This could be a good case study. Someone stole your camera and you have a great shot of their face. Am I to understand you still don't have any identification or progress in this case? You haven't recovered anything? That video was dated December 28, 2009. Anything new since then?
I'm being honest here, I'm not trying to be snarky, but that doesn't sound at all like you had any success with your system. I know it's hard to quantify the thefts that hadn't happened because of this, but it's hard to justify on account of the one that did.
Nope, you're not the only one. "Taught" in Beijing for a while. My job was to be the "foreign teacher." I was hired not knowing a word of Chinese and thrown in a classroom of junior highers who spoke no English. I wasn't there to do anything useful, I was there to be a white guy they could point at and say "we have a foreign teacher for your student! You should come to this school!"
Only lasted a year, though. Even though I was getting paid double what the other teachers were starting at, it couldn't cover my American student loans for ever. Too bad, it was good times and not much work.
I totally agree. Recently I was on the highway with some Belorussians and they asked what I though was a very silly question.
"What are the bumps on the side of the road for?"
I told them they were there to warn drivers when they were wandering over the side of the road. We drove over some to show them how they worked. They were even more confused.
"Why would you wander off of the road?"
I had to explain that it could happen if you were tired, or maybe if you weren't paying attention or something like that. Then they got me.
"You Americans are so worried about being safe. Why not just not drive tired and pay attention to driving?"
Because that, my friends, would not be the American way.
OK, I'm not going to pony up the cash, but I've found a pretty innovative solution to getting the funding for a future product: get people to tell you how much it's worth by bidding on it in advance. There is a program called "Logos" (thing Greek pronunciation, not like reflections and gradients and corporate images) that decides what to make based on a community. The call it...get ready for it...community pricing. And, in fact, it works quite well. You can check it out here -> http://www.logos.com/communitypricing. It really seems to be a good idea, and I'm a little curious why no one outside this one company (as far as I know) have adopted a "put your money where your mouth is" approach like this in order to get these niche products developed. If you don't think it can be done on something like this, take a look at how niche some of these products actually are and they're getting it done. It would take some tweaking, but it could be a good tool for showing the need, getting the capitol and getting this stuff to market. Plus it has the added bonus of being much cheaper for those on the ground floor. Could be a winner all around.
All this from the same people that brought you a spam-free hotmail inbox!!!!!! Buy now and rejoice that, soon, the only web pages you'll see in the course of your day are the ones specifically designed to get through the filter, while the useful pages that commit some innocent foul are rejected at the door.
Here's the thought. Are we sure there were only 21 people involved? I mean dang sure? Because if there were 22 and that one guy happens to have a bottle of whatever and sees all his buddies go down, there's a good chance he'd try to get on a plane and go for it, especially if they got everyone else and he figures he's next. Kinda the "go down swinging" approach. They're not trying to foil the large scale attack anymore, they did that (at least they think they did, and I really hope that's true), they're trying to lock down the loose canon who may or may not exist. That's why there's a large blanket security upgrade, and why you can't get a bottle on any flight anywhere, even though the threats were against certain airlines going certain places.
Not to sound too much like I'm a sarcastic little jerk, but I don't get your logic. Sure, if you leave your program on for days it will be using a lot of memory and you'll eventually have to shut it down and restart, but why leave it on for a couple of days? What advantage is there in having FF running when you're asleep? Is there some kind of strange connection where if you log off this one site a bomb will go off and you'll kill a bus full of people and Keanu Reeves? I mean, sure, this is something that the loverly Mozilla people should be working on, but closing your browser every once and a while isn't a kludge. They probably looked at the typical user and decided that in normal circumstances people will restart before it becomes a problem and therefore, it's low priority. If it's really baking your noodle, try opera or IE7 or something else and come back with a cost/benefit annalisis and let us know if having to actually close you browser once a day is worth it or if there's a better option out there. But back to my original question, and one I would like answered, is what is so important that you don't ever shut down your browser, even while eating/sleeping?
my guess, and it is just a guess, mind you, is that it basically revolves around all the EXIF data. post a bunch of.jpgs without EXIF data and it's very likley that either you're not using a camera or else you're photoshopping. if your ammount tips 50% w/out data, then you might get a looking at. should that inspection reveal that you're posting screenshots (and not just using ps to edit things), you're delisted. this would also be useful to keep people from copying and pasting random photos from the interweb into their fickr accounts. just a thought, but it it's how i would do it, if i were them (which, i assure you, i am not).
part of me wants to bow before you for your system.
the other part of me wants to mock you for telling all of slashdot that you recorded "mona lisa smile."
Nice point, but there's more to it than just that.
"Adam" does mean "man." Good for all of you that like to point that out. However, is it a name, too? Actually, yes. Hold on, it's going to get complex...
1.) If "Adam" was not the name, then his name would have been given in chapter 3 when Eve's is (before then she's just called "the woman"). But since it holds through the next few chapters and even the rest of the Bible as "Adam," it's most likley that this is, in fact, a name.
2.) For those of you Americans (like me!) who aren't used to your names meaning something, then this might come as a shock...but pretty much every name in the Bible means something somewhere. This is why Abram's change to Abraham or Jacob's change to Isreal were significant events. There are these kind of things popping out all over the place. Therefore just because a name means something doesn't mean it's not a name.
3.) Articles are huge here. Looking at the Hebrew I don't see an article for the first time in Genesis 2:20. So? Point is, you don't put an article in front of a name. That's not how it works. But you do put an article in front of a species (think "a man" or "the man" but never "a Timmy" or "the John." Well, maybe that last one on occasion, but that's not the same).
Having said that, the first instance of "man" is in Genesis 1:26 (and it is the same word for Adam, so you could really flip a coin to figure out if they were talking about the name or the species. Both work in context). The first time it is typically translated "Adam" is in Genesis 2:19, with most coming in by 2:20 and almost all in by 3:17. The 20 or so translations I checked all had "Adam" by the start of chapter 4. As for "Eve," that word doesn't show up at all until 3:17. Actually just a bit after the word "Adam" or "man" in that verse.
At any rate, a few things to consider. They probably used a Korean translation over English (those jerks! Don't they know the Bible was written in King James English!) so I'm not sure where the first "Adam" would show up there. However, for logical reasons I tend to put it in 2:20 because of the article thing (point 3) and I think we'd all agree original language is probably better than Korean or English.
Whoops. Did I just tip my hand that I'm one of those religious guys? There goes my credibility on/.. And I'd been trying ever so hard to build that up.
Um...so? I mean, really, that's all you've got. They're selling you little bits over the interweb and you're upset because you don't want to buy them? All it is is some textures and a mesh? Good deduction. And all digital songs are is some ones and zeroes with a little drm pushed in for good measure. I can't blame them for selling this. It's almost free. To the company. Somebody buys it and they make $2.50. A couple more people buy it and they were able to pay the intern that probably put it together in an afternoon. More people buy it and they pay for the bandwidth and storage space. All figured they've probably got about 20 of these to sell before they break even and I already read one post where the guy admitted to buying it so now all they need is 19 more. After that it's free money. Who wouldn't try this? It's like iTunes on a microscopic scale.
So maybe the problem is that they're selling it for a game. So what? They sold new cars for PGR2 and within the week all the fastest guys had the new cars and if you wanted to run with the big boys you either beat everything on platinum or else chucked out the $5 to get the fastest car. If it didn't matter to you, then you didn't buy. Or when Halo 2 came out and then they released new levels. You had to download them to play with all the cool kids who already had them. So? If it doesn't matter to you, then don't buy it. If it does matter to you, then buy it and stop whining. You wanted it, they just provided a means for you to get it. If you're really ticked, write them a letter and tell them you're using the $2.50 you would have spent on their stuff to support a starving child in Africa instead or get a bunch of people together to buy a new computer for a poor kid (you could even put Linux on it, if you wanted!). I'm sure the CEO will loose sleep over that one.
yeah, i know it's probably as inneficient as all get out, but i just made myself a little database with one table with really involved fields like "author," "title" and "location" (actually, location is 4 parts in regards to library, stack, shelf and spot) and then a book id number.
then i made another table that had my 3-leveled categories in it. things like "history" and "science" and the like for the top level domain, then sub-domains like "american history" and "everyone else's history" (not a well developed library yet) and finally low level domains like "when we were colonies" and "when we turned colonial". some simple combo boxes and queries makes creating them really easy, (when i select "history" in combo1, then only "american history" and "everyone else's history" is selectable in combo2, but i could also enter "pakastani history" in the combo and when i click "create" it will appear in the list). that's a way confusing and way involved way to describe it, but you'd have to see it to understand.
then there's another table that just stores book id numbers and category id numbers. then a few more queries and whatnot that allow me to add categories to any book i want. Then yet another few queries that allow me to sort the books by name, author, and then category.
it took me a few days, but it works now. it's really not too bad to work with, i promise. if you've got ms access (sorry, but the only thing everyone here at work can figure out), i'd be somewhat willing to send ya a copy somehow. it's set up to work in a church right now, so there are all these categories like "genesis" and "missions" but you can delete and modify categories at will, so that's no big.
Last week my Nintendo officially bit it. I gave it the mid-eighties electronics equivalent of mouth to mouth for about an hour. I tried other cartridges to see if maybe they would work (repeating the blowing for each and every one). When I was out of games, I sat for ten minutes trying to figure out what to do next. I had 5 other systems in my living room, but all I wanted to play was Zelda.
My NES is still sitting where it last fell, like the last little chunk of my childhood I can't bring myself to get rid of. Sure, I could go and find another system, but I wouldn't be mine. Wouldn't have those familiar scratches across the front. Woudn't still have the residue from my sister's stupid My Little Pony stickers on it. Wouldn't be right. However, it would be about time for me to get one of those redone thingies with the wireless controllers from http://www.playmessiah.com/
This is as "magical" as going to work when I was in college. This looks just like the place I used to work at, only instead of really neat computer gizmos we sold rediculously expensive airplane parts. They're proud because the size and weight of an object is associated with a bar code? Try getting a FAA form 8130 tied to every serialized part in the warehouse and a chain of these documenting the parts from its origin (you can tell pretty much which mine the alluminum came from) and every step of its journey and then I'll be impressed. Until then, it's just a big box that does what every comparable big box does. Oh, and we used to get yelled at if 100% of our items weren't shipped that day.
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This could be a good case study. Someone stole your camera and you have a great shot of their face. Am I to understand you still don't have any identification or progress in this case? You haven't recovered anything? That video was dated December 28, 2009. Anything new since then? I'm being honest here, I'm not trying to be snarky, but that doesn't sound at all like you had any success with your system. I know it's hard to quantify the thefts that hadn't happened because of this, but it's hard to justify on account of the one that did.
Bravo. Bravo. I mean, wow. Bravo.
Nope, you're not the only one. "Taught" in Beijing for a while. My job was to be the "foreign teacher." I was hired not knowing a word of Chinese and thrown in a classroom of junior highers who spoke no English. I wasn't there to do anything useful, I was there to be a white guy they could point at and say "we have a foreign teacher for your student! You should come to this school!" Only lasted a year, though. Even though I was getting paid double what the other teachers were starting at, it couldn't cover my American student loans for ever. Too bad, it was good times and not much work.
I think he'd be disqualified and all, what with establishing the prize and everything. Might a conflict of interest.
I totally agree. Recently I was on the highway with some Belorussians and they asked what I though was a very silly question.
"What are the bumps on the side of the road for?"
I told them they were there to warn drivers when they were wandering over the side of the road. We drove over some to show them how they worked. They were even more confused.
"Why would you wander off of the road?"
I had to explain that it could happen if you were tired, or maybe if you weren't paying attention or something like that. Then they got me.
"You Americans are so worried about being safe. Why not just not drive tired and pay attention to driving?"
Because that, my friends, would not be the American way.
OK, I'm not going to pony up the cash, but I've found a pretty innovative solution to getting the funding for a future product: get people to tell you how much it's worth by bidding on it in advance. There is a program called "Logos" (thing Greek pronunciation, not like reflections and gradients and corporate images) that decides what to make based on a community. The call it...get ready for it...community pricing. And, in fact, it works quite well. You can check it out here -> http://www.logos.com/communitypricing. It really seems to be a good idea, and I'm a little curious why no one outside this one company (as far as I know) have adopted a "put your money where your mouth is" approach like this in order to get these niche products developed. If you don't think it can be done on something like this, take a look at how niche some of these products actually are and they're getting it done. It would take some tweaking, but it could be a good tool for showing the need, getting the capitol and getting this stuff to market. Plus it has the added bonus of being much cheaper for those on the ground floor. Could be a winner all around.
All this from the same people that brought you a spam-free hotmail inbox!!!!!! Buy now and rejoice that, soon, the only web pages you'll see in the course of your day are the ones specifically designed to get through the filter, while the useful pages that commit some innocent foul are rejected at the door.
Here's the thought. Are we sure there were only 21 people involved? I mean dang sure? Because if there were 22 and that one guy happens to have a bottle of whatever and sees all his buddies go down, there's a good chance he'd try to get on a plane and go for it, especially if they got everyone else and he figures he's next. Kinda the "go down swinging" approach. They're not trying to foil the large scale attack anymore, they did that (at least they think they did, and I really hope that's true), they're trying to lock down the loose canon who may or may not exist. That's why there's a large blanket security upgrade, and why you can't get a bottle on any flight anywhere, even though the threats were against certain airlines going certain places.
Not to sound too much like I'm a sarcastic little jerk, but I don't get your logic. Sure, if you leave your program on for days it will be using a lot of memory and you'll eventually have to shut it down and restart, but why leave it on for a couple of days? What advantage is there in having FF running when you're asleep? Is there some kind of strange connection where if you log off this one site a bomb will go off and you'll kill a bus full of people and Keanu Reeves? I mean, sure, this is something that the loverly Mozilla people should be working on, but closing your browser every once and a while isn't a kludge. They probably looked at the typical user and decided that in normal circumstances people will restart before it becomes a problem and therefore, it's low priority. If it's really baking your noodle, try opera or IE7 or something else and come back with a cost/benefit annalisis and let us know if having to actually close you browser once a day is worth it or if there's a better option out there. But back to my original question, and one I would like answered, is what is so important that you don't ever shut down your browser, even while eating/sleeping?
my guess, and it is just a guess, mind you, is that it basically revolves around all the EXIF data. post a bunch of .jpgs without EXIF data and it's very likley that either you're not using a camera or else you're photoshopping. if your ammount tips 50% w/out data, then you might get a looking at. should that inspection reveal that you're posting screenshots (and not just using ps to edit things), you're delisted. this would also be useful to keep people from copying and pasting random photos from the interweb into their fickr accounts. just a thought, but it it's how i would do it, if i were them (which, i assure you, i am not).
part of me wants to bow before you for your system. the other part of me wants to mock you for telling all of slashdot that you recorded "mona lisa smile."
Nice point, but there's more to it than just that.
/.. And I'd been trying ever so hard to build that up.
"Adam" does mean "man." Good for all of you that like to point that out. However, is it a name, too? Actually, yes. Hold on, it's going to get complex...
1.) If "Adam" was not the name, then his name would have been given in chapter 3 when Eve's is (before then she's just called "the woman"). But since it holds through the next few chapters and even the rest of the Bible as "Adam," it's most likley that this is, in fact, a name.
2.) For those of you Americans (like me!) who aren't used to your names meaning something, then this might come as a shock...but pretty much every name in the Bible means something somewhere. This is why Abram's change to Abraham or Jacob's change to Isreal were significant events. There are these kind of things popping out all over the place. Therefore just because a name means something doesn't mean it's not a name.
3.) Articles are huge here. Looking at the Hebrew I don't see an article for the first time in Genesis 2:20. So? Point is, you don't put an article in front of a name. That's not how it works. But you do put an article in front of a species (think "a man" or "the man" but never "a Timmy" or "the John." Well, maybe that last one on occasion, but that's not the same).
Having said that, the first instance of "man" is in Genesis 1:26 (and it is the same word for Adam, so you could really flip a coin to figure out if they were talking about the name or the species. Both work in context).
The first time it is typically translated "Adam" is in Genesis 2:19, with most coming in by 2:20 and almost all in by 3:17. The 20 or so translations I checked all had "Adam" by the start of chapter 4.
As for "Eve," that word doesn't show up at all until 3:17. Actually just a bit after the word "Adam" or "man" in that verse.
At any rate, a few things to consider. They probably used a Korean translation over English (those jerks! Don't they know the Bible was written in King James English!) so I'm not sure where the first "Adam" would show up there. However, for logical reasons I tend to put it in 2:20 because of the article thing (point 3) and I think we'd all agree original language is probably better than Korean or English.
Whoops. Did I just tip my hand that I'm one of those religious guys? There goes my credibility on
vista? sorry. had to. going back to work now.
Really, the sig is the comment. Skip on down there. Go ahead, do it. Are you still reading this?
"I am God ...try prove otherwise!"
I'm thinking of a number...
Um...so? I mean, really, that's all you've got. They're selling you little bits over the interweb and you're upset because you don't want to buy them? All it is is some textures and a mesh? Good deduction. And all digital songs are is some ones and zeroes with a little drm pushed in for good measure. I can't blame them for selling this. It's almost free. To the company. Somebody buys it and they make $2.50. A couple more people buy it and they were able to pay the intern that probably put it together in an afternoon. More people buy it and they pay for the bandwidth and storage space. All figured they've probably got about 20 of these to sell before they break even and I already read one post where the guy admitted to buying it so now all they need is 19 more. After that it's free money. Who wouldn't try this? It's like iTunes on a microscopic scale. So maybe the problem is that they're selling it for a game. So what? They sold new cars for PGR2 and within the week all the fastest guys had the new cars and if you wanted to run with the big boys you either beat everything on platinum or else chucked out the $5 to get the fastest car. If it didn't matter to you, then you didn't buy. Or when Halo 2 came out and then they released new levels. You had to download them to play with all the cool kids who already had them. So? If it doesn't matter to you, then don't buy it. If it does matter to you, then buy it and stop whining. You wanted it, they just provided a means for you to get it. If you're really ticked, write them a letter and tell them you're using the $2.50 you would have spent on their stuff to support a starving child in Africa instead or get a bunch of people together to buy a new computer for a poor kid (you could even put Linux on it, if you wanted!). I'm sure the CEO will loose sleep over that one.
I thought the whole world was google's beta tester. is everyone keeping two jobs nowadays?
oh yeah?
yeah, i know it's probably as inneficient as all get out, but i just made myself a little database with one table with really involved fields like "author," "title" and "location" (actually, location is 4 parts in regards to library, stack, shelf and spot) and then a book id number. then i made another table that had my 3-leveled categories in it. things like "history" and "science" and the like for the top level domain, then sub-domains like "american history" and "everyone else's history" (not a well developed library yet) and finally low level domains like "when we were colonies" and "when we turned colonial". some simple combo boxes and queries makes creating them really easy, (when i select "history" in combo1, then only "american history" and "everyone else's history" is selectable in combo2, but i could also enter "pakastani history" in the combo and when i click "create" it will appear in the list). that's a way confusing and way involved way to describe it, but you'd have to see it to understand. then there's another table that just stores book id numbers and category id numbers. then a few more queries and whatnot that allow me to add categories to any book i want. Then yet another few queries that allow me to sort the books by name, author, and then category. it took me a few days, but it works now. it's really not too bad to work with, i promise. if you've got ms access (sorry, but the only thing everyone here at work can figure out), i'd be somewhat willing to send ya a copy somehow. it's set up to work in a church right now, so there are all these categories like "genesis" and "missions" but you can delete and modify categories at will, so that's no big.
probably testing this whole "internet" thing to see if it's a realiable means of spreading information. turns out, it's not.
And I thought my post was a sad, depressing indicator that I needed to get out more...
Last week my Nintendo officially bit it. I gave it the mid-eighties electronics equivalent of mouth to mouth for about an hour. I tried other cartridges to see if maybe they would work (repeating the blowing for each and every one). When I was out of games, I sat for ten minutes trying to figure out what to do next. I had 5 other systems in my living room, but all I wanted to play was Zelda. My NES is still sitting where it last fell, like the last little chunk of my childhood I can't bring myself to get rid of. Sure, I could go and find another system, but I wouldn't be mine. Wouldn't have those familiar scratches across the front. Woudn't still have the residue from my sister's stupid My Little Pony stickers on it. Wouldn't be right. However, it would be about time for me to get one of those redone thingies with the wireless controllers from http://www.playmessiah.com/
This is as "magical" as going to work when I was in college. This looks just like the place I used to work at, only instead of really neat computer gizmos we sold rediculously expensive airplane parts. They're proud because the size and weight of an object is associated with a bar code? Try getting a FAA form 8130 tied to every serialized part in the warehouse and a chain of these documenting the parts from its origin (you can tell pretty much which mine the alluminum came from) and every step of its journey and then I'll be impressed. Until then, it's just a big box that does what every comparable big box does. Oh, and we used to get yelled at if 100% of our items weren't shipped that day.
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welcome our new blimp-driving overlords.