And that was also back when Democrats had the redneck hill billy vote. Which as was famously quoted when the civil rights acts were passed (by a democrat) "We have lost the South for a generation". They lost it to the Republicans. The mantle was passed.
It worked out well though... now the "red states" are also the redneck states.
Except in ease of use, aesthetics, quality of interface, driver compatibility, out-of-box experience, software compatibility ("It works fine in RH, but in Suse...") etc...
I would agree with this. Everything should have a CLI interface so that you can automate tasks. But having written the Command Line command to setup this process before by hand and with a GUI... I wish I could export the CLI from the GUI even for repetitive tasks:
And that for example is the summarized "Dashboard" of options.
If you wanted to use a command line to run that you would be reading the manual on how to format your CLI string for months and probably still have bugs.
Take just the image filtering in that image... I can't name off the top of my head all of the options, but I'll know the one I want when I see it.
CLIs are great for really simple quick commands. They're a total disaster when they're more than few characters.
e.g. render sampling_min 0 sampling max 2 -filtering catmull_rom -blur 0.3 -ringing 0.33 -default_lighting true -shadows true -GI true -render_cache true -render_cache_min_sampling '-3' -render_cache_max_sampling '-2' -Generator_exclude ("obj1","obj2","obj3") output "\\file_directory\folder nobody can remember\renders\r01\v03\File_r01_v03_%04d.exr" and on and on and on....
The trouble with CLIs though is that the functions aren't always named whatever you would expect so you *have* to look up the function name and formatting.
If a command line could be written as:
"Take this image, resize it by 50% and increase the contrast 10%" then people would use CLIs all the time.
etc... You have to keep looking through a huge documentation system. GUIs at least present you with the documentation *AS* the interface.
You don't need to know what the "Contrast" filter is exactly called, you just look through the list by default and choose the one that closest matches what you want.
If we had smarter more adaptable CLIs people would be far more familiar instead you find out you missed a comma somewhere and it takes you 5 minutes to track that down. Or you try to figure out if adjusting contrast is even a function at all.
There's no reason to use Python. If you're a small company, just starting out and you aren't locked into Python already, Visual Basic is actually getting really good! Sure it's not setup exactly like Python...
George Washington's mother once went to the government for assistance (she was well taken care of by her son) mostly just to shame her son for not spending enough time with him--but effectively attempting to commit welfare fraud to do it.
It doesn't tell you it doesn't do that. It's not their fault you're installing programs of unknown functionality from an unknown source with unknown outcomes.
If I giant an app called "the big red button" and I push it... god help me what might happen as a consequence.
I would happily pay my income adjusted contribution if it meant I wouldn't have to listen to people bitch about it anymore and stop cutting important social programs like nutrition assistance.
There is nothing unethical about writing an app designed to send texts to all your friends with embarrassing messages. If you don't want such an app you shouldn't download and run it!
I was really surprised when I read the original story that this *wasn't* the outcome. They obviously *DID* trespass. I read nowhere in the original article that they had permission to enter any of those buildings--vacant or not. I have to assume that the fact they scaled a fence to enter leads me to believe that they weren't there on an official tour.
I can't tell if you think you're being sarcastic or not. If you are, don't be that's still pretty easy. Especially since the sun is probably 99.9% of the energy.
I could probably setup just such a simulation in pretty short order given a nice CSV source list.
This disaster appears to unfold like many others, with repeated assurances that things are OK and will be contained at this point, followed by failure and progressively worse conditions.
Yes, you are correct. When we look back on *DISASTERS*. Often they appear to be ok and then failures lead to worsening conditions.
There's not reason to suggest that there is a cover up going on. The radiation levels were much lower before. The fact that things are getting worse only proves that attempts to end the crisis haven't been successful.
The olympics used to demonstrate the martial skills of a soldier. Shot put, Javelin, relay races... these were all military skills.
Play is practice. Even in the animal kingdom you see 'games' and play while juveniles practice their skills. There's even some theories that song and dance originally was an outreach of coordinating work.
By historical standards what we view as work is unnatural. If you look at a tribal culture in which we existed for hundreds of thousands of years you'll see people working hard but they are talking to one another and being social. The idea of locking someone away to slave over paper is a pretty recent development.
I would say that what we're really doing is re-discovering the innate mechanisms by which we best learn and it's not through mechanical determination it's through a more interactive and engaging process that works with--not against our nature.
Copying metaphor is duplication of creative style and thought. Facts aren't covered by copyright. While it's really sleezy to read a news article and write a new News Article based on what you learned--it's not plagiarism.
Well it's hard for them to do stuff like this in all departments when you don't acknowledge all the other times that they offer innovative or superior products.
WP7 is in my opinion a far better thought out operating system from a user standpoint than any of the alternatives. So if by "Me Too!" you mean they released a great rewrite of their product which has been on the market longer than either Android or iOS then yes they too continued innovating. WinMo go sucky but when it was released it was pretty amazing. The problem was that A) capacitive touchscreens were prohibitively expensive so styluses were the only useful input device and B) Data Plans were prohibitively expensive and painfully slow.
They should have started preparing for the day when finger input would be useful and data plans would be accessible sooner but they eventually got caught up.
Zune would be another example where Microsoft was both releasing tech before the ipod and with the Zune still offering a superior product. The fact that it didn't sell well had far less to do with the fact that it was a bad product than it just didn't have the brand recognition when it launched as the ipod.
What I find really interesting about this approach is that it's machine learning in a virtual environment.
They essentially taught a game controller how to be a game controller by feeding it virtual players inside of a game.
I suspect this is how we'll want to train all artificial intelligence agents. Why go through the trouble of building a robotic body for an AI to use when it can simply be provided a virtual world to live and grow in.
I've also always been curious why more AI research doesn't take place in virtual environments. A prime example is the DARPA driving challenges. You could simulate LIDAR data and stereo camera arrays in a quite photorealisitc environment 24/7. Taking it out on the road seems like a formality.
I agree. I welcome this as a US company who in no way profits from Microsoft Products.
We are often at a disadvantage to small freelancers who pirate tens of thousands of dollars worth of software. So when an agency comes to us and asks how much it costs, we include our legal license costs. When they go to a freelancer then the freelancer calculates what his rent and groceries for the month were and can severely underbid.
Ultimately we still can profit since we have talent to offer that most freelancers don't have but it certainly adds to our expense by doing the right thing and supporting the developers.
It seems like the solution would be to then have a contract with all of your vendors that states that they as part of their compensation promise to legally own all software which creates the delivered products. Then if they get sued on the vendor's behalf they have a contract which says they can extract that down the line.
"Deliver goods created with pirated software and you agree to compensate us for all regulatory and legal expenses that we incur as a result of your work."
Californication, Community, Entourage, Rome, Arrested Development, BSG, 30 Rock, I thought Kings was really under-appreciated as well. I completely agree with your disagreement, this is the best era of TV. There used to be a time when you had movie actors and you had TV actors and the thought of working in TV was a sign that you couldn't cut it in the 'real' motion picture industry. Film is no longer the exclusive domain of really groundbreaking storytelling. Yes we have reality shows, but there were always game-shows and fluff--by and large this is a golden age of television.
But back to the original topic: The best introduction to Doctor Who is Blink. It's a stand alone, it's exciting, it's funny, it's well written, it introduces the character of The Doctor in a pretty approachable manner and it'll leave them wanting to know more.
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And that was also back when Democrats had the redneck hill billy vote. Which as was famously quoted when the civil rights acts were passed (by a democrat) "We have lost the South for a generation". They lost it to the Republicans. The mantle was passed.
It worked out well though... now the "red states" are also the redneck states.
I had to put little watermarks on about 400 images a year ago. It took about 5 minutes of scripting with ImageMagick to do it.
If I'd done that with Photoshop or GIMP, I'd still be at it!
Or you could have learned Photoshop's Actions/Batch operation...
Except in ease of use, aesthetics, quality of interface, driver compatibility, out-of-box experience, software compatibility ("It works fine in RH, but in Suse...") etc...
I would agree with this. Everything should have a CLI interface so that you can automate tasks. But having written the Command Line command to setup this process before by hand and with a GUI... I wish I could export the CLI from the GUI even for repetitive tasks:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ooCU0_gc-LQ/RsImsnv1ZzI/AAAAAAAAACk/-XeUsdemoCU/s1600-h/024-Turning-on-Skylight.jpg
And that for example is the summarized "Dashboard" of options.
If you wanted to use a command line to run that you would be reading the manual on how to format your CLI string for months and probably still have bugs.
Take just the image filtering in that image... I can't name off the top of my head all of the options, but I'll know the one I want when I see it.
CLIs are great for really simple quick commands. They're a total disaster when they're more than few characters.
e.g. render sampling_min 0 sampling max 2 -filtering catmull_rom -blur 0.3 -ringing 0.33 -default_lighting true -shadows true -GI true -render_cache true -render_cache_min_sampling '-3' -render_cache_max_sampling '-2' -Generator_exclude ("obj1","obj2","obj3") output "\\file_directory\folder nobody can remember\renders\r01\v03\File_r01_v03_%04d.exr" and on and on and on....
The trouble with CLIs though is that the functions aren't always named whatever you would expect so you *have* to look up the function name and formatting.
If a command line could be written as:
"Take this image, resize it by 50% and increase the contrast 10%" then people would use CLIs all the time.
Instead it goes:
ImageProcessor ... /help ... ... /help ... .. /help ...
ImageProcessor -scale 50p...
Image Processor -scale 50p -filter (contrast,1.1)
etc...
You have to keep looking through a huge documentation system. GUIs at least present you with the documentation *AS* the interface.
You don't need to know what the "Contrast" filter is exactly called, you just look through the list by default and choose the one that closest matches what you want.
If we had smarter more adaptable CLIs people would be far more familiar instead you find out you missed a comma somewhere and it takes you 5 minutes to track that down. Or you try to figure out if adjusting contrast is even a function at all.
There's no reason to use Python. If you're a small company, just starting out and you aren't locked into Python already, Visual Basic is actually getting really good! Sure it's not setup exactly like Python...
You didn't actually think the GOP was interested in more efficient government did you?
"Smaller Government" is code for: kill social services, deregulate and expand business tax deductions.
Then the wealthy (who are we're told very very generous compared to poor people) will happily provide assistance 'where needed'.
George Washington's mother once went to the government for assistance (she was well taken care of by her son) mostly just to shame her son for not spending enough time with him--but effectively attempting to commit welfare fraud to do it.
It doesn't tell you it doesn't do that. It's not their fault you're installing programs of unknown functionality from an unknown source with unknown outcomes.
If I giant an app called "the big red button" and I push it... god help me what might happen as a consequence.
I would happily pay my income adjusted contribution if it meant I wouldn't have to listen to people bitch about it anymore and stop cutting important social programs like nutrition assistance.
If it's useless... then why pirate it?
There is nothing unethical about writing an app designed to send texts to all your friends with embarrassing messages. If you don't want such an app you shouldn't download and run it!
I was really surprised when I read the original story that this *wasn't* the outcome. They obviously *DID* trespass. I read nowhere in the original article that they had permission to enter any of those buildings--vacant or not. I have to assume that the fact they scaled a fence to enter leads me to believe that they weren't there on an official tour.
I can't tell if you think you're being sarcastic or not. If you are, don't be that's still pretty easy. Especially since the sun is probably 99.9% of the energy.
I could probably setup just such a simulation in pretty short order given a nice CSV source list.
This disaster appears to unfold like many others, with repeated assurances that things are OK and will be contained at this point, followed by failure and progressively worse conditions.
Yes, you are correct. When we look back on *DISASTERS*. Often they appear to be ok and then failures lead to worsening conditions.
There's not reason to suggest that there is a cover up going on. The radiation levels were much lower before. The fact that things are getting worse only proves that attempts to end the crisis haven't been successful.
According to my FCC router...
Between 0.25% and 0% for the last week with an average of about .08%.
Since being installed on December 30th:
Median 0.03%
Average: 0.17%
Max: 2.94%
Min: 0%
Source:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?hl=en&hl=en&key=0AlfaVbc6wTazdFBWd0VoaXg1Smt4YUxqOHlVazJFMEE&single=true&gid=0&output=html
Now we know!
The olympics used to demonstrate the martial skills of a soldier. Shot put, Javelin, relay races... these were all military skills.
Play is practice. Even in the animal kingdom you see 'games' and play while juveniles practice their skills. There's even some theories that song and dance originally was an outreach of coordinating work.
By historical standards what we view as work is unnatural. If you look at a tribal culture in which we existed for hundreds of thousands of years you'll see people working hard but they are talking to one another and being social. The idea of locking someone away to slave over paper is a pretty recent development.
I would say that what we're really doing is re-discovering the innate mechanisms by which we best learn and it's not through mechanical determination it's through a more interactive and engaging process that works with--not against our nature.
Copying metaphor is duplication of creative style and thought. Facts aren't covered by copyright. While it's really sleezy to read a news article and write a new News Article based on what you learned--it's not plagiarism.
Someone needs to let this blog writer know that writing an article based on knowledge learned in another article is not plagiarism.
It's made from copper and cobalt instead of a lot of the more exotic materials used in standard photo-voltaic cells.
"Us too!"?
Well it's hard for them to do stuff like this in all departments when you don't acknowledge all the other times that they offer innovative or superior products.
WP7 is in my opinion a far better thought out operating system from a user standpoint than any of the alternatives. So if by "Me Too!" you mean they released a great rewrite of their product which has been on the market longer than either Android or iOS then yes they too continued innovating. WinMo go sucky but when it was released it was pretty amazing. The problem was that A) capacitive touchscreens were prohibitively expensive so styluses were the only useful input device and B) Data Plans were prohibitively expensive and painfully slow.
They should have started preparing for the day when finger input would be useful and data plans would be accessible sooner but they eventually got caught up.
Zune would be another example where Microsoft was both releasing tech before the ipod and with the Zune still offering a superior product. The fact that it didn't sell well had far less to do with the fact that it was a bad product than it just didn't have the brand recognition when it launched as the ipod.
What I find really interesting about this approach is that it's machine learning in a virtual environment.
They essentially taught a game controller how to be a game controller by feeding it virtual players inside of a game.
I suspect this is how we'll want to train all artificial intelligence agents. Why go through the trouble of building a robotic body for an AI to use when it can simply be provided a virtual world to live and grow in.
I've also always been curious why more AI research doesn't take place in virtual environments. A prime example is the DARPA driving challenges. You could simulate LIDAR data and stereo camera arrays in a quite photorealisitc environment 24/7. Taking it out on the road seems like a formality.
Except that you can now buy a $200 120GB portable drive that handles 500MBs.
The only thing really keeping up with SSDs is eSATA and then only just barely for a single drive.
I agree. I welcome this as a US company who in no way profits from Microsoft Products.
We are often at a disadvantage to small freelancers who pirate tens of thousands of dollars worth of software. So when an agency comes to us and asks how much it costs, we include our legal license costs. When they go to a freelancer then the freelancer calculates what his rent and groceries for the month were and can severely underbid.
Ultimately we still can profit since we have talent to offer that most freelancers don't have but it certainly adds to our expense by doing the right thing and supporting the developers.
It seems like the solution would be to then have a contract with all of your vendors that states that they as part of their compensation promise to legally own all software which creates the delivered products. Then if they get sued on the vendor's behalf they have a contract which says they can extract that down the line.
"Deliver goods created with pirated software and you agree to compensate us for all regulatory and legal expenses that we incur as a result of your work."
Californication, Community, Entourage, Rome, Arrested Development, BSG, 30 Rock, I thought Kings was really under-appreciated as well. I completely agree with your disagreement, this is the best era of TV. There used to be a time when you had movie actors and you had TV actors and the thought of working in TV was a sign that you couldn't cut it in the 'real' motion picture industry. Film is no longer the exclusive domain of really groundbreaking storytelling. Yes we have reality shows, but there were always game-shows and fluff--by and large this is a golden age of television.
But back to the original topic:
The best introduction to Doctor Who is Blink. It's a stand alone, it's exciting, it's funny, it's well written, it introduces the character of The Doctor in a pretty approachable manner and it'll leave them wanting to know more.