The thing that really rocks about Wikipedia's search is the Disambiguation function. Even Google does not have something like this. Yeah actually they do (that was the quickest example I could think of, not the best).
I stumbled upon GREYCstoration the other week when I was looking for tracing software. The best I've found so far is Potrace by Peter Selinger, he has a link to this noise reduction software on the Potrace homepage. Here's what Peter had to say about it:
If the examples on the webpage are representative, then this is the most astonishingly good image regularization filter that I have ever seen. It is based on a non-linear diffusion technique. It can be used for noise and artifact removal, resizing, and inpainting (which means filling in missing image regions). It works on color photographs and cartoons. Both of these programs appear to be top class.
It's funny because I work for a VoIP provider and I'm pretty sure our CEO has done a spot of bee-keeping before. Bees -> Technology, interesting transition.
It's like squatting - using someone's space without paying rent - which, now that I think about it, is a lot like IP law infringement: property "rights" are just as artificial as any other.
There are no fundamental rights. We have what we can defend with brute force -- if we are weak then we look to a lord to protect us.
Why not? Choosing to remain unvaccinated hurts others. (Score:5, Insightful) What's on the menu at the Mod's coffee shop today?
The wiki article linked makes no such claim.
Perhaps > 10% of the pop. making this decision has negative consequences but un-aggregated individuals do not make a difference.
Seriously, you can't force people to take a medicine (especially one that hasn't even finished all the rounds of testing) and hold their education ransom. WTF is wrong with you people!? Here in.au we can opt-out and still send out kids to school. This is some seriously fucked up shit!
The only problem with meds is that you can't make someone take them, especially if they're like "Whatever, I do what I want!". This is a truly sad story. I have authority problems myself -- I fucked-up as a teenager, I have to learn everything on my own -- but now I manage to keep my head down and look after my family. I knew some bad-eggs like this growing up; I'm afraid there's nothing you can do about them short of locking them up.
The problem with *AR is that it's not passive, therefore it's not stealthy as people can "hear" you looking; In Soviet Russia, Enemy finds your RADAR. This is an interesting development.
all whitespace should be regarded equaly (except, understandably, end of line characters) No, all \s should be disregarded. That's what [(),;{}] are for.
You're laughing, but Henry Ford made a car out of corn plastic and hemp fiber. Obviously parts of it were still metal but not the chassis or body. A famous picture (should be easy to google) has him attacking it with an ax and failing to make more than scuffs. Unfortunately Hearst and DuPont lobbied against hemp to protect their paper and plastics industries (respectively) and thus helped make marijuana illegal - quite a change from the pre-war "HEMP FOR VICTORY" etc. And not a day goes by that I don't curse the mother-fuckers; BTW: They're poisoning y'all with their Teflon coated fry-pans. Hemp is such wonderfully useful stuff and so easy to grow not to mention that Cannabinol is a nice pharmaceutical. Why TF do governments fight against it so hard?! Cannabis FTW!!One
A torrent download has the same advantage:-) BBC has lower bandwidth costs. Besides how much bandwidth does it take to suck down a 20MB 320x240 10 min FLV file? Um, 20MB?
If there was justice in the world, Ben & Jerry would have made a Milli Vanilli flavor - fudge and Nilla wafers (which contain no vanilla at all). That reminds me, the Adventists in.au make a brekkie drink called UP&GO (liquid Weet-Bix) and they have a flavour called Vanilla Ice. I wonder if Van Winkle knows about it?
Meh. We're slashdotters. How the hell do WE know if a woman is faking something? Answer: if she's interacting with us with anything other than annoyance and/or disgust? Which a lot of us still won't be able to tell anyway.
Until or unless you can defuse the power of these two control vectors to manipulate the general population, and keep replacement and enhancement vectors from taking their place (oh god, we have to control carbon output) it is my opinion that the governments of both countries will continue to increase pressure on the populace in the areas of rights loss, coercion, and general interference. The benefits are power, as you noted, and financial gains for those who control the system. These are not elements that can be replaced for the power hungry; you can offer no substitute, you can only remove them, and that, of course, will provoke a severe reaction. What surprises me is that if these governments played a bit of give-and-take they would find it much easier to wrest the People's rights from them. You can't take everything away and expect sheeple to continue on with their blissful unawareness. If they stopped bowing to the MAFIAA, let people have their way with the worlds entertainment collateral and make sure broadband was widely accessible; People would sit in their lounge rooms and consume this shit all day in a state of wakeful coma and be totally unaware of anything going on around them. Not to mention the fact that on-line media is an excellent vector for propaganda and mind-control.
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This will make for some interesting re-mixes and mash-ups.
PG FTW!
It seems to have changed to "Every computer is my computer(TM)" -- that totally doesn't not suck.
prolly 358^2 not 128000^2
It's funny because I work for a VoIP provider and I'm pretty sure our CEO has done a spot of bee-keeping before. Bees -> Technology, interesting transition.
I think it was a joke, everyone should lighten up a bit - what's with the Mods rating it Insightful, it's Funny.
Um, EMS are just pushing Z Corp kit.
I really want a Z Corp printer.
It's like squatting - using someone's space without paying rent - which, now that I think about it, is a lot like IP law infringement: property "rights" are just as artificial as any other.
There are no fundamental rights. We have what we can defend with brute force -- if we are weak then we look to a lord to protect us.
The wiki article linked makes no such claim.
Perhaps > 10% of the pop. making this decision has negative consequences but un-aggregated individuals do not make a difference.
Seriously, you can't force people to take a medicine (especially one that hasn't even finished all the rounds of testing) and hold their education ransom. WTF is wrong with you people!? Here in .au we can opt-out and still send out kids to school.
This is some seriously fucked up shit!
The only problem with meds is that you can't make someone take them, especially if they're like "Whatever, I do what I want!". This is a truly sad story. I have authority problems myself -- I fucked-up as a teenager, I have to learn everything on my own -- but now I manage to keep my head down and look after my family. I knew some bad-eggs like this growing up; I'm afraid there's nothing you can do about them short of locking them up.
The problem with *AR is that it's not passive, therefore it's not stealthy as people can "hear" you looking; In Soviet Russia, Enemy finds your RADAR. This is an interesting development.
YFI
- grow some dinosaurs
You fool! You foolish fool! Did you learn NOTHING from Jurassic Park? What, to use <ol> instead of <ul>?Hemp is such wonderfully useful stuff and so easy to grow not to mention that Cannabinol is a nice pharmaceutical. Why TF do governments fight against it so hard?! Cannabis FTW!!One
armchairprognosticators.com -- where people who know fuck-all about anything pretend to be experts in the matter.
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I find it sad that people are attributing the 23 Enigma to Hollywood.
What Wookie?