in my experience with average house cats (i.e. cats that do not hunt for food, only for fun), if it won't run or struggle, it isn't very interesting prey
if i put one of these genetically engineered fearless mouse in a room with my cat, it would likely befriend it
although it seems like taking a natural defensive instinct away would be a negative thing, it might end up making mice that are suitable for co-habitation with cats
what i'm wondering is, which technology will cost the least to the consumer, in both media production and consumer-grade hardware
seems it's never the superior format that wins, it's the cheapest technology that's 'good enough for most people'.
i don't know enough about either technology to make an estimate, but i assume it must be pretty obvious at this point, which one will be cheaper to roll out onto the market?
this personally pisses me off, as i've had to change my phone number twice due to auto-dialing fax spammers of the worst scale.
i don't know how i got on the lists in the first place.. i had a fax machine in place for only 2 days, and only two or three people that were not very close friends had the number. i think the phone company sold me out.
24 hours a day, at 15 minute intervals on average, the fax spam would come. in the complete absense of a fax machine, i just got a really loud beep in my ear every time i answered the phone. the autodialers are not intelligent enough to leave you alone when a fax machine never answers.
when i plugged a fax machine in to see what they were, they were ads for everything from investors to weed pullers to vacation plans. i even got 'enlarge your penis' ads.
i tried to keep track of the numbers and block them via the phone company, but there were so many of them (several hundred when i gave up, and from all over the country), it was pointless.
does this sound familiar to anyone with an e-mail account?
after that experience, i consider fax spam worse than e-mail spam.
i pity those who actually have fax machines plugged in and have to deal with it, the paper and toner/ink costs must be insane.
those interested in command line image processing, should check out netpbm too. it's really neat
instead of a single image processing program, netpbm is a massive collection of programs all using a small set of proprietery formats (they are all compatible with each other). you use pipes for communication between them, giving you some more flexibility.
the other advantage is, their proprietery formats were designed to be easy to use, so coding your own netpbm programs is much easier than rewriting imagemagick for a specific task.
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in my experience with average house cats (i.e. cats that do not hunt for food, only for fun), if it won't run or struggle, it isn't very interesting prey
if i put one of these genetically engineered fearless mouse in a room with my cat, it would likely befriend it
although it seems like taking a natural defensive instinct away would be a negative thing, it might end up making mice that are suitable for co-habitation with cats
it's so hard to make the punishment fit the crime with these people
there almost needs to be special jails to punish obscene internet abusers
i won't try to describe such a facility for you, let us hope that your imagination is as good as mine
most young children also treat inanimate dolls or stuffed animals as peers
why is this so groundbreaking?
what i'm wondering is, which technology will cost the least to the consumer, in both media production and consumer-grade hardware seems it's never the superior format that wins, it's the cheapest technology that's 'good enough for most people'. i don't know enough about either technology to make an estimate, but i assume it must be pretty obvious at this point, which one will be cheaper to roll out onto the market?
this personally pisses me off, as i've had to change my phone number twice due to auto-dialing fax spammers of the worst scale.
i don't know how i got on the lists in the first place.. i had a fax machine in place for only 2 days, and only two or three people that were not very close friends had the number. i think the phone company sold me out.
24 hours a day, at 15 minute intervals on average, the fax spam would come. in the complete absense of a fax machine, i just got a really loud beep in my ear every time i answered the phone. the autodialers are not intelligent enough to leave you alone when a fax machine never answers.
when i plugged a fax machine in to see what they were, they were ads for everything from investors to weed pullers to vacation plans. i even got 'enlarge your penis' ads.
i tried to keep track of the numbers and block them via the phone company, but there were so many of them (several hundred when i gave up, and from all over the country), it was pointless.
does this sound familiar to anyone with an e-mail account?
after that experience, i consider fax spam worse than e-mail spam.
i pity those who actually have fax machines plugged in and have to deal with it, the paper and toner/ink costs must be insane.
those interested in command line image processing, should check out netpbm too. it's really neat
instead of a single image processing program, netpbm is a massive collection of programs all using a small set of proprietery formats (they are all compatible with each other). you use pipes for communication between them, giving you some more flexibility.
for example:
pngtopnm foo.png | pnmscale -xsize=600 ysize=400 | pnmtojpeg > foo.jpg
the other advantage is, their proprietery formats were designed to be easy to use, so coding your own netpbm programs is much easier than rewriting imagemagick for a specific task.