The oldest American died Wednesday at 114 according to CNN. The end of the article mentions that the oldest person living in the world is also 114.
So it looks like 114 is the current maximum. I don't doubt that genetic research will help us find ways to extend this, but 1000?
If it does turn out to be true though, we'll all be kicking ourselves that we didn't buy stock in the companies that own Cialis, Levitra and Viagra. There's gonna be a lot of old sex going on.
Interesting, I don't believe that was the case when I was working at eMotion, but it's been a while.
If indexing of closed caption text has been around for a while, it isn't clear why broadcast execs are so pumped about Google's solution. Clearly someone thinks Google has something the others don't.
Yes, but AFAIK Virage (and eMotion and other asset management systems that support video) require manually tagging of video, especially when it is archived from tape.
Google proposes using the closed caption text already synced in broadcast television (and feature films) to use as a temporal keyword mapping.
As others have pointed out, when it comes to un-captioned video, Google is in the same boat as Virage and the others. That's why Google is primarily interested in broadcast TV and film. In general, Google is interested in anything that is keyed with text, be it HTML, documents or video.
Google engineers may want to add information to their database, but that would require actually wading through millions of hours of bad television.
Actually, Google's idea is to use the closed-caption feed text for tagging, so nobody has to watch anything. IMHO, this is a brilliant strategy because (obviously) closed-captioning by its natuire offers high correlation between the text and images in any given section of video.
Or more accurately, guitar player in a local band selling CDs on the web and online stores like iTunes. And of course not for money, but certainly for the potential of "making it" (and thus making money). But given how long we've been at it such a reality is looking increasingly unrealistic. Though we did make some decent $ a couple of years ago when we were touring.
Like most indie bands of our ilk and time period we just wanted to be as "famous" as Pavement and as long-lived as Superchunk.
Dimmed menus don't bother me: I always assumed they were part of the consistency of the UI (all other controls dim when disabled).
IMHO, notification of a disabled state is helpful in guiding the user, even if he/she needs to "figure out" why a state is disabled. Why? Because once you learn, you (almost) never forget.
Tog suggests leaving menu items undimmed and "popping up" a message explaining why the menu item is dimmed. Why? Because of his "Interfaces should be explorable" principle. Then, why not apply the same logic to dimmed scroll bars, buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.?
Answer: because it would be ridiculous. A user would be forced to click here and there and then have to commit to memory that what menu or UI elements aren't active in the current state (not to mention going through countless "helpful" dialogs explaining why you can't do what you want to do).
Isn't this "whack-a-mole" UI worse than the learning curve in "dim" state UIs? What happened to the prinicple of "Interfaces should not piss off the user?"
After all, there are other ways of providing state feedback (e.g. status bars).
No, you're thinking of the "Raelians" (a religious sect - hardly a "team of Scientists") who announced in late 2002 that their company "Clonaid" had succesfully cloned a human baby girl after five failed attempts. As for location, Clonaid only said that the clone was conceived "outisde the US."
It was never verified and widely seen as a publicity stunt.
In my case I have pulled 35hr all-nighters which when added to the regular time in the week is a little over 80hrs over 7 days.
However, in those cases, the all-nighter is fueled by intense adrenalin trying to meet a deadline, and I have found that my code doesn't appear to suffer. My trick is to drink lots of water during (YMMV).
As long as the 80hr week is a rarity, then I can deal with it. But making a habit of doing more than a typical week's work (about 60hr) would surely kill me.
Of course I guess if you are going to drop the $10,000 to legitimatly fill your iPod
ok lets settle this...purchasing music from iTMS or "stealing" music from P2P is not the only way to fill an iPod. Of course, my CD collection might be a tad larger than yours.
This article seems to miss the obvious: all iPod users are iTunes users, and although the iPod interface is a joy, it's the iTunes interface that introduces the "look and feel" of OS X to PC iPod users. The fact that Apple broke with UI guidelines on the PC, led many to argue that iTunes for Windows was bloated and slow. But now it seems clear that for Apple it was paramount to keep the iTunes experience as close to OS X as possible.
If these numbers are correct (and pan out) then Apple's "gamble" turned out to be correct.
Perfect 10 publisher Norm Zada said he is targeting Google because the company is using the allure of naked women to draw more visitors to its site and generate more advertising revenue.
But with if you want to work in a language other than Objective-C,C, C++ or Java?
The only "gotcha" about programming for the Mac outside these languages is that access to native APIs (Core Foundation, Quartz, QuickTime, etc.) becomes dependent on the tool maker providing wrappers.
So, while using other tools for RAD, educational or hobbying purposes might be possible; it's easy to miss out on some of the most intriguing and interesting (IMHO) programming possibilites for the Mac.
Of course, if you're just interested in programming on the Mac as opposed to for the Mac, then this isn't an issue.
To play devil's advocate: this is just a modern incarnation of all the other profit taking we've seen over the years in regards to JFK's assassination.
IMHO, it's all tasteless.
Parting thought: So apparently after 41 years its acceptable to develop a "game" about a tragic moment in history? Does this mean Traffic Games will be releasing a 9/11 WTC simulation in 2042?
Microsoft denies that Google has been the impetus for improvements in its products. Sohn says the company is simply responding to customer feedback.
That's a clever dodge given that "customer feedback" is most likely: "Increase Hotmail storage to match Google. And make Hotmail more like Gmail. Oh, and make desktop search as good as Google. Thanks."
So on one hand, Microsoft defends its entry into markets as "competition is good for the customer" meaning competition pushes innovation, but on the other hand, when others (read: Google) enter its markets, the competition apparently has no effect on its development.
Nice try, Microsoft. As a market leader its important to deny that competition is even possible, but when you're clearly playing catch-up, comments like these belie your insecurity about your own ability to "innovate."
correlation between voting machines and those counties that used evotin
Yeah, yeah, I meant "voting discrepancies" in place of "voting machines". It's just that the Diebold keyboard I have sometimes changes the words I type...
A statistical analysis cannot prove anything. But their research does show a strange correlation between voting machines and those counties that used evoting.
And if you had RTFA you would know that this isn't "partisian bullshit" at all. The findings, if accepted don't change the results in Florida -- Bush still would have won. So right there, any idea that this is simply sour grapes or liberal whining can be discredited. This isn't a conspiracy theory attempting to explain why Bush won, it's a statstical analysis showing something strange was going on in Florida. Liberals and conservatives should be concerned about anything that indicates a manipulation of the democratic process.
worry about juries that refuse to accept eyewitness accounts
Eyewitness accounts are notoriously innacurate and misleading. A number of studies have found that people who witness criminal situations (and hence are under stress) cannot remember (and can even "invent" specifics about) the incidents.
or even outright confessions,
Confessions are also not reliable. Once again, under stress, an individual can be suggested to confess to thing he or she has not done (which is why you should take advantage of your rights and stay silent until your lawyer is present). A number of the cases that have recently been overturned by DNA evidence involved confessions. Yet years later we can prove these people are innocent.
If these CSI-educated juries are prone to be more cautious in making decisions about guilt, then IMO it's probably a good thing.
It's very difficult to come out with the best thing since sliced bread
No, it's very unlikely to come out with the best thing since sliced bread.
It's only very difficult to try to come out with the best thing since sliced bread.
IMHO, this distinction separates Fanning and Andreessen from the rest (Berners-Lee, Thompson, Joy, Wall, etc.) and explains why their post-namemaking accomplishments have been less than groundbreaking. I'm not saying they don't deserve credit for writing good code - they certainly do. But they don't deserve credit for technological prescience where there is none.
Clearly the tech industry media is hungry for "rock stars" but what most of us realize is that Shawn Fanning stumbling into writing a groundbreaking application does not make him a visionary. The same holds true for Marc Andreessen.
Someone was going to write the first successful P2P app, and someone was going to write the first successful web browser.
But being that someone doesn't make you a somebody worth caring about when the bright lights have faded.
The little guy. The one-person software company. Can it still exist today?
Yes. Well, at least so far I'm doing pretty well. But it's only been a year, so I suppose death is still possible.
On patents: Don't worry. You'll only have to be concerned about infringement if 1) you actual infringe a patent and 2) your creation becomes huge (read: popular) and makes the waves that bring in the sharks. And if/when that happens, you'll be able to afford lawyers of your own. Do protect (copyright/trademark/patent) everything you do.
On business: Come up with novel ideas and spend the time on executing them well. Think of niche markets that require solutions. Little steps, not big ones.
Hey Danilla, Great search engine research. If you have a Mac (and the time) maybe you can try theConcept and give a similarly detailed analysis of its use (perhaps data mining results from Google). Since it's my company, I'm biased on its usefulness (as a keyphrase analyzer its approach to search is somehwat different from the "find the answer" test your trying) but I'd definitely be interested in your comments or suggestions, given your expertise in this field.
If I recall, one of Peek's, er, "hobbies" is reading the White Pages and memorizing names and their associated addresses/phone numbers. I believe they touched upon this in "Rain Man" while in the hotel.
So, my guess is that Peek probably reads the White Pages whenever he visits someplace. Not quite mind reading, but still amazing nonetheless.
Spotlight was announced before Google unveiled Google Desktop Search, so Google's known for quite a while that Spotlight was going to be part of the Mac OS.
IMO, I think that is one of the factors working against a release of GDS for the Mac, notwithstanding their vague promises (read: no timetable) for a Mac OS X release.
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The oldest American died Wednesday at 114 according to CNN. The end of the article mentions that the oldest person living in the world is also 114.
So it looks like 114 is the current maximum. I don't doubt that genetic research will help us find ways to extend this, but 1000?
If it does turn out to be true though, we'll all be kicking ourselves that we didn't buy stock in the companies that own Cialis, Levitra and Viagra. There's gonna be a lot of old sex going on.
To search, just use this URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/%s
where %s is your keyword.
<ShamelessSelfPromotion>
Or if you're running OS X, use the Flickr search engine in Beholder.
</ShamelessSelfPromotion>
I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell.
Interesting, I don't believe that was the case when I was working at eMotion, but it's been a while.
If indexing of closed caption text has been around for a while, it isn't clear why broadcast execs are so pumped about Google's solution. Clearly someone thinks Google has something the others don't.
Yes, but AFAIK Virage (and eMotion and other asset management systems that support video) require manually tagging of video, especially when it is archived from tape.
Google proposes using the closed caption text already synced in broadcast television (and feature films) to use as a temporal keyword mapping.
As others have pointed out, when it comes to un-captioned video, Google is in the same boat as Virage and the others. That's why Google is primarily interested in broadcast TV and film. In general, Google is interested in anything that is keyed with text, be it HTML, documents or video.
Google engineers may want to add information to their database, but that would require actually wading through millions of hours of bad television.
Actually, Google's idea is to use the closed-caption feed text for tagging, so nobody has to watch anything. IMHO, this is a brilliant strategy because (obviously) closed-captioning by its natuire offers high correlation between the text and images in any given section of video.
Or more accurately, guitar player in a local band selling CDs on the web and online stores like iTunes. And of course not for money, but certainly for the potential of "making it" (and thus making money). But given how long we've been at it such a reality is looking increasingly unrealistic. Though we did make some decent $ a couple of years ago when we were touring.
Like most indie bands of our ilk and time period we just wanted to be as "famous" as Pavement and as long-lived as Superchunk.
Dimmed menus don't bother me: I always assumed they were part of the consistency of the UI (all other controls dim when disabled).
IMHO, notification of a disabled state is helpful in guiding the user, even if he/she needs to "figure out" why a state is disabled. Why? Because once you learn, you (almost) never forget.
Tog suggests leaving menu items undimmed and "popping up" a message explaining why the menu item is dimmed. Why? Because of his "Interfaces should be explorable" principle. Then, why not apply the same logic to dimmed scroll bars, buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.?
Answer: because it would be ridiculous. A user would be forced to click here and there and then have to commit to memory that what menu or UI elements aren't active in the current state (not to mention going through countless "helpful" dialogs explaining why you can't do what you want to do).
Isn't this "whack-a-mole" UI worse than the learning curve in "dim" state UIs? What happened to the prinicple of "Interfaces should not piss off the user?"
After all, there are other ways of providing state feedback (e.g. status bars).
No, you're thinking of the "Raelians" (a religious sect - hardly a "team of Scientists") who announced in late 2002 that their company "Clonaid" had succesfully cloned a human baby girl after five failed attempts. As for location, Clonaid only said that the clone was conceived "outisde the US."
It was never verified and widely seen as a publicity stunt.
In my case I have pulled 35hr all-nighters which when added to the regular time in the week is a little over 80hrs over 7 days.
However, in those cases, the all-nighter is fueled by intense adrenalin trying to meet a deadline, and I have found that my code doesn't appear to suffer. My trick is to drink lots of water during (YMMV).
As long as the 80hr week is a rarity, then I can deal with it. But making a habit of doing more than a typical week's work (about 60hr) would surely kill me.
Of course I guess if you are going to drop the $10,000 to legitimatly fill your iPod
ok lets settle this...purchasing music from iTMS or "stealing" music from P2P is not the only way to fill an iPod. Of course, my CD collection might be a tad larger than yours.
This article seems to miss the obvious: all iPod users are iTunes users, and although the iPod interface is a joy, it's the iTunes interface that introduces the "look and feel" of OS X to PC iPod users. The fact that Apple broke with UI guidelines on the PC, led many to argue that iTunes for Windows was bloated and slow. But now it seems clear that for Apple it was paramount to keep the iTunes experience as close to OS X as possible.
If these numbers are correct (and pan out) then Apple's "gamble" turned out to be correct.
Perfect 10 publisher Norm Zada said he is targeting Google because the company is using the allure of naked women to draw more visitors to its site and generate more advertising revenue.
Google's image search doesn't display advertisments.
But with if you want to work in a language other than Objective-C,C, C++ or Java?
The only "gotcha" about programming for the Mac outside these languages is that access to native APIs (Core Foundation, Quartz, QuickTime, etc.) becomes dependent on the tool maker providing wrappers.
So, while using other tools for RAD, educational or hobbying purposes might be possible; it's easy to miss out on some of the most intriguing and interesting (IMHO) programming possibilites for the Mac.
Of course, if you're just interested in programming on the Mac as opposed to for the Mac, then this isn't an issue.
To play devil's advocate: this is just a modern incarnation of all the other profit taking we've seen over the years in regards to JFK's assassination.
IMHO, it's all tasteless.
Parting thought: So apparently after 41 years its acceptable to develop a "game" about a tragic moment in history? Does this mean Traffic Games will be releasing a 9/11 WTC simulation in 2042?
Microsoft denies that Google has been the impetus for improvements in its products. Sohn says the company is simply responding to customer feedback.
That's a clever dodge given that "customer feedback" is most likely: "Increase Hotmail storage to match Google. And make Hotmail more like Gmail. Oh, and make desktop search as good as Google. Thanks."
So on one hand, Microsoft defends its entry into markets as "competition is good for the customer" meaning competition pushes innovation, but on the other hand, when others (read: Google) enter its markets, the competition apparently has no effect on its development.
Nice try, Microsoft. As a market leader its important to deny that competition is even possible, but when you're clearly playing catch-up, comments like these belie your insecurity about your own ability to "innovate."
correlation between voting machines and those counties that used evotin
Yeah, yeah, I meant "voting discrepancies" in place of "voting machines". It's just that the Diebold keyboard I have sometimes changes the words I type...
Nothing, that's what.
A statistical analysis cannot prove anything. But their research does show a strange correlation between voting machines and those counties that used evoting.
And if you had RTFA you would know that this isn't "partisian bullshit" at all. The findings, if accepted don't change the results in Florida -- Bush still would have won. So right there, any idea that this is simply sour grapes or liberal whining can be discredited. This isn't a conspiracy theory attempting to explain why Bush won, it's a statstical analysis showing something strange was going on in Florida. Liberals and conservatives should be concerned about anything that indicates a manipulation of the democratic process.
worry about juries that refuse to accept eyewitness accounts
Eyewitness accounts are notoriously innacurate and misleading. A number of studies have found that people who witness criminal situations (and hence are under stress) cannot remember (and can even "invent" specifics about) the incidents.
or even outright confessions,
Confessions are also not reliable. Once again, under stress, an individual can be suggested to confess to thing he or she has not done (which is why you should take advantage of your rights and stay silent until your lawyer is present). A number of the cases that have recently been overturned by DNA evidence involved confessions. Yet years later we can prove these people are innocent.
If these CSI-educated juries are prone to be more cautious in making decisions about guilt, then IMO it's probably a good thing.
It's very difficult to come out with the best thing since sliced bread
No, it's very unlikely to come out with the best thing since sliced bread.
It's only very difficult to try to come out with the best thing since sliced bread.
IMHO, this distinction separates Fanning and Andreessen from the rest (Berners-Lee, Thompson, Joy, Wall, etc.) and explains why their post-namemaking accomplishments have been less than groundbreaking. I'm not saying they don't deserve credit for writing good code - they certainly do. But they don't deserve credit for technological prescience where there is none.
Clearly the tech industry media is hungry for "rock stars" but what most of us realize is that Shawn Fanning stumbling into writing a groundbreaking application does not make him a visionary. The same holds true for Marc Andreessen.
Someone was going to write the first successful P2P app, and someone was going to write the first successful web browser.
But being that someone doesn't make you a somebody worth caring about when the bright lights have faded.
The little guy. The one-person software company. Can it still exist today?
Yes. Well, at least so far I'm doing pretty well. But it's only been a year, so I suppose death is still possible.
On patents: Don't worry. You'll only have to be concerned about infringement if 1) you actual infringe a patent and 2) your creation becomes huge (read: popular) and makes the waves that bring in the sharks. And if/when that happens, you'll be able to afford lawyers of your own. Do protect (copyright/trademark/patent) everything you do.
On business: Come up with novel ideas and spend the time on executing them well. Think of niche markets that require solutions. Little steps, not big ones.
Good luck.
Hey Danilla, Great search engine research. If you have a Mac (and the time) maybe you can try theConcept and give a similarly detailed analysis of its use (perhaps data mining results from Google). Since it's my company, I'm biased on its usefulness (as a keyphrase analyzer its approach to search is somehwat different from the "find the answer" test your trying) but I'd definitely be interested in your comments or suggestions, given your expertise in this field.
I don't get it. This sounds like mind reading
If I recall, one of Peek's, er, "hobbies" is reading the White Pages and memorizing names and their associated addresses/phone numbers. I believe they touched upon this in "Rain Man" while in the hotel.
So, my guess is that Peek probably reads the White Pages whenever he visits someplace. Not quite mind reading, but still amazing nonetheless.
Spotlight was announced before Google unveiled Google Desktop Search, so Google's known for quite a while that Spotlight was going to be part of the Mac OS.
IMO, I think that is one of the factors working against a release of GDS for the Mac, notwithstanding their vague promises (read: no timetable) for a Mac OS X release.