Taxing per mile means there is no penalty for using an excessively large vehicle with poor fuel consumption over driving a smaller car that uses less fuel. Did I miss something? Is fuel free now?
I use two monitors (because that is all I have right now) and I have a 6990. I use the setup because I enjoy playing Microsoft's Flight Simulator X. I can have my main screen in front of me, and at the moment, one side view. Yes, there is an aspect issue, but it does help. Small planes usually don't fly straight in, they fly a pattern, and that is hard to do on a single screen where you can't glance across your shoulder to see if it is time to turn base or final. With multiple monitors you can physically turn your head and look. There is also the hat switch, which swivels your view as if you were swiveling your head. Thanks to my 6990, this is now a viable option. With my old video card, it would take a second or two for each unit of swivel. Now, I have all my sliders at max, and am still enjoying frame rates from 15 fps to 100+ depending on how dense the scenery and AI is (I have very close to 100% of the actual traffic at most of the airports that I like to fly in and out of).
I'd think all of those things could benefit from knowing where you are to request the information for that area, but presumably would also have another way to specify, "OK, but what if I am GOING to be there and want to know, but am not there right now?" And the back-end system should be completely ignorant of whether you are really there or not. It sounds like right now, the message is "Hey, I'm here, show me what's around", and the message really ought to be "hey, I want to know what's around X and never you mind whether I am there or just curious".
And, as many have pointed out, a lot of that can be told to bugger off in Android, which I would assume would mean you have to type in your zip or something to get info, or maybe you give it a one time access, but I would think a smarter solution would be to just send the information to the back end but not give any indication as to whether that is your current location or just something you want to know about.
Yes, and of course giant mega-corporation is going to make a phone with features YOU -- 18425 -- want and not what the majority of people want.
I don't think the majority of people WANT to be tracked. If they were given the option of device A that tracks and device B that doesn't, I would suspect they would mostly go for B, except for the devices that they were going to give to their kids. However, option B is not available, and so most people seem to prefer to have shiny new toys rather than take a stance to protect their privacy and do without the toy.
Well, I am talking about that, but also about the fact that they aren't legally allowed to sell below certain efficiencies any more, and said efficiency is about what was available 5 years ago, and of course, the newer higher efficiency stuff that they can sell you is not designed to connect to older stuff, so you can't just replace your outdoor unit and expect it to hook up to your inside unit, and if the do hook it up, the old unit may not handle the newer pressures or may not allow the proper amount of flow, which may break the valves on your new unit.
I feel your pain. I have twice now had my WRT54GL router forget about my WPA settings and my site ID and go back to the plain vanilla open router with the site id of Linksys, For some reason, the administrative password is still in place, same with allowed ports, static ips and whatnot, but the site ID and security key is all gone.
They absolutely had WMD and they actively used it on citizens of their own country. I have seen pictures of the aftermath. You can go to northern Iraq to this day and observe the mutated children and talk to the people that lived through it.
The 10,000 year number probably requires some idiotic assumption like "as long as it remains dust free".... and the warranty is void if it is ever exposed to standard atmospheric conditions.
You forgot to mention that perfectly good AC components/fluids/couplers get legislated out of existence every 5 years so if that $20 component breaks, you now have to buy a new $7,000 system.
My shop uses Nuance through two different products, and we are looking into directly interfacing with Abbyy. The results we have seen from Abbyy have been much better than what we have seen through Nuance. I guess mileage varies.
Well, that is where the commercial software has open source beat. They have already trained their OCR on millions of characters. But then, there is no retraining most of them, other than upgrading to the next version when it comes out. Tesseract you can train, but it starts out pretty crappy. Whether Tesseract is of any use to you depends on what your needs are. If you are going to be OCRing something that has a fairly narrow range of image quality and font, then you can train Tesseract to pick it up very specifically and it will probably outperform commercial vendors. If, on the other hand, you need to pick up OCR off of any old crap that someone ran through a scanner, than you will probably immediately see decent results out of the commercial package, and no amount of training in Tesseract will ever improve it much.
Heh, it's always fun to reinterpret requirements to make them easier to implement
That's what out customer's do to us. We promised 95% accuracy rate on OCR per CHARACTER, but they generate their numbers off of how many fields of data had a wrong character in them.
Of course, we also specified that based on clean images scanned at 300 DPI, and they give us crap images scanned at 200 DPI with fold lines , highlighter and pen scribble and apparently their mailing machine sprays some kind of serial number on every single page that runs right over what we need to read.
I doubt we'll hear as much from Sony, though.
I have an account on Playstation Network and they have already sent me a long and thorough e-mail explaining what happened and what the implications are. And since the problem is ongoing, that makes them MORE proactive than Amazon in getting the word out.
Not to mention that Playstation Network is free and any uptime over 0% ought to be considered a bonus. Whereas you are paying for a certain level of service with cloud computing.
Yes, child pornography is shameful, but the legal definition of child pornography extends to far beyond abusing children. A drawing of a fictional 17.9999 year old girl is "child pornography", a 17.9999 year old girl that takes a nude picture of herself and sends it to someone is "child pornography", a couple of teenagers filming themselves having consensual sex on a web cam is "child pornography". It's not even about the age anymore. In some jurisdictions, a 35 year old woman dressed up in pigtails and a schoolgirl outfit is "child pornography". It is not about abusing children anymore, it is about legalizing what you may or may not think. Be careful, if you prefer petite women, you may soon be labeled a "child pornographer".
Why couldn't they just knock on his door, show him the warrant for his arrest and the subpoena for the seizure of his computer?
Because not only was it child porn, but it was Copyrighted Child Porn and he did not own the digital rights to it.
Please note that the preceding comment may have been an attempt at humor and may not actually be true.
For example: why is Texas, with the highest proportion of uninsured in the country, so anti-universal coverage? What is the thought process? Have people been convinced that A leads to Z?
Because insurance is part of the problem in the U.S., not part of the solution. Having access to good and affordable healthcare is what is missing, not having access to expensive insurance, which still requires you to pay all kinds of deductibles and copays, and then you are still liable for whatever the insurance company decides not to pay.
For many people in the U.S., they can afford to have either health care OR insurance, but not both. As someone who makes less than 6 figures, I fall squarely into that category.
Yes, debt collectors will absolutely behave legally, once they understand that you know your rights under the Fair Debt Collection Act. Unfortunately, they can only be penalized if they continue to behave illegally after you have told them that you wish them to stop harassing you at work, on your cell phone or whatever.
Also, debt collectors (and lawyers) seem to have a problem with their mail delivery. Apparently, they only are able to receive mail that has been sent signature verified. If you get a letter in the mail that says you have 30 days to dispute a debt, and you mail them a response via first class mail AND call them to explain that this is not your debt, then the next month you will receive another letter that says "Since you did not respond to our initial letter, you admit that you are responsible for this debt...".
And I love the messages I keep getting on my answering machine, saying "This message is for . If you are not hang up now. By continuing to listen to this message, you admit that you are....". As if they can change who I am by just saying so on an answering machine.
Or the half a dozen calls that I got on my cell phone for a person that used to rent a house from me and who actually still owes me money. The recording on the phone told me to press 2 if I was not this person. I did press 2 every time they called for about a half a dozen times before finally pressing 1 (which means I was admitting I was this person, even though I am not). But by admitting I was this person that I was not, I finally got to talk to a human and tell them that they had better stop calling me, or they would face financial penalties. The calls stopped.
Unfortunately, the Fair Debt Collection act does not offer the same benefits to people who are merely mistaken for being the debtors as it does to the debtors themselves.
And what would you rather that money go to?
Well, for one thing, it could go for me buying my own kids an ipad or other more appropriate learning tool. I can't afford to buy my own kids these tools, but for some reason, I have to fund the government to buy other peoples kids these things. Of course, for every dollar of mine they take to buy one, only about 25 cents actually gets past all the bureaucracy, overhead, administrative costs and bribery to get to the end result. How about they just lower our taxes and let us decide if our kids need an ipad?
Mod parent up. I just got a new computer with a top of the line processor (2600k) and video card (6990) and a 1000Watt power supply, but on the average, even when I am using it, it is consuming far less power than the 1/10th as powerful machine that it replaced. Intelligent fans vary their speed depending on the circumstances. The old one had constant speed fans. If I don't use the computer, it goes into hibernate mode and uses whatever power is necessary to run a couple of LEDs until I click the mouse button, and within about 3 seconds, it is right back to the state I left it in (Thanks to the SSD and 6 Gb SATA).
That has happened to me, as well. But I guess they are not as dumb as we think. For every time they lose 2X the amount having to pay us as consultants, they gain back from 10 other sheep that never ask for a raise.
Lucky you, in the last three jobs that I have had, your net take home pay changed every year only by however much the medical plan payment went up, and of course the real value of your money went down by however much inflation went up.
Well, one reason, I guess would be that it became really hard to find a contract position. But even worse, was that it became hard to find a company position because a lot of job positions clearly stated (probably illegally), "Full time position, no former contractors". Companies felt like they needed to punish IT professionals for trying to earn what they were worth by becoming independent.
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Taxing per mile means there is no penalty for using an excessively large vehicle with poor fuel consumption over driving a smaller car that uses less fuel.
Did I miss something? Is fuel free now?
I use two monitors (because that is all I have right now) and I have a 6990. I use the setup because I enjoy playing Microsoft's Flight Simulator X. I can have my main screen in front of me, and at the moment, one side view. Yes, there is an aspect issue, but it does help. Small planes usually don't fly straight in, they fly a pattern, and that is hard to do on a single screen where you can't glance across your shoulder to see if it is time to turn base or final. With multiple monitors you can physically turn your head and look. There is also the hat switch, which swivels your view as if you were swiveling your head. Thanks to my 6990, this is now a viable option. With my old video card, it would take a second or two for each unit of swivel. Now, I have all my sliders at max, and am still enjoying frame rates from 15 fps to 100+ depending on how dense the scenery and AI is (I have very close to 100% of the actual traffic at most of the airports that I like to fly in and out of).
I'd think all of those things could benefit from knowing where you are to request the information for that area, but presumably would also have another way to specify, "OK, but what if I am GOING to be there and want to know, but am not there right now?" And the back-end system should be completely ignorant of whether you are really there or not. It sounds like right now, the message is "Hey, I'm here, show me what's around", and the message really ought to be "hey, I want to know what's around X and never you mind whether I am there or just curious".
And, as many have pointed out, a lot of that can be told to bugger off in Android, which I would assume would mean you have to type in your zip or something to get info, or maybe you give it a one time access, but I would think a smarter solution would be to just send the information to the back end but not give any indication as to whether that is your current location or just something you want to know about.
Yes, and of course giant mega-corporation is going to make a phone with features YOU -- 18425 -- want and not what the majority of people want.
I don't think the majority of people WANT to be tracked. If they were given the option of device A that tracks and device B that doesn't, I would suspect they would mostly go for B, except for the devices that they were going to give to their kids. However, option B is not available, and so most people seem to prefer to have shiny new toys rather than take a stance to protect their privacy and do without the toy.
Well, I am talking about that, but also about the fact that they aren't legally allowed to sell below certain efficiencies any more, and said efficiency is about what was available 5 years ago, and of course, the newer higher efficiency stuff that they can sell you is not designed to connect to older stuff, so you can't just replace your outdoor unit and expect it to hook up to your inside unit, and if the do hook it up, the old unit may not handle the newer pressures or may not allow the proper amount of flow, which may break the valves on your new unit.
The people on home plans didn't have any caps either...until they did.
I feel your pain. I have twice now had my WRT54GL router forget about my WPA settings and my site ID and go back to the plain vanilla open router with the site id of Linksys, For some reason, the administrative password is still in place, same with allowed ports, static ips and whatnot, but the site ID and security key is all gone.
They absolutely had WMD and they actively used it on citizens of their own country. I have seen pictures of the aftermath. You can go to northern Iraq to this day and observe the mutated children and talk to the people that lived through it.
The 10,000 year number probably requires some idiotic assumption like "as long as it remains dust free".... and the warranty is void if it is ever exposed to standard atmospheric conditions.
I would estimate about a dollar less than it is worth now.
You forgot to mention that perfectly good AC components/fluids/couplers get legislated out of existence every 5 years so if that $20 component breaks, you now have to buy a new $7,000 system.
My shop uses Nuance through two different products, and we are looking into directly interfacing with Abbyy. The results we have seen from Abbyy have been much better than what we have seen through Nuance. I guess mileage varies.
Well, that is where the commercial software has open source beat. They have already trained their OCR on millions of characters. But then, there is no retraining most of them, other than upgrading to the next version when it comes out. Tesseract you can train, but it starts out pretty crappy. Whether Tesseract is of any use to you depends on what your needs are. If you are going to be OCRing something that has a fairly narrow range of image quality and font, then you can train Tesseract to pick it up very specifically and it will probably outperform commercial vendors. If, on the other hand, you need to pick up OCR off of any old crap that someone ran through a scanner, than you will probably immediately see decent results out of the commercial package, and no amount of training in Tesseract will ever improve it much.
Heh, it's always fun to reinterpret requirements to make them easier to implement That's what out customer's do to us. We promised 95% accuracy rate on OCR per CHARACTER, but they generate their numbers off of how many fields of data had a wrong character in them.
Of course, we also specified that based on clean images scanned at 300 DPI, and they give us crap images scanned at 200 DPI with fold lines , highlighter and pen scribble and apparently their mailing machine sprays some kind of serial number on every single page that runs right over what we need to read.
I doubt we'll hear as much from Sony, though.
I have an account on Playstation Network and they have already sent me a long and thorough e-mail explaining what happened and what the implications are. And since the problem is ongoing, that makes them MORE proactive than Amazon in getting the word out.
Not to mention that Playstation Network is free and any uptime over 0% ought to be considered a bonus. Whereas you are paying for a certain level of service with cloud computing.
The 24-hour $2.99 rentals look and feel a lot more like Amazon's video rental service (excluding Prime) than it does Netflix's all-you-can-eat model.
Consumer of video services: "Pay as you go video is a dead service model. We demand all-you-can-eat pricing."
Consumer of cable TV: "Broadcast pricing is a dead service model. We demand a-la-carte pricing."
Service providers: "???"
Yes, child pornography is shameful, but the legal definition of child pornography extends to far beyond abusing children. A drawing of a fictional 17.9999 year old girl is "child pornography", a 17.9999 year old girl that takes a nude picture of herself and sends it to someone is "child pornography", a couple of teenagers filming themselves having consensual sex on a web cam is "child pornography". It's not even about the age anymore. In some jurisdictions, a 35 year old woman dressed up in pigtails and a schoolgirl outfit is "child pornography". It is not about abusing children anymore, it is about legalizing what you may or may not think. Be careful, if you prefer petite women, you may soon be labeled a "child pornographer".
Why couldn't they just knock on his door, show him the warrant for his arrest and the subpoena for the seizure of his computer?
Because not only was it child porn, but it was Copyrighted Child Porn and he did not own the digital rights to it.
Please note that the preceding comment may have been an attempt at humor and may not actually be true.
For example: why is Texas, with the highest proportion of uninsured in the country, so anti-universal coverage? What is the thought process? Have people been convinced that A leads to Z?
Because insurance is part of the problem in the U.S., not part of the solution. Having access to good and affordable healthcare is what is missing, not having access to expensive insurance, which still requires you to pay all kinds of deductibles and copays, and then you are still liable for whatever the insurance company decides not to pay.
For many people in the U.S., they can afford to have either health care OR insurance, but not both. As someone who makes less than 6 figures, I fall squarely into that category.
Yes, debt collectors will absolutely behave legally, once they understand that you know your rights under the Fair Debt Collection Act. Unfortunately, they can only be penalized if they continue to behave illegally after you have told them that you wish them to stop harassing you at work, on your cell phone or whatever. ....". As if they can change who I am by just saying so on an answering machine.
Also, debt collectors (and lawyers) seem to have a problem with their mail delivery. Apparently, they only are able to receive mail that has been sent signature verified. If you get a letter in the mail that says you have 30 days to dispute a debt, and you mail them a response via first class mail AND call them to explain that this is not your debt, then the next month you will receive another letter that says "Since you did not respond to our initial letter, you admit that you are responsible for this debt...".
And I love the messages I keep getting on my answering machine, saying "This message is for . If you are not hang up now. By continuing to listen to this message, you admit that you are
Or the half a dozen calls that I got on my cell phone for a person that used to rent a house from me and who actually still owes me money. The recording on the phone told me to press 2 if I was not this person. I did press 2 every time they called for about a half a dozen times before finally pressing 1 (which means I was admitting I was this person, even though I am not). But by admitting I was this person that I was not, I finally got to talk to a human and tell them that they had better stop calling me, or they would face financial penalties. The calls stopped.
Unfortunately, the Fair Debt Collection act does not offer the same benefits to people who are merely mistaken for being the debtors as it does to the debtors themselves.
And what would you rather that money go to?
Well, for one thing, it could go for me buying my own kids an ipad or other more appropriate learning tool. I can't afford to buy my own kids these tools, but for some reason, I have to fund the government to buy other peoples kids these things. Of course, for every dollar of mine they take to buy one, only about 25 cents actually gets past all the bureaucracy, overhead, administrative costs and bribery to get to the end result. How about they just lower our taxes and let us decide if our kids need an ipad?
Mod parent up. I just got a new computer with a top of the line processor (2600k) and video card (6990) and a 1000Watt power supply, but on the average, even when I am using it, it is consuming far less power than the 1/10th as powerful machine that it replaced. Intelligent fans vary their speed depending on the circumstances. The old one had constant speed fans. If I don't use the computer, it goes into hibernate mode and uses whatever power is necessary to run a couple of LEDs until I click the mouse button, and within about 3 seconds, it is right back to the state I left it in (Thanks to the SSD and 6 Gb SATA).
That has happened to me, as well. But I guess they are not as dumb as we think. For every time they lose 2X the amount having to pay us as consultants, they gain back from 10 other sheep that never ask for a raise.
Lucky you, in the last three jobs that I have had, your net take home pay changed every year only by however much the medical plan payment went up, and of course the real value of your money went down by however much inflation went up.
Well, one reason, I guess would be that it became really hard to find a contract position. But even worse, was that it became hard to find a company position because a lot of job positions clearly stated (probably illegally), "Full time position, no former contractors". Companies felt like they needed to punish IT professionals for trying to earn what they were worth by becoming independent.