A few people seem to misunderstand why Microsoft did this. It's not to make it easier to search for porn. It's to make it easier to filter it out. All NSFW images/videos returned in search results will be hosted at explicit.bing.com. Network police at schools and businesses can filter the domain explicit.bing.com so that users cannot bypass their filters and access porn using bing.com.
It is NOT a special site for you to find porn. Sorry:(
Completely capturing the act of walking in a game will have a dramatic impact on game design (duh). I'm not saying it's a bad thing but it will be interesting to see how it changes the play of first person shooters. Left 4 Dead is one that comes readily to mind, probably because I can't stop playing it. The characters do a lot of walking as they try to move through a zombie infested world. Their health level directly effects the speed they can move and attacks temporarily slow movement to a crawl.
I don't doubt that one day we have games that support walking around and it will be a great step in fulfilling our holideck fantasies. I'd think that a useful interface for FPS games would be a combination of motion sensing for actions (aiming, looking, interacting with doors, objects, light switches) and current style controls for actually moving your character in the environment. It seems like a good balance for those 6 hour, Saturday afternoon gaming sessions.
At first I'm tempted to dismiss this as nothing more than a renaming of Microsoft's current crappy search engine. (I mean who really uses it anyway?) But I think it would be a little hasty to totally ignore the sheer amount of cash Microsoft can dump into advertising. You tech guys out there should expect your circle of computer dummies to start asking "So what's this bing thing anyway?".
I don't think they'll overthrow google anytime soon but I'm fairly sure they have a chance of taking a slice of their users.
I saw a demo of something very similar in 2006 at a medical technology convention. The basic idea was that when your ear is flooded with similar sound your brain cannot interpret the actual words of the conversation you're trying to listen to. They would record your voice, and then their software would chop it into random increments and play six simultaneous layers back over speakers. You could then have a phone conversation without people being able to understand what you were saying. It worked quite well and the sound wasn't any more annoying than someone on the phone.
The spirit of the idea seems to be tracking an individual without having to go through the trouble of a warrant. The spirit will undoubtedly be abused. If there are no loop holes to jump through to start tracking an individual they might as well track everyone. It's even easier if the vehicle already has a tracking system such as OnStar. From there they can do whatever they want such as track speeding and mail you tickets.
This is par for the course when it comes to Torrent indexes. They become popular and appear on the radar of money hungry lawyers and are forced into collapse. It happened to Supranova and TorrentSpy and now it's happening to mininova. We'll just have to wait for the next one to come along.
If you read the article this isn't nearly as impressive as it sounds. The buttons are in a static configuration and need an air compressor to rise. They're going to need to come up with a more flexible method of tactile feedback if they want to create a useful technology. Back to the drawing board!
Offensive cyber attacks could be useful as a first step to a physical operation. Exploiting a vulnerability in the enemy's defenses could greatly increase their response time.
Maybe turning off the power so they can't open the garage doors and get their tanks out.
Or causing all the cash machines to spew money to lure the squishies into the streets before a bombing run.
I'm a Microsoft fan boy (MCPD for web development). I usually stick to a three step process.
1. Start by writing with a focus on IE7 and try to keep everything up to XHTML standards. Test locally for FF and Chrome.
2. For public facing websites that focus more on displaying information than providing interaction I use browsershots.org to see how the pages render on common browsers. A VM machine with lots of browsers (including IE6) is used for local debugging.
3. With web applications functionality is the most critical. Clients will usually have a handful of browsers that they expect their users to be running. Each browser they request support for needs to pass unit testing.
For some projects compatibility testing goes smooth and for some it's the biggest hangup in the SDLC.
The US didn't hang him. His trial was conducted by an Iraqi Tribunal. THEY ordered his execution by hanging for the murder of 148 Shiites in retaliation for the assasination attempt in 1982. He was allowed to appeal, which was rejected and he was executed by the Iraqi's.
It could be that those of us that are good at our jobs get our work done more quickly. That leaves more time for leisure browsing because there's nothing else to do.
I had pretty much forgotten they were making a prequel. Leaking incomplete or small portions of a movie might actually be a good way of getting media coverage. Then you can sue your fans. It's the only marketing campaign that pays you!
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A few people seem to misunderstand why Microsoft did this. It's not to make it easier to search for porn. It's to make it easier to filter it out. All NSFW images/videos returned in search results will be hosted at explicit.bing.com. Network police at schools and businesses can filter the domain explicit.bing.com so that users cannot bypass their filters and access porn using bing.com. It is NOT a special site for you to find porn. Sorry :(
Completely capturing the act of walking in a game will have a dramatic impact on game design (duh). I'm not saying it's a bad thing but it will be interesting to see how it changes the play of first person shooters. Left 4 Dead is one that comes readily to mind, probably because I can't stop playing it. The characters do a lot of walking as they try to move through a zombie infested world. Their health level directly effects the speed they can move and attacks temporarily slow movement to a crawl.
I don't doubt that one day we have games that support walking around and it will be a great step in fulfilling our holideck fantasies. I'd think that a useful interface for FPS games would be a combination of motion sensing for actions (aiming, looking, interacting with doors, objects, light switches) and current style controls for actually moving your character in the environment. It seems like a good balance for those 6 hour, Saturday afternoon gaming sessions.
DRM protected electricity!
This makes a lot of sense for those of us that read the news for the comments. I'm looking at you /.ers
(ps i love reading comments too!)
At first I'm tempted to dismiss this as nothing more than a renaming of Microsoft's current crappy search engine. (I mean who really uses it anyway?) But I think it would be a little hasty to totally ignore the sheer amount of cash Microsoft can dump into advertising. You tech guys out there should expect your circle of computer dummies to start asking "So what's this bing thing anyway?". I don't think they'll overthrow google anytime soon but I'm fairly sure they have a chance of taking a slice of their users.
I saw a demo of something very similar in 2006 at a medical technology convention. The basic idea was that when your ear is flooded with similar sound your brain cannot interpret the actual words of the conversation you're trying to listen to. They would record your voice, and then their software would chop it into random increments and play six simultaneous layers back over speakers. You could then have a phone conversation without people being able to understand what you were saying. It worked quite well and the sound wasn't any more annoying than someone on the phone.
The spirit of the idea seems to be tracking an individual without having to go through the trouble of a warrant. The spirit will undoubtedly be abused. If there are no loop holes to jump through to start tracking an individual they might as well track everyone. It's even easier if the vehicle already has a tracking system such as OnStar. From there they can do whatever they want such as track speeding and mail you tickets.
This is par for the course when it comes to Torrent indexes. They become popular and appear on the radar of money hungry lawyers and are forced into collapse. It happened to Supranova and TorrentSpy and now it's happening to mininova. We'll just have to wait for the next one to come along.
If you read the article this isn't nearly as impressive as it sounds. The buttons are in a static configuration and need an air compressor to rise. They're going to need to come up with a more flexible method of tactile feedback if they want to create a useful technology. Back to the drawing board!
Offensive cyber attacks could be useful as a first step to a physical operation. Exploiting a vulnerability in the enemy's defenses could greatly increase their response time. Maybe turning off the power so they can't open the garage doors and get their tanks out. Or causing all the cash machines to spew money to lure the squishies into the streets before a bombing run.
I'm a Microsoft fan boy (MCPD for web development). I usually stick to a three step process. 1. Start by writing with a focus on IE7 and try to keep everything up to XHTML standards. Test locally for FF and Chrome. 2. For public facing websites that focus more on displaying information than providing interaction I use browsershots.org to see how the pages render on common browsers. A VM machine with lots of browsers (including IE6) is used for local debugging. 3. With web applications functionality is the most critical. Clients will usually have a handful of browsers that they expect their users to be running. Each browser they request support for needs to pass unit testing. For some projects compatibility testing goes smooth and for some it's the biggest hangup in the SDLC.
...someone start this twumer (twitter rumor) I'm to lazy.
Bravo!
149,995 useless strangers died today.
The US didn't hang him. His trial was conducted by an Iraqi Tribunal. THEY ordered his execution by hanging for the murder of 148 Shiites in retaliation for the assasination attempt in 1982. He was allowed to appeal, which was rejected and he was executed by the Iraqi's.
Let me know when I can drive my car with a LCARS interface...
Tomorrow's headlines: "Microsoft files lawsuit against Adobe claiming Adobe is monopolizing the web presentation market."
It could be that those of us that are good at our jobs get our work done more quickly. That leaves more time for leisure browsing because there's nothing else to do.
I had pretty much forgotten they were making a prequel. Leaking incomplete or small portions of a movie might actually be a good way of getting media coverage. Then you can sue your fans. It's the only marketing campaign that pays you!