I was just about to bemoan the naming, which conflicts with Go (the board game), which is already difficult enough to google. The fact that it's GOOGLE making this mistake is pretty bad. On the other hand, maybe they'll fix the bug in their search engine now, and make it easier to google both:)
The admittedly unwieldy equivalent built out of commodity parts is basically a 5-megapixel camera that transfers its data over USB (can be had for under $100 these days), and a netbook (~$300), for a total of ~$400 of hardware. What's the extra $1100 for?
Unfortunately rip-off pricing is pretty much guaranteed in accessibility devices. Just go compare Kurzweil 1000 with similar commodity scanning apps.
It's LAME. Basically, it's some software that uses your webcam to recognize which page of the magazine you're holding up to the camera, and how the page is oriented - you're using the magazine as a mouse or pointer.
Precisely. I don't see anything about this that would appeal to anyone but a child, much less Esquire's audience.
This is about as "smart" an idea as the cue cat.
Since I've never heard of "the cue cat", it's probably safe to agree:)
I don't know about talking to her or putting cream in her mug, but if you look through the comments below, you can get a pic at 12k resolution for ~£700. Once you've seen her skin magnified that much, you'll likely be cured of any interest you once had;)
I still remember ordering Mandrake and Slackware CD's through the mail because they were too big to download on a 56k connection.
Me too; although mostly Debian and Slackware. Luckily, not long after that in the UK we had always-on with free dialup internet (0800 numbers), so I'd happily just let debian update everything over the weekend. For me, it was the dawn of a new internet-centric OS age, even before broadband:) Unfortunately it's harder and harder to find even broadband that's as nicely uncapped** these days. Thank god for BeThere.
** Yes, I know the 56k was a natural kind of cap, but my point is, if I had the time, I could download anything.
For those of us who've been largely ignoring Skype since it's proprietary and there are open alternatives (namely SIP)...
What's the upshot of all this? Skype announced recently that they're planning to open source stuff. Now the tech is going to be owned by a consortium. Does this mean that skype is moving towards being an open, non-proprietary solution?
As part of the essay, it uses Old Testament text that seems to justify owning slaves as long as they are not from your own country.
Isn't there also something about Israel being the one true nation esteemed by God? In that case, anyone can own anyone, so long as they're not Israeli. And Isreal has changed a lot, so...
Also, my desk rocks because I upgraded my desktop on it, and nothing broke. Of course, my desktop doesn't actually sit on the desk, so that might be entirely unrelated.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course... having every kind of hardware costs a lot of money and the hardware companies don't donate samples to Linux developers/testers.
What would be good would be if news organisations like the BBC didn't censor URLs from their reports. "A damning government report has been leaked to 'the world wide web'" is not useful information. They might as well say "A street in the city has been cordoned off." Gee, thanks.
Actually, plenty of people do. I use cross-platform java stuff all the time, including using standard MIDP apps for my phone, and neat features like downloading a windows someapp.exe file and running it on linux with java -jar someapp.exe. Just yesterday, I installed an app in wine, needed to test it, found out it was java, and just ran the wine-installed version using the native linux jre.
No. The steepness of a learning curve is not about how much you learn; that would be the "height" (or y value). The steepness is how much you have to learn at once (the increase in y) in order to move forward one step (the increase in x).
VHS-C was compatible with people's home machines, so you could use your camcorder to tape family or vacations, and then just pop it into your VHS VCR to watch it on the big screen TV. With Sony's Video8 that wasn't possible, so VHS-C quickly dominated the camcorder market.
Be careful about assuming causation here. It might have easily been that VHS-C sounded familiar to people who had VHS, and they went with what they knew. Video8 might have been just as successful if the names had simply been reversed.
You've obviously never been treated by a nurse who was in the job for the wrong reasons. Please don't ever SUGGEST nursing to people, unless they demonstrate a genuine compassion, patience, and willingness to help others even on their worst days.
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I was just about to bemoan the naming, which conflicts with Go (the board game), which is already difficult enough to google. The fact that it's GOOGLE making this mistake is pretty bad. On the other hand, maybe they'll fix the bug in their search engine now, and make it easier to google both :)
Unfortunately rip-off pricing is pretty much guaranteed in accessibility devices. Just go compare Kurzweil 1000 with similar commodity scanning apps.
Oh, you mean the ones with the babes sitting backwards chair so they weren't quite so naked? Yeah, I remember those. Scanning took forever...
Precisely. I don't see anything about this that would appeal to anyone but a child, much less Esquire's audience.
Since I've never heard of "the cue cat", it's probably safe to agree :)
I don't know about talking to her or putting cream in her mug, but if you look through the comments below, you can get a pic at 12k resolution for ~£700. Once you've seen her skin magnified that much, you'll likely be cured of any interest you once had ;)
Please tell this to the racketeers who call to my place every Thursday with baseball bats, to sell me their security product.
Thanks,
Bob.
That lady is most likely a model who was photographed by someone else, who in turn sold a photo license to microsoft.
Look, do you want the rigorous NASA method or not?
Me too; although mostly Debian and Slackware. Luckily, not long after that in the UK we had always-on with free dialup internet (0800 numbers), so I'd happily just let debian update everything over the weekend. For me, it was the dawn of a new internet-centric OS age, even before broadband :) Unfortunately it's harder and harder to find even broadband that's as nicely uncapped** these days. Thank god for BeThere.
** Yes, I know the 56k was a natural kind of cap, but my point is, if I had the time, I could download anything.
For those of us who've been largely ignoring Skype since it's proprietary and there are open alternatives (namely SIP)...
What's the upshot of all this? Skype announced recently that they're planning to open source stuff. Now the tech is going to be owned by a consortium. Does this mean that skype is moving towards being an open, non-proprietary solution?
Isn't there also something about Israel being the one true nation esteemed by God? In that case, anyone can own anyone, so long as they're not Israeli. And Isreal has changed a lot, so...
Perhaps small death-moons.
Also, my desk rocks because I upgraded my desktop on it, and nothing broke. Of course, my desktop doesn't actually sit on the desk, so that might be entirely unrelated.
There, fixed that for you.
Indeed. Most of us who ask for Mac or Linux get exactly that.
No, the problem is that readers WANT to do that, and your design (guessing from what you said) stops them.
What would be good would be if news organisations like the BBC didn't censor URLs from their reports. "A damning government report has been leaked to 'the world wide web'" is not useful information. They might as well say "A street in the city has been cordoned off." Gee, thanks.
I was thinking, "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
Actually, plenty of people do. I use cross-platform java stuff all the time, including using standard MIDP apps for my phone, and neat features like downloading a windows someapp.exe file and running it on linux with java -jar someapp.exe. Just yesterday, I installed an app in wine, needed to test it, found out it was java, and just ran the wine-installed version using the native linux jre.
For a second, I read that as:
How do you think stars are formed? Do giant space dorks bring them?
No. The steepness of a learning curve is not about how much you learn; that would be the "height" (or y value). The steepness is how much you have to learn at once (the increase in y) in order to move forward one step (the increase in x).
I was going to say that this:
must be how god myths start.
Now he's earning money in death too?
Be careful about assuming causation here. It might have easily been that VHS-C sounded familiar to people who had VHS, and they went with what they knew. Video8 might have been just as successful if the names had simply been reversed.
You've obviously never been treated by a nurse who was in the job for the wrong reasons. Please don't ever SUGGEST nursing to people, unless they demonstrate a genuine compassion, patience, and willingness to help others even on their worst days.