I'm glad someone finally took the initiative and thought of themselves for a change. Someone had to do it first, and I bet we're all going to be sorry it wasn't us.
Oh and oldspewey, I think you're thinking of "phenotype" vs. "genotype". Sadly, if you choose a blue-eyed baby, it won't have a higher chance of getting HIV. Genes can be completely separated, The genome isn't as a tangled mess as you make it out to be.
Slumdog Millionaire won the Oscar for Sound Mixing. - source, TFA:
But it was "Slumdog Millionaire" that carried the evening. At one point, Resul Pookutty, who won for sound mixing, seemed overwhelmed as he accepted his Oscar.
I personally enjoy the Oscars and obviously I read Slashdot. Sure there are a lot of clueless actors and actresses out there, but I truly believe some of the work they do is incredible and no one else in the world can come close to the product they create.So I completely agree that the Oscars should be as noteworthy as they are.
Now I found Barbra Walters and the Red Carpet bit pretty irritating, but at least they stopped cutting people off (for the first 2 hours I voluntarily watched).
I personally am embarrassed at the response this article received on Slashdot. I'd like to see the response if the new Star Trek gets an Oscar. "Oh man now they're sweet!"
Based on the average of 50,500 tweets per day, that's 4,242,000 tweets lost due to 84 hours of downtime / year. If the downtime was at 8 or 9am, then that would only be roughly 3,024,000 tweets lost, or almost 5,460,000 tweets lost at 3pm...
She talked to O'Reilly Radar recently about the benefits and potential dangers of easy biological design, why students should be hacking wetware, and what's involved in setting up your own lab to slice genes.
If I'm not mistaken, this is exactly what the article is getting at, how to make it cost less and be easier.
At least they don't ignore what others are saying though, in that there are benefits and dangers.
Randall Sayre, of the Nevada Gaming Commission says "Use of this type of program or possession of a device with this type of program on it (with the intent to use it), in a licensed gaming establishment, is a violation of NRS 465.075."
So is it illegal to have it? Or just have the intent to use it? Five years for possession of illegal apps!
Do you really think that users really care so much about their content to for-go the excellent social networking facebook provides?
My bet is everyone will say "it won't happen to me" until it starts happening to them.
On a similar note, I think it's wrong that Apple is making so much advertising off of iPhone apps. If a particular app in a commercial sells the iPhone, shouldn't they get some of the profits? And have you seen the walls of an Apple Store?
I like how the article says that bit-torrent will melt down if a torrent site goes down. Well duh? Wouldn't that be the goal of shutting the site down? What kind of a warning is that.
If anything it's just research that backs the copyright holders desire to shut it down.
The labels of democrat and republican are horribly uninformative; and people, including yourself, should stop labeling them so. Just because they label themselves one way or another doesn't make them non-politician. That's the label we should all agree on:). Lobbied Politician.
If this works, it'll hopefully create an industry standard. Education and Research often lead technological standards, like the Internet, and this sounds like exactly what the entire 'net needs.
I'm sure, as a pilot in China assumes, that it's based on a common language of the testing area. It sounds more like a mini-interview, so you know the person isn't just memorizing / copying answers, a common form of "cheating".
As a Teaching Assistant at Georgia Tech, we often did one-on-one sessions with students, including 40% of their grade based on how well they answered questions instead of doing the assignment (which was often easily copied).
Sure it was more work, a bit subjective, but it was better on the whole. Even for 50% of the students, who didn't speak english as their native tongue.
Although my first official schooling of computers was C++ and the hanoi towers paradigm. Recursion brought out some beauty concepts. It wasn't until several years later that I learned about OS and language designs.
The basics of all computing, why we started building circuits, was mathematics. Algorithms was originally "dirty math" but now contains some of the most elegant mathematical proofs ever, due to the expansion of computing.
An era ago computing majors were unheard of, they were applied mathematics majors.
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That's proof that it can't always work. Not that it never works.
As soon as it's cheap enough to publish millions of books on, wallpaper my walls, and stretch over every orifice of my body, let me know.
I'm glad someone finally took the initiative and thought of themselves for a change. Someone had to do it first, and I bet we're all going to be sorry it wasn't us.
Oh and oldspewey, I think you're thinking of "phenotype" vs. "genotype". Sadly, if you choose a blue-eyed baby, it won't have a higher chance of getting HIV. Genes can be completely separated, The genome isn't as a tangled mess as you make it out to be.
But it was "Slumdog Millionaire" that carried the evening. At one point, Resul Pookutty, who won for sound mixing, seemed overwhelmed as he accepted his Oscar.
I personally enjoy the Oscars and obviously I read Slashdot. Sure there are a lot of clueless actors and actresses out there, but I truly believe some of the work they do is incredible and no one else in the world can come close to the product they create.So I completely agree that the Oscars should be as noteworthy as they are.
Now I found Barbra Walters and the Red Carpet bit pretty irritating, but at least they stopped cutting people off (for the first 2 hours I voluntarily watched).
I personally am embarrassed at the response this article received on Slashdot. I'd like to see the response if the new Star Trek gets an Oscar. "Oh man now they're sweet!"
I'm glad you added the fact that you were being serious, so instead of modding you up for Funny, I can mod you down for troll.
Based on the average of 50,500 tweets per day, that's 4,242,000 tweets lost due to 84 hours of downtime / year. If the downtime was at 8 or 9am, then that would only be roughly 3,024,000 tweets lost, or almost 5,460,000 tweets lost at 3pm...
She talked to O'Reilly Radar recently about the benefits and potential dangers of easy biological design, why students should be hacking wetware, and what's involved in setting up your own lab to slice genes.
If I'm not mistaken, this is exactly what the article is getting at, how to make it cost less and be easier.
At least they don't ignore what others are saying though, in that there are benefits and dangers.
Randall Sayre, of the Nevada Gaming Commission says "Use of this type of program or possession of a device with this type of program on it (with the intent to use it), in a licensed gaming establishment, is a violation of NRS 465.075."
So is it illegal to have it? Or just have the intent to use it? Five years for possession of illegal apps!
While an excellent book, the first modern thing that came to my mind was Death Race, the recent motion picture.
Do you really think that users really care so much about their content to for-go the excellent social networking facebook provides?
My bet is everyone will say "it won't happen to me" until it starts happening to them.
On a similar note, I think it's wrong that Apple is making so much advertising off of iPhone apps. If a particular app in a commercial sells the iPhone, shouldn't they get some of the profits? And have you seen the walls of an Apple Store?
Sorry, just thought I saw a connection here...
I like how the article says that bit-torrent will melt down if a torrent site goes down. Well duh? Wouldn't that be the goal of shutting the site down? What kind of a warning is that.
If anything it's just research that backs the copyright holders desire to shut it down.
The labels of democrat and republican are horribly uninformative; and people, including yourself, should stop labeling them so. Just because they label themselves one way or another doesn't make them non-politician. That's the label we should all agree on :). Lobbied Politician.
What about free wireless provided by AT&T at all of their "hot-spot" corporations including Starbucks. I wouldn't consider that scarce in metro areas.
Hell, sign up a contract with McDonalds or Wal-Mart and even rural America can chat.
As with all spam/issues there will eventually be a solution/fix, and then another way to get around the solution, then another solution, and then...
Need I go on?
See: Red Queen Effect
Georgia Tech's Department of Architecture IMAGINE lab has been doing similar simulations for awhile.
If this works, it'll hopefully create an industry standard. Education and Research often lead technological standards, like the Internet, and this sounds like exactly what the entire 'net needs.
Agreed beyond a shadow of a doubt. What freaks me out is how the American people got him elected? When did we become so good?
I agree. I'm still trying to find copies of Tribes 1 to play. It's not in development or production anymore, so why should it cost money?
I'm sure, as a pilot in China assumes, that it's based on a common language of the testing area. It sounds more like a mini-interview, so you know the person isn't just memorizing / copying answers, a common form of "cheating".
As a Teaching Assistant at Georgia Tech, we often did one-on-one sessions with students, including 40% of their grade based on how well they answered questions instead of doing the assignment (which was often easily copied).
Sure it was more work, a bit subjective, but it was better on the whole. Even for 50% of the students, who didn't speak english as their native tongue.
So who are you going to pay when the little electricity stops coming through those cords? The way we're treating it now, it will.
On a side note, I don't think that I dislike people that use double negatives, like many recent submission-ers.
How many atoms would it require to construct silicon chips to simulate every atom on the earth? In the universe?
Although my first official schooling of computers was C++ and the hanoi towers paradigm. Recursion brought out some beauty concepts. It wasn't until several years later that I learned about OS and language designs.
The basics of all computing, why we started building circuits, was mathematics. Algorithms was originally "dirty math" but now contains some of the most elegant mathematical proofs ever, due to the expansion of computing.
An era ago computing majors were unheard of, they were applied mathematics majors.
Well if it's all going to meltdown soon anyways, what does it matter?