I'm going to rape your iBook with a Vista install, how do you like that, Hippie?!
Let's see if you change your mind on the death penalty when I rip your girlfriend's OS X out and jam my trojan-laden Vista disc into her helpless slot and overwrite everything you ever loved about her!
Yes, but remember that the USSR licenced its production to client states, and there are countries other than Russia that were once actually part of the USSR. I think they have a pretty good claim to having the right to produce something that, in theory, belongs as much to them as the Russians.
But IIRC, the Chinese copies are unlicensed, and they are one of the major producers of AKs nowadays. Good luck getting them to enforce IP, stop weapons production, and stop arms dealing at the same time though.
While that's funny, you should not delude yourself into thinking that will fix anything. It's almost certain that real attacks will come through proxies or botnets in third party contries. For example, North Korea is so bandwidth-starved and paranoid that they host their government websites in Japan, and their network warfare guys will probobly act through another country as well.
Blocking China will at most stop the least talented script kiddies.
I've seen sauce sold at stores called "liquid smoke" that supposedly adds the smoke flavor to anything. It was in the BBQ sauce isle, I think. Or you could try marinading steaks in whisky, especially the cheap stuff that you can really taste the charcoal in.
Haven't tried either, but I know some pros like to use those methods even on charcoal or mesquite grills.
Yeah, the D-Pad sucks. What's more, I found out when I tried out the Windows USB version that the D-pad doesn't work as a D-pad in Windows, but becomes a "view control" or something using the default drivers. I had to use the analog stick to control my platformers, which was annoying and I switched back to the keyboard.
That said, the layout of the 360 is probobly the apex of the "standard" dual-stick type controller. It's the culmination of all that's been learned about controller design from the PS Dual Shock onwards. Except, unfortunately, for the D-Pad. I don't think MS has ever made a good D-pad, from their Sidewinder series to the original xbox. Even the PS1's was better.
I liked the GameCube's odd-shaped buttons, but I can definitely see why it's not good for some types of games.
Also, I think the best non-analog controllers are the ones on Nintendo's portables. Every single one, from the Gameboy to the DS Lite, has decent feel and response, with a layout that's great for small hands and acceptable for big ones. My favorites are the ones with a distinctive click, like the GBA SP and original DS.
Yes, but reprisal killings don't need to be high in number to be effective. If the goal is to deter others from snitching, not just to take out revenge on a particular snitch, you don't need to kill that many informants before others start to refuse to be snitches.
It's actually like how deterrence in law enforcement works, but for the bad guys. In law enforcement, it's not just the number of criminals you arrest, it's how low you can keep the crime rate down in the first place through the threat of arrest.
If I were moving a lot of data with a 747 (or a C-17, as the US military might), I would build hard drive rack assemblies that were built into standard shipping containers, which could be offloaded onto a truck or train and shipped directly between sites. It's less space-efficent than building them into the 747, but I figure the limiting factor would be weight, not space.
Obviously, it would use freight 747s, which are cheaper and can handle the containers. Hey, FedEx and UPS manage to do it with letters, so I figure it's possible with hard drives:)
Disclaimer: I am a linguistics major undergrad, but I have not taken any courses specifically about speech recognition.
The more I learn about human speech, the more I'm convinced that instead of analizing the whole sound input and actually deriving the individual sounds and building them into words (as a simple speech transcriber might), the human brain simply looks for major cue sounds and assembles sentences based on context and prior experience. It would fit with what we know about vision, i.e. that we don't process everything the eye sees but rather has the brain make assumptions about distance or depth using processing shortcuts.
When I took a course on Phonetics(*not* phonics), we had to learn to transcribe every sort of sound made by human speech, and it was really hard to distinguish sounds that were not in a language you knew. The brain had a hard time fitting them into previous knowledge, I guess.
So what I'm getting at is that context and setting plays a really important role understanding speech. It's not suprising that a software program might not get everything right if it doesn't know what field or specialty you are talking about. I'm careful to say "UNIX computers" to laypeople because "UNIX" sounds too much like "eunuchs", and people have enough odd ideas about geeks as it is:)
I hate it, because it looks like an ordinary credit card w/ picture ID. The school name is on it but not prominently; It doesn't look like a real ID, which I would prefer:(
I've never activated the account feature, which is optional, thankfully.
Hate to be a pedant... but it's a "US driver's license" because a license from any state is valid in any other state. Sure, the bartender or cashier might not accept out-of-state IDs. But for the purpose it was desinged for (i.e., a license to drive, not a general ID), I know of no situation where a license from one state is considered invalid in another.
Ahhh... the 9/11 attack and the armed cults are by definition consipracies, in that a group of people conspired to commit them. They are not part of a greater, world-wide conspiracy, but they are actual conspiracies, nonetheless.
I'm noticing that every time the "Downloads window" or the "Download complete" notification pops up, it slows down everything for a few seconds, sometimes even freezing it for a minute or so. Does anyone know why it does that, and if there's a way to remove the download notification completely?
Like maybe a decent resolution and tilt/pressure sensitivity equal to a stand-alone tablet!??!
Yes I know it's a completely different tech and apple doesn't actually care about artists, but it'd be a whole lot more useful than a phone with no tactile feedback that will be even harder to use while driving a car, drinking your coffee, and smoking a cigarette at the same time.
Oh my god, I just had the greatest idea ever - the iNipple.
The idea comes from your post, and remembering putting my iPod in my breast pocket and manipulating it by twirling my finger in front of the pocket - a action that looks disturbingly like I'm feeling myself up.
People are always saying, "The only intuitive interface is the nipple." well, now you can have an intuitive interface for the computer!!! Apple must have some inkling of this, otherwise why would all their iPods have a nipple (a center button surrounded by a round, flat area)?
I envison a device that is like the analog stick on a gamecube, mounted on a soft, gel-filled mound that has touch and pressure sensors that could register button presses. They would come in pairs, and you would tweak the iNipple sensor at the top while squeezing and rubbing the mounds to type.
Now, people will be able to drive their car, smoke, and drink coffee while copping a feel on their iPods!! The commute will never be the same!!!
Really, how small do we need to make these things, anyways? Even in Japan, where mini=cool, there's a limit to how small phones get. Maybe it's the battery requirements, but I think that past a certain point, the "cool" factor gets outweighed by the fact that you can't show off a device you can't see.
The current nano iPods are smaller than any phone I've seen, and I wonder just how many people actually want something that size.
I've often thought that the problem with laws is they use human language, with legal jargon, which can introduce ambiguities. They also seem to contradict each other when a legislator doesn't know of previous laws that are still in effect, or when laws overlap from different fields.
I was thinking recently that instead of English, laws could be written in something like UML that clearly defines things like scope or jurisdiction, with a special dictionary of terms to clearly specify what is meant. It could also aid in things like automatic code conflict searches, or "refactoring" old laws.
That sounds even more dangerous, like the pre-war and wartime situation in Japan when pretty much every fascist used the Emperor as an excuse to be totalitarian, while deflecting criticism of their nasty policies by hiding behind the untarnishable image of the Emperor...
Don't kid yourself, they're not going to give you Congressional seats or pork-barrel projects. You'll just be another non-state territory, like Puerto Rico or Guam.
What's bizarre is that the judge seemed to be actually following the conservative line of disparaging African/Islamic culture as sexist and at the same time doing something along what she felt were their culture. I doubt she knew enough about the culture to be able to say whether it was within those bounds. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy of creating sexism.
IIRC, in Islamic law you don't really need a reason to divorce, one only has to declare a divorce for it to take effect, so the judge was not actually following the culture of the couple.
This actually shows the problems with the nativist approach to immigrants - they're systematically taught to see their ancestral culture as something to be ashamed of, and then they're set against other immigrant communities. Imagine African-Americans actually demanding that new African immigrants be enslaved (There are already questiona about whether Obama is 'American' enough), or a WWII vet saying that a Iraq vet should go through the same horrors he did.
The hardships of past generations should not be used to justify hardships in this generation.
I hope your aunt was at least able to keep up her Italian...
I'm a linguistics student who has studied the politics of language policy so I should put my word in...
Most immigrants do learn the language of the country they move to, if only because of the oppurtunities it opens up for them. However, they will usually keep their home language, and use it among members of their own community. Unfortunately, the natives often get offended or upset when they see immigrants using their language amongst themselves, or see businesses using another language. It mostly has to do with issues of pride and fear of otherness. When natives say "they need to speak our language", they often really mean "stop speaking the other language". It's often just an excuse to keep immigrant communities marginalized.
From a practical perspective, if a group of immigrants are able to make a living using their own language, I see no need to make them stop.
France has certain issues with language that the U.S. does not, such as having French as an official language and not defining themselves as an immigrant nation. Also, although they are officially racially neutral, their culture and government are really white-controlled, more so than the U.S..
As a Linguistics student taking a course called "Pidgins and Creoles", I should probobly explain the concept...
A pidgin is a language that combines aspects of two languages, and is created by people who have a need to talk to someone who doesn't speak their language. The language usually has words taken from one language, and syntax from another. A pidgin is a language which is used only in certain situations, like an employer giving orders to employees or merchants trading in a marketplace.
If a mixed language becomes the native language of a community, it's called a 'creole' language.
I realize that 'pidgin' has negative connotations because it often arises in social situations like slavery or colonialism, but the languages themselves are not a sign of uneducatedness but a natural result of different language communities mixing.
Note that what Pidgin(the software) does isn't pidgin - it's more like multilingualism with many protocols. A "real" pidgin would be like combining the AIM and MSN protocols into one.
Yeah, I was just thinking the other day when I bought some Japanese candy that one of the differences is the taste isn't as strongly sugary/oily as American chocolate. Japanese snacks in general tend to have a more darker chocolate than American ones, it seems.
Does anyone know about specific differences in nationl "chocolate standards"?
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I'm going to rape your iBook with a Vista install, how do you like that, Hippie?!
Let's see if you change your mind on the death penalty when I rip your girlfriend's OS X out and jam my trojan-laden Vista disc into her helpless slot and overwrite everything you ever loved about her!
WHERE IS YOUR JOBS NOW?!?!
While true, there are ways of looking within the earth from outer space. Satellites can sense the variations in gravity/mass that are within planet surfaces, as with this: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a001000/a0010 89/index.html
9 6sep_holcomb.htmlk _rd.htm
Radar mapping can also go a bit into the earth, too:
http://www.eomonline.com/Common/Archives/1996sep/
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mjff/sil
Though I've never heard of anything that goes down as deep as what this article claims, and I have my doubts about it.
Yes, but remember that the USSR licenced its production to client states, and there are countries other than Russia that were once actually part of the USSR. I think they have a pretty good claim to having the right to produce something that, in theory, belongs as much to them as the Russians.
But IIRC, the Chinese copies are unlicensed, and they are one of the major producers of AKs nowadays. Good luck getting them to enforce IP, stop weapons production, and stop arms dealing at the same time though.
While that's funny, you should not delude yourself into thinking that will fix anything. It's almost certain that real attacks will come through proxies or botnets in third party contries. For example, North Korea is so bandwidth-starved and paranoid that they host their government websites in Japan, and their network warfare guys will probobly act through another country as well.
Blocking China will at most stop the least talented script kiddies.
I've seen sauce sold at stores called "liquid smoke" that supposedly adds the smoke flavor to anything. It was in the BBQ sauce isle, I think. Or you could try marinading steaks in whisky, especially the cheap stuff that you can really taste the charcoal in.
Haven't tried either, but I know some pros like to use those methods even on charcoal or mesquite grills.
Yeah, the D-Pad sucks. What's more, I found out when I tried out the Windows USB version that the D-pad doesn't work as a D-pad in Windows, but becomes a "view control" or something using the default drivers. I had to use the analog stick to control my platformers, which was annoying and I switched back to the keyboard.
That said, the layout of the 360 is probobly the apex of the "standard" dual-stick type controller. It's the culmination of all that's been learned about controller design from the PS Dual Shock onwards. Except, unfortunately, for the D-Pad. I don't think MS has ever made a good D-pad, from their Sidewinder series to the original xbox. Even the PS1's was better.
I liked the GameCube's odd-shaped buttons, but I can definitely see why it's not good for some types of games.
Also, I think the best non-analog controllers are the ones on Nintendo's portables. Every single one, from the Gameboy to the DS Lite, has decent feel and response, with a layout that's great for small hands and acceptable for big ones. My favorites are the ones with a distinctive click, like the GBA SP and original DS.
For all we know, Bush himself called up and made chimplike screeching noises to the heads of the board of the Smithsonian.
Hahahaha, thanks for making me lol today.
I guess Clinton would have called them up and talked dirty to them instead?
Yes, but reprisal killings don't need to be high in number to be effective. If the goal is to deter others from snitching, not just to take out revenge on a particular snitch, you don't need to kill that many informants before others start to refuse to be snitches.
It's actually like how deterrence in law enforcement works, but for the bad guys. In law enforcement, it's not just the number of criminals you arrest, it's how low you can keep the crime rate down in the first place through the threat of arrest.
If I were moving a lot of data with a 747 (or a C-17, as the US military might), I would build hard drive rack assemblies that were built into standard shipping containers, which could be offloaded onto a truck or train and shipped directly between sites. It's less space-efficent than building them into the 747, but I figure the limiting factor would be weight, not space.
:)
Obviously, it would use freight 747s, which are cheaper and can handle the containers. Hey, FedEx and UPS manage to do it with letters, so I figure it's possible with hard drives
Was it, by any chance, Women's Action for New Directions? I couldn't believe I found this when I googled...
:)
Disclaimer: I am a linguistics major undergrad, but I have not taken any courses specifically about speech recognition.
The more I learn about human speech, the more I'm convinced that instead of analizing the whole sound input and actually deriving the individual sounds and building them into words (as a simple speech transcriber might), the human brain simply looks for major cue sounds and assembles sentences based on context and prior experience. It would fit with what we know about vision, i.e. that we don't process everything the eye sees but rather has the brain make assumptions about distance or depth using processing shortcuts.
When I took a course on Phonetics(*not* phonics), we had to learn to transcribe every sort of sound made by human speech, and it was really hard to distinguish sounds that were not in a language you knew. The brain had a hard time fitting them into previous knowledge, I guess.
So what I'm getting at is that context and setting plays a really important role understanding speech. It's not suprising that a software program might not get everything right if it doesn't know what field or specialty you are talking about. I'm careful to say "UNIX computers" to laypeople because "UNIX" sounds too much like "eunuchs", and people have enough odd ideas about geeks as it is
So if, say, a certain photo.... of my goat... were being used in an infringing manner.... Could I sue Slashdot for linking to it, repeatedly?
My goat is getting tired of being... spread... on the internet, for all to see!
My school has one of those, too. Link: here.
:(
I hate it, because it looks like an ordinary credit card w/ picture ID. The school name is on it but not prominently; It doesn't look like a real ID, which I would prefer
I've never activated the account feature, which is optional, thankfully.
Hate to be a pedant... but it's a "US driver's license" because a license from any state is valid in any other state. Sure, the bartender or cashier might not accept out-of-state IDs. But for the purpose it was desinged for (i.e., a license to drive, not a general ID), I know of no situation where a license from one state is considered invalid in another.
Ahhh... the 9/11 attack and the armed cults are by definition consipracies, in that a group of people conspired to commit them. They are not part of a greater, world-wide conspiracy, but they are actual conspiracies, nonetheless.
I'm noticing that every time the "Downloads window" or the "Download complete" notification pops up, it slows down everything for a few seconds, sometimes even freezing it for a minute or so. Does anyone know why it does that, and if there's a way to remove the download notification completely?
I'm using 1.5.0.11 for Windows XP.
Like maybe a decent resolution and tilt/pressure sensitivity equal to a stand-alone tablet!??!
Yes I know it's a completely different tech and apple doesn't actually care about artists, but it'd be a whole lot more useful than a phone with no tactile feedback that will be even harder to use while driving a car, drinking your coffee, and smoking a cigarette at the same time.
Oh my god, I just had the greatest idea ever - the iNipple.
The idea comes from your post, and remembering putting my iPod in my breast pocket and manipulating it by twirling my finger in front of the pocket - a action that looks disturbingly like I'm feeling myself up.
People are always saying, "The only intuitive interface is the nipple." well, now you can have an intuitive interface for the computer!!! Apple must have some inkling of this, otherwise why would all their iPods have a nipple (a center button surrounded by a round, flat area)?
I envison a device that is like the analog stick on a gamecube, mounted on a soft, gel-filled mound that has touch and pressure sensors that could register button presses. They would come in pairs, and you would tweak the iNipple sensor at the top while squeezing and rubbing the mounds to type.
Now, people will be able to drive their car, smoke, and drink coffee while copping a feel on their iPods!! The commute will never be the same!!!
Really, how small do we need to make these things, anyways? Even in Japan, where mini=cool, there's a limit to how small phones get. Maybe it's the battery requirements, but I think that past a certain point, the "cool" factor gets outweighed by the fact that you can't show off a device you can't see. The current nano iPods are smaller than any phone I've seen, and I wonder just how many people actually want something that size.
I've often thought that the problem with laws is they use human language, with legal jargon, which can introduce ambiguities. They also seem to contradict each other when a legislator doesn't know of previous laws that are still in effect, or when laws overlap from different fields.
I was thinking recently that instead of English, laws could be written in something like UML that clearly defines things like scope or jurisdiction, with a special dictionary of terms to clearly specify what is meant. It could also aid in things like automatic code conflict searches, or "refactoring" old laws.
That sounds even more dangerous, like the pre-war and wartime situation in Japan when pretty much every fascist used the Emperor as an excuse to be totalitarian, while deflecting criticism of their nasty policies by hiding behind the untarnishable image of the Emperor...
Don't kid yourself, they're not going to give you Congressional seats or pork-barrel projects. You'll just be another non-state territory, like Puerto Rico or Guam.
Enjoy your servitude.
I think you are referring to the case in Germany.
What's bizarre is that the judge seemed to be actually following the conservative line of disparaging African/Islamic culture as sexist and at the same time doing something along what she felt were their culture. I doubt she knew enough about the culture to be able to say whether it was within those bounds. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy of creating sexism.
IIRC, in Islamic law you don't really need a reason to divorce, one only has to declare a divorce for it to take effect, so the judge was not actually following the culture of the couple.
This actually shows the problems with the nativist approach to immigrants - they're systematically taught to see their ancestral culture as something to be ashamed of, and then they're set against other immigrant communities. Imagine African-Americans actually demanding that new African immigrants be enslaved (There are already questiona about whether Obama is 'American' enough), or a WWII vet saying that a Iraq vet should go through the same horrors he did.
The hardships of past generations should not be used to justify hardships in this generation.
I hope your aunt was at least able to keep up her Italian...
I'm a linguistics student who has studied the politics of language policy so I should put my word in...
Most immigrants do learn the language of the country they move to, if only because of the oppurtunities it opens up for them. However, they will usually keep their home language, and use it among members of their own community. Unfortunately, the natives often get offended or upset when they see immigrants using their language amongst themselves, or see businesses using another language. It mostly has to do with issues of pride and fear of otherness. When natives say "they need to speak our language", they often really mean "stop speaking the other language". It's often just an excuse to keep immigrant communities marginalized.
From a practical perspective, if a group of immigrants are able to make a living using their own language, I see no need to make them stop.
France has certain issues with language that the U.S. does not, such as having French as an official language and not defining themselves as an immigrant nation. Also, although they are officially racially neutral, their culture and government are really white-controlled, more so than the U.S..
As a Linguistics student taking a course called "Pidgins and Creoles", I should probobly explain the concept...
A pidgin is a language that combines aspects of two languages, and is created by people who have a need to talk to someone who doesn't speak their language. The language usually has words taken from one language, and syntax from another. A pidgin is a language which is used only in certain situations, like an employer giving orders to employees or merchants trading in a marketplace.
If a mixed language becomes the native language of a community, it's called a 'creole' language.
I realize that 'pidgin' has negative connotations because it often arises in social situations like slavery or colonialism, but the languages themselves are not a sign of uneducatedness but a natural result of different language communities mixing.
Note that what Pidgin(the software) does isn't pidgin - it's more like multilingualism with many protocols. A "real" pidgin would be like combining the AIM and MSN protocols into one.
Yeah, I was just thinking the other day when I bought some Japanese candy that one of the differences is the taste isn't as strongly sugary/oily as American chocolate. Japanese snacks in general tend to have a more darker chocolate than American ones, it seems.
Does anyone know about specific differences in nationl "chocolate standards"?