Live music is better than listening to some stupid pop artists from your cd's.
No it isn't
A live band doesn't fit in my car. A live band doesn't go over very well at the office.
Most live bands suck, that is why they are playing at the local pub.
I've got a better idea, instead of wasting your time sitting in a bar, why don't you do something productive?
What? you don't like someone else telling you what to do?....
Anybody who thinks Windows is easier or more useable than Linux has either tried a very shitty distro, or has never tried it at all and just parrots MS marketers.
Ok i'll byte. I recently installed Win 7. It was quick and painless. Popped it in, it ran for a few minutes, then asked some questions like Do I want a US keyboard, and what timezone did I want. A little bit later I had Win7 installed.
I set up Blue tooth on a couple of computers. Simple easy, had to start/restart the device a couple of times. But it finally hooked up to it.
Last time I installed a linux on a machine (yes a few years ago, but more recent than your XP machine) I ended up bricking the machine. Later I used a vmware to run linux. One nice thing the linux had was a better way to get some software. BUT I had to compile half the stuff I needed... what? I'm a programmer and I don't want to be bothered to compile other peoples stuff, but you expect your grandmother to?
The problem as I see it, is linux is designed by programmers and used by programmers. While windows is designed by designers to be used by your grandmother. They don't quite get it right, but it is easier to use for your average lay person than linux is.
I have no clue what MS marketers are saying.
So you don't like how someone does business. You don't like how they sale your product. So you just take it?
Do you go to McDonald's and say "hmmm it is 10:35am I don't like that you aren't making breakfast, so I am just going to take this Big Mac."
Picasa does a pretty good job with grouping similar faces together as well. It is perfect, but I assume a project like this would have some better algorithms.
And face recognition in Facebook usually only has a few dozen people to choose from, with a high probability that the same faces occur again. In art, you have tens of thousands of faces and a low probability that any one occurs multiple times.
Are you trying to say that there are only a few dozen users on facebook?
My picasa album has close to 200 people I've identified, and several thousand other people that I haven't bothered to give names to.
It seems to me that the real issue is when there is only one or two paintings of one person. But it still seems like a fascinating research topic.
That kind of project is a sham. Face recognition software works by precise geometric measurements and by identifying unique and precise skin patterns. Neither of those are present in paintings. Paintings vary a lot more and still require human abilities to interpret facial characteristics.
That must explain why picasa keeps recognizing artwork and sculptures in my pictures.
I've been annoyed at times to find some sci-fi books are unavailable on Kindle/Nook/iBookstore, then I remember that they're published through Baen.
i've read plenty of Barn's books on my Kindle. Yes I had to copy them by wire. But I could have paid Amazon a small nominal fee to whispernet it to me.
Here's the real deal: the purpose is to slow down initial piracy enough to make a profit from people who would choose the pirated, free version if they can find it.
Can you clarify what you mean by "slow down?"
Many pirated items are available before the item is even for sale. Most of the rest will be available that same day. So what is there to slow down?
Anecdotal and all, but I certainly will gravitate towards their offerings. Immediately. The very reason I don't buy any ebooks for my wife's kindle is that we can't read them on anything else
Why not? You should be able to read them on your laptop, your computer, your tablet. What device can't you read them on? a nook?
I don't know enough about the publishing world. But based on what you've said, and what I've read from similar comments, the problem is the lack of the right tool. Yes SOME ebooks will be difficult. But most should be fairly trivial and straightfoward. And if they aren't then there is something wrong with the system
But is it completely unreasonable to pat down people who don't fit a terrorist stereotype? No.
Yes, it is completely unreasonable to pat down people who don't fit a terrorist stereotype (what they hell is that anyways?)
It is also completely unreasonable to pay down people who fit a terrorist stereotype.
Being put on their No Fly list is moot; the USA is on mine.
Because your countries "border" policies are so much better? I admit that USA's policies are pretty stupid sometimes (like the whole fiingerprinting everyone) But the USA doesn't have a monopoly on security theatre. You can see it in about every airport in the world. I saw a girl lose her pocket knife in Ukraine. I was only allowed one bag in heathrow, and had to take my shoes off. I Brazil I was question about my timing system. Not because of all the wires, but because the tripod on it was sort of kind of maybe sharp (a dull pencil was sharper)
They complain about the TSA being ineffective, and also complain when the TSA follows legitimate secure-area procedure.
YES! Despite following "legitimate secure-area procedure" the TSA is ineffective.
Here is the thing... Get rid of the TSA, and your chances of being on a plane with a terrorist does NOT change!
Seriously. Just because the child is young and grandma makes an emotional plea we should let her go through security checks unimpeded?
YES!
We should also let the next person go through unimpeded, as well as the person behind that person, and the next one, ad nauseum.
We should let EVERYONE through unimpeded.
It will save time, money, and I for one would feel safer.
Yes, it is enumerated right there in the constitution along with the other rights that the federal government has....
Ohhh wait, it isn't. Therefore it IS a right.
...doesn't that make the TSA agents, by the dictionary definition of the word, terrorists?
Not long ago as I was going through my routine patdown (I refuse to go through the radiation machines) I was told "the threat is real."
What threat? Were they trying to SCARE me (or terrorize me?) with some "threat?"
What service do they provide?
They make you stand next to a barrel of suspected explosives.
They ask you to step through a radiation machine
They ask you to walk across a dirty floor.
They make you get to the airport 1.5 - 2 hours early
They search your belongings.
They rub you with the back of their hands
What service do the perform again?
Here's the thing: No one's saying small children should be excluded from screening.
I am.
Small children should be excluded from screening.
Average sized children should be excluded from screening.
Big children should be excluded from screening.
Adults should be excluded from screening (small ones as well as big ones.
This is really no different than internet security. If you leave a hole, it will be exploited.
Will it? I mean, will it be exploited. I see lots of "holes" in security, and they aren't exploited. I went to the mall today... guess what, the security holes weren't exploited, neither were was the bus I came home on. So why do we need this "security" for planes?
DRM exists because the costs of the ebooks are outrageous and people know this.
DRM doesn't exist because of the cost of ebooks. It exists to prevent piracy. "DRM" or copy protection has always existed to prevent piracy. But all it really does is piss of the people who paid for the product.
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What's "new" here is that it has been challenged in court and has been affirmed.
Isn't this just the same as saying you can't copyright the "look and feel?" I'm pretty sure that went through the court system a quarter century ago.
...in which every book, song, movie, etc. is part of the syntax of the language, thus making them all uncopyrightable.
The code itself is to copyrightable. The functionality is not (you know, the look and feel)
Live music is better than listening to some stupid pop artists from your cd's.
No it isn't
A live band doesn't fit in my car. A live band doesn't go over very well at the office.
Most live bands suck, that is why they are playing at the local pub.
I've got a better idea, instead of wasting your time sitting in a bar, why don't you do something productive?
What? you don't like someone else telling you what to do?....
Anybody who thinks Windows is easier or more useable than Linux has either tried a very shitty distro, or has never tried it at all and just parrots MS marketers.
Ok i'll byte. I recently installed Win 7. It was quick and painless. Popped it in, it ran for a few minutes, then asked some questions like Do I want a US keyboard, and what timezone did I want. A little bit later I had Win7 installed.
I set up Blue tooth on a couple of computers. Simple easy, had to start/restart the device a couple of times. But it finally hooked up to it.
Last time I installed a linux on a machine (yes a few years ago, but more recent than your XP machine) I ended up bricking the machine. Later I used a vmware to run linux. One nice thing the linux had was a better way to get some software. BUT I had to compile half the stuff I needed... what? I'm a programmer and I don't want to be bothered to compile other peoples stuff, but you expect your grandmother to?
The problem as I see it, is linux is designed by programmers and used by programmers. While windows is designed by designers to be used by your grandmother. They don't quite get it right, but it is easier to use for your average lay person than linux is.
I have no clue what MS marketers are saying.
That's why I have no issue with pirating movies.
So you don't like how someone does business. You don't like how they sale your product. So you just take it?
Do you go to McDonald's and say "hmmm it is 10:35am I don't like that you aren't making breakfast, so I am just going to take this Big Mac."
Picasa does a pretty good job with grouping similar faces together as well. It is perfect, but I assume a project like this would have some better algorithms.
All you have to do is script 180 degree rotation on every page.
And insert "cunt" wherever appropriate^Wnecessary.
The amount of extra paper, because of this change, is probably where the extra cost comes from.
And face recognition in Facebook usually only has a few dozen people to choose from, with a high probability that the same faces occur again. In art, you have tens of thousands of faces and a low probability that any one occurs multiple times.
Are you trying to say that there are only a few dozen users on facebook? My picasa album has close to 200 people I've identified, and several thousand other people that I haven't bothered to give names to.
It seems to me that the real issue is when there is only one or two paintings of one person. But it still seems like a fascinating research topic.
Paintings tend to be more like caricatures, not photos
Yes you are right, I could barely tell the difference between those cartoons and the Mona Lisa, or any other portrait.
That kind of project is a sham. Face recognition software works by precise geometric measurements and by identifying unique and precise skin patterns. Neither of those are present in paintings. Paintings vary a lot more and still require human abilities to interpret facial characteristics.
That must explain why picasa keeps recognizing artwork and sculptures in my pictures.
I've been annoyed at times to find some sci-fi books are unavailable on Kindle/Nook/iBookstore, then I remember that they're published through Baen.
i've read plenty of Barn's books on my Kindle. Yes I had to copy them by wire. But I could have paid Amazon a small nominal fee to whispernet it to me.
Here's the real deal: the purpose is to slow down initial piracy enough to make a profit from people who would choose the pirated, free version if they can find it.
Can you clarify what you mean by "slow down?"
Many pirated items are available before the item is even for sale. Most of the rest will be available that same day. So what is there to slow down?
Anecdotal and all, but I certainly will gravitate towards their offerings. Immediately. The very reason I don't buy any ebooks for my wife's kindle is that we can't read them on anything else
Why not? You should be able to read them on your laptop, your computer, your tablet. What device can't you read them on? a nook?
I don't know enough about the publishing world. But based on what you've said, and what I've read from similar comments, the problem is the lack of the right tool. Yes SOME ebooks will be difficult. But most should be fairly trivial and straightfoward. And if they aren't then there is something wrong with the system
But is it completely unreasonable to pat down people who don't fit a terrorist stereotype? No.
Yes, it is completely unreasonable to pat down people who don't fit a terrorist stereotype (what they hell is that anyways?)
It is also completely unreasonable to pay down people who fit a terrorist stereotype.
I'm normally as anti-TSA as they come, but I actually think that this patdown was more reasonable than the title suggests. .
What?????
NO patdown is reasonable. Zero, zilch, none.
Being put on their No Fly list is moot; the USA is on mine.
Because your countries "border" policies are so much better? I admit that USA's policies are pretty stupid sometimes (like the whole fiingerprinting everyone) But the USA doesn't have a monopoly on security theatre. You can see it in about every airport in the world. I saw a girl lose her pocket knife in Ukraine. I was only allowed one bag in heathrow, and had to take my shoes off. I Brazil I was question about my timing system. Not because of all the wires, but because the tripod on it was sort of kind of maybe sharp (a dull pencil was sharper)
They complain about the TSA being ineffective, and also complain when the TSA follows legitimate secure-area procedure.
YES! Despite following "legitimate secure-area procedure" the TSA is ineffective.
Here is the thing... Get rid of the TSA, and your chances of being on a plane with a terrorist does NOT change!
Seriously. Just because the child is young and grandma makes an emotional plea we should let her go through security checks unimpeded?
YES!
We should also let the next person go through unimpeded, as well as the person behind that person, and the next one, ad nauseum.
We should let EVERYONE through unimpeded.
It will save time, money, and I for one would feel safer.
Travel (as in free movement), yes. Flying, no.
Yes, it is enumerated right there in the constitution along with the other rights that the federal government has....
Ohhh wait, it isn't. Therefore it IS a right.
...doesn't that make the TSA agents, by the dictionary definition of the word, terrorists?
Not long ago as I was going through my routine patdown (I refuse to go through the radiation machines) I was told "the threat is real."
What threat? Were they trying to SCARE me (or terrorize me?) with some "threat?"
I disagree. The TSA provides a valuable service.
What service do they provide?
They make you stand next to a barrel of suspected explosives.
They ask you to step through a radiation machine
They ask you to walk across a dirty floor.
They make you get to the airport 1.5 - 2 hours early
They search your belongings.
They rub you with the back of their hands
What service do the perform again?
Here's the thing: No one's saying small children should be excluded from screening.
I am.
Small children should be excluded from screening.
Average sized children should be excluded from screening.
Big children should be excluded from screening.
Adults should be excluded from screening (small ones as well as big ones.
This is really no different than internet security. If you leave a hole, it will be exploited.
Will it? I mean, will it be exploited. I see lots of "holes" in security, and they aren't exploited. I went to the mall today... guess what, the security holes weren't exploited, neither were was the bus I came home on. So why do we need this "security" for planes?
DRM exists because the costs of the ebooks are outrageous and people know this.
DRM doesn't exist because of the cost of ebooks. It exists to prevent piracy. "DRM" or copy protection has always existed to prevent piracy. But all it really does is piss of the people who paid for the product.