Actually, as mentioned in the prev. posts, you will be well off if you just write your name on it. All the letters are just symbols, hence drawings of one form or another. It might be harder to break too, especially, if what you draw is not visible to you either, you just make a random motion(to others, while spelling your name in a cursive handwriting), and you just log-on.
Quite good I say. As somebody said, there is no absolute security, but only incremental developments to existing ones. This one , has my vote. It is better.
However, it doesn't help much voting for Candidate B when everyone else is voting for Candidate A It might not help much. But if you vote for Candidate A, you are abusing your voting rights. Democracy, if it is in place, works pretty well. If everybody votes to the candidate who they think is fit, the fittest candidate is going to win.
Slashdot is not a social networking forum, and I am not here to meet people, I am here for the articles and the discussions.
The purpose is different, and anyway, knowing that I have a brother and his age tells you nothing about me.
Or should I thank god for making me meet an anonymous coward;)
I really think this is a generation thing. While previous generations had telephones and "little black books" we have myspace and buddy-lists. Things like facebook, or myspace aren't really that new, IMHO they're sortof an evolution of the old party lines. Its not exactly a generation thing. Many of the younger generation(I'm 23, and my bro (19)) aren't even interested in these social networking sites. OTOH, my prev-project manager (38) is logged onto a social networking site(similar to Facebook, Orkut) almost all the time. Its a matter of preference really,I believe people who like to have lots of contacts and friends go for these sites, while some like me who prefer a small group of close friends and maintain contact via other ways, are most likely not interested in such sites.
IMHO they're sortof an evolution of the old party lines. True, but I think it is the ease of use that is driving more people into Facebook. My dad maintains his huge connections by normal methods(calling, visiting them at home, dinners etc) which takes lot of passion(and patience). With facebook , anybody can do this.
Maybe thats why I dislike these sites, meeting people has become a silly time pass activity.
Your idea might be interesting, but you spoiled it with the humans part. They might just have died together and we found the fossil record for that? From the article, It is just a collection of foot prints(non-overlapping is one key) and the group behaviour is deduced from this:
The nature of the rock tells us that there cannot have been much time between the tracks being made and being buried by stream deposits in the Cretaceous period
Maybe we are thinking about the group behaviour because we saw the movie? They might be hunting each other too(a possibility?). I think the above two observations are insufficient for any deduction. I would guess that they hunt alone, as all powerful non-social animals do(cheetah,tiger,crocs). But maybe thats why I am not a paleontologist.
You have misunderstood it. Africa is assumed underdeveloped, and so are Bangladesh, Bhutan, Srilanka so on which they are. India, Taiwan, etc, are assumed to be developing, and honestly, Internet is not yet integrated into public systems or private enterprises as much as you would expect as someone from developed country. For other European and Oriental countries which are deemed as developed, Google has something in place for them. And by English speaking world , i don't just say Americans, Brits, Irish, Australians, Canadians, I refer to the whole of commonwealth nations(South Africa, India, Aussies, so on). The correlation is between the preference of Google in English speaking countries and non-English speaking ones , nothing on looking down or anything.
It is surprising thus: People (From the English speaking world) have assumed that Google is number 1. Going by its search results, it is definitely a top contender to the post.So much so that it is the common homepage for millions of internet users all over the world.
The non English speaking market is generally assumed to be underdeveloped (Africa, Indian subcontinent) or Google already has something for them(Language packs). The relationship between Google and China is well known, so it is expected to dominate the Chinese and along with it, other SE Asian markets, as it did in the English speaking world. The story comes as a surprise for those who have been seeing the world in a hazy, interpolated and homogeneous manner.(I belong here too.) But after the story is published , the haziness has been removed and the story seems pretty obvious. Hence my reaction: "WTF? IS this even newsworthy?"
Farming and watering the fields with cows is pretty much a common sight in India. Event after the green revolution of the 60's many farmers still use cows(Bulls too) for farming, and it works like a charm for the Indian media when showing the stereotyped poor farmer.
That apart, using them as an energy source? Have they even thought of solar powered batteries? I am no expert, but I live in India, and I can make an approximate guess as to how much energy these cows can generate(they do live in slow motion world) and surely it would be cheaper, cost efficient and it would simply make more sense.
It would have helped if they posted in the same article what they were smoking.
Why bother with a computer in the first place? Are we so dumb that we cannot predict the reactions to some happening? Look at any good leader, and he can predict how exactly are people going to react to his actions. All dictators did that. This is something which takes experience, wisdom along with knowledge.
Isn't it better that we take the easier route? Why are we hell bent on making computers do all the stuff? They just compute, let them do it, why bother it with stuff we ourself can handle?
By turn the country around did you mean to say that the natural resources in that country would be profitably exploited by big businesses? I sure hope so, because a country is not a piece of land, it is the people that live in it, and they cant(shouldn't) be bought.
Freedom is not a word, people have died for it.
I text msgs pretty fast, but many of my friends complain how their own hand obscures what to type. Somewhat like the keyboard, a new user has to look and type, which calls for a learning curve How to type. If there is a workaround, people would prefer it, just as many non it people work with the mouse. I'm guessing this to be a similar product(and a similar success (like a mouse)), although I'm not sure how good the product would be. But one thing we could be sure of is that there is a market for an alternative.
This could be a good position, but where I work, the sysadmin is completely incapable of anything. In a small startup, it could happen that there is no sysadmin at all, all the people are just developers and they have a small project with a tight deadline , they just want a VCS and a DB installed . For them, a pre-installed OS is really helpful.
Just pointing out the other side here.
The annoying headband is a problem, or else this could prove good news for the hospitality business. Imagine if a hotel room changes its colour according to your mood. This would be a great advertisement.
But I think people are different, so would be their reactions to this product. Not finding universal appeal, it is going to die a slow death. If it ever comes out that is.
I am really interested to see the results, jokes apart, cures for some major aliments can be found. This is a really good step taken, but I doubt its success , there will be lot many failures before we get to see something remotely useful.
I doubt what average joe's reaction to medicine(or the product for curing a disease) would be.
Why is this insightful? This is just some common criticism of Islam compiled for you, nothing about science. I have lived with Muslims all my life, still do, and they take religion as seriously as you do. There are some who do take it seriously, and many who don't. This article is about science, and I have seen good number of Muslim scientists and profs. in my country. Hell my ex president is one of the most distinguished scientists.
This is not a problem of Islam. This is a problem of administration in Islamic countries. As someone whose never been to an Islamic country, I cant say much about that. Any insights?
Language as a tool for communication needs to be uniform, so in that way, everybody understands each other. But we will be losing out the linguistic diversity of cultures, their way of thinking, and their literature. Quality literature is not what is being read, it is about how it is being said. And this magic with words depends on each language, each culture, and is fairly unique , so that you cannot feel what the author is trying to say if you translate it into another language. There, one gem of a sentence will go down, never to be felt again. In this point, less languages are definitely not a good thing.
I really wonder what kind of discussion would follow. Maybe some flamebait or troll would come along and steer the discussion towards iPhones getting their data deleted in current update if they are unlocked. OK, they are active (genius, was it?) at night. Unless it can do some coding work for me, or develop nice theories related to world economy or crack jokes, I wont be much interested in it. Leave them alone.
I don't think it's a trend in just the US. In India too, where I come from, a lot of people sleep. Its hard to pinpoint a reason for this , some don't have anything better to do, some had a heavy lunch or some one watched movies till 3 am yesterday. But one of my friends, he sleeps even when he is supposed to be working his ass off. His manager doesn't have a problem with this, seeing it as quite common.
Kissing co-workers is an entirely different issue though, it's not talked about,and very few people in the office know that there is no chick in the office unkissed.:)
If you dont have the answer, why even bother about the problem.
There is an answer, Use wiki to make it better, because we can. It is very unlike other sites like bbc, where you cannot post something interesting, or correct something wrong. Sure you can just send a mail, but in wikipedia, you can correct it. Lets do it. What is needed is not 100% people to be right all the time, just a dedicated few to make it work.
After seeing this long discussion, I seriously wish for Gandhi to come back.
The most powerful weapon is not the one which causes the most amount of damage, it is the one which gets you what you want without any damage.
I really wonder how these studies come up in time just to match the popular (read heavily publicized) opinion. I don't know much about US political history, but I am sure that in the 60's the democrats were like current republicans and vice versa. Left-wing and right-wing are just terms for conservatism and non conservatism. Which in term depends on what the present culture that is in question of conservation. A culture will be bought on by non-conservatists (liberals) who stick to it and become conservative about it. Now , how it affects the cognition phenomenon is totally beyond me. Look at the procedure followed, and you will find that the researchers were trying to prove something by force, just 2 graphs and coinciding them. I will let you quote other funny graphs and correlations of this kind.
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I just want some sharks with lasers on their head.
Actually, as mentioned in the prev. posts, you will be well off if you just write your name on it. All the letters are just symbols, hence drawings of one form or another. It might be harder to break too, especially, if what you draw is not visible to you either, you just make a random motion(to others, while spelling your name in a cursive handwriting), and you just log-on. Quite good I say. As somebody said, there is no absolute security, but only incremental developments to existing ones. This one , has my vote. It is better.
However, it doesn't help much voting for Candidate B when everyone else is voting for Candidate A It might not help much. But if you vote for Candidate A, you are abusing your voting rights. Democracy, if it is in place, works pretty well. If everybody votes to the candidate who they think is fit, the fittest candidate is going to win.
yeah,but does it cover questions about the christian edition? :)
Slashdot is not a social networking forum, and I am not here to meet people, I am here for the articles and the discussions. The purpose is different, and anyway, knowing that I have a brother and his age tells you nothing about me. Or should I thank god for making me meet an anonymous coward ;)
Your idea might be interesting, but you spoiled it with the humans part. They might just have died together and we found the fossil record for that? From the article, It is just a collection of foot prints(non-overlapping is one key) and the group behaviour is deduced from this: The nature of the rock tells us that there cannot have been much time between the tracks being made and being buried by stream deposits in the Cretaceous period Maybe we are thinking about the group behaviour because we saw the movie? They might be hunting each other too(a possibility?). I think the above two observations are insufficient for any deduction. I would guess that they hunt alone, as all powerful non-social animals do(cheetah,tiger,crocs). But maybe thats why I am not a paleontologist.
No sir, you are wrong. I just had to download divx plugin for the site.
You have misunderstood it. Africa is assumed underdeveloped, and so are Bangladesh, Bhutan, Srilanka so on which they are. India, Taiwan, etc, are assumed to be developing, and honestly, Internet is not yet integrated into public systems or private enterprises as much as you would expect as someone from developed country. For other European and Oriental countries which are deemed as developed, Google has something in place for them. And by English speaking world , i don't just say Americans, Brits, Irish, Australians, Canadians, I refer to the whole of commonwealth nations(South Africa, India, Aussies, so on). The correlation is between the preference of Google in English speaking countries and non-English speaking ones , nothing on looking down or anything.
It is surprising thus: People (From the English speaking world) have assumed that Google is number 1. Going by its search results, it is definitely a top contender to the post.So much so that it is the common homepage for millions of internet users all over the world. The non English speaking market is generally assumed to be underdeveloped (Africa, Indian subcontinent) or Google already has something for them(Language packs). The relationship between Google and China is well known, so it is expected to dominate the Chinese and along with it, other SE Asian markets, as it did in the English speaking world. The story comes as a surprise for those who have been seeing the world in a hazy, interpolated and homogeneous manner.(I belong here too.) But after the story is published , the haziness has been removed and the story seems pretty obvious. Hence my reaction: "WTF? IS this even newsworthy?"
Farming and watering the fields with cows is pretty much a common sight in India. Event after the green revolution of the 60's many farmers still use cows(Bulls too) for farming, and it works like a charm for the Indian media when showing the stereotyped poor farmer. That apart, using them as an energy source? Have they even thought of solar powered batteries? I am no expert, but I live in India, and I can make an approximate guess as to how much energy these cows can generate(they do live in slow motion world) and surely it would be cheaper, cost efficient and it would simply make more sense. It would have helped if they posted in the same article what they were smoking.
Isn't this effectively a virus?
Why bother with a computer in the first place? Are we so dumb that we cannot predict the reactions to some happening? Look at any good leader, and he can predict how exactly are people going to react to his actions. All dictators did that. This is something which takes experience, wisdom along with knowledge. Isn't it better that we take the easier route? Why are we hell bent on making computers do all the stuff? They just compute, let them do it, why bother it with stuff we ourself can handle?
By turn the country around did you mean to say that the natural resources in that country would be profitably exploited by big businesses? I sure hope so, because a country is not a piece of land, it is the people that live in it, and they cant(shouldn't) be bought. Freedom is not a word, people have died for it.
I text msgs pretty fast, but many of my friends complain how their own hand obscures what to type. Somewhat like the keyboard, a new user has to look and type, which calls for a learning curve How to type. If there is a workaround, people would prefer it, just as many non it people work with the mouse. I'm guessing this to be a similar product(and a similar success (like a mouse)), although I'm not sure how good the product would be. But one thing we could be sure of is that there is a market for an alternative.
This could be a good position, but where I work, the sysadmin is completely incapable of anything. In a small startup, it could happen that there is no sysadmin at all, all the people are just developers and they have a small project with a tight deadline , they just want a VCS and a DB installed . For them, a pre-installed OS is really helpful. Just pointing out the other side here.
The annoying headband is a problem, or else this could prove good news for the hospitality business. Imagine if a hotel room changes its colour according to your mood. This would be a great advertisement. But I think people are different, so would be their reactions to this product. Not finding universal appeal, it is going to die a slow death. If it ever comes out that is.
I am really interested to see the results, jokes apart, cures for some major aliments can be found. This is a really good step taken, but I doubt its success , there will be lot many failures before we get to see something remotely useful. I doubt what average joe's reaction to medicine(or the product for curing a disease) would be.
Why is this insightful? This is just some common criticism of Islam compiled for you, nothing about science. I have lived with Muslims all my life, still do, and they take religion as seriously as you do. There are some who do take it seriously, and many who don't. This article is about science, and I have seen good number of Muslim scientists and profs. in my country. Hell my ex president is one of the most distinguished scientists. This is not a problem of Islam. This is a problem of administration in Islamic countries. As someone whose never been to an Islamic country, I cant say much about that. Any insights?
Language as a tool for communication needs to be uniform, so in that way, everybody understands each other. But we will be losing out the linguistic diversity of cultures, their way of thinking, and their literature. Quality literature is not what is being read, it is about how it is being said. And this magic with words depends on each language, each culture, and is fairly unique , so that you cannot feel what the author is trying to say if you translate it into another language. There, one gem of a sentence will go down, never to be felt again. In this point, less languages are definitely not a good thing.
I really wonder what kind of discussion would follow. Maybe some flamebait or troll would come along and steer the discussion towards iPhones getting their data deleted in current update if they are unlocked. OK, they are active (genius, was it?) at night. Unless it can do some coding work for me, or develop nice theories related to world economy or crack jokes, I wont be much interested in it. Leave them alone.
I don't think it's a trend in just the US. In India too, where I come from, a lot of people sleep. Its hard to pinpoint a reason for this , some don't have anything better to do, some had a heavy lunch or some one watched movies till 3 am yesterday. But one of my friends, he sleeps even when he is supposed to be working his ass off. His manager doesn't have a problem with this, seeing it as quite common. Kissing co-workers is an entirely different issue though, it's not talked about ,and very few people in the office know that there is no chick in the office unkissed. :)
If you dont have the answer, why even bother about the problem. There is an answer, Use wiki to make it better, because we can. It is very unlike other sites like bbc, where you cannot post something interesting, or correct something wrong. Sure you can just send a mail, but in wikipedia, you can correct it. Lets do it. What is needed is not 100% people to be right all the time, just a dedicated few to make it work.
After seeing this long discussion, I seriously wish for Gandhi to come back. The most powerful weapon is not the one which causes the most amount of damage, it is the one which gets you what you want without any damage.
I really wonder how these studies come up in time just to match the popular (read heavily publicized) opinion. I don't know much about US political history, but I am sure that in the 60's the democrats were like current republicans and vice versa. Left-wing and right-wing are just terms for conservatism and non conservatism. Which in term depends on what the present culture that is in question of conservation. A culture will be bought on by non-conservatists (liberals) who stick to it and become conservative about it. Now , how it affects the cognition phenomenon is totally beyond me. Look at the procedure followed, and you will find that the researchers were trying to prove something by force, just 2 graphs and coinciding them. I will let you quote other funny graphs and correlations of this kind.