That they accidentally got RNA and thought they created it themselves? Did you read the article?
âoeBut while this is a step forward, itâ(TM)s not the whole picture,â Ferris points out. âoeItâ(TM)s not as simple as putting compounds in a beaker and mixing it up. Itâ(TM)s a series of steps. You still have to stop and purify and then do the next step, and that probably didnâ(TM)t happen in the ancient world.â
Sutherland and his team can so far make RNA molecules with two different bases, and there are still another two bases to figure out.
Hm, I'm not really convinced there. Microsoft's service packs are also comparable in size, and this is essentially a service pack for OS X Leopard. It's a roll up of all security fixes released thus far, and much more.
Yes, I don't think it's a big deal. The odd part is that Slashdot calls both "critical patches", as if these are mostly security related.
Well, for MS, it was, but for OS X, we just received what is comparable to a service pack upgrade. Of course it'll be big, and it's in line with what I think one can expect these days.
WA works with structured data sets and natural language queries to come up with replies, Google searches the web. WA won't do shit with a query like "digital camera reviews", but Google will. Google won't do shit if asked to calculate answers based on statistics, WA will.
It's a competitive advantage, after all. Soon enough, I imagine all major ISP's here will do this as long as there isn't new legislation against it. These are also all very good signs of just how aggressive and poorly thought out the IPRED law in reality was.
No, it does not attempt to compete with Google directly. There are plenty of scenarios that won't be useful if you have a search engine knowedlege base like this, such as finding advice on a new camera purchase, or whatever. Google will still rule in that regard. Finding out actual facts from solid data, and building new facts based on an existing scientific foundation, all asked in natural language, on the other hand... Google has never even tried improving in that area, and that's where this service is supposed to come into play.
It won't kill Google though, not even if it's very successful.
Just RAR and password-protect the uploads then. And give the archives non-obvious names. You'll be safe. In theory, the passwords can be bruteforced, but they have better things to do. Like hunting down people who upload in "the clear" so to speak.
That's exactly what I was thinking too. Come on! Windows 7 is in development, Snow Leopard is in development, Ubuntu 9.04 was just released! This article is quite stupid for that reason, and I can't imagine how he missed it. It's not even a "detail" either, because speed just happens to be exactly what Apple is focusing on this time. Just like Microsoft. And Snow Leopard may even be out before Windows 7, for all we know too.
Having said that, OS X 10.5 feels pretty much like XP with Vista's feature set to me. I never felt it was "sluggish", definitely not on the scale of Vista at least.
Hmm, CPU's are no longer single core though, and that's a major paradigm shift. We're just now retooling to have an easier time writing multiple core code -- the hardware has pretty much evolved even faster than our software here. Even Windows 7 will still not be fully ready for this; then it's more interesting to look in the way of Mac OS X 10.6.
Uh, was it just me that felt a bit embarrased when reading this blurb?:-/ That AMD is still stuck trying to convince people about "MHz Are Super-important", when Intel gave up on that idea quite a while ago? Maybe it can still sway some amateur users that see a "7 GHz" number and start drooling, but for an IT professional like me, this sounds more like they're out of the loop, and I doubt that's the message they're trying to convey.:-(
Aren't Judges supposed to remove themselves from a case if there is a known conflict of interest or an arguable bias? Don't they get in trouble for presiding over cases with this bias?
Yes and yes. So comments here on Slashdot on that the TPB lawyers didn't do their job to find this out in advance, and conspiratory comments on that they may have planned for this, is in my opinion not holding much water.
The idea is that this responsibility is on the judge, and the lawyers shouldn't need to act like detectives here.
Actually, that, combined with this, has made me consider a switch from Bredbandsbolaget (a major Sweidsh ISP) to them. They have pretty decent pricing too, and I have no problems at all with BBB -- rather to the contrary. But it would simply feel good to be an ISP customer where the CEO shared my ideals.:-) And know that they at least try to protect the privacy of their customers. That's so little of a given these days that it's scary.
It's pretty easy to circumvent the restriction. All korean users have to do to keep uploading and commenting is to go in their profile and change their country of origin to something different than Korea.
On the other hand, then I think Google has some protection there, in the form "but you can't expect us to look up users on the assumption they are Koreans if they haven't told us so".
We've seen these things happen before after new legislation, but now watch the traffic slowly increase back again (and possibly beyond) previous levels in the coming few months.:-p
I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or at least not materials copyrighted to litigation-happy RIAA Big 4 record labels.
Knowing the Internet community at large, I think there is probably no risk of this happening.:p
The memory benchmarks I've seen shows that Fx 3 has that issue fix, and well beyond being fixed too. While converesely, IE is far worse off. Are you sure this is not about leaking extensions?
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... and holy Unicode-less Slashdot, Batman. :-(
That they accidentally got RNA and thought they created it themselves? Did you read the article?
âoeBut while this is a step forward, itâ(TM)s not the whole picture,â Ferris points out. âoeItâ(TM)s not as simple as putting compounds in a beaker and mixing it up. Itâ(TM)s a series of steps. You still have to stop and purify and then do the next step, and that probably didnâ(TM)t happen in the ancient world.â
Sutherland and his team can so far make RNA molecules with two different bases, and there are still another two bases to figure out.
Hm, I'm not really convinced there. Microsoft's service packs are also comparable in size, and this is essentially a service pack for OS X Leopard. It's a roll up of all security fixes released thus far, and much more.
Yes, I don't think it's a big deal. The odd part is that Slashdot calls both "critical patches", as if these are mostly security related.
Well, for MS, it was, but for OS X, we just received what is comparable to a service pack upgrade. Of course it'll be big, and it's in line with what I think one can expect these days.
Actually, that change was brought up in the patch release notes.
Improves the reliability and accuracy of Unit Converter, Stocks, Weather and Movies Dashboard widgets.
what makes you think they dont ?
That they aren't Blizzard Entertainment?
None of what you mentioned need source code, and would just introduce huge risks.
Stupid "face off" story.
WA doesn't compete with Google.
WA works with structured data sets and natural language queries to come up with replies, Google searches the web. WA won't do shit with a query like "digital camera reviews", but Google will. Google won't do shit if asked to calculate answers based on statistics, WA will.
Well, you know what. I think everyone, including these scientists, agree with you.
It's a competitive advantage, after all. Soon enough, I imagine all major ISP's here will do this as long as there isn't new legislation against it. These are also all very good signs of just how aggressive and poorly thought out the IPRED law in reality was.
search engine knowedlege base
Gah, Slashdot silently stripped an intentional strikethrough in HTML there. :p Knowledge base is the word here, nothing else.
No, it does not attempt to compete with Google directly. There are plenty of scenarios that won't be useful if you have a search engine knowedlege base like this, such as finding advice on a new camera purchase, or whatever. Google will still rule in that regard. Finding out actual facts from solid data, and building new facts based on an existing scientific foundation, all asked in natural language, on the other hand... Google has never even tried improving in that area, and that's where this service is supposed to come into play.
It won't kill Google though, not even if it's very successful.
Just RAR and password-protect the uploads then. And give the archives non-obvious names. You'll be safe. In theory, the passwords can be bruteforced, but they have better things to do. Like hunting down people who upload in "the clear" so to speak.
That's exactly what I was thinking too. Come on! Windows 7 is in development, Snow Leopard is in development, Ubuntu 9.04 was just released! This article is quite stupid for that reason, and I can't imagine how he missed it. It's not even a "detail" either, because speed just happens to be exactly what Apple is focusing on this time. Just like Microsoft. And Snow Leopard may even be out before Windows 7, for all we know too.
Having said that, OS X 10.5 feels pretty much like XP with Vista's feature set to me. I never felt it was "sluggish", definitely not on the scale of Vista at least.
IMO, it's an addicting game for casual gamers, and that's why so many play it, and get stuck in it.
Hmm, CPU's are no longer single core though, and that's a major paradigm shift. We're just now retooling to have an easier time writing multiple core code -- the hardware has pretty much evolved even faster than our software here. Even Windows 7 will still not be fully ready for this; then it's more interesting to look in the way of Mac OS X 10.6.
Uh, was it just me that felt a bit embarrased when reading this blurb? :-/ That AMD is still stuck trying to convince people about "MHz Are Super-important", when Intel gave up on that idea quite a while ago? Maybe it can still sway some amateur users that see a "7 GHz" number and start drooling, but for an IT professional like me, this sounds more like they're out of the loop, and I doubt that's the message they're trying to convey. :-(
... then it would appear that any affiliation with copyright organisations would present a potential bias.
And the story doesn't stop there, because both Monique Wadsted and Henrik Pontén was also members of this organization, and he had seen Monique in other circumstances too. So it's not far fetched that he's even acquainted to Monique to some extent. And he still didn't remove himself in advance, or even informed of this.
Aren't Judges supposed to remove themselves from a case if there is a known conflict of interest or an arguable bias? Don't they get in trouble for presiding over cases with this bias?
Yes and yes. So comments here on Slashdot on that the TPB lawyers didn't do their job to find this out in advance, and conspiratory comments on that they may have planned for this, is in my opinion not holding much water.
The idea is that this responsibility is on the judge, and the lawyers shouldn't need to act like detectives here.
Actually, that, combined with this, has made me consider a switch from Bredbandsbolaget (a major Sweidsh ISP) to them. They have pretty decent pricing too, and I have no problems at all with BBB -- rather to the contrary. But it would simply feel good to be an ISP customer where the CEO shared my ideals. :-) And know that they at least try to protect the privacy of their customers. That's so little of a given these days that it's scary.
It's pretty easy to circumvent the restriction. All korean users have to do to keep uploading and commenting is to go in their profile and change their country of origin to something different than Korea.
On the other hand, then I think Google has some protection there, in the form "but you can't expect us to look up users on the assumption they are Koreans if they haven't told us so".
We've seen these things happen before after new legislation, but now watch the traffic slowly increase back again (and possibly beyond) previous levels in the coming few months. :-p
I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or at least not materials copyrighted to litigation-happy RIAA Big 4 record labels.
Knowing the Internet community at large, I think there is probably no risk of this happening. :p
Any reports on whether they succeeded? :p
I guess we'll just have to watch the show to find out!
I can't wait until MythBusters start busting nuclear weapon myths! Oohh boy! :D
It leaks like a sieve, everybody knows that.
The memory benchmarks I've seen shows that Fx 3 has that issue fix, and well beyond being fixed too. While converesely, IE is far worse off. Are you sure this is not about leaking extensions?