But why even do that? Why take the risk of people figuring out it's been PS'd,
Because photoshopping PR photos is NORMAL for every company on the face of the Earth. Even ordinary citizens photoshop redeye out of their photos, and if they're posting their pictures online, you bet they're doing photoshopping to crop out former S.O.s or put together a family photo where all the little kids are smiling at the same time.
That's not a transcription technology, that's the comments. People tend to repeat the phrases they like. For example:
genius google transcription technology. ROFLMAO
Why'd you steal this video? The original has over 2,000,000 views. You stole this.
I like when he said "upload it to youtube";) 3 (it looks like a heart!)
user satisfaction for a free product? don't get me wrong, i personally don't like the idea of facebook.
but face the facts: their purpose is to have many users, and they're getting more and more users.
I love the people I'm connected with via the site. I hate the site. It's like a smelly dive you're willing to go to for the sake of your friends because they always meet there. FB, although a "free" product should worry about being too smelly; if enough users leave, the people paying for corporate voyeurism will throw their money at $FOO instead.
Young journalists once dreamed of trotting the globe in pursuit of a story, but the NY Times now reports that instead many are working online shackled to their computers, where they try to eke out a fresh thought
That sounds more like editorial than journalism. Investigate. Report news. Leave the fresh thoughts to the readers.
Taking a job doing cyber ops for the government is volunteering to put a giant gap in your resume that you can't discuss.
I don't know about you, but if I got an applicant for a position that said "I can't discuss my last job, but here's a recommendation from Colonel Muckitymuck, and no, he can't discuss what I did either. Your great grandkids might learn about it in history books though." I'd be impressed.
It's pretty simple, guys. If you ban model rockets, you won't get a generation of rocket scientists. If you ban chemistry kits, you won't get a generation of chemical engineers. If you ban playing around with [other people's] computer systems, you won't get a generation of [computer crackers].
The USA has a bad habit of arresting anyone with the skills and curiosity to perform such tasks. Instead of arresting and jailing "hackers" they should employ them, and then maybe we'd have enough people for the "cyberwar" they are talking about
Sounds like the perfect premise for the 2015 remake of the Dirty Dozen.
I've seen roads that look like sidewalks and sidewalks that look like roads. I've also seen Google Maps think that a very obvious 5' wide cement sidewalk was a road.
"Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will not be replaced by machines. In the end life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy." -Michael Scott, The Office
'After all, many people think anyone technical is a whiz kid or brainiac on any topic.'
Just because *I* am doesn't mean other IT people are.
IANAL, IANAMD, IANAE, IANARS, IANAMCSE
This is exactly the kind of stuff you need bots for. Some kind of picture recognition algorithm is needed that can at least weed out the ones that are obviously gruesome or twisted ( with no false positives etc) and then some of the ones where the machines cannot make a decision, can be sent to the humans to look.
Skynet wasn't really all that bad. It was just trained the wrong way...
Well, talk to me when they really mean "stewardship" rather than "I can do whatever I want with the planet."
Hello, I'll start talking now, although "conservationists" have been around far longer than "environmentalists".
You are aware that there has been a large body of religious arguments stemming back to pre-industrial revolution specifically touting that philosophy against ecology?
Oh, I suppose those people fall under the "no real scotsman" defence, right?
Actually, yes. I can't think of even one religion where destruction of the environment is okay, except maybe in worship of Kali the Destroyer, where consuming without creating might hold an appeal.
Are you trying to breed "ecological concern" out of the species in favor of "religious fundamentalism that doesn't believe in birth control and doesn't give a crap about the planet?" Because that's what happening when you have less kids.
I wasn't aware that ecological concern was a genetic trait. I also wasn't aware that religious people "don't give a crap about the planet". I suppose the term "stewards of the Earth" comes from the UFO-origins crowd.
Just pass a federal law stating that it is an illegal restraint of interstate trade for a state or municipality to restrict the ability of new service providers to enter their markets. The only regulations they should be able to impose are civil and criminal penalties for damaging infrastructure.
And when trade comes to a halt because all the streets and sidewalks are torn up?
civil and criminal penalties for damaging infrastructure... big civil and criminal penalties for damaging infrastructure
the company has already demanded that websites posting the required OS 1.1 remove it from public download [PDF, in French], obviously to prevent use of the tool. Once again, TI is preventing calculator hobbyists from running their own software on calculators they bought and paid for.
If I'm parsing the "their" correctly, TI is preventing hobbyists from running hobbyist software? Perhaps, but TI is also trying to prevent hobbyists from running a buggy version of TI software. A little objectivity is a good thing.
That's nothing. During the Blaster days, I stood by and let someone attach their computer to the network for updates after a clean install. It was an object lesson: Before she could navigate to windows update, it started rebooting again. Always update security patches from a known-safe medium.
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But why even do that? Why take the risk of people figuring out it's been PS'd,
Because photoshopping PR photos is NORMAL for every company on the face of the Earth. Even ordinary citizens photoshop redeye out of their photos, and if they're posting their pictures online, you bet they're doing photoshopping to crop out former S.O.s or put together a family photo where all the little kids are smiling at the same time.
genius google transcription technology
That's not a transcription technology, that's the comments. People tend to repeat the phrases they like. For example: ;) 3 (it looks like a heart!)
genius google transcription technology. ROFLMAO
Why'd you steal this video? The original has over 2,000,000 views. You stole this.
I like when he said "upload it to youtube"
user satisfaction for a free product? don't get me wrong, i personally don't like the idea of facebook. but face the facts: their purpose is to have many users, and they're getting more and more users.
I love the people I'm connected with via the site. I hate the site. It's like a smelly dive you're willing to go to for the sake of your friends because they always meet there. FB, although a "free" product should worry about being too smelly; if enough users leave, the people paying for corporate voyeurism will throw their money at $FOO instead.
Young journalists once dreamed of trotting the globe in pursuit of a story, but the NY Times now reports that instead many are working online shackled to their computers, where they try to eke out a fresh thought
That sounds more like editorial than journalism. Investigate. Report news. Leave the fresh thoughts to the readers.
Taking a job doing cyber ops for the government is volunteering to put a giant gap in your resume that you can't discuss.
I don't know about you, but if I got an applicant for a position that said "I can't discuss my last job, but here's a recommendation from Colonel Muckitymuck, and no, he can't discuss what I did either. Your great grandkids might learn about it in history books though." I'd be impressed.
"there is no such thing as an unemployed lawyer."
I know two unemployed lawyers, and no unemployed sysadmins. /anecdote
It's pretty simple, guys. If you ban model rockets, you won't get a generation of rocket scientists. If you ban chemistry kits, you won't get a generation of chemical engineers. If you ban playing around with [other people's] computer systems, you won't get a generation of [computer crackers].
FTFY. It's illegal for a reason.
The USA has a bad habit of arresting anyone with the skills and curiosity to perform such tasks. Instead of arresting and jailing "hackers" they should employ them, and then maybe we'd have enough people for the "cyberwar" they are talking about
Sounds like the perfect premise for the 2015 remake of the Dirty Dozen.
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Yeah, you mean 4:3 (which is 16:12).
I think he's lamenting the loss of 1920x1200 screens, not 1600x1200
Glossy screens look bad only in direct light, and only with the reflections. Matte screens look bad (washed out) in any ambient light.
Oregon could add "world's biggest flywheel" to the list of sites to see.
I've seen roads that look like sidewalks and sidewalks that look like roads. I've also seen Google Maps think that a very obvious 5' wide cement sidewalk was a road.
"Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will not be replaced by machines. In the end life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy." -Michael Scott, The Office
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yyKrS8jwSY
If you right click on a process in windows' task manager, you can assign the process to a CPU. Not ideal, but closer to your goal.
'After all, many people think anyone technical is a whiz kid or brainiac on any topic.'
Just because *I* am doesn't mean other IT people are.
IANAL, IANAMD, IANAE, IANARS, IANAMCSE
Just grab a password off Bugmenot. Who actually pays for pay sites?
Rupert Murdoch
This is exactly the kind of stuff you need bots for. Some kind of picture recognition algorithm is needed that can at least weed out the ones that are obviously gruesome or twisted ( with no false positives etc) and then some of the ones where the machines cannot make a decision, can be sent to the humans to look.
Skynet wasn't really all that bad. It was just trained the wrong way...
Well, talk to me when they really mean "stewardship" rather than "I can do whatever I want with the planet."
Hello, I'll start talking now, although "conservationists" have been around far longer than "environmentalists".
You are aware that there has been a large body of religious arguments stemming back to pre-industrial revolution specifically touting that philosophy against ecology?
Oh, I suppose those people fall under the "no real scotsman" defence, right?
Actually, yes. I can't think of even one religion where destruction of the environment is okay, except maybe in worship of Kali the Destroyer, where consuming without creating might hold an appeal.
Are you trying to breed "ecological concern" out of the species in favor of "religious fundamentalism that doesn't believe in birth control and doesn't give a crap about the planet?" Because that's what happening when you have less kids.
I wasn't aware that ecological concern was a genetic trait. I also wasn't aware that religious people "don't give a crap about the planet". I suppose the term "stewards of the Earth" comes from the UFO-origins crowd.
Anthropogenic Global Warming.
I always prefer Anthropomorphic Gobal Warming: Gaia's Hot Flash
Just pass a federal law stating that it is an illegal restraint of interstate trade for a state or municipality to restrict the ability of new service providers to enter their markets. The only regulations they should be able to impose are civil and criminal penalties for damaging infrastructure.
And when trade comes to a halt because all the streets and sidewalks are torn up?
civil and criminal penalties for damaging infrastructure... big civil and criminal penalties for damaging infrastructure
the company has already demanded that websites posting the required OS 1.1 remove it from public download [PDF, in French], obviously to prevent use of the tool. Once again, TI is preventing calculator hobbyists from running their own software on calculators they bought and paid for.
If I'm parsing the "their" correctly, TI is preventing hobbyists from running hobbyist software? Perhaps, but TI is also trying to prevent hobbyists from running a buggy version of TI software. A little objectivity is a good thing.
That's nothing. During the Blaster days, I stood by and let someone attach their computer to the network for updates after a clean install. It was an object lesson: Before she could navigate to windows update, it started rebooting again. Always update security patches from a known-safe medium.
This is slashdot. Brace yourself.
You're imagining a Beowulf cluster of turtle hatchlings, aren't you.
No, he's imagining turtle hatchlings naked in hot grits.