Your comment explains why this rule is so dumb in the first place. What's the point of having a rule if it can't be enforced? Imagine if there was no drug testing and the IOC accepted a "trust us - look we have a piece of paper that says our athlete didn't take drugs" explanation.
I agree with Bela Karolyi - the age restriction is just stupid and should be revoked.
Check the wikipedia article on "series of tubes". Apparently, according to you, Princeton CS professor Edward Felten doesn't have any clue how the internet works because he felt that "series of tubes" was an entirely valid non-technical analogy.
As someone else pointed out, Stevens' other statements in his "series of tubes" speech, that he received "an Internet" that was delayed by the clogged tubes, was what made him look like an idiot.
Actually, I worked for a company in 2000 (before this patent was issued) that had a subsidiary called ivebeengood.com. The business model was pretty much just storing online wishlists (OK, so the business didn't last that long), and I'm quite sure they stored all of their wishlists in a database.
My favorite is still the guy that managed to get "GOT MILF" on his license plate. Even better is the picture of the florida plate "A55 RGY", which doesn't seem bad until you see it - the florida orange in the middle of the plate looks like a big O.
Agreed. One of the thing that depresses me most about the current Supreme Court is that the justices on either side of the conservative/liberal divide seem to rule according to their ideological preferences instead of sound judicial principles. In today's ruling Scalia states that the Constitution does not permit "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home." This makes sense to me, but then how at the same time does he think the Constitution allows completely unlimited suspension of habeas corpus by the executive branch? Many times the liberal justices provide just as tortured logic, as they did when they allowed eminent domain for private purposes.
All these 5-4 rulings are the result of the justices ruling with their hearts instead of their minds.
But we're probably as far from creating a true AI as we are from creating biological life from scratch (by synthesizing DNA sequences to build an organism from the molecular level). Actually, we're a LOT farther as we're already pretty close to creating biological life from scratch. We've already synthesized viruses from building block DNA and proteins, and Craig Venter created a complete artificial genome earlier this year.
Currently this looks like it's only on Windows. I didn't see anything about when a Mac or Linux version might be available, did anyone else see anything?
Seriously, what a bunch of wimps. News flash to all youngsters: yes, you may dream of running your own mega-billion dollar tech company, or coding for websites from your beach house in St. Barts, or covering Hollywood celebrities in your hot-item-of-the-moment blog, but it most likely ain't gonna happen.
What's so bad about most of these jobs? Sure, they all look kind of mundane and I wouldn't want to do them for 50 years, but when did we start thinking that every job was supposed to be so fun, fun, FUN! I realize this may sound a bit like a "get of my lawn" post, but the biggest fantasy we've hoisted onto young people is making them think that work is supposed to be glamorous and the be all/end all of life.
I'm lucky enough to be in a job that I enjoy very much, but at the end of the day I realize that it's a JOB and that if for whatever reason I have to work on some projects that are a little mundane or boring it's no big deal.
Mod parent up. I recently was called for jury duty and was directly asked the question "Do you agree with the statement that is it better to have five guilty men go free then put one innocent man in jail?" by the defense attorney. I think my response was something like "of course," and I remember being shocked that a significant number of potential jurors did not agree. Afterwards, though, I realized that the question really breaks down to "what's an acceptable false positive rate?" 1 in 10? 1 in 100? It made me realize the situation is not as clear cut as I originally thought. Sure, I can barely imagine the horror of being an innocent man in prison, but the fact is that you do need to accept some error rate to live in a lawful society.
You forgot the 6-inch patch of Nina's dried blood that was found on a sleeping bag cover in his car.
Despite all the protestations of "hey no body," I believe the evidence clearly does show beyond a reasonable doubt that Reiser killed his wife (in particular, Reiser's explanations for his behavior are completely UNreasonable, even for an "eccentric geek"). However, I agree that 1st degree murder is a real stretch - 2nd degree seems like a much more appropriate crime.
Google gets this adoption b/c it has its fingers into every online ad outlet known to the Internet gods. Wrong - Google gets this adoption because it has the best search technology. I don't care how many ad outlets Google has - if it didn't have the best search technology no one would use it.
Excellent comment to someone who actually RTFA. In the decision the judge basically states that the plaintiff could have been awarded any profits the defendant made by using the image, but for some reason the plaintiff just dropped this claim so was just awarded actual damages incurred.
Except by your method you are guaranteed to get an UNbalanced view. It's called sample bias. If you restrict your sample to only people who left the church, you are guaranteed to get a higher proportion of disgruntled (rightly or wrongly) views. After all, if you loved the church, you probably wouldn't have a reason to leave. Note this goes for many different types of groups. If you go to South Florida you would think that every Cuban despises Castro and communism. Of course, the Cubans who hate Castro the most have the biggest reason to leave, while those that love him stay in Cuba.
You obviously have never seen a person of diminished capacity who's on a lot of meds struggle with taking their medications. I just visited my 91 y/o grandmother who takes about 10 pills a day from 5 different medications. She's still with it (doesn't need assisted living yet), but can be forgetful. There are a couple of problems with the "25 cent plastic pill boxes" you describe that she currently uses:
1. First, SHE is the one that has to fill them, and with so many different meds it's easy for her to make a mistake. In fact it was sort of proof to me that the health care system really isn't interested in making people healthy in that neither her doctor nor pharmacist set up a plan to ensure med compliance. I couldn't see why her pharmacist couldn't just dole out the proper dosages in separate boxes ahead of time. 2. More importantly, the device described in the article could be capable of notifying someone if my grandmother didn't take her meds. That would be a big benefit to my family and is something a simple pill box could never do.
Congratulations on your knowledge of cell technology acronyms, as you win yet another Slashdot-pedant-of-the-week award. The fact is I'm sure pretty much everyone understands that when talking about 3G vs EDGE in the context of an iPhone (or any other cellphone), they know what the difference is: 3G is the fast one and EDGE is the slow one.
Have you ever heard/read anyone say "I can't wait for an HSPDA version of the iPhone?" No, it's "I can't wait for a 3G version of the iPhone."
Is abstinence really that difficult? Yeah man! As a die hard slashdotter I've been abstinent for years. Why can't people just be satisfied with their second life avatars and their right hand in their parents' basement?
My guess is that they realized the number of users who actually use the front row remote on a laptop is really, really low. Fundamentally when you're at a device with a small screen you're rarely going to be that far away from it where you'd need a remote. There are some limited use cases (such as giving presentations), but I know lots of people with MacBooks and MB Pros who never used the thing.
And we wonder where loyalty went? With this attitude you'll get the employees you deserve. Exactly. Apologies for not having the reference, but I recall a study that showed that one of the highest predictors of business success as determined by earnings growth was the percentage of employees that had stock options (while, conversely, lavishing options on only top management had very little correlation with success).
If you give your employees a vested interest in the success of your business then employee productivity will be much greater than if you treat them like "cogs."
Agree, the author doesn't have any idea what he's talking about. For example, in China, support for GB 18030, the official charset of China, is mandatory for all software sold in China. GB 18030 is also a Unicode transformation format, but it's backwards compatible with China's older charset in the same way UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. Mandating "UTF-8 only" is a very English-centric way of thinking of the problem.
"Don't taze me bro" is the new slashdot meme. It was originally uttered by that guy that was tazered at a John Kerry forum at a university. Looking down the story history, "dontwavemebro" was a pun used for the story dealing with microwaves being used to remotely disable cars.
Was this modded insightful by mods with no friends? I'm 31, and I've found facebook very useful in getting in touch with old friends. Sure, is has its silly vampire apps and such, but as far as just being able to share photos and hear what people are up to with status updates, it's very useful.
Also, who do you think the 15 million linkedin users are, teenagers?
The fun number of "people who want to run 3rd party apps on their iPhones" is 2%. Two percent. Most people don't care. That's total BS. Just because there are no killer third party apps for the iPhone out there right now doesn't mean it isn't easy to think of apps that the "unwashed masses" would love if they were easily available. Some potential 3rd party killer apps I can think of:
Skype for iPhone - Anyone who pays for more than the minimum number of voice minutes would benefit from a free/cheap mobile VOIP app. Games - Lots of people would install good quality games if they were available. Business Apps - A high quality MS exchange app would swing the doors open for business users being able to switch to the iPhone.
Agreed. While I realize it was probably inevitable that Apple would lock down unlocked (i.e. running on a non-ATT network) phones due to contract obligations with ATT, disabling 3rd party apps was a major screw up. Apple is pissing off its most loyal customers, the ones who are most excited about the capabilities of the phone. There are probably more Apple fanboys per user on Slashdot than anywhere, and look at how many of us are rightfully mad that Apple is being a prick about this.
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Your comment explains why this rule is so dumb in the first place. What's the point of having a rule if it can't be enforced? Imagine if there was no drug testing and the IOC accepted a "trust us - look we have a piece of paper that says our athlete didn't take drugs" explanation.
I agree with Bela Karolyi - the age restriction is just stupid and should be revoked.
Check the wikipedia article on "series of tubes". Apparently, according to you, Princeton CS professor Edward Felten doesn't have any clue how the internet works because he felt that "series of tubes" was an entirely valid non-technical analogy.
As someone else pointed out, Stevens' other statements in his "series of tubes" speech, that he received "an Internet" that was delayed by the clogged tubes, was what made him look like an idiot.
This is the internet archive page for an affiliated company where I used to work:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000229181538/ivebeengood.com/Dispatch.jsp?.NewState=FrontPage_new&.CurrentState=Home
The whole business model of ivebeengood.com was managing online wishlists (and they did it in a DB).
Actually, I worked for a company in 2000 (before this patent was issued) that had a subsidiary called ivebeengood.com. The business model was pretty much just storing online wishlists (OK, so the business didn't last that long), and I'm quite sure they stored all of their wishlists in a database.
My favorite is still the guy that managed to get "GOT MILF" on his license plate. Even better is the picture of the florida plate "A55 RGY", which doesn't seem bad until you see it - the florida orange in the middle of the plate looks like a big O.
Agreed. One of the thing that depresses me most about the current Supreme Court is that the justices on either side of the conservative/liberal divide seem to rule according to their ideological preferences instead of sound judicial principles. In today's ruling Scalia states that the Constitution does not permit "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home." This makes sense to me, but then how at the same time does he think the Constitution allows completely unlimited suspension of habeas corpus by the executive branch? Many times the liberal justices provide just as tortured logic, as they did when they allowed eminent domain for private purposes.
All these 5-4 rulings are the result of the justices ruling with their hearts instead of their minds.
Currently this looks like it's only on Windows. I didn't see anything about when a Mac or Linux version might be available, did anyone else see anything?
Seriously, what a bunch of wimps. News flash to all youngsters: yes, you may dream of running your own mega-billion dollar tech company, or coding for websites from your beach house in St. Barts, or covering Hollywood celebrities in your hot-item-of-the-moment blog, but it most likely ain't gonna happen.
What's so bad about most of these jobs? Sure, they all look kind of mundane and I wouldn't want to do them for 50 years, but when did we start thinking that every job was supposed to be so fun, fun, FUN! I realize this may sound a bit like a "get of my lawn" post, but the biggest fantasy we've hoisted onto young people is making them think that work is supposed to be glamorous and the be all/end all of life.
I'm lucky enough to be in a job that I enjoy very much, but at the end of the day I realize that it's a JOB and that if for whatever reason I have to work on some projects that are a little mundane or boring it's no big deal.
Mod parent up. I recently was called for jury duty and was directly asked the question "Do you agree with the statement that is it better to have five guilty men go free then put one innocent man in jail?" by the defense attorney. I think my response was something like "of course," and I remember being shocked that a significant number of potential jurors did not agree. Afterwards, though, I realized that the question really breaks down to "what's an acceptable false positive rate?" 1 in 10? 1 in 100? It made me realize the situation is not as clear cut as I originally thought. Sure, I can barely imagine the horror of being an innocent man in prison, but the fact is that you do need to accept some error rate to live in a lawful society.
You forgot the 6-inch patch of Nina's dried blood that was found on a sleeping bag cover in his car.
Despite all the protestations of "hey no body," I believe the evidence clearly does show beyond a reasonable doubt that Reiser killed his wife (in particular, Reiser's explanations for his behavior are completely UNreasonable, even for an "eccentric geek"). However, I agree that 1st degree murder is a real stretch - 2nd degree seems like a much more appropriate crime.
RTFA, Reiser's defense attorney didn't want to put him on the stand, but Reiser insisted.
Excellent comment to someone who actually RTFA. In the decision the judge basically states that the plaintiff could have been awarded any profits the defendant made by using the image, but for some reason the plaintiff just dropped this claim so was just awarded actual damages incurred.
Except by your method you are guaranteed to get an UNbalanced view. It's called sample bias. If you restrict your sample to only people who left the church, you are guaranteed to get a higher proportion of disgruntled (rightly or wrongly) views. After all, if you loved the church, you probably wouldn't have a reason to leave. Note this goes for many different types of groups. If you go to South Florida you would think that every Cuban despises Castro and communism. Of course, the Cubans who hate Castro the most have the biggest reason to leave, while those that love him stay in Cuba.
You obviously have never seen a person of diminished capacity who's on a lot of meds struggle with taking their medications. I just visited my 91 y/o grandmother who takes about 10 pills a day from 5 different medications. She's still with it (doesn't need assisted living yet), but can be forgetful. There are a couple of problems with the "25 cent plastic pill boxes" you describe that she currently uses:
1. First, SHE is the one that has to fill them, and with so many different meds it's easy for her to make a mistake. In fact it was sort of proof to me that the health care system really isn't interested in making people healthy in that neither her doctor nor pharmacist set up a plan to ensure med compliance. I couldn't see why her pharmacist couldn't just dole out the proper dosages in separate boxes ahead of time.
2. More importantly, the device described in the article could be capable of notifying someone if my grandmother didn't take her meds. That would be a big benefit to my family and is something a simple pill box could never do.
Congratulations on your knowledge of cell technology acronyms, as you win yet another Slashdot-pedant-of-the-week award. The fact is I'm sure pretty much everyone understands that when talking about 3G vs EDGE in the context of an iPhone (or any other cellphone), they know what the difference is: 3G is the fast one and EDGE is the slow one.
Have you ever heard/read anyone say "I can't wait for an HSPDA version of the iPhone?" No, it's "I can't wait for a 3G version of the iPhone."
My guess is that they realized the number of users who actually use the front row remote on a laptop is really, really low. Fundamentally when you're at a device with a small screen you're rarely going to be that far away from it where you'd need a remote. There are some limited use cases (such as giving presentations), but I know lots of people with MacBooks and MB Pros who never used the thing.
If you give your employees a vested interest in the success of your business then employee productivity will be much greater than if you treat them like "cogs."
Agree, the author doesn't have any idea what he's talking about. For example, in China, support for GB 18030, the official charset of China, is mandatory for all software sold in China. GB 18030 is also a Unicode transformation format, but it's backwards compatible with China's older charset in the same way UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. Mandating "UTF-8 only" is a very English-centric way of thinking of the problem.
"Don't taze me bro" is the new slashdot meme. It was originally uttered by that guy that was tazered at a John Kerry forum at a university. Looking down the story history, "dontwavemebro" was a pun used for the story dealing with microwaves being used to remotely disable cars.
Was this modded insightful by mods with no friends? I'm 31, and I've found facebook very useful in getting in touch with old friends. Sure, is has its silly vampire apps and such, but as far as just being able to share photos and hear what people are up to with status updates, it's very useful.
Also, who do you think the 15 million linkedin users are, teenagers?
Skype for iPhone - Anyone who pays for more than the minimum number of voice minutes would benefit from a free/cheap mobile VOIP app.
Games - Lots of people would install good quality games if they were available.
Business Apps - A high quality MS exchange app would swing the doors open for business users being able to switch to the iPhone.
Agreed. While I realize it was probably inevitable that Apple would lock down unlocked (i.e. running on a non-ATT network) phones due to contract obligations with ATT, disabling 3rd party apps was a major screw up. Apple is pissing off its most loyal customers, the ones who are most excited about the capabilities of the phone. There are probably more Apple fanboys per user on Slashdot than anywhere, and look at how many of us are rightfully mad that Apple is being a prick about this.