This should have happened on about day 2, not on day 50 (or whatever we're up to now).
Unfortunately, we've had no leadership on this matter. Just a politician trying to act like a thug and put his foot to the throat of BP and kick someone's ass. As much as I like Obama, I think he missed a chance to shine on this one!
He could have organized a multi-faceted team to gather leaders from industry, government, and military, and had organized committees focused on a) stopping the leak, b) preventing it from hitting the shores, c) cleaning it up, d) getting ideas from the public, e) technology, f) fund-raising (through federal budget, FEMA, and "save the gulf" telethons and the like), g) communications with the public, h) regulatory changes, and i) prevention of future disasters. He really needed a quick "war room" approach to this issue. There are plenty of people, employed in the Oil industry, employed in the shipping industry, and unemployed people who would gladly chip in to help. Especially for pay. But that didn't happen.
OK, proceed to mod me down because you're in love with your politician, and can't offer constructive criticism of someone that you voted for.
I'm not right wing. I find tea-party folks not my cup of tea, although I won't call them derogatory names, as you do.
My concern is that the President should be held accountable for prevention, quick detection, and stopping the leak. He's failed on all these accounts.
Now maybe the President's staff gathered the world's best experts on day one to assess the options, and has a plan in place. But that's not what they are saying.
Sure, you want to wait for the "fucking well" to be closed, do nothing, and then start the blame game? That's the stupidest thing I've read in a LONG time. Seems like a more prudent course of action would be to gather the experts, put a plan in place, and attack the problem.
But I know.. I'm irrational. You're rational. All we need to do is compare our two approaches, and we can see that.
I'm almost afraid to say this, for fear of a flame war. Really I'm not trying to make a statement for or against a political figure, I'm making a comment about the fickleness of the Americans:
I am no fan of G.W. Bush, but you can bet if he were in charge, he would be getting reamed up and down over this. I am astonished, flabbergasted, that I haven't seen Obama held accountable at the same level that Bush would have been (and was, on similar disasters).
Have I just been missing it (because I don't watch Fox News), or am I right?
And is this a statement of the fickleness of the Americans? or is this a statement of how effective Obama's team is at deflecting blame? or is there still a halo around him?
Please, don't let this evolve into a "GWB suxors" or "One Big A$$ Mistake, America" argument. I'm curious if I'm right or wrong on my assessment, not if you think Obama sucks or rocks. I DO think that the president should be held accountable to protect us from "all threats, both foreign and domestic", but I don't think that the "reaming" of the president is necessarily in order. I'm more interested in consistency of accountability.
Not sure where you're from, but just an FYI... In many states, it is legal for one party of the conversation to record a phone line without the permission of the other. However, some states are "Two Party Notification States".
Exactly, you're at home doing nothing with yourself, Jobs is the CEO of the 4th largest company in the US.. he spends his whole life reading and sending emails, not playing games.
This is an example of genetic algorithms being misapplied.
If they wanted to do it right, they'd be asking the male avitars to rate the female avitars. After all, that's whose "genes" are combining. Perhaps ugly people are attracted to other ugly people!
So either have the male avitars rate the female avitars (and vice versa), or require the users of the site to mate with the avitars...
It'd be interesting if the consumer attached terms to the transaction like the software or DVD licensor attaches:
"We are conducting a transaction involving exchange of money for software. I am licensing this money to you for your private use. Ownership of the money belongs to me, and you are merely licensing it. FBI WARNING: Any attempt to copy, transfer, or utilize this money in violation of the terms of this agreement is strictly prohibited."
Not that I would advocate any such thing, but it should would be nice if someone would use one of the many security holes in IE6 to quietly and automatically upgrade all IE6 installations to IE8.
Yes, the version of IE8 with that little orange fox logo.
According to my ASL instructor, lip readers are rarely more than 50% accurate. Which makes me wonder about the alleged capabilities of this software, honestly.
Chat room evidence backs this stat up:
Anytime you asked A/S/L, chances are less than 50% the answer is accurate.
Here's how Compressed Sensing works with standard JPGs.
First the program takes the target JPG (which you want to be very large), and treats it as random noise. Simply a field of random zeros and ones. Then, within that vast field, the program selects a pattern or frequency to look for variations in the noise pattern.
The variations in the noise pattern act as a beacon - sort of a signal that the payload is coming. Common variations include mathematical pulses at predictable intervals - say something that would easily be recognizable by a 5th-grader, like say a pattern of prime numbers.
Then it searches for a second layer, nested within the main signal. Some bits are bits to tell how to interpret the other bits. Use a gray scale with standard interpolation. Rotate the second layer 90 degrees. Make sure there's a string break every 60 characters, and search for an auxiliary sideband channel. Make sure that the second layer is zoomed out sufficiently, and using a less popular protocol language; otherwise it won't be easily recognizable upon first glance.
Here's the magical part: It then finds a third layer. Sort of like in ancient times when parchment was in short supply people would write over old writing... it was called a palimpsest. Here you can uncompress over 10,000 "frames" of data, which can enhance a simple noise pattern to be a recognizable political figure.
I have one relevant anecdote that I have told before...
Our application had a delete button, that performed a permanent delete (like deleting something from your recycle bin). And we popped up a message that stated that this action was irreversible. But we continued to get requests from users to "undelete" items - several requests per month.
We finally changed the pop-up to force the user to key in the word "irreversible", prior to performing the irreversible deletion.
We haven't received a request to undelete since then - which has been several years by now.
PS, before you write back and say that this is a poor user interface, and you should always allow users to undo their actions, the "permanent delete" function was specified by the economic buyer, and it was a non-negotiable item.
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This should have happened on about day 2, not on day 50 (or whatever we're up to now).
Unfortunately, we've had no leadership on this matter. Just a politician trying to act like a thug and put his foot to the throat of BP and kick someone's ass. As much as I like Obama, I think he missed a chance to shine on this one!
He could have organized a multi-faceted team to gather leaders from industry, government, and military, and had organized committees focused on a) stopping the leak, b) preventing it from hitting the shores, c) cleaning it up, d) getting ideas from the public, e) technology, f) fund-raising (through federal budget, FEMA, and "save the gulf" telethons and the like), g) communications with the public, h) regulatory changes, and i) prevention of future disasters. He really needed a quick "war room" approach to this issue. There are plenty of people, employed in the Oil industry, employed in the shipping industry, and unemployed people who would gladly chip in to help. Especially for pay. But that didn't happen.
OK, proceed to mod me down because you're in love with your politician, and can't offer constructive criticism of someone that you voted for.
Not all coastline is beach environment, numbnuts.
Hey, a little courtesy please? I happen to have had a vasectomy earlier today and don't appreciate being lumped in with him.
No, it would be better to subtly taunt them to make complete fools of themselves and lose whatever credibility they still might have.
Let's start with: "And how do you feel about the Civil Rights Act of 1965?"
WTF? Where did that come from?
I'm not right wing. I find tea-party folks not my cup of tea, although I won't call them derogatory names, as you do.
My concern is that the President should be held accountable for prevention, quick detection, and stopping the leak. He's failed on all these accounts.
Now maybe the President's staff gathered the world's best experts on day one to assess the options, and has a plan in place. But that's not what they are saying.
Sure, you want to wait for the "fucking well" to be closed, do nothing, and then start the blame game? That's the stupidest thing I've read in a LONG time. Seems like a more prudent course of action would be to gather the experts, put a plan in place, and attack the problem.
But I know.. I'm irrational. You're rational. All we need to do is compare our two approaches, and we can see that.
You douchebag.
I'm almost afraid to say this, for fear of a flame war. Really I'm not trying to make a statement for or against a political figure, I'm making a comment about the fickleness of the Americans:
I am no fan of G.W. Bush, but you can bet if he were in charge, he would be getting reamed up and down over this. I am astonished, flabbergasted, that I haven't seen Obama held accountable at the same level that Bush would have been (and was, on similar disasters).
Have I just been missing it (because I don't watch Fox News), or am I right?
And is this a statement of the fickleness of the Americans? or is this a statement of how effective Obama's team is at deflecting blame? or is there still a halo around him?
Please, don't let this evolve into a "GWB suxors" or "One Big A$$ Mistake, America" argument. I'm curious if I'm right or wrong on my assessment, not if you think Obama sucks or rocks. I DO think that the president should be held accountable to protect us from "all threats, both foreign and domestic", but I don't think that the "reaming" of the president is necessarily in order. I'm more interested in consistency of accountability.
Let's see: 4 cards out of the remaining 47. Sounds like about 8.5%. That's not exactly impossible.
Confirmed.
Not sure where you're from, but just an FYI... In many states, it is legal for one party of the conversation to record a phone line without the permission of the other. However, some states are "Two Party Notification States".
I've lost respect for MIT's admissions process.
echo 'bit bucket" |sed s/bi/shi/
There's about an 11 or 12 % difference between geekgirl and #geekgirl. What's she got the trademark on?
As a side note, who volunteers to "pound-geekgirl", as "#geekgirl" invites? (better than hashing her...)
"PC Load Letter?" What the fuck does that mean?
BOTH articles (last year and this year) put GE as #4 American company. Check again.
Good try though.
Market Cap has little to do with the size of a company ("4th largest in the US", in your words).
Want to say "4th most valuable", that might be an argument (although sources say that Apple is not the 4th largest market cap US company either).
Good job citing an article that has nothing to do with Market Cap.
Exactly, you're at home doing nothing with yourself, Jobs is the CEO of the 4th largest company in the US.. he spends his whole life reading and sending emails, not playing games.
Holy cow, when did Steve Jobs become CEO of GE?
This is an example of genetic algorithms being misapplied.
If they wanted to do it right, they'd be asking the male avitars to rate the female avitars. After all, that's whose "genes" are combining. Perhaps ugly people are attracted to other ugly people!
So either have the male avitars rate the female avitars (and vice versa), or require the users of the site to mate with the avitars...
What the fuck is an inch?
Unzip and you'll find out.
But you had to bring fucking into the discussion.
It'd be interesting if the consumer attached terms to the transaction like the software or DVD licensor attaches:
"We are conducting a transaction involving exchange of money for software. I am licensing this money to you for your private use. Ownership of the money belongs to me, and you are merely licensing it. FBI WARNING: Any attempt to copy, transfer, or utilize this money in violation of the terms of this agreement is strictly prohibited."
any corrections to figures welcome.
These Links will provide corrections to your figure.
Link 1
Link 2
This is 4Chan made in China.... or dare I say ChinChan...
I think that'd be SiChan.
I don't know of any dialect where the number 4 translates to "Chin". Unless you are counting the chins on a really fat person....
Not that I would advocate any such thing, but it should would be nice if someone would use one of the many security holes in IE6 to quietly and automatically upgrade all IE6 installations to IE8.
Yes, the version of IE8 with that little orange fox logo.
That should would be nice.
According to my ASL instructor, lip readers are rarely more than 50% accurate. Which makes me wonder about the alleged capabilities of this software, honestly.
Chat room evidence backs this stat up:
Anytime you asked A/S/L, chances are less than 50% the answer is accurate.
it worrk pretty good
at cebut show rite now
babe at booth acros th isle
gawd shes hot
2 bad im wearin ths goofy hat
With a lot of head and quick to swallow?
Flat and with yeast issues?
Here's how Compressed Sensing works with standard JPGs.
First the program takes the target JPG (which you want to be very large), and treats it as random noise. Simply a field of random zeros and ones. Then, within that vast field, the program selects a pattern or frequency to look for variations in the noise pattern.
The variations in the noise pattern act as a beacon - sort of a signal that the payload is coming. Common variations include mathematical pulses at predictable intervals - say something that would easily be recognizable by a 5th-grader, like say a pattern of prime numbers.
Then it searches for a second layer, nested within the main signal. Some bits are bits to tell how to interpret the other bits. Use a gray scale with standard interpolation. Rotate the second layer 90 degrees. Make sure there's a string break every 60 characters, and search for an auxiliary sideband channel. Make sure that the second layer is zoomed out sufficiently, and using a less popular protocol language; otherwise it won't be easily recognizable upon first glance.
Here's the magical part: It then finds a third layer. Sort of like in ancient times when parchment was in short supply people would write over old writing... it was called a palimpsest. Here you can uncompress over 10,000 "frames" of data, which can enhance a simple noise pattern to be a recognizable political figure.
Further details on this method can be found here.
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Recycle when possible!
I have one relevant anecdote that I have told before...
Our application had a delete button, that performed a permanent delete (like deleting something from your recycle bin). And we popped up a message that stated that this action was irreversible. But we continued to get requests from users to "undelete" items - several requests per month.
We finally changed the pop-up to force the user to key in the word "irreversible", prior to performing the irreversible deletion.
We haven't received a request to undelete since then - which has been several years by now.
PS, before you write back and say that this is a poor user interface, and you should always allow users to undo their actions, the "permanent delete" function was specified by the economic buyer, and it was a non-negotiable item.