The spacecraft is configured with the Panchromatic cameras which are mounted such that one camera is looking at +26 deg. w.r.t. nadir and the other at -5 deg. w.r.t. nadir along the track. These two cameras combinedly provide stereoscopic image pairs in the same pass.
Well if you think that it is impossible to change the past, then you have to conclude that it is impossible to change the future too because your future is somebody else's past. Which means the way your life turns out has already been determined and cannot be changed. How do you fit free will into that?
Just because you have MS Office doesn't mean you have paid for it, in which case the argument would be to reduce your risk of arrest. Hobbits feet notwithstanding.
I believe the complete argument for Open Office was "Adequate & Free" as opposed to "More than adequate but costs an arm and a leg". If it does all you need, why pay for something else?
Get the job done, and done easily. Three words I can't emphasize enough "USER INTERFACE DESIGN".
As a programmer, and especially on a volunteer project, it's very easy to get caught up with creating an elegant algorithm and then writing your application around that. Unfortunately what might seem elegant from a programming point of view is often not intuitive from an end user's perspective and this is where many open source applications suffer.
Isn't it ironic. On the one had we hold a jury of our peers in high enough regard, that they are allowed to judge us, on the other we believe that allowing them to read a newspaper makes them unable to be objective in court.
I hope you live alone or else you'd have fun when one person wants the DVR, another wants to watch a DVD, another wants to listen to an MP3 (with headphones so as to not disturb the movie person) while another wants to play a video game.
And how do you envision this happening in your multiple device environment? Last time I checked, a DVD player, a DVR and a video-game box, all required a telivision to operate. Why is it ok to buy multiple TVs but not multiple PCs? I currently live alone and have 2 PCs and a laptop. I am neither excessively geeky nor excessively rich. Before this, I was living with room-mates and all of us had our own desktops. It's not so hard to imagine a 1:1 Person to PC ratio. The P does stand for "Personal" after all.
People use seperate devices because they haven't been provided with a single well-designed device. And we can't underestimate the importance of interface design here.
Having said that, imagine being able to crop out that last second game-winning 3 pt shot, and emailing it to a friend.
Or remotely logging on to your device from work to set it up to record a show that was just recommended to you.
Or being able to access your CD collection from all rooms of the house or anywhere in the world, over the internet.
I would rather have a single device that did everything seamlessly rather than worrying about formats and cables to transfer information between them.
Speak for yourself. Given the choice, I would rather have a single box for gaming, DVR functionality, DVD CD and MP3 playback etc.
It's true that PCs aren't easy to setup and use for the above functionality right now, but the answer is to make them easier rather than assume people don't want to use them.
Having looked at my 58 button DVR remote, I would pick a well designed PC based interface any-day.
This is not a troll. I think Tolkein had a great imagination but his writing skills didn't match it, as evidenced by lines like "Then suddenly Frodo fell asleep."
Because of this, I think the movie was an improvement, since you didn't have to toil through the painful writing to get the story.
For the same reason that they tried to buy Netscape and, when they couldn't, gave IE away for free.
More and more, the browser and not the OS is becoming the platform for application development. Where I work, I see so many desktop based applications moving to a web-based interface. That's the idea that scares Bill G the most and, whether or not you like him, he was smart enough to realize that this was going to happen way back then.
You can run OS X on x86 using PearPC. Coincidentally, I tried it just this weekend. It's not perfect and slower than Cherry OS (based on their claims), but if a trial is all you're looking for then I can vouch for the fact that it works.
Really? This place where you're from, does it have a name?
You might be an Indian elite who lives in a city, parties in Europe and drives a Mercedes to work, but all you need to do is open your eyes and you will see the slums you are driving past on a daily basis.
You need to acknowledge a problem before you can fix it. Wishful thinking will not make it go away.
This was modded as insightful?!! What does attitude have to do with anything?
I didn't come up with the term, I don't particularly like the term, but the criteria that were applied by those that originally coined the phrase still apply to India, and "attitude" wasn't one of them.
You seem to be approaching this problem only from your experience with an email address reserved for personal matters.
Other people have their addresses up on websites because it is important for legitimate strangers to be able to contact them, and it is often their only means of being contacted.
These are also the kind of email addresses that get the largest amounts of spam. In short, false positives can be a problem, and we should be looking at a way of eliminating them rather than taking the "it's a cost I can live with" approach that you seem to advocate.
That's great if they proxy it through a zombie, it will take even less effort to shut it down. Most broadband home connections have a very limited bandwidth for upload precisely because your ISP doesn't want you to act as a server.
Also, it's not like the spammer can send you an updated URL when the first zombie goes down. I don't see and easy way for spammers to make your suggestion work.
99.5% accuracy is good, but not good enough. It means I still have to scan through the 1500 emails marked as spam to find the 1 email a month that might be a false positive. The only difference is I'm sorting them out in the "spam" folder as opposed to the "inbox".
If I sound overly critical, it's only because I want to emphasize the importance, in my mind of having a solution that is 100% accurate, which I can blindly rely on.
Here's an idea. Give the spammers what they want, which is more traffic. Create a small client that anyone can install on their machines, all it does is use your spare CPU cycles and Bandwidth to repeatedly hit the links that are advertised in spam. If the servers can withstand the mass DDOS, then the bandwidth costs will make them think twice before sending out emails. Use P2P to distribute the list of links to be hit and the spammers will have no central "black-list" server to bring down in retaliation.
The reason spam is hard to stop is because right now it costs next to nothing to send out those emails, we need to raise the cost of sending out spam, and I think a DDOS will do it. Put the slashdot effect to good use!
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The spacecraft is configured with the Panchromatic cameras which are mounted such that one camera is looking at +26 deg. w.r.t. nadir and the other at -5 deg. w.r.t. nadir along the track. These two cameras combinedly provide stereoscopic image pairs in the same pass.
Well if you think that it is impossible to change the past, then you have to conclude that it is impossible to change the future too because your future is somebody else's past. Which means the way your life turns out has already been determined and cannot be changed. How do you fit free will into that?
Actually there would be two answers, one positive and the other negative. In the same way that sqrt(9) is both +3 and -3
Just because you have MS Office doesn't mean you have paid for it, in which case the argument would be to reduce your risk of arrest. Hobbits feet notwithstanding.
I believe the complete argument for Open Office was "Adequate & Free" as opposed to "More than adequate but costs an arm and a leg". If it does all you need, why pay for something else?
As a programmer, and especially on a volunteer project, it's very easy to get caught up with creating an elegant algorithm and then writing your application around that. Unfortunately what might seem elegant from a programming point of view is often not intuitive from an end user's perspective and this is where many open source applications suffer.
Isn't it ironic. On the one had we hold a jury of our peers in high enough regard, that they are allowed to judge us, on the other we believe that allowing them to read a newspaper makes them unable to be objective in court.
You don't need an army. Just a few well trained agents to slip across the border and kidnap him. Learn something from the Israelis.
While it most likely will cause a huge stink, the point is it can be done without an army.
He said 30 mpg on the highway, where you pretty much put it in cruise and steer.
In my opinion, driving like a sports car or a prius applies more to city driving where you have to continuously stop and accelerate.
And how do you envision this happening in your multiple device environment? Last time I checked, a DVD player, a DVR and a video-game box, all required a telivision to operate. Why is it ok to buy multiple TVs but not multiple PCs? I currently live alone and have 2 PCs and a laptop. I am neither excessively geeky nor excessively rich. Before this, I was living with room-mates and all of us had our own desktops. It's not so hard to imagine a 1:1 Person to PC ratio. The P does stand for "Personal" after all.
Having said that, imagine being able to crop out that last second game-winning 3 pt shot, and emailing it to a friend.
Or remotely logging on to your device from work to set it up to record a show that was just recommended to you.
Or being able to access your CD collection from all rooms of the house or anywhere in the world, over the internet.
I would rather have a single device that did everything seamlessly rather than worrying about formats and cables to transfer information between them.
It's true that PCs aren't easy to setup and use for the above functionality right now, but the answer is to make them easier rather than assume people don't want to use them.
Having looked at my 58 button DVR remote, I would pick a well designed PC based interface any-day.
Because of this, I think the movie was an improvement, since you didn't have to toil through the painful writing to get the story.
More and more, the browser and not the OS is becoming the platform for application development. Where I work, I see so many desktop based applications moving to a web-based interface. That's the idea that scares Bill G the most and, whether or not you like him, he was smart enough to realize that this was going to happen way back then.
To get first post? ...probably not :(
For future applications, the patent office will have to pay them to say "This IS NOT original".
Are you related to Kerry by any chance?
Better to be undecided, than be certain and be wrong.
You can run OS X on x86 using PearPC. Coincidentally, I tried it just this weekend. It's not perfect and slower than Cherry OS (based on their claims), but if a trial is all you're looking for then I can vouch for the fact that it works.
Really? This place where you're from, does it have a name?
You might be an Indian elite who lives in a city, parties in Europe and drives a Mercedes to work, but all you need to do is open your eyes and you will see the slums you are driving past on a daily basis.
You need to acknowledge a problem before you can fix it. Wishful thinking will not make it go away.
This was modded as insightful?!! What does attitude have to do with anything?
I didn't come up with the term, I don't particularly like the term, but the criteria that were applied by those that originally coined the phrase still apply to India, and "attitude" wasn't one of them.
As an Indian, let me reassure you, India is very much 3rd world.
You seem to be approaching this problem only from your experience with an email address reserved for personal matters.
Other people have their addresses up on websites because it is important for legitimate strangers to be able to contact them, and it is often their only means of being contacted.
These are also the kind of email addresses that get the largest amounts of spam. In short, false positives can be a problem, and we should be looking at a way of eliminating them rather than taking the "it's a cost I can live with" approach that you seem to advocate.
That's great if they proxy it through a zombie, it will take even less effort to shut it down. Most broadband home connections have a very limited bandwidth for upload precisely because your ISP doesn't want you to act as a server.
Also, it's not like the spammer can send you an updated URL when the first zombie goes down. I don't see and easy way for spammers to make your suggestion work.
99.5% accuracy is good, but not good enough. It means I still have to scan through the 1500 emails marked as spam to find the 1 email a month that might be a false positive. The only difference is I'm sorting them out in the "spam" folder as opposed to the "inbox".
If I sound overly critical, it's only because I want to emphasize the importance, in my mind of having a solution that is 100% accurate, which I can blindly rely on.
Here's an idea. Give the spammers what they want, which is more traffic. Create a small client that anyone can install on their machines, all it does is use your spare CPU cycles and Bandwidth to repeatedly hit the links that are advertised in spam. If the servers can withstand the mass DDOS, then the bandwidth costs will make them think twice before sending out emails. Use P2P to distribute the list of links to be hit and the spammers will have no central "black-list" server to bring down in retaliation.
The reason spam is hard to stop is because right now it costs next to nothing to send out those emails, we need to raise the cost of sending out spam, and I think a DDOS will do it. Put the slashdot effect to good use!