What I'd like to see is a whale that tastes like Kobe beef. Now there's a genuinely good hybrid right there. Although maybe some of the Kobe beef's taste is actually in the price.:-) Haven't tasted it myself though.
IMHO, the method by which people get to influence politics doesn't matter too much. What matters is that people need to feel confident their opinion matters. One way to achieve this would be to ask the people more often. E-voting would enable just this. People wouldn't care if they couldn't verify 100% that their vote was correctly registered if the outcome of the whole election reflected anticipated public opinion (public opinion is quite closely measured already by various polls, etc.). E-voting could enable the public to influence decision making more often with voting on actual concrete issues, and not just votes of power. A bit like the early democracy in Athens where decisions were publicly voted for at the city square!
Here in Finland I pay 4 (euro)cents per SMS sent. No charge for receiving. Last year EU started investigating whether cap roaming costs for SMSs. If this goes through (like it did with roaming costs for calls), it should lower country-to-country SMS costs too.
Anywhere in Europe or Asia ought to work. No "divesting of shoes" anywhere I've traveled outside the USA.
Just last December I witnessed the security folk of Malpensa airport, Milan make a fairly old lady (60-ish) take off her shoes and walk through the metal detector barefoot. I wasn't particularly concerned that her shoes would explode, but apparently the macaroni's were.
I would add that people should be allowed to submit evidence of prior-art after patent acceptance without having to go through legal processes (violating the patent, going to court, and then *hoping* to win).
Even better alternative would be to tap into the fountain of knowledge of the online community. A tech-savvy forum could be established where contrivances were judged based on their objective merits and imperfections! A community of experts of a many metier, intellectuals, (wo)men of wisdom! A truly impartial judgment would be passed to the triumph or defeat of the petitioner! Where, oh where could this ultimate source of wisdom be found?
Either that or he built a universe, made it work and these laws are just documenting how his code functions.
That's actually a pretty good comparison. Like most documentation, it's clean and concise on the higher levels. But once you study the code, you realize there's no intelligent design in the works there. The string handling is awful and atomic operations are all quarky..
do anything from mapping a 12-dimensional object to calculating rainfall patterns under global warming
So those two things are at the extrema of a continuum of what it can do, and I have to figure out whether my particular application also lies on that continuum? Or am I taking this statement too literally?
Well, just install the software, and let it interpolate the answer for you!
CT images are commonly stored in DICOM [medical.nema.org] format. They are not stored as 3D mesh objects (like 3D apps do), but rather in CT slice packs. It's up to the software using the images (such as a treatment planning system) to construct a 3D image such as seen in the BBC article. The scanner itself is dumb with regards to human analogy. It just scans the density of the mater between the scanning elements and reconstructs a series of 2D images. Creating a 3D image from the stack is pretty straightforward, but contouring organs such as blood vessels, bones, muscles is a completely different story.
(For that matter, I sometimes use IrfanView + a DICOM plugin to look at CT images.)
Even better than that, the computers being sold as 'green PC' meaning thats the mfr's product name, and has nothing to do with being enviromentally conscious.
Not only that, I heard that Alienware PC's are in fact, not made by aliens at all.
What shocks me the most is that Pine Computers are in fact, not made out of pine at all.
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The answer is none. None more darker.
What 10 year old or 20 year old nugget of information still serves you in WinDOS?
Umm, for example:
* if problemos, reboot machine
* if still problemos, reinstall Win
Next time you think about putting your new quantum motherboard in your mouth think again.
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger! And this baby does both! Or does it?
Sure beats being under the hill.
Frodo, is that you?Security by not accidentally doing something you shouldn't. Sounds foolproof!
What I'd like to see is a whale that tastes like Kobe beef. Now there's a genuinely good hybrid right there. Although maybe some of the Kobe beef's taste is actually in the price. :-) Haven't tasted it myself though.
IMHO, the method by which people get to influence politics doesn't matter too much. What matters is that people need to feel confident their opinion matters. One way to achieve this would be to ask the people more often. E-voting would enable just this. People wouldn't care if they couldn't verify 100% that their vote was correctly registered if the outcome of the whole election reflected anticipated public opinion (public opinion is quite closely measured already by various polls, etc.). E-voting could enable the public to influence decision making more often with voting on actual concrete issues, and not just votes of power. A bit like the early democracy in Athens where decisions were publicly voted for at the city square!
Here in Finland I pay 4 (euro)cents per SMS sent. No charge for receiving. Last year EU started investigating whether cap roaming costs for SMSs. If this goes through (like it did with roaming costs for calls), it should lower country-to-country SMS costs too.
The Pope's support for evolution is the same as Microsoft's support for open standars - with few caveats.
Even better alternative would be to tap into the fountain of knowledge of the online community. A tech-savvy forum could be established where contrivances were judged based on their objective merits and imperfections! A community of experts of a many metier, intellectuals, (wo)men of wisdom! A truly impartial judgment would be passed to the triumph or defeat of the petitioner! Where, oh where could this ultimate source of wisdom be found?
Nasdaq confirms it, SCO is dead!
And we LIKED it!
Now get off my lawn! Or snow..
That's actually a pretty good comparison. Like most documentation, it's clean and concise on the higher levels. But once you study the code, you realize there's no intelligent design in the works there. The string handling is awful and atomic operations are all quarky..
Well, just install the software, and let it interpolate the answer for you!
CT images are commonly stored in DICOM [medical.nema.org] format. They are not stored as 3D mesh objects (like 3D apps do), but rather in CT slice packs. It's up to the software using the images (such as a treatment planning system) to construct a 3D image such as seen in the BBC article. The scanner itself is dumb with regards to human analogy. It just scans the density of the mater between the scanning elements and reconstructs a series of 2D images. Creating a 3D image from the stack is pretty straightforward, but contouring organs such as blood vessels, bones, muscles is a completely different story.
(For that matter, I sometimes use IrfanView + a DICOM plugin to look at CT images.)
Another similarly odd X-ray machine was used for fitting shoes [www.orau.org]. Indeed it showed precisely how well a new shoe would fit.
That kinda study would be nice, though.
Oh come on guys, quit mocking about! Can we start blaming this on ol' Micro$oft already?
Not to mention that the particular website would, for one, welcome the new robot boat-building overlords!