people preferential treatment, then those people will be their customers, while the docile masses migrate to where they can stand in a queue without 'cutters' being allowed.
I think companies who compete with each other, are interested in serving only the most profitable customers. They don't care if the one out of 10 people that calls tech support buys their next product because the other nine who never called will buy it anyway. Their competition is welcome to provide a higher level of service to the 1/10 of the marketshare that needed to acutally use the tech support number. In the end, the company that provides the shittier service is more profitable or is able to offer the product at a cheaper price than the company with the good service. The company with good service goes out of business because the 1/10 who need tech support don't know who they are until they discover that they are missing some driver, so they buy the cheap product with bad service too. Probably only 1 out of 100 become irate enough to actually pay the competition more next time they buy something for service they probably won't need to use.
When you move a wire perpendicular to a magnetic field then it generates current in the wire. So your zipper would be a voltage source if you ran by a large magnetic field. This means your peter gets a zap - very dangerous.
If someone puts crap on a publically accessable website without password protection, and they come whining that somebody read it they should be slapped upside the head. Not linking to a document has never been an acceptable form of security.
When I was a kid, I did lots of illegal stuff, including making pipe bombs. I never hurt anyone including myself, and my parents had a vague idea of what was going on. They let me do these things, and guess what: They were some of the best parents out there. So when people blame parents for letting their kids do things like smoke pot, have guns, make firecrackers, as if it were wrong in and of itself, and use the latest disaster as 'proof' I get annoyed.
Before you damn the parents of the Columbine psycho killer kids who knew their kids had guns, don't forget the hundereds of thousands or maybe millions of parents that let their minor kids own guns. Don't forget that it is LEGAL for a 16 year old kid to go hunting UNACCOMPANIED by an adult. Don't forget that the VAST majority of these kids never hurt a soul and are perfectly competant to shoot only deer and not people.
Just because something goes boom doesn't make it any more dangerous than many other activities that are also potentially deadly. What is the moral difference between letting a kid interested in possibly becoming a pyrotechnician when they grow up learn to make firecrackers and allowing your 14 year old girl to climb El Capitan? Both activites carry a probability that any mistakes will be rewarded with death or serious injury.
Unless one of the rovers discovers little green men, then there prolly won't be much exciting from them in the near future. They've already sent back the panoramas, so there won't be any more and different ones till they've moved quite a ways away.
But we still get intermittant stories about stuff that was discovered by te Viking probe. I'm sure the data these rovers collect will lead to lots of interesting discoveries over the coming years long after the rovers have stopped working when people have time to figure out what it means.
A good virus generator would be able to produce viruses without anything in common. I bet there is a string, common to all this kid's generator's viruses that antivirus programs can find and use to block all present and future viruses generated by this bot.
Another good feature would be to include the code for the generator itself with each copy of the generated viruses that would intermittently pop up a dialog box saying: "The virus you have been infected with needs to evolve, please answer a few questions to help it spawn."
The best virus would use genetic programming to write it's own code. The beasties would 'mate' with other infected programs and use the vast computing power of the infected masses to select for mutations that could spread in new and unexpected ways to stay ahead of the antivirus makers. The mechanism for breeding itself would have to be subject to evolutionary change or it would be vulnerable to erradication by virus checkers though.
Also, you can put expressions in matrixes easily in Derive. You can have a matrix like
sin( x ) -cos(y) atan(z) 1 sin(y) 3cos(z) 12x tan(2y) sin(PI * z )
and actually do matrix multiplication etc and it will handle the symbolic computation for you. There is probably a way to do this in Mathematica, but I couldn't figure it out. Gaussian elimination with large matrixes whose elements are expressions is next to impossible for a human ( or at least me ) to do without error.
Mathematica should be banned, but not because it's bad for the intellect, but because it's not nearly as cool as Texas Instrument's Derive for DOS. Infix notation and easier interface for a powerful tool IMHO.
How is having a computer look up an integral in a database any different from looking it up yourself? Do you like leafing through dead tree books? Do you eschew dictionary.com? Mathematica/Derive et al are like spelling checkers & online dictionaries.
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The bills don't even have to be perfect. You can even use a carat to change the phrase "This note is legal tender" to "This note is ^not legal tender" and the phrase "Federal Reserve Bank" to "Federal Express Banc" and the phrase "United States of America" to "Untied States of Vespucia".
You could put a portrait of "George Bush" or even "Alfred E. Newman" on the bill and/or change the denomination to $3.14, you could change the Secretary of the Treasury's signature to 'Pee Wee Herman'.
Then you would have a bill that could be fired out of the back of your getaway van in a crowded place to distract the mobs of people into picking up bills blocking the way of the persuing police. Or just drop them on the trading floor of the NYSE...
Drugs won out over GE in the Star Trek universe.
If you removed the anti-drug prohibitions from sports, I bet ( with a few exceptions such as weightlifting ) that most sports would still be dominated by healthy drug-free competitors.
than millions of years of evolution...
Hubble redirected toward earth to snap pictures of 'Mons Pubis'
A billiard.... There are 15 balls in billiards and 15 zeroes in a billiard.. A coincidence?
And I get three channels of Fox on DirecTV. No simpsons....
Um.. or any other crime.. People will commit any crime they can think of...
Sorry, but individual to individual, an affluent resident of a first world country owes no more to a poor countryman than to a poor person from another country. Why should such a person, even a charitable one, wish to pay to provide very high quality cancer treatment costing $50000.00 to a homeless countryman when that same $50000.00 could save 500 lives in a third world counrty?
The answer is that choice has nothing to do with it. The aid is taken with force by a government that is elected by rich and poor alike, where the poor are more numerous though less likely to vote. If money is power then power is also money.
But more importantly: I always wanted a siamese twin, or at least a parasitic twin head growing out of my ass. Now, with stem cell cloning, I can graft a copy of myself onto myself, I can have a copy of my butt with a copy of my butt implanted onto it implanted on my butt.
I bet they had much wider safety margins built into the system which prevented blackouts. But these safety margins probably cost money ( I say this without knowing a thing about the electrical system ) they probably mean a less efficient use of resources. So power companies buy GE's software. They don't buy it so that they can have an added measure of blackout prevention, they buy it because it enables them to cut out expensive/inefficient safety margins without (supposedly) sacrificing reliability. They do this to lower their cost of providing electricity to you.
So instead I'll have to say this: Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four, Lord I'm fi-ve hundred yocto-zepto-atto-fermi-pico-nano-micro-milli-centi -deci-deka-hecta-kilo-mega-giga-tera-peta-exa-zett a-yotta-angstroms away from home. Away from home awway from home....
However, I don't see that swearing at an automated answering program makes you a jerk. I swear at my computer all the time. If companies want to give obnoxiously irate people preferential treatment, then those people will be their customers, while the docile masses migrate to where they can stand in a queue without 'cutters' being allowed.
I think companies who compete with each other, are interested in serving only the most profitable customers. They don't care if the one out of 10 people that calls tech support buys their next product because the other nine who never called will buy it anyway. Their competition is welcome to provide a higher level of service to the 1/10 of the marketshare that needed to acutally use the tech support number. In the end, the company that provides the shittier service is more profitable or is able to offer the product at a cheaper price than the company with the good service. The company with good service goes out of business because the 1/10 who need tech support don't know who they are until they discover that they are missing some driver, so they buy the cheap product with bad service too. Probably only 1 out of 100 become irate enough to actually pay the competition more next time they buy something for service they probably won't need to use.
Transfer to live agent when it detects a gunshot - either at the reciever or self inflicted at the customer's head.
When you move a wire perpendicular to a magnetic field then it generates current in the wire. So your zipper would be a voltage source if you ran by a large magnetic field. This means your peter gets a zap - very dangerous.
That is nice! I don't know any other way to force Google to crawl a document...
If someone puts crap on a publically accessable website without password protection, and they come whining that somebody read it they should be slapped upside the head. Not linking to a document has never been an acceptable form of security.
I wonder if I can use an old cheap B&W web-cam to make IR goggles like the Fire Dept has...
To do what?
Before you damn the parents of the Columbine psycho killer kids who knew their kids had guns, don't forget the hundereds of thousands or maybe millions of parents that let their minor kids own guns. Don't forget that it is LEGAL for a 16 year old kid to go hunting UNACCOMPANIED by an adult. Don't forget that the VAST majority of these kids never hurt a soul and are perfectly competant to shoot only deer and not people.
Just because something goes boom doesn't make it any more dangerous than many other activities that are also potentially deadly. What is the moral difference between letting a kid interested in possibly becoming a pyrotechnician when they grow up learn to make firecrackers and allowing your 14 year old girl to climb El Capitan? Both activites carry a probability that any mistakes will be rewarded with death or serious injury.
But we still get intermittant stories about stuff that was discovered by te Viking probe. I'm sure the data these rovers collect will lead to lots of interesting discoveries over the coming years long after the rovers have stopped working when people have time to figure out what it means.
Another good feature would be to include the code for the generator itself with each copy of the generated viruses that would intermittently pop up a dialog box saying: "The virus you have been infected with needs to evolve, please answer a few questions to help it spawn."
The best virus would use genetic programming to write it's own code. The beasties would 'mate' with other infected programs and use the vast computing power of the infected masses to select for mutations that could spread in new and unexpected ways to stay ahead of the antivirus makers. The mechanism for breeding itself would have to be subject to evolutionary change or it would be vulnerable to erradication by virus checkers though.
How is having a computer look up an integral in a database any different from looking it up yourself? Do you like leafing through dead tree books? Do you eschew dictionary.com? Mathematica/Derive et al are like spelling checkers & online dictionaries.