The application will allow researchers and novices to peer into the eccentric Nobel winner's brain as if they were looking through a microscope.
This summary's stated premise is so incredibly fucking retarded. Why not just post the slides online or release high-res formats, rather than charge a $9.99 premium for an application that displays images on a sub par interface for image manipulation and analysis? (rhetorical question) Aside from the press release FUD, can any researcher honestly tell me that the ability to view historical slides on an ipad is in anyway superior to the thousands of other mechanisms of viewing pictures of things?
There is no way in hell any tablet is going to provide a superior interface in terms of technology employed for viewing data of this sort for in-depth analysis.
As with much of the tablet market these days...gimmick after gimmick after gimmick.
This.
My conjecture is that we will be at war with Iran in time for the election, call it a November surprise. Bunch of FUD stories from the Ministry of Information's various major news network puppets, and then we'll all be chest-pumping while the populace sings let's roll in the tanks.
I used to get so pissed at my university when I would see tuition going up, while simultaneous egregious amounts of money were being vigorously spent on lawn upkeep, planting flowers, tearing down perfectly good buildings and building newer ones that were only more 'flashy' looking, while at the same time laying off teachers and building massive lecture halls to spoon-feed kids with TAs that just click through powerpoints made 5 years ago for an instructor who barely has enough time to manage the n extra classes he's been burdened with overseeing.
I never really understood why people who can barely afford their own expenses have kids.
Tax breaks/rebates and incentives from the government? WIC/Food stamps/government assistance handouts? The opportunity cost of not having children for some poor families becomes more expensive than having the kids after all government aid is accounted for. Not to mention the intelligence and life-skills of some (I said some! NOT ALL!!!) of people on min-wage for life can be below average and the financial ramifications of raising a family is not even calculated in the risk of bearing children.
I live in Raleigh, NC, and for those who have a jaundiced perspective of the south I would like to say that this region is booming in terms of technology-centric business. We have research triangle park with many large corps, labs, data-centers, and rising businesses. We get many migrants from silicon valley who come this way for the better tax benefits and all that jazz. It's a beautiful state. Moving here from Illinois has been great for me and my family.
We also get many business from the DC beltline area and the Virginia tech-sector as well, so there's a lot of growth here in that regard. With the ocean on our east coast and Appalachia on the west, it's a pretty sweet state. Of course there are your stereotypical types, your poor areas, your up-close-and-personal political issues, corruption, et al, but compared to some of our neighboring states down here NC has a very modern feel (SC I'm looking at you!). "North Carina is best Carina!" as some like to say:)
Anecdotal, of course, but if you're looking for a city to move to in the south, The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area has its benefits.
TFA fails to mention why two people are required in the test vehicle. I can understand having a "driver" that can take over if something goes wrong, but what is the purpose of the 2nd person?
To hold the driver's beer. It's Nevada, common now...
This is purely anecdotal, but from experiences with past co-workers who have been in the IBM trenches, it apparently isn't unheard of to get sacked a few months out from retirement at IBM, thus losing benefits or full retirement or whatever. So I'm guessing to those at IBM in the throes of fear of being sacked, this is perhaps an out to prevent being completely screwed and perhaps from an MBA standpoint a moral stabilizer (or destabilizer depending on your business unit).
Any IBM'ers feel free to chime in? My story is simply hearsay so I'd be interested in knowing how it really is under the various tentacles of that hydra.
rah rah something about sheeple and advertising and social media and blah blah knew it was just people....blah just don't use the services blah blah capitalism is it........blah slashdot groupthink..... blah blah bullshit ads blah just unfriend/unfollow them rah de blah blah....advertiser hijinks....
Let a lesson from this be that no matter where you are on the globe managerial types will typically disregard known and reported vulnerabilities until it is too late, generally failing to assess risk properly and address reported findings.
Karma whoring, dude's blog linked here (yay for in browser translation)
A ready made, turn-key botnet slave in a box, direct from your hardware vendor! Oh Joy!;-)
If you had made last Tuesdays' 2:30 you'd have known that this is a new solution from our vendor to provide ubiquitous control and synergistic integration!
So I live in the states, but 'eh Aussie gub'ment, now you know how it feels to fear others in your networks, eh? Now you know how your citizens feel when you assfucks monitor and handhold all your citizenry like the good mommy government you think you are. Fucking douches. What's good for the joey's is good for the Kangas.
When the singularity arrives, it wont be the T-900 to fear, but instead incessant little gnat-bots that swarm anything with a wallet. It seems the internet is denigrating to just another platform of the one true age-old human behavior--scheming and conning to get the most precious thing you have. Your personal information and your money. And this does not surprise me--for a technological system/network created by humans will be just as full of our flaws and intrinsic 'mental' malfunctions as any non-silicon process our species oversees. Evolutionary my dear Watson.
To that I agree. What is really happening is a rethinking of interfaces and what is really wanted and needed by the unwashed masses for their computing needs. Simple and streamlined and single task driven. Which I can agree that user roles exist that fit this model. But as PCM2 says below, it is the push by some in the industry to shove this 'App' model down the throats of everything, fitting their square peg into the round hole of already good solutions, that gets frustrating. The way I look at it is simply this--the people who write these so called new-fangled 'apps', well, they are writing them in all likelihood in complex desktop environments, not on tablets, not on smartphones, apps are being written on full-blown desktop operating systems. Perhaps 100 years from now people will be using natural language and speech recognition to convey concepts to some natural human symbolic interpreter that writes everything and pushes it to some compiler, but in the meantime massive IDEs and libraries and filesystems and all that will be needed through some sort of multi-application multi-tasking desktop that cannot be simply boiled down into a single self-contained app.
I hate to say this--but this concept of 'Apps' that everybody is latching on to--it is a huge pile of steaming buzzword. Yes their are applications, but the concept that all of computing can be neatly tucked and packed into an easily marketable single purpose flashy shiny big round button GUI software as a service plug in API model full of synergism and one-click-wonder wow--perhaps, but not for the power users, not for enterprise. There may be a day, but it isn't this decade IMO. I understand how consumers want this and blah blah rah grandma simplicity blah new age computing blah ease of use apple blah, but I'm here to comment about Apps and how I hear that word used in the wrong places (IMO).
Where's my 'app' for DBA activity? Where's my simple one click 'app' that monitors hundreds of servers, routers, switches? Where's my 'app' that automates my build processes? Where's my app that gives my complex analysis of all my interconnected nodes? You wont find them--not soon and not on 'markets'. Because these are complex intertwined multi-APPLICATION, to use the full word, work-flows that require desktops or complex usage of scripting and consoles. Sorry but for power use, it's just the way it is, in this decade and probably a few to come. These things can be done well and simply, but not without serious power-tools and planning.
Let's me honest, computing has been around for decades now, and even though on the consumer level 'apps' reign supreme it seems, there will always always always be power users who will need more complex environments for the vast array of software suites, tools, languages, and utilities needed to maintain and administer complex networks for build processes or whatever. Perhaps there will be a day when it is all unified. But that would require vast cooperation across industries, standards bodies, companies, open-sources houses, etc. Until some defacto design standard from layer 1 to 7 and from user space to kernals to whatever is implemented across the industry, nothing will ever be 'simple apps' while separate unique tools and such exist--thus guaranteeing the lifetime of the terminal and the desktop. It seems we are now defining apps as "guis that are flashy, sleek, use large rounded buttons, and have limited functionality', well, there's many of those out there. End rant. (the word app just sets me off)
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The application will allow researchers and novices to peer into the eccentric Nobel winner's brain as if they were looking through a microscope.
This summary's stated premise is so incredibly fucking retarded. Why not just post the slides online or release high-res formats, rather than charge a $9.99 premium for an application that displays images on a sub par interface for image manipulation and analysis? (rhetorical question) Aside from the press release FUD, can any researcher honestly tell me that the ability to view historical slides on an ipad is in anyway superior to the thousands of other mechanisms of viewing pictures of things?
There is no way in hell any tablet is going to provide a superior interface in terms of technology employed for viewing data of this sort for in-depth analysis.
As with much of the tablet market these days...gimmick after gimmick after gimmick. This.
You should most definately check out this glove.
How'd he get the security camera footage?
My conjecture is that we will be at war with Iran in time for the election, call it a November surprise. Bunch of FUD stories from the Ministry of Information's various major news network puppets, and then we'll all be chest-pumping while the populace sings let's roll in the tanks.
I used to get so pissed at my university when I would see tuition going up, while simultaneous egregious amounts of money were being vigorously spent on lawn upkeep, planting flowers, tearing down perfectly good buildings and building newer ones that were only more 'flashy' looking, while at the same time laying off teachers and building massive lecture halls to spoon-feed kids with TAs that just click through powerpoints made 5 years ago for an instructor who barely has enough time to manage the n extra classes he's been burdened with overseeing.
Fuck the American University System.
I never really understood why people who can barely afford their own expenses have kids.
Tax breaks/rebates and incentives from the government? WIC/Food stamps/government assistance handouts? The opportunity cost of not having children for some poor families becomes more expensive than having the kids after all government aid is accounted for. Not to mention the intelligence and life-skills of some (I said some! NOT ALL!!!) of people on min-wage for life can be below average and the financial ramifications of raising a family is not even calculated in the risk of bearing children.
Legalize the srelatvely afe, well-known ones, and then no one will be lining up to smoke incense or snort bath salts.
Somebody's snorted a few grammars lexdysia it appears...
Can't wait to be forced to provide mouth swabs at airports.
I live in Raleigh, NC, and for those who have a jaundiced perspective of the south I would like to say that this region is booming in terms of technology-centric business. We have research triangle park with many large corps, labs, data-centers, and rising businesses. We get many migrants from silicon valley who come this way for the better tax benefits and all that jazz. It's a beautiful state. Moving here from Illinois has been great for me and my family.
:)
Anecdotal, of course, but if you're looking for a city to move to in the south, The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area has its benefits.
We also get many business from the DC beltline area and the Virginia tech-sector as well, so there's a lot of growth here in that regard. With the ocean on our east coast and Appalachia on the west, it's a pretty sweet state. Of course there are your stereotypical types, your poor areas, your up-close-and-personal political issues, corruption, et al, but compared to some of our neighboring states down here NC has a very modern feel (SC I'm looking at you!). "North Carina is best Carina!" as some like to say
TFA fails to mention why two people are required in the test vehicle. I can understand having a "driver" that can take over if something goes wrong, but what is the purpose of the 2nd person?
To hold the driver's beer. It's Nevada, common now...
...would be like the Nazi's Synagogue Construction Unit.
I don't think this is surprising news.
*morale, not moral; In terms of corporate morality, well that's all subjective :)
This is purely anecdotal, but from experiences with past co-workers who have been in the IBM trenches, it apparently isn't unheard of to get sacked a few months out from retirement at IBM, thus losing benefits or full retirement or whatever. So I'm guessing to those at IBM in the throes of fear of being sacked, this is perhaps an out to prevent being completely screwed and perhaps from an MBA standpoint a moral stabilizer (or destabilizer depending on your business unit).
Any IBM'ers feel free to chime in? My story is simply hearsay so I'd be interested in knowing how it really is under the various tentacles of that hydra.
North Carolina is best Carolina
SC is like NK, and NC is like SK. Just sayin! Take a drive through SC and you'll see...
rah rah something about sheeple and advertising and social media and blah blah knew it was just people....blah just don't use the services blah blah capitalism is it........blah slashdot groupthink..... blah blah bullshit ads blah just unfriend/unfollow them rah de blah blah....advertiser hijinks....
Burma Shave.
Let a lesson from this be that no matter where you are on the globe managerial types will typically disregard known and reported vulnerabilities until it is too late, generally failing to assess risk properly and address reported findings.
Karma whoring, dude's blog linked here (yay for in browser translation)
A ready made, turn-key botnet slave in a box, direct from your hardware vendor! Oh Joy! ;-)
If you had made last Tuesdays' 2:30 you'd have known that this is a new solution from our vendor to provide ubiquitous control and synergistic integration!
What would this service offer that PayPal didn't?>
'It wouldn't be PayPal' is a necessary and sufficient condition for its existence.
Hey! We have Fort Bragg, Camp Lejeune, and what was Pope AFB. We can hold our own :)
Fuck that guy.
So I live in the states, but 'eh Aussie gub'ment, now you know how it feels to fear others in your networks, eh? Now you know how your citizens feel when you assfucks monitor and handhold all your citizenry like the good mommy government you think you are. Fucking douches. What's good for the joey's is good for the Kangas.
When the singularity arrives, it wont be the T-900 to fear, but instead incessant little gnat-bots that swarm anything with a wallet. It seems the internet is denigrating to just another platform of the one true age-old human behavior--scheming and conning to get the most precious thing you have. Your personal information and your money. And this does not surprise me--for a technological system/network created by humans will be just as full of our flaws and intrinsic 'mental' malfunctions as any non-silicon process our species oversees. Evolutionary my dear Watson.
ctrl-alt-T shits out a new terminal window on my system
I have never laughed so hard at a personification of UI functionality ever. Thx.
To that I agree. What is really happening is a rethinking of interfaces and what is really wanted and needed by the unwashed masses for their computing needs. Simple and streamlined and single task driven. Which I can agree that user roles exist that fit this model. But as PCM2 says below, it is the push by some in the industry to shove this 'App' model down the throats of everything, fitting their square peg into the round hole of already good solutions, that gets frustrating. The way I look at it is simply this--the people who write these so called new-fangled 'apps', well, they are writing them in all likelihood in complex desktop environments, not on tablets, not on smartphones, apps are being written on full-blown desktop operating systems. Perhaps 100 years from now people will be using natural language and speech recognition to convey concepts to some natural human symbolic interpreter that writes everything and pushes it to some compiler, but in the meantime massive IDEs and libraries and filesystems and all that will be needed through some sort of multi-application multi-tasking desktop that cannot be simply boiled down into a single self-contained app.
I hate to say this--but this concept of 'Apps' that everybody is latching on to--it is a huge pile of steaming buzzword. Yes their are applications, but the concept that all of computing can be neatly tucked and packed into an easily marketable single purpose flashy shiny big round button GUI software as a service plug in API model full of synergism and one-click-wonder wow--perhaps, but not for the power users, not for enterprise. There may be a day, but it isn't this decade IMO. I understand how consumers want this and blah blah rah grandma simplicity blah new age computing blah ease of use apple blah, but I'm here to comment about Apps and how I hear that word used in the wrong places (IMO).
Where's my 'app' for DBA activity? Where's my simple one click 'app' that monitors hundreds of servers, routers, switches? Where's my 'app' that automates my build processes? Where's my app that gives my complex analysis of all my interconnected nodes? You wont find them--not soon and not on 'markets'. Because these are complex intertwined multi-APPLICATION, to use the full word, work-flows that require desktops or complex usage of scripting and consoles. Sorry but for power use, it's just the way it is, in this decade and probably a few to come. These things can be done well and simply, but not without serious power-tools and planning.
Let's me honest, computing has been around for decades now, and even though on the consumer level 'apps' reign supreme it seems, there will always always always be power users who will need more complex environments for the vast array of software suites, tools, languages, and utilities needed to maintain and administer complex networks for build processes or whatever. Perhaps there will be a day when it is all unified. But that would require vast cooperation across industries, standards bodies, companies, open-sources houses, etc. Until some defacto design standard from layer 1 to 7 and from user space to kernals to whatever is implemented across the industry, nothing will ever be 'simple apps' while separate unique tools and such exist--thus guaranteeing the lifetime of the terminal and the desktop. It seems we are now defining apps as "guis that are flashy, sleek, use large rounded buttons, and have limited functionality', well, there's many of those out there. End rant. (the word app just sets me off)