Posts by Joseph Zygnerski 42 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Aug 2007
Just got an e-mail from www.beontopranking-google.com, a rather dodgy-seeming link directory.
And, shouldn't it be: goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle
or
g0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000gle
both of which are available (or seem to be)
I love watching TV shows or Japanese animation on my Zune. As long as the picture quality is good, the subtitles are readable and I don't miss any of the action (sometimes shows like Torchwood come out too dark). Admittedly, I have a commute of about an hour each way.
And I have walked down the street trying to catch the last few minutes of an episode of Torchwood, because I'm not as likely to put it on when I get home. Haven't walked into anything yet.
I can't see watching it on my phone, though, unless phone/mp3 player integration gets better.
I've been told that computers can distinguish between patterns very well, but have trouble telling the difference between, say, a puppy and a kitten (they're anatomically very similar).
Instead of words, present the user with a picture of a puppy or a kitten and ask them to identify it. Or a smiling face and a sad face.
(did I choose the happy icon or the sad one?)
There's a great calendar in Thunderbird, it's one of the major plugins/extensions.
Unfortunately, my job uses MS Exchange (which, of course, only works in Outlook). Otherwise I'd have switched to Thunderbird when Outlook crashed on me last year instead of getting the damned thing back up and running.
Who's to blame here? The "fan blog" who says "hmm, look what I saw, wonder what it means" (and yes, I did read his whole post), or the people who took the story and said "hey, look what happened!"?
I think the lesson here is: don't spread other people's musings and call them facts.
Not true. Some do see them, or at least hear them.
There's a site called freelaptopnation that's been advertising on the radio in NYC for a while. They offer a free laptop to anyone who goes to their site. I checked them out a couple of times, but was immediately put off by their criteria for getting this "free" machine.
When every store you hear a commercial for has a website as well, it makes sense that every website you visit will start to advertise *outside* of the web.
I also heard that only around 2 people in the world could actually pilot the things. It's supposed to be incredibly difficult. And, of course there's the idea of strapping about a hundred pounds of rocket fuel to you back and lighting it.
I *really* don't think this is a good idea.
"Instead of using this money for something useful like finding out if they can change the diet of the cattle to reduce emissions they are wasting it on yet another study that shows that cattle produce greenhouse gasses."
Since they're researching how different diets affect the levels of methane the cows produce, I think they are probably looking for something just like that.
The purpose of the study seems to be to find how much gas these cows produce and why, not if they produce any at all.
They were called "Toclafane" (I did have to look that up). A bit like Imperial probe droids. And they had bits of people in them, too, so not quite a match.
Though, with all the cloning going on, how long till we stick people brains inside our robots. Seems to be progressing faster than AI....
Mine's the one that looks like a pepper-shaker, thanks. Saves me from having to catch the bus...
This "unnamed" reporter is obviously some sort of spy. Either that, or he got his laptop mixed up with that of a good old fashioned secret agent.
He must've slept through the warning that all self-destructing spy devices are required to give.
My coat and bag, please. No need for hat or gloves today, as it's quite nice out.
Not the best movie, but the one most worth the price of admission (and I want to know where people are seeing a movie for only $10).
I'm happy that I saw Transformers in the theaters. It was entertaining, fun, and good on a big screen. Not the best movie of the year, but worth the price of a theater ticket.
Tekken actually has more plot than a game like Street Fighter (as much as I love SF). I think one of the problems is that these games have so many characters that they need to stick them all into the movie, even if they have to stick them into the wrong spots. If they can streamline the plot and write a movie around it, they'll do well.
Of course, sometimes they just decide to write whatever the hell they want. That's probably the number one problem.
Step one: Design something to custom specifications and have it built for you
Step two: Decide that what you've just had built is completely unusable (or, apparently, that you can't tell if it's usable, which is even worse)
Step three: Try to blame it on the manufacturer
This is incredibly stupid and irresponsible, especially since these helicopter are needed to save lives. I hope they're being put to some kind of good use here and not just being wasted.
We have them in the NYC subways (and have had for a few years), except people complained that they didn't like the idea of a computer driving their train.
So they put the motormen back.
Strange, because they never eliminated the conductor (yes, we just call them conductors...and passengers), so there was always a person on board.
I've been told that it's nigh impossible for a computer to tell the difference between a kitten and a puppy. Maybe we should move away from typing in letters to picking if a pic is of a kitten or a puppy.
I look forward to the game wherein you have to identify kittens and puppies to get the stripper to take her clothes off...
Blowing the kids' heads off is going too far. A strong electrical shock that persists until they get their butts to school seems more reasonable (and, unfortunately, more realistic).
The big question to me is: how accurate is this tracking? Can it just tell if the kids are at school, or can it tell *where* they are at school. Because 50 kids in the coatroom would raise a few red flags (and if it can track them down accurately, admins/teachers can nab them easily when they want them).
My first computer was a TRS-80 (the portable one that looked like a small box with a tiny non-flip screen - the Wikipedia article is no help). My mother used to program little games in BASIC on it. Later on we got an Apple II.
I actually used the same TSR-80 in college for taking notes in classes. Unfortunately, it broke and we must have gotten rid of it.
I found that kind of surprising. I understand it's for "costs," but in the US, there'd probably be some short jail time, a ban, AND a huge fine (as well as possibly some community service). Could be because the US is a very money-centric society. I think it's related to our propensity for lawsuits.
a term that means nothing to Americans.
As for the actual subject of article, it's very interesting, though it reminded me very much of what one does with a digital camera, that is, takes a lot of pictures in the hopes that one comes out right. They just have the technology to take more pictures than a human could ever possibly take.
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