But these kid where using ball cannons they fashioned from information the got from Instructables. This enabled them to shoot their balls at velocities 100's of feet per second at other students and teachers. These were scary devices that may have seriously smashed the balls of innocent bystanders.
ME: Siri do you give Apple and advantage. SIRI: I cannot answer that question. ME: Siri do you give iPhone advantages over Android. SIRI: Adenoids are glands in the throat. ME: Siri I said Android not Adenoids. SIRI: Androids do not hava Adenoids because they are not human. ME: I am feeling hostile because you keep misunderstanding my questions. SIRI: There are several hostels in San Francisco I will bring up a map. ME: Never Mind Siri: Never Mind is not a Hostel but a bar on third street.
Heard a technology interview on NPR this morning. It was very funny. They kept asking Siri questions it could not answer. Great entertainment. Actually saw the technology a couple of years ago at the Semantic Web in San Jose. It was very funny then too. The problem I have and have always had with this type of thing (hand writing rec, voice rec etc) is that when it gets it right you are amazed when it gets it wrong you are mad. If I type character in my computer by keyboard and the wrong thing shows up on the screen it is my fault. When the computer recognizes the wrong characters it is the machines fault. We expect better behavior from our machines than we do from ourselves.
Sounds like you are aware of the educational issues and can get the help you need. The problem will be with socialization. Guess what, that is a valuable skill also. No matter how smart one is, it is imposible to do everything oneself. Learning to work as a team, learn from as well as mentor others, being empathetic and having fun are all important skills. Although I would never claim to be a prodigy it took me awhile to learn that being smart and good at something is just not enough. I also do not think that academic success has to come at the expense of social success or vice versa. If you want your prodigy to be able to achieve his/her potential being comfortable with social skills is just as important.
If I had it to do all over again I would have consistently switched jobs every 3-5 years. For the following reasons: It builds your network of coworkers providing you even more opportunities in the future. Keeps stagnation from setting into your career. Keeps you from doing what you are doing now; over valuing yourself. If you are indeed that valuable to the company they will compensate you but it is always dicey promoting within.
Why would anyone care? Remnants of Microsoft Hegemony remain be their relevance is decreasing. I keep a version of Windows around on the off change that it will come in handy for the MS diehards but I find that is increasingly unnecessary. It is similar to AOL once people realize there are viable alternatives and enough people adopt standards having multiple devices and OS's in the work place is less of a challenge. The old ways die slowly (as they should) since there is no real reason for the adoption of new software when the old works well enough.
Scientist should stop answering "CLIMATE CRACKPOTS" with the indignant "Why are you question the science?" reply. Simply reply with the facts please. Science is all about questioning the data. THAT IS WHY IT IS DIFFERENT THAN RELIGION.
Interesting, was the credit downgrade leaked? Market crash just before the announcement. Can you say Coincidence? I think not. Besides these are the same guys that kept AAA on the bank debt until it was apparent to just about everybody else in the world that mortgage debt was in trouble. The rating system are useless. They down grade once everyone else realizes the problem and is trying to fix it.
Wall Street the place were anybody can make money except investors.
There is an open free market for Scientific publishing called PLoS http://www.plos.org./
PDF's suck on eReaders mainly due to the fact the text does not reflow for different size readers. The reason eReaders don't support ePub as well as they should is because most eReaders are not sold for profit but to hook you into the distributor's DRM'd products ala Amazon. It is not their priority.
Converts just suck. Enough said.
First semantic markup refers to enhancing the text by providing information about its meaning. HTML (CSS) and LaTEX specify the layout of the text regardless of its meaning.
Secondly the open source packages are a little behind the curve regarding ePub and support for MathML in browsers. Having a coherent tool that publishes to PDF, HTML , ePub and supports equations well would be a great boon to scientific and technical publishing. BTW it also needs to be scriptable.
That said if people know of something I don't please fess up I do scientific publishing and you would save me considerable time if solutions already exist.
Innumeracy at it's best. The number of electronic communications is increasing therefore so are the wiretaps. The real question is how are the total number of wiretaps as a percentage of population increasing.
Python or JavaScript or whatever maybe be currently in vogue but the act of programming transcends languages. Just pick one and do it. Python can be used with or without the "back story" depending on what you want to do. Once you are in the GUI world it is pretty much all back story.
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Michael Dell is Microsoft's Poodle. When daddy tightens the leash non-microsoft products got to go.
After Sculley left Apple he did some consulting for them. Didn't they listen to him or....... maybe they did:)
Most /. are developers not IT.
But these kid where using ball cannons they fashioned from information the got from Instructables. This enabled them to shoot their balls at velocities 100's of feet per second at other students and teachers. These were scary devices that may have seriously smashed the balls of innocent bystanders.
They use GPS and the network. How bout 4 Square... The list is long.
You'd think that after the first 5 years of static share price they would no longer be shareholders. Only the dumb money is left.
Ask anyone that publishes and you will find that it rarely takes just weeks to get a paper published. 4-5 months if you are lucky.
ME: Siri do you give Apple and advantage. SIRI: I cannot answer that question. ME: Siri do you give iPhone advantages over Android. SIRI: Adenoids are glands in the throat. ME: Siri I said Android not Adenoids. SIRI: Androids do not hava Adenoids because they are not human. ME: I am feeling hostile because you keep misunderstanding my questions. SIRI: There are several hostels in San Francisco I will bring up a map. ME: Never Mind Siri: Never Mind is not a Hostel but a bar on third street.
means the answer is yes. F0rk it.
Heard a technology interview on NPR this morning. It was very funny. They kept asking Siri questions it could not answer. Great entertainment. Actually saw the technology a couple of years ago at the Semantic Web in San Jose. It was very funny then too. The problem I have and have always had with this type of thing (hand writing rec, voice rec etc) is that when it gets it right you are amazed when it gets it wrong you are mad. If I type character in my computer by keyboard and the wrong thing shows up on the screen it is my fault. When the computer recognizes the wrong characters it is the machines fault. We expect better behavior from our machines than we do from ourselves.
Sounds like you are aware of the educational issues and can get the help you need. The problem will be with socialization. Guess what, that is a valuable skill also. No matter how smart one is, it is imposible to do everything oneself. Learning to work as a team, learn from as well as mentor others, being empathetic and having fun are all important skills. Although I would never claim to be a prodigy it took me awhile to learn that being smart and good at something is just not enough. I also do not think that academic success has to come at the expense of social success or vice versa. If you want your prodigy to be able to achieve his/her potential being comfortable with social skills is just as important.
If I had it to do all over again I would have consistently switched jobs every 3-5 years. For the following reasons: It builds your network of coworkers providing you even more opportunities in the future. Keeps stagnation from setting into your career. Keeps you from doing what you are doing now; over valuing yourself. If you are indeed that valuable to the company they will compensate you but it is always dicey promoting within.
Why would anyone care? Remnants of Microsoft Hegemony remain be their relevance is decreasing. I keep a version of Windows around on the off change that it will come in handy for the MS diehards but I find that is increasingly unnecessary. It is similar to AOL once people realize there are viable alternatives and enough people adopt standards having multiple devices and OS's in the work place is less of a challenge. The old ways die slowly (as they should) since there is no real reason for the adoption of new software when the old works well enough.
Scientist should stop answering "CLIMATE CRACKPOTS" with the indignant "Why are you question the science?" reply. Simply reply with the facts please. Science is all about questioning the data. THAT IS WHY IT IS DIFFERENT THAN RELIGION.
Wall Street the place were anybody can make money except investors.
There is an open free market for Scientific publishing called PLoS http://www.plos.org./ PDF's suck on eReaders mainly due to the fact the text does not reflow for different size readers. The reason eReaders don't support ePub as well as they should is because most eReaders are not sold for profit but to hook you into the distributor's DRM'd products ala Amazon. It is not their priority. Converts just suck. Enough said.
First semantic markup refers to enhancing the text by providing information about its meaning. HTML (CSS) and LaTEX specify the layout of the text regardless of its meaning. Secondly the open source packages are a little behind the curve regarding ePub and support for MathML in browsers. Having a coherent tool that publishes to PDF, HTML , ePub and supports equations well would be a great boon to scientific and technical publishing. BTW it also needs to be scriptable. That said if people know of something I don't please fess up I do scientific publishing and you would save me considerable time if solutions already exist.
Will there be an actually clock completed (other than prototypes) before the 10,000 years are up?
Innumeracy at it's best. The number of electronic communications is increasing therefore so are the wiretaps. The real question is how are the total number of wiretaps as a percentage of population increasing.
+1
Python or JavaScript or whatever maybe be currently in vogue but the act of programming transcends languages. Just pick one and do it. Python can be used with or without the "back story" depending on what you want to do. Once you are in the GUI world it is pretty much all back story.
Sun/Oracle gives java away for free. Even if Google has infringed a patent, how has that resulted in any loss of money to Oracle?
CEO's get the big bucks because they avoid those problems. He just admitted he wasn't worth his what his compensation.
I'd wait until they are worth the same as Skype:)
I can see the headlines now "M$ pays $4 million in bug bounties" compared to FireFox and Chrome. This would be every marketers nightmare.