The problem is in provide a discreet definition for subjective and inuitive judgements. I work my own computer vision program as a hobby, and the biggest hurdle is in defining what exactly is a "thing." Take a scene of a park. The hills may have soft shadows around their curves, where does the light green end and the dark green begin when the border is blurred across 50 pixels? What about rational constructs such as a tree? Abstractly it would just be a field of green with bushy edges, but in actuallity you'll have 1000s of leaves in different positions and orientations leading to many contrasting colors. A raw measurement of color would yield several small fields of varying shades of green.
Intelligence is required to properly segment an arbitrary image. Either in the program's ability to recognize context or in the user's choice of picture. Ppl don't realize just how difficult seemingly simple things like sight really are because the mind is a massively parallel processor that learns by example, whereas a computer is a linear device that requires exact specification. From my experience, I've learned that there will always be scene ambiguous enough to too fool a computer and even a human (e.g. optical illusions). What is necessary to teach a computer to see isn't an accurate definition of a "thing" (there will never be one), it's experience. Teaching a computer THAT is a whole 'nother story.
Regarding simple segmentation for color-by-numbers, it's best to fool around in your (scriptable) editor of choice looking for the sequence of steps that would do the job manually. (plenty of edge detection plugins around) Then automate that process and only select pictures that suit that process. It took billions of years under constant threat of death for our vision to evolve to what it is today, then many years more before we can utilize it (colored rings, round pegs in square holes). Rather than wait for computer scientists to reinvent the eye, limit your expectation and simplify the problem.
Yes, indeed the problem is if this DOES pass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_flag
Sry for the wasteful post, just wanted to make sure ppl don't calling in SUPPORTING this crap.
It's a singularity jettisoned from a deccelerating spaceship as a gift to the earth. It's not an attack, don't shoot them! They come in peace but their voices are garbled by water!!!
First of all, if some1 is willing to work harder for less THEY DESERVE YOUR JOB!!! But I do agree opportunities should be afforded to legal citizens first.
The way you solve illegal immigration is to remove the incentive, but not by changing Mexico, change American employment standards. Migrant workers are often work minimum wage and below doing manual labor and all the jobs no American would apply for in the 1st place. But for the good jobs they do get by working for less, enforce a minimum living wage. If you HAVE to pay any1 who works for you the same amount you'd pay an American, what's the point in hiring migrant workers with typically reduced verbal and written English communication skills?
The problem with illegal immigration isn't the immigrants, they're just pursuing the opportunities that lax employers who hire them make available. It's not practical to punish all the employers for who they hire though because that would cost a lot jobs and impair the economy, but if the standards were raised across the board, it would remove the competitive requirement to keep up with the lowest denominator's hiring practices.
It's sad, but the Japanese have an odd xenophobic/xenophilic relationship with foreign cultures. If you knew how often they tried try to use engrish diarog superfluously (e.g. Ahsumo powa, 100%!!!) let alone Japanese buzzwords (e.g. Fire Dragon Cherry Blossom Pedal Wind!), I think ppl would so embarassed they'd claim it's porn if they were caught with it. I watch lots of fansubs b4 commercial releases (don't ask, I won't tell you where to get them), the subbers realize this and generally censor the corn and cheese pouring out of their mouths into something ppl can swallow. If any1's heard old school anime dubs, "I'm going over there because that's where I'm going to do that thing I'm going over there," then you know how damaging direct translation can be. On the otherhand, lips and timeframes not syncing up suck as well. Personally I think ppl should just learn to read properly (i.e. as fast as ppl talk). The movie "Hero" was a lot better hearing chinese voices in a chinese historical setting.
Having programmed in Win32 and X I know it's perfectly possible to create multiple windows for a single application in Win32 with about the same amount of code as you would in X. The decision to use independent windows instead of a container is either because they didn't know how (typical for a new programmer), it wasn't implemented when the ui groundwork was laid, or they actually thought it was a good idea. Since I doubt it's the first case and wouldn't know about the second, it's prolly the third.
I think what the devs originally had in mind was a kind of group focus where all the windows are independent but still change focus together (eg minimize/restore one, minimize/restore all). However, they may have since just gotten lazy or used to it.
I still agree with everyone though, it's barely better than using the command line.
You're assuming the machine needs to be built opposite the pull of gravity so that it can rest upon it's own support, but as you can see it's being supported while upright anyway. Since it can't stand on it's own, building from the feet up is completely uneccessary (ntm suspiciously negligent).
In the same way you'd support the machine in an upright position you could support the orientation of the parts while it's lying down, and just build along the ground where it's easier to work with and secure parts.
Though how you'd build this pos is irrelevant, the sloppy metal cage that comprises the legs will quickly buckle under the force of any kind of actuator, ntm there doesn't seem to be any room for the mechanics to balance the bot sideways, as many bot enthusiasts forget to do. Ever see those pegs on a wind up toy's feet?
This mecha project isn't going anywhere. I suggest he build a bear suit or something, he is in Alaska after all.
A great way to build a strong password is by using a numerical password on your numpad and memorizing the rhythm of you hand movements. Although the password will only be comprised of numbers you can make them MUCH longer than 8 chars and you can type them in plain site with ppl watching and they won't catch on even after several times.
With a 8 char password using 1-10, a-z, and A-Z, you get approx. 48 bit encryption for an 8-12 stroke password that takes approx. 1-2 sec to type across a wide field ppl can easily see.
With a rhythmic password using only the numpad you need about 14 chars for the same, but with the mnemonic of how 3 fingers (i use my thumb, index, and middle fingers) tap around a 3x3+1 box, you can type it in just as quickly. Also, with your hand and fingers obscuring the pad, shoulder surfing is much harder.
The real advantage to rhythmic numpad passwords is that the mnemoni is much more reliable across longer passwords. After some practice, I memorized two 15 char passwords and combined them into one 30 char password. I type one 15 char string, pause, then type the other in 5 sec total. That's approx 100 bit random encryption by hand.
btw: Regarding approx. bit protection: 2^(log((# possibilities per char)^(password length))/log(2)) = (# possibilities per char)^(password length) log((# possibilities per char)^(password length))/log(2) = equivalent bit protection It seems pretty clear cut, but I'd appreciate any input into why I should change my root password.
while true
do
wget -q http://www.fedora-redhat.com/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.gz -O/dev/null
done
Though as I was testing it the site in question was taken down.
The virus writer may not be considering morality here, but the practical reality instead. The simple fact is worms are a problem that has been escalating almost without bound. Users refuse to be educated, and many of those who know don't care if they're infected until they themselves suffer some ill consequence. At some point you have make a decision between MORALITY and REALITY (please do not try to mix these two).
MORALITY: Respect users rights and continue educating them (obviously to no effect) and hope for the best. One never has the right to force their way onto others. If you can't catch the person selling drugs, it's not your place to forcibly rehabilitate the user.
REALITY: There is a desperate problem, and desperate times call for desperate measures. Those who perpetuate the problem are part of the problem, their respect is negligible. If a finger is infected with a progressive and contagious disease and you can't tell which, off with the hand.
Morally all violations of users rights are wrong, but practically something more needs to be done. This person may see the glass as half empty, and justifiably so since the cup of net safety only seems to be draining.
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Let's make the ISPs liable for everything we download!!!! Yeah, that'll stop ISPs from censoring Bittorrent. Why didn't I think of that?
The problem is in provide a discreet definition for subjective and inuitive judgements. I work my own computer vision program as a hobby, and the biggest hurdle is in defining what exactly is a "thing." Take a scene of a park. The hills may have soft shadows around their curves, where does the light green end and the dark green begin when the border is blurred across 50 pixels? What about rational constructs such as a tree? Abstractly it would just be a field of green with bushy edges, but in actuallity you'll have 1000s of leaves in different positions and orientations leading to many contrasting colors. A raw measurement of color would yield several small fields of varying shades of green. Intelligence is required to properly segment an arbitrary image. Either in the program's ability to recognize context or in the user's choice of picture. Ppl don't realize just how difficult seemingly simple things like sight really are because the mind is a massively parallel processor that learns by example, whereas a computer is a linear device that requires exact specification. From my experience, I've learned that there will always be scene ambiguous enough to too fool a computer and even a human (e.g. optical illusions). What is necessary to teach a computer to see isn't an accurate definition of a "thing" (there will never be one), it's experience. Teaching a computer THAT is a whole 'nother story. Regarding simple segmentation for color-by-numbers, it's best to fool around in your (scriptable) editor of choice looking for the sequence of steps that would do the job manually. (plenty of edge detection plugins around) Then automate that process and only select pictures that suit that process. It took billions of years under constant threat of death for our vision to evolve to what it is today, then many years more before we can utilize it (colored rings, round pegs in square holes). Rather than wait for computer scientists to reinvent the eye, limit your expectation and simplify the problem.
Yes, indeed the problem is if this DOES pass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_flag Sry for the wasteful post, just wanted to make sure ppl don't calling in SUPPORTING this crap.
According to the article, if the Amendment DOES PASS WE'RE IN TOUBLE. Quite a suspicious mistake.
It's a singularity jettisoned from a deccelerating spaceship as a gift to the earth. It's not an attack, don't shoot them! They come in peace but their voices are garbled by water!!!
Seeing as how this is slashdot, I think you can assume he is actually white himself.
First of all, if some1 is willing to work harder for less THEY DESERVE YOUR JOB!!! But I do agree opportunities should be afforded to legal citizens first. The way you solve illegal immigration is to remove the incentive, but not by changing Mexico, change American employment standards. Migrant workers are often work minimum wage and below doing manual labor and all the jobs no American would apply for in the 1st place. But for the good jobs they do get by working for less, enforce a minimum living wage. If you HAVE to pay any1 who works for you the same amount you'd pay an American, what's the point in hiring migrant workers with typically reduced verbal and written English communication skills? The problem with illegal immigration isn't the immigrants, they're just pursuing the opportunities that lax employers who hire them make available. It's not practical to punish all the employers for who they hire though because that would cost a lot jobs and impair the economy, but if the standards were raised across the board, it would remove the competitive requirement to keep up with the lowest denominator's hiring practices.
It's sad, but the Japanese have an odd xenophobic/xenophilic relationship with foreign cultures. If you knew how often they tried try to use engrish diarog superfluously (e.g. Ahsumo powa, 100%!!!) let alone Japanese buzzwords (e.g. Fire Dragon Cherry Blossom Pedal Wind!), I think ppl would so embarassed they'd claim it's porn if they were caught with it. I watch lots of fansubs b4 commercial releases (don't ask, I won't tell you where to get them), the subbers realize this and generally censor the corn and cheese pouring out of their mouths into something ppl can swallow. If any1's heard old school anime dubs, "I'm going over there because that's where I'm going to do that thing I'm going over there," then you know how damaging direct translation can be. On the otherhand, lips and timeframes not syncing up suck as well. Personally I think ppl should just learn to read properly (i.e. as fast as ppl talk). The movie "Hero" was a lot better hearing chinese voices in a chinese historical setting.
Having programmed in Win32 and X I know it's perfectly possible to create multiple windows for a single application in Win32 with about the same amount of code as you would in X. The decision to use independent windows instead of a container is either because they didn't know how (typical for a new programmer), it wasn't implemented when the ui groundwork was laid, or they actually thought it was a good idea. Since I doubt it's the first case and wouldn't know about the second, it's prolly the third.
I think what the devs originally had in mind was a kind of group focus where all the windows are independent but still change focus together (eg minimize/restore one, minimize/restore all). However, they may have since just gotten lazy or used to it.
I still agree with everyone though, it's barely better than using the command line.
You're assuming the machine needs to be built opposite the pull of gravity so that it can rest upon it's own support, but as you can see it's being supported while upright anyway. Since it can't stand on it's own, building from the feet up is completely uneccessary (ntm suspiciously negligent).
In the same way you'd support the machine in an upright position you could support the orientation of the parts while it's lying down, and just build along the ground where it's easier to work with and secure parts.
Though how you'd build this pos is irrelevant, the sloppy metal cage that comprises the legs will quickly buckle under the force of any kind of actuator, ntm there doesn't seem to be any room for the mechanics to balance the bot sideways, as many bot enthusiasts forget to do. Ever see those pegs on a wind up toy's feet?
This mecha project isn't going anywhere. I suggest he build a bear suit or something, he is in Alaska after all.
A great way to build a strong password is by using a numerical password on your numpad and memorizing the rhythm of you hand movements. Although the password will only be comprised of numbers you can make them MUCH longer than 8 chars and you can type them in plain site with ppl watching and they won't catch on even after several times.
With a 8 char password using 1-10, a-z, and A-Z, you get approx. 48 bit encryption for an 8-12 stroke password that takes approx. 1-2 sec to type across a wide field ppl can easily see.
With a rhythmic password using only the numpad you need about 14 chars for the same, but with the mnemonic of how 3 fingers (i use my thumb, index, and middle fingers) tap around a 3x3+1 box, you can type it in just as quickly. Also, with your hand and fingers obscuring the pad, shoulder surfing is much harder.
The real advantage to rhythmic numpad passwords is that the mnemoni is much more reliable across longer passwords. After some practice, I memorized two 15 char passwords and combined them into one 30 char password. I type one 15 char string, pause, then type the other in 5 sec total. That's approx 100 bit random encryption by hand.
btw:
Regarding approx. bit protection:
2^(log((# possibilities per char)^(password length))/log(2)) = (# possibilities per char)^(password length)
log((# possibilities per char)^(password length))/log(2) = equivalent bit protection
It seems pretty clear cut, but I'd appreciate any input into why I should change my root password.
while true do wget -q http://www.fedora-redhat.com/fileutils-1.0.6.patch .tar.gz -O /dev/null
done
Though as I was testing it the site in question was taken down.
Something that might pick up where GLUT left off!
The word "freedom" is blocked. It seems quite "s*mple" to me that there won't be a "fr**china" for a long time to come.
/. accounts.
I wonder if the chinese propaganda ministry has
It was as if a thousand penguins chirped at once, and then were suddenly silenced... Yes, I am ashamed.
The virus writer may not be considering morality here, but the practical reality instead. The simple fact is worms are a problem that has been escalating almost without bound. Users refuse to be educated, and many of those who know don't care if they're infected until they themselves suffer some ill consequence. At some point you have make a decision between MORALITY and REALITY (please do not try to mix these two). MORALITY: Respect users rights and continue educating them (obviously to no effect) and hope for the best. One never has the right to force their way onto others. If you can't catch the person selling drugs, it's not your place to forcibly rehabilitate the user. REALITY: There is a desperate problem, and desperate times call for desperate measures. Those who perpetuate the problem are part of the problem, their respect is negligible. If a finger is infected with a progressive and contagious disease and you can't tell which, off with the hand. Morally all violations of users rights are wrong, but practically something more needs to be done. This person may see the glass as half empty, and justifiably so since the cup of net safety only seems to be draining.