I have never heard of Big Dog, but I will check it out. I would not mind buying some Plastic Logic shares and letting them sit, never know. I thought that cell phone was impressive how it opened up to display another screen.
I had always wished I had put money in Google when I knew about it in time to invest and make money off of their shares, but I missed it because well, I didn't have any expendable money to put in stocks like the small amount of money I do now because I had ten more years to build my life savings up, LOL.
The Memristor was interesting too, that would change the computer industry quickly, so money could be made on that too.
I have no idea what a Tesla car is, I will look it up. Sounds like The Dolorean or something. Lets hope the owner of Tesla doesn't have a coke habit. LOL
I've read a few web programming books. Some of my favorites:
The Art and Science of Web Design- Jeffrey Veen
The Web Designer's Idea Book- Patrick McNeil, I highly recommend this books for layout ideas, it really gives you a great approach to figuring out what style will work best for who you are designing for, depending on their business.
JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook, I am not sure who wrote this but it helped me alot.
I actually have been pretty cheap lately, so I have been reading W3C for tutorials on XML and CSS, because I haven't gotten into it much, I just learned how to use Dream weaver instead, so I took the lazy way out.
O'Reilly and Sam's have helped me with my basic skills with UNIX, Perl, PHP and MySQL. I have picked up the books, but I haven't sat down and actually delved into them. I just finished my degree, so I am going to actually get to read something practical for a change now and I might even be able to get a decent IT job besides the low to mid level jobs I have had in IT.
My light reading, there are too many to mention, I have read Just For Fun, it was good. I liked
Linus Torvalds outlook and it was interesting how he wrote about his life and how he stayed in locked away in his room working on Linux. I remember it striking me as funny at the time. That Linux was born out of someone not really wanting to join the world and the rest of the human race and party like a normal 20 year old would. It seems his adolescent and college years were painful but it all worked out for him in the end, which I thought was nice. I have never read anything about Richard Stallman, so I am guessing he is some Linux guru guy. I don't know much about Linux really. One day I will probably pick up a book and learn how to use it and it will become my primary OS one day, but for now OSX and Vista are fine. I liked The World is Flat, I had to read that for a class and The Google Story. I think they should make The Google Story into a movie someday.
Well I don't want you to waste your points, asphyxiation is a side effect of a volcanic eruption. But if you think about it, who would live near a volcano without knowing that it could kill them? I am sure they are very aware that nature in this instance is deadly and climate change is real, not a gamble or an impossibility.
Most people live either completely ignoring nature, trying to live in harmony with nature or they are even beholden to it and depend on their living and prosperity completely to survive. I think trying to live in harmony with it is probably best for most of society, if we want to survive. Like I said, I do not want to upset anyone on this board, so I don't think commenting any further is necessary about my views on nature, which I am sure no one will share here.
That is interesting, that you have been there, and of course if you get close enough, it kills. It is part of God's creation and thatâ(TM)s all there is to it my opinion, that is my view.:) To the crowd on here though, it is extremely scientific, so I don't have much to contribute. Nature is cruel as well as kind. There is much more to be said, but not by me.
I agree with you. Some babies will die regardless if the incubator is 1K or 40K. It is a part of being human and doctors are not completely infallible, I wish it wasn't like that, but it is unfortunately.
When my husband died, his cardiologist would not sign off on the death certificate, I had to get his PCP to sign off on it. To this day I am still very angry about that. He had passed his stress level tests three months previous and was doing very well. The doctor took him off of heart medication I feel now that it was too soon for him to be taken off of it in hindsight. The amount of grief I felt about that fact kills me still. But, I am not a doctor and I do not know how to save lives.
At the same time, his cardiologist was one of the best in our area, and it was his call, I still feel that my husband received very good care in the end. I certainly would not have sued his cardiologist. The thing about life and death is that it is still a mystery. Some procedures will work wonders on one person and be detrimental for another.
There is nothing wrong with developing less expensive ways to save lives as long as it falls within a safe range of standards.
In a second finding, the Macquarie University marine biology researcher resolved a long scientific debate, discovering that octopuses, despite their intelligence, lack individual personalities.
I am sure an octopus has enough trouble just trying to survive in its habitat and find food to live. I am sure developing a personality is not high on it's priorities, so watching crab on TV would definitely pique it's interest because of the movement and it is a crab, which they must recognize.
The people on this site love articles about animals and robots for some reason. LOL I have to start reading the Apple section.
Where I am at it is warm and raining, go figure. I would take that any day over snow and ice. Then I do see the ads on late night TV from the WWF that tell me I have to save the polar bears, and I always feel guilty.
"Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Public Combatant Global Warming Patent."
Let me know when the billboard ads for the personal/cleaning/pleasure toy robots are put up in the mall and they jump out at you while you are walking, yelling, "Buy me!" then that will be pretty damn impressive.
Seriously though, a bit sneaky, but fascinating that they want a headcount of who walks by these marketing ads. I wonder if they realize how numb the public is to this by now? I don't know if there have been studies, but it seems to me, the older you get, the less you want, I could be wrong, I am just speaking from personal experience.
I am not trying to be mean or confrontation to Slashdot people, but honestly if dementia is related to sarcasm then people on this site are in trouble, at least with the dementia patients.
Dementia is actually a very sad degenerative disease, where of course cognition is jumbled, making it difficult to even know what year it is, much less if someone is toying with you.
People love to be witty on the internet though, and I think this site actually does a good job in general because there are a lot of people on here with well thought out responses which makes this site interesting to read. Well at least so far.:)
It sounds like Drizzle is a complete overhaul of MySQL, cleaning up the bad and enhancing the good. I guess if Sun doesn't keep up, then Sun doesn't have a competitive advantage anymore, thereby forcing businesses to go elsewhere.
I thought the Esther Dyson story was interesting to read a lot of the other stories I had come across before. Except for the Coke thing, that is just plain stupid, I think I killed some brain cells just perusing the article.
After reading over the comments on this article and figuring out what I should spend my time on studying is not going to be exactly easy.
Maybe I should just continue on with OO programming and pick up where I left off and stick with interpreted languages and then onto OOP, instead of functional programming.
I would think that some functional programming would be useful though. I am guessing if you are familiar with OO and functional it would make you a bit more marketable. Just a hunch.
If Ruby, Python and PHP have overtaken Perl, it might be better to learn PHP. I will probably end up looking over both though as I go along.
That's interesting. I guess they will have to find a shooting star collector if there is such a thing. I though these kind of disasters made people sick and caused serious unbalance if the meteor is big enough to screw with the balance of where it hits, the people of the town and the person that owned the building probably don't think of it as a blessing though at least not yet if what you are saying will happen that someone would actually pay money for it. I guess I am a cynic, I could see geologists studying it, not buying it.
I don't believe it will be covered unless they have natural disaster insurance or a fire policy. It is a shame that things like this happen and people aren't insured.
A fire policy is normal for anyone to have, I mean if you go to the trouble of buying a house or renting a building for a business and paying a substantial amount in rent or a mortgage, I would think you would have the foresight to pay the ten to twenty five dollars a month for a fire insurance policy. The odds of a meteor hitting though, that is pretty unusual.
I then went to look at the prices for Office 2007 and I said, nope, I will just download OO, and it works just fine. I typed up a huge business report and put together a presentation in OO and three other homework assignments. There weren't any problems on either end opening or viewing my work with my instructors. I found out students can get Office 2007 for $40 bucks off of a website at school, so I bought it. Vista hasn't given me any trouble so far. Everyone talks about how horrible it is, but it seems fine so far.
I certainly do not use OO for math, LOL. I am definitely one of those "normal people" you are taking about. I recently bought a Dell 1525 Inspiron for 650 dollars. I told myself there was no way I was ever going to buy another laptop over 1K especially for what I use my laptop for! All I do is surf, email and write. I haven't even coded on this laptop yet and for my limited coding skills, this laptop is fine. I don't need a powerful laptop, especially when the life for laptops is so short.
I looked at the EEE PC, for a low end laptop for a couple hundred dollars it was OK, I mean it really seems great for someone is grade school to junior high maybe. It could work for someone if they were really mobile. It seemed to be between a hand held and a laptop to me, my hands were fine with space that was on the board, but it just wasn't a great experience, maybe it is because I am used to Dell or Apple. I think most people will stick with what they have bought before and what worked for them in the past.
I watched the video on the Bump Top 3D desktop. I thought the lasso technique was useful. I am really lazy about putting my documents away or saving them in the file I created or my documents file. They usually just sit on the desktop until I decide to sort them out when I have time.
I think someone said they thought it wasn't a very functional idea, and it was eye candy. For someone like me it is functional because of how I save my documents because I just got in the lazy way of saving them to my desktop.
I didn't think her article was ignorant, the comparison was just complete nonsense.
Iâ(TM)m not in favor of the government tracking everybody and so forth, [but] at least persistent pseudonyms and communities and stuff like that makes everything a nicer place.
I agree with this statement, but that is what a moderator is for, maybe that is the problem on the web, not enough manners. Some people feel when they are anonymous it gives them power to behave badly.
I really don't want to comment further on this story beyond this last post, but I do have a few points to bring up. So, he created an agreeable robot that takes drives with him and does not nag. She goes for 24 hours a day without a complaint? I guess Le Trung had the brains and the money to create this and it is admirable in that respect.
But if a woman created a man robot, he would be a sperm donor that brings home a paycheck that would boost her ego constantly, buy drinks and give massages on demand. I don't think robots are a substitute for a flesh and blood person. 13,000 responses can not make up in anyway for a real woman or a real man in any conversation or the uniqueness and imperfections of a human. Not much else say or to contribute on this story.
Regardless, it is impressive. A man that spent that much time planning and implementing a robot woman. It is a marvel, just hard to stomach as a female. I don't understand the application of a robot like this but I am not a man. I am also not a judge of what human ingenuity can accomplish, I am more of an observer. Either way, it is interesting.
I kind of agree, but I guess there are people that lonely. I lost my husband four years ago and I am not that lonely! It is Cherry 2000 Japanese style.:)
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I have never heard of Big Dog, but I will check it out. I would not mind buying some Plastic Logic shares and letting them sit, never know. I thought that cell phone was impressive how it opened up to display another screen.
I had always wished I had put money in Google when I knew about it in time to invest and make money off of their shares, but I missed it because well, I didn't have any expendable money to put in stocks like the small amount of money I do now because I had ten more years to build my life savings up, LOL.
The Memristor was interesting too, that would change the computer industry quickly, so money could be made on that too.
I have no idea what a Tesla car is, I will look it up. Sounds like The Dolorean or something. Lets hope the owner of Tesla doesn't have a coke habit. LOL
I actually have been pretty cheap lately, so I have been reading W3C for tutorials on XML and CSS, because I haven't gotten into it much, I just learned how to use Dream weaver instead, so I took the lazy way out.
O'Reilly and Sam's have helped me with my basic skills with UNIX, Perl, PHP and MySQL. I have picked up the books, but I haven't sat down and actually delved into them. I just finished my degree, so I am going to actually get to read something practical for a change now and I might even be able to get a decent IT job besides the low to mid level jobs I have had in IT.
My light reading, there are too many to mention, I have read Just For Fun, it was good. I liked Linus Torvalds outlook and it was interesting how he wrote about his life and how he stayed in locked away in his room working on Linux. I remember it striking me as funny at the time. That Linux was born out of someone not really wanting to join the world and the rest of the human race and party like a normal 20 year old would. It seems his adolescent and college years were painful but it all worked out for him in the end, which I thought was nice. I have never read anything about Richard Stallman, so I am guessing he is some Linux guru guy. I don't know much about Linux really. One day I will probably pick up a book and learn how to use it and it will become my primary OS one day, but for now OSX and Vista are fine. I liked The World is Flat, I had to read that for a class and The Google Story. I think they should make The Google Story into a movie someday.
I also think all the people that ignore nature are those horrible people that go to McDonalds, LOL ehhh...
Well I don't want you to waste your points, asphyxiation is a side effect of a volcanic eruption. But if you think about it, who would live near a volcano without knowing that it could kill them? I am sure they are very aware that nature in this instance is deadly and climate change is real, not a gamble or an impossibility.
Most people live either completely ignoring nature, trying to live in harmony with nature or they are even beholden to it and depend on their living and prosperity completely to survive. I think trying to live in harmony with it is probably best for most of society, if we want to survive. Like I said, I do not want to upset anyone on this board, so I don't think commenting any further is necessary about my views on nature, which I am sure no one will share here.
That is interesting, that you have been there, and of course if you get close enough, it kills. It is part of God's creation and thatâ(TM)s all there is to it my opinion, that is my view. :) To the crowd on here though, it is extremely scientific, so I don't have much to contribute. Nature is cruel as well as kind. There is much more to be said, but not by me.
I agree with you. Some babies will die regardless if the incubator is 1K or 40K. It is a part of being human and doctors are not completely infallible, I wish it wasn't like that, but it is unfortunately.
When my husband died, his cardiologist would not sign off on the death certificate, I had to get his PCP to sign off on it. To this day I am still very angry about that. He had passed his stress level tests three months previous and was doing very well. The doctor took him off of heart medication I feel now that it was too soon for him to be taken off of it in hindsight. The amount of grief I felt about that fact kills me still. But, I am not a doctor and I do not know how to save lives.
At the same time, his cardiologist was one of the best in our area, and it was his call, I still feel that my husband received very good care in the end. I certainly would not have sued his cardiologist. The thing about life and death is that it is still a mystery. Some procedures will work wonders on one person and be detrimental for another.
There is nothing wrong with developing less expensive ways to save lives as long as it falls within a safe range of standards.
LOL, it is the World Wildlife Fund. :)
In a second finding, the Macquarie University marine biology researcher resolved a long scientific debate, discovering that octopuses, despite their intelligence, lack individual personalities.
I am sure an octopus has enough trouble just trying to survive in its habitat and find food to live. I am sure developing a personality is not high on it's priorities, so watching crab on TV would definitely pique it's interest because of the movement and it is a crab, which they must recognize.
The people on this site love articles about animals and robots for some reason. LOL I have to start reading the Apple section.
Where I am at it is warm and raining, go figure. I would take that any day over snow and ice. Then I do see the ads on late night TV from the WWF that tell me I have to save the polar bears, and I always feel guilty.
"Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Public Combatant Global Warming Patent."
There now do I get his salary?
Let me know when the billboard ads for the personal/cleaning/pleasure toy robots are put up in the mall and they jump out at you while you are walking, yelling, "Buy me!" then that will be pretty damn impressive.
Seriously though, a bit sneaky, but fascinating that they want a headcount of who walks by these marketing ads. I wonder if they realize how numb the public is to this by now? I don't know if there have been studies, but it seems to me, the older you get, the less you want, I could be wrong, I am just speaking from personal experience.
I am not trying to be mean or confrontation to Slashdot people, but honestly if dementia is related to sarcasm then people on this site are in trouble, at least with the dementia patients. Dementia is actually a very sad degenerative disease, where of course cognition is jumbled, making it difficult to even know what year it is, much less if someone is toying with you. People love to be witty on the internet though, and I think this site actually does a good job in general because there are a lot of people on here with well thought out responses which makes this site interesting to read. Well at least so far. :)
It sounds like Drizzle is a complete overhaul of MySQL, cleaning up the bad and enhancing the good. I guess if Sun doesn't keep up, then Sun doesn't have a competitive advantage anymore, thereby forcing businesses to go elsewhere.
I thought the Esther Dyson story was interesting to read a lot of the other stories I had come across before. Except for the Coke thing, that is just plain stupid, I think I killed some brain cells just perusing the article.
After reading over the comments on this article and figuring out what I should spend my time on studying is not going to be exactly easy.
Maybe I should just continue on with OO programming and pick up where I left off and stick with interpreted languages and then onto OOP, instead of functional programming.
I would think that some functional programming would be useful though. I am guessing if you are familiar with OO and functional it would make you a bit more marketable. Just a hunch.
If Ruby, Python and PHP have overtaken Perl, it might be better to learn PHP. I will probably end up looking over both though as I go along.
Arson or meteorites, either way, the owner is probably pretty miserable right now.
That's interesting. I guess they will have to find a shooting star collector if there is such a thing. I though these kind of disasters made people sick and caused serious unbalance if the meteor is big enough to screw with the balance of where it hits, the people of the town and the person that owned the building probably don't think of it as a blessing though at least not yet if what you are saying will happen that someone would actually pay money for it. I guess I am a cynic, I could see geologists studying it, not buying it.
I don't believe it will be covered unless they have natural disaster insurance or a fire policy. It is a shame that things like this happen and people aren't insured.
A fire policy is normal for anyone to have, I mean if you go to the trouble of buying a house or renting a building for a business and paying a substantial amount in rent or a mortgage, I would think you would have the foresight to pay the ten to twenty five dollars a month for a fire insurance policy. The odds of a meteor hitting though, that is pretty unusual.
I then went to look at the prices for Office 2007 and I said, nope, I will just download OO, and it works just fine. I typed up a huge business report and put together a presentation in OO and three other homework assignments. There weren't any problems on either end opening or viewing my work with my instructors. I found out students can get Office 2007 for $40 bucks off of a website at school, so I bought it. Vista hasn't given me any trouble so far. Everyone talks about how horrible it is, but it seems fine so far.
I certainly do not use OO for math, LOL. I am definitely one of those "normal people" you are taking about. I recently bought a Dell 1525 Inspiron for 650 dollars. I told myself there was no way I was ever going to buy another laptop over 1K especially for what I use my laptop for! All I do is surf, email and write. I haven't even coded on this laptop yet and for my limited coding skills, this laptop is fine. I don't need a powerful laptop, especially when the life for laptops is so short.
I looked at the EEE PC, for a low end laptop for a couple hundred dollars it was OK, I mean it really seems great for someone is grade school to junior high maybe. It could work for someone if they were really mobile. It seemed to be between a hand held and a laptop to me, my hands were fine with space that was on the board, but it just wasn't a great experience, maybe it is because I am used to Dell or Apple. I think most people will stick with what they have bought before and what worked for them in the past.
I watched the video on the Bump Top 3D desktop. I thought the lasso technique was useful. I am really lazy about putting my documents away or saving them in the file I created or my documents file. They usually just sit on the desktop until I decide to sort them out when I have time.
I think someone said they thought it wasn't a very functional idea, and it was eye candy. For someone like me it is functional because of how I save my documents because I just got in the lazy way of saving them to my desktop.
I didn't think her article was ignorant, the comparison was just complete nonsense.
Iâ(TM)m not in favor of the government tracking everybody and so forth, [but] at least persistent pseudonyms and communities and stuff like that makes everything a nicer place.
I agree with this statement, but that is what a moderator is for, maybe that is the problem on the web, not enough manners. Some people feel when they are anonymous it gives them power to behave badly.
I really don't want to comment further on this story beyond this last post, but I do have a few points to bring up. So, he created an agreeable robot that takes drives with him and does not nag. She goes for 24 hours a day without a complaint? I guess Le Trung had the brains and the money to create this and it is admirable in that respect.
But if a woman created a man robot, he would be a sperm donor that brings home a paycheck that would boost her ego constantly, buy drinks and give massages on demand. I don't think robots are a substitute for a flesh and blood person. 13,000 responses can not make up in anyway for a real woman or a real man in any conversation or the uniqueness and imperfections of a human. Not much else say or to contribute on this story.
Regardless, it is impressive. A man that spent that much time planning and implementing a robot woman. It is a marvel, just hard to stomach as a female. I don't understand the application of a robot like this but I am not a man. I am also not a judge of what human ingenuity can accomplish, I am more of an observer. Either way, it is interesting.
I think I met that Harcourt guy at the bar, but I warned my girlfriend not to go home with him. She agreed. :)
I kind of agree, but I guess there are people that lonely. I lost my husband four years ago and I am not that lonely! It is Cherry 2000 Japanese style. :)