The big difference in Linux was that it was free - for all practical purposes - both as in "Freedom" and as in "Beer". All the other OSes aforementioned were neither. This caused a HUGE groundswell of user-support to step up and make it what it is today.
HURD offers no advantage over Linux here. It's not like we're about to see a huge migration from Linux to HURD. And after taking 20 years to get this far - they lack the manpower and momentum to move it anywhere.
Apparently - this is for "mapping" relativity small areas - like interior areas - to be done with something like a vehicle or small robot which can "scan" the area with the camera.
This is not something like global, wide-area sub-millimeter GPS accuracy.
And you'd have officers making contact with people across the various demographic groupings. Just to remind everybody that if they need help there's a police presence and if they're thinking of committing a crime there's a police presence.
Ah yes...it sounds just the the Vancouver P.D.'s "Meet and Greet" strategy to prevent rioting after the Stanley Cup finals. We all know how that worked out. In case you don't,
Has anyone read the Golden Compass series ("His Dark Materials")?
This is sounding a lot like "Experimental Theology" and "Dust"...the melding of religion and [particle] physics - particals which have a consciousness to them.
That mere fact that I am reading this article indicates that WebP has enough momentum to potentially be useful. The fact that other browser(s) are adding support is even more relevant. So the real question I believe is what wouldn't they add it? It's not costing anything, and (apparently) it's already been developed. So what's the issue?!
Oh, come ON! The last thing we need is my work PC doing the same kind of auto-correct nonsense that my iPhone does! You really need it on an iPhone where typing is cumbersome, however, I believe this would slow you DOWN on a PC. The reason is, typing becomes quick, intuitive and "muscle-memory" driven. To have to react to the computer (or keyboard) doing things for you as you are in the middle of typing a word would completely - not just slow you down - sort of throw a stumbling block in front of you. Granted, you could ignore it, or deal with it after the word is done - however, this wouldn't be any better than turning it off - or doing what spell-correction does today.
Huh? Who's pointing fingers? And you have to remember - ONE tiny little leak would have blown the entire operation! This was kept extremely secret even with the US Government. It had to be kept to within the highest secrecy. Can you honestly say that NOT ONE INDIVIDUAL in Pakistan knew that he was there? And of any who did - not one of them had any government ties to whom information may have leaked in or out of? Given the stakes involved - what options were there? Even the former Chief of Intelligence in Pakistan doesn't believe the raid actually killed Bin Laden, the US is lying, and the whole thing was a farces. With this kind of sentiment, can you see why it went down like it did? What if we did ask Pakistan. What if they denied the US access? What if they insisted on carrying out "their own investigation", or doing taking care of the matter themselves? The US could not jeopardize this by taking any of these chances.
Comcast does this too - sort of. It doesn't actually scrape returned pages for 404 errors - but if you do a DNS lookup which fails, you get directed to some ridiculous Comcast page. Net result is the same - enter a bad URL - get a Comcast page.
As a "novice" Blender user (by "Novice" I mean I have only been working with it for a couple of years) - I will say Blender is the most complicated program I have every used in my life. I have always attributed it complexity, and counterintuitiveness to its unfathomable complexity and clusterf*ckery of features and options. As I'm glad to see a bit of an overhaul to make things easier - I am completely dreading having to re-learn it all. I guess on the flipside, I don't really know it all - hopefully it will be easier to learn this time around!
The device lacked basic camcorder features - like an optical zoom. It didn't do anything that my camera phone can do - so why would I buy it? In the meantime, I have shelled out money for a smartphone, a decent near-SLR still camera, and an HD Camcorder with a good optical zoom, image stabilization,etc. There is no place in my closet for a Flip.
On particularly large screens - the relatively "slow" frame-rates used today are quite troublesome. For example, say your shooting video out of a front of a plane on an imax dome screen. When the plane banks - even if it does relatively slowly - since the screen is so large, you see a lot of "jumpiness" - as there may be several *feet* in real-world on-screen distance between an object's position in one frame vs. another. I've been complaining about this for years. It would be nice to see higher frame rates in formats like this.
I do like the PGP/GPG model as well, but my belief is that it could be extended more into the "real-world".
For example - if I get a (GPG Encrypted) Email from a RedHat employee, how do I know it's real? Simple. RedHat employees put their GPG Fingerprints on their physical-old-school business cards.
If businesses took this approach too, it would work.
For example, why doesn't my bank print their SSL fingerprint (assuming they have those - not really sure) on my credit card, letterhead, and other "official" materials?
Taking this kind of approach literally takes the CA out of the equation. I trust the certificate because I know it's valid - not because someone else says it is.
P.S. With a name like Moxie Marlinspike - it seems like he should have a handlebar mustache.
I heard of this same sort of thing happening once to a plane. What happened was that the plane was just painted. During the painted process, they put masking tape over the Pitots (holes/ports used to measure air pressure). They forgot to take the tape off, and when they were in flight, the airspeed, altitude, and stall warnings all went crazy from the erronious pressure readings on the clogged/covered pitot tubes. Result was bizarre instrumentation - overspeed and stall warnings at the same time, etc. They wound up crashing from confusion.
Perhaps icing in the pitot tubes were causing a similar thing here.
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HURD offers no advantage over Linux here. It's not like we're about to see a huge migration from Linux to HURD. And after taking 20 years to get this far - they lack the manpower and momentum to move it anywhere.
+ Lego Mindstorms!
This is not something like global, wide-area sub-millimeter GPS accuracy.
And you'd have officers making contact with people across the various demographic groupings. Just to remind everybody that if they need help there's a police presence and if they're thinking of committing a crime there's a police presence.
Ah yes...it sounds just the the Vancouver P.D.'s "Meet and Greet" strategy to prevent rioting after the Stanley Cup finals. We all know how that worked out. In case you don't,
Here's the "before": http://www.countyvoice.ca/2011/06/vancouver-police-prepare-for-aftermath-as-canucks-down-3-0/
And here's the "after": http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/news/2011/06/16/vancouver-police-blame-anarchists-and-drunken-youth-riots
Sounds like the new term for "Racial Profiling"...
I just tried the search indicated in the article. Google returned no search results. Did Google block or scrub it somehow?
This guy should be fired...from a cannon!
...must be patentable!
Playing the song and singing on a piano? No. Lip syncing to a copyrighted recording? Yes.
But I still won't believe it until it's in my hands!
This is sounding a lot like "Experimental Theology" and "Dust"...the melding of religion and [particle] physics - particals which have a consciousness to them.
That mere fact that I am reading this article indicates that WebP has enough momentum to potentially be useful. The fact that other browser(s) are adding support is even more relevant. So the real question I believe is what wouldn't they add it? It's not costing anything, and (apparently) it's already been developed. So what's the issue?!
BULLETIN: Guy leaves keys in running, unlocked card - gets stolen. News at 11.
They certainly are! Their tagline is:
Serious Tubes Networks
We know the internet is not a big truck
WTF??
Oh, come ON! The last thing we need is my work PC doing the same kind of auto-correct nonsense that my iPhone does! You really need it on an iPhone where typing is cumbersome, however, I believe this would slow you DOWN on a PC. The reason is, typing becomes quick, intuitive and "muscle-memory" driven. To have to react to the computer (or keyboard) doing things for you as you are in the middle of typing a word would completely - not just slow you down - sort of throw a stumbling block in front of you. Granted, you could ignore it, or deal with it after the word is done - however, this wouldn't be any better than turning it off - or doing what spell-correction does today.
Huh? Who's pointing fingers? And you have to remember - ONE tiny little leak would have blown the entire operation! This was kept extremely secret even with the US Government. It had to be kept to within the highest secrecy. Can you honestly say that NOT ONE INDIVIDUAL in Pakistan knew that he was there? And of any who did - not one of them had any government ties to whom information may have leaked in or out of? Given the stakes involved - what options were there? Even the former Chief of Intelligence in Pakistan doesn't believe the raid actually killed Bin Laden, the US is lying, and the whole thing was a farces. With this kind of sentiment, can you see why it went down like it did? What if we did ask Pakistan. What if they denied the US access? What if they insisted on carrying out "their own investigation", or doing taking care of the matter themselves? The US could not jeopardize this by taking any of these chances.
Our good friends and allies, the Pakistanis, are just going to give us back the helicopter, and protect it's secrets from our enemies... right?
Space travel - yet another thing we'll be outsourcing to China...
Comcast does this too - sort of. It doesn't actually scrape returned pages for 404 errors - but if you do a DNS lookup which fails, you get directed to some ridiculous Comcast page. Net result is the same - enter a bad URL - get a Comcast page.
Just another reason for me to stick with Firefox on all my Windows machines - (which all run XP)!
As a "novice" Blender user (by "Novice" I mean I have only been working with it for a couple of years) - I will say Blender is the most complicated program I have every used in my life. I have always attributed it complexity, and counterintuitiveness to its unfathomable complexity and clusterf*ckery of features and options. As I'm glad to see a bit of an overhaul to make things easier - I am completely dreading having to re-learn it all. I guess on the flipside, I don't really know it all - hopefully it will be easier to learn this time around!
The device lacked basic camcorder features - like an optical zoom. It didn't do anything that my camera phone can do - so why would I buy it? In the meantime, I have shelled out money for a smartphone, a decent near-SLR still camera, and an HD Camcorder with a good optical zoom, image stabilization,etc. There is no place in my closet for a Flip.
On particularly large screens - the relatively "slow" frame-rates used today are quite troublesome. For example, say your shooting video out of a front of a plane on an imax dome screen. When the plane banks - even if it does relatively slowly - since the screen is so large, you see a lot of "jumpiness" - as there may be several *feet* in real-world on-screen distance between an object's position in one frame vs. another. I've been complaining about this for years. It would be nice to see higher frame rates in formats like this.
For example - if I get a (GPG Encrypted) Email from a RedHat employee, how do I know it's real? Simple. RedHat employees put their GPG Fingerprints on their physical-old-school business cards.
If businesses took this approach too, it would work.
For example, why doesn't my bank print their SSL fingerprint (assuming they have those - not really sure) on my credit card, letterhead, and other "official" materials?
Taking this kind of approach literally takes the CA out of the equation. I trust the certificate because I know it's valid - not because someone else says it is.
P.S. With a name like Moxie Marlinspike - it seems like he should have a handlebar mustache.
I heard of this same sort of thing happening once to a plane. What happened was that the plane was just painted. During the painted process, they put masking tape over the Pitots (holes/ports used to measure air pressure). They forgot to take the tape off, and when they were in flight, the airspeed, altitude, and stall warnings all went crazy from the erronious pressure readings on the clogged/covered pitot tubes. Result was bizarre instrumentation - overspeed and stall warnings at the same time, etc. They wound up crashing from confusion. Perhaps icing in the pitot tubes were causing a similar thing here.