...why Christians deny evolution? Does God command us to turn off our brains? (you would hope not...) Does this concept, if proven true, contradict something in the bible so directly that it would prove Christianity is false? What's the deal? Why are they so scared of this?
I still file my taxes the old-fashioned way... via paper. So their system outage wont affect me. I would e-file, but why do them a favor? It takes me just as long to e-file as it does to fill out the paper form. And if the IRS is going to waste my time, i'm going to waste theirs.:p
I always thought that it would be NASA that would be the first to announce the discovery of extraterrestrial life. Now i'm thinking Japan may have that honor.
As a side note, maybe this will spark a new "space race". That would be probably be a good thing at this point.
Your anger is admirable but misguided. It is not the corporations at fault. They are just playing by the rules which allow them to do evil things. The rules are at fault. The the politicians make the rules. So if you want to place blame, its on the system, not the players of the system. You really cannot expect the players in the system to do the right thing all the time. The rules should enforce ethical behavior. So fuck the politicians who are the real sellouts.
I've been tethering for 2 years with my iPhone. Just jailbreak teh damn thing. Once you have it, you almost forget that nobody else with an iPhone can do it. (and haha to you)
Here's a little trick: Tether your iPhone at a starbucks cafe. Starbucks allows iPhones to connect to their wifi for free. Therefore, you get free starbucks wifi on yer laptop instead of having to pay for it. Now, why starbucks won't enter the modern area and stop charging for internet access is beyond me.
Are you some kind of moron? Nobody knew everything apple planned to do with their platform. YOU are looking at the situation with perfect 20/20 vision. Well news flash, asshole, reality isnt that way. You learn as you go. And since only today I can see what apple is up to, i choose not to support it. So therefore, YOU can just GO TO HELL.
Sorry, you're wrong. I work in FDA compliance so I happen to know a little more about this subject. There are PLENTY of provisions in the CFR (Code Federal Regulations) governing use of experimental or not fully tested drugs on terminally ill patients. Look up "Compassionate Use". A miracle drug that saves 1/3 of hospice patients from cancer would certainly be funded by a biotech/pharma company or the US government. But guess what, drugs cannot under any circumstances go to large-scale populations because if they are untested, you will end up killing more people than you save. In your example, sure the drug may have saved 1/3 of hospice patients, but it very well could have caused the other 2/3 of them to die faster, or suffer a stroke, or whatever. Unless these risks are known, its completely irresponsible for the government to allow it to go into widespread use without a proper clinical trial. There are very valid reasons to the FDAs laws governing drugs. There is no evil boogyman that is trying to prevent miracle drugs from coming to market.
I'll be dumping iPhone as soon as my current jailbroken 3GS is considered obsolete. I shouldn't have to literally break the law to make my phone run and work how I, the USER, want it to. I can no longer tolerate Apples' insistence of controlling everything i do and censoring my content, as well as locking in the app marketplace so that THEY profit from every transaction, therefore forcing me to pay higher prices than i would otherwise in a completely free and open market. I'm switching to andriod rather than upgrading. I encourage everyone else to as well.
This statement concerns me: "But its chairman, Josef Fendt, said later that the track was far faster than its designers ever intended it to be." How could designers NOT be aware of how fast a person would be flying down the track? Do they not have rudimentary knowledge of physics?
What if i connect to the internet via VPN? Does this law apply to VPN vendors? (They aren't technically ISPs). If the VPN guys have to snoop through your activity to find out whether you're downloading an mp3, kinda defeats the entire point doesn't it. Would this kill an entire industry?
Happy to see somewhere out there someone believes in the cool nerds. (i'm also the gay one, and at work that means i'm triple times fabulous;). I no longer work in IT but i work in regulatory compliance. Where do i find still my undergrad degree in computing sciences useful? EVERYWHERE and EVERY DAY!!! I believe the biggest mistake of this century is for businesses to isolate their "tech" employees to an IT department. This structure ensures that all computing knowledge is isolated from the rest of the business that could use it to increase productivity! I've written countless scripts, reports and other programs to perform simple otherwise labrous tasks and free business workers to focus on important things. People think i'm some sort of miracle worker. The reality is that i'm simply an anomaly at the firm - a person with a computing background who works in the business side. There needs to be more of us - many more!! When i'm CEO - there will be people with computer science backgrounds positioned everywhere in the company. They are the key to connecting the business with technology needs and making business far more efficient. An "IT" department, no matter how good, isn't as good as mixing knowledge of technology in the business side directly.
The key difference here, (i dont know if you've noticed), but if you WAIT to see with 100% certainty whether it is a problem or not, and it turns out to be a poblem, its not fixable at that point and the world essentially ends (or gets very screwed up). Get it? If you die because of climate change, you die in real life!!
In my company i don't work in the IT department, so i'm limited by whatever IT gives me. My department needed a similar system to track projects, tasks, milestones, and certain metrics, and give visibility to the rest of the org. We have sharepoint in our corporate environment, so i used sharepoint to do most of the work. Project plans in MSProj are stored in eRoom (because we have to work with external contractors) and pulled via weekly script I wrote and placed on to sharepoint lists. That's the only "custom" part of the system. From there, weekly workflows in sharepoint run automatically to process the lists and send data where it needs to go, report errors or problems, and obtain necessary approvals. It may not be an "off the shelf" solution, but it's custom to our precise business needs. It was also really easy to build. Sharepoint workflows can do just about anything and you don't need a computer science degree to understand them.
I find that the software/technology isn't the limiting factor anymore. It's usually the people and business processes that lag far behind the technology and are usually the largest barriers to making things more efficient. I spent way more time convincing the decision makers and slowly edging people towards a sustainable process than i did building the system.
Why can't i see my reflection in the mirror on a television?
Are you f'n *kidding* me? People are asking this question? Wow...just wow. I don't know what's sadder, the stupidity of people or the fact that I haven't been able to find a way to get rich off of these stupid people.
I find the arguement puzzling that we would only have to design a machine that's "smarter" (however that's defined...) than a human. Then the machine could design still smarter machines, etc, etc, until you get an intilligence explosion.
While that sounds plausable we have to remember that not a SINGLE person designed the machine. It was the work of hundreds or perhaps thousands of people, over time, designing and improving the individual components and software. No one person could have done such a feat on their own. My arguement in this case is that the machine would have to be smarter not than a single person, but than an entire group of people, all with different expertise and internal creative processes, combined, to result in an intilligence explosion. That's a very different conclusion.
"As we have said before, Nintendo Brain Age and Brain Training should be seen as what they are: a game. And the construct of one's having a "brain age" makes no sense.
Having said that, the researcher quoted then offers, out of the blue, one of the less accurate statements of our times:
"The study tested Nintendo's claims on 67 ten-year-olds. "That's the age where you have the best chance of improvement," Professor Lieury said. "If it doesn't work on children, it won't work on adults."
That hypothesis (that something won't "work" on adults because it won't "work" on kids) has already been tested and falsified.
In a couple of recent trials, discussed here, the same strategy game (Rise of Nations, a complex challenge for executive functions), played for the same number of hours (23) showed quite impressive (untrained) cognitive benefits in people over 60 - and no benefits in people in their 20s.
How can this be? Well, we often say that our brains need novelty, variety and challenge - and it should be obvious that those ingredients depend on who we are/ what we do. A crossword may well be new and challenging for a kid, but not for an older adult who has done a million already. A videogame can provide good challenge to an older adult - and probably not to the kid who already spends 5 hours a day playing them."
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...why Christians deny evolution? Does God command us to turn off our brains? (you would hope not...) Does this concept, if proven true, contradict something in the bible so directly that it would prove Christianity is false? What's the deal? Why are they so scared of this?
I still file my taxes the old-fashioned way... via paper. So their system outage wont affect me. I would e-file, but why do them a favor? It takes me just as long to e-file as it does to fill out the paper form. And if the IRS is going to waste my time, i'm going to waste theirs. :p
I always thought that it would be NASA that would be the first to announce the discovery of extraterrestrial life. Now i'm thinking Japan may have that honor.
As a side note, maybe this will spark a new "space race". That would be probably be a good thing at this point.
Your anger is admirable but misguided. It is not the corporations at fault. They are just playing by the rules which allow them to do evil things. The rules are at fault. The the politicians make the rules. So if you want to place blame, its on the system, not the players of the system. You really cannot expect the players in the system to do the right thing all the time. The rules should enforce ethical behavior. So fuck the politicians who are the real sellouts.
is that easier? sounds very technical to me. tethering was easy to install.
I've been tethering for 2 years with my iPhone. Just jailbreak teh damn thing. Once you have it, you almost forget that nobody else with an iPhone can do it. (and haha to you)
Here's a little trick: Tether your iPhone at a starbucks cafe. Starbucks allows iPhones to connect to their wifi for free. Therefore, you get free starbucks wifi on yer laptop instead of having to pay for it. Now, why starbucks won't enter the modern area and stop charging for internet access is beyond me.
Are you some kind of moron? Nobody knew everything apple planned to do with their platform. YOU are looking at the situation with perfect 20/20 vision. Well news flash, asshole, reality isnt that way. You learn as you go. And since only today I can see what apple is up to, i choose not to support it. So therefore, YOU can just GO TO HELL.
Sorry, you're wrong. I work in FDA compliance so I happen to know a little more about this subject. There are PLENTY of provisions in the CFR (Code Federal Regulations) governing use of experimental or not fully tested drugs on terminally ill patients. Look up "Compassionate Use". A miracle drug that saves 1/3 of hospice patients from cancer would certainly be funded by a biotech/pharma company or the US government. But guess what, drugs cannot under any circumstances go to large-scale populations because if they are untested, you will end up killing more people than you save. In your example, sure the drug may have saved 1/3 of hospice patients, but it very well could have caused the other 2/3 of them to die faster, or suffer a stroke, or whatever. Unless these risks are known, its completely irresponsible for the government to allow it to go into widespread use without a proper clinical trial. There are very valid reasons to the FDAs laws governing drugs. There is no evil boogyman that is trying to prevent miracle drugs from coming to market.
I'll be dumping iPhone as soon as my current jailbroken 3GS is considered obsolete. I shouldn't have to literally break the law to make my phone run and work how I, the USER, want it to. I can no longer tolerate Apples' insistence of controlling everything i do and censoring my content, as well as locking in the app marketplace so that THEY profit from every transaction, therefore forcing me to pay higher prices than i would otherwise in a completely free and open market. I'm switching to andriod rather than upgrading. I encourage everyone else to as well.
Okay ill give this a try...
import antigravity
woah!! thanks python!
Sorry slashdot, i plead temporary stupidity. I posted this response to the wrong story!!
This statement concerns me: "But its chairman, Josef Fendt, said later that the track was far faster than its designers ever intended it to be." How could designers NOT be aware of how fast a person would be flying down the track? Do they not have rudimentary knowledge of physics?
What if i connect to the internet via VPN? Does this law apply to VPN vendors? (They aren't technically ISPs). If the VPN guys have to snoop through your activity to find out whether you're downloading an mp3, kinda defeats the entire point doesn't it. Would this kill an entire industry?
another old wrinkly dinosaur doesn't like change! news at 11.
Happy to see somewhere out there someone believes in the cool nerds. (i'm also the gay one, and at work that means i'm triple times fabulous ;). I no longer work in IT but i work in regulatory compliance. Where do i find still my undergrad degree in computing sciences useful? EVERYWHERE and EVERY DAY!!! I believe the biggest mistake of this century is for businesses to isolate their "tech" employees to an IT department. This structure ensures that all computing knowledge is isolated from the rest of the business that could use it to increase productivity! I've written countless scripts, reports and other programs to perform simple otherwise labrous tasks and free business workers to focus on important things. People think i'm some sort of miracle worker. The reality is that i'm simply an anomaly at the firm - a person with a computing background who works in the business side. There needs to be more of us - many more!! When i'm CEO - there will be people with computer science backgrounds positioned everywhere in the company. They are the key to connecting the business with technology needs and making business far more efficient. An "IT" department, no matter how good, isn't as good as mixing knowledge of technology in the business side directly.
Without coffee there will be no more sufficiently awake programmers! All software development will stop!
The key difference here, (i dont know if you've noticed), but if you WAIT to see with 100% certainty whether it is a problem or not, and it turns out to be a poblem, its not fixable at that point and the world essentially ends (or gets very screwed up). Get it? If you die because of climate change, you die in real life!!
In my company i don't work in the IT department, so i'm limited by whatever IT gives me. My department needed a similar system to track projects, tasks, milestones, and certain metrics, and give visibility to the rest of the org. We have sharepoint in our corporate environment, so i used sharepoint to do most of the work. Project plans in MSProj are stored in eRoom (because we have to work with external contractors) and pulled via weekly script I wrote and placed on to sharepoint lists. That's the only "custom" part of the system. From there, weekly workflows in sharepoint run automatically to process the lists and send data where it needs to go, report errors or problems, and obtain necessary approvals. It may not be an "off the shelf" solution, but it's custom to our precise business needs. It was also really easy to build. Sharepoint workflows can do just about anything and you don't need a computer science degree to understand them.
I find that the software/technology isn't the limiting factor anymore. It's usually the people and business processes that lag far behind the technology and are usually the largest barriers to making things more efficient. I spent way more time convincing the decision makers and slowly edging people towards a sustainable process than i did building the system.
...my poop green?
Why can't i see my reflection in the mirror on a television?
Are you f'n *kidding* me? People are asking this question? Wow...just wow. I don't know what's sadder, the stupidity of people or the fact that I haven't been able to find a way to get rich off of these stupid people.
I find the arguement puzzling that we would only have to design a machine that's "smarter" (however that's defined...) than a human. Then the machine could design still smarter machines, etc, etc, until you get an intilligence explosion.
While that sounds plausable we have to remember that not a SINGLE person designed the machine. It was the work of hundreds or perhaps thousands of people, over time, designing and improving the individual components and software. No one person could have done such a feat on their own. My arguement in this case is that the machine would have to be smarter not than a single person, but than an entire group of people, all with different expertise and internal creative processes, combined, to result in an intilligence explosion. That's a very different conclusion.
why cant we just ban cancer?
i dunno. Do you get in trouble? lets find out. you're gay. *hides*
Yeah, i hate it when my Schwartz gets twisted...
One comment already posted below the article is pretty good. I will shamelessly steal it:
"5. Karen | 01.27.09
Just read a SharpBrains blog post that may add some light:
http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2009/01/27/nintendo-brain-age-training-vs-crossword-puzzles/
"As we have said before, Nintendo Brain Age and Brain Training should be seen as what they are: a game. And the construct of one's having a "brain age" makes no sense.
Having said that, the researcher quoted then offers, out of the blue, one of the less accurate statements of our times:
"The study tested Nintendo's claims on 67 ten-year-olds. "That's the age where you have the best chance of improvement," Professor Lieury said. "If it doesn't work on children, it won't work on adults."
That hypothesis (that something won't "work" on adults because it won't "work" on kids) has already been tested and falsified.
In a couple of recent trials, discussed here, the same strategy game (Rise of Nations, a complex challenge for executive functions), played for the same number of hours (23) showed quite impressive (untrained) cognitive benefits in people over 60 - and no benefits in people in their 20s.
How can this be? Well, we often say that our brains need novelty, variety and challenge - and it should be obvious that those ingredients depend on who we are/ what we do. A crossword may well be new and challenging for a kid, but not for an older adult who has done a million already. A videogame can provide good challenge to an older adult - and probably not to the kid who already spends 5 hours a day playing them."