If your browser is set to clear cookies every time it closes, then you have to turn it off again every time you start using Google in a new browser session.
I don't want results before I even finish formulating my search request. It's distracting and confusing: a burst of visual noise while I'm trying to focus on what I'm typing in the search box (which I may decide to change as I'm typing it).
Why do I want to read results of a search that doesn't even represent my complete inquiry?
Language quibble: "Sparse" and "clean" in this context basically mean the same thing. So saying "sparse, BUT clean" is like saying "dry, BUT arid" or "loud, BUT noisy".
This was an interesting experiment! I've enjoyed looking at Mars rover anaglyphs, and I think it makes sense to visualize interstellar phenomena in 3D as well. I'm a big fan of anaglyphs, because they are easy to transmit and reproduce, even if the color reproduction is poor.
A problem I see with this clip is that there's much inconsistency as objects pass on to or off of the edges of the screen. When something passes off the edge, it disappears for 1 eye first, then the other eye. This is very distracting.
An Iranian stereoscopic photographer has come up with a "floating window" technique that can eliminate some of these distracting effects. More info is available here:
Ballmer seems incapable of directing his company to do anything innovative. It's like he only sees a product category as valid when it's already been defined by someone else.
Apple defined a new category of tablet device with the iPad. Now Ballmer has MS chasing after it madly. But meanwhile, he's killed innovative new products like Courier. Apparently what he wants is to create something that's essentially a clone of whatever Apple's come up with, rather than a genuinely new kind of product.
This has been the Microsoft curse for decades, going back to the creation of Windows as a Macintosh knockoff. Yes, I know Apple didn't invent the GUI concepts used in Macintosh -- but they were the first to successfully make them into a commercial product. And MS wasn't interested until they saw that Apple was doing it.
A story like this demonstrates to people that Facebook, and the internet in general, can be useful, even life-saving.
In that way, it may do something to counteract the typical "internets are corrupting your children!!1!" moral-panic type stories that propagate so widely across the news media. (E.g., see the current hysteria about kids listening to binaural beats on YouTube.)
See also: "Those lazy immigrants are sitting around getting fat and breeding on the taxpayer's dime! Also, they're taking all our jobs!" Which one is it? It can't be both.
Because you're not throwing everyone in a room together. You're likely recording different parts separately, and doing multiple takes, then taking the best takes of each part -- or the ones that go together best -- and mixing them after the recording's done. You can also go back and add new parts if you decide they're needed, or change a part, without re-recording the whole thing. And you can even rearrange portions of the song -- cutting a verse or chorus, moving sections around, etc.
In order to do all of this, you have to have all musicians performing to an absolutely constant tempo.
Also, much music now explicitly incorporates electronic sounds that are sequenced -- synth arpeggios, drum machine patterns, etc. These are always precisely timed. Everyone else needs to be able to match them.
That said, I'm pretty sure that you're more likely to trust, say, your doctor who's licensed after years of training than to me, even though my rates are really cheap.
Actually, I don't think Doctor Who's licensed -- I've always been under the impression that he was never really trained to fly the TARDIS.
We already have large industrial facilities that are not pleasant (or healthy) to be downwind of: sewage treatment plants, landfills, hog farms, oil and chemical refineries, coal mines, coal-burning power plants, etc. Somehow we've managed to cope.
Don't worry, it's a big continent. We'll find room. And we might just be able to mitigate some of those other industrial and environmental problems by channeling of some the associated waste streams into algae production.
I'm not necessarily convinced that algae biodiesel is the solution to all our problems. I'm still waiting for more hard data. But it does look promising.
In many professional specialties, including law and medicine, there are times when a quick, decisive educated guess may produce better results than an exhaustively researched, definitively confirmed answer.
So tests that force students to do a lot of guessing may still be good tools for evaluating their professional qualifications.
A doctor or lawyer who can guess right may be superior to one who plods to the right answer only after many expensive lab tests or hours of legal research. That's not to say that doctors and lawyers shouldn't do lab tests and research -- of course they should. But there are many situations, especially time-sensitive ones, where quick judgment is more important than absolute knowledge: during surgery or a health crisis, during a trial or deposition, etc.
The BBC has insisted that the future of Doctor Who's executive producer, Russell T Davies, "has not yet been decided" in spite of reports today that he will quit the hit show after the next series.
A BBC drama spokeswoman said that Mr Davies has signed up to oversee this year's Doctor Who Christmas special and 2008's fourth series.
However, she added that his involvement with Doctor Who after that has not been confirmed.
"Discussions have not begun so we cannot say if Russell will be involved or not," she said.
A senior BBC Wales drama source told MediaGuardian.co.uk that Mr Davies may be preparing to leave the show.
"Russell has always said that he wouldn't be with the show forever and he has made no secret that the hours are quite exhausting," the insider said.
"But there isn't any way it would be axed even if he left. He loves the show and he does feel that maybe it would benefit from some new blood."
Today's Sun claimed that the show will be axed after the fourth series because of the decision by Mr Davies to quit as executive producer.
The Sun reported that Mr Davies and "senior staff have hatched a plot to hand in a group resignation in summer 2008 and that the show will end after series four".
It quoted a "source" who said that Mr Davies had become fed up over an exhausting workload of 16-hour days nine months a year.
Mr Davies has been the creative driving force behind the Doctor Who revival, which has been a resounding critical and ratings success, and his departure would be a blow for the BBC.
As executive producer he has taken on a "show runner" role, overseeing all creative aspects of the drama and in particular leading the team of Doctor Who writers, as well as scripting individual episodes himself.
The showrunner role is common on long running US TV drama and comedy series, but not often seen in the UK.
However, if Mr Davies does leave Doctor Who, the BBC will want to keep such a popular show going by bringing in a new executive producer to take over his creative responsibilities.
In that article there is this:
"When Schweitzer demineralized the T. rex bone, she was surprised to find such a matrix, because current theories of fossilization held that no original organic material could survive that long."
The thought of course that the original material isn't all that old goes against the "old age" dogma of evolutionists and isn't even brought up as a possibility. If the creationists are right, who assert that the long ages of millions of years in reality are only thousands, then Dr. Mary Schweitzer would not need be surprised. It is well established that living matter can be preserved for thousands of years, but not millions.
This fossil is literally the ONLY FOSSIL EVER FOUND from millions of years ago that contains intact protein structures.
MILLIONS of other fossils of similar age found around the world have never shown any such thing. But the geology and chemistry of the location where this fossil was found explain why it was exceptionally well-preserved.
If it's really only thousands of years old, then you have to explain why no other dinosaur fossils ever found, anywhere, have shown protein preservation.
Washington, DC - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today has released a report, WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential Records Act, detailing the legal issues behind the story of the White House e-mail scandal....
In a startling new revelation, CREW has also learned through two confidential sources that the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has lost over five million emails generated between March 2003 and October 2005. The White House counsel's office was advised of these problems in 2005 and CREW has been told that the White House was given a plan of action to recover these emails, but to date nothing has been done to rectify this significant loss of records.
"By simply logging in to GMail and visiting a website, a malicious website can steal your contact list, and all their details...."
In other words, the submitter says that when a malicious website logs into Gmail and visits a website, it can steal my contact list.
Someone needs to learn how to use dependent clauses. The subject of the sentence above is a malicious website, and that's who is being described in the dependent clause as logging into Gmail and visiting a website.
Slashdot Mirror
If your browser is set to clear cookies every time it closes, then you have to turn it off again every time you start using Google in a new browser session.
I turned it off as soon as I figured out how.
I don't want results before I even finish formulating my search request. It's distracting and confusing: a burst of visual noise while I'm trying to focus on what I'm typing in the search box (which I may decide to change as I'm typing it).
Why do I want to read results of a search that doesn't even represent my complete inquiry?
Language quibble: "Sparse" and "clean" in this context basically mean the same thing. So saying "sparse, BUT clean" is like saying "dry, BUT arid" or "loud, BUT noisy".
This was an interesting experiment! I've enjoyed looking at Mars rover anaglyphs, and I think it makes sense to visualize interstellar phenomena in 3D as well. I'm a big fan of anaglyphs, because they are easy to transmit and reproduce, even if the color reproduction is poor.
A problem I see with this clip is that there's much inconsistency as objects pass on to or off of the edges of the screen. When something passes off the edge, it disappears for 1 eye first, then the other eye. This is very distracting.
An Iranian stereoscopic photographer has come up with a "floating window" technique that can eliminate some of these distracting effects. More info is available here:
http://www.3diran3d.ir/Floating-Window/
Ballmer seems incapable of directing his company to do anything innovative. It's like he only sees a product category as valid when it's already been defined by someone else.
Apple defined a new category of tablet device with the iPad. Now Ballmer has MS chasing after it madly. But meanwhile, he's killed innovative new products like Courier. Apparently what he wants is to create something that's essentially a clone of whatever Apple's come up with, rather than a genuinely new kind of product.
This has been the Microsoft curse for decades, going back to the creation of Windows as a Macintosh knockoff. Yes, I know Apple didn't invent the GUI concepts used in Macintosh -- but they were the first to successfully make them into a commercial product. And MS wasn't interested until they saw that Apple was doing it.
Obviously. You're missing my point, which was not about facts, but about perceptions.
A story like this demonstrates to people that Facebook, and the internet in general, can be useful, even life-saving.
In that way, it may do something to counteract the typical "internets are corrupting your children!!1!" moral-panic type stories that propagate so widely across the news media. (E.g., see the current hysteria about kids listening to binaural beats on YouTube.)
See also: "Those lazy immigrants are sitting around getting fat and breeding on the taxpayer's dime! Also, they're taking all our jobs!" Which one is it? It can't be both.
The Logopolitans have got this covered. They've opened a charge vacuum emboitment into another universe, which will magically soak up all our entropy.
That is, assuming the Master doesn't use a primitive Earth-based radio telescope to meddle with this setup, triggering a sudden entropic collapse...
Yes, that should create a cascade reaction.
There is the theory of the moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop.
Because you're not throwing everyone in a room together. You're likely recording different parts separately, and doing multiple takes, then taking the best takes of each part -- or the ones that go together best -- and mixing them after the recording's done. You can also go back and add new parts if you decide they're needed, or change a part, without re-recording the whole thing. And you can even rearrange portions of the song -- cutting a verse or chorus, moving sections around, etc.
In order to do all of this, you have to have all musicians performing to an absolutely constant tempo.
Also, much music now explicitly incorporates electronic sounds that are sequenced -- synth arpeggios, drum machine patterns, etc. These are always precisely timed. Everyone else needs to be able to match them.
I thought everyone knew that something digital is easier to copy -- and copy perfectly -- than something physical.
The record industry knows this. The film industry knows this. Why doesn't the government understand it?
Some things are better left in the physical realm... like passports, and ballots.
I just entered "40 miles per gallon = ? rods per hogshead" into Google.
The result returned:
40 miles per gallon = 806 400 rods per hogshead
I [heart] the Simpsons-watching Google Calculator engineers.
Yes, that could indeed be interesting.
That said, I'm pretty sure that you're more likely to trust, say, your doctor who's licensed after years of training than to me, even though my rates are really cheap.
Actually, I don't think Doctor Who's licensed -- I've always been under the impression that he was never really trained to fly the TARDIS.
The TLD for Antarctica is .aq. Yes, it's real.
We already have large industrial facilities that are not pleasant (or healthy) to be downwind of: sewage treatment plants, landfills, hog farms, oil and chemical refineries, coal mines, coal-burning power plants, etc. Somehow we've managed to cope.
Don't worry, it's a big continent. We'll find room. And we might just be able to mitigate some of those other industrial and environmental problems by channeling of some the associated waste streams into algae production.
I'm not necessarily convinced that algae biodiesel is the solution to all our problems. I'm still waiting for more hard data. But it does look promising.
It appears that the move did not go smoothly as it resulted in an 8-hour downtime starting yesterday around noon, according to Netcraft.
NETCRAFT CONFIRMS: RIAA IS DEAD!
In many professional specialties, including law and medicine, there are times when a quick, decisive educated guess may produce better results than an exhaustively researched, definitively confirmed answer.
So tests that force students to do a lot of guessing may still be good tools for evaluating their professional qualifications.
A doctor or lawyer who can guess right may be superior to one who plods to the right answer only after many expensive lab tests or hours of legal research. That's not to say that doctors and lawyers shouldn't do lab tests and research -- of course they should. But there are many situations, especially time-sensitive ones, where quick judgment is more important than absolute knowledge: during surgery or a health crisis, during a trial or deposition, etc.
How did I know that the tabloid Sun story would be on Slashdot, while the more level-headed, better-sourced Guardian piece would not?
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http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,20
The BBC has insisted that the future of Doctor Who's executive producer, Russell T Davies, "has not yet been decided" in spite of reports today that he will quit the hit show after the next series.
A BBC drama spokeswoman said that Mr Davies has signed up to oversee this year's Doctor Who Christmas special and 2008's fourth series.
However, she added that his involvement with Doctor Who after that has not been confirmed.
"Discussions have not begun so we cannot say if Russell will be involved or not," she said.
A senior BBC Wales drama source told MediaGuardian.co.uk that Mr Davies may be preparing to leave the show.
"Russell has always said that he wouldn't be with the show forever and he has made no secret that the hours are quite exhausting," the insider said.
"But there isn't any way it would be axed even if he left. He loves the show and he does feel that maybe it would benefit from some new blood."
Today's Sun claimed that the show will be axed after the fourth series because of the decision by Mr Davies to quit as executive producer.
The Sun reported that Mr Davies and "senior staff have hatched a plot to hand in a group resignation in summer 2008 and that the show will end after series four".
It quoted a "source" who said that Mr Davies had become fed up over an exhausting workload of 16-hour days nine months a year.
Mr Davies has been the creative driving force behind the Doctor Who revival, which has been a resounding critical and ratings success, and his departure would be a blow for the BBC.
As executive producer he has taken on a "show runner" role, overseeing all creative aspects of the drama and in particular leading the team of Doctor Who writers, as well as scripting individual episodes himself.
The showrunner role is common on long running US TV drama and comedy series, but not often seen in the UK.
However, if Mr Davies does leave Doctor Who, the BBC will want to keep such a popular show going by bringing in a new executive producer to take over his creative responsibilities.
In that article there is this:
"When Schweitzer demineralized the T. rex bone, she was surprised to find such a matrix, because current theories of fossilization held that no original organic material could survive that long."
The thought of course that the original material isn't all that old goes against the "old age" dogma of evolutionists and isn't even brought up as a possibility. If the creationists are right, who assert that the long ages of millions of years in reality are only thousands, then Dr. Mary Schweitzer would not need be surprised. It is well established that living matter can be preserved for thousands of years, but not millions.
This fossil is literally the ONLY FOSSIL EVER FOUND from millions of years ago that contains intact protein structures.
MILLIONS of other fossils of similar age found around the world have never shown any such thing. But the geology and chemistry of the location where this fossil was found explain why it was exceptionally well-preserved.
If it's really only thousands of years old, then you have to explain why no other dinosaur fossils ever found, anywhere, have shown protein preservation.
"By simply logging in to GMail and visiting a website, a malicious website can steal your contact list, and all their details. ..."
In other words, the submitter says that when a malicious website logs into Gmail and visits a website, it can steal my contact list.
Someone needs to learn how to use dependent clauses. The subject of the sentence above is a malicious website, and that's who is being described in the dependent clause as logging into Gmail and visiting a website.
I order Taiyo Yuden DVD+Rs from MediaSupply.com. $25 for a spindle of 50.