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It's interesting that nobody is pointing out that you can opt out of Google "rifling" through your e-mail (i.e., using the e-mail to determine ad relevancy in Gmail):
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/preferences/

Google seems to imply that Gmail signals are only used within Gmail:
https://support.google.com/ads/answer/1634057?p=aboutads&rd=1

"AI" has always been that which AI can't do. Here are several activities that once were considered sci-fi-level AI but are no longer considered AI in a broad sense because we know how to do them more-or-less:
* Looking stuff up for us (Google);
http://www.google.com/
* Inferring questions from examples and answering questions posed in natural language (IBM's Watson);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)
* Generating hypotheses and doing hands/grippers-on scientific experiments (Adam);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist
* Reading text in multiple fonts reliably and quickly and cheaply;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition
* translating one human language to another on the fly;
http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.uit.innovation.html/
http://www.gizmag.com/go/1833/
* reading and translating signs;
http://questvisual.com/us/
* Making portraits;
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/11/tresset_robot_artist_artist_engineers_robots_to_make_art_and_save_his_own.single.html
* Playing the piano including from sheet music;
http://www.synthgear.com/2009/music-misc/synth-playing-robot/
http://gizmodo.com/5963137/watch-this-adorable-horde-of-intelligent-swarm-robots-play-piano
* Driving a car in busy traffic (Google, Stanford, CMU, others);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2007_Urban_Challenge
* Winning chess games (IBM's Deep Blue and pretty much any PC now against a mid-level player);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess
* Image recognition for quality control in factories;
http://www.general-vision.com/products/mtvs.php
* Recognizing faces;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system
* Figuring out the name of a musical composition from a few notes as well as making new compositions and dynamic accompaniments;
http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Songs-Using-Melody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_artificial_intelligence
* The diagnostic aspect of being a doctor (Watson again);
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/11/ibm-watson-medical-doctor
* Investing in volatile financial markets;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_trading
* Serving as a sentry with a machine gun;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5YftEAbmMQ
* Twirling a cell phone;
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation
* Identifying things by smell;

Reminds me of this: Later Than You Think
Click on quick view on the PDF :)

Yes. Heaven forbid someone take downs. Site designed for piracy.

While I agree with your argument to a degree, I am against pirating, though I do post quite a few torrents of music (legal to distribute live sets and club recordings) there isn't anything on TPB that I can't find on Google. If you have rules, they must apply equally to all.

Case in point: Google search for "A State of Trance 600 hash" returns torrent hashes for a number of the torrents I put up there.

Given your very direct, blunt and one-shoe-fits-all comment, please explain how it is okay for Google to return that, but not for TPB.

This is even worse, somehow. It must be, because even Lennart Poettering, the patron saint of half-assed, shitty reimplementations of things that used to work, seems to think it's a bad idea.
https://plus.google.com/100409717163242445476/posts/jDq6BAgdpkG

(And speaking of shitty, useless software, how the fuck do you link directly to Google+ comments?)

Since you mention pulling stuff out of ones ass, every time I read a puff piece about the iWatch I mentally replace every occurrence of iWatch with iButtPlug. It's still meaningless but it's far more entertaining.

So I just googled Apple iButtPlug. It returned 263,000 hits! That looks like a $6 billion market right there.

Well, it all depends on how you read it. Accidents certainly happen ALL the time to gun nuts; here's a citation:
https://www.google.com/search?q=gun+accident

You don't even need a conspiracy to explain why. Now this guy isn't even using certified equipment; I certainly wouldn't be surprised if this guy met with an unfortunate accident.

You could always go all Flavor flav and where an ipad around your neck.

ipad necklace

Try searching for that little tag.

You are right but telling your congressman to support FASTR (Fair Access to Science and Technology Research) is much more useful. You can do so quite easily thanks to the EFF and Alliance for Taxpayer Access. FASTR would make federally funded research (non classified and funded by a federal agency with a budget over 100 million$) freely available after 6 months of publication. This would go far beyond the disappointing recent White House OSTP policy where the embargo is 1 year and doesn't include any resuse rights.

If you live in Illinois or California, please consider supporting similar legislation for state funded research. See
Open Access to Research Articles Act for Illinois and California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act.

My grandfather found it and took the single pup home. It grew with the family for a year but eventually took off to be with its own kind (they lived in a border area between Poland and Russia, a giant forest).

My grandfather told my Father that one day, it would leave, and it did. He'd seen it happen before with male wolves.

That only makes sense once the male matures, he'll want a mate, and the only way to get that would be to join with its own kind.

My Father said wolves are a lot like dogs but more "devilish" (intelligence-wise, not evil - he said they are FAR more clever than typical dogs are). He said he saw it later (after it took off to join other wolves) a few times from a distance watching them do the fields (had a large farm and logging business before the Nazi's came & took it from them, putting them on trains to be slaves in a labor camp) on the borders of their land, but it never came back again once it had joined its own kind.

Still: Want a TRUE friend? Get a dog (even cats are good I have found out the past few years if you treat them with respect & perhaps most importantly of all - with love)...

APK

P.S.=> Bottom-Line, on dogs (which our society esteems quite highly & rightfully so) - I've said it before: "Dogs are better people than people" -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22DOGS+ARE+BETTER+PEOPLE+THAN+PEOPLE!%22+and+%22APK%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=1480UbKHGK-N0QHUqICQDw

Topological Superconductors - 300K and higher, but still not usable

The relevant google search.
A relevant result from Joint Quantum Institute

Ultraconductors got killed in the 2008 market crash. Had they not got killed, they were making superconductors out of plastic, they called it Ultraconductor. (Not to be confused with the speaker cables of the same name). This stuff conducted at room temperature a million times better than silver! I have no doubt they could have done it, had the economy not killed them. Here are the relevant patents.

US Patent 5,777,292 - Materials having high electrical conductivity at room teperatures and ...
US Patent 6,804,105 - Enriched macromolecular materials having temperature-independent high ...

Here's a 2005 interview (.pdf, sorry), which may give some insight about Ultraconductor.

The 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (pdf) offers some good info about conductive polymers.

US Patent 7,014,795 discusses the growth of crystalized electron pairs (otherwise referred to as polarons in other places), the diagrams are especially helpful.

I believe it is well within the capabilities of any non-chemistry adverse hackerspace to eventually create polymer cables which are 10 to 10 million times better than silver at conducting electricity.

Topological Superconductors - 300K and higher, but still not usable

The relevant google search.
A relevant result from Joint Quantum Institute

Ultraconductors got killed in the 2008 market crash. Had they not got killed, they were making superconductors out of plastic, they called it Ultraconductor. (Not to be confused with the speaker cables of the same name). This stuff conducted at room temperature a million times better than silver! I have no doubt they could have done it, had the economy not killed them. Here are the relevant patents.

US Patent 5,777,292 - Materials having high electrical conductivity at room teperatures and ...
US Patent 6,804,105 - Enriched macromolecular materials having temperature-independent high ...

Here's a 2005 interview (.pdf, sorry), which may give some insight about Ultraconductor.

The 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (pdf) offers some good info about conductive polymers.

US Patent 7,014,795 discusses the growth of crystalized electron pairs (otherwise referred to as polarons in other places), the diagrams are especially helpful.

I believe it is well within the capabilities of any non-chemistry adverse hackerspace to eventually create polymer cables which are 10 to 10 million times better than silver at conducting electricity.

Topological Superconductors - 300K and higher, but still not usable

The relevant google search.
A relevant result from Joint Quantum Institute

Ultraconductors got killed in the 2008 market crash. Had they not got killed, they were making superconductors out of plastic, they called it Ultraconductor. (Not to be confused with the speaker cables of the same name). This stuff conducted at room temperature a million times better than silver! I have no doubt they could have done it, had the economy not killed them. Here are the relevant patents.

US Patent 5,777,292 - Materials having high electrical conductivity at room teperatures and ...
US Patent 6,804,105 - Enriched macromolecular materials having temperature-independent high ...

Here's a 2005 interview (.pdf, sorry), which may give some insight about Ultraconductor.

The 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (pdf) offers some good info about conductive polymers.

US Patent 7,014,795 discusses the growth of crystalized electron pairs (otherwise referred to as polarons in other places), the diagrams are especially helpful.

I believe it is well within the capabilities of any non-chemistry adverse hackerspace to eventually create polymer cables which are 10 to 10 million times better than silver at conducting electricity.

Topological Superconductors - 300K and higher, but still not usable

The relevant google search.
A relevant result from Joint Quantum Institute

Ultraconductors got killed in the 2008 market crash. Had they not got killed, they were making superconductors out of plastic, they called it Ultraconductor. (Not to be confused with the speaker cables of the same name). This stuff conducted at room temperature a million times better than silver! I have no doubt they could have done it, had the economy not killed them. Here are the relevant patents.

US Patent 5,777,292 - Materials having high electrical conductivity at room teperatures and ...
US Patent 6,804,105 - Enriched macromolecular materials having temperature-independent high ...

Here's a 2005 interview (.pdf, sorry), which may give some insight about Ultraconductor.

The 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (pdf) offers some good info about conductive polymers.

US Patent 7,014,795 discusses the growth of crystalized electron pairs (otherwise referred to as polarons in other places), the diagrams are especially helpful.

I believe it is well within the capabilities of any non-chemistry adverse hackerspace to eventually create polymer cables which are 10 to 10 million times better than silver at conducting electricity.

If I wanted an artists conception of something I could visit the Louvre.

Luckily, the actual paper can be found though a link in TFA. The images in question are at the top of pages 3 and 4. An artist's impression was probably thought necessary for the less erudite (i.e. the ignorant masses, including most graduates in business and liberal arts).

There is no minimum IQ for a police person, either.

Well at least there's a maximum. Half right is better than totally wrong!

You are actually very wrong in this case. Android is definitely Linux, and the pieces of it that are not completely built in-house are most definitely GPL'd. Check the open source license listing that is distributed with EVERY phone (it's under Settings > About device).

On the front end, you are wrong, too. The app store does indeed allow GPL'd apps to be submitted (unlike, say, Apple's app store). Go to https://play.google.com/apps and search for "GPL."

I'm not an Android developer yet, so I can't comment on whether all of the front-end interface is open source, but I think it is. Perhaps someone else can correct me on this if I am wrong.

You don't have to like it, but it's still true. ANDROID IS LINUX. For fuck's sake, read the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system).

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I use a Firefox extension called LeechBlock.

Basically, you give it a list of domains to block, and when to block them.

For instance, I usually get my best work done between 5:00 and 10:00 PM. So, I gave LeechBlock a list of websites on which I typically waste my time. Between 5:00 and 10:00 PM, it only lets me waste 10 minutes of my time every two hours.

When I go over my time limit on time-sucking websites, it shows me a page informing me of my condition. I configured LeechBlock such that I can click on a button, and see my time-sucking page anyway. LeechBlock serves as a gentle reminder to get back to work.

It is rather configurable. For instance, there is a setting that allows you to disable the add-on manager during a given time interval. The idea is to prevent yourself from turning the extension off.

The extension is incredibly customizable and surprisingly effective.

There is a similar extension for Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strict-pomodoro/cgmnfnmlficgeijcalkgnnkigkefkbhd?hl=en If you don't know what Pomodoro is, check it out - it's exactly for this problem. This helps me a lot.

To reply to myself.. The harddrives were quantum's. Here is an article in infoworld from 89 about it. Titled "Mac IICX, SE/30 users report drive failures"

http://books.google.com/books?id=wDAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT32&lpg=PT32&dq=mac+SE30+hard+drive+failures&source=bl&ots=O-OI7Qd-Z2&sig=Wd2zMHjgAu5Afr0NhURcAoRqwUc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6L4yUYfaAo2LrQH32oC4AQ&ved=0CHEQ6AEwCQ

they weren't much faster than 5400 in real speed

I think that was more to do with the I/O card and threading than the actual drive. (Look to the right in the gray/brown box - Google books won't let me cut and paste)

A preferred source of material for rifle barrels is used truck axles, since it's stress relieved. http://books.google.com/books?id=_ykDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false

Rifling tools are pretty straight-foward --- cutter style tools for this were developed in the 15th century.

They probably don't have access to an SLS printer which will work for an application like this along with the right alloy.

SLA may be used to print the part in one step or print a mold that may be used for lost wax type casting of several alloys durable enough for an application like this.

The resolution and materials commonly available for FDM/FFF are too poor for application like these. The quality of the print is just too poor and they are only using p400 ABS for material. That is why their prints aren't very durable.

SLA however offers the resolution and the materials to produce parts that are strong and reliable enough for these types of rugged applications. Some photopolymers for SLA are 100-1,000 x stronger than the ABS they are using.

This is a library. The source code provided today doesn't appear to build an executable.

??? Quick test...

6136 test.html (original)
2620 test.html.gz (gzip -9)
2562 test-zopfli.html.gz (zopfli -i1000)
2559 test-advdef.html.gz (advdef -z4 test.html.gz)

One test on one tiny data set but I don't think I'll bother writing code to test on PNG. In case any Google recruiters are reading, here's my new compression program called flopzi...

#!/bin/sh
gzip -9 $1 && advdef -z4 "${1}.gz"

A "short" story that sort of takes this is into account. (also, it was only published 23 years ago).
http://books.google.com/books?id=FLNCovxKl7IC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=orson+scott+card+dogwalker&source=bl&ots=a2pcvnSmFx&sig=xIKvpnSdJ01xoxMt2SbkG7XKphM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OB8yUb-bCuLbyQHW24HAAQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=orson%20scott%20card%20dogwalker&f=false

Judging by the PR page (third image from bottom), the GG can have your conventional lenses attached. But it looks like you can't wear regular glasses and Glass, so you'd need to get your Glass customised with your lenses. [Obligatory "Yo dawg..." taken as read.]

However, in some of the early demos, the display itself can be removed from its own frame and attached to any suitable pair of glasses, with the display sitting just in front of your normal lens. Ie, the included frame is just for people who don't wear glasses. So we may be in luck, we might be able to buy the display without the expensive custom frame. But it's interesting/creepy that in all current PR images (I mean all of them) none of the Glass users wear glasses.

1) How much is this going to cost me at the end of the day? I may outlay $60 when I buy the game but then get an incomplete experience because 1/3rd (exaggerating) of the game has been held back for DLC. Call of Duty games now cost up to $180 for all the content. I'd rather everything be included up front with that price tag so I can decide if I want to blow my money or not.

If you do micro-transactions correctly, the price can be anywhere between $0 and infinity. The reason people choose micro-transactions over say subscription is that the revenue per customer is unbounded. It should depend on the customer and how much value he gets from the game. A person that just plays a few minutes a day would most likely not pay anything. A person that would like to enjoy the better features would pay more

If a game costed $180 up front, very few people would buy it. You would be paying $180 for features you don't care about (how many different hair styles do you need?). However a lot of people would consider paying $0.10, $0.20, etc for their favorite hair style, shirt, scar, etc... So instead of paying $180 for pointless things, some people end up paying $2-$5 for the features they care about the most. Notice this is a win-win: the developer can target a bigger audience, and the customers maximize the value they get for their $2-$5. The reason this model is successful is that it does a good job at maximizing value for both the developer and the customer over say subscription or upfront purchase

It is not like the developer can charge whatever they want. Price things too high, and only a handful of people would buy, yielding poor revenue. Price things too low, and one doesn't get much revenue even if with millions of purchases. There is a sweet spot, where the value is maximized for both the developer and the customers, and the best entrepreneurs are the ones that find it.

2) How long are the servers going to be online if the game has multiplayer - give me a date at the beginning, I don't care what it is but let me know

While it would be great to know, it is impossible for the developer to determine. A game can be kept online as long as he has the funds to do so. If people buy the game, this can be for a long time, if people don't buy the game, it would go offline quickly. So the only reasonable answer is "as long as people buy it"

3) If it is micro-transactions am I realistically going to be able to complete the game without outlaying shit tonnes of cash? No one really has an issue with optional content - pay to be able to progress is what really pisses people off.

This is a very reasonable question. It is true that not every company will tell you this upfront (I know I will). But you can usually get the answer by looking at reviews from the game, So this information is usually readily available.

The recommendations from the experts in the industry is to use micro-transactions only for optional content to maximize revenue. Why? because if you sell a god sword, you ruin the game for both the purchaser (no challenge), and others as well (unfair advantage). If people need to buy something in order to move forward, they will often lose interest and unistall the game right there, with no possibility of selling anything to him

So the developers that want to maximize revenue are recommended to do exactly what you want: use micro-transactions for optional content only

The numbers cited are for gzip. The improvement over 7-zip is much less than 3%; it's more like 1%, at the cost of a factor of four slowdown with respect to 7-zip. Note that this is for 7-zip when restricted to deflate-compatible formats only.

Here's the paper:
https://code.google.com/p/zopfli/downloads/list

In addition to all the other explanations of how you missed the point, Deflate is also used in PNG. This will allow you to make smaller PNG files, too, which can be quite a significant part of your bandwidth.

Well, If you're Google and you detect Chrome on the client side, it might be even better for you to serve a WebP version instead. Out of a random sample of 1,000 PNG files, a lossless WebP version was at least 20% smaller in more than 50% of the cases (link).

I'll stick with compacted wrappers for JS functions plus LZMA binaries encoded in base91 and decoded on browser end for anything needing serious compression for the web.
So far I haven't even needed to really use that anyway, base91 and compacted code works fine.
On top of server-browser compression as well.
Don't forget those vector textures. Screw pixels, get with the times.

This looks interesting though. LZMA JS Decoder
There seems to be a bunch of different projects for this.

I can't imagine what kind of content you're hosting that'd justify 3 orders of magnitude compression time to gain 3% compression.

In anything that is static enough that it will be downloaded many times in its lifetime, and not time sensitive enough that it needs to be instantly available when generated, very small gains in compression efficiency are worth paying very large prices in compression.

If you, for just one of many Google-relevant examples, host a fair number of popular JavaScript libraries (used on both your own sites -- among the most popular in the world -- and vast numbers of third party sites that use your hosted versions) and commit, once you have accept a particular stable version of a library, to hosting it indefinitely, you've got a bunch of assets that are going to be static for a very long time, and accessed very large numbers of times. One time cost to compress is going to be dwarfed by even a miniscule savings in transfer costs for those.

Rick Joyce and Gopal Gupta - Identity Authentication Based on Keystroke Latencies, 1990

F Monrose, A Rubin - Authentication via Keystroke Dynamics, 1997

Arkady G. Zilberman - US Patent 6442692: Security method and apparatus employing authentication by keystroke dynamics, 1998 (I think some of the claims in this patent could be invalidated because of previous disclosure in the 1990 and 1997 papers)

If you need quick access to LISP libraries, check out Quicklisp . Well over 800 libraries available with just a (ql:quickload "library-name"). You can even do some quick syntactic sugar to do (import ....) and you can have what Python has and even more.

If are other libraries that you need but are unavailable, might I suggest getting involved

The problem with Lisp libraries is not so much their lack, but the fact that they are not readily available. Some say that it is so easy to roll your own that Lisp discourages looking for a library. Plus it is sometimes fun to do it yourself, especially if you love Lisp. But their are lots of implementations that have extensive libraries, just like emacs has tons of extensions, the only downside is that there is not too much standardization (like emacs extensions).

Google has enough market power to make it work. If Google had bought Groupon, it would be called "Google Deals" and would appear at the top of every search result page vaguely relevant to the query. It would be tied into Google Groups, Google Maps, Google+, Google Chrome, and Google Anal Probe. Businesses would sign up or else.

One of my friends from high school lived in a house across the highway from the Beretta factory in Accokeek, Maryland:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Benelli+USA&hl=en&ll=38.649305,-77.036712&spn=0.013155,0.021586&cid=4117604210822074107&gl=US&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A

Google lists it as 'Benelli', which is owned by Beretta, but the road is 'Beretta Drive'

The Russians apparently.

also, if you're using t-mobile and have a newer phone, you can get IPv6. https://sites.google.com/site/tmoipv6/lg-mytouch

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droidbean.btcontroller

BT Controller for Android, basically lets you set up a gamepad on your phone(you create or download the layout) by syncing two android based and bluetooth capable devices.

Not affiliated with it, though I have used it.

You're pretty much dead on with your numbers:

32GB Nexus 7 w/ AT&T 3G - $300

TP-Link TL-WN722N (atheros usb wifi) - $20

Sena UD100 (Bluetooth USB) - $40

USB Ethernet adapter - ~$30 (really? Damn!)

OTG cable (host mode) - $2

I wonder how long it takes them to compile/load all those apps? Would be interesting to break it down and see just how much per hour these guys are charging.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20080086187

To be blunt there have been 'butterfly' sex toys almost exactly like this for a long time, gel wings that can be warmed and cooled, multiple vibration speeds, hypo-allergenic materials...

Firstly, where did she get this idea? Secondly... how is this patentable?

The patent was much harder to find than it should have been and boils down to three basic clauses, the rest is basically bullshit to make it sound novel.

      a) providing a device comprising a casing having an application area, at least a portion of the application area constructed to contact a subject's skin;

      b) providing a thermal source contained within the casing, the thermal source capable of being cooled, and cooling the thermal source;

      c) providing a vibrational source contained within the casing, the vibrational source capable of producing vibration;

https://www.google.com/search?q=DOTA

Look it up you lazy cunt.

At least on Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/topgrossing
Most apps are "free". Which means their income results from in-app purchase.

oh wow. Someone on /. not trolling. Inconceivable.

it might be North West England but it's middle-ish of Britain ...... https://maps.google.com/maps?q=54.040038,-2.758484&hl=en&ll=54.085173,1.625977&spn=7.764374,26.784668&num=1&t=h&z=6 mind you the wa things are going Scotland will leave the UK next year anyways... still for accuracy's sake.. at the moment it's NOWHERE NEAR NORTH WEST BRITAIN!

I always smile when I hear about "the Northwest" and realise I have to drive south for 3 hours to get to it.

Similar community-driven projects have been carried out in other EU countries, such as Finland.

Here’s one such example from the region that geographically centers around Töysä – a small rural community of 3,000 people – and its neighboring towns/municipalities, some of which are a bit larger, but not much:

Verkko-osuuskunta Kuuskaista (The Network Co-operative Kuuskaista)

6net+ core network (a PowerPoint presentation)

it might be North West England but it's middle-ish of Britain ......
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=54.040038,-2.758484&hl=en&ll=54.085173,1.625977&spn=7.764374,26.784668&num=1&t=h&z=6
mind you the wa things are going Scotland will leave the UK next year anyways... still for accuracy's sake.. at the moment it's NOWHERE NEAR NORTH WEST BRITAIN!

This is a crazy thing to be pedantic about. Besides the fact that it adheres to standard verb inflection, spelled is also considerably more popular than 'spelt': http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=spelt%2C+spelled&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=