Seems lots of professors have "search toolbars" installed on their computers:) My prof has two of them(!). You would expect researchers are aware of that sort of stuff, but I have seen SmileyCentral installed on a seniour researcher's PC.
True, actually. Nobel Prize for Physics is given solely for scientific achievement, as opposed to many "lifetime achievement" scientific awards which are actually given to politicians among scientists.
How about the Nobel Peace prize? Should it also qualify a person? However, it would be weird for Dalai Lama to advise the US president:)
Yes, one mistake the first time and your bad karma never wears off. And you can't get over it no matter what code you write, because noone reads it anymore.
"From initial tests, the system narrowed the performance gap between disabled and able-bodied users by 62%."
There are two ways to narrow a performance gap, you know. Make poor performers work better, or slow down good performers so they don't get ahead of the group.
The second approach is often used in math classes in high school.
Slashdot Mirror
[hums the imperial march]
Warning: IANAE, I am not an electrician!
...from Lucas Arts had the same idea - the player cannot die, cannot get stuck doing things in wrong order, and is not restricted in time.
Very, very good game.
This will inevitably be modded troll, but books are not time wasters. Slashdot, OTOH, is.
I plan to send human-generated paper to such conference, to see if it gets accepted.
In other news, lots of similarly-sounding websites were replaced by computer-generated webpages:
http://ieeexplore.com/
http://ieeexplorer.com/
http://ieeeexplorer.com/
http://ieexplore.com/
etc...
Seems lots of professors have "search toolbars" installed on their computers:) My prof has two of them(!).
You would expect researchers are aware of that sort of stuff, but I have seen SmileyCentral installed on a seniour researcher's PC.
True, actually. Nobel Prize for Physics is given solely for scientific achievement, as opposed to many "lifetime achievement" scientific awards which are actually given to politicians among scientists.
How about the Nobel Peace prize? Should it also qualify a person? However, it would be weird for Dalai Lama to advise the US president:)
Yes, one mistake the first time and your bad karma never wears off. And you can't get over it no matter what code you write, because noone reads it anymore.
Karma sux.
"From initial tests, the system narrowed the performance gap between disabled and able-bodied users by 62%."
There are two ways to narrow a performance gap, you know. Make poor performers work better, or slow down good performers so they don't get ahead of the group.
The second approach is often used in math classes in high school.
...since the novel is placed far in the future. I still have the impression the characters in the book were dressed weirdly
I really can't help but imagine everyone at Terminus dressed in some weird greek togas.
The enter key is on the right side of the keyboard, so you still need two hands for that wank matherial.
"...until after several minutes of trying the buttonpress was registered."
No wonder why Nokia phones are slow, if the Finns have are willing to try registering a keypress for several minutes.
"This sounds like a nice feature to keep stupid people from voting."
Please enter any 11 digit prime to cast your vote.