This may seem bizzare but scientists have long made a distinctinction betwen "fake smiles" and "genuine smiles".
See this and this.
For people who have to deal with members of the public on a daily basis, being able to produce a smile that seems genuine may make a difference in how their customers perceive their service.
Opera is is in trouble. .
Its desktop share is less than even Chrome.
As for the mobile market, it is being surpassed by iPhone. See the arstechnica analysis of misleading statcounter results here
Shouldn't we be focused on reducing calls, rather than simply closing them quickly?
We should be focussed on both.
My question is: How is your IT performance measured, and how do you think it should be measured? ITIL principles are a great starting point.
Examples are using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as at the bottom of this page and this page.
If there is one area in which the US is unquestionably ahead of everybody else, it is in its space programs.
Cutting funds to these programs is a completely stupid idea. You need to strengthen your competitive edge, not let it degrade.
Obama needs to grow a backbone and stand up to the Republicans he is trying to appease by continuing overseas military operations. Instead of diplomatically engaging with the Muslims, keeping a heavy military presence in their countries in order to "stop terrorism" is only pissing away funds that could be better used elsewhere.
The full budget requested by NASA was 4 billion dollars (As per TFA, Congress reduced it to $3.2 billion).
Guess what? We piss away this much amount in Iraq every two weeks!
Scientists and psychologists have long proven that keeping a personal journal or diary to keep track of your accomplishments, failures, goals and dreams is a very beneficial.
So, blogging is still a good activity for people. Even if no one else reads their blogs.
As for the people who thought they could make a career out of it, well, they were just idiots.
Think about it.
If they were offering you one billion dollars, would you still be asking this question?
If your answer is "yes, I may still be in two minds about selling", then don't sell.
If your answer is "no, I would sell in a heartbeat", then lower that limit, i.e. would you sell for a hundred million? 10 million? 5 million?
Put a price on what you would be willing to sell for without hesitation.
Then evaluate the difference between that amount and the offer. If it is less than 25%, sell. If it is over 50%, don't. In between 25% and 50%, I don't know - but may you don't even fall in that window.
And, lastly, do not sell unless you personally stand to make at least $2 million after taxes. Anything less is hardly worth it. Given the fact you have received a buyout offer with no real sales, you obviously have something of value and hence will easily make at least that much on your own.
State-of-the-art filters? No way! Carbon footprint be damned.
A chance at enlarging the footprint of a certain body part of mine is more important to me!!
Sorry to sound like a cynic but a car that needs to be plugged-in will never be the one for the masses.
Where will people who live in apartments plug in their car?
At power-equipped gas stations, you say? And, what, pray, will they do while the car takes hours to get charged up?
Unless the charging time can be brought down to 5-10 minutes, this is the wrong horse to bet on.
Plug-ins are not the wave of the future. Hydrogen is.
Beyond counterfeiting, there are uses of this technology in criminal investigations.
Say, someone sent a threatening letter to someone and then eventually murdered them.
Later, the murderer denies having written that letter.
The paper on which the threatening letter was written could be tied to the paper in the murderer's home using this kind of fingerprinting.
Of course, the courts in general have to be convinced of the uniqueness of this fingerprint before this could be used.
So, there is something wrong with the movie, I think.
In the trailer, we see Kirk racing his motorbike and seeing the Enterprise being built.
Wasn't it built in Earth orbit, you ask?
Well, I think they got *that* part right. According to the Original Series Dedication Plaque, the Constitution Class Enterprise was constructed at San Francisco Fleet Yards on Earth and in Earth orbit. According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the orbital facility and starbase featured in ST: TMP was San Francisco Fleet Yards. According to the novelization of ST: A Flag Full of Stars, the San Francisco Fleet Yards also had facilities on Earth.
So, if Kirk was racing his bike in the San Francisco area, he *could* have seen the enterprise being built.
But.. I say, he still couldn't have!!
You see, Enterprise was built and launched in 2245
Kirk was born in 2233.
He would have been only 12 years old at the time they show him racing his bike and seeing the enterprise being built.
I am not from the UK but what I find interesting is that this bill was opposed by the Tories. The Tories (i.e. the Conservative party) in the UK used to be more like the Republican party in the USA. The Tories were after all the party of Margaret Thatcher - Reagan's best friend.
Now, the Tories have become the more liberal party like the Dems in the USA and are vehemenetly trying to prevent the degradation of Habeas Corpus principles. The Labor party (which used to be more left-leaning Jimmy Carter type) has turned into a Neocon haven under Blair and Brown.
There is a bit of a misdirection in articles and other material about Deep Zoom.
Most people go ooh and aah because they (wrongly) assume that it zooms into normal resolution photos .
It doesnt (because as you and I know, it physically can't).
Deep Zoom does NOT perform CSI/CIA-style photo enhancement. If you dig deeper, you will find that what Deep Zoom is intended for is to enable one to focus on a smaller portion of a giga-pixel photograph so you do not have to download the whole photograph.
Think of it like a hierarchical smooth slicing of a large high resolution photograph and only downloading those "planes" and "sections within a plane" that the user is interested in seeing.
I was a little kid back in the late 80s. Once an older relative of mine who was in college showed me how he had made a computer connection to the Simtel20 FTP site. He downloaded some games for me. The welcome screen of the FTP site said: "Welcome to White Sand Missile Range, Nevada".
I remember being very impressed and proud at the time thinking that someone in my family could hack into a military site!:-)
Yet again we see a jounalist dumbing down scientific research into tabloid fodder.
What the CMU scientists have done is some preliminary brain imaging using MRI.
Here is a better CMU link with more details and pictures. The scientists hope that this research to could have applications in the study of autism, disorders of thought such as paranoid schizophrenia, and semantic dementias such as Pick's disease. Not once did they ominously dub their research as "mind reading" as claimed by the submitter.
At Heathrow, my laptop needed re-charging.
So, I found a power socket, and sat down and started inserting my power converter/adapter into it. The thing looks like an ordinary wall-mounted brick adapter.
Within 5 minutes, I was surrounded by three guys in uniform asking me what I was doing.
I said I am just trying to charge my laptop.
They looked at the adapter, then at the laptop, then at my face.
They just stood there looking confused not saying anything.
I picked up my stuff, said thanks and just walked away.
They didnt follow me or anything.
Weird.
Having surveillance is fine but having smarter people who know how to analyze what they see is even more important.
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This may seem bizzare but scientists have long made a distinctinction betwen "fake smiles" and "genuine smiles".
See this and this.
For people who have to deal with members of the public on a daily basis, being able to produce a smile that seems genuine may make a difference in how their customers perceive their service.
Opera is is in trouble. .
Its desktop share is less than even Chrome.
As for the mobile market, it is being surpassed by iPhone.
See the arstechnica analysis of misleading statcounter results here
Shouldn't we be focused on reducing calls, rather than simply closing them quickly?
We should be focussed on both.
My question is: How is your IT performance measured, and how do you think it should be measured?
ITIL principles are a great starting point.
Examples are using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as at the bottom of this page and this page.
If there is one area in which the US is unquestionably ahead of everybody else, it is in its space programs. Cutting funds to these programs is a completely stupid idea. You need to strengthen your competitive edge, not let it degrade.
Obama needs to grow a backbone and stand up to the Republicans he is trying to appease by continuing overseas military operations. Instead of diplomatically engaging with the Muslims, keeping a heavy military presence in their countries in order to "stop terrorism" is only pissing away funds that could be better used elsewhere.
The full budget requested by NASA was 4 billion dollars (As per TFA, Congress reduced it to $3.2 billion). Guess what? We piss away this much amount in Iraq every two weeks!
Scientists and psychologists have long proven that keeping a personal journal or diary to keep track of your accomplishments, failures, goals and dreams is a very beneficial.
So, blogging is still a good activity for people. Even if no one else reads their blogs.
As for the people who thought they could make a career out of it, well, they were just idiots.
Pfft..
If a dumb plastic bottle can make it across the Atlantic, this will too.
I think they are not offering you enough money.
Think about it. If they were offering you one billion dollars, would you still be asking this question?
If your answer is "yes, I may still be in two minds about selling", then don't sell.
If your answer is "no, I would sell in a heartbeat", then lower that limit, i.e. would you sell for a hundred million? 10 million? 5 million?
Put a price on what you would be willing to sell for without hesitation. Then evaluate the difference between that amount and the offer. If it is less than 25%, sell. If it is over 50%, don't. In between 25% and 50%, I don't know - but may you don't even fall in that window.
And, lastly, do not sell unless you personally stand to make at least $2 million after taxes. Anything less is hardly worth it. Given the fact you have received a buyout offer with no real sales, you obviously have something of value and hence will easily make at least that much on your own.
My 2 cents...
Is it just me or is everything now being explained through Quantum Mechanics?
Don't understand why people make irrational decisions?
Quantum Mechanics may be at work.
Don't understand how photosynthesis happens?
Quantum Mechanics may be at work.
Don't understand contradictions in quantum mechanics?
Well, that is because sub-atomic paticles may have free will?
Can't we just credit God or something?
State-of-the-art filters? No way! Carbon footprint be damned.
A chance at enlarging the footprint of a certain body part of mine is more important to me!!
Sorry for poking holes in what people are trying to do - considering I don't have a better idea myself.
Where will people who live in apartments plug in their car? At power-equipped gas stations, you say? And, what, pray, will they do while the car takes hours to get charged up?
Unless the charging time can be brought down to 5-10 minutes, this is the wrong horse to bet on.
Plug-ins are not the wave of the future. Hydrogen is.
This is not an April Fool's joke. This is real AND no one can remove shit like this from the internet.
The cat is far out of the bag.
The movie is still available on most major torrent sites.
IsoHunt
TPB
Beyond counterfeiting, there are uses of this technology in criminal investigations.
Say, someone sent a threatening letter to someone and then eventually murdered them.
Later, the murderer denies having written that letter.
The paper on which the threatening letter was written could be tied to the paper in the murderer's home using this kind of fingerprinting.
Of course, the courts in general have to be convinced of the uniqueness of this fingerprint before this could be used.
About your sig..
Did you actually look at the patent description?
US Patent #5425497 is about an invention of a new type of cup-holder that takes up less volume.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5425497.PN.&OS=PN/5425497&RS=PN/5425497
The sig would be funny had it actually been true.
If you need a list of silly patents to come up with a better sig, go here: http://www.patentlysilly.com/archives.php
Please read the comments here before rehashing them.
So, there is something wrong with the movie, I think.
In the trailer, we see Kirk racing his motorbike and seeing the Enterprise being built.
Wasn't it built in Earth orbit, you ask?
Well, I think they got *that* part right. According to the Original Series Dedication Plaque, the Constitution Class Enterprise was constructed at San Francisco Fleet Yards on Earth and in Earth orbit. According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the orbital facility and starbase featured in ST: TMP was San Francisco Fleet Yards. According to the novelization of ST: A Flag Full of Stars, the San Francisco Fleet Yards also had facilities on Earth.
So, if Kirk was racing his bike in the San Francisco area, he *could* have seen the enterprise being built.
But.. I say, he still couldn't have!!
You see, Enterprise was built and launched in 2245
Kirk was born in 2233.
He would have been only 12 years old at the time they show him racing his bike and seeing the enterprise being built.
For some reason, Declan thrives on trashing Dem candidates and gaining publicity for it.
Declan was responsible for the media misinterpretation of Al Gore's statement that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet."
McCullagh himself once claimed that "If it's true that Al Gore created the Internet, then I created the 'Al Gore created the Internet' story
This guy is teaching cyber-terrorism !!
The SAS could take out any one of these training camps.
Kill everybody there, and be gone before the echo fades.
I skeptical that such a skill can be taught.
Now, the Tories have become the more liberal party like the Dems in the USA and are vehemenetly trying to prevent the degradation of Habeas Corpus principles. The Labor party (which used to be more left-leaning Jimmy Carter type) has turned into a Neocon haven under Blair and Brown.
Most people go ooh and aah because they (wrongly) assume that it zooms into normal resolution photos .
It doesnt (because as you and I know, it physically can't).
Deep Zoom does NOT perform CSI/CIA-style photo enhancement. If you dig deeper, you will find that what Deep Zoom is intended for is to enable one to focus on a smaller portion of a giga-pixel photograph so you do not have to download the whole photograph.
Think of it like a hierarchical smooth slicing of a large high resolution photograph and only downloading those "planes" and "sections within a plane" that the user is interested in seeing.
Interesting technology but not magic.
I remember being very impressed and proud at the time thinking that someone in my family could hack into a military site! :-)
It made me want to learn computers even more.
What the CMU scientists have done is some preliminary brain imaging using MRI.
Here is a better CMU link with more details and pictures. The scientists hope that this research to could have applications in the study of autism, disorders of thought such as paranoid schizophrenia, and semantic dementias such as Pick's disease. Not once did they ominously dub their research as "mind reading" as claimed by the submitter.
The Hatch Act has nothing to do with Orrin Hatch. It is named after Carl Hatch who helped enact it in 1939.
At Heathrow, my laptop needed re-charging. So, I found a power socket, and sat down and started inserting my power converter/adapter into it. The thing looks like an ordinary wall-mounted brick adapter.
Within 5 minutes, I was surrounded by three guys in uniform asking me what I was doing.
I said I am just trying to charge my laptop.
They looked at the adapter, then at the laptop, then at my face. They just stood there looking confused not saying anything. I picked up my stuff, said thanks and just walked away. They didnt follow me or anything.
Weird.
Having surveillance is fine but having smarter people who know how to analyze what they see is even more important.