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"Here's a registration free link thanks to Google."

Here's a who gives a flying fuck" link thanks to NYT.

"Here's a registration free link thanks to Google."

Here's a who gives a flying fuck" link thanks to NYT.

Here's a registration free link thanks to Google.

Registration free link from Google here: http://tinyurl.com/233vm

The publication of these "principles" has nothing to do with getting other vendors to start behaving nicely, and everything to do with getting people ready for the impending launch of Google's desktop search app.

To make the leap from being a Web site to being software you have to install locally, there's a much higher burden of trust they have to surmount -- especially when that software will index your entire local filesystem (just think of the snooping possibilities!).

So, I see this as a kind of pre-emptive strike on their part -- a way that they can claim that they will be as "non-evil" on the desktop as they supposedly are on the Web, and have a document to back it up.

If any other companies follow the principles that document outlines, that's probably gravy, from their perspective.

• More emphasis on individual performance in the post-1975 free-agency era and greater media coverage overall
  
• The expansion of the number of teams to thin out hitting talent.
  

It's not clear if these are the most important contributing factors but I think these are some reasonable points.

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Especially when very old song lyrics like "Barney Google with his goo goo googly eyes" are paired with recent images like Gates [reg req'd] and even Google-logoed Dilbert peering through the OOs.

But then, IANAL.

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The problem is that issues that look EXTREMELY important on Slashdot often have little resonance beyond these pages.

Consider the hot button issue of gay marriage in the states. A big win and an easy win for the religious conservatives and George Bush, no? Well, maybe not: Backers of Gay Marriage Ban Find Tepid Response in Pews. It is very hard to define any issue in a way that voters will care about and take to the top of the political agenda.

No first born required for reg. Here is the google partner link

Note to editors: Post a eff'ing no-reg required link.

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NY Times
The Age
Seattle Post

Hasn't even gone IPO yet, but some guy was selling google stock until he got busted. How stupid are people?

See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor.

Just one small problem sir. This isn't fucking news. Are we going to report on every stupid piece of ridiculous artwork now? What next? Caffeine molecules made out of mountain dew vending machines? Sarin gas molecules made out of Iraqi Artillery shells?

Slashdot: were ugly ass sculpture now qualifies as tech news

Why then is the number one complaint from Hummer owners the milage?

An alliance of a center liberal and an old school conservative against the new right who brought us the clusterfuck in the Middle East and fucked up economy at home.

Yes it could! Liberals and true conservatives! Now is the time to counter the neocon threat!

full article

Apparently, they are now doing full page hijacking ads.

Reg-Free, Straight to the page without hijacking link.

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as was discussed in this NYTimes from April 27 article (sorry, only abstract here, unless you're willing to pay). The Police were overwhelmed and the whole site was taken over by party workers, who then proceeded to push the button for their candidate again and again and again. The Times even had a photograph of it.

No, Bush isn't doing anything about AIDS.

Last year, he tripled the budget for foriegn aid earmarked to fighting AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean to $15 Billion over 3 years. There are lots of things to criticize Bush about, but this may be the one thing he's done right.

Yup, Apparently so. Luckily, the two recent ones are only temps. He still needs those meddlesome people in Congress for lifetime appointments.

Avoid The Faux News Channel, and you may learn that "The battle is over a relatively small number of judges. Since President Bush took office in January 2001, the Senate has confirmed 173 of his judicial nominees. But Democrats have used filibusters to block six nominees, including Judge Pickering and Mr. Pryor, to the appeals court, the level just below the Supreme Court."

Seems to me that the Democrats have handed the Republicans nearly every judge they've asked for. Talk about a rubber stamp.

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I also love that we have no idea how many of these letters have been sent or what the results of any of them have been.

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From the story (no reg link):

The measuring instrument, a radiometer, is simple, a black plate under a glass dome. Like asphalt in summer, the black plate turns hot as it absorbs the sun's energy. Its temperature tells the amount of sunlight that has shone on it.

Since the 50's, hundreds of radiometers have been installed from the Arctic to Antarctica, dutifully recording sunshine. In the mid-80's, Dr. Atsumu Ohmura of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich sifted through the data to compare levels in different regions. "Suddenly," Dr. Ohmura said, "I realized it's not easy to do that, because the radiation was changing over time."

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In this way, exactly.

The New York Times sells ads, including new and used car ads. They sell both print and electronic ads. The NYT doesn't mention this fact in their story.

And NYT rags on eBay for "not being consistent" by having a small warranty for cars sold through eBay ads, but I don't see any warranty for cars sold through NYT ads. Do you?

A grizzly bear proof suit for sale on eBay!

...and they think eBay can learn from old Sears catalogs!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/international/as ia/09toky.html?ex=1084680000&en=2d529ed7f6c158a9&e i=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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They are making this harder to do...

I pity the people forced to conform to a system with which they have no sympathy, and it disturbs me that people should dictate to others in this way. However, if people want to submit themselves willingly, who are we to argue? How do you distinguish and where do you draw the line? Whose job is it to enforce freedom? Whose job is it to decide who is free and who is a slave?

America and most other parts of the West would not have to solve this puzzle just yet if they imposed a moratorium on Muslim immigration right now. The U.S. already has millions of Muslim immigrants. I would say see what happens in the next 30 years. Do they accept a liberal constitutional order & develop a knack for self-criticism, or do they openly scheme to subvert it?

Were Islam to take over in certain Western countries I do not fear theocracy so much as a new barbarism taking over. Islam's most consistent feature over 1400 years has been its hunger for power and glory (i.e. domination), and once it's satisfied in this regard it will become complacent and lazy and a new scientific, moral, and civilizational dark age will take hold wherever it has prevailed.

Pardon me, here's a different link, the Google News workaround link. Don't be shy about looking it up yourself next time -- comes in handy if you're actually interested in the content.

On the other hand, if your objective is to rail against evil site registration then I can see how you couldn't be bothered.

David Pogue at NY Times trashes Sony's Connect service.

You're assuming that just because they chose to give John Walker a fair trial means that all citizens are given fair trials automatically. If the government feels that giving you due process would be a big enough threat to national security, they'll quite happily stick you in an internment camp, just like they did to Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi, both American citizens.

Read the whole blurb. There's more than just the rover story. There's the link to the story about anthropomorphic product design, and the link to the one about life-like children's toys. The Uncanny Valley theory is entirely relevant to those.

Or does anyone else think that that My Real Baby doll by Hasbro looks kinda scarey ?

Not only advert-free, but also without their pretty little diagram on relays.

Silly Anonymous Coward!

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How about posting the link advert free next time then, heheheh

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Actually, the article says 20 MHz. But this is Slashdot, and it's out of fashion to read the articles before commenting on them.

Read it again: "Each second, a sensor in the heel can take up to 20,000 readings and the embedded electronic brain can make 10,000 calculations, directing a tiny electric motor to change the shoe."

10,000 = 10KHz. K = 1,000. M = 1,000,000. Dumbass.

The Bionic Running Shoe

By MICHEL MARRIOTT

Published: May 6, 2004

PORTLAND, Ore.

SHOES have long been sensible. Now some are getting smart.

Smart enough, that is, to sense their environment electronically, calculate how best to perform in it, and then instantly alter their physical properties to adapt to that environment. In short, the designers say, shoes that can do whatever is needed to deliver improved athletic performance or just a better experience in the ancient poetry of feet striking the earth.

"The whole concept of an intelligent shoe would be great," said Christian DiBenedetto, a scientist here at the North American headquarters of Adidas. "Something that would change to your different needs during a marathon, or whatever you were doing, was always the fantasy."

Adidas, the 83-year-old German sporting-goods maker, is about to turn that fantasy into biomechanical reality in the form of a running shoe for men and women. Sleek and lightweight despite its battery-powered sensor, microprocessor and electric motor, the shoe, named 1, is expected to be in stores by December and will cost $250.

Adidas executives say the shoe is no gadget-dependent gimmick. Instead, its designers say it represents a leap forward in wearable technology. Each second, a sensor in the heel can take up to 20,000 readings and the embedded electronic brain can make 10,000 calculations, directing a tiny electric motor to change the shoe. The goal is to make the shoe adjust to changing conditions and the runner's particular style while in use.

"What we have, basically, is the first footwear product that can change its characteristics in real time," said Mr. DiBenedetto, who led the group that created the shoe, of its ability to adapt its cushioning as the wearer runs.

The shoes will have push-button controls, light-emitting diodes to display settings and an instruction manual on a CD-ROM that will advise wearers on, among other things, how to change the battery after every 100 hours of use.

Of all items of clothing, said Rob Enderle, a principal analyst for the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif., the shoe is a logical one to be a focus of wearable technology. Unlike articles of clothing that must be washed or cleaned, shoes present a more stable place to add useful electronics, he said.

High-performance shoes, particularly those intended for athletic use, he said, have been augmented with an array of biomechanical enhancements, most of them involving compressed gases, shock absorbers and springs. But until now, he said, "I don't recall electronics being applied in shoes other than for lights."

From the start of development in early 2001, the shoe was viewed as an opportunity for Adidas to innovate, said Steve Vincent, who leads the company's worldwide innovation team of about 50 people. Mr. DiBenedetto's group is one of seven in Germany, Italy and the United States that work in such secrecy that the units' names are not mentioned to outsiders. To do otherwise, Mr. Vincent said from his corner office overlooking the Willamette River, "would just give away the farm."

In the hypercompetitive sporting-goods industry, of which the $15 billion sneaker market is only a part, innovation is seen more and more as a great differentiator. And while other companies, like Nike in nearby Beaverton, Ore., have made a name for themselves with new products, Mr. Vincent acknowledged that Adidas had not established a firm reputation as an innovator in the American market.

"We look at innovation as the fuel for our company," he said. "We are committed to deliver at least one new impactful technology or innovation every year."

Among the first of those products was ClimaCool, a line of athletic shoe

The Bionic Running Shoe

By MICHEL MARRIOTT

Published: May 6, 2004

PORTLAND, Ore.

SHOES have long been sensible. Now some are getting smart.

Smart enough, that is, to sense their environment electronically, calculate how best to perform in it, and then instantly alter their physical properties to adapt to that environment. In short, the designers say, shoes that can do whatever is needed to deliver improved athletic performance or just a better experience in the ancient poetry of feet striking the earth.

"The whole concept of an intelligent shoe would be great," said Christian DiBenedetto, a scientist here at the North American headquarters of Adidas. "Something that would change to your different needs during a marathon, or whatever you were doing, was always the fantasy."

Adidas, the 83-year-old German sporting-goods maker, is about to turn that fantasy into biomechanical reality in the form of a running shoe for men and women. Sleek and lightweight despite its battery-powered sensor, microprocessor and electric motor, the shoe, named 1, is expected to be in stores by December and will cost $250.

Adidas executives say the shoe is no gadget-dependent gimmick. Instead, its designers say it represents a leap forward in wearable technology. Each second, a sensor in the heel can take up to 20,000 readings and the embedded electronic brain can make 10,000 calculations, directing a tiny electric motor to change the shoe. The goal is to make the shoe adjust to changing conditions and the runner's particular style while in use.

"What we have, basically, is the first footwear product that can change its characteristics in real time," said Mr. DiBenedetto, who led the group that created the shoe, of its ability to adapt its cushioning as the wearer runs.

The shoes will have push-button controls, light-emitting diodes to display settings and an instruction manual on a CD-ROM that will advise wearers on, among other things, how to change the battery after every 100 hours of use.

Of all items of clothing, said Rob Enderle, a principal analyst for the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif., the shoe is a logical one to be a focus of wearable technology. Unlike articles of clothing that must be washed or cleaned, shoes present a more stable place to add useful electronics, he said.

High-performance shoes, particularly those intended for athletic use, he said, have been augmented with an array of biomechanical enhancements, most of them involving compressed gases, shock absorbers and springs. But until now, he said, "I don't recall electronics being applied in shoes other than for lights."

From the start of development in early 2001, the shoe was viewed as an opportunity for Adidas to innovate, said Steve Vincent, who leads the company's worldwide innovation team of about 50 people. Mr. DiBenedetto's group is one of seven in Germany, Italy and the United States that work in such secrecy that the units' names are not mentioned to outsiders. To do otherwise, Mr. Vincent said from his corner office overlooking the Willamette River, "would just give away the farm."

In the hypercompetitive sporting-goods industry, of which the $15 billion sneaker market is only a part, innovation is seen more and more as a great differentiator. And while other companies, like Nike in nearby Beaverton, Ore., have made a name for themselves with new products, Mr. Vincent acknowledged that Adidas had not established a firm reputation as an innovator in the American market.

"We look at innovation as the fuel for our company," he said. "We are committed to deliver at least one new impactful technology or innovation every year."

Among the first of those products was ClimaCool, a line of athletic shoe