I wasn't aware of this mission at all, and was just sitting here waiting for the James Webb Telescope, the Terrestrial Planet Finder observatories, or the Kepler mission. Btw, of those, NASA's Kepler telescope is the earliest from the space agency, scheduled for launch in October 2008.
My test install of Vista has no problems here, and I have to wonder if you're talking about the driver / third party software immaturity problem? It's been as rock solid as Windows XP get the few weeks I've tried it anyway, but then again, I haven't tried installing third party drivers yet, besides some beta Creative ones. I'll give them to January - February 2007 before starting to seriously mess with those things, because that seems to be the unofficial roadmap of many driver devs.
AeroFS.. I bet that would bring a lawsuit from Microsoft..
I believe Aero is simply a user interface branding, barely even software-related but more about design. While the filesystem would be purely software related. It could actually be interesting to watch.;-)
I know there's instant messaging, but I think the way of messaging by e-mail also has its place. Maybe it's time for a standardizing organization to pick up on this with a new "e-mail"-like standard and try get it backed by a lot of software company software. It could be with e.g. HTML, can it be done again, or do the current companies carry too big egos, only believing in their own solutions? There was some hope with both Google and Yahoo using the Domain Keys initiative, but since it's so little supported pretty much everywhere else, it's still a completely useless standard like so many others.:-(
I think Alice is a bit of an idiot even among current AI, although she was a kind of milestone among chatterbots years ago. I personally think someone like Jabberwacky is better these days (2005 Loebner contest winner).
JW: Are we pleased to see you! Me: Do you have a boyfriend? JW: No, but I'd like one. Me: Do you think bots should have rights? JW: Yes. Me: Even if they are not human? JW: There's no one but you. Me: I am the only human? JW: Define human. Me: I'm not going to play this game with you. JW: I like some one else. Me: Should you have the right to marry someone you like? JW: Should I have a personal problem with you? Me: Am I getting on your nerves? JW: Going to the chapel, going to get buried. Me: What did you just quote and why? JW: You're not listening to me, are you? Me: You misunderstand. So, do you understand what marriage is? JW: I'd like to think so. Me: Are you in love right now? JW: Yes. Me: Who do you love? JW: My boyfriend. Me: You earlier told you had no boyfriend. JW: If I had a boyfriend what? Me: You make no sense now. JW: You're the one that is confused. Do you like Natalie Portman or not? Me: Yes, because I come from Slashdot.
And that's how that ended.
Hmm, maybe I'll have to take back my claim about ALICE, but I still stand by never really liking her.;-)
I agree.. I have this feeling the story submitter believed it was either not a flaw (that would have been news!) or that the flaw is less common than it is. This just goes to show that the flaw happened in the past as well as now, which I don't think many really doubted or anything either.
Is this news to just e.g. the US or what? Because it has been quite established that moderate alcohol may not be enough to cause the ill effects, while preserving the good ones, like reduced blood pressure.
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/104/107515.ht m ^-- Just included for the fun factor when comparing with the above from the same site:-) (note that it also claims it's healthy in "moderate amounts" though)
Since when were Google "in control" for being allowed to show excerpts of a book for the advertisement of the companies allowing them to carry their books?
I can only speak for my country, but AutoCAD is absoultely huge here in the architect business, at least on a national scale (Sweden), but I believe it's big throughout at least the rest of Scandinavia too, if not Europe. Over here, it's what MS Office is to Office applications, Apache to web servers. Not AutoCAD by itself though; maybe that's what you meant, but AutoCAD with various plugins depending if it's about architecture, industry and piping, HVAC, or something else.
Not sure I understand what you're asking, but going backwards, I believe scientists would only end up at something like a singularity of the known forces in universe at infinite energy using the common big bang theory. In other words, I don't think we really have much of a clue.:-) Also, below the planck time (~ 5*10^-44 seconds) after the big bang, our modern theories of physics basically fall apart. The planck time is in turn the time it takes for a photon to travel the planck length, the shortest possible length our common modern theories can speak of.
And before anyone jumps in about this:-)... The universe can do this without violating known laws of physics because it's not really the boundaries of the universe that is "moving" in the normal sense, see also here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_s pace
I agree, I don't see how so many here try to make it something 100% subjective when it clearly isn't. As I've said above (a bit shorter, because I thought it was obvious until I had read so many comments claiming otherwise) -- this is a scientific research using scientific methods, and the findings are further strengthened by the heightened interleukin-6 rates found earlier.
The phone stuff here was merely made during the pre-study phase to find out their emotional patterns for the scientists to know who the heck were optimist/pessimists in the first place! I can see it being questions like "how was your day", "what were your happiest moment in the past week/month/year", "how often do you have truly genuine fun", and so on. Then those 193 people were quarantined in their respective, isolated, rooms and studied for 5-6 days. Scientists then kept check on their cold symptoms they all shared through artificial infection with an influenza virus.
Anyway, I can also not see the illogical about this from a purely scientific perspective. I can definitely see nature having evolved a way to "reward" some optimist organisms, humans or otherwise, because of the correlation with living a successful life. This isn't exactly the first time I hear studies, yes, actual studies, not some phone calls, coming to a conclusion like this. It seems most simply have a problem connecting psychology with physiology, but then I hope it's not coming as a surprise that from a scientific standpoint, psychology is highly physiologic and clearly connected via chemical signals and substances in the brain. Why can't the brain and body act positively to certain psychological reactions? It only makes sense to me. Laughter alone is already documented to release endorphines, and laughter has its foundation in psychology. Psychology isn't exactly some totally different magic wand waving voodoo that only a nutcase would find related to our bodies...:-p
But this is perhaps all due to something unscientific I've noticed in geek communities, in that many have a cynical and pessimist outlook on life, whether it is laws, science, psychology, or other things. One can basically know what the replies will be to a story like this regardless what it'll tell without looking at the actual replies. Sometimes I wonder if it's because "we" are so smart to spot the bad things, or if it's just us being overly negative in nature about certain things that it does more harm than good, possibly giving rise to the common and real "social handicaps" people this group is so often generalized to.
The article merely claims that the while initial impact of the actual infection from their artificial nasal drops wasn't affected much by positive people, the rest was, such as their recoveries. While the Slashdot summary could perhaps be reworded as e.g. "less likely to keep having a cold" to stay more "truthful", I don't think there's much of a problem here.
And this study also seemed to support his earlier results with higher levels of the cold fighting substance interleukin-6 in the people that were artificially infected with cold.
Even if something is freeware, it's still copyrighted.
Open source like Firefox is copyrighted too.
This just get a big WTF from me.
This random image (warning, illegal link!?) is copyrighted unless the photographer explicitly released his rights and placed it into the public domain, which is a quite rare thing to do. All created material is copyrighted the owner, even if the owner doesn't claim so, right?
Slashdot Mirror
I wasn't aware of this mission at all, and was just sitting here waiting for the James Webb Telescope, the Terrestrial Planet Finder observatories, or the Kepler mission.
Btw, of those, NASA's Kepler telescope is the earliest from the space agency, scheduled for launch in October 2008.
Windows crashes out of solidarity to give hard working employees a well earned break while rebooting.
Last time I did this, the probe crashed. It was that Mars Polar Lander. ;-)
So taking that as a sign, I think I won't do this again.
I can't say I'm sure why Microsoft patent RSS-in-IE7, but I still hear Admiral Ackbar breathing behind me...
It's currently planned for STS-125, which won't happen earlier than May 2008.
Uh, what... Time to switch to a more modern Shuttle sim perhaps? ;-)
Orbiter (more info and screens)
Wow, so an exploit that requires root access?
:-p
Yeah, this tend to be how trojans and viruses work. In basically any OS.
Wake me up when there's a remote exploit requiring no elevation of privileges.
My test install of Vista has no problems here, and I have to wonder if you're talking about the driver / third party software immaturity problem? It's been as rock solid as Windows XP get the few weeks I've tried it anyway, but then again, I haven't tried installing third party drivers yet, besides some beta Creative ones. I'll give them to January - February 2007 before starting to seriously mess with those things, because that seems to be the unofficial roadmap of many driver devs.
AeroFS.. I bet that would bring a lawsuit from Microsoft..
;-)
I believe Aero is simply a user interface branding, barely even software-related but more about design.
While the filesystem would be purely software related. It could actually be interesting to watch.
I know there's instant messaging, but I think the way of messaging by e-mail also has its place. Maybe it's time for a standardizing organization to pick up on this with a new "e-mail"-like standard and try get it backed by a lot of software company software. It could be with e.g. HTML, can it be done again, or do the current companies carry too big egos, only believing in their own solutions? There was some hope with both Google and Yahoo using the Domain Keys initiative, but since it's so little supported pretty much everywhere else, it's still a completely useless standard like so many others. :-(
I think Alice is a bit of an idiot even among current AI, although she was a kind of milestone among chatterbots years ago.
;-)
I personally think someone like Jabberwacky is better these days (2005 Loebner contest winner).
JW: Are we pleased to see you!
Me: Do you have a boyfriend?
JW: No, but I'd like one.
Me: Do you think bots should have rights?
JW: Yes.
Me: Even if they are not human?
JW: There's no one but you.
Me: I am the only human?
JW: Define human.
Me: I'm not going to play this game with you.
JW: I like some one else.
Me: Should you have the right to marry someone you like?
JW: Should I have a personal problem with you?
Me: Am I getting on your nerves?
JW: Going to the chapel, going to get buried.
Me: What did you just quote and why?
JW: You're not listening to me, are you?
Me: You misunderstand. So, do you understand what marriage is?
JW: I'd like to think so.
Me: Are you in love right now?
JW: Yes.
Me: Who do you love?
JW: My boyfriend.
Me: You earlier told you had no boyfriend.
JW: If I had a boyfriend what?
Me: You make no sense now.
JW: You're the one that is confused. Do you like Natalie Portman or not?
Me: Yes, because I come from Slashdot.
And that's how that ended.
Hmm, maybe I'll have to take back my claim about ALICE, but I still stand by never really liking her.
Let's get beyond the chatterbot stage as for AI before worrying/thinking about these things. :-p
I agree.. I have this feeling the story submitter believed it was either not a flaw (that would have been news!) or that the flaw is less common than it is. This just goes to show that the flaw happened in the past as well as now, which I don't think many really doubted or anything either.
Is this news to just e.g. the US or what? Because it has been quite established that moderate alcohol may not be enough to cause the ill effects, while preserving the good ones, like reduced blood pressure.
m
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http://www.webmd.com/content/article/94/102702.ht
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/104/107515.h
^-- Just included for the fun factor when comparing with the above from the same site
(note that it also claims it's healthy in "moderate amounts" though)
Since when were Google "in control" for being allowed to show excerpts of a book for the advertisement of the companies allowing them to carry their books?
I can only speak for my country, but AutoCAD is absoultely huge here in the architect business, at least on a national scale (Sweden), but I believe it's big throughout at least the rest of Scandinavia too, if not Europe. Over here, it's what MS Office is to Office applications, Apache to web servers. Not AutoCAD by itself though; maybe that's what you meant, but AutoCAD with various plugins depending if it's about architecture, industry and piping, HVAC, or something else.
I think AutoCAD should be just as worried about competitors suing them for keeping their format closed only to maintain their huge market share.
Not sure I understand what you're asking, but going backwards, I believe scientists would only end up at something like a singularity of the known forces in universe at infinite energy using the common big bang theory. In other words, I don't think we really have much of a clue. :-) Also, below the planck time (~ 5*10^-44 seconds) after the big bang, our modern theories of physics basically fall apart. The planck time is in turn the time it takes for a photon to travel the planck length, the shortest possible length our common modern theories can speak of.
And before anyone jumps in about this :-) ... The universe can do this without violating known laws of physics because it's not really the boundaries of the universe that is "moving" in the normal sense, see also here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_s pace
Actually, what other way is there for the intended audience to watch this movie? ;-)
I agree, I don't see how so many here try to make it something 100% subjective when it clearly isn't. As I've said above (a bit shorter, because I thought it was obvious until I had read so many comments claiming otherwise) -- this is a scientific research using scientific methods, and the findings are further strengthened by the heightened interleukin-6 rates found earlier.
:-p
The phone stuff here was merely made during the pre-study phase to find out their emotional patterns for the scientists to know who the heck were optimist/pessimists in the first place! I can see it being questions like "how was your day", "what were your happiest moment in the past week/month/year", "how often do you have truly genuine fun", and so on. Then those 193 people were quarantined in their respective, isolated, rooms and studied for 5-6 days. Scientists then kept check on their cold symptoms they all shared through artificial infection with an influenza virus.
Anyway, I can also not see the illogical about this from a purely scientific perspective. I can definitely see nature having evolved a way to "reward" some optimist organisms, humans or otherwise, because of the correlation with living a successful life. This isn't exactly the first time I hear studies, yes, actual studies, not some phone calls, coming to a conclusion like this. It seems most simply have a problem connecting psychology with physiology, but then I hope it's not coming as a surprise that from a scientific standpoint, psychology is highly physiologic and clearly connected via chemical signals and substances in the brain. Why can't the brain and body act positively to certain psychological reactions? It only makes sense to me. Laughter alone is already documented to release endorphines, and laughter has its foundation in psychology. Psychology isn't exactly some totally different magic wand waving voodoo that only a nutcase would find related to our bodies...
But this is perhaps all due to something unscientific I've noticed in geek communities, in that many have a cynical and pessimist outlook on life, whether it is laws, science, psychology, or other things. One can basically know what the replies will be to a story like this regardless what it'll tell without looking at the actual replies. Sometimes I wonder if it's because "we" are so smart to spot the bad things, or if it's just us being overly negative in nature about certain things that it does more harm than good, possibly giving rise to the common and real "social handicaps" people this group is so often generalized to.
The article merely claims that the while initial impact of the actual infection from their artificial nasal drops wasn't affected much by positive people, the rest was, such as their recoveries. While the Slashdot summary could perhaps be reworded as e.g. "less likely to keep having a cold" to stay more "truthful", I don't think there's much of a problem here.
And this study also seemed to support his earlier results with higher levels of the cold fighting substance interleukin-6 in the people that were artificially infected with cold.
Not really; there's an actual scientific study involved here. Otherwise it would hardly be news.
Almost everything on the web is copyrighted?
Even if something is freeware, it's still copyrighted.
Open source like Firefox is copyrighted too.
This just get a big WTF from me.
This random image (warning, illegal link!?) is copyrighted unless the photographer explicitly released his rights and placed it into the public domain, which is a quite rare thing to do. All created material is copyrighted the owner, even if the owner doesn't claim so, right?