I live in the eastern part of Cincinnati, OH and have had BPL for years. It rarely goes down (less often than RoadRunner did) and is great. The strange thing about is that I get faster upload than download. I think it's about $40/month for 2Mb/s download and around 3.5 Mb/s upload. ONly service problem I've had was when a recent hurricane knocked out %90 of our grid; power came on before the data did.
I generally agree with ehud, and siberwolf said the magic words : "What do I have to hide" that distinguishes him as not being on the same page with most of/. viz. privacy.
But a good point he makes is that location in a public place being fair game. I think this is the sticking point, because while that's currently true, the implications of all this technology will amount to a much greater threat to personal liberty on behalf of government.
And the abduction argument is just straight-up
"Security > Privacy".
Sorry, but that distinction will most likely evaporate in a few years, along with the rest of localized data storage.
Not to say this wouldn't be technically possible, but I'd bet that logs of all plates will be kept, in order to aid in the future prosecution of crime that might happening. I doubt that will be legislated against.
While knowing html by no means gives you aesthetic capability, a designer who doesn't understand the fundamentals of how xhtml + CSS behaves will not be worth your time as a designer. A 'graphic designer' could very easily be someone who has focussed on media other then websites, and has little to no understanding of liquid layout, element floating, or even typography options.
And as far as HTML not being code, try telling that to the graphic designer that doesn't understand it.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to roll back to a previous version of QT without doing a full OSX reinstall
If this is not evidence of Apple becoming the new Microsoft, I don't know what is.
I don't think there is a version of this available for home, use, but this has definitely been done. As sib. points out, the problem that needed to be solved was determining the position of the camera in space relative to the subject. Generally speaking, this is the field of Photogrammetry. One researcher I know of doing fascinating stuff with this is here:
Marc Pollefeys at Chapel Hill NC. Scroll down to see his 3d from video demo, pretty amazing stuff. Somewhere on this site is also a 3d model of a Chapel Hill street constructed from 2 cameras mounted to the roof of a car.
For home use, PhotoModeler is the best you'll do, and from my experience it doesn't quite do the trick.
Yes, I think much more efficiently.
One of my collegues in grad school is using this technology to recognize archaeological sites. One big reason that even a rudimentary algorithm has an advantage on a mechanical turk is that most remote sensing data is dealing with a pretty thick matrix of wavelength bands. This Fossett data seems to only be one band, or maybe a composite. If you are working with even high-end multispectral data, software can much more easily differentiate types of material before recognizing a shape, however. In reality, I think this type of detection would be more useful in this circumstance, seeing as how the plane may not really look like a plane anymore.
Change detection can be tricky; you can see by the data that there are some pretty serious shadows, which can confound change detection unless, like I say, you have a broader spectrum of data. I have to agree that anything a casual/.er is going to be able to pick out, a shape detection algorithm would probably be on top of.
Combine these goggles with a fisheye lense and this content-aware resizing software. That would be great. Spatially, you'd have some distortion, but the compression software could then work in 4 dimensions instead of 3.
I have always thught that FB should have classes of acquaintance, Many people I would like to keep touch with as facebook allows , but I wouldn't add as a friend.
I would generally agree with this, but there are exceptions. If a client has a very specific design or function in mind, and you have found a specific solution, that is where you can run into cross-browser issues that impact the timing enough to offer options to the client. I know I have run into conflicts in using some popular javascript libraries.
As often as cops (perhaps inevitably) seem to lack respect for the repsonsibility of their authority, I have to agree with GZ on this one. Police usually are given the right to speed without their lights, and this is a reasonable need. On the other hand, a friend of mine while driving home from work late one night witnessed a cop kill a man by t-boning him as he was making a left turn at an intersection; the cop was going over 20mph over the speed limit without his lights on. In that case the cop was not held responsible, since it was technically the man's fault for making the left turn. At this particular intersection, however, it is very easy to see how a driver could not anticipate a speeding car coming in the opposite direction. Anyway, point being that if emergency vehicle personnel are qualified to break safety laws, they should have greater responsibility when breaking the laws results in an accident.
The cop caught speeding should be able to justify his speeding in some verfiiable way, (a call or other recorded situation) otherwise let him pay the fine...
I agree that grouping two convergently evolved taxons into one term is not evolutionarily logical,and leads to the confusion we are discussing now. However, that still does not diminish the fact that the Catarrhini Infraorder is divided into Ceropithecoidea, old world monkeys,and Hominoidea, including apes. However problematic the term monkey is, it still means either new world or old world monkey, which is differentiated from apes.
In a perfect world, people would use separate terms for the two groups of monkeys, but I don't see that happening.
Apes are homonoids, monkeys (old or new world) are not. Apes have 5-point molars, orthograde (somewhat upright) posture, and large brains, and no tail. While Old world and New world monkeys are convergently evolved, apes belong to neither group.
Point 2: Chimps do all sorts of things that require foresight. Chimps will cache tools that they like, or that work particularly well. Socially speaking, Chimps will make alliances with each other in order to position themselves in a politically advantagous way, even if the benefits of such an alliance (usually in the form of access to females) is months or even farther away. Alpha males will side with losers in a conflict in order to diffuse any political advantage the victor might have gained, preventing the emergence of a strong competitor. Females have been seen to take stones (being used as weapons) away from males that are using them to provoke a fight. The book Chimpanzee Politics gives good insight into the social aspect. The more strictly technological stuff I am not as familiar with.
I don't know about Joe Consumer, but I have a rough dollar range i'm willing to spend on music entertainment in general in a given year. If I put that $ into the cost of an iPod, I will definitely be less willing to pay for something that i can steal much easier than an ipod...
As GP says, they need to look at all that portable storage space as a market, not a liability.
What about the fundamental issue of grammar? How is a (subject)(verb)(object) language going o be translated live into a (subject)(object)(verb) language? Or the old "The man bites the dog" example from introductory german class. Perhaps this can be done, but there is going to have to be some temporal caching...
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Pot shot at a typo on Slashdot?! My point exactly.
Poor logic is usually a logic... I we humans are a lot less random then we'd like to think.
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I live in the eastern part of Cincinnati, OH and have had BPL for years. It rarely goes down (less often than RoadRunner did) and is great. The strange thing about is that I get faster upload than download. I think it's about $40/month for 2Mb/s download and around 3.5 Mb/s upload. ONly service problem I've had was when a recent hurricane knocked out %90 of our grid; power came on before the data did.
I generally agree with ehud, and siberwolf said the magic words : "What do I have to hide" that distinguishes him as not being on the same page with most of /. viz. privacy.
But a good point he makes is that location in a public place being fair game. I think this is the sticking point, because while that's currently true, the implications of all this technology will amount to a much greater threat to personal liberty on behalf of government.
And the abduction argument is just straight-up
"Security > Privacy".
Sorry, but that distinction will most likely evaporate in a few years, along with the rest of localized data storage. Not to say this wouldn't be technically possible, but I'd bet that logs of all plates will be kept, in order to aid in the future prosecution of crime that might happening. I doubt that will be legislated against.
While knowing html by no means gives you aesthetic capability, a designer who doesn't understand the fundamentals of how xhtml + CSS behaves will not be worth your time as a designer. A 'graphic designer' could very easily be someone who has focussed on media other then websites, and has little to no understanding of liquid layout, element floating, or even typography options. And as far as HTML not being code, try telling that to the graphic designer that doesn't understand it.
If this is not evidence of Apple becoming the new Microsoft, I don't know what is.
I think this is much more impressive. Tracing isn't needed if the location of the camera can be determined. Pretty cool stuff.
I don't think there is a version of this available for home, use, but this has definitely been done. As sib. points out, the problem that needed to be solved was determining the position of the camera in space relative to the subject. Generally speaking, this is the field of Photogrammetry. One researcher I know of doing fascinating stuff with this is here:
Marc Pollefeys at Chapel Hill NC. Scroll down to see his 3d from video demo, pretty amazing stuff. Somewhere on this site is also a 3d model of a Chapel Hill street constructed from 2 cameras mounted to the roof of a car.
For home use, PhotoModeler is the best you'll do, and from my experience it doesn't quite do the trick.
Yes, I think much more efficiently. One of my collegues in grad school is using this technology to recognize archaeological sites. One big reason that even a rudimentary algorithm has an advantage on a mechanical turk is that most remote sensing data is dealing with a pretty thick matrix of wavelength bands. This Fossett data seems to only be one band, or maybe a composite. If you are working with even high-end multispectral data, software can much more easily differentiate types of material before recognizing a shape, however. In reality, I think this type of detection would be more useful in this circumstance, seeing as how the plane may not really look like a plane anymore. Change detection can be tricky; you can see by the data that there are some pretty serious shadows, which can confound change detection unless, like I say, you have a broader spectrum of data. I have to agree that anything a casual /.er is going to be able to pick out, a shape detection algorithm would probably be on top of.
Combine these goggles with a fisheye lense and this content-aware resizing software. That would be great. Spatially, you'd have some distortion, but the compression software could then work in 4 dimensions instead of 3.
it isn't intrusive until you're in an eastern european prison.
I have always thught that FB should have classes of acquaintance, Many people I would like to keep touch with as facebook allows , but I wouldn't add as a friend.
I would generally agree with this, but there are exceptions. If a client has a very specific design or function in mind, and you have found a specific solution, that is where you can run into cross-browser issues that impact the timing enough to offer options to the client. I know I have run into conflicts in using some popular javascript libraries.
As often as cops (perhaps inevitably) seem to lack respect for the repsonsibility of their authority, I have to agree with GZ on this one. Police usually are given the right to speed without their lights, and this is a reasonable need. On the other hand, a friend of mine while driving home from work late one night witnessed a cop kill a man by t-boning him as he was making a left turn at an intersection; the cop was going over 20mph over the speed limit without his lights on. In that case the cop was not held responsible, since it was technically the man's fault for making the left turn. At this particular intersection, however, it is very easy to see how a driver could not anticipate a speeding car coming in the opposite direction. Anyway, point being that if emergency vehicle personnel are qualified to break safety laws, they should have greater responsibility when breaking the laws results in an accident.
The cop caught speeding should be able to justify his speeding in some verfiiable way, (a call or other recorded situation) otherwise let him pay the fine...
I agree that grouping two convergently evolved taxons into one term is not evolutionarily logical,and leads to the confusion we are discussing now. However, that still does not diminish the fact that the Catarrhini Infraorder is divided into Ceropithecoidea, old world monkeys,and Hominoidea, including apes. However problematic the term monkey is, it still means either new world or old world monkey, which is differentiated from apes.
In a perfect world, people would use separate terms for the two groups of monkeys, but I don't see that happening.
Apes are homonoids, monkeys (old or new world) are not. Apes have 5-point molars, orthograde (somewhat upright) posture, and large brains, and no tail. While Old world and New world monkeys are convergently evolved, apes belong to neither group.
point 1: Chimps are not monkeys.
Point 2: Chimps do all sorts of things that require foresight.
Chimps will cache tools that they like, or that work particularly well. Socially speaking, Chimps will make alliances with each other in order to position themselves in a politically advantagous way, even if the benefits of such an alliance (usually in the form of access to females) is months or even farther away. Alpha males will side with losers in a conflict in order to diffuse any political advantage the victor might have gained, preventing the emergence of a strong competitor. Females have been seen to take stones (being used as weapons) away from males that are using them to provoke a fight. The book Chimpanzee Politics gives good insight into the social aspect. The more strictly technological stuff I am not as familiar with.
The specimen found is not 'completely proportionate.' I seem to remember it being described as having no chin.
I don't think 4 years of doing nothing are going to be able to compete with 8 years of concentrated intentional destruction.
So, if your principles prevent you from installing flash, isn't this your problem(statistically speaking)?
I imagine the target audience of this site is not so principled, or not so exclusive, with their plug-ins.
It isn't about right and wrong, its about user access. That being said, yes this site falls into the large pantheon of obnoxious flash sites.
True.
I don't know about Joe Consumer, but I have a rough dollar range i'm willing to spend on music entertainment in general in a given year. If I put that $ into the cost of an iPod, I will definitely be less willing to pay for something that i can steal much easier than an ipod...
As GP says, they need to look at all that portable storage space as a market, not a liability.
What about the fundamental issue of grammar? How is a (subject)(verb)(object) language going o be translated live into a (subject)(object)(verb) language? Or the old "The man bites the dog" example from introductory german class. Perhaps this can be done, but there is going to have to be some temporal caching...
That's a good point. i mean, if you aren't guilty, you have nothing to hide, right?
dumbass.