I am very annoyed that Nokia still doesnt have blue tooth in any small form factor phone that I can buy in the US (let alone at AT&T Wireless). Just that huge monster 3650 and 2 expensive/overlt functional Sony Erricssons. I just want to synch a small phone wih my laptop too much to ask for? I dont want mMode, I dont want a camera, I just want 3 ounces of practicatlity and NO WIRES...
I was so happy when Apple finally came out with the update Bluetooth enabled 15" Powerbook, only to find that the only bluetooth cell phone options from AT&T Wireless are a giant, breakable and expensive 3650 (I want a cellphone, not a camera..) and 2 Sony Erricson's which I have seen a mix of bad reviews and the fact I love the Nokia UI.
So, I'm ready to roll - but where's the cell phone support. The cell monopoly in the US sucks yet again... Going to Nokia's home site there are a bunch of small form factor Bluetooths...
Now if only Jumble came with first and last in right place - or maybe they can make sure they never are...
This is an an intriguing area for me, I love doing crosswords, and it is very noticeable that obtaining first and last letters massively increase the ability to recall.
The question would seem to be, why are the word boundaries so important to the neural architecture for recognizing words (well, I guess one has to break up a sentence...) and the middle letters are mutable...
I'm guessing this isn't a hardwired feature of the brain, but rather a developmental one (I mean, the brain comes with an English version?) I'd guess it'd apply to other languages, but what about ones based on concept symbols, such as chinese and japanese? or is it a hardwired feature of our vision system that happens to work on word recognition?
The Rumelhart, Hinton book on Parallel Distributed Processing has a nice discussion on parallel word recognition, but I dont think it clearly addresses order of middle words... but it does suggest that maybe word edges would give stronger activation strengths, and thus reduce the number of potential concept matches massively, allowing out of order letters to trigger the final match.
How many attacks were launched, against which OS's...
Folks have cottoned on to %age distribution of OS's, which seems to correspond to the %age distribution of successful attacks. However, if MS servers recieved 10 x more attacks, then they are doing well, if Linux did, then it's doing well.
Being too old to enter the Mastercard Music Intern competition... Free Buying your own Label in2003... $4 Billion Producing Emimen in 2004... Priceless
Lets face it. Jobs is just sprinting away from Gates in the coolness factor. Now, not only does he have the Oscars and Grammies tied up, he also gets the hot groupies he's long felt he deserved.
Mike Davis's book, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster,is a pretty good liberal read about LA and its various geological and meteorological issues. You might also check out his City of Quartz as well if you really hate the place:-)
Pluralization is the enemy for not getting matches...
Google: "A New Power" site:psychoanalystsopposewar.org (2 hits) Google: second superpowers site:psychoanalystsopposewar.org (1 hit) Google: second superpower site:psychoanalystsopposewar.org (ZERO hit)
So, to sum up. Google search would NEVER have found results for the Second Superpower in the NY Times article
Whoops, erratam, not quite true - the text does indeed contain "second" and "superpower" but a LONG way apart...: So the Phrase search certainly wouldn't find it, but it should be in the search results *unless* the part about registration stopped indexing or the pageranking...
two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion.
In his campaign to disarm Iraq, by war if necessary, President Bush appears to be eyeball to eyeball with a tenacious new adversary: millions of people who flooded the streets of New York and dozens of other world cities to say they are against war based on the evidence at hand.
Mr. Bush's advisers are telling him to ignore them and forge ahead, as are some leading pro-war Republicans. Senator John McCain, for one, said today that it was "foolish" for people to protest on behalf of the Iraqi people, because the Iraqis live under Saddam Hussein "and they will be far, far better off when they are liberated from his brutal, incredibly oppressive rule."
That may be true, but it fails to answer the question that France, Germany and other members of the Security Council have posed: What is the urgent rationale for war now if there is a chance that continued inspections under military pressure might accomplish the disarmament of Iraq peacefully?
The fresh outpouring of antiwar sentiment may not be enough to dissuade Mr. Bush or his advisers from their resolute preparations for war. But the sheer number of protesters offers a potent message that any rush to war may have political consequences for nations that support Mr. Bush's march into the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.
This may have been the reason that foreign ministers for 22 Arab nations, meeting in Cairo today, called on all Arab countries to "refrain from offering any kind of assistance or facilities for any military action that leads to the threat of Iraq's security, safety and territorial integrity."
War, like politics, is affected by psychology and momentum. The strong surge in momentum the Bush administration felt after Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's Feb. 5 presentation to the Security Council on the case for war has been undermined by at least four converging negatives.
The most obvious is the rupture in relations between Mr. Bush and some of his principal partners in Europe: France and Germany, now joined by Russia, China and a growing list of other countries. Just weeks ago, it seemed that Mr. Bush was successfully coaxing France and Germany into the war camp, especially after one of the chief United Nations weapons inspectors, Hans Blix, delivered a negative report on Jan. 27 on Iraqi compliance.
But the swell of popular opposition to war across Europe, the second negative.
I think the gist of the article is that a not very widely read, techno-elite, blogger network has out "Page Ranked" the original New York Times article that was the origin of the term "Second Superpower".
The register article is pretty long, and mind you it would be pretty funny if it ended up being the number one search result for "Second Superpower"...
Remember how PageRank is supposed to work - it ranks websites in order of "importance". I still not sure if I agree with this as a whole (and prefer the HITS algorithm). It seems hard to imagine that the (in this case anti-war) Blog community is more authoritative than the NY Times.
Not sure that there's any solution to this issue, but I think its more of an observation on the limitations of PageRank.
Actually, I think those authors acusing DARPA of trying to create a military weapon are wrong. I mean, if you want to develop a self-guided weapon systems, the US Military already has them in spades, and they get to their target at speeds far higher than 25 mph. And what is this supposed armor going to do when it gets there? You still need infantry to mop up. Sure in the long, long run this might have killing military apps, but to me it sounds the worst social impact it might have is unemployment in the logistics corp?
I might be much more suspicious if the thing had to avoid driving up over the crests of ridges or advancing in formation with the other cars!
My god. The trailers looked so lame to me I ended up waiting till the last day to go it was showing to go and see it. I finally crumpled, I'm only a medium star trek fan, but a big Sci-Fi one - I went to see a couple of ST movies the day they were released in the past (to put this boycott in perspective).
And then I had to sit through 2 hours of made for TV crap. Hey, Wil, if you are reading this, and get Rick's attention, try getting him to watch his own movies 3 or 4 times before releasing it. If he doesn't fall asleep then he might check it out on his broad fan base first.
You know, I'm sure I couldn't do better, but I hate sitting through a movie thinking, jeez, what was the director thinking...
You know, any random single episode of Babylon 5 was better than that movie.Actually probably any random episode of any Star Trek show (well apart from Voyager perhaps) would have been preferable.
And it looks thicker than the existing CLIE PEGs - I was in the Metreon yesterday, lusting after the current one with the camera, and I liked how relatively thin and light it was - when I saw this topic, I thought, great - all that and they will have been it lighter still... but when I saw the photo I grimaced. It would be heavier than a 5 year old Nokia... -- and did it really have a phone inside as well, didnt notice that on the "review" (uh, press release).
Jeez, who'd have guess there were so many geeks in Silicon Valley -- I was told all 13 screens were showing it at midnight, and the entire mall parking lot was full.
I'd guesstimate 5000 based on the size of Screen 9, but Its a guess. Anyone else know the biggest midnight movie showing of this ?
I think the movie was slow, but I only found myself looking at my watch in the last 10 minutes or so, and then I found myself disliking Soderbergh for putting in the obvious happy ending.. I mean, I like movies to have happy endings, but they could have cut it just as they were about to leave, perhaps with that backing out frame (don't want a spoiler here, but people who've seen it should kno what I mean).
As some other have said, the review seemed to miss the point of the movie, its not about angst, it about the nature of personhood and inter-personhood perceptions, and what constitutes reality.
I'd give it 3.5 out of 5. With a 3 being, I'd have been happy to pay to see it on video. 4 being worth going to the theatre for.
I'm surprised this article was posted. Looking at the website its basically a shopping site -- this is a "editorial" advertisement. Not too mention 3, read em, 3 pop-unders.
Seriously. I'm a programmer, and you can't cut code on a PDA, and given the TiBook is in my backpack all the time, a PDA just seems like a waste of time and money.
ToDo Lists: paper (could change, but never found a ToDo list program I really liked). Calendar: Yahoo (pages my cellphone with nice reminders). Contact Info: Mac Address Book and Cell phone. Would be nice to
I must admit I was almost seduced by the latest Sony PDA's with the swivel, full screen LCD and camera, but it wouldn't be much use. My Canon Elph makes nicer pictures and is portable.
I'm waiting for the next gen of cell phones that will sync with blue tooth, and will carry my ToDo Lists and full address information, and maybe my calendar. I don't need easy Input, just a super fast built-in bluetooth sync (ahem, Nokia and Apple, get yer act together!).
I think Microsoft has messed this up. HALO 2 should have been the lead game for XBox Live , just as HALO was the lead for the box.
I hear rumours of having to wait till next November... well I guess that'll be when I get Xbox live as well then....
Sorry Bill. None of the other games I've played have ever appealed to me. I've played MechAssault in demos and it just doesn't appeal. Ghost Recon, no thanks.
Puhlease... as a newly about to be 39 year old, I want to be counted as Gen X. I'm not a VP or Exec. I certainly don't feel like a baby boomer. I missed doing the free sex and drugs in the 60s, I missed the bad hair and roller discos in the 70s, and justly as a nerd, came out of high school in 1981/2, just in time for the end of Punk. I'm Gen-X. Its an attitutde:-)
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Sweet thanks for the info - no why doesn't it come up on ATT under Blue Tooth phones :) On my way to go shopping :) Thank you again!
Winton
I am very annoyed that Nokia still doesnt have blue tooth in any small form factor phone that I can buy in the US (let alone at AT&T Wireless). Just that huge monster 3650 and 2 expensive/overlt functional Sony Erricssons. I just want to synch a small phone wih my laptop too much to ask for? I dont want mMode, I dont want a camera, I just want 3 ounces of practicatlity and NO WIRES...
Winton
I was so happy when Apple finally came out with the update Bluetooth enabled 15" Powerbook, only to find that the only bluetooth cell phone options from AT&T Wireless are a giant, breakable and expensive 3650 (I want a cellphone, not a camera..) and 2 Sony Erricson's which I have seen a mix of bad reviews and the fact I love the Nokia UI.
So, I'm ready to roll - but where's the cell phone support. The cell monopoly in the US sucks yet again... Going to Nokia's home site there are a bunch of small form factor Bluetooths...
Winton
Now if only Jumble came with first and last in right place - or maybe they can make sure they never are...
This is an an intriguing area for me, I love doing crosswords, and it is very noticeable that obtaining first and last letters massively increase the ability to recall.
The question would seem to be, why are the word boundaries so important to the neural architecture for recognizing words (well, I guess one has to break up a sentence...) and the middle letters are mutable...
I'm guessing this isn't a hardwired feature of the brain, but rather a developmental one (I mean, the brain comes with an English version?) I'd guess it'd apply to other languages, but what about ones based on concept symbols, such as chinese and japanese? or is it a hardwired feature of our vision system that happens to work on word recognition?
The Rumelhart, Hinton book on Parallel Distributed Processing has a nice discussion on parallel word recognition, but I dont think it clearly addresses
order of middle words... but it does suggest that maybe word edges would give stronger activation strengths, and thus reduce the number of potential concept matches massively, allowing out of order letters to trigger the final match.
How many attacks were launched, against which OS's...
Folks have cottoned on to %age distribution of OS's, which seems to correspond to the %age distribution of successful attacks. However, if MS servers recieved 10 x more attacks, then they are doing well, if Linux did, then it's doing well.
Winton
Loved the series, sh*tty screening time...
Now, was it just me, or was the theme tune a direct rip off a Jon Bon Jovi one..?
Winton
*BUMP*
Are mods asleep on the job...
Being too old to enter the Mastercard Music Intern competition ... Free ... $4 Billion ... Priceless
Buying your own Label in2003
Producing Emimen in 2004
Lets face it. Jobs is just sprinting away from Gates in the coolness factor. Now, not only does he have the Oscars and Grammies tied up, he also gets the hot groupies he's long felt he deserved.
W.
Mike Davis's book, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster,is a pretty good liberal read about LA and its various geological and meteorological issues. You might also check out his City of Quartz as well if you really hate the place :-)
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Winton
I guess I'm talking to myself at this point, but:
Pluralization is the enemy for not getting matches...
Google: "A New Power" site:psychoanalystsopposewar.org (2 hits)
Google: second superpowers site:psychoanalystsopposewar.org (1 hit)
Google: second superpower site:psychoanalystsopposewar.org (ZERO hit)
So, to sum up. Google search would NEVER have found results for the Second Superpower in the NY Times article
Winton
Whoops, erratam, not quite true - the text does indeed contain "second" and "superpower" but a LONG way apart...: So the Phrase search certainly wouldn't find it, but it should be in the search results *unless* the part about registration stopped indexing or the pageranking...
two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion.
In his campaign to disarm Iraq, by war if necessary, President Bush appears to be eyeball to eyeball with a tenacious new adversary: millions of people who flooded the streets of New York and dozens of other world cities to say they are against war based on the evidence at hand.
Mr. Bush's advisers are telling him to ignore them and forge ahead, as are some leading pro-war Republicans. Senator John McCain, for one, said today that it was "foolish" for people to protest on behalf of the Iraqi people, because the Iraqis live under Saddam Hussein "and they will be far, far better off when they are liberated from his brutal, incredibly oppressive rule."
That may be true, but it fails to answer the question that France, Germany and other members of the Security Council have posed: What is the urgent rationale for war now if there is a chance that continued inspections under military pressure might accomplish the disarmament of Iraq peacefully?
The fresh outpouring of antiwar sentiment may not be enough to dissuade Mr. Bush or his advisers from their resolute preparations for war. But the sheer number of protesters offers a potent message that any rush to war may have political consequences for nations that support Mr. Bush's march into the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.
This may have been the reason that foreign ministers for 22 Arab nations, meeting in Cairo today, called on all Arab countries to "refrain from offering any kind of assistance or facilities for any military action that leads to the threat of Iraq's security, safety and territorial integrity."
War, like politics, is affected by psychology and momentum. The strong surge in momentum the Bush administration felt after Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's Feb. 5 presentation to the Security Council on the case for war has been undermined by at least four converging negatives.
The most obvious is the rupture in relations between Mr. Bush and some of his principal partners in Europe: France and Germany, now joined by Russia, China and a growing list of other countries. Just weeks ago, it seemed that Mr. Bush was successfully coaxing France and Germany into the war camp, especially after one of the chief United Nations weapons inspectors, Hans Blix, delivered a negative report on Jan. 27 on Iraqi compliance.
But the swell of popular opposition to war across Europe, the second negative.
Here's the google cached version of a copy of a copy... and indeed, no sign of "second superpower".
Idjuts over at The Register... and me bad for not doing better research.
A New Power In The Streets (Google Cached version)
Back on yer heads,
Winton
heh, touche, good points on both of the above. I guess I'll have to track down the original (presumably Google has it cached somewhere?)
I think the gist of the article is that a not very widely read, techno-elite, blogger network has out "Page Ranked" the original New York Times article that was the origin of the term "Second Superpower".
The register article is pretty long, and mind you it would be pretty funny if it ended up being the number one search result for "Second Superpower"...
Remember how PageRank is supposed to work - it ranks websites in order of "importance". I still not sure if I agree with this as a whole (and prefer the HITS algorithm). It seems hard to imagine that the (in this case anti-war) Blog community is more authoritative than the NY Times.
Not sure that there's any solution to this issue, but I think its more of an observation on the limitations of PageRank.
Winton
Actually, I think those authors acusing DARPA of trying to create a military weapon are wrong. I mean, if you want to develop a self-guided weapon systems, the US Military already has them in spades, and they get to their target at speeds far higher than 25 mph. And what is this supposed armor going to do when it gets there? You still need infantry to mop up. Sure in the long, long run this might have killing military apps, but to me it sounds the worst social impact it might have is unemployment in the logistics corp?
I might be much more suspicious if the thing had to avoid driving up over the crests of ridges or advancing in formation with the other cars!
Winton
Perhaps we could get Procol Harum out of retirement to write a song about it. They did so well with Whiter Paleness...
My god. The trailers looked so lame to me I ended up waiting till the last day to go it was showing to go and see it. I finally crumpled, I'm only a medium star trek fan, but a big Sci-Fi one - I went to see a couple of ST movies the day they were released in the past (to put this boycott in perspective).
And then I had to sit through 2 hours of made for TV crap. Hey, Wil, if you are reading this, and get Rick's attention, try getting him to watch his own movies 3 or 4 times before releasing it. If he doesn't fall asleep then he might check it out on his broad fan base first.
You know, I'm sure I couldn't do better, but I hate sitting through a movie thinking, jeez, what was the director thinking...
You know, any random single episode of Babylon 5 was better than that movie.Actually probably any random episode of any Star Trek show (well apart from Voyager perhaps) would have been preferable.
Winton
And it looks thicker than the existing CLIE PEGs - I was in the Metreon yesterday, lusting after the current one with the camera, and I liked how relatively thin and light it was - when I saw this topic, I thought, great - all that and they will have been it lighter still... but when I saw the photo I grimaced. It would be heavier than a 5 year old Nokia... -- and did it really have a phone inside as well, didnt notice that on the "review" (uh, press release).
Winton
Annoying as heck. Every time I buy Mr Men books for my nieces and nephews, my Cyber-punk/Sci-Fi recommendations get replaced with children toys...
Grrr...
Winton
p.s. I wonder if they added the collaborative filtering using multiple shopping carts
Jeez, who'd have guess there were so many geeks in Silicon Valley -- I was told all 13 screens were showing it at midnight, and the entire mall parking lot was full.
I'd guesstimate 5000 based on the size of Screen 9, but Its a guess. Anyone else know the biggest midnight movie showing of this ?
Winton
I think the movie was slow, but I only found myself looking at my watch in the last 10 minutes or so, and then I found myself disliking Soderbergh for putting in the obvious happy ending.. I mean, I like movies to have happy endings, but they could have cut it just as they were about to leave, perhaps with that backing out frame (don't want a spoiler here, but people who've seen it should kno what I mean).
As some other have said, the review seemed to miss the point of the movie, its not about angst, it about the nature of personhood and inter-personhood perceptions, and what constitutes reality.
I'd give it 3.5 out of 5. With a 3 being, I'd have been happy to pay to see it on video. 4 being worth going to the theatre for.
Winton
Hi,
:-)
I'm surprised this article was posted. Looking at the website its basically a shopping site -- this is a "editorial" advertisement. Not too mention 3, read em, 3 pop-unders.
Is Slashdot getting a cut? I sure hope so
Winton
Seriously. I'm a programmer, and you can't cut code on a PDA, and given the TiBook is in my backpack all the time, a PDA just seems like a waste of time and money.
ToDo Lists: paper (could change, but never found a ToDo list program I really liked).
Calendar: Yahoo (pages my cellphone with nice reminders).
Contact Info: Mac Address Book and Cell phone. Would be nice to
I must admit I was almost seduced by the latest Sony PDA's with the swivel, full screen LCD and camera, but it wouldn't be much use. My Canon Elph makes nicer pictures and is portable.
I'm waiting for the next gen of cell phones that will sync with blue tooth, and will carry my ToDo Lists and full address information, and maybe my calendar. I don't need easy Input, just a super fast built-in bluetooth sync (ahem, Nokia and Apple, get yer act together!).
Winton
I think Microsoft has messed this up. HALO 2 should have been the lead game for XBox Live , just as HALO was the lead for the box.
I hear rumours of having to wait till next November... well I guess that'll be when I get Xbox live as well then....
Sorry Bill. None of the other games I've played have ever appealed to me. I've played MechAssault in demos and it just doesn't appeal. Ghost Recon, no thanks.
Winton
Puhlease... as a newly about to be 39 year old, I want to be counted as Gen X. I'm not a VP or Exec. I certainly don't feel like a baby boomer. I missed doing the free sex and drugs in the 60s, I missed the bad hair and roller discos in the 70s, and justly as a nerd, came out of high school in 1981/2, just in time for the end of Punk. I'm Gen-X. Its an attitutde :-)
Winton.