I'm sure this will be fodder for ever crackpot trying to sell magic beads as an alternative to regular medical avenues. I see it differently. This is the strength of the scientific process. If you make a claim, you had not only be able to back it up, but also be able to have people in other labs replicate your results. Yes, surveys are at the far end of the scientific spectrum in terms of validity of provability. It is way to easy to get some sort of statistical anomaly, and accuracy of data is hard to maintain simply based on the fact that people lie ("oh yeah, I only smoke on cigarette a day"). But in the end, the scientific process demands that these results be replicated. This study is simply showing the scientific mechanism in progress.
Yes. As I recall, the only monsters in Sesame Street urged me to eat cookies. Speaking of cookies, that sounds like a good idea, exuse me while I down a pack of oreos.
1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
Wasn't Forbes one of the first to predict the x86 change over was for real (like the friday before it happened). If so, then I'd probably be more likely to believe them on this one.
We heard the same story with IBMs Fishkill (sp?) plant. It never managed to satisfy production needs. It started late, and hit some major snags early on. In business, sometimes it better to go with the production facilities that already exist.
Also possibly because Johnny Mnemonic tanked hard.
I have to give you that point. Man that was a bad movie. I felt like sticking a tooth brush up my nose just to clean the dirty feeling out of my brain. But even given that, how badly somebody else messed up his idea, he is still in favor of remixing. Although, does turning an ok short story into a crappy movie count as remixing?
Well considering most cyberpunk/cyberscifi is based on stories he wrote back in the 80s, I'd say he already knows alot about the subject. Watch the matrix, and you'll see some heavy shades of 'Neuromancer' in there. In fact, one of the reasons I heard for people not making a Neuromancer film is because they are afraid people would think it's coping the Matrix, and not the other way around.
you have to invest hours and hours and hours to get a decent character
Maybe that's why some of the underling assumptions need to be re-thought. Is there a way to present a MMORPG in such a way that you can get in, and get some cool stuff done without worry about some 40 hr/week player coming along and kicking the stuffing out of you with is 'super special nuclear sword'. Obviously a game that allows for that sort of social structure isn't going to be popular among hard core gamers that like to newbie bash or fight master wizard battles.
You know, Highlander 2 was a truely terrible film. But gosh darn it if they weren't ahead of the ball on these 'cover the planet to deal with ozone loss'.
As I remeber, it didn't work out well in the movie. Of course in the movie, they had an off switch. What happens in one hundred year when we figure out a more elegent solution, and decide to get rid of the particles?
I've actually had more problems leaving the adds in. Especially those new 'roll over to expand' movie previews and what not. They had a tendency to be improperly formated for Mozilla, and end up covering the text that I came there to read in the first place.
Yes, but we're talk about the standards where no companies actually produce software for it any more. How many more versions of MacOSX do you think Apple is going to make that are actually released for the PPC. This hardware won't be obsolete because it's under powered, it'll be obsolete because no one is supporting it any more.
A little chicken little, yes I know. But, now-a-days it's not like you need twice the CPU speed to email/webbrowse/write word docs. There is no reason to be new computers other then vanity and video games. So how can apple keep making money? Forced obsolescence. Move the OS to a new chip and drop support to the old one. A whole new batch of hardware sales to keep your company alive. Because Microsoft can't force obsolescence in the same way, the Wintel machine machine you buy today will have a much longer shelf life then a mac.
Why is it that when ever Microsoft enters a market they must 'crush' all competitors. Can't they just get along? Is it the 'in order to win, everyone else must lose' school of thinking?
As much as I hate to advocate giving the MPAA more money, those "enhanced" DVD versions of old movies, in almost all cases...ARE enhanced.
It's not about them being enhanced or not. It's the fact that MPAA would like to force you to buy that enhanced version. They don't want to even give you the option of sticking with your old crummy version, simply transfered to a new media.
Everybody is always waiting with baited breathe for the next great thing that will completely change their lives and solve all of the worlds problems. It's a natural impulse that snake oil sales men were able to take advantage of, and it's the same thing Enron marketed. Blog suffered from the same sort of 'it'll change your world forever' kind of hype.
The problem is that they, like most other things, do not change the world over night. In reality, revolutions are hardly ever based on a single product, and if they are, it doesn't happen over night. It took almost 50 years for computers to change the world, it's the blink of an eye for a culture, but when compared to these miracle cures that are supposed to change everything instantly, it's too long of a time to advertise.
But at the same time, when people realize that a new technology isn't the ultimate salvation, they tend to completely dismiss it altogether. For example, the dot com boom and bust. At first.com companies were going to change the world, and once that didn't work no one believed that they could work at all. This reactionary view, is of course also wrong (witness google and amazon).
So will blogs change all of media for ever: NO Are all blogs doomed, and will never amount to anything: NO
I have a nForce2 based mother board. Thing seems stable, right up to the moment you try to install the nVidia drivers, then it doesn't seem to be able to go half an hour without freezing.
The people who value a PS3 with Linux on an HDD are a statistical anomaly so small that the number of significant digits required to express you as a percentage of potential PS3 buyers is beyond comprehension.
Yes, we are a statistical anomaly, but we still a group worth noting for two reasons.
1) We're more likely to spend more money on their products. We will buy the system, and the hard drive upgrade, and probably quite a number of games. We will spend more money then the casual consumer.
2) We represent an influential group of buyers, ie, if we like the product, we are more likely to recommend it, and people are more likely to listen to us. How many slashdot'ers have ever influenced somebody else's computer purchase?
For those two reasons, any dollar amount spent attracting us as customers has a much greater impact then trying to get to some other demographic.
It's a good marketing play. It just shifted my preference toward PS3 and away from Xbox360. The ability to use Linux on a system with some rather exotic symmetrical processors, and play all previous PS titles. Right now, all Xbox 360 has going for it is the promise of Halo 3.
Darn, still no dice. I've been looking for the ISOs for Suse Linux Enterprise Edition 9, SP1. Nobody seems very interested in distributing them. Can I help it if I like a professional distro? (I guess it's a bit like falling for professional women...)
Hey, how many time have we seen Microsoft break other people's apps and simply say 'tough shit'. Now sombody does it to them and it's the end of the world...
But seriously, is this some soft of dll conflict or something?
So apple may be using intel chips, it doesn't mean that we'll be seeing a PC from apple based on it. Remember, the iPod isn't powered by PowerPC chips either, they use something like a custom ARM processor. If Apple wants to up the CPU power on one of their hand held devices, they'll probably need a another type of chip. Shoving a 970 PowerPC chip into a hand held may be a bit much, and even the lower power PPC chips may be cost prohibitive if you are trying to get a cheap device out. I'm thinking it's a move to get a cheap CPU, with a moderate amount of power, that can be used for embedded systems.
I've actually been spending the past few weeks trying to figure out how to apply Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition to one of my optimization problems. I usually feel pretty smart, but once I start reading papers about this stuff, I get the distinct feeling that I may actually be very,very stupid.
Slashdot Mirror
Memory test.
Nope, I'm damned if I can remember what it's doing for those few seconds. Now will you tell me the damn answer?
Memory test.
I hope I didn't just write to a NULL pointer...
I'm sure this will be fodder for ever crackpot trying to sell magic beads as an alternative to regular medical avenues.
I see it differently. This is the strength of the scientific process. If you make a claim, you had not only be able to back it up, but also be able to have people in other labs replicate your results. Yes, surveys are at the far end of the scientific spectrum in terms of validity of provability. It is way to easy to get some sort of statistical anomaly, and accuracy of data is hard to maintain simply based on the fact that people lie ("oh yeah, I only smoke on cigarette a day"). But in the end, the scientific process demands that these results be replicated. This study is simply showing the scientific mechanism in progress.
Yes. As I recall, the only monsters in Sesame Street urged me to eat cookies. Speaking of cookies, that sounds like a good idea, exuse me while I down a pack of oreos.
Obviously somebody needs to bone up on their
Zombie Survival Strategy.
Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack
1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
Wasn't Forbes one of the first to predict the x86 change over was for real (like the friday before it happened). If so, then I'd probably be more likely to believe them on this one.
We heard the same story with IBMs Fishkill (sp?) plant. It never managed to satisfy production needs. It started late, and hit some major snags early on. In business, sometimes it better to go with the production facilities that already exist.
Also possibly because Johnny Mnemonic tanked hard.
I have to give you that point. Man that was a bad movie. I felt like sticking a tooth brush up my nose just to clean the dirty feeling out of my brain.
But even given that, how badly somebody else messed up his idea, he is still in favor of remixing.
Although, does turning an ok short story into a crappy movie count as remixing?
Well considering most cyberpunk/cyberscifi is based on stories he wrote back in the 80s, I'd say he already knows alot about the subject. Watch the matrix, and you'll see some heavy shades of 'Neuromancer' in there. In fact, one of the reasons I heard for people not making a Neuromancer film is because they are afraid people would think it's coping the Matrix, and not the other way around.
you have to invest hours and hours and hours to get a decent character
Maybe that's why some of the underling assumptions need to be re-thought. Is there a way to present a MMORPG in such a way that you can get in, and get some cool stuff done without worry about some 40 hr/week player coming along and kicking the stuffing out of you with is 'super special nuclear sword'.
Obviously a game that allows for that sort of social structure isn't going to be popular among hard core gamers that like to newbie bash or fight master wizard battles.
Don't see what the big deal is. As I recall, Airwolf could do that all the way back in 1985.
Apple has never asked for any sort of verification that I was a student when I've ordered from them (two computers and an iPod so far...)
I guess it's just your honesty.
You know, Highlander 2 was a truely terrible film. But gosh darn it if they weren't ahead of the ball on these 'cover the planet to deal with ozone loss'.
As I remeber, it didn't work out well in the movie. Of course in the movie, they had an off switch. What happens in one hundred year when we figure out a more elegent solution, and decide to get rid of the particles?
I've actually had more problems leaving the adds in. Especially those new 'roll over to expand' movie previews and what not. They had a tendency to be improperly formated for Mozilla, and end up covering the text that I came there to read in the first place.
Yes, but we're talk about the standards where no companies actually produce software for it any more. How many more versions of MacOSX do you think Apple is going to make that are actually released for the PPC. This hardware won't be obsolete because it's under powered, it'll be obsolete because no one is supporting it any more.
A little chicken little, yes I know.
But, now-a-days it's not like you need twice the CPU speed to email/webbrowse/write word docs. There is no reason to be new computers other then vanity and video games.
So how can apple keep making money? Forced obsolescence. Move the OS to a new chip and drop support to the old one. A whole new batch of hardware sales to keep your company alive.
Because Microsoft can't force obsolescence in the same way, the Wintel machine machine you buy today will have a much longer shelf life then a mac.
Why is it that when ever Microsoft enters a market they must 'crush' all competitors. Can't they just get along? Is it the 'in order to win, everyone else must lose' school of thinking?
Why can't we all just get along?!??!!??!?!!
As much as I hate to advocate giving the MPAA more money, those "enhanced" DVD versions of old movies, in almost all cases...ARE enhanced.
It's not about them being enhanced or not. It's the fact that MPAA would like to force you to buy that enhanced version. They don't want to even give you the option of sticking with your old crummy version, simply transfered to a new media.
Everybody is always waiting with baited breathe for the next great thing that will completely change their lives and solve all of the worlds problems. It's a natural impulse that snake oil sales men were able to take advantage of, and it's the same thing Enron marketed. Blog suffered from the same sort of 'it'll change your world forever' kind of hype.
.com companies were going to change the world, and once that didn't work no one believed that they could work at all. This reactionary view, is of course also wrong (witness google and amazon).
The problem is that they, like most other things, do not change the world over night. In reality, revolutions are hardly ever based on a single product, and if they are, it doesn't happen over night. It took almost 50 years for computers to change the world, it's the blink of an eye for a culture, but when compared to these miracle cures that are supposed to change everything instantly, it's too long of a time to advertise.
But at the same time, when people realize that a new technology isn't the ultimate salvation, they tend to completely dismiss it altogether. For example, the dot com boom and bust. At first
So will blogs change all of media for ever: NO
Are all blogs doomed, and will never amount to anything: NO
The reality is some where in the middle.
What is the 'malarky' you speak of?
I have a nForce2 based mother board. Thing seems stable, right up to the moment you try to install the nVidia drivers, then it doesn't seem to be able to go half an hour without freezing.
The people who value a PS3 with Linux on an HDD are a statistical anomaly so small that the number of significant digits required to express you as a percentage of potential PS3 buyers is beyond comprehension.
Yes, we are a statistical anomaly, but we still a group worth noting for two reasons.
1) We're more likely to spend more money on their products. We will buy the system, and the hard drive upgrade, and probably quite a number of games. We will spend more money then the casual consumer.
2) We represent an influential group of buyers, ie, if we like the product, we are more likely to recommend it, and people are more likely to listen to us. How many slashdot'ers have ever influenced somebody else's computer purchase?
For those two reasons, any dollar amount spent attracting us as customers has a much greater impact then trying to get to some other demographic.
It's a good marketing play. It just shifted my preference toward PS3 and away from Xbox360. The ability to use Linux on a system with some rather exotic symmetrical processors, and play all previous PS titles. Right now, all Xbox 360 has going for it is the promise of Halo 3.
Darn, still no dice.
I've been looking for the ISOs for Suse Linux Enterprise Edition 9, SP1. Nobody seems very interested in distributing them.
Can I help it if I like a professional distro? (I guess it's a bit like falling for professional women...)
So why doesn't she sue her ex-boyfriend whom posted this information without her consent?
Probably because he doesn't have $3 million.
Rule number one of 'legal club': Sue the guy with the money
Rule number two of 'legal club': SUE THE GUY WITH THE MONEY!!
Hey, how many time have we seen Microsoft break other people's apps and simply say 'tough shit'. Now sombody does it to them and it's the end of the world...
But seriously, is this some soft of dll conflict or something?
So apple may be using intel chips, it doesn't mean that we'll be seeing a PC from apple based on it. Remember, the iPod isn't powered by PowerPC chips either, they use something like a custom ARM processor. If Apple wants to up the CPU power on one of their hand held devices, they'll probably need a another type of chip. Shoving a 970 PowerPC chip into a hand held may be a bit much, and even the lower power PPC chips may be cost prohibitive if you are trying to get a cheap device out.
I'm thinking it's a move to get a cheap CPU, with a moderate amount of power, that can be used for embedded systems.
And why would they do this? Two words: Video iPod
I've actually been spending the past few weeks trying to figure out how to apply Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition to one of my optimization problems. I usually feel pretty smart, but once I start reading papers about this stuff, I get the distinct feeling that I may actually be very,very stupid.