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Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943): With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Not just England, but all sides, all countries.
100 years on, and none are left that fought and survived.
That's no good reason to forget the horrific sacrifices made so that our modern world could exist.
We salute you, because that is all we can do.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: Not just England, but all sides, all countries. So, both the Turkish (NATO) side and the Kurds (NATO) side?
Read the War Prayer by Twain.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yes, at the Menin Gate. I was talking to our church organist this morning after the service and she told me that her grandfather's name is inscribed there.
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's no good reason to forget
Someone's quote: If you forget the past, you are dooming yourself to repeat the same errors I hope it will never be forgotten.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You're preaching to the converted. Send it to a certain nation's president (who shall remain nameless).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714): None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
Presidents don't listen to me.
Heck, my wife doesn't listen to more than one word in three (and then makes up the other two).
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Be grateful for your one in three .
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's actually worse than not listening at all.
Me: "Can't be done"
She hears: "*** *** done"
Assumes: "Consider it done"
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Mine's more like Harry Enfield's "Only Me!" character.
Damn the fool who made strangling your wife illegal!
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That's part of it; my wife assumes all tasks require zero time and zero money.
Heaven help me if I reply "One thing at a time, please."
Software Zen: delete this;
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My thanks to each and all who contributed to a previous thread which I started on the topic of face recognition.
Today I encountered this page...
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/face-api/
It is a truly attractive deal, if I understand it; which I quite probably don't.
Short version: For small operators, Microsoft says they won't charge anything for their Face API.
If I'm reading their page properly, it appears that you get...
- 30,000 (thirty thousand) "transactions" per month
- A detection speed of twenty faces per minute
I'm still learning what a "transaction" is and I'm trying to figure out how their API would work with the other parts of the (currently non-existent) system in mind.
Truly, this looks like it could get us started on a really good system.
Then again, it also looks like great bait on a very sharp hook.
=== QUESTIONS FOR THE SMART BRIGADE ===
- Has any reader here taken Microsoft up on this offer ?
- What questions am I failing to ask ?
- Who else can provide such an API ?
- Do I really want someone else's API ?
- What do you know that I don't ?
- How hard is the API to incorporate ?
- e.g., How many lines of code did you have to write ? (e.g., to interface between the camera, the database, whatever)
- What do I need to know before I start talking to Microsoft ?
- What haven't I considered at this point ?
I'm the novice here, feel free to display superior knowledge. (Please, educate me)
modified 12-Nov-18 3:13am.
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WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING AT US TODAY?
The CAPS key is the one on the left above SHIFT ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING AT US TODAY? If all-caps in the title is not polite around here, I will correct that.
I thought it was normal fare.
I will correct
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C-P-User-3 wrote: Do I really want someone else's API ? You have been doing that for a long time; the WinAPI.
While I dislike dependencies, I don't think that you want to make an excercise of not using api's.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: You have been doing that for a long time; the WinAPI. Project killed.
Hey, Let's revive that project.
Okay, until we kill it again.
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Please feel free to share your detailed system design document and we will get back to you.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Smirk !
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Just looked at OpenCV.
Their front page has this...
"...*Quote: Usage ranges from interactive art, to mines inspection, stitching maps on the web or through advanced robotics.
Didn't see anything about face recognition. Do they have a section on that topic ?
I'll poke around a few minutes.
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Thank you.
Voted up.
System doesn't allow me to vote it up twice (else I would).
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ALARM CLOCK
My Android Phone alarm clock app just failed me this week; colossal failure.
(Of course, it was my fault for not remembering one of the seventeen Android Phone options while I was in the ultra zonk quasi-conscious state of mind trying to get into bed without falling, etc.)
I am now convinced that I should buy a completely separate device.
I went looking to see what's out there, checking...
- eBay
- Amazon
- Target
- Sony
- Timex
- WalMart
I was expecting to find 10 or 20 models, perhaps 30.
My expectations were exceeded; greatly so.
Perhaps I should be delighted that I have so many choices.
There are certainly hundreds of different alarm clocks; a thousand wouldn't surprise me at all.
The Android is indeed a very clever device, but there are so many conflicting options, that it's quite easy (as I proved to myself this week) to confuse yourself and make the whole thing one big fail.
I think I should go Low-Tech on the alarm clock idea.
Wondering what others here might think.
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I have two three four alarm clocks:
1) My Android phone. It just works.
2) A "proper" clockwork alarm clock. Generally not needed, mostly goes off when I am already downstairs.
3) The Sun. It shines, I wake up.
4) The cat. It wants food, I get up or I'm in both trouble and pain.
90% of the time, 3 and 4 are racing each other to wake me up. It's like they were synchronised together ...
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