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.
Another example: dock color. This is such a dumb preference but I cannot imagine why they don't make it user customizable. I like dark colored dock backgrounds, they look better on the desktop backgrounds I choose. But Apple simply will not make them customizable.
Actually, you've got two choices, light and dark, which sounds like it might suit you. It's not in the Dock Control Panel, of course. It's in General.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein