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Watching Grass Grow is going to be especially hard-hit by a water shortage ;)

With everyone downloading Windows 10, will the Internet be slower than watching grass grow

This unlocked webcam is by far the most exciting on the Internet ;)

Since you asked for it, here is drying paint ... but Watching Grass Grow might be too much excitement for 'ya! ;-)

Or this

http://www.watching-grass-grow.com/

Glad to see this finally announced/released and while I'd love to exchange for my iPad2, I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade. Without Steve Jobs doing the dramatics, watching the Live Blog was almost as exciting as Watching Grass Grow.

Yeah, this will be a failure just like the last product Cook tried to sell. What was it called again?

Glad to see this finally announced/released and while I'd love to exchange for my iPad2, I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade. Without Steve Jobs doing the dramatics, watching the Live Blog was almost as exciting as Watching Grass Grow.

When I saw the rumored specs, I actually went out and sold my android tablet. I loved the thing, but I also managed to get a touchpad in the firesale. I use the touchpad the most of all, but I really want that retina display. I use my tablet for RDP/VNC all the time. Can't wait to use RDP without having to scroll around to use my machine.

Glad to see this finally announced/released and while I'd love to exchange for my iPad2, I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade. Without Steve Jobs doing the dramatics, watching the Live Blog was almost as exciting as Watching Grass Grow.

never seen dancing with egos before but

http://www.watching-paint-dry.com/
is currently off line as it has dried and is now directing you to
http://www.watching-grass-grow.com/

so really not much choice there...

Can't wait to watch grass grow on 100+ plasma/LCD's at your local big box store.

A little more info from the BRS Labs website:
"The system takes the input from existing video security cameras (no need to change equipment); recognizes and identifies the objects in each frame and passes that data to its Machine Learning Engine. There, the system 'learns' what activity is normal for each unique area viewed by each camera. It then stores these LEARNED memories, much the same way the human brain does, and refers back to them with any and all future activities observed by the camera. If any behavior falls outside of the norm, alerts are generated."

Sounds impressive, but will the algorithms be sophisticated enough to watch grass grow and realize that it's normal behavior for the garbage truck to come by weekly ... but still send an alarm when a burgler steals your stuff!

A little more info from the BRS Labs website:
"The system takes the input from existing video security cameras (no need to change equipment); recognizes and identifies the objects in each frame and passes that data to its Machine Learning Engine. There, the system 'learns' what activity is normal for each unique area viewed by each camera. It then stores these LEARNED memories, much the same way the human brain does, and refers back to them with any and all future activities observed by the camera. If any behavior falls outside of the norm, alerts are generated."

Sounds impressive, but will the algorithms be sophisticated enough to watch grass grow and realize that it's normal behavior for the garbage truck to come by weekly ... but still send an alarm when a burgler steals your stuff!

Don't have to.

watching grass grow
Didn't say it wouldn't be boring, besides how about you cite how taking a picture of something else that is copyrighted makes the image not yours

Not all of them are, some are for download, next time read the list

They still offer it for free

Sure but the software is free

And what about the site with the 14,000 free apps on it, didn't say anything about that

Huh?

I knew you would say java, and java sucks, even though it's free, lol. And I'm not talking about lat, I'm talking about using it, and yes you can use ssh for file transfer which would require speed.

Slots cost money, besides the more slots you have the more load you put on the server, therefore costing you more money, and no you can't run two servers because that doubles your cost for no reason.

How do you know it's not been registered? Have you heard of a keygen? Or maybe they say it's new in box and they just re-shrink wrapped it.

That's fine, just don't say I get 6mb and then only give me 2mb as thats a jip.

So the reverse is also true - if every customer decided to say, watch grass grow one day, the costs are also the same!

This is exactly why Tony Werner, Comcast chief technical officer said they engineer for the peak hour. Having said that, it would be nice to get 160mbps for $60/month (as in Japan) ... although I always find it disappointing that almost all of these stories focus on the download speeds and ignore the upload speeds which are at least of interest to folks such as /. readers.

"Also, what is the expected result of our discussions of this stuff? Is it to pick it apart and analyze it? Is it to provide user generated retorts that you can't due to legal reasons? I shall try a little of both. "

You shouldn't expect something comming out of idle because that's the section idea,right? No article or comment on idle is expected to have a point. You can say "I prefer idle not to exist", but it is actually delivering what was promissed: nothing but idle time.

Anyways, I don't like idle either. I would go to over there for this kind of stuff

I looked at the web logs from a general purpose, non-techy website (Watching Grass Grow) and Chrome accounted for 0.73% of the browser traffic yesterday ... ... and traffic didn't start until after the release at Noon. The User Agent String is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13" For comparison, IE was 53.8%, Firefox was 34.6%, Safari was 3.5% (non-Chrome) , Opera was 0.7%, and there was even 0.05% of traffic from an iPhone. That's an impressive bump for day one (actually, half a day) and if you (unrealistically) extrapolated that rate, Chrome would have 100% of the browser market by year end! ;-) I had to modify the Analog source code to account for the Chrome browser (gotta like open-source) but have have other popular programs (such as Google Analytics) been updated to identify this browser?

It seems Google is trying to take over the world anyway I an understand why they want to release a browser thats theirs. The thing is though there is no way I would use their browser simply because they have the WORST SUPPORT in the world! Myself and many others I know have had our Google Adsense cancelled for no reason and when I tried to find out why I never got a answer. Of course all the money that was owed no one ever got it and it was not like it was a lot of money only $100.00 but when you do that to thousands of people it adds up. At least at Microsoft and the others you an manage to get someone on the phone for support and they at least answer their emails a actual human emails you back not so with Google. They should sell their 767 and hire a live support group no I think I will pass on the chrome browser. Jim Mackinlay

I looked at the web logs from a general purpose, non-techy website (Watching Grass Grow) and Chrome accounted for 0.73% of the browser traffic yesterday ... ... and traffic didn't start until after the release at Noon. The User Agent String is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13" For comparison, IE was 53.8%, Firefox was 34.6%, Safari was 3.5% (non-Chrome) , Opera was 0.7%, and there was even 0.05% of traffic from an iPhone.

That's an impressive bump for day one (actually, half a day) and if you (unrealistically) extrapolated that rate, Chrome would have 100% of the browser market by year end! ;-)

I had to modify the Analog source code to account for the Chrome browser (gotta like open-source) but have have other popular programs (such as Google Analytics) been updated to identify this browser?

The A380 is a long haul aircraft and there isn't a lot to do up front with automated cockpits. So in the interests of "security", the pilots will probably "monitor" the cameras ... keeping a particularly close eye on attractive females. And how long until the first footage of the Mile High Club shows up on YouTube?

One of my all-time favorite "caught in the act" via webcam was Duncan Grisby using the opensource motion program to catch a burgler in his flat - technical details of his setup.

Speaking of cams, here is a nifty BirdCam of House Finches - look for baby chicks.

Your situation kinda sucks as it sounds like you are a diligent worker who wants to help the company. But as long as they are paying you, it's really their choice how they want to use your services. All you can do is when your co-workers ask for your help in passing the torch, mention that you are hand-cuffed by the lack of access and have them request it for you.

P.S. Some activities to pass the time would include Watching Grass Grow and/or Watching Paint Dry.

Wikipedia has more info on Black Holes in Networking ... and for grins, here is a Green Hole ;-)

There are a few things online. For instance, here's a video of an exciting football match.

... watching grass grow!

Wiki has a decent write up on NaBH4 for those interested and mentions the applicability to Fuel Cells.

This is still in the research/development phase as per the article "Dr. Gervasio recognises that there are still many steps between his prototype and a competitively priced, off-the-shelf, battery-sized fuel cell. Nevertheless, he believes they could appear in power-hungry devices such as laptops, camcorders, and radios within five years." So until then, I'll be using CnH2n+2 to mow my lawn.

Entire report on one page.

Submitter did a nice summary. BTW, another table shows memory usage, and looks like Firefox Beta 2 comes in a bit heavier (compared to 1.5.04) at least for startup and an initial load of six tabs - unknown if the memory leaks that cause this to skyrocket when viewing dynamic sites (such as this) are fixed.

Also talks about the anti-phishing protection, but says they were unable to have this engage, so maybe it's not functional yet? That seems to be an area where more inovation could be done.

A law of nature seems to be that when you mow your lawn, the grass just grows back faster - I guess we'll find out here! ;-)

this one is up and running!

From the article: 'Perhaps the biggest threat to MySpace is the PR fallout over safety ... Those "challenges" are being met "head on", he says, including hiring extra staff to monitor the 4-5m photos uploaded every day'

That job has to be about as exciting as watching grass grow but let assume you can sustain a review rate of one picture/second. In an 8 hour day, this is just under 30,000 pictures a day per employee. And to handle the 4-5 million/day, you'd therefore need about 200 employees (counting vacation and holidays) doing nothing but looking at MySpace pictures - yikes!

This was right up there with watching grass grow ...

Have a webcam watching your front lawn so you can catch 'em on video. A related classic is the Duncan Grisby saga where a thief broke into his flat and stole Duncan's computers and webcam ... but not before it FTP'ed several nice mug shots of the burgler elsewhere.

SpaceFlightNow has the play-by-play - more exciting than watching grass grow ;-)

About as pointless as watching grass grow ...

Ironically, a few years ago, I put up some satellite photos of my house in Colorado ... and the Virtual Earth has the same ones clearly showing the drought of 2002 with a bunch of brown grass - not realistic to expect real-time imagery, but I'm surprised not a more recent pass.

So for instance, based on rainfall patterns, you can predict where grass will grow ;-)

GIS = Geographic Information Systems ... here's a decent writeup from Wikipedia ... basically allows you to analyze data in terms of location and draw inferences from it. So for instance, based on rainfall patterns, you can predict where grass will grow ;-)

Watching-Grass-Grow.Com

Watch Grass Grow

For reasons unknown (but this is /.), someone modded you "Offtopic" Andrevan - I don't have any mod points to push it back up to +5, but it was a nice writeup - a lot more interesting than say, watching grass grow - and a good historical roadmap of what Google was up too - thanx for posting to K5 and congrats on showing up on Slashdot also.

So while it's "earthlike", I guess they won't be growing grass anytime soon there ...