You see, the terrorists are seeking to steal Americans' freedom, because they have none of their own. In order to prevent this, the US Government is taking all your freedom and locking it away, so that the terrorists can't get to it. Currently you've still got lots of freedoms lying around in the open, but the government is even now working to lock down those too. Pretty soon America won't have any freedom at all, and the terrorists will have to give up and find another free country to terrorise.
I'd also be interested in the false positive / false negative rates, and the overall rate of blood clots.
Eg, suppose 1 in 10 patients develop blood clots under some circumstances. You could get a 90% accuracy by making a device that just reports "No clots" every time. If you're classifying 98% of clots as clots and 98% of nonclots as nonclots, over 1000 tests you'll have 98 blood clots correctly identified, 2 missed, and 18 nonclots misclassified as clots..
(obviously I have no idea what the true rate of blood clots is)
Of course, the engineers who made the device and the scientists who test it almost certainly know all this, so I'm not being particularly insightful. If they call it a breakthrough or think it will be useful, then they're probably right. We just can't tell either way from the article...
("Mainstream news article lacks useful details: film at 11!")
Food is cheaper to import for you guys because your farms are inefficient because the government subsidises them.. In NZ, we have no farm subsidies, we have labour protection laws and reasonable minimum wages, and our farms still export a lot.
According to TFA, the base station is only at a "known GPS position". It presumably doesn't need an antenna; they just have to know where it is when they install it, and bolt it to the floor so that it doesn't move.
So it seems to me that you could delete the word "GPS" from this article and everything would still make perfect sense...
(since you say it's been done before, it's easy to see a parallel with software patents too. Software patent: "We're going to do this thing that everyone does... on the internet!" This patent: "We're going to do this thing that's been done before... with GPS!")
No, no, Pluto is only a planet when it is passing through New Mexico's night skies. So what you do is you take a line from the centre of the earth through each point on New Mexico's borders, so that you end up with a kind of cone with a New Mexico cross-section. Extend that cone out to infinity, and whenever Pluto passes through the cone (or the cone sweeps over Pluto), it suddenly becomes a planet..
If I've got several terminal windows open, I might want to switch between one of them and (say) my web browser. I can't do this effectively with cmd-tab because it will bring all the terminal windows to the front, when I only want one..
Do not open or save Word files that you receive from un-trusted sources or that you receive unexpectedly from trusted sources. This vulnerability could be exploited when a user opens a specially crafted Word file.
If you send an email to Fred saying "Can you send me xxxx", and Fred replies, saying "Here it is", you can probably safely open the attachment. You should just exercise caution when Fred sends you an email out of the blue saying "Hey, read this would you?".
He could call managers into his office one at a time and throw chairs at them. Those that can't get out of the way quickly enough get made redundant on medical grounds.
Your "leftist party first, right wing party second" result could be indicitive of the difficulties of compressing the variety of political standpoints into a single "left right" spectrum.
Have you seen the political compass? It uses two dimensions instead of one to represent political positions. See here for an example of what it looks like.
I'm obviously speculating wildly here, because I don't know anything about either your politics or Dutch politics in general, but could it be that the two parties were, say, on different sides of the vertical axis, but at a similar height?
So, what you'll do is, first you'll search for the account you want to log in as. Once you've found it and logged in, you'll have to search for the application you want to run. Like, say you're working on a presentation. You might search for "presentation slideshow application pretty". Then, if you're working on a document you've opened before, you'll have to search for it, and hope it still has a good pagerank. Or, if you're making a new document, you'll search for storage space on the internet to save it.
It's all part of Web 4.0, where the users are freed from having to worry about what application to use, or what document to write, and it taps into the open-source "many eyeballs" system, where other people will be able to improve your documents for you, or Google will be able to find better ones that you can use instead.
It'll be a stepping stone towards Web 5.0, when Google realises that everything people can do with computers boils down to searching for the right bitstrings amongst the set of all bitstrings, and Web 6.0, when Google's develops search algorithms that can search for the sorts of searches that you should be searching for, and people finally become obsolete.
I went to a public lecture by David Crystal earlier in the year. He was talking about the effect of the internet on language. His basic thesis was: "OMG, there's a language revolution going on under our noses! Isn't this awesome??". He cited the resurrection of the -en plural form as one of the really cool things happening.
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You almost had it.
You see, the terrorists are seeking to steal Americans' freedom, because they have none of their own. In order to prevent this, the US Government is taking all your freedom and locking it away, so that the terrorists can't get to it. Currently you've still got lots of freedoms lying around in the open, but the government is even now working to lock down those too. Pretty soon America won't have any freedom at all, and the terrorists will have to give up and find another free country to terrorise.
As I understand it, if the government censor refuses to classify a DVD, then you cannot legally buy it in Australia.
I'd also be interested in the false positive / false negative rates, and the overall rate of blood clots.
Eg, suppose 1 in 10 patients develop blood clots under some circumstances. You could get a 90% accuracy by making a device that just reports "No clots" every time. If you're classifying 98% of clots as clots and 98% of nonclots as nonclots, over 1000 tests you'll have 98 blood clots correctly identified, 2 missed, and 18 nonclots misclassified as clots..
(obviously I have no idea what the true rate of blood clots is)
Of course, the engineers who made the device and the scientists who test it almost certainly know all this, so I'm not being particularly insightful. If they call it a breakthrough or think it will be useful, then they're probably right. We just can't tell either way from the article...
("Mainstream news article lacks useful details: film at 11!")
Uh, yesterday. It's not small beans either: It's the XBOX 360.
How much has the PC market grown in the six years since Windows XP was released?
You have to be careful genetically modifying sheep — you never know what will happen..
So, they started the simulation over six years ago?
Food is cheaper to import for you guys because your farms are inefficient because the government subsidises them.. In NZ, we have no farm subsidies, we have labour protection laws and reasonable minimum wages, and our farms still export a lot.
According to TFA, the base station is only at a "known GPS position". It presumably doesn't need an antenna; they just have to know where it is when they install it, and bolt it to the floor so that it doesn't move.
So it seems to me that you could delete the word "GPS" from this article and everything would still make perfect sense...
(since you say it's been done before, it's easy to see a parallel with software patents too. Software patent: "We're going to do this thing that everyone does ... on the internet!" This patent: "We're going to do this thing that's been done before ... with GPS!")
No, no, Pluto is only a planet when it is passing through New Mexico's night skies. So what you do is you take a line from the centre of the earth through each point on New Mexico's borders, so that you end up with a kind of cone with a New Mexico cross-section. Extend that cone out to infinity, and whenever Pluto passes through the cone (or the cone sweeps over Pluto), it suddenly becomes a planet..
Amazon puts a lot of guff in its URLs. You can usually just delete it. eg: http://www.amazon.com/Skyhook-John-J-Nance/dp/0515 13712X.
I'm a bit both-ways on this.
If I've got several terminal windows open, I might want to switch between one of them and (say) my web browser. I can't do this effectively with cmd-tab because it will bring all the terminal windows to the front, when I only want one..
To complete the immersion, they could ship a blindfold with the game ...
So, about 84 centimetres per litre? Geez, even a hummer gets better mileage than that..
It's still illegal in New Zealand..
(and the local recording industry is fighting hard against a suggested law change)
The actual quote from the Microsoft page is:
If you send an email to Fred saying "Can you send me xxxx", and Fred replies, saying "Here it is", you can probably safely open the attachment. You should just exercise caution when Fred sends you an email out of the blue saying "Hey, read this would you?".
Some dude being sued by the RIAA is taking that line: "Napster paid for my sins."
Damn, Ars did a story about it recently, but I can't find it.
He could call managers into his office one at a time and throw chairs at them. Those that can't get out of the way quickly enough get made redundant on medical grounds.
Guaranteed to produce a more agile company...
"The review was conducted for Chancellor Gordon Brown by Andrew Gowers, a former editor of the Financial Times.
His first big hit was Move It, recorded in 1958, when he was hailed as the British Elvis."
OMG, Gordon Brown was hailed as the "British Elvis"! Who knew?
Your "leftist party first, right wing party second" result could be indicitive of the difficulties of compressing the variety of political standpoints into a single "left right" spectrum.
Have you seen the political compass? It uses two dimensions instead of one to represent political positions. See here for an example of what it looks like.
I'm obviously speculating wildly here, because I don't know anything about either your politics or Dutch politics in general, but could it be that the two parties were, say, on different sides of the vertical axis, but at a similar height?
No, no, no, Google is all about search, remember?
So, what you'll do is, first you'll search for the account you want to log in as. Once you've found it and logged in, you'll have to search for the application you want to run. Like, say you're working on a presentation. You might search for "presentation slideshow application pretty". Then, if you're working on a document you've opened before, you'll have to search for it, and hope it still has a good pagerank. Or, if you're making a new document, you'll search for storage space on the internet to save it.
It's all part of Web 4.0, where the users are freed from having to worry about what application to use, or what document to write, and it taps into the open-source "many eyeballs" system, where other people will be able to improve your documents for you, or Google will be able to find better ones that you can use instead.
It'll be a stepping stone towards Web 5.0, when Google realises that everything people can do with computers boils down to searching for the right bitstrings amongst the set of all bitstrings, and Web 6.0, when Google's develops search algorithms that can search for the sorts of searches that you should be searching for, and people finally become obsolete.
I went to a public lecture by David Crystal earlier in the year. He was talking about the effect of the internet on language. His basic thesis was: "OMG, there's a language revolution going on under our noses! Isn't this awesome??". He cited the resurrection of the -en plural form as one of the really cool things happening.
Then you may be interested to know that Chris Tolkien is releasing Narn i Chîn Húrin as a standalone novel next year..
Off-topic, but this reminds me of the old story of the head of Vecna...
Couldn't you equivalently do <span>jsmith</span>@<span>example.com</span> ? You still lose the mailto though..
(I suppose you could toss in <span style="display: none">fnarfnarfnar</span> or something as well, if you want to confuse matters slightly more)
Would copy/paste insert whitespace anywhere where you don't want it?