Well, the fact is I've been trying to submit the story about MCR (which was hoped to make #4, but Los Alamos submitted two halves of the same computer as two identical computers, bumping MCR to #5) for several months. Obviously some of us do not find cluster news boring.
Take it from a chick - some of us find the Star Wars motif very sexy, and are hiding a room full of 'puters behind that closed door. Stick to being your own geek self, and you'll find a chick who will actually make you happy. Even if you try to disguise yourself with an interior decorating makeover, eventually the non-geek-girls will figure you out and drop ya like a rock:-)
This thing would replace my eBook, PDA, and the workstation sitting on a cart by the couch in the living room. What do I get? A tablet to take notes, a eBook to read the latest magazines and Gutenburg downloads, a web browswer that fits comfortably on my lap, a drawing pad to sketch with, a laptop to hack code on, a movie theatre that sits comfortably on those tiny tray tables on the plane, and a portable system that docks to my desktop... it's not about already having a PDA, eBook, and laptop - it about replacing all of these things! Yes, I want a tablet - I've been lusting for a tablet PC for years, and now someone's finally made one!
I'll help - I'll set up and manage a PayPal account or whatever's needed, and pitch in a few bucks to boot. A squad of volunteers to put together systems and install a nice linux desktop set... sounds like a MeetUp worth doing.
The report was available to anyone who typed the correct Web address. But Thomas Ahlerup, a spokesman for the company, said the Web page was not available through normal channels on the site.
The "htaccess" argument is moot. Obviously, the report was publically available on a public website and not protected by passwords, IP restrictions, or otherwise. Probably picked up by a search engine where Reuters could easily find it. Allowing the server to show directory indexes is not a security hole, either - allowing users to put unprotected confidential files online is.
Referring to other postings: Yes, if I stand naked at the front door, I cannot file peeping-tom charges against my neighbors for looking - however, they can file indecent exposure charges against me!
It's not so bad considering it's a piece of the Rodenberry Empire - Star Trek etc. have always been a bit clean and a little too politically correct, even the original series. Andromeda has a not-so-subtle dichotomy "old sci fi meets new sci fi" theme - larger than life goody-two-shoes Dillan Hunt, just like all our heroes (Lucky Starr, Buck Rogers, Clark Kent) of the good old days, teamed up with a band of shady types focused on money and/or power. Yeah, he gets them to help him save the universe, but they're helping him rough up his shiny, Good Boy persona too.
I'm wondering if weight can be trimmed off the camera. I don't have an X10 to disassemble, but I'm thinking there's extraneous weight in the base that could be removed, plus some of the casing (like around the lens) I think could be removed. Additionally, I don't know how much room is inside the car, but if the camera could be installed behind the windshield, it might cut down the drag.
I just got married in June after a long engagement. We decided well beforehand that not only would there be no engagement ring, but there would be no rings at all. We do not need to "brand" eachother for the world to see. For two months of his salary, we can could do something far more meaningful -- save for the next house, go on a nice honeymoon, etc.
I do happen to have several sets of heirloom engagement rings and wedding bands from other women in my line. I used one set for the ceremony more to honor the memory of the woman who wore it than to symbolize a bond between myself and my husband. I do occasionally wear any one of the sets, but frequently I wear no wedding/engagement ring at all.
I know many women who have wedding bands but no engagement rings, and a lot of engaged women who do not have engagement rings. One couple I know have rather elaborate wedding rings set with turquoise.
There are a lot of reasons to not buy a diamond engagement ring, including the ones you state. They are expensive and frivolous. To me, the idea that a man has to lay out outrageous amounts of money to "prove" his love is a shallow notion. Choose another stone that does not conflict with your ideals, or get her no engagement ring at all.
I believe software published (not stuff developed for in-house) is "open source" (cuz of FOIA I believe). The gov't can't copyright products, but it can get patents.
Okay, I'm not 100% on this, but here's how I believe it works (based on some experience):
The gov't can't copyright stuff.
The gov't can patent stuff.
If the gov't publishes software (as opposed
to developing software strictly for
in-house use), it has
to give the source code to anyone who asks
for it (I think this comes from FOIA rules).
Of course, if the gov't cries "National Security" then all bets are off:-D
I don't know if this would work for cell phones, but it worked for my land line:
1) Change your phone number. Request that your new number is unlisted (meaning one cannot request it from directory services, and it's not in The Book).
2) Do not give your new phone number to anyone but friends, family, and others you trust -- explain to them it is unlisted and not to share your phone number without checking with you first. Do NOT give it to your credit card company. Do not give it to your electric company. Do not give it to your bank. Do not enter it in web forms, contest forms, or any other kind of form. Do not give it to strangers. Do not give it to the paper boy. Treat it at least as preciously as your Social Security or debit card number.
3) For god's sake, don't give it to Dunn and Bradstreet!
4) Should you get a telemarketing call (random dialers can still hit you), follow the junkbuster procedures for recording information about the call and have you put on the DNC list so you can sue if they call again.
Does it work? I didn't get any telemarketing calls for four years -- zero, zilch, nada, none -- until I got a DUNS number from Dunn and Bradstreet. I got three calls over a period of five months (various companies trying to sell goods and services to my "small business"), bitched up a storm trying to get my number removed from their public listing, then finally changed my number again.
Pain in the ass? Yeah, a little. Worth it? OH YES! I can jump out of the shower, shampoo dripping on the carpet, with confidence that when I pick the phone up there will be someone on the other end of the line I do want to talk to.
Uhhh some of us have jobs. We use computers in our jobs. We have lots of spreadsheets, documents, images, data sets, and so forth. In some industries, I'm a low-end user sucking up 60 GB, with a lot of files backed up and deleted to make space for new work. A buddy of mine has around 900 GB, which he can only keep enough free space on for work by transferring stuff off to DVD or tape -- he has single files that won't even fit on a CD. I wonder what kind of disk space the folks at Skywalker Ranch are using...
Yeah, while a number of folks won't use more than 8GB, a whole lot more need much more.
Others of us use our computers for more than checking our e-mail. Not that the hard drive manufacturers give a shit about us at home, but I'm sucking up easily 40 GB with data (not counting my MP3's, downloaded software archive, and pr0n). I've got about 15 CDs worth of data files that have been deleted from my computers. And two of my computers also have (on top of 2GB system partitions and 8GB software partitions) 10GB each reserved for games, which I frequently have to uninstall in order to make room for the lastest-greatest cuz 10 GB just ain't as big as it used to be. Hell, I got 4 GB just for temp space, and sometimes that gets dangerously close to full.
What kind of data sucks up disk space? Digital photos, audio, video, Photoshop, Illustrator, Penthouse screensavers, AutoCAD, GIS data, UltraFractal images, satellite imagery, climate data, financial data, medical imagery, architectural drawings, circuit diagrams, tax records, databases of all flavors, source code, web design work, Bryce, games, digital elevation models, VRML worlds, Matrix wallpaper, fonts, geneology research, Maya, recipes, reference documents... and, of course, e-mail. And if you have enough decent software, there goes even more disk space.
Making a copy for archival purposes is not a violation of your copyright. It's fair use.
The bigger issue is the rudeness of the archive in ignoring robots.txt and rifling through files that one does not wish to have linked or accessed (e.g. stuff under development that isn't ready for 'prime time' yet).
Sorry, when the gov't passes edicts like this on themselves, it never supplies funds for actually following the new law or policy. Somehow, the effected agencies/divisions/teams must come up with the money to meet requirements (e.g. get all the Unix folks PCs because suddenly M$ Word is the required word processor). It's certainly not going to supply funds to ISPs to expand storage and whatnot. However, what will happen is the ISPs will be forced to raise prices to cover the costs.
Basically, the computer needs to find the matching objects in each image and how much they're displaced, then compute the distance map based on the displacement map. The second part is easy, but the first part is challenging and computationally intensive. Simple algorithms I've worked with look for identifyable edges in one image and try to find that edge in the other image. Starting with greatly reduced images to develop a "guesstimate" map, the resolution is increased in each pass using the previous results to determine what area to search (so the entire image doesn't need to be searched). This is just one of many approaches to pulling depth from stereo. I'm not sure what kind of algorithm Tyzx is using or what kind of accuracy they're claiming (if they're advertising that info). In machine vision, time complexity is an issue. In other applications, such as mapping and generating 3D models, accuracy is a bigger issue.
It's not about displaying the stereo image for a human, it's about a machine being able to interpret imagery and 'understand' what it sees around it - machine vision. Algorithms for automatically determining depth from stereo are usually imperfect and may require several passes through both images.
Actually, the ATT article wasn't the best one to point to. Star Tiger's website gives the details outlined in the MSNBC/Space articles. Apparently, there are naturally occurring THz frequency waves emitted from "almost everything". ATT seem more interested in an active system similar to radar, with their studies focusing on looking at the reflectance and transmissive properties of various breakfast foods.
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Honestly, after all I have invested in my Handspring (modules, cradles, software, etc.) I'm not switching any day soon.
Well, the fact is I've been trying to submit the story about MCR (which was hoped to make #4, but Los Alamos submitted two halves of the same computer as two identical computers, bumping MCR to #5) for several months. Obviously some of us do not find cluster news boring.
Finally this thing made slashdot! I've been trying to tell y'all about this for months, but the editors haven't found it newsworthy - see my journal (7/26 and 10/28) for links to additional articles and the home page for the cluster.
Take it from a chick - some of us find the Star Wars motif very sexy, and are hiding a room full of 'puters behind that closed door. Stick to being your own geek self, and you'll find a chick who will actually make you happy. Even if you try to disguise yourself with an interior decorating makeover, eventually the non-geek-girls will figure you out and drop ya like a rock :-)
This thing would replace my eBook, PDA, and the workstation sitting on a cart by the couch in the living room. What do I get? A tablet to take notes, a eBook to read the latest magazines and Gutenburg downloads, a web browswer that fits comfortably on my lap, a drawing pad to sketch with, a laptop to hack code on, a movie theatre that sits comfortably on those tiny tray tables on the plane, and a portable system that docks to my desktop... it's not about already having a PDA, eBook, and laptop - it about replacing all of these things! Yes, I want a tablet - I've been lusting for a tablet PC for years, and now someone's finally made one!
I didn't get that - "Accept" takes you to an enrollment form, "Do not accept" takes you to a flight finder that basically is the home page.
So why don't we put together a fund and donate a pile of low cost linux boxen to the Namibians?
I'll help - I'll set up and manage a PayPal account or whatever's needed, and pitch in a few bucks to boot. A squad of volunteers to put together systems and install a nice linux desktop set... sounds like a MeetUp worth doing.
I'm thinking: start a fund here, buy a pile o' boxen, have a special "Truly Free Computers for Namibia" installfest, and ship them over.
The "htaccess" argument is moot. Obviously, the report was publically available on a public website and not protected by passwords, IP restrictions, or otherwise. Probably picked up by a search engine where Reuters could easily find it. Allowing the server to show directory indexes is not a security hole, either - allowing users to put unprotected confidential files online is.
Referring to other postings: Yes, if I stand naked at the front door, I cannot file peeping-tom charges against my neighbors for looking - however, they can file indecent exposure charges against me!
I think with the addition of Roger Engels as the head writer the upcoming season(s) should prove more interesting.
I'm wondering if weight can be trimmed off the camera. I don't have an X10 to disassemble, but I'm thinking there's extraneous weight in the base that could be removed, plus some of the casing (like around the lens) I think could be removed. Additionally, I don't know how much room is inside the car, but if the camera could be installed behind the windshield, it might cut down the drag.
I do happen to have several sets of heirloom engagement rings and wedding bands from other women in my line. I used one set for the ceremony more to honor the memory of the woman who wore it than to symbolize a bond between myself and my husband. I do occasionally wear any one of the sets, but frequently I wear no wedding/engagement ring at all.
I know many women who have wedding bands but no engagement rings, and a lot of engaged women who do not have engagement rings. One couple I know have rather elaborate wedding rings set with turquoise.
There are a lot of reasons to not buy a diamond engagement ring, including the ones you state. They are expensive and frivolous. To me, the idea that a man has to lay out outrageous amounts of money to "prove" his love is a shallow notion. Choose another stone that does not conflict with your ideals, or get her no engagement ring at all.
I believe software published (not stuff developed for in-house) is "open source" (cuz of FOIA I believe). The gov't can't copyright products, but it can get patents.
- The gov't can't copyright stuff.
- The gov't can patent stuff.
- If the gov't publishes software (as opposed
to developing software strictly for
in-house use), it has
to give the source code to anyone who asks
for it (I think this comes from FOIA rules).
Of course, if the gov't cries "National Security" then all bets are offI don't know if this would work for cell phones, but it worked for my land line:
1) Change your phone number. Request that your new number is unlisted (meaning one cannot request it from directory services, and it's not in The Book).
2) Do not give your new phone number to anyone but friends, family, and others you trust -- explain to them it is unlisted and not to share your phone number without checking with you first. Do NOT give it to your credit card company. Do not give it to your electric company. Do not give it to your bank. Do not enter it in web forms, contest forms, or any other kind of form. Do not give it to strangers. Do not give it to the paper boy. Treat it at least as preciously as your Social Security or debit card number.
3) For god's sake, don't give it to Dunn and Bradstreet!
4) Should you get a telemarketing call (random dialers can still hit you), follow the junkbuster procedures for recording information about the call and have you put on the DNC list so you can sue if they call again.
Does it work? I didn't get any telemarketing calls for four years -- zero, zilch, nada, none -- until I got a DUNS number from Dunn and Bradstreet. I got three calls over a period of five months (various companies trying to sell goods and services to my "small business"), bitched up a storm trying to get my number removed from their public listing, then finally changed my number again.
Pain in the ass? Yeah, a little. Worth it? OH YES! I can jump out of the shower, shampoo dripping on the carpet, with confidence that when I pick the phone up there will be someone on the other end of the line I do want to talk to.
Yeah, while a number of folks won't use more than 8GB, a whole lot more need much more.
Others of us use our computers for more than checking our e-mail. Not that the hard drive manufacturers give a shit about us at home, but I'm sucking up easily 40 GB with data (not counting my MP3's, downloaded software archive, and pr0n). I've got about 15 CDs worth of data files that have been deleted from my computers. And two of my computers also have (on top of 2GB system partitions and 8GB software partitions) 10GB each reserved for games, which I frequently have to uninstall in order to make room for the lastest-greatest cuz 10 GB just ain't as big as it used to be. Hell, I got 4 GB just for temp space, and sometimes that gets dangerously close to full.
What kind of data sucks up disk space? Digital photos, audio, video, Photoshop, Illustrator, Penthouse screensavers, AutoCAD, GIS data, UltraFractal images, satellite imagery, climate data, financial data, medical imagery, architectural drawings, circuit diagrams, tax records, databases of all flavors, source code, web design work, Bryce, games, digital elevation models, VRML worlds, Matrix wallpaper, fonts, geneology research, Maya, recipes, reference documents... and, of course, e-mail. And if you have enough decent software, there goes even more disk space.
The bigger issue is the rudeness of the archive in ignoring robots.txt and rifling through files that one does not wish to have linked or accessed (e.g. stuff under development that isn't ready for 'prime time' yet).
Sorry, when the gov't passes edicts like this on themselves, it never supplies funds for actually following the new law or policy. Somehow, the effected agencies/divisions/teams must come up with the money to meet requirements (e.g. get all the Unix folks PCs because suddenly M$ Word is the required word processor). It's certainly not going to supply funds to ISPs to expand storage and whatnot. However, what will happen is the ISPs will be forced to raise prices to cover the costs.
Basically, the computer needs to find the matching objects in each image and how much they're displaced, then compute the distance map based on the displacement map. The second part is easy, but the first part is challenging and computationally intensive. Simple algorithms I've worked with look for identifyable edges in one image and try to find that edge in the other image. Starting with greatly reduced images to develop a "guesstimate" map, the resolution is increased in each pass using the previous results to determine what area to search (so the entire image doesn't need to be searched). This is just one of many approaches to pulling depth from stereo. I'm not sure what kind of algorithm Tyzx is using or what kind of accuracy they're claiming (if they're advertising that info). In machine vision, time complexity is an issue. In other applications, such as mapping and generating 3D models, accuracy is a bigger issue.
It's not about displaying the stereo image for a human, it's about a machine being able to interpret imagery and 'understand' what it sees around it - machine vision. Algorithms for automatically determining depth from stereo are usually imperfect and may require several passes through both images.
Check out Star Tiger's site, which includes info about the technology discussed in the MSNBC and Space articles. While the AT&T link is interesting, it's a slightly different approach to THz wave applications than what Star Tiger's doing.
Actually, the ATT article wasn't the best one to point to. Star Tiger's website gives the details outlined in the MSNBC/Space articles. Apparently, there are naturally occurring THz frequency waves emitted from "almost everything". ATT seem more interested in an active system similar to radar, with their studies focusing on looking at the reflectance and transmissive properties of various breakfast foods.
Yes, but most of us recognize that W3C issued recommendations are specifications and that W3C is the official word on the HTML specifications.
Actually, writing valid HTML 4+ is prettty much a requirement of Section 508 along with following standard accessibility practices.