I have no clue about the CNN footage, but in Copenhagen, Denmark, there were in fact palestinians celebrating (and the Danish PM said: "It is distasteful, unacceptable and inhuman").
As Pheobe from friends says: "I don't want to be all judgemental, but it's wrong. Sick and wrong".
A team at Berkeley is researching jokes using collaborative filtering (or is it the other way around?). The project is called Jester and works like this:
- You are exposed to fifteen different jokes, which you have to rate according to how funny you find them
- Then your humour profile is compared to all the other profiles, they have
- Based on the matches, they will show the jokes, which best suit your sense of humour.
This seems like a much more likely way of finding the funniest joke in the world, because here you can find the funniest joke in the world according to your taste.
Give it a shot. You dont have to fill in a working email address to get it to work.
If this has your interest, UK professor Kevin Warwick definatly will. He had a chip implanted in 1998, making him a cyborg (not the first though). He researches robotics and decided to get the implant for a week or so, which communicated with the university where he worked through a radio link (his story in Wired).
THIS year, he is taking it to the next step. "Project Cyborg 2.0":
This phase will look at how a new implant could send signals back and forth between Warwick's nervous system and a computer. If this test succeeds with no complications, a similar chip will be implanted in his wife, Irena. This will allow the investigation of how movement, thought or emotion signals could be transmitted from one person to the other, possibly via the Internet.
I heard on BBC, where he was interviewed, that he wanted to find out, if they could transfer/share pain, he and his wife. Interesting stuff.
What I personally find cool about Kevin (yes, he is a first name kinda guy;) is that he is doing this on himself. There are actually health risks involved in the operation, which is why he chose to get it in his left arm, as he is right-handed. I guess someone would argue that it's unscientific experimenting on yourself, rather than a test subject, but for me it shows how much he burns for this subject, and if see an interview with him, I think you will agree.
A friend of mine got on a plane in South America, which was heading towards Europe. With him, he brought a nice big space-cake (=hash cake), knowing that the customs/police wouldn't check anything until he landed. While in air he ate the sucker and had one hell of a flight home.
"Doesn't the New York Times copyright their online articles? Can I not view them any more for fear of violating Excite's policies?"
In Denmark, whatever you produce (texts, images, lyrics) is automatically your copyright. You don't buy it, or have to specifically declare it copyrighted. Isn't it like this in the States?
Thanx for pointing it out. You know that it is a whole feature they did... AFAIR if you click "next" on the bottom of the page, you will go through all the articles they wrote on the topic. I tried submitting this to/. but no luck.
If anyone else feels like submitting it, then please go for it.
But mirroring the success of Apache and Linux will be no small feat for the three most popular open source databases - InterBase, MySQL and PostgreSQL - which combined represent less than 3 percent of the market, according to even the most optimistic estimates of the suppliers themselves.
Did this number strike anyone else as too low? This is the first time I have seen any percentages on OS DBs. Alright, 3%, but of what? Does this mean that less than 3% of all bytes stored in any database are stored in an OS DB? That may be, but I cannot believe that less than 3% of all databases running are OS.
The thing is, when I started studying computer science, we only ever worked on mSQL boxes. My first job used Postgres and the second used mySQL. Anything I work on myself is mySQL. Granted these jobs have all been webrelated, but when you think about how many ISPs offer mySQL/Postgres preinstalled (not to mention linux distributions, if that counts), 3% seems rediculous.
Well I suppose MS Access runs on one or two computers out there... that might raise the non-OS score.
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Hmmm... this reminds me of last weeks discussion of the Gravitational Repulsion Effect - if possible, using such a device onboard the ISS would be ideal really.
If you can use nanotechnology to copy anything and then share the "plans" with friends who can use nanotechnology to make copies of their own, is it like Napster for the material world?
This is already an issue. Digital fabbers (3d copy machines) are being produced by companies like Ennex. Check their faq for info, like fabbing in full color (pictures) and discussions on fabbing food 8-)
If you can handle limitations in speed and greater space requirements for landing and take-off, then you can have your own personal motored aircraft for less than 10,000 dollars.
A paramotor! Yeps, it's a pretty simple concept - a paraglider (= a steerable parachute) with an engine on your back. Check out pictures and real video1 and 2.
It sounds experimental, but this is old stuff - pilots have covered 100s of kilometers in this way. There are restrictions on flight over inhabited areas (at least in most of Europe), and you are not able to go much faster than 40 km/h.
I bought a 2nd hand wing + harness for less than 1,500 dollars, and you can get a good engine for around 5000 dollars. Depending on what wing you get, you can have up to 350 kg. of luggage with you! With the right harness and certificate (or just a liberal country) you can even bring a friend as co-pilot.
I'm doing my paragliding certificate in Denmark at the moment, and even though I really want a paramotor, cliff soaring still rules.... several hours of natural wind borne flight along the coast of Denmark just beats anything....
LOL.... no this is a cool joke!! I presume you are referring to Fermat's comment in the margin on his notebook about having the solution to his own theorem.
As a Dane, critisism of Lego always touches a sensitive spot (you DO know that Lego is from Denmark, right?;) but you are really on to something here.
The blocks are bigger now than before. However, I saw an interview with a chief designer/engineer at Lego on Danish TV a year ago, and he said that this was a trend Lego got into in the 90's, and that they wanted to move away from it, as many of their customers were complaining about it..... so there's hope:)
BTW, a tidbit you might appreciate: A couple of years ago part of the LEGO Technic assortment was targeted in Danish newspapers towards adult men! A picture of 40 year old man in a suit toying around with a few pieces. I thought it was so cool, but I don't think it was a commercial success. I guess girlfriends would rather buy sweaters than toys for they husbonds for Xmas.
Oh yeah.... another tidbit.... LEGOs longterm vision: Programmable intelligent blocks - think OBJECTS! Very cool that LEGO, which AFAIK inspired OOP, now wants to take the idea back and use it to develop themselves.
In the MMORPG genre, I'm retty excited about NeverWinterNights (official site here) by BioWare, the ppl who brought you Baldur's Gate. It's RPG style online game, big and 3d, but it will have the possibility to build your own Worlds with an included kit. You can then connect your worlds with others, so the release of the game is really just the first step. They kinda promised to pre-release more tiles (building blocks) to create worlds. Woh...
What I find TOTALLY cool about NWN as a D&D fan is that NWN is based on 3rd Edition D&D and you will be able to let your Game Master create a world (a town, a desert or a whole planet), and only let his players join. This way I can play D&D over the net, just with my friends. If we feel like it, we can portal to other worlds, and, as a team, slay other ppl. My RPG group has been looking for remote playing software forever, since we live pretty far away from each other.
Disclaimer before I get flamed to hell: take all of this with a pinch of salt. The general attitude of BioWare seems to be "maybe we will have this or that, I can nearly guarentee it", so I know, it's not for sure we will see ALL of this functionality.
btw, ETA for NWN is Spring 2002.
by the way, I'm pretty sure they use UDP and not TCP
Nopes, they only use TCP. Check out this thread on the AO forums.
You are definatly not the one only bitching about this game.... just check out the General forum for AO, and you will see some complaining and bug reporting.
MMORPGs [massive multiplayer online role playing game] are completely different from the usual product, because shipping the CD is not the final step -- it's only the first. These games have to be continually supported, not just by tech support and moderators, but by programmers, artists, designers -- an entire development team has to keep working on these games, to add new levels, new worlds, new storylines, new scenarios. To not only entice new players, but to keep the existing players playing.
A friend of mine is an Anarchy Online addict, and he told me that Funcom is planning that story to develop over 4 years. Right now the Omnitechs and the Rebels (the two opposing forces your character can join) haven't even met yet.
However, developing the story seems to be Funcoms smallest problem right now. They are having serious connection and server uptime issues, which is pissing off all the players. From what I hear, the game only uses TCP/IP and no UDP like most other online games. This means that every packet has to be confirmed, which is not always needed.
Apparently the game is very addictive (I think my friend will lose his job, if he doesn't quit playing during work).
Just heard yesterday, that when they discovered they had extinctualized (yikes, that can't be a word) it, the general attitude was: "But what did we really need it for?"
-Kraft
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Stevie Case aka Killcreek - the multifragging playboy bunny who's dating Romero - entered the quake scene.
Here's a nice picture (go on, just click it, I know you want to...)
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I have no clue about the CNN footage, but in Copenhagen, Denmark, there were in fact palestinians celebrating (and the Danish PM said: "It is distasteful, unacceptable and inhuman").
As Pheobe from friends says: "I don't want to be all judgemental, but it's wrong. Sick and wrong".
A team at Berkeley is researching jokes using collaborative filtering (or is it the other way around?). The project is called Jester and works like this:
- You are exposed to fifteen different jokes, which you have to rate according to how funny you find them
- Then your humour profile is compared to all the other profiles, they have
- Based on the matches, they will show the jokes, which best suit your sense of humour.
This seems like a much more likely way of finding the funniest joke in the world, because here you can find the funniest joke in the world according to your taste.
Give it a shot. You dont have to fill in a working email address to get it to work.
I suppose 'sensations' would be a more suitable word.
If this has your interest, UK professor Kevin Warwick definatly will. He had a chip implanted in 1998, making him a cyborg (not the first though). He researches robotics and decided to get the implant for a week or so, which communicated with the university where he worked through a radio link (his story in Wired).
;) is that he is doing this on himself. There are actually health risks involved in the operation, which is why he chose to get it in his left arm, as he is right-handed. I guess someone would argue that it's unscientific experimenting on yourself, rather than a test subject, but for me it shows how much he burns for this subject, and if see an interview with him, I think you will agree.
THIS year, he is taking it to the next step. "Project Cyborg 2.0":
This phase will look at how a new implant could send signals back and forth between Warwick's nervous system and a computer. If this test succeeds with no complications, a similar chip will be implanted in his wife, Irena. This will allow the investigation of how movement, thought or emotion signals could be transmitted from one person to the other, possibly via the Internet.
I heard on BBC, where he was interviewed, that he wanted to find out, if they could transfer/share pain, he and his wife. Interesting stuff.
What I personally find cool about Kevin (yes, he is a first name kinda guy
here (I keep getting a fcuking lameness filter abort, if I dont write anything here. Geez)
Also, a review of most of the winning books are here
(offtopic, but pretty funny)
A friend of mine got on a plane in South America, which was heading towards Europe. With him, he brought a nice big space-cake (=hash cake), knowing that the customs/police wouldn't check anything until he landed. While in air he ate the sucker and had one hell of a flight home.
Hmm... no links in the news? Dodgy, if you ask me...
:(
Germany:
Provider: RWE
- Power line internet access launched by Germany's RWE - Quote: "The power line technology will mean that RWE PowerNet can deliver data at a rate of two million bytes per second."
- Shocking Concept: Internet Over Electrical Lines
Sweden:
Provider: Sydkraft Bredbånd - provides up to 8mbit/s downstream.
- Sweden Using Electricity For High-Speed Connections
continue list at will. I just know it will take forever before I can get anything but forced AOL crap connections where I live in France
"Doesn't the New York Times copyright their online articles? Can I not view them any more for fear of violating Excite's policies?"
In Denmark, whatever you produce (texts, images, lyrics) is automatically your copyright. You don't buy it, or have to specifically declare it copyrighted. Isn't it like this in the States?
Thanx for pointing it out. You know that it is a whole feature they did... AFAIR if you click "next" on the bottom of the page, you will go through all the articles they wrote on the topic. I tried submitting this to /. but no luck.
If anyone else feels like submitting it, then please go for it.
Doh. and thanx. This never even occured to me... measuring the success of OSS (ie. free) in terms of revenue seems a bit too weird :)
Did this number strike anyone else as too low? This is the first time I have seen any percentages on OS DBs. Alright, 3%, but of what? Does this mean that less than 3% of all bytes stored in any database are stored in an OS DB? That may be, but I cannot believe that less than 3% of all databases running are OS.
The thing is, when I started studying computer science, we only ever worked on mSQL boxes. My first job used Postgres and the second used mySQL. Anything I work on myself is mySQL. Granted these jobs have all been webrelated, but when you think about how many ISPs offer mySQL/Postgres preinstalled (not to mention linux distributions, if that counts), 3% seems rediculous.
Well I suppose MS Access runs on one or two computers out there... that might raise the non-OS score.
Hmmm... this reminds me of last weeks discussion of the Gravitational Repulsion Effect - if possible, using such a device onboard the ISS would be ideal really.
doh... now I remember where I read about this first...
This is already an issue. Digital fabbers (3d copy machines) are being produced by companies like Ennex. Check their faq for info, like fabbing in full color (pictures) and discussions on fabbing food 8-)
If you can handle limitations in speed and greater space requirements for landing and take-off, then you can have your own personal motored aircraft for less than 10,000 dollars.
A paramotor! Yeps, it's a pretty simple concept - a paraglider (= a steerable parachute) with an engine on your back. Check out pictures and real video1 and 2.
It sounds experimental, but this is old stuff - pilots have covered 100s of kilometers in this way. There are restrictions on flight over inhabited areas (at least in most of Europe), and you are not able to go much faster than 40 km/h.
I bought a 2nd hand wing + harness for less than 1,500 dollars, and you can get a good engine for around 5000 dollars. Depending on what wing you get, you can have up to 350 kg. of luggage with you! With the right harness and certificate (or just a liberal country) you can even bring a friend as co-pilot.
I'm doing my paragliding certificate in Denmark at the moment, and even though I really want a paramotor, cliff soaring still rules.... several hours of natural wind borne flight along the coast of Denmark just beats anything....
-Kraft
LOL.... no this is a cool joke!! I presume you are referring to Fermat's comment in the margin on his notebook about having the solution to his own theorem.
I just read Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh a month ago and I loved it.
-Kraft
If you didn't read about this earlier, you might want to check out these /. stories about the Adobe vs. KIllustator name conflict.
-Kraft
As a Dane, critisism of Lego always touches a sensitive spot (you DO know that Lego is from Denmark, right? ;) but you are really on to something here.
:)
The blocks are bigger now than before. However, I saw an interview with a chief designer/engineer at Lego on Danish TV a year ago, and he said that this was a trend Lego got into in the 90's, and that they wanted to move away from it, as many of their customers were complaining about it..... so there's hope
BTW, a tidbit you might appreciate: A couple of years ago part of the LEGO Technic assortment was targeted in Danish newspapers towards adult men! A picture of 40 year old man in a suit toying around with a few pieces. I thought it was so cool, but I don't think it was a commercial success. I guess girlfriends would rather buy sweaters than toys for they husbonds for Xmas.
Oh yeah.... another tidbit.... LEGOs longterm vision: Programmable intelligent blocks - think OBJECTS! Very cool that LEGO, which AFAIK inspired OOP, now wants to take the idea back and use it to develop themselves.
-Kraft
n.
- One who is addicted, as to narcotics or a
compulsive activity.
- A devoted adherent; a fan: "We are all... addicts of change" (Christopher Lasch).
I have no problem with "addicted" being watered out, but "love" and "hate" losing their meaning due to insincere use, bothers me.-Kraft
In the MMORPG genre, I'm retty excited about NeverWinterNights (official site here) by BioWare, the ppl who brought you Baldur's Gate. It's RPG style online game, big and 3d, but it will have the possibility to build your own Worlds with an included kit. You can then connect your worlds with others, so the release of the game is really just the first step. They kinda promised to pre-release more tiles (building blocks) to create worlds. Woh...
What I find TOTALLY cool about NWN as a D&D fan is that NWN is based on 3rd Edition D&D and you will be able to let your Game Master create a world (a town, a desert or a whole planet), and only let his players join. This way I can play D&D over the net, just with my friends. If we feel like it, we can portal to other worlds, and, as a team, slay other ppl. My RPG group has been looking for remote playing software forever, since we live pretty far away from each other.
Disclaimer before I get flamed to hell: take all of this with a pinch of salt. The general attitude of BioWare seems to be "maybe we will have this or that, I can nearly guarentee it", so I know, it's not for sure we will see ALL of this functionality.
btw, ETA for NWN is Spring 2002.
-Kraft
Nopes, they only use TCP. Check out this thread on the AO forums.
You are definatly not the one only bitching about this game.... just check out the General forum for AO, and you will see some complaining and bug reporting.
-Kraft
However, developing the story seems to be Funcoms smallest problem right now. They are having serious connection and server uptime issues, which is pissing off all the players. From what I hear, the game only uses TCP/IP and no UDP like most other online games. This means that every packet has to be confirmed, which is not always needed.
Apparently the game is very addictive (I think my friend will lose his job, if he doesn't quit playing during work).
-Kraft
Neat! With Google Image Search I finally got to see what CmdrTaco looks like (he looks a lot smilier than I thought :)
-Kraft
About the Dodo:
Just heard yesterday, that when they discovered they had extinctualized (yikes, that can't be a word) it, the general attitude was: "But what did we really need it for?"
-Kraft
When Stevie Case aka Killcreek - the multifragging playboy bunny who's dating Romero - entered the quake scene.
Here's a nice picture (go on, just click it, I know you want to...)
-Kraft