If you launch the Express Gate applications, which are comprised of a web browser and Skype at this time, the embedded Linux-based OS is launched from a ROM and seconds later it's available for use. We found the Express Gate technology easy to use and quite handy. Say, for example, you need to download a driver or BIOS file and the hard drive-based OS isn't functioning properly. With Express Gate you can now access the web and integrated peripherals even if the system's full blown OS has a problem.
This might me be quite handy when the shit hits the fan. I hope more manufacturers implement mini-OSes like this one.
Does it really matter if the clicks are faulty or not? I think the thread title should say "False Ad Clicks Cost Google ADVERTISERS 1 Billion Dollars A Year". Nobody can accuse Google for other users' uncalled for clicking.
The advertisers (the companies promoting their products/services) lose afterall.
At least the future of Neurology and Neurosurgery... Neuromodulatingdirectly the brain tissue with neural implants can in theory provide both electrical and chemical changes to the circuits in question, giving advantages in respect to strictly pharmaceutical or brain pacemaker approaches. Miniaturization and nanotechnology will provide even smaller implants, with less adverse effects to the host biological tissues.
However, there are experts in the field who believe that transcranial tinkering is even better...
Exactly. In my opinion, the only real reason they should have fined a guy using his own fuel is if he was polluting the environment more than if using standard fuel. And this only AFTER actually testing the home-brewed fuel in the lab and considering all its aspects.
If the fuel was at least as environmental friendly as the one in the market then they should actually give him a medal for entrepreneurship!
A data storage system based on live neurons doesn't necessarily mean you'll become the automaton of an evil 1984 society. Film-based sci-fi cyborg scenarios are way beyond reach for the time being. Using the term 'cyborg' sensu strictu at the moment implies a hybrid neuroelectronic system for health monitoring purposes.
Initial practical applications of the breakthrough are noted at the bottom of the article: These would be useful for monitoring biological systems like the brain and blood since, being human, they would respond to the same chemicals.
In theory yes, it could "brainwash"... for example if the neurochip finds impurities or toxins in the brain's liquor!
Actually SAYING to have a huge cock in a public forum, instead of HAVING it means a guy blessed with a great imagination. I wish you enjoyed numbers at least...:)
I think tagging works best in services such as Panoramio where you can actually make something of the photo you tag. Since Panoramio is by definition a "landscape photos" service, tagging public dominion images will never create any problem.
The only way out of personal tagging photo services is if companies like Flickr keep an e-mail address for those seeing their photos online and wanting them off. But they will have to prove they are the guys/gals on the photos. How will they do that? Sending other photos or ID?
Actually, Sun cooperating with Google to provide an alternative OS to compete with Microsoft wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Since Google has already expertise in using online-dynamic content (from Calendar to Spreadsheet among other...) to provide services to end-users, why not combine a platform-independent programming language like Java with Google's own widgets? Let's admit it, Linux will never beat Windows. But Google with the right partners has a fair chance...
Funny thing though. In this week's Nature there is this article where American scientists speculate on an alternative method to promote de novo follicle growth [in mice] via... grazing of the scalp.
I quote the scoop from the New Scientist's entry: Could a graze on the head help cure baldness? Biologists had thought that once mammals lose their hair follicles, they are gone forever. Now George Cotsarelis at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his colleagues have shown that adult mice can regenerate follicles when their skin is wounded.
The team cut out a square centimetre of skin from the backs of mice two weeks after their hair follicles had formed. After 14 to 19 days the wounds had closed and formed new. When the researchers added Wnt proteins - signalling molecules usually involved in embryonic development - the number of follicles doubled and the skin healed with less scarring. This suggests that wound healing may trigger an embryonic state in skin, says Cotsarelis. Surprisingly, the new follicles originate from stem cells that are not usually involved in creating hair follicles.
Cotsarelis hopes the findings could lead to new therapies for baldness. "The idea would be to disrupt the skin to trigger the embryonic pathways, and then come in with the Wnt proteins," he says.
Why is bad being a cyborg, anyway? Why is everyone scared of losing the so-called human nature? Do you lose it when you place a heart pacemaker if you have arrhythmias or a metal plate after a head trauma? Are we sure we will become less human because we would use technology [let's say] to monitor our physiological or other parameters or interface with other humans and machines around us?
This IS evolution fellows, not "natural" evolution, mind you, but still evolution.
Thus... assimilate or perish! (if being human means staying with recognized "design flaws" then it's ok for some of us to be called another species)
I couldn't find more comfort on your writings, mate. Same thing here. EU national living in another country, feeling more European than my native nationality.
And I don't give a shit about it. I'm in the MTV generation, have grown up with almost the same experiences with my fellow Europeans and I can understand them much more than my parents' generation did. YES, I'll probably register a.eu domain in the near future.
From 1998 to 2002, Fermilab conducted four engineering reviews of the magnets by experts from Fermilab, other US national laboratories and CERN. The reviews do not appear to have addressed these asymmetric loads. Tests at Fermilab were done on single magnets where such loads do not develop.
I get it, I get it! I presume these magnets are "export" versions as those faulty F16s Americans sell us Europeans now and then.:)
Indeed. And I think the latest results from "Neurotheology", the study of the human brain to find if believing to a supernatural being is something indeed hardwired, seem to give him right.
Indeed. Even if older versions can be found in some repositories, software older than 5 years is most probably useless for most mainstream websites of today.
Minimum hardware requirements I guess means a machine which can run the immediate precedent version of the current mainstream OS.... So now that Windows Vista are out, minimum requirements dictate a box which can run Windows XP.
I really can't understand why MS isn't creating a good Windows manual for its OS products. A neat, home-printable pdf e-book explaining their flagship product afterall.
Well said. But couldn't this eventually be "learned" as well? Thinking out of the box could be a special mode of problem-solving that uses statistically less probable approaches.
Hey, can I drop a line to the Google Maps service asking them to fat-pixel my house?
I have an epiphany toilet on the roof and I got to be sure I avoid awkward situations...
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If you launch the Express Gate applications, which are comprised of a web browser and Skype at this time, the embedded Linux-based OS is launched from a ROM and seconds later it's available for use. We found the Express Gate technology easy to use and quite handy. Say, for example, you need to download a driver or BIOS file and the hard drive-based OS isn't functioning properly. With Express Gate you can now access the web and integrated peripherals even if the system's full blown OS has a problem.
This might me be quite handy when the shit hits the fan. I hope more manufacturers implement mini-OSes like this one.
Wouldn't it make more sense to operate the Maglev over a distance which would allow it to save a significant amount of time? i.e. Actually inter city?
That's exactly what the Chinese are doing right now: expanding the Shanghai line to a distant town (Hangzhou).
Does it really matter if the clicks are faulty or not? I think the thread title should say "False Ad Clicks Cost Google ADVERTISERS 1 Billion Dollars A Year". Nobody can accuse Google for other users' uncalled for clicking.
The advertisers (the companies promoting their products/services) lose afterall.
I'm much more interested in a Internet Explorer 7 versus Firefox download hits comparison. I want to know the latest trend.
Indeed there's still work to be done. Also, what about sign language?! Do we lock in certain aspects of the hands or the whole body-face gestures?!
Oh God... the invasion HAS started! O_o
At least the future of Neurology and Neurosurgery... Neuromodulating directly the brain tissue with neural implants can in theory provide both electrical and chemical changes to the circuits in question, giving advantages in respect to strictly pharmaceutical or brain pacemaker approaches. Miniaturization and nanotechnology will provide even smaller implants, with less adverse effects to the host biological tissues.
However, there are experts in the field who believe that transcranial tinkering is even better...
Exactly. In my opinion, the only real reason they should have fined a guy using his own fuel is if he was polluting the environment more than if using standard fuel. And this only AFTER actually testing the home-brewed fuel in the lab and considering all its aspects.
If the fuel was at least as environmental friendly as the one in the market then they should actually give him a medal for entrepreneurship!
Depends on what you mean by "brainwashing".
A data storage system based on live neurons doesn't necessarily mean you'll become the automaton of an evil 1984 society. Film-based sci-fi cyborg scenarios are way beyond reach for the time being. Using the term 'cyborg' sensu strictu at the moment implies a hybrid neuroelectronic system for health monitoring purposes.
Initial practical applications of the breakthrough are noted at the bottom of the article: These would be useful for monitoring biological systems like the brain and blood since, being human, they would respond to the same chemicals.
In theory yes, it could "brainwash"... for example if the neurochip finds impurities or toxins in the brain's liquor!
Actually SAYING to have a huge cock in a public forum, instead of HAVING it means a guy blessed with a great imagination. I wish you enjoyed numbers at least... :)
I think tagging works best in services such as Panoramio where you can actually make something of the photo you tag. Since Panoramio is by definition a "landscape photos" service, tagging public dominion images will never create any problem.
The only way out of personal tagging photo services is if companies like Flickr keep an e-mail address for those seeing their photos online and wanting them off. But they will have to prove they are the guys/gals on the photos. How will they do that? Sending other photos or ID?
A mess...
Actually, Sun cooperating with Google to provide an alternative OS to compete with Microsoft wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Since Google has already expertise in using online-dynamic content (from Calendar to Spreadsheet among other...) to provide services to end-users, why not combine a platform-independent programming language like Java with Google's own widgets? Let's admit it, Linux will never beat Windows. But Google with the right partners has a fair chance...
Funny thing though. In this week's Nature there is this article where American scientists speculate on an alternative method to promote de novo follicle growth [in mice] via... grazing of the scalp.
I quote the scoop from the New Scientist's entry:
Could a graze on the head help cure baldness? Biologists had thought that once mammals lose their hair follicles, they are gone forever. Now George Cotsarelis at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his colleagues have shown that adult mice can regenerate follicles when their skin is wounded.
The team cut out a square centimetre of skin from the backs of mice two weeks after their hair follicles had formed. After 14 to 19 days the wounds had closed and formed new. When the researchers added Wnt proteins - signalling molecules usually involved in embryonic development - the number of follicles doubled and the skin healed with less scarring. This suggests that wound healing may trigger an embryonic state in skin, says Cotsarelis. Surprisingly, the new follicles originate from stem cells that are not usually involved in creating hair follicles.
Cotsarelis hopes the findings could lead to new therapies for baldness. "The idea would be to disrupt the skin to trigger the embryonic pathways, and then come in with the Wnt proteins," he says.
Why is bad being a cyborg, anyway? Why is everyone scared of losing the so-called human nature? Do you lose it when you place a heart pacemaker if you have arrhythmias or a metal plate after a head trauma? Are we sure we will become less human because we would use technology [let's say] to monitor our physiological or other parameters or interface with other humans and machines around us?
This IS evolution fellows, not "natural" evolution, mind you, but still evolution.
Thus... assimilate or perish!
(if being human means staying with recognized "design flaws" then it's ok for some of us to be called another species)
I couldn't find more comfort on your writings, mate. Same thing here. EU national living in another country, feeling more European than my native nationality.
.eu domain in the near future.
And I don't give a shit about it. I'm in the MTV generation, have grown up with almost the same experiences with my fellow Europeans and I can understand them much more than my parents' generation did. YES, I'll probably register a
I get it, I get it! I presume these magnets are "export" versions as those faulty F16s Americans sell us Europeans now and then.
I like this modular design for CPUs. A main processor paired with the co-processor handy for the task. Hey, where can I get one of those fancy AIPUs?!
Indeed. And I think the latest results from "Neurotheology", the study of the human brain to find if believing to a supernatural being is something indeed hardwired, seem to give him right.
Indeed. Even if older versions can be found in some repositories, software older than 5 years is most probably useless for most mainstream websites of today.
Minimum hardware requirements I guess means a machine which can run the immediate precedent version of the current mainstream OS.... So now that Windows Vista are out, minimum requirements dictate a box which can run Windows XP.
Forgot to say it should be gratis and placed online! You're right. ;)
I really can't understand why MS isn't creating a good Windows manual for its OS products. A neat, home-printable pdf e-book explaining their flagship product afterall.
Well said. But couldn't this eventually be "learned" as well? Thinking out of the box could be a special mode of problem-solving that uses statistically less probable approaches.
HDDs that shut-down while falling to the ground, remotes that can be used to handle a sword, play tennis, and boxe your opponent to KO... what else?!
Hehehe... you uncovered me! :D
Now I'll have to blur my house AND my account AND Sacred Heart Hospital...
Hey, can I drop a line to the Google Maps service asking them to fat-pixel my house? I have an epiphany toilet on the roof and I got to be sure I avoid awkward situations...