Anybody ever deliberately follow ad links? The only times I ever click on them is by mistake.
These type of "studies" are mostly to convince companies to shell out money for more internet advertizing. There's no real feasable way compare the effectiveness of TV and internet advertizing. As for people that are more "engaged" to online advertizing, maybe the real reason they are so engaged is because they are trying to find the (X)that's often camouflaged in the ad or the mute button in annoying video ads.
"smart energy" devices? I prefer "dumb" energy devices where they are really off instead of the standby crap they have now. Standby is mostly broken now anyways, the whole point of standby on TVs was that you could use your remote and open the TV and start channel surfing immediately. Now because everything is more complex I have to wait for my TV to "boot" up for a few seconds first. The only difference between this and having the TV starting from a "cold" start is that I waste energy when it's off.
Not to be a doubting Thomas but I think that they are underestimating the complexity of a brain. There are many different chemicals and biochemical reactions going on in the body, that science has only a vague idea of their mechanisms. Look at any drug in the market, most of them only give conjecture on why they work. My feeling is that until one day when we can create computer models that reliable predict the effects of drugs in the brain or in the body in general, these models are nowhere near what real brains are. But I would also love to be proven wrong.
Respectfully, you misunderstand my position. My analogy would be a neighbor looking through my open window and catching my illegal dog fighting ring and alerting police. While the neighbor does not have a right to look through my window because I left my window open I had no reasonable expection to a right of privacy, just like the alleged pedophile in this case when he brought his computer to another third party. Also there are many ways these files could have come up without the technician actively searching for them. I suppose most of these service calls involve virus scans, and alot of these programs show the file names that are being scanned. I do agree that courts should not put so much weight on data on a hard drive. Data can be easily falsified or altered and I hope people will take that into account.
As for my personal preference regarding privacy. I would love to live in a world where I wasn't being watched and listened but the way technology moves that is not feasable. In the next few years it's going to be dirt cheap to buy devices that record audio and video. Unless you're asking for a ban on such devices, by your strict interpretation privacy won't exist at all. I dearly wish it won't turn out that way, but I don't see a way out of it.//P.S. I've no problems with guns.
Loss of rights? I think you lost your common sense, actually. It's the folks that fought WWII that put us on this course actually. They'are the ones who invented the phrase "There aught to be a law..." There always is going to be a balance in privacy rights. It's inevitable that with greater proliferation of technology that privacy will be intruded upon. Almost everyone has cell phones now and in the future all of them will be equipped with video, audio recording, gps and whatever else we come up with and soon they will be on 24 hours a day. The world changes, it's up to us to ensure that it changes for the better. The days of defining privacy as strictly privacy is over.
It would actually be a great advance, but the resources required would not offset its advantages since 99% of the time you can find what you're looking for using keywords and phrases.
I don't really get it.
Dell provides computers that run Linux.
Shouldn't most Linux programs run on them?
If they don't, doesn't that really show the state of Linux than a reflection of the support by Dell?
I'm on the cusp of installing Linux on my spare computer and play around with it and I read the article to see what problems the typical user might have from a distro that's "supported" by a major company. Instead I feel this four page article wasted my time, it didn't say what programs or areas in general are not supported or need better support by Dell in Linux. There's just a blanket statement that more programs should be better supported, duh my friends, duhh. I also expected to see the usual "Dell sold me hardware that's not supported in Linux" type problems but instead I got a vague issue regarding LCDs. I'm seriously racking my brain on what that could be, I use Dell LCDs and I've seen people run Linux on multiple LCDs with no problems at all.
This is a very poorly written article which reads like an article middle schoolers would read to learn vocabulary words. It's basically a backhanded compliment to Dell for integrating Linux into its business. Support issues will alwas linger, no company has a perfect support issue.
In the interest of furthering discussion, I would dispute that. I've said it before, you can nuke every square meter on this planet, and assuming you survive the blasts, Earth would still be the most habitable planet on this solar system. The dream of space colonies wether in orbit, on the moon or on other planets is in my estimation centuries away, not decades as most people would like to believe.
The real reason space technology should be the primary focus of human endeavor is because of all the technological breakthroughs it provides. Aside from war the space race has provided the greatest leaps in technology and other knowledge for human kind. And it is very arguable that investing in space technology pays more dividends than investing in war.
That's a main reason why I hesitate to invest in Google stock. I see a lot of potential but then I also see a lot of alternatives to what Google offers. Strictly judging Google as a business I cannot predict the course they are going to take. They are full of brilliant people and should be churning out alot of great stuff, but if you think about it a lot of the succesful stuff they have have been bought not made inhouse.
Nothings too late in this era. We don't even have a clear current winner. Depending on demographics, some sites are stronger than others. Also as we can see with Facebook, any public screwups can quickly change things. If Facebook hadn't reacted as fast and strongly to allay people fears regarding privacy alot of legitimate users would have migrated elsewhere. I've signed up on Myspace and Facebook but since I've a bad habit of not providing personal information to strangers these services don't really appeal to me. But from what I saw there's really nothing one has that the other couldn't implement.
I have trouble disagreeing with you. I looked at the pic expecting a robot analog of a water strider. Instead it was really disappointing. You can get the same exact effect using a common paper clip on a cup of water! Maybe I can attach a small motor to it and call it a water bouncing robot. I got to tell you man, these scientists are seriously making the 21st century suck.
Dude, you're so true! It's totally about that thing you said!//I don't get it, I've nothing to do so I checked out the link, I can't even figure out what they're trying to sell. ??
I use Wikipedia all the time but always with a grain of salt.
When you're in college, they should stress more at looking through primary sources of information. People think they're so smart on the internet when they read about scams, corruption and controversy and react with unimformed ideas. Even on Slashdot this is very prevalent where people just react at topic titles, not bothering to take 2 minutes to read through the information.
People always complain about the media or politicians influencing the masses. But what about the masses? They only read the shit the media and politicians put out. This is the age of information and almost everything is available online we should better make use of it.
There's a growing trend of people spamming Youtube and everywhere else with scientific hoaxes and conspiracy theories. The first few times, I've found them funny, because I can see through them almost immediately and some of them are pretty cleverly done. But then, I found that alot of people were taken by erroneous info. Then I felt very sad indeed.
I wholeheartily second that emotion, Acrobat Reader and Quicktime are the two apps that I've pissed me off so consistently throughout the years. Even Microsoft's shitty Windows evolves and improves(?), why can't they?
It would be funny if some truck driver took it literally and drove into the lake. Maybe in the future where everyone navigates by cranial implanted GPS that may happen.
Errors can and should be corrected. What they are talking about are erasing real roads from record. Where do you draw the line? Can I request that the small path leading to my cottage be erased so that I may get less Jehovah's Witnesses traffic? Updating all those maps is probably a huge task, it would probably be more problematic if you let the public decide what should and should not be included.
Let maps be maps, the most logical course is to improve the algorithm that uses those maps.
None of the GPS units that I've used have come close at impressing me with their pathfinding capabilities.
The request is totally unreasonable, information is not easily contained. A lot of roads are designated for non-truck use, if trucks don't obey signs, ticket the trucks, drivers, and companies they belong to.
There's no need to create new laws and rules for such a simple thing.
I don't think it's Microsoft itself setting the prices, the retailers are. Unlike Microsoft, Apple is pretty anal about the iPod prices at the retail level. Don't know if Microsoft is selling the Zune at a loss to retailer tho, you may have a point. But really, Zune is cheaper than the iPod but I gotta believe somone is making money off it.
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These type of "studies" are mostly to convince companies to shell out money for more internet advertizing. There's no real feasable way compare the effectiveness of TV and internet advertizing. As for people that are more "engaged" to online advertizing, maybe the real reason they are so engaged is because they are trying to find the (X)that's often camouflaged in the ad or the mute button in annoying video ads.
"smart energy" devices? I prefer "dumb" energy devices where they are really off instead of the standby crap they have now. Standby is mostly broken now anyways, the whole point of standby on TVs was that you could use your remote and open the TV and start channel surfing immediately. Now because everything is more complex I have to wait for my TV to "boot" up for a few seconds first. The only difference between this and having the TV starting from a "cold" start is that I waste energy when it's off.
I don't think they like blackjack and hookers quite as much as we do.
Not to be a doubting Thomas but I think that they are underestimating the complexity of a brain. There are many different chemicals and biochemical reactions going on in the body, that science has only a vague idea of their mechanisms. Look at any drug in the market, most of them only give conjecture on why they work. My feeling is that until one day when we can create computer models that reliable predict the effects of drugs in the brain or in the body in general, these models are nowhere near what real brains are. But I would also love to be proven wrong.
Respectfully, you misunderstand my position. My analogy would be a neighbor looking through my open window and catching my illegal dog fighting ring and alerting police. While the neighbor does not have a right to look through my window because I left my window open I had no reasonable expection to a right of privacy, just like the alleged pedophile in this case when he brought his computer to another third party. Also there are many ways these files could have come up without the technician actively searching for them. I suppose most of these service calls involve virus scans, and alot of these programs show the file names that are being scanned. I do agree that courts should not put so much weight on data on a hard drive. Data can be easily falsified or altered and I hope people will take that into account. As for my personal preference regarding privacy. I would love to live in a world where I wasn't being watched and listened but the way technology moves that is not feasable. In the next few years it's going to be dirt cheap to buy devices that record audio and video. Unless you're asking for a ban on such devices, by your strict interpretation privacy won't exist at all. I dearly wish it won't turn out that way, but I don't see a way out of it. //P.S. I've no problems with guns.
Loss of rights? I think you lost your common sense, actually. It's the folks that fought WWII that put us on this course actually. They'are the ones who invented the phrase "There aught to be a law..." There always is going to be a balance in privacy rights. It's inevitable that with greater proliferation of technology that privacy will be intruded upon. Almost everyone has cell phones now and in the future all of them will be equipped with video, audio recording, gps and whatever else we come up with and soon they will be on 24 hours a day. The world changes, it's up to us to ensure that it changes for the better. The days of defining privacy as strictly privacy is over.
That's actually interesting. Anybody know what the actual ratio of 0 and 1 is in compiled code? I would be very surprised if it's 50%.
It would actually be a great advance, but the resources required would not offset its advantages since 99% of the time you can find what you're looking for using keywords and phrases.
I play TF2 for the PC all the time. User created maps are below average to horrible in terms of balance, quality, etc.
I don't really get it. Dell provides computers that run Linux. Shouldn't most Linux programs run on them? If they don't, doesn't that really show the state of Linux than a reflection of the support by Dell?
I'm on the cusp of installing Linux on my spare computer and play around with it and I read the article to see what problems the typical user might have from a distro that's "supported" by a major company. Instead I feel this four page article wasted my time, it didn't say what programs or areas in general are not supported or need better support by Dell in Linux. There's just a blanket statement that more programs should be better supported, duh my friends, duhh. I also expected to see the usual "Dell sold me hardware that's not supported in Linux" type problems but instead I got a vague issue regarding LCDs. I'm seriously racking my brain on what that could be, I use Dell LCDs and I've seen people run Linux on multiple LCDs with no problems at all. This is a very poorly written article which reads like an article middle schoolers would read to learn vocabulary words. It's basically a backhanded compliment to Dell for integrating Linux into its business. Support issues will alwas linger, no company has a perfect support issue.
In the interest of furthering discussion, I would dispute that. I've said it before, you can nuke every square meter on this planet, and assuming you survive the blasts, Earth would still be the most habitable planet on this solar system. The dream of space colonies wether in orbit, on the moon or on other planets is in my estimation centuries away, not decades as most people would like to believe. The real reason space technology should be the primary focus of human endeavor is because of all the technological breakthroughs it provides. Aside from war the space race has provided the greatest leaps in technology and other knowledge for human kind. And it is very arguable that investing in space technology pays more dividends than investing in war.
It's just copy pasted from ZDNet Australia, poster didn't change anything. Australia spoke English, last time I checked.
That would actually parallel the Boston Tea Party more than you think. Little known fact: The Tea dumped in the Boston Tea was also from China.
That's a main reason why I hesitate to invest in Google stock. I see a lot of potential but then I also see a lot of alternatives to what Google offers. Strictly judging Google as a business I cannot predict the course they are going to take. They are full of brilliant people and should be churning out alot of great stuff, but if you think about it a lot of the succesful stuff they have have been bought not made inhouse.
Nothings too late in this era. We don't even have a clear current winner. Depending on demographics, some sites are stronger than others. Also as we can see with Facebook, any public screwups can quickly change things. If Facebook hadn't reacted as fast and strongly to allay people fears regarding privacy alot of legitimate users would have migrated elsewhere. I've signed up on Myspace and Facebook but since I've a bad habit of not providing personal information to strangers these services don't really appeal to me. But from what I saw there's really nothing one has that the other couldn't implement.
This fake and if it's real...OHMYGOD go finish the series so I can read it before I die.
Paper works just as well in this experiment. Used to do it all the time when I do the dishes.
I have trouble disagreeing with you. I looked at the pic expecting a robot analog of a water strider. Instead it was really disappointing. You can get the same exact effect using a common paper clip on a cup of water! Maybe I can attach a small motor to it and call it a water bouncing robot. I got to tell you man, these scientists are seriously making the 21st century suck.
Dude, you're so true! It's totally about that thing you said! //I don't get it, I've nothing to do so I checked out the link, I can't even figure out what they're trying to sell. ??
I use Wikipedia all the time but always with a grain of salt. When you're in college, they should stress more at looking through primary sources of information. People think they're so smart on the internet when they read about scams, corruption and controversy and react with unimformed ideas. Even on Slashdot this is very prevalent where people just react at topic titles, not bothering to take 2 minutes to read through the information. People always complain about the media or politicians influencing the masses. But what about the masses? They only read the shit the media and politicians put out. This is the age of information and almost everything is available online we should better make use of it. There's a growing trend of people spamming Youtube and everywhere else with scientific hoaxes and conspiracy theories. The first few times, I've found them funny, because I can see through them almost immediately and some of them are pretty cleverly done. But then, I found that alot of people were taken by erroneous info. Then I felt very sad indeed.
I wholeheartily second that emotion, Acrobat Reader and Quicktime are the two apps that I've pissed me off so consistently throughout the years. Even Microsoft's shitty Windows evolves and improves(?), why can't they?
It would be funny if some truck driver took it literally and drove into the lake. Maybe in the future where everyone navigates by cranial implanted GPS that may happen. Errors can and should be corrected. What they are talking about are erasing real roads from record. Where do you draw the line? Can I request that the small path leading to my cottage be erased so that I may get less Jehovah's Witnesses traffic? Updating all those maps is probably a huge task, it would probably be more problematic if you let the public decide what should and should not be included. Let maps be maps, the most logical course is to improve the algorithm that uses those maps. None of the GPS units that I've used have come close at impressing me with their pathfinding capabilities.
The request is totally unreasonable, information is not easily contained. A lot of roads are designated for non-truck use, if trucks don't obey signs, ticket the trucks, drivers, and companies they belong to. There's no need to create new laws and rules for such a simple thing.
I don't think it's Microsoft itself setting the prices, the retailers are. Unlike Microsoft, Apple is pretty anal about the iPod prices at the retail level. Don't know if Microsoft is selling the Zune at a loss to retailer tho, you may have a point. But really, Zune is cheaper than the iPod but I gotta believe somone is making money off it.