When I'm in a game, I want to be completely surrounded by the fantasy. I don't want to remember that it's just a game, and not being able to do simple actions like swimming and climbing rip me right out of the fantasy, and plop me down in reality.
Oh, give me a break. None of us computer game players could swim or climb if we wanted to in the real world anyway, so the game is actually very realistic.
Dammit, I dropped my Doritos. I am screwed! Help!!
from web page:
"We consider any image to be a collection of a finite number of discrete features. This is a novel approach to images - until now they were always thought of as continuous."
That's bullshit. Breaking down images into features is what nearly everybody in image analysis and recognition does. Look at the Matrox Genesis boards, current papers, books, and so on.
further on:
"If we can fully describe an image as a discrete collection of features, we can easily solve the image recognition problem"
Err, maybe their approach works under some conditions for one instance of image -analysis- (a different problem than recognition!). It looks like they can differentiate between two cats, so they have an approach for a relatively simple recognition problem too.
If they solved either "The Image Analysis Problem" or "The Image Recognition Problem" they'd be quickly famous and wealthy. These problems are notoriously difficult to solve even under extremely well controlled conditions. Their comments about image based content retrieval requiring so many operations is likewise untrue - making it ever more efficient and accurate is a popular research area.
Maybe I'm being anal, but I know enough about the subject to know what a load of hooey the "theory" page is.
1. The act or process of being altered or changed.
2. An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
Why don't you go look up "connotation" and "denotation" in your fancy computer dictionary too, cut and paste boy.
P.S. you forgot to paste entries 3 (genetics) and 4 (linguistics).
-Kevin
Re:Seems silly to be complaining....
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Usenet Encoding: yEnc
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· Score: 4, Insightful
This is wrong thinking. NNTP is an internet protocol and yEnc should play by the rules of internet protocols. It does not and that's why
it is bad. You can't break building codes to build your house and justify it because you saved
a few bucks. "Hey...it seems to not collapse" "it hasn't caught on fire yet!"
In particular, there is
no yenc RFC and yenc does not use MIME which is
the agreed upon standard for encoding binary attachments. Yes, uuencode is a gross
grandfathered format, but it is still 7 bit clean.
Releasing problematic improperly specified encodings that break internet protocols is not being a good citizen. "it works" is a poor justification. it does not work, and breaks compliant software.
Why do you have to have Mandrake 8.2 now? In a month the servers won't be overloaded, and they'll have released bug fixes.
Obviously the above is rhetorical, but really
there aren't any files that I can't live a
perfectly happy existence without for a while
or forever. </soapbox>
Forward error correction distributed file transfer has
been around a while now, yet it hasn't found widespread adoption. Sure if Mandrake
ISOs are on it that's great, but what about
the many files that aren't? FEC needs to
become a core part of HTTP or some other basic
net service.
The general population of Slashdot has very different views of P2P (go after the user!) vs open relays (shut it down!) even though at its heart they are the same issue
I strongly disagree. P2P and email have different distribution architectures.
Open relays allow you to distribute one thing
to many people (one sending MTA to many receiving MTAs). P2P allows you to download one
thing from one site (one P2P server to one P2P client).
I don't think they are the same issue at all: email is a push technology (receiver has no choice), and Napster is a pull technology (only the receiver can choose).
If P2P and email are equivalent, then downloading a web page and sending email are equivalent. They seem very different to me!
But what good would a wheel be without an axle? And what good would wheels and axles be without a cart of some sort to roll around?
Oh sure it all seems "obvious" now, but imagine what it was like before some creative genius (i.e. Amazon) said, hey, rolling these wheels (cookies) around is cool and
stuff, but, damn, dragging these carts is a bitch. What if...
That's not true. The commandments were numbered and grouped from 15 verses down to 10. The numbers don't exist in the Christian bible. It gets worse - there are commandments earlier in Exodus and replacements later. The replacements are different.
And then there's yet another list in Leviticus.
The "10 Commandments" are just one interpretation of the bible. And your complaint about violations of "thou shalt not kill" is just another interpretation. Some translations are "you shall not murder", with murder being considered distinct from killing (and often used to justify Christian participation in wars).
Therefore I think your reference to "Any Christian" and "10 laws" are bogus, and your application of "thou shalt not kill" either extremely naive or knowingly ignorant. "Some Christians" maybe, but then your argument is gone.
I don't want to seem like I'm defending Christianity or the bible since I'm an atheist,
but, really, the theological issues are not nearly as simplistic as you make them out to be.
Ah, you're right, I forgot about that. Now that I think about it when I'm awake, at Walgreens (U.S. drug store), they
don't require signatures for charges under $50, and
mail order companies/online transactions obviously can't get a real signature.
Actually, if you lose it or it gets stolen, you can call up the speedpass place and report it as stolen and the ID inside the speedpass you had will be rendered invalid and you can get a new one and so on..
Same with credit cards. However, they still use
signatures.
The Bastille was stormed and taken by a mob - what good is that kind of fortress?
I believe bastille is a generic word for prison even though most people think of the French fortress prison.
The Bastille is somewhat of a Titanic story. It fell because both because they thought it was so strong and didn't send enough reinforcements, and because the attack was extremely underestimated.
But the funny thing relating to the name of the distribution isn't that it was stormed in 1789 (it was attacked successfully several times before then), but
what it represents. The Bastille was where monarchs imprisoned people who didn't agree with them. It became a symbol of oppression and silencing the opposition. Sort of like the MPAA or "digital rights management" of its day.
I blew real hard and couldn't get a tone out of the damn thing.
-Kevin
Re:They're going to find non-class-M planets first
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42 Worlds in 32 Days
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>YOU my friend, are a genius!!! How did you ever figure that out?!?
>fuck, talk about obvious
It's not necessary to be such an asshole. I think he was responding to the statement about found planets being uninhabitable Jupiter-sized planets,
to remind people that those discoveries don't preclude earth-sized planets. We may just have trouble seeing them.
-Kevin
>And of course you would trust your Solaris cluster to someone who'd only used a Sun workstation at college/university. Or have you never heard of training?
Nice straw man! If that were anything close to what I said you would've totally kicked my ass.
I'm just listing one disadvantage of using mainframes at a company -- that colleges don't typically use them or teach about them. I never said only college grads administer computers or that nobody needed training after college.
>Is water the logical choice for cooling? I'd have thought oil would be.
I wouldn't think that. Water has a higher
specific heat and much higher thermal conductivity.
Water is not "reactive", plus when you spill water,
it evaporates.
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butt kicking for goodness!
make way evil, i am armed to the teeth and packing a hamster!
Minsc rocks
-Kevin
Oh, give me a break. None of us computer game players could swim or climb if we wanted to in the real world anyway, so the game is actually very realistic.
Dammit, I dropped my Doritos. I am screwed! Help!!
-Kevin
"We consider any image to be a collection of a finite number of discrete features. This is a novel approach to images - until now they were always thought of as continuous."
That's bullshit. Breaking down images into features is what nearly everybody in image analysis and recognition does. Look at the Matrox Genesis boards, current papers, books, and so on.
further on:
"If we can fully describe an image as a discrete collection of features, we can easily solve the image recognition problem"
Err, maybe their approach works under some conditions for one instance of image -analysis- (a different problem than recognition!). It looks like they can differentiate between two cats, so they have an approach for a relatively simple recognition problem too.
If they solved either "The Image Analysis Problem" or "The Image Recognition Problem" they'd be quickly famous and wealthy. These problems are notoriously difficult to solve even under extremely well controlled conditions. Their comments about image based content retrieval requiring so many operations is likewise untrue - making it ever more efficient and accurate is a popular research area.
Maybe I'm being anal, but I know enough about the subject to know what a load of hooey the "theory" page is.
-Kevin
I could CRUSH you with my right index finger. I'm crushing your head! I'm crushing your head!
-Kevin
2. An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
Why don't you go look up "connotation" and "denotation" in your fancy computer dictionary too, cut and paste boy.
P.S. you forgot to paste entries 3 (genetics) and 4 (linguistics).
-Kevin
In particular, there is no yenc RFC and yenc does not use MIME which is the agreed upon standard for encoding binary attachments. Yes, uuencode is a gross grandfathered format, but it is still 7 bit clean.
Releasing problematic improperly specified encodings that break internet protocols is not being a good citizen. "it works" is a poor justification. it does not work, and breaks compliant software.
-Kevin
Wrong!
IANA has assigned 80/tcp and 80/udp as the well-known port numbers for HTTP. See RFC 1700 or IANA port numbers .
-Kevin
How could a number outside 16 bits make it to a router since TCP only holds 16 bits for ports? If you wrap around to 80, you have 80, not 65616.
-Kevin
-Kevin
Obviously the above is rhetorical, but really there aren't any files that I can't live a perfectly happy existence without for a while or forever. </soapbox>
Forward error correction distributed file transfer has been around a while now, yet it hasn't found widespread adoption. Sure if Mandrake ISOs are on it that's great, but what about the many files that aren't? FEC needs to become a core part of HTTP or some other basic net service.
-Kevin
-Kevin
I strongly disagree. P2P and email have different distribution architectures.
Open relays allow you to distribute one thing to many people (one sending MTA to many receiving MTAs). P2P allows you to download one thing from one site (one P2P server to one P2P client).
I don't think they are the same issue at all: email is a push technology (receiver has no choice), and Napster is a pull technology (only the receiver can choose).
If P2P and email are equivalent, then downloading a web page and sending email are equivalent. They seem very different to me!
-Kevin
But what good would a wheel be without an axle? And what good would wheels and axles be without a cart of some sort to roll around?
Oh sure it all seems "obvious" now, but imagine what it was like before some creative genius (i.e. Amazon) said, hey, rolling these wheels (cookies) around is cool and stuff, but, damn, dragging these carts is a bitch. What if...
-Kevin
That's not true. The commandments were numbered and grouped from 15 verses down to 10. The numbers don't exist in the Christian bible. It gets worse - there are commandments earlier in Exodus and replacements later. The replacements are different. And then there's yet another list in Leviticus.
The "10 Commandments" are just one interpretation of the bible. And your complaint about violations of "thou shalt not kill" is just another interpretation. Some translations are "you shall not murder", with murder being considered distinct from killing (and often used to justify Christian participation in wars).
Therefore I think your reference to "Any Christian" and "10 laws" are bogus, and your application of "thou shalt not kill" either extremely naive or knowingly ignorant. "Some Christians" maybe, but then your argument is gone.
I don't want to seem like I'm defending Christianity or the bible since I'm an atheist, but, really, the theological issues are not nearly as simplistic as you make them out to be.
-Kevin
Ah, you're right, I forgot about that. Now that I think about it when I'm awake, at Walgreens (U.S. drug store), they don't require signatures for charges under $50, and mail order companies/online transactions obviously can't get a real signature.
-Kevin
Same with credit cards. However, they still use signatures.
-Kevin
I really fear for the future of digital information under the regime of these giant media companies.
-Kevin
-Kevin
The Bastille was stormed and taken by a mob - what good is that kind of fortress?
I believe bastille is a generic word for prison even though most people think of the French fortress prison.
The Bastille is somewhat of a Titanic story. It fell because both because they thought it was so strong and didn't send enough reinforcements, and because the attack was extremely underestimated.
But the funny thing relating to the name of the distribution isn't that it was stormed in 1789 (it was attacked successfully several times before then), but what it represents. The Bastille was where monarchs imprisoned people who didn't agree with them. It became a symbol of oppression and silencing the opposition. Sort of like the MPAA or "digital rights management" of its day.
-Kevin
I blew real hard and couldn't get a tone out of
the damn thing.
-Kevin
>YOU my friend, are a genius!!! How did you ever figure that out?!?
>fuck, talk about obvious It's not necessary to be such an asshole. I think he was responding to the statement about found planets being uninhabitable Jupiter-sized planets, to remind people that those discoveries don't preclude earth-sized planets. We may just have trouble seeing them. -Kevin
i don't think so -- crocodiles are cold-blooded reptiles
my understanding is that dinosaurs are thought to be more closely related to birds, and probably warm-blooded
-Kevin
Nice straw man! If that were anything close to what I said you would've totally kicked my ass.
I'm just listing one disadvantage of using mainframes at a company -- that colleges don't typically use them or teach about them. I never said only college grads administer computers or that nobody needed training after college.
-Kevin
It's usually the linked page that's the news, not the comment the submitter included.
I don't recall slashdot ever not having stupid editorial jabs tacked onto news stories.
-Kevin
I wouldn't think that. Water has a higher specific heat and much higher thermal conductivity. Water is not "reactive", plus when you spill water, it evaporates.
-Kevin