You don't use the Interpol for that stuff! The ex croatian PM, Sanader, escaped to Austria. He is wanted to swindling hundreds of millions of EUR from the croatian taxpayer. The croatian government did NOT get the Interpol involved, however - they just asked Austria to extradite him.
This is good money thrown into the trashbin! Or better yet, simply shredded! There will be no finished product, no technical or scientific achievement as a result of this money. And while I might show my ignorance about the details of the Ares program, why the heck are they even developing solid fuel rockets? This is supposedly a manned program, no?
What I find particularly worrysome, is that Interpol was involved in hunting down Assange (in the end he gave himself up voluntarily in the UK, but that notwithstanding...). Interpol can only be activated against individuals that are international criminals - their crimes spawn country boundaries. In that sense, manslaughter by itself is not a crime of Interpol's inference. Rape, even less. Rape where violence wasn't involved... well.. it's just ridiculous.
In this battle, MS and Apple are ad-hoc allies. Definitely a clash of Titans, but currently, the bigger warchest is stacked against Android. Don't forget Oracle's salvo against Java in Android.
Thanks for linking to that letter! (mod parent up - Informative) I am eager to see the follow-up to this letter, by "UK Cards Association". Probably none, though, as they were thoroughly shown their place by Prof. Anderson.
I hate to be a Negative Nancey, but if the current paper (with more formal language of course) were submitted for by a college graduate it would be rejected outright. The paper begins by asserting that the ability to problem solve is a sign of extreme intelligence, and further conflates pattern recognition and intelligence. The methods seem sound (control, rigorous data taking) but there is no statistical analysis of the data to show correlations, just a statement of "more did this therefore..." Further they make the claim that no one has ever done this particular experiment, yet a quick search yield over 50,000 articles pertaining to pattern recognition in bees. Yet nothing like this was ever conducted? Seriously? Given this prior research, it is their obligation to show how their research is unique and different, and further why it is important. I realize the paper states that the students couldn't do this since the language in the literature is far above their level, but it's just another reason showing this paper was published because of their age, not because of the work.
I think you are wrong. The paper you criticize is good or even excellent in every aspect of a scientific paper. I have reviewed a lot of scientific papers that were terrible even though written by adult researchers. They were far worse than this one, and much less innovative. Talking of which: your criticism of the paper's novelty is one of the typical tools of the grumpy referee - claiming that the method or finding presented is not novel, while comparing it to papers which do not, actually, treat the same subject at all (but are superficially similar). That will impress the editor, but not most researchers in the subject field. But unfortunately, impressing the editor is all it takes to have a good and valuable paper rejected from publication. Luckily, there are myriads of competing journals, and chances are that a good article can avoid the grumpy reviewer.
Kudos to the young researchers that published this work. I will avoid calling them kids on purpose, for in this context they are nothing less than my peers.
So you click on the slashdot article about a service you would not want on a device you don't have? Then leave a comments letting us know you don't care about it?
So? Actually, what business is that of yours? This place is designed for everyone to comment on any topic. Even if you moderate him/her to -1, you can't stop them to express a point of view. That's a good thing, not a bad one.
-"Hello, I'm looking for some invisible paint, to paint glass"
What an abysmal failure to communicate. Traceable back to a failure in the brain? Even a 7-year old would have been able to formulate the correct request - conductive, transparent paint (for glass). Instead, the bozo you asked to make the phonecall, asked for "invisible paint", and failed to mention the most salient feature of the paint, i.e. conductivity.
First of all, there are a huge variety of antioxidatns. It's really stupid to compare catechins, which are hydrosoluble, and curcuminoids, which are liposoluble. Both are antioxidants, but are not comparable.
Second: this study does not disprove the usefulness of antioxidants for preserving DNA integrity. OTOH, there are studies with evidence that anti-oxidants are effective in this sense.
If the almighty buck is the only thing that motivates all humans, then I can see how executives think. In that case, a deep education is unnecessary. You can get rich with an idea and lots of elbow grease. But not everything is achievable this way. Some things need learning. Like finding the structure of the DNA, develop self-assembled structures, optimize carbon nanotube growth, develop drugs that can cross the BBB, design multicore CPUs, discover the inner workings of mitochondria etc. I expect to be flamed for the following statement: some of the stuff that needs lots of education is also more valuable than Facebook... or money.
Not knowing anything about this game, as I am not a FPS gamer, I wonder if a port is really necessary? WINE seems to work quite well for a large number of Windows games.
High frequency trading should be a crime. It does not contribute one iota to the original goal of the stock market; however it sucks wealth from it - more precisely, from long-term shareholders. Goldman-Sachs and the like are nothing but leeches. (GS is a leech, in more ways than one, actually)
That's strange. Red Hat does all via Open Source and is about to pass the $1 Billion mark. Sounds like to me McNeally was a very poor CEO and it had nothing to do with the things they Open Sourced.
RedHat is succesful, compared to Sun, because RedHat does very little development on Linux, while Sun had to do much more development themselves, on Solaris. I am not saying that other Linux companies are doing RedHat's work (though some are). I am saying that Linux is generally much less developed than Solaris. Solaris' kernel is way better than linux's, Solaris has ZFS, DTrace and containers. The only way Linux could get such features was by porting them - again, much less development needed than if they had to be developed from scratch. So all RedHat has to really focus on, is patching the existing system and adding cosmetic improvements here and there. And mostly, focus on support. That's much cheaper than what Sun had to do, so obviously, Sun had much higher expenses and much lower margin. Their server business, while profitable, could not make up the difference.
What Sun should have done, perhaps, is stop any further development of Solaris after open-sourcing it, and only focus on patches. And basically, fire a large part of the workforce, to save money. Making their flagship OS very good didn't pay off, and as we can see with Windows and Linux, people will embrace good-enough every time.
EA's blabber is disgusting to hear for someone who appreciates gaming, be it solo, local or online. They clearly understand jack about a gamer's heart and what makes a game great, but they hope to get their business-goals accepted by trying to sound all visionary-like. Alas, nobody with experience in gaming will be able to take them seriously.
EA's true goals:
* Facilitate data-mining
* Make more DLC sales
* Updateable in-game advertising
* Restrict gameplay to EA-approved content
* Take control away from the gamers/modders and claim it for themselves
Add to that list:
* Save money hiring competent programmers who can do AI. Instead, hire cheap sweatshop labor that makes pretty graphics and eye-candy.
* Continue making and selling games with pathetic gameplay, hoping that human players will make up the shortcoming.
* More restrictive DRM control due to the need of being connected to game server.
...I'd turn to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, through all the crap it went through, gained the necessary credibility. Another purportedly whistleblower site might just be a honeypot. No thanks, not yet. WikiLeaks all the way.
I should also mention that given who his financial backers are, you might as well call him the senator for Israel, not the senator for Connecticut
Ah, of course a jab against Israel never harmed anyone. Let's add some actual facts: Israel is not suppressing any information, least of all WikiLeaks. And the leaked diplomatic cables have all been very favorable to Israel. If anything, it would be Turkey, Iran and Iran's arab neighbors who would want WikiLeaks squashed. Along with the US administration, of course.
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You don't use the Interpol for that stuff! The ex croatian PM, Sanader, escaped to Austria. He is wanted to swindling hundreds of millions of EUR from the croatian taxpayer. The croatian government did NOT get the Interpol involved, however - they just asked Austria to extradite him.
This is good money thrown into the trashbin! Or better yet, simply shredded! There will be no finished product, no technical or scientific achievement as a result of this money. And while I might show my ignorance about the details of the Ares program, why the heck are they even developing solid fuel rockets? This is supposedly a manned program, no?
What I find particularly worrysome, is that Interpol was involved in hunting down Assange (in the end he gave himself up voluntarily in the UK, but that notwithstanding...). Interpol can only be activated against individuals that are international criminals - their crimes spawn country boundaries. In that sense, manslaughter by itself is not a crime of Interpol's inference. Rape, even less. Rape where violence wasn't involved... well.. it's just ridiculous.
I don't see what made you jump to this conclusion.
Maybe it's my flu, but your ignorance is slightly irritating. Anyhow, here is your opportunity to educate yourself. And educate yourself some more
More details and a good analysis of Apple's strategy against Android.
No need to thank me, but if you do, you're welcome. Always pleased to reduce ignorance.
In this battle, MS and Apple are ad-hoc allies. Definitely a clash of Titans, but currently, the bigger warchest is stacked against Android. Don't forget Oracle's salvo against Java in Android.
Thanks for linking to that letter! (mod parent up - Informative) I am eager to see the follow-up to this letter, by "UK Cards Association". Probably none, though, as they were thoroughly shown their place by Prof. Anderson.
They just got used to be douchebags and unpunished. Until the guillottine starts chopping some heads again, it won't get any better.
Yes, I'm bitter and a bit hopeless.
I hate to be a Negative Nancey, but if the current paper (with more formal language of course) were submitted for by a college graduate it would be rejected outright. The paper begins by asserting that the ability to problem solve is a sign of extreme intelligence, and further conflates pattern recognition and intelligence. The methods seem sound (control, rigorous data taking) but there is no statistical analysis of the data to show correlations, just a statement of "more did this therefore..." Further they make the claim that no one has ever done this particular experiment, yet a quick search yield over 50,000 articles pertaining to pattern recognition in bees. Yet nothing like this was ever conducted? Seriously? Given this prior research, it is their obligation to show how their research is unique and different, and further why it is important. I realize the paper states that the students couldn't do this since the language in the literature is far above their level, but it's just another reason showing this paper was published because of their age, not because of the work.
I think you are wrong. The paper you criticize is good or even excellent in every aspect of a scientific paper. I have reviewed a lot of scientific papers that were terrible even though written by adult researchers. They were far worse than this one, and much less innovative. Talking of which: your criticism of the paper's novelty is one of the typical tools of the grumpy referee - claiming that the method or finding presented is not novel, while comparing it to papers which do not, actually, treat the same subject at all (but are superficially similar). That will impress the editor, but not most researchers in the subject field. But unfortunately, impressing the editor is all it takes to have a good and valuable paper rejected from publication. Luckily, there are myriads of competing journals, and chances are that a good article can avoid the grumpy reviewer.
Kudos to the young researchers that published this work. I will avoid calling them kids on purpose, for in this context they are nothing less than my peers.
The above post is misleading: the procedure presented does NOT restore the original behavior of the address bar.
Is "transparent paint" called "invisible paint" in the school for retards? I didn't know.
So you click on the slashdot article about a service you would not want on a device you don't have? Then leave a comments letting us know you don't care about it?
So? Actually, what business is that of yours? This place is designed for everyone to comment on any topic. Even if you moderate him/her to -1, you can't stop them to express a point of view. That's a good thing, not a bad one.
-"Hello, I'm looking for some invisible paint, to paint glass"
What an abysmal failure to communicate. Traceable back to a failure in the brain? Even a 7-year old would have been able to formulate the correct request - conductive, transparent paint (for glass). Instead, the bozo you asked to make the phonecall, asked for "invisible paint", and failed to mention the most salient feature of the paint, i.e. conductivity.
The story is funny because it's so stupid.
First of all, there are a huge variety of antioxidatns. It's really stupid to compare catechins, which are hydrosoluble, and curcuminoids, which are liposoluble. Both are antioxidants, but are not comparable.
Second: this study does not disprove the usefulness of antioxidants for preserving DNA integrity. OTOH, there are studies with evidence that anti-oxidants are effective in this sense.
If the almighty buck is the only thing that motivates all humans, then I can see how executives think. In that case, a deep education is unnecessary. You can get rich with an idea and lots of elbow grease. But not everything is achievable this way. Some things need learning. Like finding the structure of the DNA, develop self-assembled structures, optimize carbon nanotube growth, develop drugs that can cross the BBB, design multicore CPUs, discover the inner workings of mitochondria etc. I expect to be flamed for the following statement: some of the stuff that needs lots of education is also more valuable than Facebook... or money.
Not knowing anything about this game, as I am not a FPS gamer, I wonder if a port is really necessary? WINE seems to work quite well for a large number of Windows games.
To be anal-retentively accurate, they are not tentacles but feelers. Read the Lovercraft story and then you can be anal like me, about these details.
...I would be also interested to see what the projectile does at the "destination". Time to buy me some kilofarad supercaps :)
High frequency trading should be a crime. It does not contribute one iota to the original goal of the stock market; however it sucks wealth from it - more precisely, from long-term shareholders. Goldman-Sachs and the like are nothing but leeches. (GS is a leech, in more ways than one, actually)
That's strange. Red Hat does all via Open Source and is about to pass the $1 Billion mark. Sounds like to me McNeally was a very poor CEO and it had nothing to do with the things they Open Sourced.
RedHat is succesful, compared to Sun, because RedHat does very little development on Linux, while Sun had to do much more development themselves, on Solaris. I am not saying that other Linux companies are doing RedHat's work (though some are). I am saying that Linux is generally much less developed than Solaris. Solaris' kernel is way better than linux's, Solaris has ZFS, DTrace and containers. The only way Linux could get such features was by porting them - again, much less development needed than if they had to be developed from scratch. So all RedHat has to really focus on, is patching the existing system and adding cosmetic improvements here and there. And mostly, focus on support. That's much cheaper than what Sun had to do, so obviously, Sun had much higher expenses and much lower margin. Their server business, while profitable, could not make up the difference.
What Sun should have done, perhaps, is stop any further development of Solaris after open-sourcing it, and only focus on patches. And basically, fire a large part of the workforce, to save money. Making their flagship OS very good didn't pay off, and as we can see with Windows and Linux, people will embrace good-enough every time.
EA's blabber is disgusting to hear for someone who appreciates gaming, be it solo, local or online.
They clearly understand jack about a gamer's heart and what makes a game great, but they hope to get their business-goals accepted by trying to sound all visionary-like.
Alas, nobody with experience in gaming will be able to take them seriously.
EA's true goals:
* Facilitate data-mining
* Make more DLC sales
* Updateable in-game advertising
* Restrict gameplay to EA-approved content
* Take control away from the gamers/modders and claim it for themselves
Add to that list:
* Save money hiring competent programmers who can do AI. Instead, hire cheap sweatshop labor that makes pretty graphics and eye-candy.
* Continue making and selling games with pathetic gameplay, hoping that human players will make up the shortcoming.
* More restrictive DRM control due to the need of being connected to game server.
...I'd turn to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, through all the crap it went through, gained the necessary credibility. Another purportedly whistleblower site might just be a honeypot. No thanks, not yet. WikiLeaks all the way.
Mod parent up - most relevant post in this discussion.
I am pretty sure that.. uh... my friend could play a torrented C&C: Red Alert 2 without any hassle.
These guys have invented the electric pianola. Brilliant! But wait, this one is robotic!
I should also mention that given who his financial backers are, you might as well call him the senator for Israel, not the senator for Connecticut
Ah, of course a jab against Israel never harmed anyone. Let's add some actual facts: Israel is not suppressing any information, least of all WikiLeaks. And the leaked diplomatic cables have all been very favorable to Israel. If anything, it would be Turkey, Iran and Iran's arab neighbors who would want WikiLeaks squashed. Along with the US administration, of course.