Maybe you haven't noticed the sponsored links that appear directly in line with search results. They have a pale pink background that is barely noticable on laptop screens. If you have a wide screen the "sponsored link(s)" is written on the other side of the screen when most people are used to ignoring sponsored links... I find myself nearly clicking on them a lot before I see the background.
Fair enough point.
There is another reason that it is a really bad idea. Giving all your biometrics to your bank or to the government means that they have an acurate scan of your eye/finger whatever. Theoretically they could use that data to gain access to anything else you secure using those biometrics by recreating your finger or eye details from their copy. As the original post pointed out, you can't easily change your biometrics if they are compromised.
I couldn't trust my bank that far, they steal money from me as it is.
has anyone else been thinking that LoC is lines of code? some of my lines get close to 10TB but that is only when I am using full class references in java but i wouldn't us it base a standard LoC on.
The heat added by nuclear power plants will be as significant to heating this planet as rubbing your hands together is significant in heating your house. This is not correct, the effect of the nuclear power plant is not the heat that it generates when generating electricity, it is all the electricity that is eventually transformed into heat when it is used. It wasn't heating anything at all as uranium ore, it was stable and a stored energy source.
The problem is not censorship, the problem is misrepresentation by the press. The press seem to take a single dissenting voice among hundreds as an excuse to give equal time to both sides of the argument. It is not acceptable to compare hard fact and research with some crank scientist on the petrol payroll.
I don't think the media is a good example. The media can closely control what they broadcast/write. Lets say for example that we wanted to portray Iraqis as evil people, if we put ten experts on the television saying Iraqis are evil and one who says they are a diverse and cultured people, what will people believe? That is freedom of speach but it is not free.
Anyway, getting sidetracked on the manipulative influence of media.
Is it ok to have freedom of speach if people can openly lie? Most racists I know base what they say on lies, misinterpretations, unwillingness to understand or plain hatred of difference.
You can say just about anything with the internet regardless of its truth, it is pretty hard to stop. Short of having internet police to judge the "truth" of something, it is ridiculous to suggest that anyone should be responsible for validating the internet.
I think the problem is in education and not policing the net.
It is so much easier to hate differences than try to understand them.
One solution is a box with numbers randomly distributed inside it. You click on the numbers to enter your password. Saving mouse clicks will not work because the box never has the same distribution of numbers. You would have to screen capture all the time which isn't feasible.
Of course, you could combine a mouse click monitor with a screen capture of the region around the mouse.
the problem with rewarding excellence is how excellence is defined. in business people do anything to get more power and excellence is no more rewarded with money than money means excellence. power corrupts, os projects want people to do the work for the good of everyone and not because they are being paid big money. the whole concept of os is somewhat socialist...
i think the problem with excellence is it is extremely hard to recognise or judge. it would complicate the debian project if some people are chosen to be paid and others not. what is more valuable to the project? who choses what is valuable?
I host using a lot of Dell equipment and we are Debian based. It took years for the monitoring and administration software to run on Debian. According to others in the same situation as me, Dell had instructions on how to install the software on Debian and publicised it for a brief period before being asked to pull it by RH.
A guy who has way more servers than I was given the instructions by Dell a while later and also told not to republish them as it was a problem with RH.
Today, Dell provides some support for Debian so it is all fine.
Actually he never mentions Ubuntu or any other Debian based distro, he was talking about Debian itself. Debian has not been unfriendly to other distro's in the way RH have. Using specific, unreleased versions of gcc in RH when many vendors make drivers and applications with it is not very open, it seems a lot like making it hard for other "compeditor" distros. RH have put pressure on organisations like Dell to refuse support for other distributions. Their behavior is just like an unfriendly company.
Giving developers a salary so they can work freely and live comfortably seems like a great idea, as long as it doesn't start a business like environment where salaries evolve to powerful and wealthy positions.
Maxi pads are great!! Every time I spill blue curacao I go straight for the bathroom cupboard. Check them out, I bet they work for red wine stains just as well.
Yeah, I don't see why they don't go back to the old string and cup method. It would save a lot on towers and you could even develop some sort of two string system for flight control.
Wha?? what about ice core samples and data taken from other sources like trees? Judgement is being made on much more than a hundred years of data. The fact is that ice that is tens of thousands of years old is currently melting. It hasn't been this hot for tens of thousands of years.
Frankly I think that Lucas made something that grew so big that it is impossible to contiune. He doesn't have the same actors, completely new technology and a reputation for having made a cult film. I don't see how people can expect something in the same vein or something better every time. Episode III was awesome. If you forget about all the special effects and just concentrate on the story, it is a moving film. Shit I cried in it a few times. Anakin's transformation into Vader is perfect, Palpatine is freeded to be his dark self and the story fits in perfectly to something episode 4.
People expect way too much, the film kicks arse.
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That is such captilistic bullshit. What you are saying is that it really costs these companies which is simply not true. These companies make a killing. http://bernie.house.gov/prescriptions/profits.asp
Research is done in many countries without money driven motivation through government grants or even companies that are willing to work with modest profits. Any profit is enough to make a company work if they are not too greedy. I am so fed up with capitilists spouting their crap about how well the system works for the good of the consumer.
bleh.
I used to get headaches for years using pretty much any CRT for an extended period of time. Last year I changed all my screens to DVI LCD pannels and the headaches and eyestrain dissappeared. The pannels are so crisp with no flicker or wobble.
The only problem is the lack of degauss button. There is emergency button to break a 3am screen stare any more.
If you read about it on the Rolex Awards website you will find that the award was given for social reasons too.
http://www.rolexawards.com/laureates/laureate2.jsp ?id=0006
I just mentioned this article to a bunch of French colleagues who promptly said... check out the TGV. A few minutes turned up a record of 515km/h set back in 1990 with older versions of todays TGV.
I guess the Japanese one is maglev....
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Rather than spending a few bucks you could also do it for free with ffmpeg with a simple line like this.
ffmpeg -i "$INPUTFILE" -vcodec libx264 -qmax 26 -threads 2 -ar 44100 -ab 96000 "$OUTPUTFILE.flv"
Then use a OSS flash viewer like flowplayer to read it.
Maybe you haven't noticed the sponsored links that appear directly in line with search results. They have a pale pink background that is barely noticable on laptop screens. If you have a wide screen the "sponsored link(s)" is written on the other side of the screen when most people are used to ignoring sponsored links... I find myself nearly clicking on them a lot before I see the background. Fair enough point.
There is another reason that it is a really bad idea. Giving all your biometrics to your bank or to the government means that they have an acurate scan of your eye/finger whatever. Theoretically they could use that data to gain access to anything else you secure using those biometrics by recreating your finger or eye details from their copy. As the original post pointed out, you can't easily change your biometrics if they are compromised. I couldn't trust my bank that far, they steal money from me as it is.
Actually at 16million colours you still only have 256 levels of gray and black and white photography suffers from some ugly banding with so few grays.
has anyone else been thinking that LoC is lines of code? some of my lines get close to 10TB but that is only when I am using full class references in java but i wouldn't us it base a standard LoC on.
The problem is not censorship, the problem is misrepresentation by the press. The press seem to take a single dissenting voice among hundreds as an excuse to give equal time to both sides of the argument. It is not acceptable to compare hard fact and research with some crank scientist on the petrol payroll.
I don't think the media is a good example. The media can closely control what they broadcast/write. Lets say for example that we wanted to portray Iraqis as evil people, if we put ten experts on the television saying Iraqis are evil and one who says they are a diverse and cultured people, what will people believe? That is freedom of speach but it is not free. Anyway, getting sidetracked on the manipulative influence of media. Is it ok to have freedom of speach if people can openly lie? Most racists I know base what they say on lies, misinterpretations, unwillingness to understand or plain hatred of difference. You can say just about anything with the internet regardless of its truth, it is pretty hard to stop. Short of having internet police to judge the "truth" of something, it is ridiculous to suggest that anyone should be responsible for validating the internet. I think the problem is in education and not policing the net. It is so much easier to hate differences than try to understand them.
One solution is a box with numbers randomly distributed inside it. You click on the numbers to enter your password. Saving mouse clicks will not work because the box never has the same distribution of numbers. You would have to screen capture all the time which isn't feasible. Of course, you could combine a mouse click monitor with a screen capture of the region around the mouse.
the problem with rewarding excellence is how excellence is defined. in business people do anything to get more power and excellence is no more rewarded with money than money means excellence. power corrupts, os projects want people to do the work for the good of everyone and not because they are being paid big money. the whole concept of os is somewhat socialist... i think the problem with excellence is it is extremely hard to recognise or judge. it would complicate the debian project if some people are chosen to be paid and others not. what is more valuable to the project? who choses what is valuable?
I host using a lot of Dell equipment and we are Debian based. It took years for the monitoring and administration software to run on Debian. According to others in the same situation as me, Dell had instructions on how to install the software on Debian and publicised it for a brief period before being asked to pull it by RH. A guy who has way more servers than I was given the instructions by Dell a while later and also told not to republish them as it was a problem with RH. Today, Dell provides some support for Debian so it is all fine.
Actually he never mentions Ubuntu or any other Debian based distro, he was talking about Debian itself. Debian has not been unfriendly to other distro's in the way RH have. Using specific, unreleased versions of gcc in RH when many vendors make drivers and applications with it is not very open, it seems a lot like making it hard for other "compeditor" distros. RH have put pressure on organisations like Dell to refuse support for other distributions. Their behavior is just like an unfriendly company. Giving developers a salary so they can work freely and live comfortably seems like a great idea, as long as it doesn't start a business like environment where salaries evolve to powerful and wealthy positions.
Yes but what about the effect of muds!
Maxi pads are great!! Every time I spill blue curacao I go straight for the bathroom cupboard. Check them out, I bet they work for red wine stains just as well.
Yeah, I don't see why they don't go back to the old string and cup method. It would save a lot on towers and you could even develop some sort of two string system for flight control.
Wha?? what about ice core samples and data taken from other sources like trees? Judgement is being made on much more than a hundred years of data. The fact is that ice that is tens of thousands of years old is currently melting. It hasn't been this hot for tens of thousands of years.
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If it has to kill us to do so then so be it.
If you want to die, fine!
I am just pissed about you killing me at the same time. It is amazing that there are people who still believe nothing is wrong.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0409/feat
Frankly I think that Lucas made something that grew so big that it is impossible to contiune. He doesn't have the same actors, completely new technology and a reputation for having made a cult film. I don't see how people can expect something in the same vein or something better every time. Episode III was awesome. If you forget about all the special effects and just concentrate on the story, it is a moving film. Shit I cried in it a few times. Anakin's transformation into Vader is perfect, Palpatine is freeded to be his dark self and the story fits in perfectly to something episode 4. People expect way too much, the film kicks arse.
That is such captilistic bullshit. What you are saying is that it really costs these companies which is simply not true. These companies make a killing. http://bernie.house.gov/prescriptions/profits.asp Research is done in many countries without money driven motivation through government grants or even companies that are willing to work with modest profits. Any profit is enough to make a company work if they are not too greedy. I am so fed up with capitilists spouting their crap about how well the system works for the good of the consumer. bleh.
I used to get headaches for years using pretty much any CRT for an extended period of time. Last year I changed all my screens to DVI LCD pannels and the headaches and eyestrain dissappeared. The pannels are so crisp with no flicker or wobble. The only problem is the lack of degauss button. There is emergency button to break a 3am screen stare any more.
If you read about it on the Rolex Awards website you will find that the award was given for social reasons too. http://www.rolexawards.com/laureates/laureate2.jsp ?id=0006
I just mentioned this article to a bunch of French colleagues who promptly said... check out the TGV. A few minutes turned up a record of 515km/h set back in 1990 with older versions of todays TGV. I guess the Japanese one is maglev....