The initial papers were published from Stanford, quite a few years ago (and so are hidden form the internet).
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/keypoints/ Here's a page for SIFT, and early image keypoint detector
Unicode. Itâ(TM)ll happen to you one day.
Well, it still hasn't happened to Slashdot
Next time, I trust you'll spot the warning signs earlier and bow out before it's too late.
Parking pawls are flimsy, and constant use will wear out transmission components, making it even more dangerous to rely on.
BULLSHIT.
and you'll see that the "park" gear is a dinky soft cast iron pawl.
So? Hook a rope up to that car and try to tow it, and you'll find that "dinky soft cast iron pawl" stands up to the challenge perfectly, and the wheels will skid. There's no point in engineering it any better.
An engineer is someone who does list processing in FORTRAN.