This is misleading. Is it 180mpg sustained? On a 10gal tank of gas, will it go 1800 miles??
Obviously not. Adding extra batteries and charging them up will let the car initially give better "mileage"; heck, in the first 20-30 miles it may give infinite mpg because it is not burning any fuel. But the true measure of mpg is sustained travel over a long distance under somewhat realistic conditions (like city driving or highway driving).
This is what you need: the "Bat Ultrasonic Location System", developed at ATT Cambridge labs (former).
From this page:
We have deployed the ultrasonic location system throughout our building, using 720 receivers to cover an area of around 1000m2 on three floors. The system can determine the positions of up to 75 objects each second, accurate to around 3cm in three dimensions.
Here's an idea:
Paint a unique code on the roof of the forklift (something like a DataMatrix code or one of the other 2-D symbologies).
Put several cameras on the roof; fix them so they don't move; and calibrate them. You can probably use the WiFi cameras from Axis to not have to run cable.
Can somebody please put up a list of "hot" keywords at Google,
so that I can periodically Google for them and click on each and every one of the ads?
Lets say a click costs the advertiser $10. Say a 100 of us do this "search and click" thing once a day. Boom, that's costing the advertisers $1000/day each.
Would prefetching pad the click count for the ads that Google shows along the side? I know, the client (Moz) adds a X-moz: prefetch
header, but how many server admins log this?
Here's why I think returning search results in a machine-readable (parseable) format won't work: advertising. What is Google's primary source of income? Not their search appliances; the advertising you see on the right hand side. If Google started returning an XML file with the search results, the first thing the aggregator will do is replace the ads with their own. And if Google includes the ads as a part of the search results, then the "become evil" by not setting them apart. Either way, Google loses. This is why big players like Google will not play.
On the other hand, for engines like A9, whose business model relies on drawing clients to their main source of revenue (their store), this could be yet another traffic generator.
Seeing how lawsuit-friendly the US society is, why haven't more people sued these companies which "lose" private data?
If you just slip and fall on the grounds of a business, you can expect to make a couple 100 Gs for "mental suffering". Why not do the same here? People should get together and file class-action lawsuits left-and-right. Then watch the companies scramble to protect the data.
Don't get me wrong: I am dead against frivolous lawsuits. But the language of financial pain is the only language these businesses understand. "Morality" is a word that is not there in their lexicon.
Unless the government has a pressing need to read my private journal about me bitching about how I can't get a date. In that case, those spooks are outta luck!
Nice try, kid. No, neither A.L.I.C.E. nor anyone else has truly passed the Turing Test (read up about it before commenting further; in particular, read what it means to pass the test). The Loebner prize is designed to be _like_ the Turing Test; but the winner of the Loebner Prize is not the 'bot who passes the Turing Test, but the 'bot who scores the most points. So, if 1 'bot scores 1 point and all the others score 0, then the 'bot with the single point wins.
If a 'bot passes the Turing Test, it will be big news, trust me.
I was wondering the same, too. But in TFA, the first figure is captioned: Here we see F-Spot, a photo management application for the GNOME desktop that was developed under Mono.
Didn't RTFA (hey, this is/.!), but one thing I'd really like to see are bindings for OO formats for languages like Perl, Python and Java. I recently had to use Perl to create an OO table from some data, and used the OpenOffice::OODoc series
of modules, but they looked rough around the edges.
FTFA: In one case, bot software detected whether the game "Diablo II" was installed on the host PC. If the game was present, the program would steal items from the player's characters and drop them at preplanned places in the online game world. The bot net's controller would then collect the items and sell them on auction site eBay, Holz said.
What the... ? Stealing identities and installing viruses is one thing; but to actually go and steal stuff from Diablo-II?? Have these guys no shame???
Linux-on-Linux (or, for that matter, Unix-on-Linux) is interesting in its own right (think shared hosting), but I want Windows-on-Linux for the occasional Windows app, as well as to just play around.
It is interesting to see that Microsoft earlier supported Xen, but then later pulled support. Their (Xen's) homepage still mentions having received support from Microsoft Research.
Looking at the amount of stuff, I'd be surprised if you did anything else the entire day (other than lunch, of course)!
I was just making fun of the fact that the parent referred to "Google" as a single entity. Obviously it is not. I'm sure individual Googlers spend time on these sites; I'd be extremely surprised (shocked, actually) if no-one at Google did that.
With the rash of ID thefts occuring, which of these online services look to be the best bet? I'd hate to hand over my tax info to some site, only to have them do an "oopsie" and lose it to some random h4x0r.
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This is misleading. Is it 180mpg sustained? On a 10gal tank of gas, will it go 1800 miles??
Obviously not. Adding extra batteries and charging them up will let the car initially give better "mileage"; heck, in the first 20-30 miles it may give infinite mpg because it is not burning any fuel. But the true measure of mpg is sustained travel over a long distance under somewhat realistic conditions (like city driving or highway driving).
This is what you need: the "Bat Ultrasonic Location System", developed at ATT Cambridge labs (former).
From this page:
Paint a unique code on the roof of the forklift (something like a DataMatrix code or one of the other 2-D symbologies).
Put several cameras on the roof; fix them so they don't move; and calibrate them. You can probably use the WiFi cameras from Axis to not have to run cable.
PS: see my journal entry about the perceived "anonymity" at /.
Lets say a click costs the advertiser $10. Say a 100 of us do this "search and click" thing once a day. Boom, that's costing the advertisers $1000/day each.
Come on, people! Get crackin'.
Would prefetching pad the click count for the ads that Google shows along the side? I know, the client (Moz) adds a
X-moz: prefetch
header, but how many server admins log this?
Here's a comparison of MSN Search and Google, done in excruciating detail: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~ajay/secompare.html
On the other hand, for engines like A9, whose business model relies on drawing clients to their main source of revenue (their store), this could be yet another traffic generator.
If you just slip and fall on the grounds of a business, you can expect to make a couple 100 Gs for "mental suffering". Why not do the same here? People should get together and file class-action lawsuits left-and-right. Then watch the companies scramble to protect the data.
Don't get me wrong: I am dead against frivolous lawsuits. But the language of financial pain is the only language these businesses understand. "Morality" is a word that is not there in their lexicon.
If a 'bot passes the Turing Test, it will be big news, trust me.
Wait till you see the "wobbly server effect"...
Here we see F-Spot, a photo management application for the GNOME desktop that was developed under Mono.
Here's the homepage for F-Spot, FWIW.
And now imagine what the RF from the phone was doing to the stuff inside his cranium.
Didn't RTFA (hey, this is /.!), but one thing I'd really like to see are bindings for OO formats for languages like Perl, Python and Java. I recently had to use Perl to create an OO table from some data, and used the OpenOffice::OODoc series
of modules, but they looked rough around the edges.
No, because the status quo (cellphone industry) always hates something disruptive that could threaten their position.
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So you're the one who's been submitting all these Google stories!
In one case, bot software detected whether the game "Diablo II" was installed on the host PC. If the game was present, the program would steal items from the player's characters and drop them at preplanned places in the online game world. The bot net's controller would then collect the items and sell them on auction site eBay, Holz said.
What the... ? Stealing identities and installing viruses is one thing; but to actually go and steal stuff from Diablo-II?? Have these guys no shame???
It is interesting to see that Microsoft earlier supported Xen, but then later pulled support. Their (Xen's) homepage still mentions having received support from Microsoft Research.
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Does MSN censor search results?
I was just making fun of the fact that the parent referred to "Google" as a single entity. Obviously it is not. I'm sure individual Googlers spend time on these sites; I'd be extremely surprised (shocked, actually) if no-one at Google did that.
Yeah, I believe Mr. Google reads Slashdot during his lunch break, as well as before going to bed. Seems like a nice guy.
With the rash of ID thefts occuring, which of these online services look to be the best bet? I'd hate to hand over my tax info to some site, only to have them do an "oopsie" and lose it to some random h4x0r.
You can get a free iPod ? Really ?? Where???