Good advice, but did you read TFA? He's looking for a way to stop accidental exposure, he wants her looking at porn *on her own terms*, which is quite a bit different from not wanting her to look at porn at all.
Right-brain is the creative bit and left-brain is the analytical bit IIRC, though I don't think that the theory is as accepted by neurologists today as it was in the 70's and 80's...
That.... is actually pretty much my point. At least to me the summary seemed to be saying that the PS3 is difficult to develop for because Sony intentionally decided to make it so. They did not, it is a consequence of other design decisions that they made. It's not like they got together and said "Let's make the hardest console to develop for that we can!"
I don't know if Sony intentionally obfuscated their API as the summary claims, but rather just didn't care about ease of development. Sounds to me like they're saying that developing for a cell architecture is necessarily hard, and they didn't want to compromise on the architecture because (as Sony has previously stated) the PS3 is supposed to last ten years instead of the typical 4-5. I guess the cell is supposed to be more longevous?
Of course, the end result, that developers are preferring the Xbox and Wii, is the same whether malice or just misguided...
Does that same theory require Sony to add TTS to *their* e-book reader just so that blind people can use it? How about just requiring publishers to provide a CD or two with any book just in case? An allowance is not the same as a requirement, and the Americans with Disabilities Act does not, I believe, require electronic device manufacturers to take this into consideration.
Completely agree with this one. It's one of the most accessible introductions to metamathematics that I've seen, and goes into a host of very interesting topics, mathematical and otherwise.
Is that HIV mutates *very* rapidly. This is why patients on HIV drugs (AZT and the like) need to constantly change treatments and sometimes take medication vacations - otherwise they get a drug-resistant strain.
That's not to make light of this discovery. It will definitely improve the quality of life for a few patients for a while, and that is a very good thing. Is it a cure for AIDS? Only time will tell.
If that is your point of view, then the article is at least a good description of convergent evolution, two different paradigms and philosophies producing the same UI concept. That's what I got out of it at least, and I might go so far as to call bad summary...
Your problem is in assuming that schools have competent IT staffs. I've worked at an elementary school before, and let me tell you that the IT person there, while competent, was the only IT person there and was highly overworked. He just didn't have time to reliably maintain servers like an email server. I'm getting my masters at a relatively small department and the only department IT person can't even maintain a CVS server, so we need to use off-site version management.
There are two things going on here. First, the schools place more emphasis on directly funding education than on making the behind-the-scenes stuff run smoothly - it just isn't viewed as being as important. The second thing is that smaller schools or departments don't necessarily have the resources to hire the best of the best even if they realized that a good IT professional can do a lot to serve the educational side.
I've tried out Nepomuk and, while I have to say that it's promising, it's got miles to go before it's even near ready. The main problem is application support. Sure, you can rate and tag and describe your files in the Dolphin file browser. So what? You can do the same in Vista. This doesn't mean anything if applications don't hook into this and make use of it. Of the apps I've used, Gwenview (a photo viewer) has Nepomuk partially implemented but it's buggy and you need to compile it yourself with it explicitly enabled (this will apparently change in KDE 4.2). Digikam, which allows you to rate, tag, and describe photos already, says that they have no plans of integrating with Nepomuk anytime soon. Amarok 2 has work towards a Nepomuk collection, but the devs say that this will always run along side the main, MySql-based collection and it's nowhere near ready yet. My email is in the cloud so I can't even begin to talk about KDE-PIM's support or lack thereof.
The other problem at the moment is a lack of ability to query your semantic data. Can I get anything to show all photos with my wife in them that I've rated four or above? Not at the moment. Hopefully this is coming in KDE 4.2, but as it stands at the moment it makes Nepomuk a case of write-only memory.
So, maybe something to get excited about in the future, but not quite yet.
Probably more a combination of not remembering the domain extension ("was that wikipedia.com or wikipedia.org?"), combined with getting an annoying squatter 90% of the time if you get it wrong.
And yes, I'm aware that in the above example both of them get you to where you need to go
Regarding your last idea, I've interned in the medical device industry so I might have some perspectives... basically, if something like this couldn't power a cell phone it certainly couldn't power sustained operation of a pacemaker! Charge a battery for a defibrillator maybe, but even then you're taking huge risks with rechargable batteries with regard to memory. Basically, even if you were able to use this to increase battery life, you would still decrease *predictability* of the battery life, which is a huge no-no in that industry (doctors need to know pretty well when the thing needs to come out!)
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Good advice, but did you read TFA? He's looking for a way to stop accidental exposure, he wants her looking at porn *on her own terms*, which is quite a bit different from not wanting her to look at porn at all.
Gotta get it changed to Yfy.
Slashdot? Fact checking? You must be new here.
Right-brain is the creative bit and left-brain is the analytical bit IIRC, though I don't think that the theory is as accepted by neurologists today as it was in the 70's and 80's...
Great news! Now, does Crossover run on Windows XP as well?
"new insights about the atmosphere of the dwarf planet Pluto"
Aww, come on, you guys are just rubbing it in now!
That.... is actually pretty much my point. At least to me the summary seemed to be saying that the PS3 is difficult to develop for because Sony intentionally decided to make it so. They did not, it is a consequence of other design decisions that they made. It's not like they got together and said "Let's make the hardest console to develop for that we can!"
I don't know if Sony intentionally obfuscated their API as the summary claims, but rather just didn't care about ease of development. Sounds to me like they're saying that developing for a cell architecture is necessarily hard, and they didn't want to compromise on the architecture because (as Sony has previously stated) the PS3 is supposed to last ten years instead of the typical 4-5. I guess the cell is supposed to be more longevous?
Of course, the end result, that developers are preferring the Xbox and Wii, is the same whether malice or just misguided...
Does that same theory require Sony to add TTS to *their* e-book reader just so that blind people can use it? How about just requiring publishers to provide a CD or two with any book just in case? An allowance is not the same as a requirement, and the Americans with Disabilities Act does not, I believe, require electronic device manufacturers to take this into consideration.
Not sure if you're still at work but GoldenEye is #10.
Completely agree with this one. It's one of the most accessible introductions to metamathematics that I've seen, and goes into a host of very interesting topics, mathematical and otherwise.
Is that HIV mutates *very* rapidly. This is why patients on HIV drugs (AZT and the like) need to constantly change treatments and sometimes take medication vacations - otherwise they get a drug-resistant strain.
That's not to make light of this discovery. It will definitely improve the quality of life for a few patients for a while, and that is a very good thing. Is it a cure for AIDS? Only time will tell.
If that is your point of view, then the article is at least a good description of convergent evolution, two different paradigms and philosophies producing the same UI concept. That's what I got out of it at least, and I might go so far as to call bad summary...
Your problem is in assuming that schools have competent IT staffs. I've worked at an elementary school before, and let me tell you that the IT person there, while competent, was the only IT person there and was highly overworked. He just didn't have time to reliably maintain servers like an email server. I'm getting my masters at a relatively small department and the only department IT person can't even maintain a CVS server, so we need to use off-site version management.
There are two things going on here. First, the schools place more emphasis on directly funding education than on making the behind-the-scenes stuff run smoothly - it just isn't viewed as being as important. The second thing is that smaller schools or departments don't necessarily have the resources to hire the best of the best even if they realized that a good IT professional can do a lot to serve the educational side.
So yes, I'm in the "gmail" camp on this one.
Yes, but have you tried one on Linux?
It describes the ability to add metadata to web content (tags, etc), and you haven't heard of it because web 2.0 is the more popular term. ;)
I've tried out Nepomuk and, while I have to say that it's promising, it's got miles to go before it's even near ready. The main problem is application support. Sure, you can rate and tag and describe your files in the Dolphin file browser. So what? You can do the same in Vista. This doesn't mean anything if applications don't hook into this and make use of it. Of the apps I've used, Gwenview (a photo viewer) has Nepomuk partially implemented but it's buggy and you need to compile it yourself with it explicitly enabled (this will apparently change in KDE 4.2). Digikam, which allows you to rate, tag, and describe photos already, says that they have no plans of integrating with Nepomuk anytime soon. Amarok 2 has work towards a Nepomuk collection, but the devs say that this will always run along side the main, MySql-based collection and it's nowhere near ready yet. My email is in the cloud so I can't even begin to talk about KDE-PIM's support or lack thereof.
The other problem at the moment is a lack of ability to query your semantic data. Can I get anything to show all photos with my wife in them that I've rated four or above? Not at the moment. Hopefully this is coming in KDE 4.2, but as it stands at the moment it makes Nepomuk a case of write-only memory.
So, maybe something to get excited about in the future, but not quite yet.
Where's the ommminous hummmmm?
Mod parent up! Never would have found this, thanks.
Probably more a combination of not remembering the domain extension ("was that wikipedia.com or wikipedia.org?"), combined with getting an annoying squatter 90% of the time if you get it wrong. And yes, I'm aware that in the above example both of them get you to where you need to go
Anyone else feel compelled to count the parentheses on that? :)
(Props for getting it right!)
Regarding your last idea, I've interned in the medical device industry so I might have some perspectives... basically, if something like this couldn't power a cell phone it certainly couldn't power sustained operation of a pacemaker! Charge a battery for a defibrillator maybe, but even then you're taking huge risks with rechargable batteries with regard to memory. Basically, even if you were able to use this to increase battery life, you would still decrease *predictability* of the battery life, which is a huge no-no in that industry (doctors need to know pretty well when the thing needs to come out!)
(although Steam pissed me off once when my service was down)
So imagine how you'll feel in ten years when you want to play the game again for nostalgia's sake and Steam doesn't exist anymore...
Except for the print statement....
Best analogy I've seen since the Series of Tubes.