The problem is that you apparently need to make the requirements to get a "computer license" more stringent than those required to get a job in network security at IBM or a degree in information security. Good luck legislating that when you're going to have to take away the computers of everyone in Congress and all of their staff. take away their computers, are you mad? but how will they get the internets that their assistants send them through the tubes?
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Nintendo's Wii (great console but what was smoking the guy who named it) dunno, but it sounds like you suspect it was from Soviet Russia?
my big problem with this program in particular is that the Department of Homeland Security is notorious for not protecting its data (example #1, example #2). so even if you feel confident that they have a good reason for mining this data, you can't possibly have confidence that someone else isn't mining the DHS's data for their own uses.
aside from that point, they've already cancelled one project like this because they weren't taking any sort of privacy measures and lying about it on top of that, i suppose they're totally on the up-and-up this time?
Adding and subtracting is "high-level" intellectual activity, now? hey, they'll stop what they can now and get to the rest later. today it's simple math, but tomorrow it's complex trigonometry
The demo faces you against the latino gang because the game gangs scale upwards in difficulty like in almost any game. The latino gang is the starting point, and thus the best place to start the player in the demo since they would get to experience beginner level gameplay so that they can contrast it with end-game gameplay. oh great, now someone's gonna get mad that the game somehow implies that latinos are the "easy mode" gangs and other races are somehow better at it
I'm sure Chris# will be a much more full-featured language. You should have seen the original Chris language; that was a monster to work with. after looking at that thing i can say that he better hope Chris# doesn't have over-zealous garbage collecting
You are forgetting the biggest innovations of Microsoft - Clippy, and UAC! it seems like you are [trying to make a joke on Slashdot], would you like to start with one of the [Slashdot Joke Templates]?
1. "in Soviet Russia..."
2. "...you ignorant clod!"
3. "Natalie Portman & hot grits"
4. "We welcome our overlords"
It's better than paying $29.95 for a cable worth $5 at a big box store. Cables seem to be right behind extended warranties and printer ink in the retail cash cow category.
I think the point was that CompUSA was one of the few retail stores that didn't gouge like that. Sure, they weren't as cheap as mail-order, but they didn't try to screw you the same way that Best Buy, Staples, and the rest of them do.
they may not have gouged as much on their advertised price and they may have had nice clearance deals, but they were always IMO really bad at labeling prices on items and shelves and had really pushy sales people (aren't they paid on commission?).
i work down the street from the Illinois CompUSA that they're closing and that place was a mess. horrible location, messy interior and really pushy sales people. i bought my Powerbook there and they insisted that i needed to get extra RAM installed there rather than doing it myself or i'd void the warranty, but then when they realized that it was 10 minutes before closing and their people couldn't do it before the next day (and they'd risk losing the sale if they told me that) they completely did a 180 and said it was no problem at all if i installed it (turns out it's ridiculously easy anyway).
anyway, the closing signs for this particular store have been up for a couple weeks and they've marked down items 10-30% (they make a big point of noting that there are no markdowns on Bose items, but even Apple items that are generally sold at fixed prices are between 10% and 20% off) as they clear out the store between now and the end of March...they're even selling some of the tables and shelves that they displayed items on. still, even with these big markdowns and signs stating such posted by the street, they still get less traffic than the Best Buy around the corner. that should tell you something about the quality of their location.
According to a report issued by Human Rights Watch in 2006 March 17, "The systematic abuse of psychiatry for political purposes in China became internationally known in late 1999..." if only they had Tom Cruise over there to educate them about the evils of psychiatry, they're just as misinformed as Matt Lauer!
1. don't build it
2. build it and lock it up
3. build it and charge unreasonably large fees
there's always the choice of building it and charging reasonable fees. as long as the company and the regulating body can agree on a fair fee, they'll be making money off these fees for a long period of time and should be able to more than recoup their initial investment.
Personally, I think that a society who follows those tenets because they believe them to be right, rather than because that's what their god supposedly wants, is a more enlightened society.
I've heard a rabbi comment on that... He said that following some principles because you believe them to be right is easy; following them just because your god commands you is hard. And that, he said, is why religious people have it harder and why their sacrifice is more worthy or something like that.
it seems to me that taking a published list of principles and altering it to arrive at your own set of principles that seem fairest to you is hard, while following it directly just because you're commanded to is easy. it may be that looking at the list and altering it based on your viewpoint doesn't bring you to a better or more generally fair set of rules (you may be factoring in your own bias and self-interest). but if you're really putting effort into thinking of the reasons behind those rules, that's got to be more work than just following without question doesn't it?
This "inkless printing" tech isn't valuable for making a printout you can doodle on, unless they can make a matching "inkless pen". Otherwise you erase the sheet for reuse and the "blank" paper still has your notes on it. i predict a use for this in the erasable contracts industry. what, you signed a contract that looked different?
Oops, wrong link. Just search for "basis" though and you'll see that "bases" is the plural form (say "basees") even so, using the plural "bases" would be appropriate if the quote were more like "these are just opinions with no bases in fact" rather than the case where this was being used ("an opinion that has no bases in fact"). it seems like it's understood that even multiple components of a root for a single item would be referred to as a singular "basis".
The so-called extras they cram onto most discs are obvious filler. man, most of the time i'm right there with ya, but then i see examples like the casting commentary on Beverly Hills Cop where they talked about how the movie was originally cast with Stallone as the main character and i see that it can definitely have its place. it's hard to say whether the few gems are worth the piles of junk they're buried in though, and i definitely don't think that the discs need *even more* space for this stuff than they had in the DVD generation.
as far as I remember, CDDB goes only by track lengths. Works some of the times, but is really a crapshoot (hence genre splitting to lower overlap).
It doesn't do any real music analysis like Musicbrainz('audio checksums') or even Pandora(manualy defined audio qualities) there was an earlier article on Slashdot that said otherwise. from that article:
Although the idea of using track times to identify discs existed before CDDB's time, the real trick is in using that information to find discs quickly and accurately. For some twisted reason, each time a new batch of CDs is manufactured, the factory makes a new master that often has timings slightly different from previous batches of the same disc. (I think there is a Linkin Park disc in our database with over 1,000 different TOCs.) .
It's a black art, and involves layers of hashing, fuzzy logic and other matching methods to ensure quality results. This is what Gracenote has mastered, and is far more important than just the lone idea of using track times to identify discs.
As far as acoustic recognition, Gracenote has two types of audio recognition. The simpler one is used for identifying audio files, and helps audio software catalog your music collection. The other, heavier method is very tolerant of background noise. .
The MySpace story shows one of the many ways we use this technology. One of the coolest applications is the ability to identify a song over a cell phone. We're also starting to identify music used in old TV shows, so that the rights holders/artists can be paid back royalties, as well as monitoring live radio/TV broadcasts.
Phones don't interest me much, I still have a Nokia 5110 but it only lasts ~3 min on a full charge. Perhaps it's time to trade it in. keep it to give to your kids, that's one way to keep their phone bills down
It has a real 3-d card, but are you really going to play the two 3-d games available for the Mac to justify that? i'm not the parent poster, but i play WoW on my 12" powerbook occasionally. it's decent for doing some quick logins and farming tasks if i don't feel like getting out of bed, but it could use some more oomph for some harder to render spots
Early on in this project I thought the public would be able to buy one at an inflated price (something like $300), the inflated portion of which would be used to send more laptops to more kids. that's because someone ran an unofficial petition of "i'd buy one for 3x the price, with the extra profit going toward a donation of 2 for third-world countries" that was promoted on Slashdot many, many times. only some of those times was it made clear that the petition was not at all affiliated with the real project, so i think a lot of people assumed that if they got enough signatures it might happen or that it was already a planned program.
4. The positive charge behind the driving beam pulls it backwards, causing it to lose energy. At the same time, a "witness" bunch placed strategically within the wakefield gets pulled forward by the positively charged ions. The witness gains energy while the driver loses energy. sounds like a slingshot pass in NASCAR. Shake-n-Bake, baby
I for one will NEVER carry any papers that the Government tells me that I must carry just to walk around and breath the air! They can kiss my lilly white ass. "i'm sorry sir, but these 'kissable lilly white ass' certification papers seem to be out of date"
Secondly, I'm not American, but in "law movies" we often see that situation that illegally obtained evidence doesn't count. But in reality, if the judge said to the jury "ok, this piece of evidence doesn't count", I think most human people in the jury would still acknowledge the evidence.
in reality most inadmissible evidence doesn't get shown to the jury before someone pipes up and says "that's inadmissible", so the jury doesn't need to force themselves to forget that they saw it.
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my big problem with this program in particular is that the Department of Homeland Security is notorious for not protecting its data (example #1, example #2). so even if you feel confident that they have a good reason for mining this data, you can't possibly have confidence that someone else isn't mining the DHS's data for their own uses.
aside from that point, they've already cancelled one project like this because they weren't taking any sort of privacy measures and lying about it on top of that, i suppose they're totally on the up-and-up this time?you forgot option 4: the SEC doesn't do as good of a job of catching these as they'd like to and it keeps going on just with a slightly lower hit rate
No one out there really seems to get it. Fosters - goes in the same category with Rolf Harris, Steve Irwin (god bless him) and Crocodile Dundee:
Shit we foist on other people.
oh, we get it. now you understand why they're pricing Vista so low in Australia1. "in Soviet Russia..."
2. "...you ignorant clod!"
3. "Natalie Portman & hot grits"
4. "We welcome our overlords"
-Clippy
I think the point was that CompUSA was one of the few retail stores that didn't gouge like that. Sure, they weren't as cheap as mail-order, but they didn't try to screw you the same way that Best Buy, Staples, and the rest of them do.
they may not have gouged as much on their advertised price and they may have had nice clearance deals, but they were always IMO really bad at labeling prices on items and shelves and had really pushy sales people (aren't they paid on commission?).
i work down the street from the Illinois CompUSA that they're closing and that place was a mess. horrible location, messy interior and really pushy sales people. i bought my Powerbook there and they insisted that i needed to get extra RAM installed there rather than doing it myself or i'd void the warranty, but then when they realized that it was 10 minutes before closing and their people couldn't do it before the next day (and they'd risk losing the sale if they told me that) they completely did a 180 and said it was no problem at all if i installed it (turns out it's ridiculously easy anyway).
anyway, the closing signs for this particular store have been up for a couple weeks and they've marked down items 10-30% (they make a big point of noting that there are no markdowns on Bose items, but even Apple items that are generally sold at fixed prices are between 10% and 20% off) as they clear out the store between now and the end of March...they're even selling some of the tables and shelves that they displayed items on. still, even with these big markdowns and signs stating such posted by the street, they still get less traffic than the Best Buy around the corner. that should tell you something about the quality of their location.
the choices aren't just :
1. don't build it
2. build it and lock it up
3. build it and charge unreasonably large fees
there's always the choice of building it and charging reasonable fees. as long as the company and the regulating body can agree on a fair fee, they'll be making money off these fees for a long period of time and should be able to more than recoup their initial investment.
I've heard a rabbi comment on that... He said that following some principles because you believe them to be right is easy; following them just because your god commands you is hard. And that, he said, is why religious people have it harder and why their sacrifice is more worthy or something like that.
it seems to me that taking a published list of principles and altering it to arrive at your own set of principles that seem fairest to you is hard, while following it directly just because you're commanded to is easy. it may be that looking at the list and altering it based on your viewpoint doesn't bring you to a better or more generally fair set of rules (you may be factoring in your own bias and self-interest). but if you're really putting effort into thinking of the reasons behind those rules, that's got to be more work than just following without question doesn't it?It doesn't do any real music analysis like Musicbrainz('audio checksums') or even Pandora(manualy defined audio qualities) there was an earlier article on Slashdot that said otherwise. from that article
It's a black art, and involves layers of hashing, fuzzy logic and other matching methods to ensure quality results. This is what Gracenote has mastered, and is far more important than just the lone idea of using track times to identify discs.
As far as acoustic recognition, Gracenote has two types of audio recognition. The simpler one is used for identifying audio files, and helps audio software catalog your music collection. The other, heavier method is very tolerant of background noise. .
The MySpace story shows one of the many ways we use this technology. One of the coolest applications is the ability to identify a song over a cell phone. We're also starting to identify music used in old TV shows, so that the rights holders/artists can be paid back royalties, as well as monitoring live radio/TV broadcasts.
sounds like a slingshot pass in NASCAR. Shake-n-Bake, baby