In places where large clouds of flies congregate, such as Lake Malawi, the locals net millions of flies and compress them into little cakes. Handy protein packs. I'm sure they may have some nice recipes.
We think: "Ooh, can I get a sexy flat screen to replace my ugly CRT?"
They think: "Let's make the desks 12 inches thinner and pack 'em in. Also, they can't stack so many furry toys and knick-knacks on them. Management fist-bump!"
1000 PCs, with a four-year life (that's optimistic), and suppose you work a 50 week year, so 250 days. That's going to be 1 PC per day, every day, built, tested and out-the-door. I hope you're not just one person supporting this 1000 PC organisation, because you'll be spending all your time catching dropped motherboard screws.
Is there anything better than Fractint now? I too played with it for ages on a clunky old IBM PC with clicky keyboard and Windows 2 (although Fractint ran in DOS though, I think, and necessitated misc tweaking with graphics drivers to make it work, you kids don't know how lucky you are...)
JavaScript has nothing to do with these things, surely. The server sends back a HTTP Redirect or Moved message, and your standards-compliant browser is supposed to go, "Kthx, I'll check there". It was part of the web's protocol from near enough day zero. NoScript won't stop you following them unless the redirect systems are abusing JavaScript for this. Are they? Oh dear god no.
Was someone a bit short on the word count, and decided that "web content that's inaccessible with his iPhone and iPad" was a direct replacement for 'Flash'?
Yeah, foursquare is a cute little idea, but if people don't play nicely it'll suck. And with current GPS and locational technologies, it'll always be open to abuse.
Also, I reckon this is how Agent Smith managed to appear a zillion times in the same location.
Yep, but that might make it a useful *screening* tool rather than a *testing* tool. You'd then go do proper (ie more specific) tests.
I can get a 99% correct diagnosis rate on autism just by going "not autistic" every time.
I've read the original paper, and its based on a sample of 20 normal and 20 autistic people, I might have another read to see if they've done multiple tests and only picked the significant one. Search for the poster about fMRI responses in a dead salmon for more info...
Maybe these kids just aren't eating what other kids are eating.
Sadly even my university access doesnt extend to the Journal of Proteome Research without me stumping up $30 for two days of access, so I can't check the statistics. They had a sample of 39 (35M + 4F) autistic children, their 28 siblings (14M+14F), and 34 age-matched controls (17F+17M). Don't know why they didnt age- and sex-match the controls.
Pretty small sample, and if you look for enough different proteins in urine you might well find something different.
Why launch your own satellites when you can just get the data from other nations - doubtless India and China will be launching plenty of satellites soon, Europe still puts up the odd bird, Japan, Korea etc etc.
Even if they dont sell you the data, all you need are some radios and the FBIs decryption machinery and the weather info will be on the torrent sites before it's out of date. Err maybe.
Perhaps your idea already is patented? Checked? I would reckon IBM have, and then decided they could patent this too, since it doesnt infringe on the 'just tell the car' patent. Maybe the author of that patent thought the 'stop the car remotely' idea was too improbable.
Of course they're only doing it in order to get their quota of patents up in their annual reports.
"OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds. "
People should note there is a big drive at UK universities to get more outside funding from corporations and other external funding bodies. Only last week I heard that one of our guys was close to clinching a deal worth several million from a multinational company that would employ several new people and research students.
Do you think their data will be made publicly available?
I recently made a grant application to one of the UK research councils (govt funding bodies) and explicitly wrote in that code would be open-sourced and data would be made available. Got the grant:)
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Tax people evenly or tax usage evenly? How do you tax usage evenly? Legally-enforced odometers? Or tax fuel? That also encourages fuel economy.
Of course there will be riots if the price of gas in the US reaches anything like half the price of petrol in the UK....
I have code for a solution to the Goldbach Conjecture, but it doesn't fit into my free storage on github....
Seems the BBC didn't want to transmit this year's Nerdstock (aka Nine Lessons for Godless People). Oh well.
In places where large clouds of flies congregate, such as Lake Malawi, the locals net millions of flies and compress them into little cakes. Handy protein packs. I'm sure they may have some nice recipes.
We think: "Ooh, can I get a sexy flat screen to replace my ugly CRT?"
They think: "Let's make the desks 12 inches thinner and pack 'em in. Also, they can't stack so many furry toys and knick-knacks on them. Management fist-bump!"
1000 PCs, with a four-year life (that's optimistic), and suppose you work a 50 week year, so 250 days. That's going to be 1 PC per day, every day, built, tested and out-the-door. I hope you're not just one person supporting this 1000 PC organisation, because you'll be spending all your time catching dropped motherboard screws.
Is there anything better than Fractint now? I too played with it for ages on a clunky old IBM PC with clicky keyboard and Windows 2 (although Fractint ran in DOS though, I think, and necessitated misc tweaking with graphics drivers to make it work, you kids don't know how lucky you are...)
If I get one of these people who can't understand it after I've tried the 'times ten' proof, I do this:
"Okay, tell me, what's 1 minus 0.999 recurring?"
"nought point nought nought nought nought nought..."
"right, keep going until you get something that's not nought. Bye"
But does he/she have an Erdos number?
Geim is now probably the only Nobel prize winner to have co-authored a paper with a hamster.
JavaScript has nothing to do with these things, surely. The server sends back a HTTP Redirect or Moved message, and your standards-compliant browser is supposed to go, "Kthx, I'll check there". It was part of the web's protocol from near enough day zero. NoScript won't stop you following them unless the redirect systems are abusing JavaScript for this. Are they? Oh dear god no.
Was someone a bit short on the word count, and decided that "web content that's inaccessible with his iPhone and iPad" was a direct replacement for 'Flash'?
...we can't have nice things.
Yeah, foursquare is a cute little idea, but if people don't play nicely it'll suck. And with current GPS and locational technologies, it'll always be open to abuse.
Also, I reckon this is how Agent Smith managed to appear a zillion times in the same location.
Yep, but that might make it a useful *screening* tool rather than a *testing* tool. You'd then go do proper (ie more specific) tests.
I can get a 99% correct diagnosis rate on autism just by going "not autistic" every time.
I've read the original paper, and its based on a sample of 20 normal and 20 autistic people, I might have another read to see if they've done multiple tests and only picked the significant one. Search for the poster about fMRI responses in a dead salmon for more info...
[1]: In Europe... Everyone always sticks to the right, by definition.
- except in the UK which, last time I looked out of the window, is still in Europe but we drive on the left :)
There's already a campaign on there to repeal the laws of thermodynamics. It's been spotted and locked but not deleted (at least, when I saw it).
Yeah, but I hate all the Windows XP shiny newness so I always set it to 'Classic' theme, which I think was first up in Windows 95 :)
True. I bought some water skis and spent ages looking for a lake with a slope.
Maybe these kids just aren't eating what other kids are eating.
Sadly even my university access doesnt extend to the Journal of Proteome Research without me stumping up $30 for two days of access, so I can't check the statistics. They had a sample of 39 (35M + 4F) autistic children, their 28 siblings (14M+14F), and 34 age-matched controls (17F+17M). Don't know why they didnt age- and sex-match the controls.
Pretty small sample, and if you look for enough different proteins in urine you might well find something different.
NEEDS MOAR DATA! And an open access journal!
Why launch your own satellites when you can just get the data from other nations - doubtless India and China will be launching plenty of satellites soon, Europe still puts up the odd bird, Japan, Korea etc etc.
Even if they dont sell you the data, all you need are some radios and the FBIs decryption machinery and the weather info will be on the torrent sites before it's out of date. Err maybe.
Perhaps your idea already is patented? Checked? I would reckon IBM have, and then decided they could patent this too, since it doesnt infringe on the 'just tell the car' patent. Maybe the author of that patent thought the 'stop the car remotely' idea was too improbable.
Of course they're only doing it in order to get their quota of patents up in their annual reports.
Umm, Google Open Social?
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
"OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds. "
People should note there is a big drive at UK universities to get more outside funding from corporations and other external funding bodies. Only last week I heard that one of our guys was close to clinching a deal worth several million from a multinational company that would employ several new people and research students.
Do you think their data will be made publicly available?
I recently made a grant application to one of the UK research councils (govt funding bodies) and explicitly wrote in that code would be open-sourced and data would be made available. Got the grant :)
You can buy a laptop from Apple and run anything you like on it. And get the pr0n. Why so different Steve?
Or how long before Apple laptops are locked and need to be jailbroked to run stuff?
"People on the lower end of the average IQ tend to display poorer overall decision-making skills when it comes to their health,' says Weiser."
Is this followed by a reference: "Stupid is as stupid does" (Gump F., 1994) ?