Well, Finland already has a border with Russia and the way things are going, it's entirely possible Estonia and the rest of the Baltics will be returned to Russia's "sphere of influence" by 2030. Promises made by NATO to put a brigade in Poland and create local headquarters in each of the Baltic states have made depressingly little progress and the EU has made it clear that avoiding conflict with Russia is worth the sacrifice of nations on the periphery of Europe.
It's always Sony vs. their customers, unfortunately. a shame because they have some incredible engineering talent. It will probably be beautiful device but will have a proprietary media format, proprietary headphone jack, proprietary charger, proprietary batteries. And media and peripherals will cost double everybody else's. Sony's scammer mentality is to screw their customers at every turn rather than build something beautiful and usable that will then become indispensable. Their Walkman music player products and phones are a tragedy... So much potential, such a waste.
Rolled up things are not necessarily an inefficient use of space... Check out this NYTimes piece where a flight attendant shows how to get 10 days of clothes in a carry on by roll-packing: 10 Days in a Carry-On
I remember being in a school assembly for an earlier launch - Columbia or Atlantis, I think - and the whole way up, I just kept thinking to myself, "explode, explode, c'mon explode. please explode. c'mon, this is booring... explode!" not out of any malicious or malevolent intent, but just because I thought it would be cool and I wasn't old enough to realize the ramifications.
When the Challenger disaster happened two years later, I was mortified. By that time I already could understand what it meant and was wracked with guilt, convinced it was somehow my fault for having wished that such a thing would happen.
Which, of course, is silly. But just in case - I really hope that no more shuttles or rockets explode.
According to Google's blog post on the issue, automated sentiment analysis doesn't really work...
As it turns out, Google has a world-class sentiment analysis system (Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs). But if we demoted web pages that have negative comments against them, you might not be able to find information about many elected officials, not to mention a lot of important but controversial concepts. So far we have not found an effective way to significantly improve search using sentiment analysis. Of course, we will continue trying.
which makes it seem like whatever fix they instituted in their algorithm in response to this problem is just a kludge and that the underlying problem remains...
There is a solution to this problem that a lot of people are already using, however: Web Of Trust, which lists user recommendations as to trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety. Sure enough, WOT gives decormyeyes the lowest combined rating, which according to my settings would not allow my browser to even visit such a site.
All those big name news outfits, CBS or FOX or what not, they are in the business of selling ad time. Digging and finding the truth costs money and produces uninteresting information. "Was there a mystery missile? Film at 11" collects eye-balls and sells ads. The amateur on the other hand does not have any incentive to hype the mystery and in fact has an incentive to debunk the myth. So he got it. Way to go.
Wish there are more such amateurs tracking the money and misinformation spread by everyone about politics.
why not plug into an outdoor outlet, or just go inside and borrow the use of an outlet., shelter, etc.
I'm guessing it's because there might not be an outdoor outlet and the people inside might either shoot you or act in such a way as to increase the chances that you'll have to shoot them. Seems like a better idea to just stay undetected outside, steal your juice and go on your way.
I was going to say this would been much easier if the Plane Finder AR iphone and android app wasn't labeled "an aid to terrorists" and removed from app stores, but it looks like you can still get it. There's a web version too at www.planefinder.net
Aaargh!!! Oh, the anguish of being a fan of slow-moving sporadically entertaining cerebral sci-fi!!
I do believe the show had hope, but it certainly suffered from the same problems that affect almost all long-story-arc television these days: 1) the producers don't know how many years they are going to have to tell the story going into the project. (In LOST, for example, this resulted in a good 2-3 seasons of 'filler material' during which the show became so convoluted that basically everybody stopped caring enough to try to understand it. 2) the shows don't provide any resolution of major plot points on a season-by-season level. 24, of course, is the best example of a program doing this well. Every season there is resolution of the main plot. Mad Men also, has a separate central theme for each season which is fully explored and then discarded by the next season. Caprica didn't have that. It just sort of slowly ground on, and given the producers had no idea how long it was supposed to go on for, it's difficult to bring major plot points to satisfying conclusions in a timely enough schedule to keep audiences satisfied.
But I, for one, was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt... Oh well, now I guess I'll have to turn all my attention to the new Sherlock Holmes on PBS. Go Sherlock! (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/watch.html)
We have a $20k machine that does what a person could do in about 30 seconds? Or could be resolved for weeks with a beard trimmer in under a 60 seconds? This looks like a problem that wasn't needing a solution.
According to the article, the robot was developed to assist caregivers in hospitals and health-care facilities. So, yes, it is a completely useless and overpriced machine but it will be paid for by the taxpayers so it should end up being a big money maker for Panasonic.
This comment was attached to the original article:
"I eat a lot - 15grams a day". No, you don't. You're advocating this as a significant part of the diet.
The first link I found gives for 15g of dried spirulena around 40 calories. This is 2% of the energy you likely need. If it's not dried, and that 15g is wet, it's _way_ under 1% of your daily calorific requirement.
15g a day is not a food. It's a spice, a flavoring, or a supplement.
I think it's safe to assume China is not pulling the plug on these enterprises because of environmental concerns. In a command economy,the only way to modernize industrial enterprises is by government fiat. The fact that improving efficiency has environmental benefits just makes for good pr.
The Chinese capitalist experiment only covers part of the country. as a result, much of China is filled with value destroying enterprises that would have gone bankrupt in a purely capitalist society. (It costs $1 of inputs to produce $1 of output.) On the upside, they employ people - but given that populations are declining due to the government mandated reverse baby boom, that is no longer as much of a concern.
This smells of Cold fusion. I was 12 when that scandal erupted and I'm *still* recovering from the disappointment that we hadn't just entered the age of flying cars. This time I think we're better off saving our excitement until the experiment has been repeated.
The environment inside a cell is enormously complex, containing millions of proteins, nucleic acid structures, lipids, carbohydrates, etc of many thousands of different types.
Add to this the recent discovery that there are over one hundred species of bacteria populating the average healthy lung (over 2,000 microbes per square centimeter), and that people with asthma have different collection of microbes in their lungs than healthy people.
Sounds like this has the potential to revitalize the desktop market.
While the wireless docking application for laptops sounds like it has great potential, the promise of using this technology to supercharge low-cost tablets, netbooks and mobile devices when in range of a desktop seems too good to pass up. This would provide a strong incentive for me to buy everything in that ecosystem.
The polling company also could have fallen afoul of Benford's Law.
From Wikipedia: "Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading digit with lower and lower frequency, to the point where 9 as a first digit occurs less than one time in twenty. This distribution of first digits arises whenever a set of values has logarithms that are distributed uniformly, as is approximately the case with many measurements of real-world values. This counter-intuitive result has been found to apply to a wide variety of data sets, including electricity bills, street addresses, stock prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers, physical and mathematical constants, and processes described by power laws (which are very common in nature). The result holds regardless of the base in which the numbers are expressed (except for trivial bases), although the exact proportions change."
I would add political naivete to that list. In an era where Obama's opposition is trying to paint him as an intrusive big government trampler of individual rights, coming out with a program to provide identity cards to people so they can be more easily identified and tracked on the Internet - no matter how well intentioned - is just begging to be used against him.
if you are already doing freelance work, it means you already have connections, resume, and the experience to show for it. leave the country. that will teach them, VERY badly.
Right... so, let them eat cake, basically.
It's difficult to move even to a different city in Ukraine (you need a residence permit). As far as going to work in a different country, the entire international system is basically designed to prevent that. And it's not as if the world is your oyster... Your choices for visa-free travel as a Ukrainian are the former Soviet Union (except the parts that are now EU members) and that's it. You can pick up temporary visa's in-country in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Thailand and Vietnam.
And nobody gives work visas for freelancers, so you'd be working illegally anyway.
The problem is that the majority of Ukrainian freelancers already work illegally.
Corporate entities have a far higher tax payment rate than individuals, especially in the internet sphere where freelancers don't have physical office space or physical deliverables that can be tracked by authorities. Furthermore, individual entrepreneurs providing internet-based services in Ukraine make it hard for the tax-paying corporate entities to compete.
This has become important because Ukraine is set to receive from $19-20 billion from the IMF in the next two and a half years if they can show that they are making progress in reducing their budget deficits, so there's a lot of incentive to try to push tax payments up.
Wow... what a shocker! Porn sites have lots of malware! Who woulda guessed?
Really... who on earth is actually surprised by this?
Exactly. My first reaction was, Porn Sites More Infected Than WHO Thought? Everybody knows porn sites are infected. That's why you use "porn mode" with AdBlock, no?
These guys aren't hackers. They are security advisors. They are the good guys.
So, if you were one of the people who had their personal email leaked, would you be thanking the good guys right now for doing it?
It's sort of like if a security consultant pushed somebody through a broken railing to "demonstrate" the flaw in security.
Couldn't they have just called AT&T and pointed it out?
Or would that not have been rad enough?
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From the article:
"Since VR SLI is a software (driver) feature, it works across a wide variety of NVIDIA GPUs, going all the way back to the GeForce GTX 600 series"
GTX 600 series was released in 2012, so it will work with a card that came out 4 years ago, not 2! So there!
But also agree with other commenter that you'll probably need a newer card to run VR...
Well, Finland already has a border with Russia and the way things are going, it's entirely possible Estonia and the rest of the Baltics will be returned to Russia's "sphere of influence" by 2030. Promises made by NATO to put a brigade in Poland and create local headquarters in each of the Baltic states have made depressingly little progress and the EU has made it clear that avoiding conflict with Russia is worth the sacrifice of nations on the periphery of Europe.
It's always Sony vs. their customers, unfortunately. a shame because they have some incredible engineering talent. It will probably be beautiful device but will have a proprietary media format, proprietary headphone jack, proprietary charger, proprietary batteries. And media and peripherals will cost double everybody else's. Sony's scammer mentality is to screw their customers at every turn rather than build something beautiful and usable that will then become indispensable. Their Walkman music player products and phones are a tragedy... So much potential, such a waste.
Rolled up things are not necessarily an inefficient use of space... Check out this NYTimes piece where a flight attendant shows how to get 10 days of clothes in a carry on by roll-packing: 10 Days in a Carry-On
Why is this article tagged Idle? Surely this is most important News For Nerds!
I remember being in a school assembly for an earlier launch - Columbia or Atlantis, I think - and the whole way up, I just kept thinking to myself, "explode, explode, c'mon explode. please explode. c'mon, this is booring... explode!" not out of any malicious or malevolent intent, but just because I thought it would be cool and I wasn't old enough to realize the ramifications.
When the Challenger disaster happened two years later, I was mortified. By that time I already could understand what it meant and was wracked with guilt, convinced it was somehow my fault for having wished that such a thing would happen.
Which, of course, is silly. But just in case - I really hope that no more shuttles or rockets explode.
According to Google's blog post on the issue, automated sentiment analysis doesn't really work...
which makes it seem like whatever fix they instituted in their algorithm in response to this problem is just a kludge and that the underlying problem remains...
There is a solution to this problem that a lot of people are already using, however: Web Of Trust, which lists user recommendations as to trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety. Sure enough, WOT gives decormyeyes the lowest combined rating, which according to my settings would not allow my browser to even visit such a site.
Queen Amigdala, regulator of the Phantom Menace... There, mnemonic device sorted.
All those big name news outfits, CBS or FOX or what not, they are in the business of selling ad time. Digging and finding the truth costs money and produces uninteresting information. "Was there a mystery missile? Film at 11" collects eye-balls and sells ads. The amateur on the other hand does not have any incentive to hype the mystery and in fact has an incentive to debunk the myth. So he got it. Way to go.
Wish there are more such amateurs tracking the money and misinformation spread by everyone about politics.
getting a bit offtopic, but, there are such amateur sleuths following the money in politics... check out http://www.opensecrets.org/ and http://www.legistorm.com/
why not plug into an outdoor outlet, or just go inside and borrow the use of an outlet., shelter, etc.
I'm guessing it's because there might not be an outdoor outlet and the people inside might either shoot you or act in such a way as to increase the chances that you'll have to shoot them. Seems like a better idea to just stay undetected outside, steal your juice and go on your way.
I was going to say this would been much easier if the Plane Finder AR iphone and android app wasn't labeled "an aid to terrorists" and removed from app stores, but it looks like you can still get it. There's a web version too at www.planefinder.net
"Still, South Korean animators make one-third the salaries of their American counterparts"
Er... what American counterparts?
Aaargh!!! Oh, the anguish of being a fan of slow-moving sporadically entertaining cerebral sci-fi!!
I do believe the show had hope, but it certainly suffered from the same problems that affect almost all long-story-arc television these days: 1) the producers don't know how many years they are going to have to tell the story going into the project. (In LOST, for example, this resulted in a good 2-3 seasons of 'filler material' during which the show became so convoluted that basically everybody stopped caring enough to try to understand it. 2) the shows don't provide any resolution of major plot points on a season-by-season level. 24, of course, is the best example of a program doing this well. Every season there is resolution of the main plot. Mad Men also, has a separate central theme for each season which is fully explored and then discarded by the next season. Caprica didn't have that. It just sort of slowly ground on, and given the producers had no idea how long it was supposed to go on for, it's difficult to bring major plot points to satisfying conclusions in a timely enough schedule to keep audiences satisfied.
But I, for one, was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt... Oh well, now I guess I'll have to turn all my attention to the new Sherlock Holmes on PBS. Go Sherlock! (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/watch.html)
We have a $20k machine that does what a person could do in about 30 seconds? Or could be resolved for weeks with a beard trimmer in under a 60 seconds? This looks like a problem that wasn't needing a solution.
According to the article, the robot was developed to assist caregivers in hospitals and health-care facilities. So, yes, it is a completely useless and overpriced machine but it will be paid for by the taxpayers so it should end up being a big money maker for Panasonic.
This comment was attached to the original article:
"I eat a lot - 15grams a day".
No, you don't.
You're advocating this as a significant part of the diet.
The first link I found gives for 15g of dried spirulena around 40 calories.
This is 2% of the energy you likely need.
If it's not dried, and that 15g is wet, it's _way_ under 1% of your daily calorific requirement.
15g a day is not a food. It's a spice, a flavoring, or a supplement.
I think it's safe to assume China is not pulling the plug on these enterprises because of environmental concerns. In a command economy,the only way to modernize industrial enterprises is by government fiat. The fact that improving efficiency has environmental benefits just makes for good pr.
The Chinese capitalist experiment only covers part of the country. as a result, much of China is filled with value destroying enterprises that would have gone bankrupt in a purely capitalist society. (It costs $1 of inputs to produce $1 of output.) On the upside, they employ people - but given that populations are declining due to the government mandated reverse baby boom, that is no longer as much of a concern.
This smells of Cold fusion. I was 12 when that scandal erupted and I'm *still* recovering from the disappointment that we hadn't just entered the age of flying cars. This time I think we're better off saving our excitement until the experiment has been repeated.
The environment inside a cell is enormously complex, containing millions of proteins, nucleic acid structures, lipids, carbohydrates, etc of many thousands of different types.
Add to this the recent discovery that there are over one hundred species of bacteria populating the average healthy lung (over 2,000 microbes per square centimeter), and that people with asthma have different collection of microbes in their lungs than healthy people.
Sounds like this has the potential to revitalize the desktop market.
While the wireless docking application for laptops sounds like it has great potential, the promise of using this technology to supercharge low-cost tablets, netbooks and mobile devices when in range of a desktop seems too good to pass up. This would provide a strong incentive for me to buy everything in that ecosystem.
The polling company also could have fallen afoul of Benford's Law.
From Wikipedia: "Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading digit with lower and lower frequency, to the point where 9 as a first digit occurs less than one time in twenty. This distribution of first digits arises whenever a set of values has logarithms that are distributed uniformly, as is approximately the case with many measurements of real-world values.
This counter-intuitive result has been found to apply to a wide variety of data sets, including electricity bills, street addresses, stock prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers, physical and mathematical constants, and processes described by power laws (which are very common in nature). The result holds regardless of the base in which the numbers are expressed (except for trivial bases), although the exact proportions change."
I would add political naivete to that list. In an era where Obama's opposition is trying to paint him as an intrusive big government trampler of individual rights, coming out with a program to provide identity cards to people so they can be more easily identified and tracked on the Internet - no matter how well intentioned - is just begging to be used against him.
if you are already doing freelance work, it means you already have connections, resume, and the experience to show for it. leave the country. that will teach them, VERY badly.
Right... so, let them eat cake, basically.
It's difficult to move even to a different city in Ukraine (you need a residence permit). As far as going to work in a different country, the entire international system is basically designed to prevent that. And it's not as if the world is your oyster... Your choices for visa-free travel as a Ukrainian are the former Soviet Union (except the parts that are now EU members) and that's it. You can pick up temporary visa's in-country in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Thailand and Vietnam.
And nobody gives work visas for freelancers, so you'd be working illegally anyway.
The problem is that the majority of Ukrainian freelancers already work illegally.
Corporate entities have a far higher tax payment rate than individuals, especially in the internet sphere where freelancers don't have physical office space or physical deliverables that can be tracked by authorities. Furthermore, individual entrepreneurs providing internet-based services in Ukraine make it hard for the tax-paying corporate entities to compete.
This has become important because Ukraine is set to receive from $19-20 billion from the IMF in the next two and a half years if they can show that they are making progress in reducing their budget deficits, so there's a lot of incentive to try to push tax payments up.
Wow... what a shocker! Porn sites have lots of malware! Who woulda guessed?
Really... who on earth is actually surprised by this?
Exactly. My first reaction was, Porn Sites More Infected Than WHO Thought? Everybody knows porn sites are infected. That's why you use "porn mode" with AdBlock, no?
These guys aren't hackers. They are security advisors. They are the good guys.
So, if you were one of the people who had their personal email leaked, would you be thanking the good guys right now for doing it? It's sort of like if a security consultant pushed somebody through a broken railing to "demonstrate" the flaw in security. Couldn't they have just called AT&T and pointed it out? Or would that not have been rad enough?