> Imagine that there was an armed group of people dragging Bush out of White House and TV stations claiming that Bush agreed to leave willingly - is that okay with you ?
Yep, still funny. Maybe not so much for me, I even might actually be rather pissed. But it's still funny for $everyone-1.
See, I just don't buy the "what if it happened to you" argument. When it "happens to you", you get all emotional about the newly acquired status of victimhood and can demand outrageous compensation and/or punishment. Here's something from an actual conversation on Fark, paraphrased: "What if it was your family member who was a victim of medical malpractice, would you still be for the compensation cap?" No, of course not. I'd want to sue everyone involved for as much money as possible (perhaps... a THOUSAND DOLLARS! *pinky to the mouth*) because I'm a selfish lazy bastard who'd prefer not to work**.
Hopefully with this out of the way I can move on to the second part. Am I correct in understanding that your problem with this is that the photos were taken and published without anyone's consent and knowledge? How is one then supposed to take pictures outside, ask anyone who could end up in the frame for permission to take the photo, and then contact them before publishing anywhere, as suggested in the original post? Next time I go on a trip somewhere, would you come with me to ask the people for permission in photos such as this? I took it myself so obviously I'm a huge asshole for putting it online, even more so considering that the original 2560x1920 image contained much more detail and thus potentially incriminating information. Are those two dudes 1/4 from the left holding hands? Perhaps the local anti-ghey community will be interested.
** - this is an exaggerated comment on myself, not on the poor people who are screwed by evil doctors
Stupid lawsuit, stupid woman, stupid cat, and there isn't an important issue at stake.
These images are taken from a publicly accessible space and aren't specifically targeted at anyone. They don't use any wallhack technology. The panoramas are taken once and remain static. All this == not any different than if someone (or someone's cat!) happened to be caught in a regular photo like this one. I'm sure if you shell out the 15 bucks for a high-res image you could see someone in one of those windows.
If you don't like anyone seeing you or (oh noes!) taking a photo with you in the frame, well tough luck, you can just stay in your mom's basement and tell the pizza delivery guy to slip it to you under the door. Nobody's watching you engage in your daily activities, in fact I'd say nobody gives a fuck about what you do. Again, Street View != surveillance.
And to the GP, where the hell do you live? I'd like to know so that I could avoid that hellhole.
The CGI isn't terribly impressive, if at all. Even if it were rendered in real time just for me, it still looks like UT 2004 with a Star Wars mod. Not that care, I skipped episodes 2 & 3 (but unfortunately not 1) and don't even remember when I watched the first 3 movies.
Since you mentioned Bill Hicks, there's another appropriate quote:
You know the world is 12,000 years old and dinosaurs existed, they existed in that time, you'd think it would have been mentioned in the fucking Bible at some point.
"And lo Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus... with a splinter in his paw. And O the disciples did run a shriekin': 'What a big fucking lizard, Lord!' But Jesus was unafraid and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus's paw and the big lizard became his friend.
"And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a loch for O so many years inviting thousands of American tourists to bring their fat fucking families and their fat dollar bills.
"And oh Scotland did praise the Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord."
It's more like a shitty cheapass russian vodka. The first time you drink it, you think it's the best thing ever because that's the first time you got seriously hammered. Twenty years later though, you can see all the shit floating around in the bottle and can taste the horrible aftertaste it leaves in your mouth. Then they take you to the hospital to get your stomach pumped out.
I just wanted to post the same suggestion. I don't have one, but I've seen it a while ago on ThinkGeek. Looks very nice and basically what the original poster asked for, although I'm not quite sure about the widescreen LCD. Most of my photos are 4:3, so they'd probably leave some screen space unused with black vertical bars unless it does some kind of ugly stretching or uses the space to show thumbnails or something.
Every single person I've talked to about this IRL prefers the new interface. That's probably at least 20 people, ranging from techies to people who'd ask me how to change page orientation (pre 2007). Even if 90% of users would actually select the old interface, it doesn't mean it's in any way superior.
You haven't completed your Piled Higher and Deeper yet, but you already don't remember what's going on out there in the real world?
Forcing students to write completely pointless and retarded essays is what's causing these services to appear and thrive. Seriously, right now I'm writing a "How to Save the World" in 6,000 words essay and no, it's not a technical analysis of ways to stop a comet from smashing into Earth, just general bullshit about population, society, the environment and crap like that. I wrote every single one of the required essays myself and probably wouldn't use a service that would do it for me, partly because I'm such a cheap bastard. However, hopefully these services would make professors rethink their regular assignments, just because you had it tough doesn't mean everybody else should, too.
I don't see how Google playing the morality squad role here (while going la-la-la when somebody points at China) is in any way an applaudable action.
What makes you think SC2 won't work on Win2k? Just because they don't list it as officially supported (during a press conference!) doesn't mean it won't work. Although you probably just needed a real or made up excuse why to switch to mac, in which case I'm sorry for ruining your RDF experience.
Here's an article from the Economist on Iowa's ethanol economy. The effects are obviously positive on the local scale, with higher profits, more jobs, and increasing land prices as more people try to rush in and get a piece of the subsidy. Still, the same subsidizing policy can easily kill off the whole industry, if the government decides tomorrow that another biofuel is more "in".
I'd be more interested in a PocketPC implementation of the Metropolis keyboard layout. According to the IBM researchers who cam up with it, it can be be up to 20% faster than Fitaly (PDF). The paper is pretty interesting too, they used the Metropolis (hence the name) Monte Carlo method, random walking, Fitt's energy, and other techniques to came up with this optimized layout.
Interestingly, just like another poster already mentioned, I also felt like I'm inputting more text with letter/block recognition than with the regular keyboard, and it probably has to do with ultra fast stylus motions when drawing the symbols.
> Why is it OK to treat Chinese workers like that but not British, European or American workers?
Because they're Chinese? Wait, don't mod me down (just yet), this isn't some sort of wacist comment. The British, American, and European aren't treated like that because they decided not to be treated like that. These workers are Chinese, citizens of the sovereign glorious nation of China, and they (the government, society, and individuals) decide how they want to work.
I could understand intervening if they were being forced to work there against their will and the conditions were much worse than they are now. But that's not the case, the standards are simply not on the level of rich countries because, well, China is still mostly a very poor country.
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> Imagine that there was an armed group of people dragging Bush out of White House and TV stations claiming that Bush agreed to leave willingly - is that okay with you ?
Hell yeah, that would've been awesome!
Yep, still funny. Maybe not so much for me, I even might actually be rather pissed. But it's still funny for $everyone-1.
See, I just don't buy the "what if it happened to you" argument. When it "happens to you", you get all emotional about the newly acquired status of victimhood and can demand outrageous compensation and/or punishment. Here's something from an actual conversation on Fark, paraphrased: "What if it was your family member who was a victim of medical malpractice, would you still be for the compensation cap?" No, of course not. I'd want to sue everyone involved for as much money as possible (perhaps... a THOUSAND DOLLARS! *pinky to the mouth*) because I'm a selfish lazy bastard who'd prefer not to work**.
Hopefully with this out of the way I can move on to the second part. Am I correct in understanding that your problem with this is that the photos were taken and published without anyone's consent and knowledge? How is one then supposed to take pictures outside, ask anyone who could end up in the frame for permission to take the photo, and then contact them before publishing anywhere, as suggested in the original post? Next time I go on a trip somewhere, would you come with me to ask the people for permission in photos such as this? I took it myself so obviously I'm a huge asshole for putting it online, even more so considering that the original 2560x1920 image contained much more detail and thus potentially incriminating information. Are those two dudes 1/4 from the left holding hands? Perhaps the local anti-ghey community will be interested.
** - this is an exaggerated comment on myself, not on the poor people who are screwed by evil doctors
Stupid lawsuit, stupid woman, stupid cat, and there isn't an important issue at stake.
These images are taken from a publicly accessible space and aren't specifically targeted at anyone. They don't use any wallhack technology. The panoramas are taken once and remain static. All this == not any different than if someone (or someone's cat!) happened to be caught in a regular photo like this one. I'm sure if you shell out the 15 bucks for a high-res image you could see someone in one of those windows.
If you don't like anyone seeing you or (oh noes!) taking a photo with you in the frame, well tough luck, you can just stay in your mom's basement and tell the pizza delivery guy to slip it to you under the door. Nobody's watching you engage in your daily activities, in fact I'd say nobody gives a fuck about what you do. Again, Street View != surveillance.
And to the GP, where the hell do you live? I'd like to know so that I could avoid that hellhole.
> I didn't think encrpyting data twice or more over increased it's level of security.
Well, it usually does. Unless, of cousre, you're using ROT-13 for your original encryption.
> The more people in the workforce, the lower wages are.
;-)
Possibly, but reduced wages could be more than offset by the decreased spending on leechers and thus lower taxes*
*Not that those bastards would actually decrease taxes...
No, a typo it was, sorry I am.
The CGI isn't terribly impressive, if at all. Even if it were rendered in real time just for me, it still looks like UT 2004 with a Star Wars mod. Not that care, I skipped episodes 2 & 3 (but unfortunately not 1) and don't even remember when I watched the first 3 movies.
I thought "Dark Side Of The Moon" was a pretty good album, and I'm not that big of a fan.
Since you mentioned Bill Hicks, there's another appropriate quote:
You know the world is 12,000 years old and dinosaurs existed, they existed in that time, you'd think it would have been mentioned in the fucking Bible at some point.
"And lo Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus... with a splinter in his paw. And O the disciples did run a shriekin': 'What a big fucking lizard, Lord!' But Jesus was unafraid and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus's paw and the big lizard became his friend.
"And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a loch for O so many years inviting thousands of American tourists to bring their fat fucking families and their fat dollar bills.
"And oh Scotland did praise the Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord."
Here's a video
And fried chicken, mmmm...
Canadian navy has ships that can take the additional weight of a pringles can?
1) It's not a real database
It's more like a shitty cheapass russian vodka. The first time you drink it, you think it's the best thing ever because that's the first time you got seriously hammered. Twenty years later though, you can see all the shit floating around in the bottle and can taste the horrible aftertaste it leaves in your mouth.
Then they take you to the hospital to get your stomach pumped out.
I just wanted to post the same suggestion. I don't have one, but I've seen it a while ago on ThinkGeek. Looks very nice and basically what the original poster asked for, although I'm not quite sure about the widescreen LCD. Most of my photos are 4:3, so they'd probably leave some screen space unused with black vertical bars unless it does some kind of ugly stretching or uses the space to show thumbnails or something.
Office <2007.
Every single person I've talked to about this IRL prefers the new interface. That's probably at least 20 people, ranging from techies to people who'd ask me how to change page orientation (pre 2007). Even if 90% of users would actually select the old interface, it doesn't mean it's in any way superior.
Why, the Powerglove, of course!
Yes. Because people will click on anything.
What are you paying to get your assignmetns done?
You haven't completed your Piled Higher and Deeper yet, but you already don't remember what's going on out there in the real world?
Forcing students to write completely pointless and retarded essays is what's causing these services to appear and thrive. Seriously, right now I'm writing a "How to Save the World" in 6,000 words essay and no, it's not a technical analysis of ways to stop a comet from smashing into Earth, just general bullshit about population, society, the environment and crap like that. I wrote every single one of the required essays myself and probably wouldn't use a service that would do it for me, partly because I'm such a cheap bastard. However, hopefully these services would make professors rethink their regular assignments, just because you had it tough doesn't mean everybody else should, too.
I don't see how Google playing the morality squad role here (while going la-la-la when somebody points at China) is in any way an applaudable action.
What makes you think SC2 won't work on Win2k? Just because they don't list it as officially supported (during a press conference!) doesn't mean it won't work. Although you probably just needed a real or made up excuse why to switch to mac, in which case I'm sorry for ruining your RDF experience.
Those in Iowa certainly are!
Here's an article from the Economist on Iowa's ethanol economy. The effects are obviously positive on the local scale, with higher profits, more jobs, and increasing land prices as more people try to rush in and get a piece of the subsidy. Still, the same subsidizing policy can easily kill off the whole industry, if the government decides tomorrow that another biofuel is more "in".
Not if he's using a beowulf cluster
I'd be more interested in a PocketPC implementation of the Metropolis keyboard layout. According to the IBM researchers who cam up with it, it can be be up to 20% faster than Fitaly (PDF). The paper is pretty interesting too, they used the Metropolis (hence the name) Monte Carlo method, random walking, Fitt's energy, and other techniques to came up with this optimized layout.
Interestingly, just like another poster already mentioned, I also felt like I'm inputting more text with letter/block recognition than with the regular keyboard, and it probably has to do with ultra fast stylus motions when drawing the symbols.
I thought that such payments are usualy made to prevent women from sticking around...
> Why is it OK to treat Chinese workers like that but not British, European or American workers?
Because they're Chinese? Wait, don't mod me down (just yet), this isn't some sort of wacist comment. The British, American, and European aren't treated like that because they decided not to be treated like that. These workers are Chinese, citizens of the sovereign glorious nation of China, and they (the government, society, and individuals) decide how they want to work.
I could understand intervening if they were being forced to work there against their will and the conditions were much worse than they are now. But that's not the case, the standards are simply not on the level of rich countries because, well, China is still mostly a very poor country.