The original Expression app that MS bought years ago was a great start on a different style of drawing/painting app. The vectored brush shapes were innovative. MS bought it, gave it away for awhile, and that was the last I heard of it. MS really doesn't have any credibility with designers.
"can potentially pass the infection on,"
How?
The entire pathogen analogy is invalid in this case. Biological pathogens put into an environment that doesn't support them die. The same is true of a malware file downloaded to a Mac. It's dead. The malware delivery truck went over the side of 1000 meter cliff and left bits of nothing significant, just some file clutter.
Excellent point. While those of us with nominal color vision consider those who cannot see the world reflected with the equivalent contrasts and delineation as color-"blind," that term does have a built-in prejudice. Rather than classifying the lack of nominal perception as blindness, these conditions might be better understood and accepted if the possible enhancements afforded these differing perceivers have were noted instead.
However, to the question of the morality of treating, or changing their visual perception to a more nominal state, let the individual choose. They know better than nominal viewers how they can and cannot compensate. The only fault with that decision is that it's likely not going to be a fully informed choice.
He apparently see's the information as being so obvious as to negate it's sensitivity.
I'd much prefer a little information sunshine to fabricated classifications, e.g. "Treat as Secret," anyday.
If all you're doing is listening then the logic holds up.
Your logic falls apart when you start transmitting signals back to the router and using the network hardware that is located on private property.
Hmm, listening?
Router: I'm here.
Computer: Will you talk to me?
R: Sure, I'll even let you talk to the world through me.
C: Cool, and they can talk back.
R: Yep, all the blogs and porn you can handle....
If I overhear a conversational snippet, from a table next to me, that interests me and I interject. The people at that table can act offended that I invaded their space and reject me from joining, however little, their conversation; or they can accept and allow me to join their conversation. A wi-fi access point is much the same
By that logic every president worth his salt should be impeached.
The "great" presidents were the ones that creatively interpreted or outright broke the law - it is history that place the violations as great advances or horrible steps backwards.
Complete and utter bullshit! History may ammend. but it does not render the most egregious crimes moot. Mussolini's train schedules pale, and no matter how sweet the tune Nero's fiddle underscores his culpability.
History will add concision to the assessment of lil bush, however history will see the devastating long-term effects to add to it's verdict.
Unable to see how history can only add more damaging information to the record of Bush, the talking points to distract from his current culpablity, grasps for this vapid idea that somehow history will smile on bush. (Leaving aside that money might be used to apply "Truth Ministry" treatment to the record).
It takes very little informed imagination to see that Cheney/Bush's misinformation dam is developing some critical leaks. What better way to fend off prosecution than to rat out the other guys do these traitorous felons have?
Bush is one of the three worst presidents in the history of the U.S. History will simply confirm his position in that ranking. He will not be reformed by history, only increasingly impeached by the truth. History will be even more critical and indicting of Bush. Nixon actually made some improvements to life in America to give minimal moderation to pronouncements of his evil. Bush has advanced nothing, and accomplished nothing to improve life. (period) History will have nothing positive to add to Bush. He will be reviled. His accomplishment will be to join the Torquemadas, and Caligulas.
Our optical receptors are most sensitive to tonal shifts in green. Red is almost as good, but discerning detail in blue is terrible. Open an image in Photoshop (or other app that will let you see each channel individually), and examine each R G B channel displayed in its color to see the difference.
Light wavelengths have a great impact on hue v hue legibility. The wavelength difference from blue to red is significant enough that the eye cannot focus the two colors simultaneously. So, red on blue, or reversed, combinations are the worst for normal color vision human perception.
To improve legibility, color focus differences must be eliminated. The easiest way to do this is to make black or a shade of grey one of the choices.
That's requirement one. The secondary requirement is to balance the contrast. While white on black has maximum contrast, the contrast is so high that edge definition can be lost as the brain tries to force an equilibrium.
White text on dark colors works well, but for the best legibility Yellow on Black or Black on Yellow (and more yellow shades of orange).
It isn't a coincidence that these are the colors chosen for highway warning and alert signs.
Just because the cheeseheads of Wisconsin want to be called cheeseheads, doesn't exclude the use of cheesehead as a term of denigration. You cheeseheads want an insult for a nickname, but want the insulting use stopped too? What a cheesehead you are.
ds which try to use statistics to state their products worth (9 out of 10 dentists, etc) because we all know it's lies
My latest peeve along these lines are claims of efficacy based on the number of people who have purchased something, "Could we have sold so many of these if it didn't work?" They plea.
My internal reply is always, "So what if you suckered them. You still haven't proven it isn't a waste of my money."
We can't even get our secretary to order things online using the company card
Hmm, you've got an employee who refuses to use a company asset for an intended use (online purchases); willfully shirking a job responsibility. Instead of correcting the problem by replacing the incompetent employee, you allow them to require excess work from you to accomplish company goals. Sucker!
Newspapers are often as low as 75dpi, magazines get up to 130dpi and brochures are in the range of 175dpi for a quality brochure.
You really need to learn the difference between lines per inch and dots per inch. The numbers you used correspond to the former (lpi) which is only applicable to images not text. While halftones have "dots," their frequency, measured in lpi, does not correspond to dpi. The size of a halftone dot is variable and is comprised of multiple device dots (pixels; dpi and ppi are interchangeable, lpi not). Print some text in a very light font on an old 300 dpi laser (360 dpi inkjet) printer and compare it to 1200+ print. The difference is clear.
I just don't get the attraction to Carrie Anne Moss. She's an uninteresting looking plain girl. Putting her in PVC just makes her look like a pissed off unhappy plain girl trying to look hot. Not compelling at all.
why would toll dollars need to be collected in addition to tax dollars to pay for it?
All large public construction projects are bonded for payment. "The government" takes out a loan (sells bonds) that it will repay with public money. There are two options for raising the money: tax everyone with some sort of excise tax, e.g. on gas or vehicle registrations; or a use tax like a toll.
If you can't get the voters to approve a bond that will better distribute the cost to all beneficiaries, it's easier to force the cost directly on the captive users.
Toll roads are becoming more and more common in the U.S. as the effects of continual tax-cutting for the sake of tax cuts become evident. In the absence of a wider distributed funding base, the only remaining source of funding are direct fees, use taxes that affect the poor disproportionately.
Texas has, in addition to Houston, significant toll-roads in Austin and Dallas too. Chicago has a significant toll-road. Tolls were charged on number of bridges in Washington state (until the construction costs were paid), for example the Hood Canal and 520 bridges.
The turnpikes of the NE US are probably the best known simply because more people use them.
these "kitcars" or "custom things" are actually very poorly built or delicate
This isn't a kit, or your average startup concept project. This is a Boeing working prototype. It's much different from a simple kit or customized project.
However, it's interesting that Boeing's Museum of Flight has another mfr's prop driven commuter carplane in it's collection rather than this.
OS X ftp client is STILL read only. What a hell is that?
The finder GUI client is read only, but you can always use the terminal. Why is that? Simple, for whatever reason this was one of those occasions where Apple decided not to kill third party apps with its own solution. The average user doesn't need ftp upload. Those who do will be savvy enough to get a client or will use the terminal.
On it's face the underlying theory of this "vaccine" appears quite specious. If the immune response was fast enough to be effective against a cocaine rush, we would be incredibly healthy. What infection could survive long enough to affect us if our immune response completely eradicates invaders within seconds?
I would place a heavy bet on the prison system being just as full if we legalized all drugs...some people are just leeches and will find some other way to earn a dishonest living.
Mandatory sentencing for simple possession spits on your theory.
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The original Expression app that MS bought years ago was a great start on a different style of drawing/painting app. The vectored brush shapes were innovative. MS bought it, gave it away for awhile, and that was the last I heard of it. MS really doesn't have any credibility with designers.
"can potentially pass the infection on," How? The entire pathogen analogy is invalid in this case. Biological pathogens put into an environment that doesn't support them die. The same is true of a malware file downloaded to a Mac. It's dead. The malware delivery truck went over the side of 1000 meter cliff and left bits of nothing significant, just some file clutter.
I got your superhard algorithm right here.
The BBC did the report. The uproar doesn't have to do with the BBC making app, you bunch of blithering, easily distracted from the facts, gits. RTFA
Opened your mouth, uttered a Palin, now we know you don't know what you're talking about and give you no credence. (check a map next time)
Excellent point. While those of us with nominal color vision consider those who cannot see the world reflected with the equivalent contrasts and delineation as color-"blind," that term does have a built-in prejudice. Rather than classifying the lack of nominal perception as blindness, these conditions might be better understood and accepted if the possible enhancements afforded these differing perceivers have were noted instead. However, to the question of the morality of treating, or changing their visual perception to a more nominal state, let the individual choose. They know better than nominal viewers how they can and cannot compensate. The only fault with that decision is that it's likely not going to be a fully informed choice.
He apparently see's the information as being so obvious as to negate it's sensitivity. I'd much prefer a little information sunshine to fabricated classifications, e.g. "Treat as Secret," anyday.
Router: I'm here. Computer: Will you talk to me? R: Sure, I'll even let you talk to the world through me. C: Cool, and they can talk back. R: Yep, all the blogs and porn you can handle. ...
If I overhear a conversational snippet, from a table next to me, that interests me and I interject. The people at that table can act offended that I invaded their space and reject me from joining, however little, their conversation; or they can accept and allow me to join their conversation. A wi-fi access point is much the same
History will add concision to the assessment of lil bush, however history will see the devastating long-term effects to add to it's verdict.
Unable to see how history can only add more damaging information to the record of Bush, the talking points to distract from his current culpablity, grasps for this vapid idea that somehow history will smile on bush. (Leaving aside that money might be used to apply "Truth Ministry" treatment to the record).
It takes very little informed imagination to see that Cheney/Bush's misinformation dam is developing some critical leaks. What better way to fend off prosecution than to rat out the other guys do these traitorous felons have?
Bush is one of the three worst presidents in the history of the U.S. History will simply confirm his position in that ranking. He will not be reformed by history, only increasingly impeached by the truth. History will be even more critical and indicting of Bush. Nixon actually made some improvements to life in America to give minimal moderation to pronouncements of his evil. Bush has advanced nothing, and accomplished nothing to improve life. (period) History will have nothing positive to add to Bush. He will be reviled. His accomplishment will be to join the Torquemadas, and Caligulas.
Our optical receptors are most sensitive to tonal shifts in green. Red is almost as good, but discerning detail in blue is terrible. Open an image in Photoshop (or other app that will let you see each channel individually), and examine each R G B channel displayed in its color to see the difference.
Light wavelengths have a great impact on hue v hue legibility. The wavelength difference from blue to red is significant enough that the eye cannot focus the two colors simultaneously. So, red on blue, or reversed, combinations are the worst for normal color vision human perception. To improve legibility, color focus differences must be eliminated. The easiest way to do this is to make black or a shade of grey one of the choices. That's requirement one. The secondary requirement is to balance the contrast. While white on black has maximum contrast, the contrast is so high that edge definition can be lost as the brain tries to force an equilibrium. White text on dark colors works well, but for the best legibility Yellow on Black or Black on Yellow (and more yellow shades of orange). It isn't a coincidence that these are the colors chosen for highway warning and alert signs.
Just because the cheeseheads of Wisconsin want to be called cheeseheads, doesn't exclude the use of cheesehead as a term of denigration. You cheeseheads want an insult for a nickname, but want the insulting use stopped too? What a cheesehead you are.
My internal reply is always, "So what if you suckered them. You still haven't proven it isn't a waste of my money."
Who's in charge? You or "your" secretary?
If you can't get the voters to approve a bond that will better distribute the cost to all beneficiaries, it's easier to force the cost directly on the captive users.
Toll roads are becoming more and more common in the U.S. as the effects of continual tax-cutting for the sake of tax cuts become evident. In the absence of a wider distributed funding base, the only remaining source of funding are direct fees, use taxes that affect the poor disproportionately.
Texas has, in addition to Houston, significant toll-roads in Austin and Dallas too. Chicago has a significant toll-road. Tolls were charged on number of bridges in Washington state (until the construction costs were paid), for example the Hood Canal and 520 bridges.
The turnpikes of the NE US are probably the best known simply because more people use them....click an object(point, line, spline, polygon, etc) and then right click and you get a "ring" of options hmm, sounds just like The Sims.
Arrgh... yer puns be rippin bad.
This isn't a kit, or your average startup concept project. This is a Boeing working prototype. It's much different from a simple kit or customized project.
However, it's interesting that Boeing's Museum of Flight has another mfr's prop driven commuter carplane in it's collection rather than this.
On it's face the underlying theory of this "vaccine" appears quite specious. If the immune response was fast enough to be effective against a cocaine rush, we would be incredibly healthy. What infection could survive long enough to affect us if our immune response completely eradicates invaders within seconds?