"The light pole near the flash has been inspected and does not show any damage, although the light inside was not working."
I bet the light in the light pole blew, and when it did flashed brightly. the picture was taken at just the right moment to catch the flash, and in doing so got some glare on the lens.
How much more disappointed XBox users were in their console than Gamecube users. Obviously Gamecube owners, until now, were satisfied with they got, whereas XBox users almost immediately started trying to tinker with it and make mods.:-D
I'm sure this will work similar to a machine used by banks to read the writing on checks. Banks, rather than hire thousands of people to read the writing on checks every day, run them through a scanner which uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to recognize what characters are what. Of course the machine has trouble sometimes, and spits it out in a special pile which the "auditors" look at and verify. The auditors then tell the machine that such and such a check said such and such, and the machine modifies its algorithm to recognize it better next time. With each passing check its accuracy improves.
I'm sure this is how they train their machines, and with each passing painting it gets better and better. The OCR at Whidbey Island Bank is about 80% accurate, and can sometimes read better than the people running it.
While this may be true, you always hold your pen a certain way, and probably always write the same letter the same way every time (at least in when in the same word).
It would only make the use of a VCR to infringe on others' privacy illegal. You're more than welcome to place a form of wiretap on your own phone for your own private use. If i'm wrong, someone please inform me as this is my understanding of the law
True, but this quote from the wikipedia article you linked says that the current/most common version has been heavily modified by Microsoft. I'm sure the original version by IBM didn't have as many security problems, as IBM is big on doing things right the first time. But then again I can't say for certain as I have no experience with IBM's original.
I'd like to point out that is a MS originated technology that only got put in Linux for compatibility with MS systems. Most Linux-only users use NFS, which does not have these security holes. Most 'secure' network environments don't even use SMB on windows machines due to security holes in the Windows implementation. My 2 cents, don't use it, its buggy and slow and suchs.
On the other hand, many people need to use it in their home networks to share files between windows machines and Linux machines. My suggestion for those users is to set up a firewall which blocks SMB from the outside. And don't make samba shares on your firewall box.
Doesn't Linux support a vastly large collection of hardware than Solaris? Also, Linux isn't just popular because of its open-source nature, but also the philosophy behind its design and development, as well as the number of professionals behind it. I don't see the NSA donating to Solaris, now do I see most of europe backing Linux.
I haven't RTFA yet so please correct me if I'm wrong.
I've heard that story every week for how many years? -counts on fingers... runs out of fingers- Can't count them on my fingers, and mSQL isn't responding cause IE locked up again.:-D
Just for the record, you pay $1.09 at the store for a bottle of Aquafina. I worked at the student at my highschool where we paid $0.17 a bottle, and that wasn't at bulk prices. Imagine what the profit margin of a big-name store like Safeway is (upwards of 500%)
BTW we undercut Safeway by 9 cents:-p
Eventually you might want a relay system: Mars to earth-orbiting satellite via laser, which then amplifies it and relays it to the earth on a frequency which cuts through coulds better, or just saves it up for a time when it can get through. But the first step is to see if you can get light accurately aimed at the Earth.
Wouldn't it be better if we forgot about the coulds and focused on cutting through the could-nots? I dont care if we/could/ beam a laser through space if we/could not/ get it aligned properly with the reciever.
I'm not sure about microwave frequencies, and I'm not sure if anybody's ever built a laser-type thing for radio frequencies (raser? I find people joking about it on the Internet but it doesn't seem unreasonable to me).
They want the high-quality real-time hardware mpeg2 decoding for their HDTV. can you get the HUGE resolution they'er talking about from a lowend card? No...
It appears as if M$ is losing control over its subsidiaries. First Slate recommends FireFox over IE, now MSNBC is slamming them for the patents. The company is turning against itself in a way.
I believe the point is that one vehicle can make use of both infrastructures. Think about this for example: Thousands of people use the Greyhound bus every day. These busses travel great distances between many cities, at a somewhat slow speed. Most of the cities are also serviced by train, but the bus is used instead because it can get people deeper inside the city. If these busses could instead get on train tracks, zoom down the tracks at train-like speeds, then get onto the road in the destination city and deliver people where they want to be, it would make travel much cheaper/easier. The busses would use a lot less gas to go the same distance in a shorter amount of time.
The same goes for freight. A lot of freight is loaded on semi-trucks instead of train tracks because 1) it takes a long time to transfer rail to semi and vice versa, and 2) because the semi's often go where the tracks don't. If the semi's could instead get on rail, go to the town at train speeds, then get off and travel to the destination building, things would move faster and cost less.
With this, you dont have to worry about having separate train and bus maintenance bays, separate fueling, separate vehicles. Alot less to worry about.
My $0.02
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"The light pole near the flash has been inspected and does not show any damage, although the light inside was not working."
I bet the light in the light pole blew, and when it did flashed brightly. the picture was taken at just the right moment to catch the flash, and in doing so got some glare on the lens.
wouldn't that be "Gunshot Tracking Microphones"? Last I checked, cameras didn't recognize sound.
So how long will it take before people start making false statements and forging receipts?
...if i'm not mistaken, they would be reptilian, not humanoid (because of the scales, mind u). However, they could be bipeds :-p
And not to mention associating a linux project with that illegitimacy! Double thanks :-p
How much more disappointed XBox users were in their console than Gamecube users. Obviously Gamecube owners, until now, were satisfied with they got, whereas XBox users almost immediately started trying to tinker with it and make mods. :-D
I'm sure this will work similar to a machine used by banks to read the writing on checks. Banks, rather than hire thousands of people to read the writing on checks every day, run them through a scanner which uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to recognize what characters are what. Of course the machine has trouble sometimes, and spits it out in a special pile which the "auditors" look at and verify. The auditors then tell the machine that such and such a check said such and such, and the machine modifies its algorithm to recognize it better next time. With each passing check its accuracy improves.
I'm sure this is how they train their machines, and with each passing painting it gets better and better. The OCR at Whidbey Island Bank is about 80% accurate, and can sometimes read better than the people running it.
While this may be true, you always hold your pen a certain way, and probably always write the same letter the same way every time (at least in when in the same word).
New forensic evidence has shown that Van Gogh never painted a Van Gogh, Rembrandt didn't paint, and Monet never painted impressionistically.
It would only make the use of a VCR to infringe on others' privacy illegal. You're more than welcome to place a form of wiretap on your own phone for your own private use. If i'm wrong, someone please inform me as this is my understanding of the law
Wiretaps should be any recording device attached to any device or cable that sends or recieves data. After all its a "Wire" "Tap".
True, but this quote from the wikipedia article you linked says that the current/most common version has been heavily modified by Microsoft. I'm sure the original version by IBM didn't have as many security problems, as IBM is big on doing things right the first time. But then again I can't say for certain as I have no experience with IBM's original.
I'd like to point out that is a MS originated technology that only got put in Linux for compatibility with MS systems. Most Linux-only users use NFS, which does not have these security holes. Most 'secure' network environments don't even use SMB on windows machines due to security holes in the Windows implementation. My 2 cents, don't use it, its buggy and slow and suchs. On the other hand, many people need to use it in their home networks to share files between windows machines and Linux machines. My suggestion for those users is to set up a firewall which blocks SMB from the outside. And don't make samba shares on your firewall box.
Doesn't Linux support a vastly large collection of hardware than Solaris? Also, Linux isn't just popular because of its open-source nature, but also the philosophy behind its design and development, as well as the number of professionals behind it. I don't see the NSA donating to Solaris, now do I see most of europe backing Linux.
I haven't RTFA yet so please correct me if I'm wrong.
But don't you see they need a way to more accurately tell how far ahead of their time they are?
Ah, yes, good point. I need to RTFC (Read the Fine Comment) better sometimes.
I've heard that story every week for how many years? -counts on fingers... runs out of fingers- Can't count them on my fingers, and mSQL isn't responding cause IE locked up again. :-D
Just for the record, you pay $1.09 at the store for a bottle of Aquafina. I worked at the student at my highschool where we paid $0.17 a bottle, and that wasn't at bulk prices. Imagine what the profit margin of a big-name store like Safeway is (upwards of 500%) BTW we undercut Safeway by 9 cents :-p
-poke- what about the hindinburg? I thought we were talking about the Hummer2
Eventually you might want a relay system: Mars to earth-orbiting satellite via laser, which then amplifies it and relays it to the earth on a frequency which cuts through coulds better, or just saves it up for a time when it can get through. But the first step is to see if you can get light accurately aimed at the Earth.
/could/ beam a laser through space if we /could not/ get it aligned properly with the reciever.
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Wouldn't it be better if we forgot about the coulds and focused on cutting through the could-nots? I dont care if we
I'm not sure about microwave frequencies, and I'm not sure if anybody's ever built a laser-type thing for radio frequencies (raser? I find people joking about it on the Internet but it doesn't seem unreasonable to me).
Its called a maser
because this is bringing it to desktop/personal computing. obviously linux is not OS/400
They want the high-quality real-time hardware mpeg2 decoding for their HDTV. can you get the HUGE resolution they'er talking about from a lowend card? No...
It appears as if M$ is losing control over its subsidiaries. First Slate recommends FireFox over IE, now MSNBC is slamming them for the patents. The company is turning against itself in a way.
I didn't! P.S. Your sig should read "Proudly Posting Without Reading The Fucking Article"
I believe the point is that one vehicle can make use of both infrastructures. Think about this for example: Thousands of people use the Greyhound bus every day. These busses travel great distances between many cities, at a somewhat slow speed. Most of the cities are also serviced by train, but the bus is used instead because it can get people deeper inside the city. If these busses could instead get on train tracks, zoom down the tracks at train-like speeds, then get onto the road in the destination city and deliver people where they want to be, it would make travel much cheaper/easier. The busses would use a lot less gas to go the same distance in a shorter amount of time. The same goes for freight. A lot of freight is loaded on semi-trucks instead of train tracks because 1) it takes a long time to transfer rail to semi and vice versa, and 2) because the semi's often go where the tracks don't. If the semi's could instead get on rail, go to the town at train speeds, then get off and travel to the destination building, things would move faster and cost less. With this, you dont have to worry about having separate train and bus maintenance bays, separate fueling, separate vehicles. Alot less to worry about. My $0.02