The same thing happens for "Ray" and "Million Dollar Baby". The interesting part is that it clearly knows that these are movies, because it offers to find nearby theatres. If you do a search for a nonsense word or phrase, you don't get the same offer.
So why is it suppressing reviews of currently playing movies? It's enough to make one speculate about Hollywood pressure, but I'm sure there's a more innocent explanation.
However the use of the term "sixth sense" implies a paranormal explanation...This is perhaps more likely just poor journalism rather than poor science.
Indeed. It might be more appropriate to say there are sixth, seventh, and eighth, etc. senses. It has been postulated that we are sensitive to a variety of stimula that other animals are capable of sensing (magnetic fields, pheromones, etc.) but that these senses are either vestigal or their input is overwhelmed by the high bandwidth requirements of vision, which we rely on to a much higher degree.
The real point of the article is that we register things like taste, sight, smell, etc. at a conscious level, and that we may also take in data that is valuable but that doesn't register with the same intensity. That sub-conscious data can still affect us, however, but we can't explain it in the same way we can explain the more direct stimuli.
You seem to know a good amount about IBM products.
Actually, I don't. I just clicked a link in one of the IBM articles about the cluster and got to the JS20 page.
I do know that blades are designed to be small. The enclosure is 7U and you can put 10 blades in it, because they're mounted vertically. In the same space you can only fit 7 XServes, which are mounted horizontally.
I don't know details about heat, etc. I think the JS20 defaults to no HD, as well, whereas the Xserve comes with 80G minimum.
Well, the info is right here for quantity 1, and there a button that says "Configure and order a JS20," so if you're willing to order a few thousand of them (they're about $4K/ea with 2.5G RAM), you can build your own.
Actually, that's a reasonable price, considering it's IBM, who aren't usually considered a bargain brand.
The way to make money with music-enabled cell phones is this.
1) Make sure you can sync with your computer (e.g., iTunes) 2) Keep the airtime charge for download low (music biz to subsidize?) 3) Work with the radio stations so that when they play a new release they can also say, "And dial *1592 with your iTunes phone to buy and download this song now"
Instant gratification + low end user cost = profit
Thousands of people laid off. Everyone demoralized.
I don't think you can hold her personally responsible for that, in that it was likely to be the same under anyone who attempted a merger of the scale she tried. That's one of the reason's to do a merger--eliminate duplicate jobs.
Bah. Star Wars isn't fit to lick Forbidden Planet's boots. While SW does have an Oedipal conflict to give it a little weight, it's basically a cowbow flick in space.
FP, on the other had, also has its Freudian elements (that's "id" not "ID"), but its story follows Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and raises significant questions about how technology amplifies human capabilities and our ability to survive weilding that kind of power.
It doesn't need repairing today, but it will in a couple of years. The batteries and gyroscopes have limited lifetimes and must be replaced every so often. These cyclic repair missions, which have been performed in the past, were cancelled after the Columbia accident
While they could restart the repair cycle, NASA no longer feels that repair flights are safe, because, unlike when the Shuttle visits ISS, there are no good rescue options given Hubble's orbit.
Several thousand years ago, when the last ice had more of the ocean's water locked up in glaciers, North America and Asia were connected. That is how the first people got here...by walking.
It was only after the ice melted and the sea level rose that it required boats.
Here's another way not to "eat your own dog food." According to this story Sanyo employees have been requested to buy Sanyo products, presumably whether they need them or not, to limit the huge quarterly loss the company is expecting.
Indeed, I'm surprised none of the pundits (Cringley, et al.) have commented on this. While everyone assumes Apple is planning a download movie store (iFlix?) no one has mentioned TV.
TV would seem like a much better place to start. The bandwidth requirements are much lower, there's a large base of old shows that people would watch and the (presumed) acceptance of such a service would "prime the pump" so to speak, for an eventual movie service.
You'd think that DSL providers would be happy partners in such a venture, since it would boost their incomes as people bought bandwidth upgrades and it would give them leverage agaist the cable companies.
downright painful portrayals of some of the characters
Mos Def really lacked the requisite wit
Deschanel's Trillian simply uninteresting
It wants to be popular and accessible by Hollywood standards
the end result is ineffectual and structurally confusing
the film looks oppressively cheap
lumbering puppets with little range of motion
Mos Def is something of a disaster as Ford Prefect
I can't think of a dolphin or a mouse that would shell out $10 to see this
Now, you can argue that I'm cherry-picking the bad news, and there were positive things said as well. That's true, but Ford is the single most important character in the book, so if he's a disaster, there's not much left, even if there are (oh boy) pretty special effects.
It's not to frustrate users, it's to gouge users. Unfortunately, this kind of thing happens all the time.
For instance, I worked at Intel in the early 80s. Intel invested a lot in development tools, compilers, assemblers, etc. It was the de facto leader in the technology. They sold their tools on their own platform, for which they charged about $25K.
When the IBM PC came out, all the software geeks said, "Hey, let's port this great software to the IBM PC, and think of all the developers we'll get." Intel management said, wait, if we do that we'll only make a couple hundred a shot for a compiler rather than $25K a shot for a development system. No way.
End result, Borland and others (and eventually Microsoft) introduced software that ran on the IBM PC and development system sales crashed anyway. Not only that, but now no one even bought Intel's software.
Moral: You can buy some short-term profit, but screwing your customers is a bad strategy long-term.
The ideas been spinning around since the early 90s at least.
Actually, I first heard this in the early 80s. It was in Danny Hillis' book The Connection Machine, which was based on his Ph.D. thesis. He said that computer power would eventually become a utility, the way electric power is now.
That doesn't mean there won't be any local computing, after all, we still have batteries and generators, but that the largest portion of it will be handled by someone else.
Once you have fiber to the home, the need for a local box nearly goes away for the average member of the populace.
Not being a physicist, the term "pointer states" conjures up images of data structures, so I'm not reallly sure what that refers to. However, I'm wondering if this is an adequate layman's interpretation.
Some particle P1 has the probability of being in several possible locations. When particle P2 is added, then in some subset of their probabilities, there will be an interaction. Now, if you add a further interaction with P3 at a later point in time, you reduce the probabilities to only those in which the multiple interactions would occur. It would seem to follow therefore, that the more particles there are in a given region, the more likely you would get these interactions and an "objective reality."
The data annotating technology used by OmniFind (UIMA) is available for download at IBM's Alphaworks site.
In ordinary search, the text is parsed and a giant index is created. UIMA allows you to write annotators that look for additonal information, for example names of elected officials, and add those entires to the index as well.
How about a face transplant? Just last month the Cleveland Clinic was given permission to attempt the procedure and they are now searching for a suitable patient.
Why should you give up your right to make a critical judgement just because you were paid?
Le Guin wasn't paid for loyalty, she was paid to relinquish a copyright protection. She didn't like the result, why shouldn't she be able to say so?
If I have an orchard, and someone buys my apples to make apple cider and the cider tastes like horse piss, don't I have the right to say so? Why should the fact that I sold the apples (which many customers are very happy with) force me to be silent about the quality of a completely different product?
Because, as the article notes, the original chemical properties of the waters in the regions named can be duplicated with a little chemistry.
Any good brewshop will sell you Calcium Chloride, Gypsum, Phosphoric acid, etc. for adjusting the mineral content and pH of your water to better approximate the style of beer you're trying to brew.
Rather than a merger of companies, a merger of interests. Darwin/AIX.
IBM currently has in AIX an operating system that they've invested a lot of development time in, but aren't getting much traction with. Partly because of that they've been focussing more on Linux.
Apple has a relatively recent server line, and an operating system based on an open license, Darwin. If IBM put it's AIX and Linux technology in to Darwin, they'd have a OS with a much wider user base, and Apple would get a server OS with a much stronger reputation behind it.
IBM sells more chips, Apple sells more servers, and both get an upgraded OS (IBM would probably not use OS X/Aqua, just Darwin) with a lot of tried and true capabilities. Win/win.
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The same thing happens for "Ray" and "Million Dollar Baby". The interesting part is that it clearly knows that these are movies, because it offers to find nearby theatres. If you do a search for a nonsense word or phrase, you don't get the same offer.
So why is it suppressing reviews of currently playing movies? It's enough to make one speculate about Hollywood pressure, but I'm sure there's a more innocent explanation.
I pay $30 myself, for a 1.5-megabits-per-second (mbps) connection--twice the speed of my $50-a-month service back home in the United States.
Of course, the per capita income in Korea is about 1/2 that of the US, so spending $30 to a Korean is like spending $60 is to an American.
However the use of the term "sixth sense" implies a paranormal explanation...This is perhaps more likely just poor journalism rather than poor science.
Indeed. It might be more appropriate to say there are sixth, seventh, and eighth, etc. senses. It has been postulated that we are sensitive to a variety of stimula that other animals are capable of sensing (magnetic fields, pheromones, etc.) but that these senses are either vestigal or their input is overwhelmed by the high bandwidth requirements of vision, which we rely on to a much higher degree.
The real point of the article is that we register things like taste, sight, smell, etc. at a conscious level, and that we may also take in data that is valuable but that doesn't register with the same intensity. That sub-conscious data can still affect us, however, but we can't explain it in the same way we can explain the more direct stimuli.
Try and do a little research before you post. The smart links can be configured to point to mapquest, yahoo maps, or google maps, user's choice.
You seem to know a good amount about IBM products.
Actually, I don't. I just clicked a link in one of the IBM articles about the cluster and got to the JS20 page.
I do know that blades are designed to be small. The enclosure is 7U and you can put 10 blades in it, because they're mounted vertically. In the same space you can only fit 7 XServes, which are mounted horizontally.
I don't know details about heat, etc. I think the JS20 defaults to no HD, as well, whereas the Xserve comes with 80G minimum.
Well, the info is right here for quantity 1, and there a button that says "Configure and order a JS20," so if you're willing to order a few thousand of them (they're about $4K/ea with 2.5G RAM), you can build your own.
Actually, that's a reasonable price, considering it's IBM, who aren't usually considered a bargain brand.
To recover all the taxpayer money wasted by MS when it was claiming that the browser was "part of the operating system."
The way to make money with music-enabled cell phones is this.
1) Make sure you can sync with your computer (e.g., iTunes)
2) Keep the airtime charge for download low (music biz to subsidize?)
3) Work with the radio stations so that when they play a new release they can also say, "And dial *1592 with your iTunes phone to buy and download this song now"
Instant gratification + low end user cost = profit
Thousands of people laid off. Everyone demoralized.
I don't think you can hold her personally responsible for that, in that it was likely to be the same under anyone who attempted a merger of the scale she tried. That's one of the reason's to do a merger--eliminate duplicate jobs.
That said, I believe the merger was her idea.
Bah. Star Wars isn't fit to lick Forbidden Planet's boots. While SW does have an Oedipal conflict to give it a little weight, it's basically a cowbow flick in space.
FP, on the other had, also has its Freudian elements (that's "id" not "ID"), but its story follows Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and raises significant questions about how technology amplifies human capabilities and our ability to survive weilding that kind of power.
It doesn't need repairing today, but it will in a couple of years. The batteries and gyroscopes have limited lifetimes and must be replaced every so often. These cyclic repair missions, which have been performed in the past, were cancelled after the Columbia accident
While they could restart the repair cycle, NASA no longer feels that repair flights are safe, because, unlike when the Shuttle visits ISS, there are no good rescue options given Hubble's orbit.
Island?
Several thousand years ago, when the last ice had more of the ocean's water locked up in glaciers, North America and Asia were connected. That is how the first people got here...by walking.
It was only after the ice melted and the sea level rose that it required boats.
Here's another way not to "eat your own dog food." According to this story Sanyo employees have been requested to buy Sanyo products, presumably whether they need them or not, to limit the huge quarterly loss the company is expecting.
Indeed, I'm surprised none of the pundits (Cringley, et al.) have commented on this. While everyone assumes Apple is planning a download movie store (iFlix?) no one has mentioned TV.
TV would seem like a much better place to start. The bandwidth requirements are much lower, there's a large base of old shows that people would watch and the (presumed) acceptance of such a service would "prime the pump" so to speak, for an eventual movie service.
You'd think that DSL providers would be happy partners in such a venture, since it would boost their incomes as people bought bandwidth upgrades and it would give them leverage agaist the cable companies.
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downright painful portrayals of some of the characters
Mos Def really lacked the requisite wit
Deschanel's Trillian simply uninteresting
It wants to be popular and accessible by Hollywood standards
the end result is ineffectual and structurally confusing
the film looks oppressively cheap
lumbering puppets with little range of motion
Mos Def is something of a disaster as Ford Prefect
I can't think of a dolphin or a mouse that would shell out $10 to see this
Now, you can argue that I'm cherry-picking the bad news, and there were positive things said as well. That's true, but Ford is the single most important character in the book, so if he's a disaster, there's not much left, even if there are (oh boy) pretty special effects.
Gizmodo: ... But I think we just disagree.
Gates: No, I actually don't think we disagree.
Clearly, Gates simply doesn't hear opinions that don't correspond to his own.
It's not to frustrate users, it's to gouge users. Unfortunately, this kind of thing happens all the time.
For instance, I worked at Intel in the early 80s. Intel invested a lot in development tools, compilers, assemblers, etc. It was the de facto leader in the technology. They sold their tools on their own platform, for which they charged about $25K.
When the IBM PC came out, all the software geeks said, "Hey, let's port this great software to the IBM PC, and think of all the developers we'll get." Intel management said, wait, if we do that we'll only make a couple hundred a shot for a compiler rather than $25K a shot for a development system. No way.
End result, Borland and others (and eventually Microsoft) introduced software that ran on the IBM PC and development system sales crashed anyway. Not only that, but now no one even bought Intel's software.
Moral: You can buy some short-term profit, but screwing your customers is a bad strategy long-term.
Stagecast Creator.
The ideas been spinning around since the early 90s at least.
Actually, I first heard this in the early 80s. It was in Danny Hillis' book The Connection Machine, which was based on his Ph.D. thesis. He said that computer power would eventually become a utility, the way electric power is now.
That doesn't mean there won't be any local computing, after all, we still have batteries and generators, but that the largest portion of it will be handled by someone else.
Once you have fiber to the home, the need for a local box nearly goes away for the average member of the populace.
Not being a physicist, the term "pointer states" conjures up images of data structures, so I'm not reallly sure what that refers to. However, I'm wondering if this is an adequate layman's interpretation.
Some particle P1 has the probability of being in several possible locations. When particle P2 is added, then in some subset of their probabilities, there will be an interaction. Now, if you add a further interaction with P3 at a later point in time, you reduce the probabilities to only those in which the multiple interactions would occur. It would seem to follow therefore, that the more particles there are in a given region, the more likely you would get these interactions and an "objective reality."
The data annotating technology used by OmniFind (UIMA) is available for download at IBM's Alphaworks site.
In ordinary search, the text is parsed and a giant index is created. UIMA allows you to write annotators that look for additonal information, for example names of elected officials, and add those entires to the index as well.
How about a face transplant? Just last month the Cleveland Clinic was given permission to attempt the procedure and they are now searching for a suitable patient.
Well, they could start here.
Why should you give up your right to make a critical judgement just because you were paid?
Le Guin wasn't paid for loyalty, she was paid to relinquish a copyright protection. She didn't like the result, why shouldn't she be able to say so?
If I have an orchard, and someone buys my apples to make apple cider and the cider tastes like horse piss, don't I have the right to say so? Why should the fact that I sold the apples (which many customers are very happy with) force me to be silent about the quality of a completely different product?
Because, as the article notes, the original chemical properties of the waters in the regions named can be duplicated with a little chemistry.
Any good brewshop will sell you Calcium Chloride, Gypsum, Phosphoric acid, etc. for adjusting the mineral content and pH of your water to better approximate the style of beer you're trying to brew.
Rather than a merger of companies, a merger of interests. Darwin/AIX.
IBM currently has in AIX an operating system that they've invested a lot of development time in, but aren't getting much traction with. Partly because of that they've been focussing more on Linux.
Apple has a relatively recent server line, and an operating system based on an open license, Darwin. If IBM put it's AIX and Linux technology in to Darwin, they'd have a OS with a much wider user base, and Apple would get a server OS with a much stronger reputation behind it.
IBM sells more chips, Apple sells more servers, and both get an upgraded OS (IBM would probably not use OS X/Aqua, just Darwin) with a lot of tried and true capabilities. Win/win.