... categories where women are leading tech adoption: internet usage, mobile phone voice usage, mobile phone location-based services, text messaging, Skype, every social networking site aside from LinkedIn...
I can understand women leading in Facebook adoption. But G+? I was under the impression that G+ was still a more tech-oriented social networking site (If at all, I see the G+ button more often on tech sites like Slashdot than more mainstream sites like the BBC or E Online).
BTW I'm sure that Slashdot is still a predominantly male networking site.
Continued improvements to a Watson-like system will definitely put some contact center jobs in "jeopardy". First to go will be positions that don't require real time response. Support email will be sent automatically.
Replacing "call" centers (phone support) will require the development of a much much more advanced voice recognition system than showcased by Siri. IF this is possible, then it's but a short step to HAL and the end of the human race as we know it
Despite the fact that removal of evidence in this manner without official approval (and a chance for the defendant to challenge it) appears to be illegal, the New Zealand government is now left arguing on a technicality â" that the law only covers 'physical' items.
A "ingenious" argument that file-sharers can cite as "proof" that copying isn't stealing. Not that it would help any would-be defendant in a copyright infringement case. Still, it's good counter-propaganda against those who like to make an emotional case for "pirates" being the digital equivalent of shoplifters, e.g. that you don't just walk into a record store and walk away with a CD without paying. Unlicensed downloads aren't a form of theft because you don't walk away with anything but the song in your head.
Kay, however, says the scales are tipping toward an Asian origin. "We've all heard about Out-of-Africa for human origins," adds Beard. "Now we think there was an Out-of-Asia migration into Africa first."
Well, since we're tracing the origin of our species anyway, why not simply say our ancestors came from the sea? You can't get any further back than that, unless you think that life migrated from outer space.
Not to worry. If Apple feels really threatened, it has enough money to buy any other online or offline office suite manufacturer. Corel? Zoho? And don't count out Apple's own iWork, which is probably good enough for users that find QuickOffice and Google Docs good enough.
Since this is an app and not a backend, this seems like "logical" speculation. With a few notable exceptions, most of the downloadable Google software appears to be open source to some extent.
'The moment I stepped into here, I felt I was in Europe,' says 22-year-old Zhu Bin, a Huizhou resident.
I suppose now, like a typical Western European, he can raise a placard that says "Free Tibet" and not get arrested by the police or roughed-up by plainclothes thugs?
Maybe it's part of China's grand pland to recreate Disney World, capitalism without the chaos of Western-style democracy or rights (even if those selfsame rights are being diminished by the minute).
As a company, nVidia doesn't play too nice with free and Open Source software. Then again, they don't sue the pants off the software developers either, so you can mod them neutral. But enough reverse engineering has been done to make most (save the latest and greatest) nVidia powered graphic processors run fairly well using non-proprietary drivers.
The corresponding MS and Sony divisions are similarly threatened. The difference is that MS and Sony are vastly more diversified than Nintendo. Nintendo needs to branch out from being a mostly game company. MS and Sony can survive the collapse of the Xbox and PlayStation. Nintendo needs its consoles to survive as a company.
Thanks for the trivia. Having skimmed through the wiki article, I just realized that the Hubble isn't the only space telescope in space. I mean, where does Pentagon and Google get their images? The "only" problem, of course, is that most (all?) of them aren't focused on space. Not being a space telescope engineer, I don't know how easy or difficult it would be to repurpose these puppies. Do these devices have the equivalent of a digital camera zoom lens? Anybody knowledgeable in these matters?
What I find interesting about the account is the way a formerly iconoclastic scientist became part of the establishment that Wegener had to overcome:
Like Wegener, University of Chicago geologist Thomas C. Chamberlin had launched his career with an iconoclastic attack on establishment thinking....But he had also become besotted with his own theory of earthâ(TM)s origins, which treated the oceans and continents as fixed features.
The 360 and PS3 haven't sold as many units and Nintendo was able to make actual profit off of their system right at launch.
The problem isn't Microsoft (360) and Sony (PS3). The problem is Kodak. As an analog imaging company, Kodak was at the top of its class. Then the world slowly turned digital, but Kodak refused to go with the flow.
Nintendo's rivals aren't so Microsoft and Sony as the whole gadget ecosystem. As smartphone, tablet, and maybe even (Google) glasses become more powerful, there go the developers. So unless Nintendo transforms the Wii into a gaming cum kitchensink platform, it's in danger of becoming extinct. This is perhaps the motivation behind the Miiverse.
So the ONLY way I could see FB going down is if they did the same dumbass mistake that MySpace did, and that was spamming the crap out of the users.
I see two ways that FB could go down. First is when they run out of money because they couldn't monetize their xillion users. This could very well be the fear behind the stock price decline.
Second is Facebook failing to provide a suddenly popular feature that another social networking site has. This feature can be anything from better-than-Skype video conferencing to practical telepresence.
I suspect what allowed Facebook to leap ahead of MySpace was the Flash games. The bandwagon effect ensured that MySpace was left behind, as more and more users deserted a site that was becoming less and less cool.
I think the double standard come from the simple fact that no "serious" GPL advocate has ever tried to sue or extort money from mere users of GPL programs. On the other hand, the "evil" studios or their henchmen (army of lawyer types) appear hellbent on making every freeloading downloader pay. Typical targets of GPL "threats" tend to be companies not individual users.
I kinda agree. If there's some truth to the rumor, Facebook is likely planning to rebrand or re-spin (a la Fedora) a smartphone OS with tight Facebook integration. This wouldn't be far from what Google is already doing when it "gives away" Android. Google profits not from selling the OS but in winning an audience for its ad services or data mining projects.
But why go to the trouble of selling a whole phone? Making hardware is a far riskier business than administering a web site, while relatively minimal investment is necessary to replace Google search or Google Play with its Facebook search and app store equivalent. Maybe Facebook will come up with a limited-edition Nexus-like phone but it would be corporate suicide for it to go head to head with the likes of Samsung, HTC or Google Motorola. (Suggested name for the FaceBook phone OS: the FaceBOSS.)
The guy has a Wikipedia page. Not that having a Wikipedia page should make a person important enough to care about. But I do rate Wikipedia higher than Facebook, as far as notability is concerned.
... if it's design you're after. Or is programming you want to ask about? The title of you submission mentions "design", but your extended explanation focuses on the programming rather than the design aspect. Maybe you should clarify.
I'm not at all familiar with web programming. But my biases are against apps that have too many funny looking icons, menu items, and buttons.
Are copyrights really that different from patents?
What about copyright that involves adaptations of, among other things, literary works. A Hollywood studio might spend millions to buy the "rights" to a successful novel, and yet the movie version will have only the basic plot in common with the novel. So is the plot of a story covered by a patent, since after all, it's a mere "idea" that finds its "specific implementation" either as the movie or as the novel on which the movie is supposedly based on?
House Appropriators May Limit Public Availability of Pending Bills
TFA's title is actually more informative: "Hill may freeze THOMAS in digital past". Congress is not actually trying to put in a cap on the download of materials. It merely seeks to maintain the old system where you're forced to download copies of bills one at a time. It's not trying to put a limit but to maintain whatever (technnical) limits are already in place.
Augmented reality has figured prominently inJapanese cartoons. Ghost in the Shell is a more famous example of wearable augmented reality. However, augmented reality can take more conventional forms, such as a cellphone camera that can automatically place tags (identifieers) on the landmarks you point it to. Such already exists in low-tech form in some app(s) I'm too lazy to Google for right now.
The dumber the terminal, the fewer hardware faults, OS problems and malware, no?
Although in practice we can expect a dumbing down of the user base too:).
And to fix the final problem: get rid of the dumb user. And then nobody will complain about faulty hardware and software. We're heading in that direction anyway. How many researcher jobs have been lost to the Google search box?
My attention was caught by the following description in the summary:
Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer
I don't remember reading anything about Elon Musk having trained as a rocket engineer, although his Wikipedia page mentions a degree in physics. Maybe that's enough to start a career blasting things up into orbit, much as Robert Goddard, Werner von Braun and the other rocket pioneers had no choice but to be self-taught.
That or Musk's expertise is in designing rockets that look "cool".
But this can be done. Ban all encrypted traffic not specifically authorized by the authorities. This way, the first SSH/VPN connection to somewhere, and the cops come knocking at your door. Those using Wifi will be limited to plain HTTP, enough for the feeble (Facebook people) to post and check their accounts.
The big "trusted" media companies can be granted exceptions for their DRM in exchange for having server-side monitoring software (backdoors) installed in their systems.
The passive Pirate Bay-style of trying to run circles around government Internet policies will fail in the long run, unless accompanied by some sort of active political resistance, be it Net-only site "black outs" or flesh-and-banner street protests.
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I can understand women leading in Facebook adoption. But G+? I was under the impression that G+ was still a more tech-oriented social networking site (If at all, I see the G+ button more often on tech sites like Slashdot than more mainstream sites like the BBC or E Online). BTW I'm sure that Slashdot is still a predominantly male networking site.
Continued improvements to a Watson-like system will definitely put some contact center jobs in "jeopardy". First to go will be positions that don't require real time response. Support email will be sent automatically.
Replacing "call" centers (phone support) will require the development of a much much more advanced voice recognition system than showcased by Siri. IF this is possible, then it's but a short step to HAL and the end of the human race as we know it
A "ingenious" argument that file-sharers can cite as "proof" that copying isn't stealing. Not that it would help any would-be defendant in a copyright infringement case. Still, it's good counter-propaganda against those who like to make an emotional case for "pirates" being the digital equivalent of shoplifters, e.g. that you don't just walk into a record store and walk away with a CD without paying. Unlicensed downloads aren't a form of theft because you don't walk away with anything but the song in your head.
...and further back than that: we came from a single incredibly dense point of matter.
Well, since we're tracing the origin of our species anyway, why not simply say our ancestors came from the sea? You can't get any further back than that, unless you think that life migrated from outer space.
Not to worry. If Apple feels really threatened, it has enough money to buy any other online or offline office suite manufacturer. Corel? Zoho? And don't count out Apple's own iWork, which is probably good enough for users that find QuickOffice and Google Docs good enough.
Since this is an app and not a backend, this seems like "logical" speculation. With a few notable exceptions, most of the downloadable Google software appears to be open source to some extent.
I suppose now, like a typical Western European, he can raise a placard that says "Free Tibet" and not get arrested by the police or roughed-up by plainclothes thugs? Maybe it's part of China's grand pland to recreate Disney World, capitalism without the chaos of Western-style democracy or rights (even if those selfsame rights are being diminished by the minute).
As a company, nVidia doesn't play too nice with free and Open Source software. Then again, they don't sue the pants off the software developers either, so you can mod them neutral. But enough reverse engineering has been done to make most (save the latest and greatest) nVidia powered graphic processors run fairly well using non-proprietary drivers.
The corresponding MS and Sony divisions are similarly threatened. The difference is that MS and Sony are vastly more diversified than Nintendo. Nintendo needs to branch out from being a mostly game company. MS and Sony can survive the collapse of the Xbox and PlayStation. Nintendo needs its consoles to survive as a company.
Thanks for the trivia. Having skimmed through the wiki article, I just realized that the Hubble isn't the only space telescope in space. I mean, where does Pentagon and Google get their images? The "only" problem, of course, is that most (all?) of them aren't focused on space. Not being a space telescope engineer, I don't know how easy or difficult it would be to repurpose these puppies. Do these devices have the equivalent of a digital camera zoom lens? Anybody knowledgeable in these matters?
The problem isn't Microsoft (360) and Sony (PS3). The problem is Kodak. As an analog imaging company, Kodak was at the top of its class. Then the world slowly turned digital, but Kodak refused to go with the flow.
Nintendo's rivals aren't so Microsoft and Sony as the whole gadget ecosystem. As smartphone, tablet, and maybe even (Google) glasses become more powerful, there go the developers. So unless Nintendo transforms the Wii into a gaming cum kitchensink platform, it's in danger of becoming extinct. This is perhaps the motivation behind the Miiverse.
I see two ways that FB could go down. First is when they run out of money because they couldn't monetize their xillion users. This could very well be the fear behind the stock price decline.
Second is Facebook failing to provide a suddenly popular feature that another social networking site has. This feature can be anything from better-than-Skype video conferencing to practical telepresence.
I suspect what allowed Facebook to leap ahead of MySpace was the Flash games. The bandwagon effect ensured that MySpace was left behind, as more and more users deserted a site that was becoming less and less cool.
I think the double standard come from the simple fact that no "serious" GPL advocate has ever tried to sue or extort money from mere users of GPL programs. On the other hand, the "evil" studios or their henchmen (army of lawyer types) appear hellbent on making every freeloading downloader pay. Typical targets of GPL "threats" tend to be companies not individual users.
I kinda agree. If there's some truth to the rumor, Facebook is likely planning to rebrand or re-spin (a la Fedora) a smartphone OS with tight Facebook integration. This wouldn't be far from what Google is already doing when it "gives away" Android. Google profits not from selling the OS but in winning an audience for its ad services or data mining projects.
But why go to the trouble of selling a whole phone? Making hardware is a far riskier business than administering a web site, while relatively minimal investment is necessary to replace Google search or Google Play with its Facebook search and app store equivalent. Maybe Facebook will come up with a limited-edition Nexus-like phone but it would be corporate suicide for it to go head to head with the likes of Samsung, HTC or Google Motorola. (Suggested name for the FaceBook phone OS: the FaceBOSS.)
The guy has a Wikipedia page. Not that having a Wikipedia page should make a person important enough to care about. But I do rate Wikipedia higher than Facebook, as far as notability is concerned.
... if it's design you're after. Or is programming you want to ask about? The title of you submission mentions "design", but your extended explanation focuses on the programming rather than the design aspect. Maybe you should clarify. I'm not at all familiar with web programming. But my biases are against apps that have too many funny looking icons, menu items, and buttons.
Are copyrights really that different from patents? What about copyright that involves adaptations of, among other things, literary works. A Hollywood studio might spend millions to buy the "rights" to a successful novel, and yet the movie version will have only the basic plot in common with the novel. So is the plot of a story covered by a patent, since after all, it's a mere "idea" that finds its "specific implementation" either as the movie or as the novel on which the movie is supposedly based on?
I needed less than a second to think: Stuxnet rhymes with Skynet. Don't these guys ever watch or read dystopian science-fiction?
TFA's title is actually more informative: "Hill may freeze THOMAS in digital past". Congress is not actually trying to put in a cap on the download of materials. It merely seeks to maintain the old system where you're forced to download copies of bills one at a time. It's not trying to put a limit but to maintain whatever (technnical) limits are already in place.
Augmented reality has figured prominently inJapanese cartoons. Ghost in the Shell is a more famous example of wearable augmented reality. However, augmented reality can take more conventional forms, such as a cellphone camera that can automatically place tags (identifieers) on the landmarks you point it to. Such already exists in low-tech form in some app(s) I'm too lazy to Google for right now.
And to fix the final problem: get rid of the dumb user. And then nobody will complain about faulty hardware and software. We're heading in that direction anyway. How many researcher jobs have been lost to the Google search box?
I don't remember reading anything about Elon Musk having trained as a rocket engineer, although his Wikipedia page mentions a degree in physics. Maybe that's enough to start a career blasting things up into orbit, much as Robert Goddard, Werner von Braun and the other rocket pioneers had no choice but to be self-taught. That or Musk's expertise is in designing rockets that look "cool".
But this can be done. Ban all encrypted traffic not specifically authorized by the authorities. This way, the first SSH/VPN connection to somewhere, and the cops come knocking at your door. Those using Wifi will be limited to plain HTTP, enough for the feeble (Facebook people) to post and check their accounts.
The big "trusted" media companies can be granted exceptions for their DRM in exchange for having server-side monitoring software (backdoors) installed in their systems.
The passive Pirate Bay-style of trying to run circles around government Internet policies will fail in the long run, unless accompanied by some sort of active political resistance, be it Net-only site "black outs" or flesh-and-banner street protests.