I dunno; maybe they like using the internet? Intel may be an Evil CorporationTM, but they've got as much interest as anyone else in keeping it going.
Or maybe - just maybe - they're doing something nice.
Then again: to quote the article " If the net grows to 100 billion devices connected to it, our goal is to have a piece of Intel inside in every one of those hundred billion " Pat Gelsinger, Intel
I don't own an iPod, but I imagine it's just a plain ol' USB storage device when plugged in. As such, it's as much of a security risk as any other, similar device.
We've all been slagging off MS for years now for their attitude to security; no point in whining now when they get it right, just cos you can't play music through your desktop speakers.
And yet it feels like you support the 2 hour distortion of a politcal ad that is Farenheight 9/11
Not really. Supposing there were no limit; given the egregious [right|left]-wing bias of the media, it's be entirely possible to putting out stuff portraying Bush as a [leader|chimp] and Kerry as a [flop-flipper|guy with a plan]. Television would be totally unwatchable for months at a time. Oh, wait...
I'm tired of laws being passed and judgements being made because its not going "thier way" whoever they might be at the time I'm utterly appalled at the number of people who support Bush just because he's their guy, irrespective of how much he's ruined democracy/freedom-o-speech/etc
Democracy is an imperfect process, in any country. There's no law that could be passed that would improve it without impinging on someone else's rights somewhere along the line.
Advertisments by individuals and parties will be greatly restricted that late in the campaign. That's not very democratic In an ideal world, where advertisements are about truth and informing the electorate, you'd be right. But McCain-Feingold is a ruling for the real world, where no party is capable of informative ads; they're either misrepresentations or simplifications. The very fact that the ads are thirty seconds long should tell you that they're not capable of anything constructive. In that context, McCain-Feingold is a Good Thing.
I've had hours (okay, minutes) of amusement by doing something similar; using the passive search feature of gtk-gnutella to see what others were looking for. People do indeed look for weird shit.
You can always tell how many are using the system for the first time by the number of times there's a search for the word 'porn' by itself. I'm tempted to try it out myself, but I'm afraid that with only 256Mb of ram, my computer will blow up.
Quoth the good professor: The extraordinary thing about this meteor strike is that it appeared to do so little damage. Unlike the dinosaur strike there is no telltale layer of dust that demonstrates the history of the event.
It ploughs through millions of tonnes of ice and snow, then leaves no layer of dust... d'you think it might have, I dunno, melted or something?
I think the line "I think he's going to pork her dad!" made the whole movie worth it:)
Here we see the importance of punctuation. The actual line was "I think he's going to pork her, dad!". By leaving out the comma, you're giving the wrong impression to people who haven't seen the movie.
That IMDB list is pretty bogus; there are a bunch of films with three stars on average. Plan 9 doesn't even get a mention. Good to see Robocop 3 and Highlander 2 on the list, even though some people obviously gave both more than no stars.
My nomination for worst movie ever? Armageddon. Damn, I hated that movie so much. People talk about Plan 9 being bad, but this is worse. If Ed Wood had been given godzillions of dollars for special effects, he'd have produced Armageddon.
Of course, it's possible that we'll never know what the worst movies are, cos we'll never see them. But of those that we do see, I'm more forgiving of dubious b-movies; if you've no budget, you've got to make do with what you have. But if your budget stretches to paying an actual actor, we can be more demanding; when you've got Titanic-level budgets, you've got no fucking excuse.
He's been at Microsoft since college and rattles off techie jargon like value proposition and customer sat (short for satisfaction) like any seasoned Microsoftie.
Techie jargon? I think I've found Microsoft's problem.
As has been pointed out, it's possible for a paper to lie undiscovered for decades before being revived; Mandel being the most obvious example. I'd suggest that papers didn't die; they're in hibernation.
Oh, and am I the only one that chortled at the fact that this paper, which lists the 100 most cited papers, had only 26 references?
In many ways, we're seeing examples of how people want dumber technology. Hands up the number of people who hang on to outdated CD-ROM drives because they ignore the corrupted crap that infests so many of today's alleged CDs? (recently, I didn't realise I'd bought an unrippable CD until after I'd ripped it). When the pernicious broadcast flag becomes endemic, people are once again going to look for older tech to overcome it. Tivo will find itself out-featured by older models, ones that ignore such crap.
To my mind, this is a sure sign that things are going wrong (as if more signs were needed); the broadcast flag and other silliness are anti-technology (and anti-business) because they'll discourage people from upgrading. Of course, they'll be banking on the fact that relatively few people will stick to such technologies, but it only takes one person with a linux-based PVR and a copy of gtk-gnutella to totally screw the pooch.
One thing about the article, though; it implies that the NFL are wasting their time because bandwidth limitations mean it'll never be practical. This assumes that super-duper ultra-high-speed connections will never be available (or at least commonplace); this is a specious argument, I reckon. Not that I'm arguing for it; I just dislike arguments that can be easily overcome.
Yes and no. What's needed is a perspex window (or something) under which the printout scrolls. It'd say something along the lines of "You voted for Al Gore". You then verify that via touchscreen. No bringing away evidence, and the paper trail exists; one that's been voter-verified.
In all the hundreds of years we've been going blind observing the sun, never have so many satellites been in danger. But seriously, folks. What are the odds that this sort of thing has been happening every few solar maximums, and we never noticed it before?
At least this time I might see an aurora. Froze my arse off two nights running and all I got was, well, a frozen arse.
AIR devoted a significant chunk of an issue to Trinkaus a while ago, and as I started the article, I sniggered. After a page or so, I was tittering with him, not at him. By the end, I was awestruck This guy is great. He's spent years doing exactly what the rest of us do, only he's been counting and writing at the same time. The guy is a true scientist, and one that's shown us that yes, the world is indeed slowly but surely going to hell in a handbasket. Most people say 'people used to stop at those stop signs'; he proves it.
So he doesn't work in a supercollider. BFD. Very few people do. He's a gentleman scientist, who over the years has amassed a huge body of research that, while most of the world will find trivial, may one day prove useful to someone. Which is what science is all about.
A lot of people I know use predictive text; a lot don't. I'm among the latter; I tried it briefly on my nokia, but after the constant cycling between 'on' and 'no' and similar sets of words, I decided I was better off without it. 'night' is still a pain in the arse to type, though.
I don't know about that 'ugly' thing; granted, many people are obsessed with frippery like polyphonic ring tones and ridiculous logos, but as far as I'm concerned, as long as a phone has bluetooth, a data port and a moderately decent ergnomic feel, I'll be happy with it. I suspect I'm far from alone in this regard (a few people have remarked on teh ugliness of my 6310i, but I don't think it looks bad).
Speaking of bluetooth: graffiti on a Tungsten is the best way of writing text messages. It may be gratuitous overuse of technology, but it beats Intel's 'change for change sake' attitude. IMO.
Maybe it's just because I've become so adept at using the traditional one, but I have my doubts about this one, for two main reasons...
1. At this stage I, and indeed the rest of the texting universe, know where 'R' is; just press 7 three times. I don't even need to look at the keypad any more. Just because I've to press it three times doesn't make it a chore. With use, it's easy. That may be true of the new keyboard, but more keys doesn't make it simpler. Which brings me to point two:
2. As I said, I don't need to look at the keyboard any more; that's because there are just four rows of three keys. With this one, if I want to text without looking I'd have to feel my way from one of the corners. That, or stop texting while I walk. That, or bump into a lot of lampposts. 4x7 is not simpler than 3x4.
And anyway, unless the protruding keys are huge (making the numbers difficult to use), punctuation is still going to have to be shifted. Unless, of course, UR 1 F THSE FKRS HO DNT UZ PNKTN.
"A person who came to their Web site and looked at the way (the hotel) is promoted and marketed would think they were passing themselves off as connected with the owner of the Dewey Decimal Classification system."
Yeah, right. If I was particularly jetlagged, drunk or whatever, I might pop up to the counter and ask to speak to Melvil Dewey. But I'm sure I'm not alone in that I never even considered that a numeric system invented in the next-to-previous century would still be owned today, much less that anyone who used it would be representative of that owner.
It's lucky that I'm ambivalent about my primary school; when I was there, I organised the books according to the Dewey system. If I were at all bitter, I'd rat them out, and not just becuase the 098 section was completely empty.
Oh, and here's something funny. In my research for this comment, I typed 'dewey 098' into google to see if it still meant what I thought it did. 098 is for forbidden books. Now that you know that google for 'dewey 098' while you're feeling lucky.
Finally! No longer do I have to spend hours looking for that damn key; boy, do I feel silly.
Of course, now I've a different problem. Secure in the knowledge that I could press any key, I whacked the one marked Ctrl. Nothing. So I tried the uparrow key above it; niente. Surely Caps Lock'll work? Nah.
Bloody compaq. I'm never buying one of their poxy keybaords again.
But kudos to Compaq (or HP) nonetheless. In their ergonomic guide, they even show you what you should look like when you're standing.
The impression I got was that our paedo brothers would be forced to wear this, irrespective of whether they were still on probation. I quote: 'if they have been released, they should be free to live their life in liberty. This muddies the waters between guilt and innocence,' said Mark Littlewood, campaigns director of Liberty.
The other article I read on the subject - in the Sunday Herald - implies more strongly that it is only for those on probation, but at the same time presents a much scarier view of the device. Overall, it seems to me that the question is being deliberately avoided, with happy terms like 'virtual probation officer' being used to give the false impression that it'll only affect those on probation.
What makes you think [DR]NA needed to exist at this stage of development? That could develop later.
I don't see how. We're talking about a fully-formed cell, here; something that'll replicate, grow, etc. I'll cheerfully concede that adenine and its basal chums may well - and probably do - exist by themselves, but in order to qualify as living cells they must, by my reckoning, form chains such as RNA. Unless you're thinking about something like Argon cells evolving into something more complex and that, to my mind, would take vastly more time than cells evolving in the traditional way.
I'm forced to agree. Particularly when I note his argument that they can survive at lower temperatures, even though they need to be nice and toasty to be created in the first place. So what? Irrespective of the temperature Argon cells can survive at, I really doubt [DR]NA would survive such a creation process. Unless it was that sort of thing that glued the amino acids together in the first place... nah. Probably not.
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As we all know, when you ride a Virgin you boldly go where no man has gone before.
"Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box
Yeah, and then they buy it five times over the next few years.
I dunno; maybe they like using the internet? Intel may be an Evil CorporationTM, but they've got as much interest as anyone else in keeping it going.
Or maybe - just maybe - they're doing something nice.
Then again: to quote the article
" If the net grows to 100 billion devices connected to it, our goal is to have a piece of Intel inside in every one of those hundred billion "
Pat Gelsinger, Intel
I don't own an iPod, but I imagine it's just a plain ol' USB storage device when plugged in. As such, it's as much of a security risk as any other, similar device.
We've all been slagging off MS for years now for their attitude to security; no point in whining now when they get it right, just cos you can't play music through your desktop speakers.
BTW: cool link on that page. Well, not cool, but I like the headline: Allchin: Don't call it 'Shorthorn'
And yet it feels like you support the 2 hour distortion of a politcal ad that is Farenheight 9/11
Not really. Supposing there were no limit; given the egregious [right|left]-wing bias of the media, it's be entirely possible to putting out stuff portraying Bush as a [leader|chimp] and Kerry as a [flop-flipper|guy with a plan]. Television would be totally unwatchable for months at a time. Oh, wait...
I'm tired of laws being passed and judgements being made because its not going "thier way" whoever they might be at the time
I'm utterly appalled at the number of people who support Bush just because he's their guy, irrespective of how much he's ruined democracy/freedom-o-speech/etc
Democracy is an imperfect process, in any country. There's no law that could be passed that would improve it without impinging on someone else's rights somewhere along the line.
Advertisments by individuals and parties will be greatly restricted that late in the campaign. That's not very democratic
In an ideal world, where advertisements are about truth and informing the electorate, you'd be right. But McCain-Feingold is a ruling for the real world, where no party is capable of informative ads; they're either misrepresentations or simplifications. The very fact that the ads are thirty seconds long should tell you that they're not capable of anything constructive. In that context, McCain-Feingold is a Good Thing.
I've had hours (okay, minutes) of amusement by doing something similar; using the passive search feature of gtk-gnutella to see what others were looking for. People do indeed look for weird shit.
You can always tell how many are using the system for the first time by the number of times there's a search for the word 'porn' by itself. I'm tempted to try it out myself, but I'm afraid that with only 256Mb of ram, my computer will blow up.
Quoth the good professor:
The extraordinary thing about this meteor strike is that it appeared to do so little damage. Unlike the dinosaur strike there is no telltale layer of dust that demonstrates the history of the event.
It ploughs through millions of tonnes of ice and snow, then leaves no layer of dust... d'you think it might have, I dunno, melted or something?
More information at The Scotsman, btw.
I think the line "I think he's going to pork her dad!" made the whole movie worth it :)
Here we see the importance of punctuation. The actual line was "I think he's going to pork her, dad!". By leaving out the comma, you're giving the wrong impression to people who haven't seen the movie.
That IMDB list is pretty bogus; there are a bunch of films with three stars on average. Plan 9 doesn't even get a mention. Good to see Robocop 3 and Highlander 2 on the list, even though some people obviously gave both more than no stars.
My nomination for worst movie ever? Armageddon. Damn, I hated that movie so much. People talk about Plan 9 being bad, but this is worse. If Ed Wood had been given godzillions of dollars for special effects, he'd have produced Armageddon.
Of course, it's possible that we'll never know what the worst movies are, cos we'll never see them. But of those that we do see, I'm more forgiving of dubious b-movies; if you've no budget, you've got to make do with what you have. But if your budget stretches to paying an actual actor, we can be more demanding; when you've got Titanic-level budgets, you've got no fucking excuse.
In case you care, movies I saw recently that sucked include Godsend, Twisted and The Day After Tomorrow.
He's been at Microsoft since college and rattles off techie jargon like value proposition and customer sat (short for satisfaction) like any seasoned Microsoftie.
Techie jargon? I think I've found Microsoft's problem.
As has been pointed out, it's possible for a paper to lie undiscovered for decades before being revived; Mandel being the most obvious example. I'd suggest that papers didn't die; they're in hibernation.
Oh, and am I the only one that chortled at the fact that this paper, which lists the 100 most cited papers, had only 26 references?
In many ways, we're seeing examples of how people want dumber technology. Hands up the number of people who hang on to outdated CD-ROM drives because they ignore the corrupted crap that infests so many of today's alleged CDs? (recently, I didn't realise I'd bought an unrippable CD until after I'd ripped it). When the pernicious broadcast flag becomes endemic, people are once again going to look for older tech to overcome it. Tivo will find itself out-featured by older models, ones that ignore such crap.
To my mind, this is a sure sign that things are going wrong (as if more signs were needed); the broadcast flag and other silliness are anti-technology (and anti-business) because they'll discourage people from upgrading. Of course, they'll be banking on the fact that relatively few people will stick to such technologies, but it only takes one person with a linux-based PVR and a copy of gtk-gnutella to totally screw the pooch.
One thing about the article, though; it implies that the NFL are wasting their time because bandwidth limitations mean it'll never be practical. This assumes that super-duper ultra-high-speed connections will never be available (or at least commonplace); this is a specious argument, I reckon. Not that I'm arguing for it; I just dislike arguments that can be easily overcome.
Are you sure they were quarters? I thought most asteroids had a high nickel content.
Yes and no. What's needed is a perspex window (or something) under which the printout scrolls. It'd say something along the lines of "You voted for Al Gore". You then verify that via touchscreen. No bringing away evidence, and the paper trail exists; one that's been voter-verified.
In all the hundreds of years we've been going blind observing the sun, never have so many satellites been in danger. But seriously, folks. What are the odds that this sort of thing has been happening every few solar maximums, and we never noticed it before?
At least this time I might see an aurora. Froze my arse off two nights running and all I got was, well, a frozen arse.
AIR devoted a significant chunk of an issue to Trinkaus a while ago, and as I started the article, I sniggered. After a page or so, I was tittering with him, not at him. By the end, I was awestruck This guy is great. He's spent years doing exactly what the rest of us do, only he's been counting and writing at the same time. The guy is a true scientist, and one that's shown us that yes, the world is indeed slowly but surely going to hell in a handbasket. Most people say 'people used to stop at those stop signs'; he proves it.
So he doesn't work in a supercollider. BFD. Very few people do. He's a gentleman scientist, who over the years has amassed a huge body of research that, while most of the world will find trivial, may one day prove useful to someone. Which is what science is all about.
A lot of people I know use predictive text; a lot don't. I'm among the latter; I tried it briefly on my nokia, but after the constant cycling between 'on' and 'no' and similar sets of words, I decided I was better off without it. 'night' is still a pain in the arse to type, though.
I don't know about that 'ugly' thing; granted, many people are obsessed with frippery like polyphonic ring tones and ridiculous logos, but as far as I'm concerned, as long as a phone has bluetooth, a data port and a moderately decent ergnomic feel, I'll be happy with it. I suspect I'm far from alone in this regard (a few people have remarked on teh ugliness of my 6310i, but I don't think it looks bad).
Speaking of bluetooth: graffiti on a Tungsten is the best way of writing text messages. It may be gratuitous overuse of technology, but it beats Intel's 'change for change sake' attitude. IMO.
Maybe it's just because I've become so adept at using the traditional one, but I have my doubts about this one, for two main reasons...
1. At this stage I, and indeed the rest of the texting universe, know where 'R' is; just press 7 three times. I don't even need to look at the keypad any more. Just because I've to press it three times doesn't make it a chore. With use, it's easy. That may be true of the new keyboard, but more keys doesn't make it simpler. Which brings me to point two:
2. As I said, I don't need to look at the keyboard any more; that's because there are just four rows of three keys. With this one, if I want to text without looking I'd have to feel my way from one of the corners. That, or stop texting while I walk. That, or bump into a lot of lampposts. 4x7 is not simpler than 3x4.
And anyway, unless the protruding keys are huge (making the numbers difficult to use), punctuation is still going to have to be shifted. Unless, of course, UR 1 F THSE FKRS HO DNT UZ PNKTN.
That's just a list of other classification systems. Look here
"A person who came to their Web site and looked at the way (the hotel) is promoted and marketed would think they were passing themselves off as connected with the owner of the Dewey Decimal Classification system."
Yeah, right. If I was particularly jetlagged, drunk or whatever, I might pop up to the counter and ask to speak to Melvil Dewey. But I'm sure I'm not alone in that I never even considered that a numeric system invented in the next-to-previous century would still be owned today, much less that anyone who used it would be representative of that owner.
It's lucky that I'm ambivalent about my primary school; when I was there, I organised the books according to the Dewey system. If I were at all bitter, I'd rat them out, and not just becuase the 098 section was completely empty.
Oh, and here's something funny. In my research for this comment, I typed 'dewey 098' into google to see if it still meant what I thought it did.
098 is for forbidden books. Now that you know that google for 'dewey 098' while you're feeling lucky.
Finally! No longer do I have to spend hours looking for that damn key; boy, do I feel silly.
Of course, now I've a different problem. Secure in the knowledge that I could press any key, I whacked the one marked Ctrl. Nothing. So I tried the uparrow key above it; niente. Surely Caps Lock'll work? Nah.
Bloody compaq. I'm never buying one of their poxy keybaords again.
But kudos to Compaq (or HP) nonetheless. In their ergonomic guide, they even show you what you should look like when you're standing.
The impression I got was that our paedo brothers would be forced to wear this, irrespective of whether they were still on probation. I quote: 'if they have been released, they should be free to live their life in liberty. This muddies the waters between guilt and innocence,' said Mark Littlewood, campaigns director of Liberty.
The other article I read on the subject - in the Sunday Herald - implies more strongly that it is only for those on probation, but at the same time presents a much scarier view of the device. Overall, it seems to me that the question is being deliberately avoided, with happy terms like 'virtual probation officer' being used to give the false impression that it'll only affect those on probation.
What makes you think [DR]NA needed to exist at this stage of development? That could develop later.
I don't see how. We're talking about a fully-formed cell, here; something that'll replicate, grow, etc. I'll cheerfully concede that adenine and its basal chums may well - and probably do - exist by themselves, but in order to qualify as living cells they must, by my reckoning, form chains such as RNA. Unless you're thinking about something like Argon cells evolving into something more complex and that, to my mind, would take vastly more time than cells evolving in the traditional way.
I'm forced to agree. Particularly when I note his argument that they can survive at lower temperatures, even though they need to be nice and toasty to be created in the first place. So what? Irrespective of the temperature Argon cells can survive at, I really doubt [DR]NA would survive such a creation process. Unless it was that sort of thing that glued the amino acids together in the first place... nah. Probably not.