Well, to be honest, I had to cleanup this sentence:
It's almost inevitable not to land on a person's social networking page, if this person uses her own name online.
I assumed you meant that it was inevitable that googling someone's name would land on their social networking page. Which is actually the opposite of what you said, but it doesn't make any sense for you to have been saying that:)
But yes, pick 10 random people on Facebook and google their names.. you will discover that maybe 10% of them result in hits to Facebook. Google simply doesn't rate Facebook very high in search results.
If you buy a movie theater that shows dirty porn films and has jerk-off booths in the back, people will be demanding you blow it up for years, and when you do, they'll throw a party.
The Hype: The singularity is here people and Wolfram is our prophet! The Demo: It's like a search engine but not as good, so he doesn't like you calling it that. The Product: I can't wait.
Yeah, fair enough. I've been toying with the term "practical pacifism" for an ideology somewhere between anarchism and libertarianism. The only legitimate use of force is to stop or prevent the initiation of force.
The 1976 copyright act was what got us into the mess we're in now. It was a huge power grab by the copyright owners. It extended the copyright term, retroactively, to the insane death + 50 years nonsense. It dropped the registration requirement (perhaps the biggest stupidest idea in copyright law ever). It extended both the scope of what was copyrightable and what was considered an exclusive right. Fair use was already common law, so claiming that the 1976 law established it is bullshit. It codified it, that's all. The only thing that the 1976 copyright law did was remotely good was that it clarified that transfer of copyright required a signed document.. something that wasn't actually clear before the law. But hey, Hilter made the trains run on time too.
Are you serious? Not only is it a fantastic demonstration of face recognition technology under real world conditions, but it's also incredibly useful.. if you have a little vision. How many times have you been watching a tv show and said "wow, where have I seen that guy before?" To find out these days I typically do:
1. Take note of the show I'm watching and the episode name (if given). 2. Go to imdb and hope they have specific info on that specific episode. 3. Try to guess what the character's name was, and take note of the actor's name. 4. Click through to the actor's filmography.
And, most typically, one of those steps fails. Now imagine if your tivo or other media playing device had face recognition technology like this. You'd just press one button and it would put boxes around all the faces on-screen, you'd select the face you're interested in and it would immediately tell you the name of the actor, the name of the character that actor is playing in this episode, how many other episodes of this series that he's in, and the actor's entire filmography. That's a real product that I'd actually buy!
One of the big things that bothers me is that the american entertainment industry is such a tiny part of the economy.
Indeed. As I've said a few times before, the Self Storage industry is about twice as big as all the movie and music companies combined. Providing the middle class with a place to dumb their excess consumption is more profitable, how fucked is that.
It's kinda important to put "stock" in what "farmers" think if you're trying to understand the success of a company that sells to, wait for it, farmers. If you don't like what Monsanto do then you really have to think about why they do it.. and that means identifying who their customer is..
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Democracy is the force of the majority over the minority. It doesn't matter if you have elections or not.. that's just a formality.
Well, to be honest, I had to cleanup this sentence:
It's almost inevitable not to land on a person's social networking page, if this person uses her own name online.
I assumed you meant that it was inevitable that googling someone's name would land on their social networking page. Which is actually the opposite of what you said, but it doesn't make any sense for you to have been saying that :)
But yes, pick 10 random people on Facebook and google their names.. you will discover that maybe 10% of them result in hits to Facebook. Google simply doesn't rate Facebook very high in search results.
careful mention of his exact accomplishments and the age at which he made them
Ha! By that metric Steve Jobs, Hans Reiser, and Stephen Wolfram are all assholes.. oh, I see now, never mind.
Ya know what.. bullshit.
Google for someone you know is on Facebook.. using the name they use on Facebook. Watch as the results don't come back with their Facebook page.
Experimenting instead of just assuming, welcome to science.
Sometimes an asshole is the right guy for the job.. if its a job in HR, for example.
making it swine-flu.
Or maybe it just seemed neat because I was only 14.
Thanks for making me feel like an old man.
If you buy a movie theater that shows dirty porn films and has jerk-off booths in the back, people will be demanding you blow it up for years, and when you do, they'll throw a party.
Dude, you can't troll a troller. Step off.
You clearly haven't read ANKOS. I envy you.
Or, ya know, not.
I'm not calling Wolfram a big academic fraud with an even bigger opinion of himself, but so far we've seen no evidence that he has done anything.
The Hype: The singularity is here people and Wolfram is our prophet!
The Demo: It's like a search engine but not as good, so he doesn't like you calling it that.
The Product: I can't wait.
Yeah, fair enough. I've been toying with the term "practical pacifism" for an ideology somewhere between anarchism and libertarianism. The only legitimate use of force is to stop or prevent the initiation of force.
Welcome to Slashdot, where the libertarians want everything for free.
If by "for free" you mean "free of legitimized violent force" then, yes, that is what libertarians want.
There's definitely something wrong with a system that makes a scribble on a napkin in a bar be automatically copyrighted.
The 1976 copyright act was what got us into the mess we're in now. It was a huge power grab by the copyright owners. It extended the copyright term, retroactively, to the insane death + 50 years nonsense. It dropped the registration requirement (perhaps the biggest stupidest idea in copyright law ever). It extended both the scope of what was copyrightable and what was considered an exclusive right. Fair use was already common law, so claiming that the 1976 law established it is bullshit. It codified it, that's all. The only thing that the 1976 copyright law did was remotely good was that it clarified that transfer of copyright required a signed document.. something that wasn't actually clear before the law. But hey, Hilter made the trains run on time too.
You wouldn't believe how many of the actors from Battlestar Galactica were in The Dead Zone.
Are you serious? Not only is it a fantastic demonstration of face recognition technology under real world conditions, but it's also incredibly useful.. if you have a little vision. How many times have you been watching a tv show and said "wow, where have I seen that guy before?" To find out these days I typically do:
1. Take note of the show I'm watching and the episode name (if given).
2. Go to imdb and hope they have specific info on that specific episode.
3. Try to guess what the character's name was, and take note of the actor's name.
4. Click through to the actor's filmography.
And, most typically, one of those steps fails. Now imagine if your tivo or other media playing device had face recognition technology like this. You'd just press one button and it would put boxes around all the faces on-screen, you'd select the face you're interested in and it would immediately tell you the name of the actor, the name of the character that actor is playing in this episode, how many other episodes of this series that he's in, and the actor's entire filmography. That's a real product that I'd actually buy!
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nasa_embarks_on_epic_delay
That's what NASA does.
One of the big things that bothers me is that the american entertainment industry is such a tiny part of the economy.
Indeed. As I've said a few times before, the Self Storage industry is about twice as big as all the movie and music companies combined. Providing the middle class with a place to dumb their excess consumption is more profitable, how fucked is that.
he met a supermodel and they were married the next day
Poor bastard. And you think Microsoft tricked him into it?
Wow.. only on Slashdot.
It's kinda important to put "stock" in what "farmers" think if you're trying to understand the success of a company that sells to, wait for it, farmers. If you don't like what Monsanto do then you really have to think about why they do it.. and that means identifying who their customer is..
Yeah, which is the ultimate danger of not actually having a bootstrapable food supply.
Imagine we could only get a computer running by copying the contents of RAM from one machine to another. You'd really fear power outages.
Way to fail to make an argument. Idiot.
Fuck with the food supply, and bad things can happen.
Umm.. fail to innovate farming and we all die.