My 1926 house already has this feature. All of the heat given off by the bodies in the house going directly into the air and so the heater doesn't have to run as often. It's amazing what they thought of in 1926, before central heat was even invented. No wonder they're called the Greatest Generation!
First TMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation) is not akin to putting a magnet on your skull....so don't embarrass yourself by having your spouse wear a special hat while you ask them about their infidelity.
Second, the researches never said that the technique makes it impossible to lie or tell the truth. They said that subjects were more likely to lie or tell the truth depending on the location stimulated.
Third, it really isn't much of a surprise that cranking up, or turning off areas of the brain have an effect on behavior.
This is the digital age, surely there is no reason to communicate in this manner anymore. My guess is that it's a Soviet Plot to distract the capitalist imperialist to spend billions of rubles to figure out what its significance is (I've never used that phrase "Soviet Plot" before in my life). You can imagine that the change in message is spurring Dick Cheney (or more likely Rush Limbaugh) to make a run at the White House just to figure it out.
Think about it, the amount of data being transmitted is trivial. We live in the internet age. This is at best a distraction made for those who visualize the modern era as a series of tubes.
Probably none of you youngsters remember this, but Yahoo! initially didn't do search as much as handmade lists of interesting sites. To make it into their search results your page would be evaluated by a member of their staff. Talk about quality control! In a sense it was an early, massive, blog. I'm not saying that it's a good business model but it was good for the end users. They went away from that model and to spidering the web like all their competitors. Ten years later they're on life support. Coincidence?
The creators make us sweat until we have it in hand. But once we have...its big shots and its slow, fetishized... stuff of macho fantasy. [It] is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he'd like to have some impact.
I remember uploading Doom to my local BBS. I don't remember it being quite the right-of-passage depicted here.
Actually, I am thinking of creating a URL shortener inside my intranet. Here's a purpose that no one's thought of, or at least mentioned: it gives a layer of abstraction. Inside the company they can send emails, or put links on web pages that point to my URL shortener, let's say, "Company Policies". That link will always work no matter if the target web page stays on our legacy ASP system or gets moved to our shiny new Sharepoint. All they have to do to fix thousands of links is update the target in the shortener.
I know that this thread is too old for anyone but the author of the parent to read my comment....so this is for you. Having just come off a 2 year project I can say that your comments are the most insightful that I've read in years. Technically the project is only 85% done, but the PM has closed the project so that the deadline is met...all the remaining work is 'phase two'. Of the classic project triangle (Cost, Time, Quality) everything was deemed flexible except Time and Cost.
In defense of our BAs they did a pretty good job asking the users what exactly they would like the soltuion to do. The problem is that the answer the users gave was something like, "I'd like unicorns to dance around my office and sing Ode to Joy. Oh, and if they could fart rainbows that'd be fabulous!"
If it really worked, then would they be selling it? Or would they be being paid by the wine industry not to sell it?
They'd sell them to the wine industry who would start producing better wine at a cheaper price. Oddly enough, I haven't seen any articles about this device in Wine Spectator. I guess Slashdot is where the real enophiles hang out.
I recently had a party where everyone brought a bottle of wine and placed it into a brown bag that I supplied. I then uncorked it, put a random number on it, and mixed it with the others. I had seeded the selection with a box wine, and a $40 Zin that I was sure would be a croud pleaser.
Most of the people at the party liked wine, but none but my wife and I were extremely knowledgeable. I was very impressed that EVERYONE picked out the box wine as sub-par. Everyone but me picked the $40 zin as their favorite (I picked a $60 Groth Cab...though I commented that it needed a few more bottle years). The other wines varied from $10 - $25, and were in the middle of the ratings.
Moral to the story: even casual wine drinkers can tell a good wine from a bad wine. You don't always get what you pay for in the wine world, but you rarely get a great wine at a cheap price. But I'm always on the lookout. I'd rather drink a $15 90 point wine than a $100 95 point wine any day.
Eric, you fool! Have you no concept of the world's tencency toward drama and hilarity? Loudly declaring "this kind of thing could never happen at Google" is like saying "at least it's not raining" or "it's a million-to-one chance" or some other damn fool thing that will prove you wrong nine times out of ten.
I'll never win the lottery, I'll never win the lottery! Do you hear me god? I'll never win the lottery!
This is the man who pioneered exploiting the giant magnetoresistance effect in the 90s, causing disk storage to jump ahead of the Moore's Law curve.
I didn't realize that the amount of data stored on a disk was related to the number of transistors on an integrated circuit. This sentence doesn't even make sense if you misinterpret Moore's law the way it's usually misinterpreted...doubling of speed of CPUs.
It seems to me that if you had a GPS device that could understand signals from all of the systems you would have a large increase in precision. Each system says you are at point A +/- some distance (effectively a circle with point A in the middle). Unless point A is EXACTLY the same for each system, and I can't imagine it would be, then you get three overlapping circles. You now know that you can only be in the area where the three circles overlap. Any area outside of the overlap is now known to be wrong. Am I right?
What sets us apart from the apes is our drive to seek knowledge purely for the sake of knowing it. What sets the US apart from many other nations is our [Historical] willingness to fund science in all its forms, whether or not a given research projects produces something whose value can be measured in dollars and cents.
Even if the white house says "go ahead and leak to the press"? That's not illegal, but non-white house leaks are? Can you spell "corruption"?
It turns out that if the President decides to release information it is no longer classified. At least that was their justification for outing Valerie Plame.
I'm getting the feeling that constitutional lawyers everywhere are going to have to refresh their studies after all of the changes lately.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, the IT world has changed so much that a company investing in training its employees makes the front page of Slashdot.
My 1926 house already has this feature. All of the heat given off by the bodies in the house going directly into the air and so the heater doesn't have to run as often. It's amazing what they thought of in 1926, before central heat was even invented. No wonder they're called the Greatest Generation!
I for one welcome our continued dominance of Earth.
I had the phrase "Desired: A woman who understands that correlation does not imply causality..." in my dating profile.
I married the woman who replied. Yes, I am surprised that worked as well.
A couple of clarifications are in order.
First TMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation) is not akin to putting a magnet on your skull....so don't embarrass yourself by having your spouse wear a special hat while you ask them about their infidelity.
Second, the researches never said that the technique makes it impossible to lie or tell the truth. They said that subjects were more likely to lie or tell the truth depending on the location stimulated.
Third, it really isn't much of a surprise that cranking up, or turning off areas of the brain have an effect on behavior.
This is the digital age, surely there is no reason to communicate in this manner anymore. My guess is that it's a Soviet Plot to distract the capitalist imperialist to spend billions of rubles to figure out what its significance is (I've never used that phrase "Soviet Plot" before in my life). You can imagine that the change in message is spurring Dick Cheney (or more likely Rush Limbaugh) to make a run at the White House just to figure it out.
Think about it, the amount of data being transmitted is trivial. We live in the internet age. This is at best a distraction made for those who visualize the modern era as a series of tubes.
Probably none of you youngsters remember this, but Yahoo! initially didn't do search as much as handmade lists of interesting sites. To make it into their search results your page would be evaluated by a member of their staff. Talk about quality control! In a sense it was an early, massive, blog. I'm not saying that it's a good business model but it was good for the end users. They went away from that model and to spidering the web like all their competitors. Ten years later they're on life support. Coincidence?
Now Get off my lawn!
The creators make us sweat until we have it in hand. But once we have ...its big shots and its slow, fetishized ... stuff of macho fantasy. [It] is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he'd like to have some impact.
I remember uploading Doom to my local BBS. I don't remember it being quite the right-of-passage depicted here.
Actually, I am thinking of creating a URL shortener inside my intranet. Here's a purpose that no one's thought of, or at least mentioned: it gives a layer of abstraction. Inside the company they can send emails, or put links on web pages that point to my URL shortener, let's say, "Company Policies". That link will always work no matter if the target web page stays on our legacy ASP system or gets moved to our shiny new Sharepoint. All they have to do to fix thousands of links is update the target in the shortener.
Does anyone know what language this one is in?
I know that this thread is too old for anyone but the author of the parent to read my comment....so this is for you. Having just come off a 2 year project I can say that your comments are the most insightful that I've read in years. Technically the project is only 85% done, but the PM has closed the project so that the deadline is met...all the remaining work is 'phase two'. Of the classic project triangle (Cost, Time, Quality) everything was deemed flexible except Time and Cost.
In defense of our BAs they did a pretty good job asking the users what exactly they would like the soltuion to do. The problem is that the answer the users gave was something like, "I'd like unicorns to dance around my office and sing Ode to Joy. Oh, and if they could fart rainbows that'd be fabulous!"
-Your friendly systems architect
Ok...did it fly to Morocco (impressive), or South Africa (really, really impressive)? Africa isn't a country Ms Palin.
Or you could just look at the EXIF tags for make and model that every camera records when it takes a shot.
They'd sell them to the wine industry who would start producing better wine at a cheaper price. Oddly enough, I haven't seen any articles about this device in Wine Spectator. I guess Slashdot is where the real enophiles hang out.
I recently had a party where everyone brought a bottle of wine and placed it into a brown bag that I supplied. I then uncorked it, put a random number on it, and mixed it with the others. I had seeded the selection with a box wine, and a $40 Zin that I was sure would be a croud pleaser.
Most of the people at the party liked wine, but none but my wife and I were extremely knowledgeable. I was very impressed that EVERYONE picked out the box wine as sub-par. Everyone but me picked the $40 zin as their favorite (I picked a $60 Groth Cab...though I commented that it needed a few more bottle years). The other wines varied from $10 - $25, and were in the middle of the ratings.
Moral to the story: even casual wine drinkers can tell a good wine from a bad wine. You don't always get what you pay for in the wine world, but you rarely get a great wine at a cheap price. But I'm always on the lookout. I'd rather drink a $15 90 point wine than a $100 95 point wine any day.
I for one welcome the ensuing overload jokes.
Eric, you fool! Have you no concept of the world's tencency toward drama and hilarity? Loudly declaring "this kind of thing could never happen at Google" is like saying "at least it's not raining" or "it's a million-to-one chance" or some other damn fool thing that will prove you wrong nine times out of ten.
I'll never win the lottery, I'll never win the lottery! Do you hear me god? I'll never win the lottery!
"Man is not a rational animal. He's a rationalizing animal."
- Robert A. Heinlein
It depends on which GPS device I was using at the time.
This is the man who pioneered exploiting the giant magnetoresistance effect in the 90s, causing disk storage to jump ahead of the Moore's Law curve.
I didn't realize that the amount of data stored on a disk was related to the number of transistors on an integrated circuit. This sentence doesn't even make sense if you misinterpret Moore's law the way it's usually misinterpreted...doubling of speed of CPUs.
Moore's Law
Amazing things are in the pipeline. I hope I live as long as I can!
I'm pretty sure that you will.
There are other ways to detonate explosives remotely. Doesn't seem like the smartest thing to let potential enemies know of such plans in advance.
It depends on what your objectives are.
What's sad is that we haven't learned from history and realized that women have smaller brains then monkeys...
If you're a woman, well, I guess you've proven your point.
It seems to me that if you had a GPS device that could understand signals from all of the systems you would have a large increase in precision. Each system says you are at point A +/- some distance (effectively a circle with point A in the middle). Unless point A is EXACTLY the same for each system, and I can't imagine it would be, then you get three overlapping circles. You now know that you can only be in the area where the three circles overlap. Any area outside of the overlap is now known to be wrong. Am I right?
What sets us apart from the apes is our drive to seek knowledge purely for the sake of knowing it. What sets the US apart from many other nations is our [Historical] willingness to fund science in all its forms, whether or not a given research projects produces something whose value can be measured in dollars and cents.
Just had to correct that little typo.
Even if the white house says "go ahead and leak to the press"? That's not illegal, but non-white house leaks are? Can you spell "corruption"?
It turns out that if the President decides to release information it is no longer classified. At least that was their justification for outing Valerie Plame.
I'm getting the feeling that constitutional lawyers everywhere are going to have to refresh their studies after all of the changes lately.