"""Foldit project was initiated with the goal of democratizing science, and we stand behind that. the process of discovery and the eventual results of game play will all be open domain.
"""
Not sure if that claim is backed up by legal documents. The game is suspiciously vague in legal matters. No software license. No EULA. Nothing about patents.
Or perhaps there is, but not released to the public.
No, they just showed that there *is* a solution, and the solution behaves "well".
Mathematically speaking, it makes little sense to say the "correctness" of the Boltzmann equation. It is Just Another Equation (TM). Physically speaking, the application of said equation to physical bodies has been established in physical ways.
Augmented reality has been used to treat phobia for years. I remember reading a SciAm article about the medical application of augmented reality, where a virtual pet tarantula was used to treat arachnophobia, and a virtual snow-covered mountain landscape was set up for children recovering from burns where they and their parents could "play" together in the virtual mountains.
That article was from N years ago where N > 5. Can't remember the exact details but certainly it is not new.
And there was touch feedback in the cases described in that old article, which was lacking in this one. The virtual tarantula wasn't just an image you could see, but also a controlled device that could crawl on your hand and let you feel its hairy legs.
I've always thought that the x86 architecture is a dead horse beaten to the speed of light. It is the 21th century and we need something slightly better than rocks and sticks and x86 to throw at the old monstrosity known as computation. If we're still going to depend on x68 in 20 years I'd rather kill myself by banging my head against an x86 chip.
Slashdot Mirror
Meh, trusting the client's Referer is futile at best. Any self-respecting geek already uses spoofed Referer headers.
Since when has porn been measured in GB? Real Slashdotters (TM) measure it in Libraries of Congress.
It means Google is a step closer to its goal of world domination.
http://fold.it/portal/node/267249
"""Foldit project was initiated with the goal of democratizing science, and we stand behind that. the process of discovery and the eventual results of game play will all be open domain.
"""
Not sure if that claim is backed up by legal documents. The game is suspiciously vague in legal matters. No software license. No EULA. Nothing about patents.
Or perhaps there is, but not released to the public.
Navier-Stokes the next, good guys!
No, they just showed that there *is* a solution, and the solution behaves "well".
Mathematically speaking, it makes little sense to say the "correctness" of the Boltzmann equation. It is Just Another Equation (TM). Physically speaking, the application of said equation to physical bodies has been established in physical ways.
Well apparently it only recently passed peer-review, if you consider 3 months "recent". That's not unusual for a research paper anyway.
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/13/5744.short
(behind a paywall)
For the math-inclined:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0888
(yes, that was from 2009)
Sorry by $HOME/pr0n I actually meant ~pr0n.
That's the beauty of having multiple user accounts:
1) create pr0n user
2) browse pr0n
3) shred everything under $HOME/pr0n
4) profit!!!1
You may find this helpful. There's also a comment there about cleaning up places.sqlite using the built-in javascript console.
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576843-firefox-sqlite-files-cleaner-linux/
I tried it and it appears to have cleaned the residual urls there. What's left in the strings output seems to be related to bookmarks.
Incompetence. Malice. Sufficiently advanced. Blah blah blah.
How, exactly, is "buying software" supposed to stop "customers selling their souls"?
I feel sad imagining myself being replaced by a bunch of germs.
signed,
gzipped_tar
Augmented reality has been used to treat phobia for years. I remember reading a SciAm article about the medical application of augmented reality, where a virtual pet tarantula was used to treat arachnophobia, and a virtual snow-covered mountain landscape was set up for children recovering from burns where they and their parents could "play" together in the virtual mountains.
That article was from N years ago where N > 5. Can't remember the exact details but certainly it is not new.
And there was touch feedback in the cases described in that old article, which was lacking in this one. The virtual tarantula wasn't just an image you could see, but also a controlled device that could crawl on your hand and let you feel its hairy legs.
Not to mention concerns over invasive species... ;)
As silly as it may sound, but "making a crime more difficult to investigate" *is* illegal in many jurisdictions.
Comparing copyright infringement to murder is sickening. This is the pattern in which Big Media wants us to think.
In the good old days, everyone fought his own Clippy.
In this brave new world, Clippy lives in the cloud, immortal.
Forget those underwater invertebrates. Naughty Nymph FTW.
I've always thought that the x86 architecture is a dead horse beaten to the speed of light. It is the 21th century and we need something slightly better than rocks and sticks and x86 to throw at the old monstrosity known as computation. If we're still going to depend on x68 in 20 years I'd rather kill myself by banging my head against an x86 chip.
This is not just about CO2. It's about fast-growing commercial trees replacing the natural habitats of the land.
It's less than ten but more than one, but it's not nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two.
(With apologies to Jorge Luis Borges http://www.christopherculver.com/en/translations/ornithologicum.php)
Ever heard of LiveOS persistent storage?
But they say that /. is USA-centric, and anything not stated as a grossly over-generalized assertion gets modded down.
You must be new here ;)