This has actually happened. A researcher investigating the behaviour of pickpockets was wearing a tiny camera mounted to his glasses for a TV documentary. He forgot he was wearing the cam when he took a much needed break and the producers had to edit the footage! http://www.iht.com/articles/510133.html tells the story.
A swarm of nerds? Now that I think about it, the mugging might be broadcast live to the police hotline and/or a blog with those phonecams they have nowadays.
Pete, reconsidering his evil plan
Sounds like a good way to attract a nerdly victim with some high value electronic gear. Just punch the panic button and wait for the targets to walk up to you.
I'm a Bigpond customer - I actually have two accounts with them - and I've been seeing a lot of this stuff recently. Not your usual spam, but spam addressed to half a dozen or ten subscribers in alphabetical order. It's not spammers just picking likely addresses, neither - some of these addresses are quite specific and you'd be unlikely to guess them or find them with a brute forcer.
Mind you, it's easy enough to control. I just pick the address next to mine in the list and any mail I get addressed to that chap goes in the bin.
Cheers, Peter
Neither article provides any reliable source for the prediction that Linux will pass Apple in the desktop market. It's speculation.
If you check Google Zeitgeist http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html you'll see that in the percentage of operating systems used to access Google, Linux has remained steady on 1% since Google began keeping records. Desktop users use search engines - servers don't, so that's an excellent way of spotting desktop trends.
Likewise if you check out Usenet volumes through Google, you'll see that posting volumes on Linux-specific newsgroups have declined.
I can't see any evidence for increased Linux desktop share in the real world.
What I *can* see is the same tired old predictions by Linux boosters that we saw for Mac boosters as to future success. It's not happening.
Good to see NASA making efforts to eliminate foamstrike, but what about other objects? Birdstrike is a possibility for at least the first few thousand feet, but there's enough orbiting debris to take out a shuttle.
Remember that paint flake that caused a pit in a shuttle windscreen a while back? If that had hit a wing leading edge, making just a tiny hole, the Columbia disaster would have occurred a decade earlier.
And there are any number of objects in orbit larger than a paint flake and smaller than a spent booster.
I suggest that no two Earthlink customers will be able to communicate with each other unless they work something out beforehand to add each other to their approved senders list.
Seems like a molehill of beans to me. The license is contained on the CD - you can print it out if you want.
By installing the software you agree to the license terms.
And multiple use is not OK, for the simple reason that you need to register the product with Microsoft in order to be able to use it.
Consider the eval software you can download from Microsoft's website - you don't get anything physical, just a bunch of files on your hard disk.
Yeah, I'm another Joe Blow reviewer. If I finish a book and it's good, I like to share the news. If it's a dud, I'll also pass that on, particularly if I've wasted money or a lot of time on it. The in-between stuff, who cares.
Aonther point - why do we keep on thinking of artificial intelligence as something like HAL 9000 or Data? I think we'll be waiting a long time for superhuman intelligence, but that Homer-Simpson level AI is already here. HS is human, and he's good for lots of routine tasks. You wouldn't play chess or discuss shakespeare with him, but if you want to know if it's raining outside, just ask.
"A human will be able to read past the superposition, while a computer will not, and thus fails the test."
By cousin's blind and therefore not human. Hmmm
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Could a comment that says "This isn't funny" be labelled as Funny with a score of 5. Pete, who thought it was hilarious.
This has actually happened. A researcher investigating the behaviour of pickpockets was wearing a tiny camera mounted to his glasses for a TV documentary. He forgot he was wearing the cam when he took a much needed break and the producers had to edit the footage! http://www.iht.com/articles/510133.html tells the story.
A swarm of nerds? Now that I think about it, the mugging might be broadcast live to the police hotline and/or a blog with those phonecams they have nowadays. Pete, reconsidering his evil plan
Sounds like a good way to attract a nerdly victim with some high value electronic gear. Just punch the panic button and wait for the targets to walk up to you.
Pete, using the dark side
Judging by sales figures?
Having a planet smash into them would have stuffed up their real estate values, I'm thinking.
I'm a Bigpond customer - I actually have two accounts with them - and I've been seeing a lot of this stuff recently. Not your usual spam, but spam addressed to half a dozen or ten subscribers in alphabetical order. It's not spammers just picking likely addresses, neither - some of these addresses are quite specific and you'd be unlikely to guess them or find them with a brute forcer. Mind you, it's easy enough to control. I just pick the address next to mine in the list and any mail I get addressed to that chap goes in the bin. Cheers, Peter
Neither article provides any reliable source for the prediction that Linux will pass Apple in the desktop market. It's speculation. If you check Google Zeitgeist http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html you'll see that in the percentage of operating systems used to access Google, Linux has remained steady on 1% since Google began keeping records. Desktop users use search engines - servers don't, so that's an excellent way of spotting desktop trends. Likewise if you check out Usenet volumes through Google, you'll see that posting volumes on Linux-specific newsgroups have declined. I can't see any evidence for increased Linux desktop share in the real world. What I *can* see is the same tired old predictions by Linux boosters that we saw for Mac boosters as to future success. It's not happening.
Good to see NASA making efforts to eliminate foamstrike, but what about other objects? Birdstrike is a possibility for at least the first few thousand feet, but there's enough orbiting debris to take out a shuttle. Remember that paint flake that caused a pit in a shuttle windscreen a while back? If that had hit a wing leading edge, making just a tiny hole, the Columbia disaster would have occurred a decade earlier. And there are any number of objects in orbit larger than a paint flake and smaller than a spent booster.
I suggest that no two Earthlink customers will be able to communicate with each other unless they work something out beforehand to add each other to their approved senders list.
Seems like a molehill of beans to me. The license is contained on the CD - you can print it out if you want. By installing the software you agree to the license terms. And multiple use is not OK, for the simple reason that you need to register the product with Microsoft in order to be able to use it. Consider the eval software you can download from Microsoft's website - you don't get anything physical, just a bunch of files on your hard disk.
Four of us piled into a Pinto (I remember that vividly - I was the smallest of the group, and had to sit in the middle of the back seat!)
Hang on. How many seats in a Pinto?
Yeah, I'm another Joe Blow reviewer. If I finish a book and it's good, I like to share the news. If it's a dud, I'll also pass that on, particularly if I've wasted money or a lot of time on it. The in-between stuff, who cares.
Aonther point - why do we keep on thinking of artificial intelligence as something like HAL 9000 or Data? I think we'll be waiting a long time for superhuman intelligence, but that Homer-Simpson level AI is already here. HS is human, and he's good for lots of routine tasks. You wouldn't play chess or discuss shakespeare with him, but if you want to know if it's raining outside, just ask.
The spelling erra gives you away.
Reassembling the image would be easy enough - just get the computer to look at the edges and match up strips with similar edges.
"A human will be able to read past the superposition, while a computer will not, and thus fails the test." By cousin's blind and therefore not human. Hmmm