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  1. Re:Not every single research project pays off... on Google Earnings Reveal $3.6 Billion Lost On 'Moonshots' In 2016 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    When neither money nor ideas nor the product are theirs... what did you expect? Moonshots of pure genius? But they will not los a single dollar on me nit even by mistake, eh? THERE everyone is perfectly aware where the money was coming from and where it was supposed to go to.... dont they?

  2. Re:Sounds like bullshit on Scientist Investigate A Brand New Form of Matter: Time Crystals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Glass IS a slow moving liquid. Wait long enough and your window melted.

  3. Re:Limited colours and flat look are the best thou on Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    No. There is a frustration level when some control does not DO what you want it to do. Control interactivity alleviates such frustration because at least the control is reacting, which is expected, so you can be sure it is not the control itself what is not achieving what you want. Try clicking a flat button when it does not make the icon show up again, vs clicking a satisfyingly depressed button while watching the icon is not showing up again! The experience is not the same. Some buttons change color while hovering and change color by clicking? Did it active or do I still have to click? FACT IS: computing GUI is so flexible that sin is not in the style but in the lack of OPTIONS. Obvious two state buttons give a clear chance to make up your mind keeping the mouse pressed and sliding back to cancel the command. This is not so clear with flat buttons. Customization can be very ordered and restrictive and undone with a simple reset. For some devices may be bloating, but for a laptop with gigas and gagas? I do not think so. Frankly, I love when buttons have textures, are rendered, and activation provides animation effects like slowly illuminating a virtual LED and the like. I had the idea for this kind of interface a few years ago (before), but the idea was... kind of a console with fixed window relations for simultaneous applications, a customizable console where you could see the application different ways (icon, logo, splash, document sample...), and swap between maximized and all visible. It was a surprise to see it as Windows 8... So now I feel frustrated that I click flat buttons for no effect, then I have to use HTML-like links to get a more standard window which may NOT do what I need it to anyway...

  4. In any case, it is nothing compared to terrain textures in HOMMIV. THOSE are materials to have in sight every day...

  5. The New Hot: melting point for metallic Hydrogen.

  6. Re:Enhanced Noradrenergic Transmission on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    It is grim, but the mechanism is another one altogether. To explain it... would take long, but in short you can say that as you smoke, there is a Muslim party who is seeking and killing the people whose minds schizophrenics can *hear*, so you smoke, you get **better**. Brain activity and da-da-da, but if you do not admit the true nature of schizophrenia and its personal, religious and social mechanisms, IT IS USELESS, OUR RESEARCH IS BIASED. Researchers are not admitting the field is HOSTILE. This is very well characterized. This means that any positive statement you may make about the field will be counteracted and **refuted** purposefully by the field actors, even if it is over-costly to do so and the refutation can only hold for some time! Researchers do not take this into account but if schizophrenics are *hearing* people THINKING IT and just RE-ACT, because they want to keep the secret (they hear or speak in voices) a secret, researchers have to discount the possibility and be doubly astringent as to control even the people who interact with the subjects! It is like making family geneic studies while having a Church bent on hiding birth as a Church secret... you get the point, dont you?

  7. Re:So it you watch someone draw the pattern... on Android Device's Pattern Lock Can Be Cracked Within Five Attempts, Researchers Show (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I SEE! They keep using programmers were you need mathematicians! I really thought security and cryptography were one of those tight disciplines, you know, no matter how much you want to innovate, it all ends up in a saddle point and every move is unnecessary or weakening or counterproductive. Blowfish or Twofish was the last major cryptographic something we invented, right? And all we can do is wait for bigger prime factorizations and that is it... But the boys keep trying... good. I am yet to get my first such device, it is good to know it is not only you need a credit line but also that it is made with feet ups and hands underneath.

  8. Re:It may have been humans on Humans, Not Climate Change, Wiped Out Australian Megafauna (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It means: those abos are not people, but People, communal being.

  9. Re:Stargate programme?? on CIA Releases 13M Pages of Declassified Documents Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I did explain it in google groups and still have more explanations AND the math is in my brain, indeed, how it works. You have some hints in the Deep Learning community. Nothing extraordinary... it is called SCHIZOPHRENIC HALLUCINATORY VISUAL DELUSIONS. BUt it is in fact someone WATCHING, SEEING and another one with a transparent brain RECEIVING and INTERPRETING THE SIGNAL. There are even some mechanics and their consequences (general equilibrium, etc.). No wonder... I do want to see what they have, sounds like a way to deny credit to my efforts. Now, who is the imbecile who sees what I see when I am in a restroom and sends people to take me out violently?

  10. Re:"4K" playback on iOS? on Safari Users Unable to Play Newer 4K Video On YouTube in Native Resolution (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I am UNABLE to play YouTube. Period. In Windows 10. And the new computer I purchased to the effect was stolen BEFORE I could even start it safely away from hackers. OK, I can go back to IE 8 EMULATION and see some YouTube, but it is a NUISANCE and does not hold for long. Definitely this industry needs a consortium and standardize the video tools. I need so much to be able to programmatically handle my videos but it seems impossible and more impossible the more time passes and advancements...

  11. And... all these people are involved IN LIEU of people not mentioned but who are NOT assumed as the real brains, right? Because voices are being heard over the heads of those involved. I am very annoyed, in 2000 there WAS a company offering virtual reality in a helmet and even had the APIs for download. I was developing my MIDI guitar applications, Roland, and had already downloaded the VR libraries and waiting for things to come together to... well, bring all these together for MY OWN GUITAR application and connectivity and integration. By the time things start coming together... no trace of the company and ALL THE GEAR gets stolen, before GUITAR HERO happens, see? An offshoot from the already working code, not even worth the while to menu it and mode the app when using the guitar was, uh, SO EASY, you know what I mean? Anyway, my idea is that of AFRICANIZING GLASSES. Yes, I already had the started the notes, I think they were along the lines of OLED... those notes where indeed snatched but later returned save a few pages... BUt the idea is still there and sound: to see things the way African eyes see them. Is IBM promising such hypervisor anytime soon? Gee! All these people messed in this while all my computers get stolen and I trying to tell people: I have an idea! I KNOW how to do it! - Nope, the idea was the Castle Wolfenstein as it was in Apple II would look great in 3D, but at the time I only had an idea of how to split geometry with trees, not the technical capability to do it in applesoft basic nor the computer for that matter.

  12. Re:Build your own software, asshole on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Place To Suggest New Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    None has served my purpose. I never find the functionality I need. I have wanted and still want to download something and just start programming and it has been impossible. Many are scams. Some seem to infect the computer with changes. Hobbyists abound with incomplete and forgotten projects, real projects. Others do NOT have the code, only descriptions, including a game announcing the open source code in GOG and probably exposing a well known game algorithm (all the same game have it...). The only application I have found so far, a wide gaming utility, made with open source sources (sic), does its simple job simply but looks and acts exactly like a first student program, and the sources are not downloadable or working and the open source for the application is not available. Heck! Something as simple as changing a few accelerators and menu resources by downloading, opening an IDE file and recompiling, is NOT POSSIBLE. - I suspect the petition for this discussion is a user who does not know programming but discovered a market niche and does want to have a utility framework but cannot produce it himself. Sounds as out of the scene as can be... he will not get it from open source, but can try one of those bid teams doing things in so many hours for a fixed price.

  13. Re:False premise on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The premise is self-fulfilling. I have not purchased a PC since 2000. But I buy laptops whenever the current one starts showing signs of failures. Is it the same? But anyway, we will not rush to buy PCs just because someone advertises a self-fulfilling promise... so it IS a self-fulfilling promise the more people know about. Microsoft seems to have forgotten that Windows was a MARKET, a marketplace infrastructure. It is what is being lost, and the fault seems to be India by flooding the market with cheap labour and bad programming, and the other primitives who DEFINITELY need COMPUTERS TO STOP OPERATING lest we start seeing them the way I SEE THEM. I see them pretending they have a cell phone call when it is a turned off device, and I see it happening EVERY DAY. DO they think it is not noticeable they use laptops as DVD readers and that is it? It is noticeable, and cell phones have not helped at all, but nothing... I still hope to be able to enable some Nintendo DS for my own applications because of the three processors and the touchpad screen and the wifi and camera and the form factor and the two screens! And it is not a laptop, so I do expect to see more comments DISCUSSING how ALL computers are being snatched away from modern life STEADILY and SURREPTITIOUSLY. Self-fulfilling statements but the ball is rolling.

  14. Re:Think of it as evolution in action. on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    metallo-? They have been experimenting because WE IMBECILES, insist in giving them our technologies for free on the ideas of some dead Economist. It is who tried to convince some people I was interested in metalloorganicity since before the 2000 so these ideas... not wasted, someone got them and has been developing. VERY LIKELY some Indians entered the mix of it was not he whole mix was concocted by them. No one can understand this is an attack against antibiotics? Consequece? Do not use them, they do not work, do not produce them, etc. If we do not wake up India will win again as they won in India a few timeS ago.

  15. Re:Well Trump has one thing right on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    85,000 INDIANS every year? No wonder I have lost TWENTY SIX computers to criminals, the worst just four days ago and with a gang of Indians as suspects. Can I get a visa myself even if I am a US citizen? Gee, to be in one of those jobs here any inept primitive can be there... must be like vacations for someone like me. I would take it as a Sabbatical year. No wonder I have been mocked so much by the inepts I met in another country! They come in on multitudinous visa earn whatever they want and not even dreamt of before, but I have to deal with it as a harassed citizen for claiming rights! Whatever. there is more depth to this program than a well full of corpses in the sewers being burnt into manhole toxic clouds in every important corner of this city.

  16. Re:...without sacrificing photo quality on Google's New Compression Tool Uses 75% Less Bandwidth Without Sacrificing Image Quality (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as they do NOT lose the original picture but only use this for broadband management, it is OK.

  17. NO deal.

  18. Re: God created the moon on Scientists Calculate the Moon To Be 4.51 Billion Years Old (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha ha ha! Very TRUE indeed! You take the genome and supress some body substance (the rib), then you get a corporal difference and it is NEARLY the same genetic code! Simple and efficient, same code base, only need the substance(s) supression code to be added, the rest is polymorphism (sic!) and short-circuited logic to extend here, implode there, grow that there, etc.

  19. Re:Canada extorts $1 Million from Amazon on Amazon Just Got Slapped With a $1 Million Fine For Misleading Pricing (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    FOUL. They want to hide the fact CHINESE are using CLASSICAL ECONOMICAL DUMPING and bringing down Occident s industry in plastics and electronics. We may be producing precursor, prime matter, catalysts, etc., but what is worth is final consumer goods. If those are super-subsidized the company is losing or producing nominal yields but selling at cost or below cost (- ) prices, it is only a matter of time. They can rise prices later without competition or simply stop producing those terrible gimmicks that do not let them dominate on pure primitive terms... - I did not understand! What is an accurate price? LOTS of problems when taking prices online, not because of real time but because variables like search costs and competition information have no cost! Go see your competition and lower your prices or you will not sell... that is not happening. Is it because they made lists? The LISTS idea is an idea I promoted privately in email a few weeks ago...

  20. Re:No headphone jack ... on HTC's New Flagship Phone Has AI and a Second Screen, But No Headphone Jack (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    WILL IT PLAY NINTENDO DS GAMES???! Please... I think I can concoct a ds with a Pi and a couple of arduinos, but... New Nintendo thing is as horrid as can be. I have liked HTC ideas, no idea (...) why Nintendo abandoned the two screens platform but it is good to see it is not being forgotten. It is, IN FACT, super-convenient! Even for designing apps like the ones Nintendo did not let others develop for DS/DSi.

  21. Re:Previous impacts on African Airline Reports Drone Collision With Passenger Jet (airlive.net) · · Score: 1

    :D Sorry, but I keep confirming speech recognition software functions better than African as store cashiers. If a SRS app would force me to repeat my order so many times, the company would be sued and its programmers put to have their bones whiten under desert Sun. This still sounds like a news making attack to have leverage against drone deliveries, only they could not implement it in the USA.

  22. Re:That's one of the nice things about being well on Living Near Heavy Traffic Increases Risk of Dementia, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Living near to high density traffic MEANS you are exposed to many more people than when you live in secluded neighborhoods. It has nothing to do with air pollution or car usage or even pavement usage, but with criminality, terrorism, guerrilla, sects, gangs, mafias, burglars, intruders, vagrants... you name it, but PEOPLE. You may not be aware, but you might have been poisoned many more times than you could imagine, particularly if you have never imagined the chance of people going into your place for motives other than theft or rape. It also means any study has to discount the increased probability of demented people choosing, or being forced to, live in high density areas because in more exclusive neighborhoods they are more conspicuous and driven away. But I do think there is a real explaining factor, IF they are taking the classical definition or expression of dementia as compulsive long monologues and soliloquies: the increased level of noise will have a higher chance of producing aural delusions and even speech perturbations (through conditioned stimulus and training), opening a road at schizophrenia (hearing voices), because the brain will try to make sense of the noise in diverse ways, and self talking is an adaptation way to enhance one owns attention in the presence of... noise. Even subliminal noise would produce the effect! We have to be very aware, there are interests to convince people modern life is no good at all and we ALL should go back to the age where those interests would have a real advantage over us modern types...

  23. Re:Previous impacts on African Airline Reports Drone Collision With Passenger Jet (airlive.net) · · Score: 1

    Another episode in the long war to keep Africans working as loaders and truck drivers taking modern and sophisticated machines and products right into (the door of) your home...

  24. Yeah? But how many casualties were there among the ones who fell (unintended pun), that we still have Indians **working** in the USA? Think of displaced workers the XXI Century way, eh?

  25. Re:Previous article on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Mmh? I am not believed or am ignored. Chinese do NOT have MONEY in their genetic makeup. They will abandon it at the least opportunity save for the Occidental Civilization. Then it seems the idea of a different kind of money does have some paradoxical effect! But it worries me that I was inquiring whether they used a programming technique from my code, last time I took a peek. No answer, but then query might have become rumor.