CDDB/FreeDB, and their ilk are essentially useless becuase they have allowed any jack-ass to submit their version of song titles, artists names, genre, etc..
One need only query one of these databases to see the huge variety (hardly any free of major errors) of entries for a single album - I recommend U2's "The Joshua Tree" as a case in point.
Because developing nations - you know: China, India, and others - are essentially exempt from Kyoto, yet are poised to be the largest producers of greenhouse gases within a few short months.
Now, let's come up with a meaningful resolution.
.. do a study that indicates the blatantly obvious solution to global warming is to stop waste.
Some of my ideas:
1.) No non-HGV which operates at less than 20 km/L will be allowed to be sold. Milage to increase by 1 km/L per year until further notice for a period of not less than 10 years.
2.) No device shall be allowed to have a 'stand-by' mode. Either the item is in use, or it is consuming no power. Wherever reasonable a device must have an auto-off mode. (example: a television or lamp must be explicitely 'programmed' to not turn itself off after two hours.)
3.) The use of fossil fuels for the raw, or derived, material for packaging is forbidden.
4.) Individually wrapped items of fruit or vegetable is not legal. Use of plastic carrier bags not allowed.
5.) Use of HGV to transport items for distances less than 10 Km or greater than 100 Km is forbidden when rail service is available.
6.) Shopping outlets outside of city limits will be taxed for each vehicle that enters the premises.
7.) In-window air conditioning units to be illegal.
8.) Home cooling units may not cool houses below 30C (85F). Home heating devices may not heat houses above 18C (65F).
9.) Do something about the amount of unnecessary lighting. The solution to this is not immediately clear to me.
I might be misinterpreting what you are saying here, but - exactly - does groupwise prevent a sniffer from working ? Unless it is encrypted before being put on the wire, your e-mail is readable by anyone who can sniff that port.
I now work from home and I didn't have a company provided laptop anymore, so instead of upgrading an old desktop, I decided to splurge. The one hitch in my plan was the fact that I still did a fair amount of.NET development. Sure, there is Mono for OSX, but that's a far cry from Visual Studio.NET on Windows XP. Clearly, I would need a solution that allows me to run Windows XP on my MacBook Pro.
Too many tense changes in one paragraph. Somebody please teach this guy how to compose.
Me: "Ummmmm.....Look in the fridge ?"
Google: "OK, the fridge is empty"
Me: "Well, I think I might wait for my friends then challenge them to come up with an idea"
Google: "But, they may only use those ingredients ?"
Me: "OK"
Google: "So, an hour goes by and you haven't eaten yet"
Me: "Well, I am a pretty patient guy, I think I might give them some more time"
Google: "Another hour goes by, your friends are getting hungry and worried they aren't going to eat"
Me: "Well, I guess that's what you fucking get for coming around my house uninvited"
Google: "OK, that concludes the interview"
the video shows 4 "fingers", arranged with each at a 90 degree offset to the other
Well, no actually, unfortunately the three still images that you refer to as a 'video' are of such poor quality, that I thought there were only two 'fingers'. Upon very careful review I can make out no more than three 'fingers'.
None-the-less, I stand by my statement, this does not, to my mind, represent a hand.
It does not appear to be able to be used as a cup like the human palm can.
It does not appeat to have a single digit which may independantly touch all the other digits like the human thumb can.
It does not appear to have any single digit capable of touching its own palm like the human hand can.
It does not appear to have the ability to move freely in all three dimensions like the human hand can.
It does not appear - from the photos or the article - to have any form of sensors on any of the digits or the palm.
In fact it fails to conjure up the anthropomorphic image of a hand at all
I guess my point is that the word 'hand' should be used a bit more cautiously. As I stated, this is just a very small set of pliers.
I think most humans will understand a 'hand' to have the following characteristics: Has a 'palm' in which to collect items (most significantly - items smaller than the hand itself) Has a wrist around which the palm and fingers may rotate. Has at least two digits with differing axis of motion (apposable).
I suppose we could allow a single fork tine to be called a 'hand' if we really wanted to be free with the definition, but my guess is that you would agree that that is not a 'hand' either.
When I imagine a hand, I imagine a shape something akin to the human hand with more than three digits, one of them apposable, in a somewhat radial arrangement.
Hey, guess what? Spamhouse does not, and cannot, filter your outgoing mail, or the outgoing mail from any of the spammers you sell accounts to.
Spamhouse allows Me to filter that stuff. Hell, they don't even provide me an application to do it. They simply provide categorised lists. It's data. I choose to use that data, and you can't stop me from using that data.
They are providing a service to me, not denying a service to you or your spammer buddies.
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CDDB/FreeDB, and their ilk are essentially useless becuase they have allowed any jack-ass to submit their version of song titles, artists names, genre, etc..
One need only query one of these databases to see the huge variety (hardly any free of major errors) of entries for a single album - I recommend U2's "The Joshua Tree" as a case in point.
s/insure/ensure/
or sometimes, when we speak english, we say brunt
Your example is a joke, of course.
Now that's funny !
In Soviet Russia, rocket launches YOU !!
articles please
Because developing nations - you know: China, India, and others - are essentially exempt from Kyoto, yet are poised to be the largest producers of greenhouse gases within a few short months. Now, let's come up with a meaningful resolution.
"That's the stupidest thing I ever heard! "
becuase the thought of maintaining some other bozos shitty scripts is simply not that exciting to me.
Yes, and I also know the word responsibility.
When the public cannot be persuaded to act responsibly (either through education, taxation or other means) it is time for different measures.
Waste, particularly waste of resource, is indefencable, and the level of waste that is occuring in much of the industrialized world is simply wrong.
It is time to force people to stop wasting so much of everything.
.. do a study that indicates the blatantly obvious solution to global warming is to stop waste.
Some of my ideas:
1.) No non-HGV which operates at less than 20 km/L will be allowed to be sold. Milage to increase by 1 km/L per year until further notice for a period of not less than 10 years.
2.) No device shall be allowed to have a 'stand-by' mode. Either the item is in use, or it is consuming no power. Wherever reasonable a device must have an auto-off mode. (example: a television or lamp must be explicitely 'programmed' to not turn itself off after two hours.)
3.) The use of fossil fuels for the raw, or derived, material for packaging is forbidden.
4.) Individually wrapped items of fruit or vegetable is not legal. Use of plastic carrier bags not allowed.
5.) Use of HGV to transport items for distances less than 10 Km or greater than 100 Km is forbidden when rail service is available.
6.) Shopping outlets outside of city limits will be taxed for each vehicle that enters the premises.
7.) In-window air conditioning units to be illegal.
8.) Home cooling units may not cool houses below 30C (85F). Home heating devices may not heat houses above 18C (65F).
9.) Do something about the amount of unnecessary lighting. The solution to this is not immediately clear to me.
We are all made of stars
I might be misinterpreting what you are saying here, but - exactly - does groupwise prevent a sniffer from working ? Unless it is encrypted before being put on the wire, your e-mail is readable by anyone who can sniff that port.
Maybe it was you amazing ability to compose unintelligible sentences that got you noticed as a hard-charger.
I now work from home and I didn't have a company provided laptop anymore, so instead of upgrading an old desktop, I decided to splurge. The one hitch in my plan was the fact that I still did a fair amount of .NET development. Sure, there is Mono for OSX, but that's a far cry from Visual Studio.NET on Windows XP. Clearly, I would need a solution that allows me to run Windows XP on my MacBook Pro.
Too many tense changes in one paragraph. Somebody please teach this guy how to compose.
not to me
I had exactly the same question.....
Me: "Ummmmm.....Look in the fridge ?"
Google: "OK, the fridge is empty"
Me: "Well, I think I might wait for my friends then challenge them to come up with an idea"
Google: "But, they may only use those ingredients ?"
Me: "OK"
Google: "So, an hour goes by and you haven't eaten yet"
Me: "Well, I am a pretty patient guy, I think I might give them some more time"
Google: "Another hour goes by, your friends are getting hungry and worried they aren't going to eat"
Me: "Well, I guess that's what you fucking get for coming around my house uninvited"
Google: "OK, that concludes the interview"
Everything works if you're trying to hire 500 people a year or 1,000
Time to sell your Google stock.
Any technology company that needs to hire more than 1,000 people a year is clearly doing something wrong.
Ah, a spelling Nazi/ e .html/ s able/
.
Let's see how many sources cite my spelling:
Here's the first few
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/apposable
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/apposable/
http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/APPOSABLE/
http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/apposable/
http://www.alphadictionary.com/wordnet/a/apposabl
http://www.webster-dictionary.net/definition/Appo
What did we learn in class today ?
There is more than one 'correct' way to spell many words
the video shows 4 "fingers", arranged with each at a 90 degree offset to the other
Well, no actually, unfortunately the three still images that you refer to as a 'video' are of such poor quality, that I thought there were only two 'fingers'. Upon very careful review I can make out no more than three 'fingers'.
None-the-less, I stand by my statement, this does not, to my mind, represent a hand.
It does not appear to be able to be used as a cup like the human palm can.
It does not appeat to have a single digit which may independantly touch all the other digits like the human thumb can.
It does not appear to have any single digit capable of touching its own palm like the human hand can.
It does not appear to have the ability to move freely in all three dimensions like the human hand can.
It does not appear - from the photos or the article - to have any form of sensors on any of the digits or the palm.
In fact it fails to conjure up the anthropomorphic image of a hand at all
Thus, the use of the term 'hand' for this device is entirely misleading.
Now, if you wish to see a robotic device that does appear to be a hand, try this
http://www.shadowrobot.com/hand//
and this
http://www.shadowrobot.com/hand/techspec.shtml/ Note the use of the following phrase
24 degrees of freedom
I guess my point is that the word 'hand' should be used a bit more cautiously.
As I stated, this is just a very small set of pliers.
I think most humans will understand a 'hand' to have the following characteristics:
Has a 'palm' in which to collect items (most significantly - items smaller than the hand itself)
Has a wrist around which the palm and fingers may rotate.
Has at least two digits with differing axis of motion (apposable).
I suppose we could allow a single fork tine to be called a 'hand' if we really wanted to be free with the definition, but my guess is that you would agree that that is not a 'hand' either.
When I imagine a hand, I imagine a shape something akin to the human hand with more than three digits, one of them apposable, in a somewhat radial arrangement.
This hand looks more like a pair of pliers.
It took me several scans of the linked website to notice the photo foolishly placed in what is rapidly becoming the de facto column for advertisements.e _tec_zoom0.html?category=technology&guid=200610171 10000/
Here is a link to the full sized photo for those interested
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/17/meteorit
Note to website developers: If you use 'standard' layouts like this, don't bury information in places people have grown accustomed to seeing adverts !
Hey, guess what?
Spamhouse does not, and cannot, filter your outgoing mail, or the outgoing mail from any of the spammers you sell accounts to.
Spamhouse allows Me to filter that stuff. Hell, they don't even provide me an application to do it. They simply provide categorised lists. It's data. I choose to use that data, and you can't stop me from using that data.
They are providing a service to me, not denying a service to you or your spammer buddies.