...but I'm having trouble reading anything with words longer than a few syllables. Here's a sample of real text scrambled.
SAN FICCANSRO, Ciionflara (CNN) -- A fdraeel appales cuort Mdanoy orreedd Coliinrafa olffiiacs to hlat prrtepinoaas for the Oecotbr 7 gnboeutaairrl raecll eotleicn, cniitg ccronnes about a "heurrid, cnntttlliiusaooy iinrfm" psercos.
Sccellapiify, a tehre-judge pnael of the 9th Cuciirt Cuort of Aelppas siad the satte ndeeed to updgare its vontig eiupnmeqt fsirt.
"The ieerhnnt dteecfs in the styesm are such taht aeamxrlppitoy 40,000 vtoers who treval to the polls and csat their bollat will not have thier vtoe cutoend at all," the cuort relud, ciintg vitnog mnicahes that the sacrrteey of sttae's ocffie has daleercd uifnt.
Verots had been shucdleed to go to the polls Obtocer 7 to ddicee wthheer to rvomee Coiilanrfa Gov. Gary Davis, a Domeract.
The battle may haed nxet to the U.S. Surpeme Cruot as an aeottnry for the man who ianettiid the relacl eorfft siad his clenit wuold file an aeppal to the ntioan's top court. The lewor court syeatd its oerdr for sveen dyas to aollw aealpps.
If Mdnaoy's rilnug stands, the raclel vtoe cuold be meovd to Mrcah 2004, wehn it wuold sarhe scpae on the ballot wtih Cfiinloara's prantdiieesl prrimay.
Diavs, who Modnay snpet a scneod day caagpnnmiig with frmoer Peerisndt Cltnoin, siad he was "paeeprrd to cncduot tihs eicleton whnveeer the cruots tlel me the etoliecn is gniog to ouccr."
Divas had phseud for the rclael vtoe to take plcae in Mrach, when the satte's paiisteednrl pmiarry was exeeptcd to draw a hihegr Dimoatrcec tuunrot.
"It seems to me that the more ppoele thnik abuot the raclel, the more that decide to oppsoe it," he said.
ACLU obicejtnos The riunlg foollws a haeirng last week at wichh the Aecramin Cviil Lteeriibs Union aergud that eiloectn oiiafflcs suhlod hvae more time to rapcele attuieqand vitong mechnias in srveeal Clfoniiara citonues.
The ACLU siad the pnuch-card stesym could dnnssiiarcehfe vtroes in six cutneois, iunncidlg Los Ageenls, the sttae's lseargt. Tshoe six ctinoues ildncue 44 peenrct of satte vteros and hvae hvaey cinnnooeattrcs of mrotniiy vetros.
A leowr corut lsat mnoth had rtjeeecd the reeuqst, but the alaepps court dgsiraeed.
"In sum, in ainessssg the pbiluc itsreent, the baacnle fllas hevialy in fvoar of poopsitnng the eoelictn for a few mnohts," the crout cucldoend, cniitg the U.S. Spurmee Corut's Bush v. Groe dosceiin taht seelttd the 2000 piisdeentarl eceitoln.
"The chcioe bteeewn honildg a herruid, cooutttllsiinnay iinrfm elicoetn and one held a sorht tmie later taht assuers vroets that the 'rniaumdtery rturieeeqnms of euaql teentarmt and fudteaannml fnresais are ssaeftiid' is claer."
Mark Reoabusnm, a laywer for the ALCU, cllead the dseociin "a mcatsieerpe."
"To thsoe who say tihs will uspet tginhs, I souppse one asewnr is in fact this is gonig to gvie the vrtoes of Cariioflna mroe tmie to cnoesdir the issues and the caaechrtr and the snausbcte of the ceaatnidds," Raobnusem siad.
The 9th Ccruiit has a reupattoin as bneig one of the msot lbieral aapplltee cotrus in the faeedrl jdcrauiiy, and its dsniiceos are otfen rreeesvd by the Semurpe Cruot.
Aaeppl veowd An aeottrny for Ted Costa, who inatteiid the recall erffot, said he will file an aeppal whiitn two days to the U.S. Spumere Cuort.
Cotsa wlil baypss the srdtaand frdeeal alppaes pcreoss and go sgithrat to the ntiaon's hiegsht court, his antteory Cuhck Dniaomd siad.
Costa is haed of a Sremtncaao-bsaed asvtciit guorp caelld Ppeloe's Atvaocde. The rlcael effrot was llgeray ballonkerd by Dalerrl Issa, a GOP cssmrngeoan and mnoiiillrae bssseaimnun.
Aoctr Alonrd Scanweeehrzggr -- the leinadg Rlaecbpiun cddtaanie to raecple Divas suhold the recall sccueed -- said he wolud cinntuoe his cpmiaagn for goonevrr and cllead on Staeecrry of Satte Kievn Seehlly to appael the diieocsn iialeedtmmy.
"Htiisrollacy,...
Is that easy to read? I guess it's easier than I might have guessed but it;s still hard going.
You are aware, Congress, that you can't legislate the advace of technology right?
Er...governments have been doing that for at least 2000 years and probably longer. A government can legislate that a bunch of people invade a neighboring country by attacking them. A government can legislate that a bunch of scientists go off and research a topic and report on the results. In both cases there's no 100% guarantee of success. It doesn't matter.
Here is an example sweatshop. This is not sweatshop labor. Even the Dell technical support jobs are highly prized jobs with employees well treated, quite different from actual sweatshop jobs that exist in other industries in India. Additionally, the Dell technical support workers are in many cases much more highly qualified than TS workers in the US who are frequently minimum wage workers and from my own personal experience are ignorant morons. The only think that is lacking with Indian TS workers is that they are less familiar with American culture so need a crash course in it (!) to be able to communicate fluently with Americans.
I hire with H1B workers and hang out with H1B workers from India in the large Indian community in Fremont, CA. This is not a community of underpaid workers. This is a highly affluent part of our society. Oh, and my personal experience is that every Indian worker is way more intelligent than the average American worker.
And it has been argued for many years now that web browsers do in effect provide a mini-OS in which other applications can run. If they just relabel Internet Explorer as IE OS they'll be fine.
Unless I prove that there's no way my skills can be found in the States
That's one of the paths you can take to getting a Green Card. But to get an H1B you need to (1) convince an employer to sponsor you and (2) be qualified (eg. a degree in a relevant field). There is no requirement to prove that your skills cannot be found in the US for an H1B.
They BY LAW can only work for the company sponsoring their visa
And BY LAW they can get themselves sponsored by a new company when they want a new job. And they do.
H1B workers do not get paid half. This is utter bullshit. BY LAW they must be paid a fair market rate. I hire H1B workers myself and have man H1B coleagues. Some of the highest paid people in my own company used to be H1B workers until they got Green Cards. It is illegal to underpay H1B workers. The salaries are part of the H1B application and the salaries paid to every single H1B worker are made available publicly and online for anyone to check.
You sound like some loser who couldn't get a job making stuff up to justify your moaning.
Oh, and offshore shitty scripted tech support is no worse than US shitty scripted tech support but costs me less as a customer and the people you deal with aren't such arrogant and ignorant assholes (These jobs are often taken by well educated people in India.). Sounds great to me.
Labor Shortage. There still is a labor shortage. Among all those weenies who pour out of schools with certificates in HTML and Java it's still hard to find people who are actually intelligent or have talent.
If he/she is forbidden by law seek other employment.... They are a highly mobile. There really isn't any difficulty switching jobs if you can convince the new employer to pay the $6000 for a new visa application. This is peanuts compared to salary.
Tax Drain. Eh? Where do you get this bullshit? There is a net flow of tax from H1-B workers.
...that the DVDs have content beyond the movie. Companies actually make an effort with the DVD to sell you something you feel like owning. In many cases the 'bonus' material is a significant quantity of work. Lord of the Rings is a good example. The fact that people appreciate this stuff is reflected in the sales.
What you are suggesting sounds like a really good one to me
That's what I think. But think about it. These people I know make their living from doing visual effects on movies. What is more, some of these people are continuing to work on movies involving Keanu. It's not in their interest to complain loudly. It might not end their career but it'd kinda mess it up. The only thing that would motivate me to do it, in that situation, would be if I stood to make some kind of financial gain out of it.
Note also that if Keanu did pay out the claimed sum to the claimed number of people a large proportion would retire from their jobs. Do you think Warner Bros would be very happy about that? I suspect that WB is in fact are the reason why he didn't make the donation. (Hmmm...I guess it's possible that he will pay up some time in the future.)
PS I trust/. more than Hello magazine. Maybe it's foolish but I know plenty of/.ers in person and they're a pretty knowledgeable and smart bunch (not the general/.ers, just the ones I know). What's more, plenty of/.ers work in digital effects and I wonder if any of them will spot this discussion. If Keanu had in fact paid up it would be well known in the effects world. There is zero gossip about who received the money.
I don't know about the Harleys. I read it in the news so presume it's true:-) (Actually I think it was reported after the fact making it more likely to be true IMHO.)
As for the source. What makes you think I don't have one? I am the source for this story. I can tell you first-hand that it is false. I am on first name terms with several of the visual effects supervisors from Matrix Reloaded. I can't think of a better source:-) (Unless they are secretly stashing the money and denying everything, a remote possibility I guess. But I did ask point blank.)
See if you can find this story reported anywhere in the past tense. And don't believe what you read in the news. Arguably he didn't really renege because he never actually told any individual that it was promised to them.
...human designers. But I'm not convinced that people are making that much effort at generating random puzzles and levels. Just randomly throwing stuff together isn't going to get you anywhere, but machines can appear to do interesting stuff.
Consider playing chess against a machine. Sometimes it can really feel like their is a plot-line behind the moves the machine is making. It seems to me that the same might be true of levels in games if people put as much effort into a random level generator as they put into the rest of the game. In fact, it could be done along the lines of chess: with a machine playing out possible strategies that could be used against a level and then adapting it in response. That way a level could eventually be generated that in fact looks like it was cunningly devised by a person. Not easy, but also not beyond the bounds of plausibility.
That statement is in fact false. I know it was widely reported in the news but what was not widely reported (or even reported at all) was that he didn't in fact pay up at all. It was a feel-good story for magazines like Hello. It had nothing to do with reality.
I read books from Palm Digital Media instead and I presume they'll stay in business for as long as Palm do (how long will that be?). I think e-books are the greatest invention of the 20th century but most people aren't really ready for them yet. I am almost the only person I have ever seen on public transport reading an e-book. And yet I find them really convenient. 1 minute waiting in line at Safeway: time to read a page of a book. Sitting on the toilet: time for a few more pages. I suddenly find I can fit books into my busy life again. It's great!
I can't begin to imagine the frustration for the people working on that project seeing their baby lying there like that. Note the two levels of failure. Even a well designed protocol can fail if the participants are sloppy on a regular basis. There's probably a moral for all of us there.
If a crime was comitted by a large group of people then instead of punishing everyone, a bureaucratic nightmare, the Romans would execute one in ten chosen at random. Hence the word 'decimate'. That seems to be what the RIAA are doing. They're going to wreck the lives of a few randomly chosen kids as a lesson to the others. Seems a little barbaric to me. But it seemed to work for the Romans.
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15.7" of course being the diagonal measurement because everyone knows it's natural to measure the size of a rectangle by its diagonal.
I had no problem reading that. It's about how the recall election in California has been delayed. Am I right?
...but I'm having trouble reading anything with words longer than a few syllables. Here's a sample of real text scrambled.
SAN FICCANSRO, Ciionflara (CNN) -- A fdraeel appales cuort Mdanoy orreedd Coliinrafa olffiiacs to hlat prrtepinoaas for the Oecotbr 7 gnboeutaairrl raecll eotleicn, cniitg ccronnes about a "heurrid, cnntttlliiusaooy iinrfm" psercos.
Sccellapiify, a tehre-judge pnael of the 9th Cuciirt Cuort of Aelppas siad the satte ndeeed to updgare its vontig eiupnmeqt fsirt.
"The ieerhnnt dteecfs in the styesm are such taht aeamxrlppitoy 40,000 vtoers who treval to the polls and csat their bollat will not have thier vtoe cutoend at all," the cuort relud, ciintg vitnog mnicahes that the sacrrteey of sttae's ocffie has daleercd uifnt.
Verots had been shucdleed to go to the polls Obtocer 7 to ddicee wthheer to rvomee Coiilanrfa Gov. Gary Davis, a Domeract.
The battle may haed nxet to the U.S. Surpeme Cruot as an aeottnry for the man who ianettiid the relacl eorfft siad his clenit wuold file an aeppal to the ntioan's top court. The lewor court syeatd its oerdr for sveen dyas to aollw aealpps.
If Mdnaoy's rilnug stands, the raclel vtoe cuold be meovd to Mrcah 2004, wehn it wuold sarhe scpae on the ballot wtih Cfiinloara's prantdiieesl prrimay.
Diavs, who Modnay snpet a scneod day caagpnnmiig with frmoer Peerisndt Cltnoin, siad he was "paeeprrd to cncduot tihs eicleton whnveeer the cruots tlel me the etoliecn is gniog to ouccr."
Divas had phseud for the rclael vtoe to take plcae in Mrach, when the satte's paiisteednrl pmiarry was exeeptcd to draw a hihegr Dimoatrcec tuunrot.
"It seems to me that the more ppoele thnik abuot the raclel, the more that decide to oppsoe it," he said.
ACLU obicejtnos
The riunlg foollws a haeirng last week at wichh the Aecramin Cviil Lteeriibs Union aergud that eiloectn oiiafflcs suhlod hvae more time to rapcele attuieqand vitong mechnias in srveeal Clfoniiara citonues.
The ACLU siad the pnuch-card stesym could dnnssiiarcehfe vtroes in six cutneois, iunncidlg Los Ageenls, the sttae's lseargt. Tshoe six ctinoues ildncue 44 peenrct of satte vteros and hvae hvaey cinnnooeattrcs of mrotniiy vetros.
A leowr corut lsat mnoth had rtjeeecd the reeuqst, but the alaepps court dgsiraeed.
"In sum, in ainessssg the pbiluc itsreent, the baacnle fllas hevialy in fvoar of poopsitnng the eoelictn for a few mnohts," the crout cucldoend, cniitg the U.S. Spurmee Corut's Bush v. Groe dosceiin taht seelttd the 2000 piisdeentarl eceitoln.
"The chcioe bteeewn honildg a herruid, cooutttllsiinnay iinrfm elicoetn and one held a sorht tmie later taht assuers vroets that the 'rniaumdtery rturieeeqnms of euaql teentarmt and fudteaannml fnresais are ssaeftiid' is claer."
Mark Reoabusnm, a laywer for the ALCU, cllead the dseociin "a mcatsieerpe."
"To thsoe who say tihs will uspet tginhs, I souppse one asewnr is in fact this is gonig to gvie the vrtoes of Cariioflna mroe tmie to cnoesdir the issues and the caaechrtr and the snausbcte of the ceaatnidds," Raobnusem siad.
The 9th Ccruiit has a reupattoin as bneig one of the msot lbieral aapplltee cotrus in the faeedrl jdcrauiiy, and its dsniiceos are otfen rreeesvd by the Semurpe Cruot.
Aaeppl veowd
An aeottrny for Ted Costa, who inatteiid the recall erffot, said he will file an aeppal whiitn two days to the U.S. Spumere Cuort.
Cotsa wlil baypss the srdtaand frdeeal alppaes pcreoss and go sgithrat to the ntiaon's hiegsht court, his antteory Cuhck Dniaomd siad.
Costa is haed of a Sremtncaao-bsaed asvtciit guorp caelld Ppeloe's Atvaocde. The rlcael effrot was llgeray ballonkerd by Dalerrl Issa, a GOP cssmrngeoan and mnoiiillrae bssseaimnun.
Aoctr Alonrd Scanweeehrzggr -- the leinadg Rlaecbpiun cddtaanie to raecple Divas suhold the recall sccueed -- said he wolud cinntuoe his cpmiaagn for goonevrr and cllead on Staeecrry of Satte Kievn Seehlly to appael the diieocsn iialeedtmmy.
"Htiisrollacy,...
Is that easy to read? I guess it's easier than I might have guessed but it;s still hard going.
I hire with H1B workers and hang out with H1B workers from India in the large Indian community in Fremont, CA. This is not a community of underpaid workers. This is a highly affluent part of our society. Oh, and my personal experience is that every Indian worker is way more intelligent than the average American worker.
And it has been argued for many years now that web browsers do in effect provide a mini-OS in which other applications can run. If they just relabel Internet Explorer as IE OS they'll be fine.
The US is one of the most nepotic countries. Just look at the President. Americans hire on merit. You're funny!
And BY LAW they can get themselves sponsored by a new company when they want a new job. And they do.
H1B workers do not get paid half. This is utter bullshit. BY LAW they must be paid a fair market rate. I hire H1B workers myself and have man H1B coleagues. Some of the highest paid people in my own company used to be H1B workers until they got Green Cards. It is illegal to underpay H1B workers. The salaries are part of the H1B application and the salaries paid to every single H1B worker are made available publicly and online for anyone to check.
You sound like some loser who couldn't get a job making stuff up to justify your moaning.
Oh, and offshore shitty scripted tech support is no worse than US shitty scripted tech support but costs me less as a customer and the people you deal with aren't such arrogant and ignorant assholes (These jobs are often taken by well educated people in India.). Sounds great to me.
Look how bad the working conditions are there!
...that the DVDs have content beyond the movie. Companies actually make an effort with the DVD to sell you something you feel like owning. In many cases the 'bonus' material is a significant quantity of work. Lord of the Rings is a good example. The fact that people appreciate this stuff is reflected in the sales.
Note also that if Keanu did pay out the claimed sum to the claimed number of people a large proportion would retire from their jobs. Do you think Warner Bros would be very happy about that? I suspect that WB is in fact are the reason why he didn't make the donation. (Hmmm...I guess it's possible that he will pay up some time in the future.)
PS I trust /. more than Hello magazine. Maybe it's foolish but I know plenty of /.ers in person and they're a pretty knowledgeable and smart bunch (not the general /.ers, just the ones I know). What's more, plenty of /.ers work in digital effects and I wonder if any of them will spot this discussion. If Keanu had in fact paid up it would be well known in the effects world. There is zero gossip about who received the money.
As for the source. What makes you think I don't have one? I am the source for this story. I can tell you first-hand that it is false. I am on first name terms with several of the visual effects supervisors from Matrix Reloaded. I can't think of a better source :-) (Unless they are secretly stashing the money and denying everything, a remote possibility I guess. But I did ask point blank.)
See if you can find this story reported anywhere in the past tense. And don't believe what you read in the news. Arguably he didn't really renege because he never actually told any individual that it was promised to them.
Consider playing chess against a machine. Sometimes it can really feel like their is a plot-line behind the moves the machine is making. It seems to me that the same might be true of levels in games if people put as much effort into a random level generator as they put into the rest of the game. In fact, it could be done along the lines of chess: with a machine playing out possible strategies that could be used against a level and then adapting it in response. That way a level could eventually be generated that in fact looks like it was cunningly devised by a person. Not easy, but also not beyond the bounds of plausibility.
That statement is in fact false. I know it was widely reported in the news but what was not widely reported (or even reported at all) was that he didn't in fact pay up at all. It was a feel-good story for magazines like Hello. It had nothing to do with reality.
I read books from Palm Digital Media instead and I presume they'll stay in business for as long as Palm do (how long will that be?). I think e-books are the greatest invention of the 20th century but most people aren't really ready for them yet. I am almost the only person I have ever seen on public transport reading an e-book. And yet I find them really convenient. 1 minute waiting in line at Safeway: time to read a page of a book. Sitting on the toilet: time for a few more pages. I suddenly find I can fit books into my busy life again. It's great!
If you don't like 'e' then you could always try this book which contains no e's. What's that called?
I can't begin to imagine the frustration for the people working on that project seeing their baby lying there like that. Note the two levels of failure. Even a well designed protocol can fail if the participants are sloppy on a regular basis. There's probably a moral for all of us there.
If a crime was comitted by a large group of people then instead of punishing everyone, a bureaucratic nightmare, the Romans would execute one in ten chosen at random. Hence the word 'decimate'. That seems to be what the RIAA are doing. They're going to wreck the lives of a few randomly chosen kids as a lesson to the others. Seems a little barbaric to me. But it seemed to work for the Romans.
And when it does, will it be labeled 'true' or 'false'?
What was that people are saying about the erosion of our rights today?
If you look at the guy's .sig I think you'll see they interpret 'insignificant' differently from you :-)