If the RIAA start driving away the artists then it makes the RIAA even less of a player. Just think one day the artists and the fans might connect directly on the internet with no middle man in between to screw the artists and sue the fans.
Their greed will be their undoing. I wonder why it hasn't been their undoing in the past though?
Well, if they're going to tag people for tailgating, I want them to issue tickets to the clowns going less than the speed limit in the left lane, too; and those who speed up as you attempt to pass them.
No I think those people should be blown off the road with a rocket launcher. They are a menace on the road. I seen them block. Often when there's an ambulance coming all the tailgaters move over to let it through, but the bastard at the front who's causing the slow down will stick there holding up the ambulance as well. These people aren't group players.
You just gave me an idea. I wonder if using facial recognition technology you could find all of the pictures of you on the net? Maybe Google could add a "find my face" option to their image search.
Go a little further, imagine that all those security camera setups that point at you all day had the same software. If the info was publically available you could track your movements, and so could other people, so could your health insurance company who might refuse to pay your arthritis treatment bills saying your condition is self inflicted because you went to the game arcade too often. Bugger.
It's just a process of discovery to advance science. If we didn't go through these scientific processes of discovery then we would still have people running around thinking that everything was controlled by some big booming voice in the sky. Oh wait...
I get e-mails from my bank every day that have a link to a web site that requests all of this information. Maybe she was talking about that?
Seriously though, the internet/world is so full of whack jobs that I wonder about the wisdom of linking to my blog site from slashdot. I'm fully expecting to get punched in the face outside my home one day for posting flamebait about Linux on slashdot (I get bored sometimes).
Magazine articles can be a hazard, I heard of a guy that was working on a government project that got an article about his work published in a Magazine, including a picture of him with his name. Weeks later he got a snail mail at work. In it was a picture of his family walking out the front door of his home with gun sights drawn around their heads, and on the back was a note telling him to stop working on the project.
The other day I was reading about this guy who loves facebook. Apparently when he sees an attractive woman talking he listens in to find out her first name, and then looks for her on facebook. He then tracks her life as much as he can, and if she goes through a break up or something he will try to get in a situation to meet her. I wonder if that will give others here ideas?
MS is the one I typically flog for trying to foist the wrong way to do things on their users. GVIM is the only right way to do things.
With this new controller I think the idea is that it is meant to be closer to real world interfaces, so it should be easier to pick up. Of course the execution of that idea might have fallen short. I'll find out after I give my girlfriend a Wii for christmas and I get to try it out.
Alienating Novell sends a signal to businesses that setting up an interoperable IT infrastructure that includes Linux is not tolerated by the Linux community. It says that any enterprise level Linux vendor can suddenly be marginalised on a whim, and thus it is probably better to stick with a safe vendor that supplies a solution that doesn't use Linux.
Actions don't always convey the intent that the perpetrator envisioned. That's why there are advisors, marketers, and PR departments whose whole purposein life is to get the right message across. But it's a free world, so you do what you have to.
Nice level headed response. The problem is, is that the people reading and moderating this forum for discussing the Novell/MS issue are going to be a bunch tunnel visioned, embittered Linux fanbois who let their pie in the sky dreams of Linux domination cloud over their eyes so that they don't have to face up to where the world is going.
Windows is here for the future. Linux is here right now and Microsoft will service their customers with what is required. Right now Novell are joining the party. The thing is with Linux is that it's fluid enough that it's users have to be a bit more mobile with their software configurations than Windows users. This puts Linux in a vulnerable position. This probably scares some of these Linux fanbois many of which who have probably snuck in from the AmigaOS camp after that lost out to the Windows machine.
People say that Microsoft doesn't innovate, but those same people complain that they are being locked out of Microsoft technology if they don't use Microsoft products. Seems a funny argument.
I think you'll find that it's the hard core fan boys who are buying the PS3, but the Wii is appealing to a new market of non rabid people who are going to gives consoles a try for the first time. Hard core fan boys aren't as rational as the rest of us and so tend to freak out more easily.
Never start replacing components unless it's the power supply or fans. Normally once my hardware starts screwing up I just sell the whole thing at a swapmeet as generally all the components will start all screwing up together.
I was talking to some bootleggers on the footpath a few months ago while on holiday. They were very excited about HD-DVD and Blue-Ray. They hope that everyone gets burned at least once trying to play the new media as once people get burned with the legal stuff they tend to be less uppity about buying from the bootleggers.
A few years ago we had a rabbit plague here in Australia. People who grew food, e.g. farmers were doing everything they could to kill the rabbits in an effort to stop the rabbits from eating everything. Actually Rabbits had been a problem here for about 50 years, then we introduced a virus that killed most of them.
Birds do this too, and elephants, and probable many other animals that you might want to kill time by studying scientifically.
There's some bloody bird outside my bedroom window that has a natural ability to memorize the latest ringtone on my mobile phone whenever I change it. 6am in the morning I jump out of bed thinking my phone is ringing (I'm waiting on some important calls)
Reminds me of this poem
I woke early one morning,
The earth lay cool and still
When suddenly a tiny bird
Perch on my window sill,
He sang a song so lovely
So carefree and so gay,
That slowly all my troubles
Began to slip away.
He sang of far off places
Of laughter and of fun,
It seemed his very trilling,
brought up the morning sun.
I stirred beneath the covers
Crept slowly out of bed,
And gently lowered the window
And crushed his little head.
So I guess these bots will pretty much serve the same purpose as landmines did: If you enter a certain zone you are likely to die.
There are some nicities though, such as being able to turm them off if required, as well as them being a little bit more visible. It would be cool if these things had a skeet shooting mode where you could rapidly throw targets into the air and watch the bots shoot them down. Sayyyy! I wonder if you could use them for rabbit shooting? That would have been cool here in Australia a few years ago, sure beats running around killing rabbits with your bare hands or trying to pick them off with a.22 rifle.
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The teachers should get a bonus according to the amount that they have improved the student's level of education over the year that they spent with the teacher. You look at their grades for the year before they were with the teacher, and the grades for the year after, and the teacher gets a bonus according to the improvement. That way the teacher is making an investment in their own future by improving the student's education.
oh god now we are going to have a big debate how this makes Mono vulnerable to being sued, or maybe we can talk how now.NET Windows apps can run on Linux, or maybe we can talk about how Mono is chasing Microsoft.
Look, this stuff is necessary. Windows is out there on like 90% of PCs or something. If you want to get in on a market you have to make it smooth for the consumers. Sometimes you have to push ahead and worry about the consequences later. I see some real opportunities right now though. We are on the edge of the next wave of GUI APIs. Open Source people need to come up with a really cool, easy to use, yet powerful and fast...ok, pick 2....but the next generation GUI toolkit is in the making right now. Is Microsoft going to be the winner here? or is the larger open source community going to deliver. Just think, on Mono people can take their current work and use it the way they want, the next step is waiting to be discovered. Every day I set aside one hour to try to come up with something cool. I encourage all of you to do this. One of us has to come up with something. Maybe the lead will come somewhere least expected. The future of computing is will all of us, will your work be relevant tomorrow.
I start to feel worried when I see a post on slashdot that makes more sense to me than what the scientific article says. To me that means that the standard of conclusions being made from scientific observations is very poor.
It does happen. Mainly from small niche market suppliers who do ruggedised or magnetic/electric field resitant equipment. Sometimes we get the manuals with multiple Asian languages but no English, but I think that's something to do with Australia being in the Asian region. The strangest one was when we got the manuals in Hebrew.
I've seen lots of systems like this. The problem is in the 50% of the images that don't work, so basically you have to manually tag 50% of your images.
I saw an interesting one about 10 years ago. It took an X-Ray image, did an edge detection, converted all the edges to a slope vs distance 2D plot, and conerted edge curves to a radius and distance plot, then used a kind of statistical correlation algorithm to pick which part of the body the image was from. I could imagine that you could apply something similar to the luminance of an image to pick out objects, and then maybe do some color transforms and stuff to improve results. The article says they do it in 1.4 seconds per image though, which is impressive.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is practically a new operating system. This patch replaced everything with new binaries. The decision not to call it a new operating system was Jim Allchin's. He talks about it in an interview with Mary Jo Foley here http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=65/.
I guess they didn't add anything different to the look and feel though. It's always a pain when you've been working on a huge backend, but when the boss has a look the GUI guys get all the credit for adding cornflower blue buttons to use your backend. Consumers are like that too.
According to http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0778562.html/ the UN ranks 9 other countries above the US on the livability scale. Although frankly for the most part I think that life is pretty much what you make of it. I've seen people living in what we would call bad or primitive conditions, and yet they didn't seem to fussed about it.
Those countries in the UN list from 1-9 are Norway, Iceland, Australia, Luxembourg, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland and Belgium. Except for Australia, it would be a bit cold in those countries for people who like tropical climates. Depends on taste and philosophical issues, like what is the best movie? So maybe the US is the better place for you, but you'll probably have people who would like to differ with your opinion as you've stated it such that the US is the better place for everyone.
Because I don't want a bunch of Americans following me, and I'm leaving just a soon as I tidy up a few personal things. Adios Amigos. But hey, you could always try Australia.
If the father in your previous example hadn't been such a shitty parent, the problem would never have happened in the first place.
You know, you are totally right, except it was actually the mother who was a really shitty parent. The mother was also a lawyer, and used her abilities at manipulating the law to keep the father out of the daughters life. The mother also sometimes left her daughter in the hands of some boyfriend who sexually molested her which obviously would have contributed to her problems.
How much experience do you have on this stuff? In my post I was actually talking about my dead wife whose death notice I put up here, but I guess it must be nice to walk around in a nice sunny world and say that all bad things are "none of my business", but yes, if she'd had legal access to the drugs the dealer who lead to her demise would never have got his hooks into to her. Unfortunately she felt she only had two choices in life, drugs or suicide. She was good at hiding these issues, admittedly if I had known what she was hiding I would have kept the hell away from her, which I guess is a reason for her to have a good false front. But live and learn ay.
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If the RIAA start driving away the artists then it makes the RIAA even less of a player. Just think one day the artists and the fans might connect directly on the internet with no middle man in between to screw the artists and sue the fans.
Their greed will be their undoing. I wonder why it hasn't been their undoing in the past though?
No I think those people should be blown off the road with a rocket launcher. They are a menace on the road. I seen them block. Often when there's an ambulance coming all the tailgaters move over to let it through, but the bastard at the front who's causing the slow down will stick there holding up the ambulance as well. These people aren't group players.
You just gave me an idea. I wonder if using facial recognition technology you could find all of the pictures of you on the net? Maybe Google could add a "find my face" option to their image search.
Go a little further, imagine that all those security camera setups that point at you all day had the same software. If the info was publically available you could track your movements, and so could other people, so could your health insurance company who might refuse to pay your arthritis treatment bills saying your condition is self inflicted because you went to the game arcade too often. Bugger.
It's just a process of discovery to advance science. If we didn't go through these scientific processes of discovery then we would still have people running around thinking that everything was controlled by some big booming voice in the sky. Oh wait...
I get e-mails from my bank every day that have a link to a web site that requests all of this information. Maybe she was talking about that?
Seriously though, the internet/world is so full of whack jobs that I wonder about the wisdom of linking to my blog site from slashdot. I'm fully expecting to get punched in the face outside my home one day for posting flamebait about Linux on slashdot (I get bored sometimes).
Magazine articles can be a hazard, I heard of a guy that was working on a government project that got an article about his work published in a Magazine, including a picture of him with his name. Weeks later he got a snail mail at work. In it was a picture of his family walking out the front door of his home with gun sights drawn around their heads, and on the back was a note telling him to stop working on the project.
The other day I was reading about this guy who loves facebook. Apparently when he sees an attractive woman talking he listens in to find out her first name, and then looks for her on facebook. He then tracks her life as much as he can, and if she goes through a break up or something he will try to get in a situation to meet her. I wonder if that will give others here ideas?
MS is the one I typically flog for trying to foist the wrong way to do things on their users. GVIM is the only right way to do things.
With this new controller I think the idea is that it is meant to be closer to real world interfaces, so it should be easier to pick up. Of course the execution of that idea might have fallen short. I'll find out after I give my girlfriend a Wii for christmas and I get to try it out.
Alienating Novell sends a signal to businesses that setting up an interoperable IT infrastructure that includes Linux is not tolerated by the Linux community. It says that any enterprise level Linux vendor can suddenly be marginalised on a whim, and thus it is probably better to stick with a safe vendor that supplies a solution that doesn't use Linux.
Actions don't always convey the intent that the perpetrator envisioned. That's why there are advisors, marketers, and PR departments whose whole purposein life is to get the right message across. But it's a free world, so you do what you have to.
Nice level headed response. The problem is, is that the people reading and moderating this forum for discussing the Novell/MS issue are going to be a bunch tunnel visioned, embittered Linux fanbois who let their pie in the sky dreams of Linux domination cloud over their eyes so that they don't have to face up to where the world is going.
Windows is here for the future. Linux is here right now and Microsoft will service their customers with what is required. Right now Novell are joining the party. The thing is with Linux is that it's fluid enough that it's users have to be a bit more mobile with their software configurations than Windows users. This puts Linux in a vulnerable position. This probably scares some of these Linux fanbois many of which who have probably snuck in from the AmigaOS camp after that lost out to the Windows machine.
People say that Microsoft doesn't innovate, but those same people complain that they are being locked out of Microsoft technology if they don't use Microsoft products. Seems a funny argument.
And now I wait for the flames.
I think you'll find that it's the hard core fan boys who are buying the PS3, but the Wii is appealing to a new market of non rabid people who are going to gives consoles a try for the first time. Hard core fan boys aren't as rational as the rest of us and so tend to freak out more easily.
I third that
Never start replacing components unless it's the power supply or fans. Normally once my hardware starts screwing up I just sell the whole thing at a swapmeet as generally all the components will start all screwing up together.
Err, good luck with your new machine.
I was talking to some bootleggers on the footpath a few months ago while on holiday. They were very excited about HD-DVD and Blue-Ray. They hope that everyone gets burned at least once trying to play the new media as once people get burned with the legal stuff they tend to be less uppity about buying from the bootleggers.
A few years ago we had a rabbit plague here in Australia. People who grew food, e.g. farmers were doing everything they could to kill the rabbits in an effort to stop the rabbits from eating everything. Actually Rabbits had been a problem here for about 50 years, then we introduced a virus that killed most of them.
Birds do this too, and elephants, and probable many other animals that you might want to kill time by studying scientifically.
There's some bloody bird outside my bedroom window that has a natural ability to memorize the latest ringtone on my mobile phone whenever I change it. 6am in the morning I jump out of bed thinking my phone is ringing (I'm waiting on some important calls)
Reminds me of this poem
I woke early one morning,
The earth lay cool and still
When suddenly a tiny bird
Perch on my window sill,
He sang a song so lovely
So carefree and so gay,
That slowly all my troubles
Began to slip away.
He sang of far off places
Of laughter and of fun,
It seemed his very trilling,
brought up the morning sun.
I stirred beneath the covers
Crept slowly out of bed,
And gently lowered the window
And crushed his little head.
I am not a morning person
So I guess these bots will pretty much serve the same purpose as landmines did: If you enter a certain zone you are likely to die.
There are some nicities though, such as being able to turm them off if required, as well as them being a little bit more visible. It would be cool if these things had a skeet shooting mode where you could rapidly throw targets into the air and watch the bots shoot them down. Sayyyy! I wonder if you could use them for rabbit shooting? That would have been cool here in Australia a few years ago, sure beats running around killing rabbits with your bare hands or trying to pick them off with a .22 rifle.
The teachers should get a bonus according to the amount that they have improved the student's level of education over the year that they spent with the teacher. You look at their grades for the year before they were with the teacher, and the grades for the year after, and the teacher gets a bonus according to the improvement. That way the teacher is making an investment in their own future by improving the student's education.
This elimates some of the cheating problem.
oh god now we are going to have a big debate how this makes Mono vulnerable to being sued, or maybe we can talk how now .NET Windows apps can run on Linux, or maybe we can talk about how Mono is chasing Microsoft.
Look, this stuff is necessary. Windows is out there on like 90% of PCs or something. If you want to get in on a market you have to make it smooth for the consumers. Sometimes you have to push ahead and worry about the consequences later. I see some real opportunities right now though. We are on the edge of the next wave of GUI APIs. Open Source people need to come up with a really cool, easy to use, yet powerful and fast...ok, pick 2....but the next generation GUI toolkit is in the making right now. Is Microsoft going to be the winner here? or is the larger open source community going to deliver. Just think, on Mono people can take their current work and use it the way they want, the next step is waiting to be discovered. Every day I set aside one hour to try to come up with something cool. I encourage all of you to do this. One of us has to come up with something. Maybe the lead will come somewhere least expected. The future of computing is will all of us, will your work be relevant tomorrow.
I start to feel worried when I see a post on slashdot that makes more sense to me than what the scientific article says. To me that means that the standard of conclusions being made from scientific observations is very poor.
It does happen. Mainly from small niche market suppliers who do ruggedised or magnetic/electric field resitant equipment. Sometimes we get the manuals with multiple Asian languages but no English, but I think that's something to do with Australia being in the Asian region. The strangest one was when we got the manuals in Hebrew.
You must be from America. Americans often send us Australians instruction manuals in German because they think everyone speaks German in Austraya.
I've seen lots of systems like this. The problem is in the 50% of the images that don't work, so basically you have to manually tag 50% of your images.
I saw an interesting one about 10 years ago. It took an X-Ray image, did an edge detection, converted all the edges to a slope vs distance 2D plot, and conerted edge curves to a radius and distance plot, then used a kind of statistical correlation algorithm to pick which part of the body the image was from. I could imagine that you could apply something similar to the luminance of an image to pick out objects, and then maybe do some color transforms and stuff to improve results. The article says they do it in 1.4 seconds per image though, which is impressive.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is practically a new operating system. This patch replaced everything with new binaries. The decision not to call it a new operating system was Jim Allchin's. He talks about it in an interview with Mary Jo Foley here http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=65/.
I guess they didn't add anything different to the look and feel though. It's always a pain when you've been working on a huge backend, but when the boss has a look the GUI guys get all the credit for adding cornflower blue buttons to use your backend. Consumers are like that too.
This conversation has been an inspiration to us all.
You might be trolling, but I'll bite.
According to http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0778562.html/ the UN ranks 9 other countries above the US on the livability scale. Although frankly for the most part I think that life is pretty much what you make of it. I've seen people living in what we would call bad or primitive conditions, and yet they didn't seem to fussed about it.
Those countries in the UN list from 1-9 are Norway, Iceland, Australia, Luxembourg, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland and Belgium. Except for Australia, it would be a bit cold in those countries for people who like tropical climates. Depends on taste and philosophical issues, like what is the best movie? So maybe the US is the better place for you, but you'll probably have people who would like to differ with your opinion as you've stated it such that the US is the better place for everyone.
Because I don't want a bunch of Americans following me, and I'm leaving just a soon as I tidy up a few personal things. Adios Amigos. But hey, you could always try Australia.
You know, you are totally right, except it was actually the mother who was a really shitty parent. The mother was also a lawyer, and used her abilities at manipulating the law to keep the father out of the daughters life. The mother also sometimes left her daughter in the hands of some boyfriend who sexually molested her which obviously would have contributed to her problems.
How much experience do you have on this stuff? In my post I was actually talking about my dead wife whose death notice I put up here, but I guess it must be nice to walk around in a nice sunny world and say that all bad things are "none of my business", but yes, if she'd had legal access to the drugs the dealer who lead to her demise would never have got his hooks into to her. Unfortunately she felt she only had two choices in life, drugs or suicide. She was good at hiding these issues, admittedly if I had known what she was hiding I would have kept the hell away from her, which I guess is a reason for her to have a good false front. But live and learn ay.