I suspect he was referring to the fact that the Library of Congress is going to receive the entire Twitter archive so that all tweets become part of the LOC's historical archive. This was a result of an agreement between Twitter and the LOC.
I knew this would happen since any product with a name as stupid as "Streak" will fail. Can you imagine telling your friends you own a Streak with a straight face? Try it, I bet you can't do it.
Acutally, it turns out that anti-bacterial soap isn't helpful at all. Check out this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/791934.stm. Save a few bucks and use regular soap.
Also, here's another link talking about how antibacterial soap might actually help in spreading disease (http://www.practicalhippie.com/cache/antibacteria l/soapoveruse.htm).
The reasons for this are the same as for VRSA. Namely, overuse of anti-bacterial medications and soaps are enabling the bacteria to evolve strands that are resistant.
The best things to do to help the human race in its fight against bacteria:
1. Don't use anti-bacterial soap, use regular soap 2. Don't pressure your doctor for antibiotics 3. If you are given antibiotic prescription, take all doses of a prescription you are given.
If this bug count is actually high for this kind of project (and I'm not sure that it is), I imagine it would have to do with the fact that it is an OpenSource project. In a traditional development method, there would be a great deal of internal testing that might result in less bugs being noticed by users. In a situation like Mozilla, there would be so many users testing the product through the development life cycle that many bugs would be reported that might have already been anticipated or discovered and repaired by the time it was being used by users. It seems that instead of a more traditional cycle of build, test, repair, release, in OpenSource you have a build, release, test, repair, release which probably results in inflated bug counts.
The article says these robots will be under $3k. If that turns out to be true, it would finally make advanced robots like this more affordable for the home. If they could get the price down below $1500, then this is the price of a good purebred pet. It might be interesting to have such robots that look like animals. No more cleaning the cat box!
I think that his point precisely is what you are saying. That science is more than just looking at data, but also adding in the creative element that leads to new ideas and the discovery of patterns. As I read it, you are actuall restating his point.
But even so, it is a tough choice. Do I buy a $1000 worth of suit that will look awesome and last me 5+ years, or do I sink that in a P2/VooDoo2 upgrade that will last me 5 days until it is obsolete.
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I suspect he was referring to the fact that the Library of Congress is going to receive the entire Twitter archive so that all tweets become part of the LOC's historical archive. This was a result of an agreement between Twitter and the LOC.
I knew this would happen since any product with a name as stupid as "Streak" will fail. Can you imagine telling your friends you own a Streak with a straight face? Try it, I bet you can't do it.
Acutally, it turns out that anti-bacterial soap isn't helpful at all. Check out this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/791934.stm. Save a few bucks and use regular soap.
a l/soapoveruse.htm).
Also, here's another link talking about how antibacterial soap might actually help in spreading disease (http://www.practicalhippie.com/cache/antibacteri
The reasons for this are the same as for VRSA. Namely, overuse of anti-bacterial medications and soaps are enabling the bacteria to evolve strands that are resistant.
The best things to do to help the human race in its fight against bacteria:
1. Don't use anti-bacterial soap, use regular soap
2. Don't pressure your doctor for antibiotics
3. If you are given antibiotic prescription, take all doses of a prescription you are given.
If this bug count is actually high for this kind of project (and I'm not sure that it is), I imagine it would have to do with the fact that it is an OpenSource project. In a traditional development method, there would be a great deal of internal testing that might result in less bugs being noticed by users. In a situation like Mozilla, there would be so many users testing the product through the development life cycle that many bugs would be reported that might have already been anticipated or discovered and repaired by the time it was being used by users. It seems that instead of a more traditional cycle of build, test, repair, release, in OpenSource you have a build, release, test, repair, release which probably results in inflated bug counts.
The article says these robots will be under $3k. If that turns out to be true, it would finally make advanced robots like this more affordable for the home. If they could get the price down below $1500, then this is the price of a good purebred pet. It might be interesting to have such robots that look like animals. No more cleaning the cat box!
I think that his point precisely is what you are saying. That science is more than just looking at data, but also adding in the creative element that leads to new ideas and the discovery of patterns. As I read it, you are actuall restating his point.
But even so, it is a tough choice. Do I buy a $1000 worth of suit that will look awesome and last me 5+ years, or do I sink that in a P2/VooDoo2 upgrade that will last me 5 days until it is obsolete.
Tough choice.