I'm not so sure about your statement. Sure a dedicated land line is fine, but it is not really that superior. Even landlines get bundled and concentrated at some point. The more lines you jam into a single upstream the more money you make until at some point the service degrades to much. Skype does needs (some) dedicated bandwidth, a thing tcp/ip was never intended for but it still performs rather well in most cases. I won't even start on cell phones, because thats a whole different ballgame.
I think you should really look up what Marx really wrote. Hint: It doesn't have that much in common with any of the real live communist regimes. Also what China labels itself and what China really does are not necessarily the same.
Are you only referring to household toys, or are we talking robots/machines in general? While I do admit that household robotics is mostly expensive toys (like the roomba) the amount of highly sophisticated and very useful robotics elsewhere is enormous.
That trick could done through all 3.x versions. Create a.rle bitmap with the right size. Replace original file (prior or any time after installation) and you had your own custom startup logo.
And Red Bull, the croissant, coffee names so weird it would make even starbucks blush and a generally twisted naming scheme for food (a popular sausage is called a "Eitrige" - the ulcerous). No kangaroos though.
According to Statistik Austria, China had an export share of 2.4% ranking eleventh. The top three would be Germany (31.1%), Italy (7.6%) and the United States 5.4%. They do import a lot from China (rank 4) but less than 5%.
So yes, someone probably mixed those two up or didn't check the facts.
Oh God... the ninjas... they're turning into pirates!
Thank you for the image of a black clad ninja with a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder. Now all they need to do is to find out how to move silently while saying "Arrrrh!" at the same time.
I think installing filters of some kind is actually a good thing. It prevents them from just stumbling upon things and once they are actively starting to look for pron it will require them to learn more about computers and networks. It might be interesting to see how much you could make them learn by simply raising the bar once a year.
Just make sure they know that internet pron and real world intimacy or relationships don't have much in common.
I would presume that Google wants to prevent the RIAA throwing another fit. They do this by going for an obvious leecher that probably started to cost them money bandwidth wise, infringes their trademark and would become bothersome if it became too popular.
I'm pretty sure they know that is impossible to stop the not completely tech challenged user from doing this himself, but those are a) a minority b) are mostly indistinguishable from normal users so theyy probably don't care.
Nice straw man. The two situations are not analogous and you know it.
Let's pretend for a moment that your scenario were analogous... Cuba has a terror suspect hiding in a specific Miami hotel and they ask the US to get him. The US agrees to the request, but says that they have no capacity to get into a Miami hotel and make an arrest/kill. Instead the US authorizes a drone strike and Cuba uses a missile to blow up the hotel.
That actually does not seem unreasonable. The problem with your analogy is that Cuba is not a representative democracy and the US is not Yemen. And of course, the sour US-Cuban relations add a whole extra layer to the situation.
My personal opinion is that claiming to be on the moral high ground, while at the same time actively supporting terrorism that fitted the US global strategy brought us into this whole mess.
It isn't even an exception but more of a trend. It is getting better now, but the enemies made during these campaigns still remember quite well. Just remember who trained and equipped certain afghan fundamentalist while they were still conveniently fighting the Russians.
If you want to set an example then play by your own rules and don't make exceptions whenever it seems convenient.
I do know that China's economy is as close to communism as Hawaii is a sovereign nation. On the other hand China's government does heavily subsides some industries, controls imports, and has rather tight and sometimes selective rules on who is allowed to set up business and how. This is especially true for foreign companies trying to sell finished products in China. China is a strongly "guided" economy which openly favors and supports key local industries. None of that constitutes communism, but neither does it fit to the definition of a free market.
BTW the collateral damage from a collapse is likely to be less than 838 m. Since the design is presumably modular rather than monolithic, shouldn't it fall more like childrens' blocks than like a wine bottle?
You are probably right, but as I will probably not be in China during the time of construction, the value of x will probably reduce the difference to a rounding error anyhow.
you could also argue the whole thing is just a steaming pile of male bovine excrement. But that would not pay respect how dangerous it may be for all of us. Some more transparency would be nice though.
There are probably other usages like reconstructing splinters (vases/bones) in archeology. Optimizing material usage in the textile industry, automatic image composition (think hundreds of pictures of one event/site from various angles and time frames) used to create a 3d images...
For "classic" jigsaw puzzles it usually is, but if you are looking at shredded paper for example (or randomly cut pieces of paper) it isn't anymore. Even more if there are lots of blank spaces.
I am tempted to bring up this certain rather popular Book in this context, just to stir things up a little. But that would probably constitute trolling.
Now excuse me will I take time to read the FA, because the subject is indeed rather interesting from a technical point of view. Haven't done much image processing/recognition for a while but it is rather cool subject for research.
No, but claiming "the programming was done in one week" when you are actually only compiling it and had 2 years in advance to write the libraries and the documentation. It's still a feat when you have to do all the debugging and testing, but not as impressive as the claim tries to make it sound like.
I'll be watching it with interest but probably from a distance of 838+|x| meters.
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How very nice of him to do. Did he use the good old trusty method of "there shall be light" to start the first fiber optics?
In fact their model is perfectly correct, because the video was shot before the rotation change of 1988.
I'm not so sure about your statement. Sure a dedicated land line is fine, but it is not really that superior. Even landlines get bundled and concentrated at some point. The more lines you jam into a single upstream the more money you make until at some point the service degrades to much. Skype does needs (some) dedicated bandwidth, a thing tcp/ip was never intended for but it still performs rather well in most cases. I won't even start on cell phones, because thats a whole different ballgame.
I think you should really look up what Marx really wrote. Hint: It doesn't have that much in common with any of the real live communist regimes. Also what China labels itself and what China really does are not necessarily the same.
Are you only referring to household toys, or are we talking robots/machines in general? While I do admit that household robotics is mostly expensive toys (like the roomba) the amount of highly sophisticated and very useful robotics elsewhere is enormous.
That trick could done through all 3.x versions. Create a .rle bitmap with the right size. Replace original file (prior or any time after installation) and you had your own custom startup logo.
And Red Bull, the croissant, coffee names so weird it would make even starbucks blush and a generally twisted naming scheme for food (a popular sausage is called a "Eitrige" - the ulcerous). No kangaroos though.
According to Statistik Austria, China had an export share of 2.4% ranking eleventh. The top three would be Germany (31.1%), Italy (7.6%) and the United States 5.4%. They do import a lot from China (rank 4) but less than 5%.
So yes, someone probably mixed those two up or didn't check the facts.
Oh God... the ninjas... they're turning into pirates!
Thank you for the image of a black clad ninja with a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder. Now all they need to do is to find out how to move silently while saying "Arrrrh!" at the same time.
I think installing filters of some kind is actually a good thing. It prevents them from just stumbling upon things and once they are actively starting to look for pron it will require them to learn more about computers and networks. It might be interesting to see how much you could make them learn by simply raising the bar once a year.
Just make sure they know that internet pron and real world intimacy or relationships don't have much in common.
I would presume that Google wants to prevent the RIAA throwing another fit. They do this by going for an obvious leecher that probably started to cost them money bandwidth wise, infringes their trademark and would become bothersome if it became too popular.
I'm pretty sure they know that is impossible to stop the not completely tech challenged user from doing this himself, but those are a) a minority b) are mostly indistinguishable from normal users so theyy probably don't care.
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Nice straw man. The two situations are not analogous and you know it.
Let's pretend for a moment that your scenario were analogous... Cuba has a terror suspect hiding in a specific Miami hotel and they ask the US to get him. The US agrees to the request, but says that they have no capacity to get into a Miami hotel and make an arrest/kill. Instead the US authorizes a drone strike and Cuba uses a missile to blow up the hotel.
That actually does not seem unreasonable. The problem with your analogy is that Cuba is not a representative democracy and the US is not Yemen. And of course, the sour US-Cuban relations add a whole extra layer to the situation.
My personal opinion is that claiming to be on the moral high ground, while at the same time actively supporting terrorism that fitted the US global strategy brought us into this whole mess.
It isn't even an exception but more of a trend. It is getting better now, but the enemies made during these campaigns still remember quite well. Just remember who trained and equipped certain afghan fundamentalist while they were still conveniently fighting the Russians.
If you want to set an example then play by your own rules and don't make exceptions whenever it seems convenient.
In my personal opinion? Because he thought he could get away with it.
That is very comforting to know
I really like how you included Canada in the US. So the joke about Americans thinking Austria is a german National park goes both ways.
I do know that China's economy is as close to communism as Hawaii is a sovereign nation. On the other hand China's government does heavily subsides some industries, controls imports, and has rather tight and sometimes selective rules on who is allowed to set up business and how. This is especially true for foreign companies trying to sell finished products in China. China is a strongly "guided" economy which openly favors and supports key local industries. None of that constitutes communism, but neither does it fit to the definition of a free market.
BTW the collateral damage from a collapse is likely to be less than 838 m. Since the design is presumably modular rather than monolithic, shouldn't it fall more like childrens' blocks than like a wine bottle?
You are probably right, but as I will probably not be in China during the time of construction, the value of x will probably reduce the difference to a rounding error anyhow.
There is a reason why robocop was both armed and armored.
you could also argue the whole thing is just a steaming pile of male bovine excrement. But that would not pay respect how dangerous it may be for all of us. Some more transparency would be nice though.
There are probably other usages like reconstructing splinters (vases/bones) in archeology. Optimizing material usage in the textile industry, automatic image composition (think hundreds of pictures of one event/site from various angles and time frames) used to create a 3d images...
that and missing pieces
For "classic" jigsaw puzzles it usually is, but if you are looking at shredded paper for example (or randomly cut pieces of paper) it isn't anymore. Even more if there are lots of blank spaces.
I am tempted to bring up this certain rather popular Book in this context, just to stir things up a little. But that would probably constitute trolling.
Now excuse me will I take time to read the FA, because the subject is indeed rather interesting from a technical point of view. Haven't done much image processing/recognition for a while but it is rather cool subject for research.
Free markets? In China? *cough*
No, but claiming "the programming was done in one week" when you are actually only compiling it and had 2 years in advance to write the libraries and the documentation. It's still a feat when you have to do all the debugging and testing, but not as impressive as the claim tries to make it sound like.
I'll be watching it with interest but probably from a distance of 838+|x| meters.