Wait. You're saying that I could get one of these little buggers and stick it on someone and know exactly where they are? I'm more worried about the Bush administration's ideas for using this technology than I am about Wal-Mart's. Though I don't want them tracking me either.
I mean who wants your retailer to know when you buy condoms or somethng equally personal. Really, technologically speaking, we are not far from the thought police at all.
Wasn't there a Slashdot article claiming that the Google servers may be the fastest super computer in the world, but they are so busy they couldn't run the benchmark? I can't find it now. If that's the case, how does Yahoo compete? By dividing the traffic? Can anyone link me?
Not that I'm condoning the military-industrial complex and high spending, but MANY unexpected scientic breakthroughs come from all sorts of research.
It is possible that this research could lead to the development of a drug that controls diabetes and heart disease. Imagine if they found a substance that turned out to be a safe and effective weightloss drug--being overweight is the leading cause of numerous health issues. Americans are fat and it's costing us billions in health care, increased mortality, and lost productivity.
Also, the DoD is currently funding a project at my university to help detect landmines in the soil to protect foot soldiers-- which ultimately will have a major impact on humanitarian work.
I can't find the article I read, but the data that were being lost were on old media. I think the data the article was refering to was collected in the 70s and 80s. I know that NASA isn't the only government agency having a hard time analyzing what it's found, either.
It's a statistical average, i.e., medical knowlegde doubles much slower (3.5 to 7 years, depending on who you ask) than say the data Hubble collects about the universe. Some say the rate is exponential, claiming that everytime 'human knowledge' doubles, it takes half the time to double again. So it was three years, now it is eighteen months..etc. I've seen some claims that we will be double our knowledge every 72 hours by 2012. There are two many sources to quote, but for fun ask google to do a search.
In a number of areas scientific data is being generated at enormous rates, creating the need for the automated analysis of the data," said Ross D. King, the system's co-inventor and a professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
It's true that we have gone from doubling our knowledge of the world in three years to just eighteen months. NASA has data that is deteriating before it can be analized, so I think the following conderns are unfounded:
Some scientists questioned whether the system, dubbed the "Robot Scientist" by its creators, deserved the title of scientist. For human scientists, some of the most interesting discoveries happen when researchers notice something they weren't looking for and suddenly change course...
I think there is plenty of accumulated data that just needs basic analysis.
It's really interesting to think about this system and IBM's new Webcrawler in terms of AI though, and what we might accomplish in the next ten years.
And how do you calculate the risk factor of a server going down? I work for a university whose servers run Windows. The entire network was down for two days because of a virus. How do you measure something like that? 26,000 students. 10,000 employees. Millions and millions of reserach dollars.
I'm sure there's a formula, but I'm sure M$ isn't factoring RISK into their calculations.
Start a company that avoids all this management masturbation, gives its people the power to solve problems without having to go through 14 layers of buerocracy and that actually understands its customers business needs and you'll end up owning the market, whether or not you're operating from the USA, India or from East Outer Mongolia. And incidentally you might make a buck or two at it.
I'm sure that textile and factory workers felt the same for awhile. I hate to sound like a Marxist, but welcome to market driven, capitalist America. They're cheaper, they work longer, they demand less.
Those jobs aren't ever coming back and neither will these.
SCO also announced its first full year of profitability today, reporting $5.3m in net income for its 2003 financial year, which ended 31 October, despite legal fees paid out to wage its Unix copyright fight. That fight began when SCO in March filed a $1bn lawsuit against IBM for allegedly breaching its Unix licensing contract.
Why not just make a lapel pin for men and a necklace for women so that you don't have to walk around with your damn finger in your ear. Who thinks people will do this?
Thanks for the clear definition (and etymology). I got the gist of it from context, but wasn't clear if it meant injury, fatigue, or was actually a precise medical condition!
I've thought about one of those hand developing gadgets--the kind you squeeze. It seems like that might work for both my hand and forearm, but I don't know what they are called, so I don't know how to shop for one. Also, for obvious reasons, I don't want to over do it.
The worst strain to my body I experienced while gaming was the result of multiple attempts to defeat Ridley in Metroid Prime - my forefingers were knackered for days.
First off, wtf is "knackered"?
But more to the point, I have this problem:
Another alleged problem for gamers is over-development of muscles in the arm...
My mouse forearm is slightly more developed than my other arm from playing CS, and my hand is getting bigger. It wouldn't matter to much, but I'm female so my arms are pretty small. It's mostly only noticable to me, but still...
Actually, If you read the article, it says that they posed as AOL and said the card had been charge for a legitimate service, but the card was not accepted and they need to submit another card for processing. Seems to be a possible scenario for the average user who has online subscriptions that they normally pay online.
Funny that they see MIT's attempt to find a legal solution to providing students with content as an attempt to circumvent the RIAA. From the LAMP Site:
LAMP was designed to operate in full compliance with the law and to respect the rights of all copyright holders.
MIT has at all times sought to implement a legal music service for its students.
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I got modded down 3 times for flamebait forthis comment??? I guess Bush, Rumsfield, & Ashcroft they really are tracking me!
Well, I am one of the few female /.ers, so it's not that surprising.
I mean who wants your retailer to know when you buy condoms or somethng equally personal. Really, technologically speaking, we are not far from the thought police at all.
Wasn't there a Slashdot article claiming that the Google servers may be the fastest super computer in the world, but they are so busy they couldn't run the benchmark? I can't find it now. If that's the case, how does Yahoo compete? By dividing the traffic? Can anyone link me?
It is possible that this research could lead to the development of a drug that controls diabetes and heart disease. Imagine if they found a substance that turned out to be a safe and effective weightloss drug--being overweight is the leading cause of numerous health issues. Americans are fat and it's costing us billions in health care, increased mortality, and lost productivity.
Also, the DoD is currently funding a project at my university to help detect landmines in the soil to protect foot soldiers-- which ultimately will have a major impact on humanitarian work.
I can't find the article I read, but the data that were being lost were on old media. I think the data the article was refering to was collected in the 70s and 80s. I know that NASA isn't the only government agency having a hard time analyzing what it's found, either.
It's a statistical average, i.e., medical knowlegde doubles much slower (3.5 to 7 years, depending on who you ask) than say the data Hubble collects about the universe. Some say the rate is exponential, claiming that everytime 'human knowledge' doubles, it takes half the time to double again. So it was three years, now it is eighteen months..etc. I've seen some claims that we will be double our knowledge every 72 hours by 2012. There are two many sources to quote, but for fun ask google to do a search.
It's true that we have gone from doubling our knowledge of the world in three years to just eighteen months. NASA has data that is deteriating before it can be analized, so I think the following conderns are unfounded:
Some scientists questioned whether the system, dubbed the "Robot Scientist" by its creators, deserved the title of scientist. For human scientists, some of the most interesting discoveries happen when researchers notice something they weren't looking for and suddenly change course...
I think there is plenty of accumulated data that just needs basic analysis.
It's really interesting to think about this system and IBM's new Webcrawler in terms of AI though, and what we might accomplish in the next ten years.
Magneto? Sweet.
; )
I'm sure there's a formula, but I'm sure M$ isn't factoring RISK into their calculations.
So what's stopping us? Let's do it.
Those jobs aren't ever coming back and neither will these.
Unfortunately, they still turned a profit.
What's more dangerous? Junior with the chemsitry set that can blow up the garage, or Junior with the goods to blackmail mom...
any number of ways including earrings , small clips on glasses, or even a small hook that fits around the back side of the ear.
Why not just make a lapel pin for men and a necklace for women so that you don't have to walk around with your damn finger in your ear. Who thinks people will do this?
Thanks for the clear definition (and etymology). I got the gist of it from context, but wasn't clear if it meant injury, fatigue, or was actually a precise medical condition!
I've thought about one of those hand developing gadgets--the kind you squeeze. It seems like that might work for both my hand and forearm, but I don't know what they are called, so I don't know how to shop for one. Also, for obvious reasons, I don't want to over do it.
First off, wtf is "knackered"?
But more to the point, I have this problem:
Another alleged problem for gamers is over-development of muscles in the arm...
My mouse forearm is slightly more developed than my other arm from playing CS, and my hand is getting bigger. It wouldn't matter to much, but I'm female so my arms are pretty small. It's mostly only noticable to me, but still...
:)
Actually, If you read the article, it says that they posed as AOL and said the card had been charge for a legitimate service, but the card was not accepted and they need to submit another card for processing. Seems to be a possible scenario for the average user who has online subscriptions that they normally pay online.
trying to sue every new attempt that MIT students come up with.
Or come up with a way to inexpensively license the 'product' to campuses. Obviously, MIT was willing to pay to do this.
LAMP was designed to operate in full compliance with the law and to respect the rights of all copyright holders. MIT has at all times sought to implement a legal music service for its students.