It is like this in other places, as well--or even worse! I lived in Nicaragua for three years, and in the capital they gave directions by referring to places that had been destroyed thirty years earlier, in the earthquake of '72!
"What? The American school? Oh, right, it's right behind [such and such building]"
"Where's that?"
"Uh, well, it got destroyed in the earthquake, but if you drive three blocks east toward the lake, then turn south..."
Your credit card code is at least 6 bytes. Big difference.
(right, right. It's a joke.)
For the ignorant masses, a 16 digit credit card information contains >3 bits (which would be 8 possibilities; in reality there are 10, and though certain combinations (e.g. all 0s) cannot be used for obvious reasons, I'd guess the total number is still more than if there were 8 per digit) per digit. 3*16 is 48 bits, or 6 bytes.
Such things do exist in limited numbers, and there are more efficient video codecs than MPEG for them, optomized for displaying things more typical of computer programs. See e.g. http://www.techsmith.com/products/studio/tour/reco rd.asp
Video is a real time format. If you shoot 15 minutes of video of you talking, then I have to spend 15 minutes listening to it. There's no easy way to e.g. skim it without possibly missing something I might want to hear.
This is why I, for one, will never migrate to video. A photoblog is one thing--they post a picture and a short text description, I look at hte picture, read their text, and reply. 60 seconds elapsed time.
Video and audio will never really replace text and still images, because for the consumer they are less efficient.
In fact, it doesn't. This is a result of the fact that space time is curved, which causes the ratio between diameter and circumference to change.
That said, in a perfectly flat euclidian space, all of these formulae are proven to result in pi, or else they wouldn't use them. The proofs, however, may be a bit on the complex side.
Alright, I expect you to mod all of my posts up next time you get mod points.
From the bill:
(3) The attorney general shall make the adult content registry available for public
dissemination in a readily accessible access restricted electronic format.
You don't know what you are talking about, and as a result are simply following the propaganda line. If you want to make ludicruous statements, please at least give a disclaimer.
They run the political scene in Utah, and they have ever since Brigham Young was both the governor of the territory
Nonsense--you obviously don't know what you are talking about. When prohibition was up for repeal in 1933, the Pesident of the church, as I recall, asked the people to vote against the repeal. Despite this, Utah voted in favor of the 21st ammendment, tipping it over the necessary 3/4 ratification number.
Hatch caused an overnight controversy June 17, 2003 by proposing that copyright owners should be able to destroy the computer equipment and information of those suspected of copyright infringement, including file sharing. In the face of criticism, especially from technology and privacy advocates, Hatch withdrew his suggestion days later. One year later, he proposed a controversial INDUCE Act that attempted to make illegal all tools that may be used for copyright infringement. According to many critics, this act would effectively outlaw the internet and personal computers, giving unprecedented legal leverage to media companies.
I'm ashamed to say that he's my senator...
All I can say, is that thankfully I'm still too young to vote, and I therefore refuse to take any blame for his actions.
Metro is great, and their business model actually works in some places. They just hit the 10 year mark here in Stockholm, where they started, and as I understand they make a healthy profit from advertising here, with over 600,000 readers every weekday. The market was even attractive enough that another major competitor has set up, called Stockholm City. You see them in the metro stations in the mornings, the Metro people all in green and the Stockholm City folks all in red, handing out free newspapers and chatting.
It's been done. In fact, it was on slashdot a little over a month ago.
The Meldex system, designed by the New Zealand Digital Library Project, solves the problem by offering a couple of ways to find music. First, a user can record a query by playing notes on the system's virtual keyboard. Or he or she can hum the song into a computer microphone. Last, users can specify song lyrics as a text query or combine a lyrics search with a tune-based search.
Well, the argument could be made. One LDS breakoff group, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (RLDS) made a movie, for example, showing where different breakaway groups went after leaving Nauvoo, Illinois, IIRC. Some went east, some went south, the LDS church went west to Utah. They represented all of these with arrows, all of which were the same size, as if to imply that all the factions had equal claim to the LDS heritage.
Never mind that the entire top level of the church leadership, as well as thousands of members--the largest faction--all went to Utah. No, the faction of sixteen people that moved to Tennessee had just as much validity...
The RLDS broke off after the death of the founder of the church, Joseph Smith Jun., over the issue of who should take his place as the president of the church. Rather than going along with the remaining leadership and majority of the members, who sustained Brigham Young as the second president, they felt that the presidency should be passed from father to eldest son, and formed a reorganized church with Joseph Smith III as the president. Last I heard, they were facing a dilemma because their current president has no sons.
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It is like this in other places, as well--or even worse! I lived in Nicaragua for three years, and in the capital they gave directions by referring to places that had been destroyed thirty years earlier, in the earthquake of '72!
"What? The American school? Oh, right, it's right behind [such and such building]"
"Where's that?"
"Uh, well, it got destroyed in the earthquake, but if you drive three blocks east toward the lake, then turn south..."
Not really so impressive. They shipped a similar utility with OS 8. I still have it on my old 333Mhz Strawberry iMac.
They call that new?
So, going over to the dark side, are you?
Sorry, the juxtaposition of your post and your sig was just too funny to not comment on.
He put it all there, duh!
Dude.
He was 16 at the time. Give him a break.
Your credit card code is at least 6 bytes. Big difference.
(right, right. It's a joke.)
For the ignorant masses, a 16 digit credit card information contains >3 bits (which would be 8 possibilities; in reality there are 10, and though certain combinations (e.g. all 0s) cannot be used for obvious reasons, I'd guess the total number is still more than if there were 8 per digit) per digit. 3*16 is 48 bits, or 6 bytes.
Oh, right, of course. Right at the top of the gigapixel tapestry story. Typical.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144891&cid=12
The child of that comment also has a link to a flash applet called zoomify:
http://www.zoomify.com/
In fact, I remember reading about something like this for photographed artwork from some museum not a couple days ago.
Unfortunately, I haven't the slightest clue where it was...
Such things do exist in limited numbers, and there are more efficient video codecs than MPEG for them, optomized for displaying things more typical of computer programs. See e.g. http://www.techsmith.com/products/studio/tour/reco rd.asp
No, you are wrong.
And I'll tell you why.
Video is a real time format. If you shoot 15 minutes of video of you talking, then I have to spend 15 minutes listening to it. There's no easy way to e.g. skim it without possibly missing something I might want to hear.
This is why I, for one, will never migrate to video. A photoblog is one thing--they post a picture and a short text description, I look at hte picture, read their text, and reply. 60 seconds elapsed time.
Video and audio will never really replace text and still images, because for the consumer they are less efficient.
Ukraine, perhaps?
(for those who didn't RTFA, or who jsut plain missed it, the Chudnovsky brothers are from there.)
In fact, it doesn't. This is a result of the fact that space time is curved, which causes the ratio between diameter and circumference to change.
That said, in a perfectly flat euclidian space, all of these formulae are proven to result in pi, or else they wouldn't use them. The proofs, however, may be a bit on the complex side.
The difference, of course, is that if Bayer or Volkswagen or Hormel filed such suits, the judge would probably immediately throw it out.
If I were a university, I would not be eager to assume that the judge would do likewise when the **AA filed suit.
Alright, I expect you to mod all of my posts up next time you get mod points.
From the bill:
(3) The attorney general shall make the adult content registry available for public
dissemination in a readily accessible access restricted electronic format.
Please, stop spreading FUD.
Huh?
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= nephi+site%3Alds.org&btnG=Search
There is no mention of elephants anywhere in our scriptures. If you don't believe, it, try the google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q
For comparison, here is the search for "Nephi," showing that it searches all of our scriptures: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q
You don't know what you are talking about, and as a result are simply following the propaganda line. If you want to make ludicruous statements, please at least give a disclaimer.
They run the political scene in Utah, and they have ever since Brigham Young was both the governor of the territory
Nonsense--you obviously don't know what you are talking about. When prohibition was up for repeal in 1933, the Pesident of the church, as I recall, asked the people to vote against the repeal. Despite this, Utah voted in favor of the 21st ammendment, tipping it over the necessary 3/4 ratification number.
Read about it.
Actually, it's more like I will build an uberlarge ship to blow you to smithereens, but it will be too top-heavy and sink.
Then I will raise it up, put it in a museum, and call it the pride of the Swedish fleet.
It's true!
Umm, right.
So, the commercial media industry should all be tax-payer funded, so that they don't need to worry about turning a profit?
Or did you mean something else?
It's true, alright. From Wikipedia
Hatch caused an overnight controversy June 17, 2003 by proposing that copyright owners should be able to destroy the computer equipment and information of those suspected of copyright infringement, including file sharing. In the face of criticism, especially from technology and privacy advocates, Hatch withdrew his suggestion days later. One year later, he proposed a controversial INDUCE Act that attempted to make illegal all tools that may be used for copyright infringement. According to many critics, this act would effectively outlaw the internet and personal computers, giving unprecedented legal leverage to media companies.
I'm ashamed to say that he's my senator...
All I can say, is that thankfully I'm still too young to vote, and I therefore refuse to take any blame for his actions.
The Fishman affidavit is a court document. In the US court documents are public domain.
Fishman affidavit on Wikipedia.
Metro is great, and their business model actually works in some places. They just hit the 10 year mark here in Stockholm, where they started, and as I understand they make a healthy profit from advertising here, with over 600,000 readers every weekday. The market was even attractive enough that another major competitor has set up, called Stockholm City. You see them in the metro stations in the mornings, the Metro people all in green and the Stockholm City folks all in red, handing out free newspapers and chatting.
In fact, I recall reading that the USAF is Microsoft's single largest customer. I think it was actually on /. a while ago.
Disquieting? Most certainly.
It's been done. In fact, it was on slashdot a little over a month ago.
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The Meldex system, designed by the New Zealand Digital Library Project, solves the problem by offering a couple of ways to find music. First, a user can record a query by playing notes on the system's virtual keyboard. Or he or she can hum the song into a computer microphone. Last, users can specify song lyrics as a text query or combine a lyrics search with a tune-based search.
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/01/25/2030207.sht
Well, the argument could be made. One LDS breakoff group, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (RLDS) made a movie, for example, showing where different breakaway groups went after leaving Nauvoo, Illinois, IIRC. Some went east, some went south, the LDS church went west to Utah. They represented all of these with arrows, all of which were the same size, as if to imply that all the factions had equal claim to the LDS heritage.
Never mind that the entire top level of the church leadership, as well as thousands of members--the largest faction--all went to Utah. No, the faction of sixteen people that moved to Tennessee had just as much validity...
The RLDS broke off after the death of the founder of the church, Joseph Smith Jun., over the issue of who should take his place as the president of the church. Rather than going along with the remaining leadership and majority of the members, who sustained Brigham Young as the second president, they felt that the presidency should be passed from father to eldest son, and formed a reorganized church with Joseph Smith III as the president. Last I heard, they were facing a dilemma because their current president has no sons.
It's supposed to be optional for the subscribers. This is not a proposal for a Great Firewall of Utah.
You might try reading the article next time...