Really sad. Not that some high school kids can build better robots than the MIT. But that they beat the MIT in the 'Technical Report' category is really sad.
I also find it amusing that the MIT would enter a competition that seems to be targeted towards high schools. Or should I find that sad too?
Social software. So maybe I'm anti-social, but I just don't get it. de.icio.us, de.lirio.us, flickr, you name it. I just don't get it.
Not that I don't like it. I just don't get it.
All these services never care to explain what they are, how they work, how you use them, who operates them. You go to the front page and what you see looks like search engine spam.
How do people find out how this stuff works? Everybody seems to know it. I don't. Where do you read up on this stuff? Is it considered to be really uncool if you have a two-sentence paragraph somewhere on the front page that tells you what this is all about?
I know that this was supposed to be a joke, but it's worth some thinking. Are anti-spam services really always meant to stop spam? IMHO, this isn't redundant, but a strange business model if you really think about it.
We've got this new product here and if it suceeds it will be completely superflous!
This is an extremely difficult issue, although it sounds pretty trivial.
For one thing, the taxpayer is rarely participating in discussions like this one. Moreover, the success of scientific institutions is often measured in terms of number of patents, successfully launched businesses by former students/researchers, etc. So not only is there little or no opposition to closed-source software (or scientific articles!), there are also good reasons for researchers to go the closed-source road.
Some researchers have a tendency towards secrecy. Some even seem a little paranoid when it comes to their data and methods. You could compare this to the tendency of the OSS zealot to suspect bugs, glitches, and omissions in any piece of closed-source software.
And as a German side-note: There are laws over here that require you to have the patentability of any piece of software you develop checked by university lawyers. GPLing something is technically illegal for a researcher. I have no idea how this is regulated in other countries.
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Baseball? Is that the game where there are all these guys with beer guts standing around scratching their balls all the time?
If I was on steroids, I'd be careful with that scratching.
Maybe I'm out of the loop - but what's the big deal?
Good question. But unfortunately you are backing it up with the wrong arguments
If I were to search for "online poker" I'd be sure to read the TITLE and the two lines or so that Google gives you from the site to figure out if it was a relevant result or not.
Right. That's how you and me and 80% of the slashdot crowd would do it. But did you ever have a look at your server logs? It will never cease to amaze me what hits I get from what search terms.
Google is so popular because it doesn't get in the way. It loads fast and gives you fast results. I have a feeling that it would be even more popular without the little excerpt for each result. For some strange reason, many people don't want to read anything on the web, even if they aren't doing obvious searches for porn.
I detailed this elsewhere. All Google has to do is add a filter to its results so that pages that do not actually contain the search word/phrases do NOT show up in result lists.
Guess you haven't even looked at the wikipedia article then? It has the phrases online and poker all over it.
OK, so what about the Google bombs where this is not the case? Why bother? Who is actually trying to find something when he enters the phrase miserable failure?
What we really need is a world where users are willing to enter more than two words in the search field. Heck. The twits that are all hot for online poker don't even go that far. I'm sure they just type poker and that's that for em.
If all you are trying to protect is your forums, then it would have the same effect. But now you can do it on a per-link basis. The links that the blogs author sets still can boost the page rank of the linked page, but spammy comments will achieve nothing.
Rather they will be about who can think the smartest and fastest.
I don't mean to spoil all the fun that you guys and those researchers are having, but what is really happening isn't that closely linked to thinking.
Each hemispehere of the brain features a motor cortex. If you move your hand or your foot, if you raise your eyebrows or wrinkle your nose, the motor cortex will become active. If something bad happens to you and the nerves connecting your, e.g., right hand, to your motor cortex are cut, the motor cortex will keep on going and firing, but, of course, your hand will no longer move.
In essence, this is more like imagining the movement. Not thinking.
But since it's really exhausting to imagine a movement while not moving, those gaming applications you all dream about will feature a gamer that is actually carrying out those movements. And since he is really performing them, it will always be easier and cheaper to measure them at the hand (using a new cool technology called "mouse") than to measure the brain waves and transform those to commands.
Gee. Track any spamvertized website and you will see many of them going down after a couple of days. Often, these sites are hosted by malware-infected dial-up machines. Or by servers somewhere in China that are administered so badly that they can crash any minute.
Unless Lycos tells us how many servers were targeted, I don't see how the statement that two servers are down can be connected in any way to the workings of that stupid marketing toy.
The "global inbox" is indeed a cool feature. I still prefer separate inboxes for each account (probably because most of my accounts are IMAP accounts).
But what is really bugging me is that you cannot use (or even access) the filter of one account on another account. Why would I want not use the "delete if sa score > 7"-rule on all of my accounts?
Why would you compare MS Outlook, a groupware application, to an email application?
Don't have an answer for that one, sorry. But I've got another question: Why would you add an email client to a groupware client? Why read and write email with that thing that lets you schedule the presentation rooms?
Hey Will!
Why do you think that the whole world sat up and took notice when you started your blog?
Probably because it sits up and takes notice any time any one starts a blog?
Answer b actually gives me the impression that this show is done by nerds with nerdy humor.
Answer c begs the question of who the father of the Fee Software Movement is.
c + b vs a makes me wonder whether these people have a problem with capitalisation or whether 'Soviet Jeans' and 'Free Software Movement' actually are registered trademarks.
Slashdot Mirror
don't buy/renew and then tell them why
Good idea. But will I be able to tell when I'm finished not buying/renewing?
Before this deteriorates in to a Pro/Anti Immigration flame fest...
How could that possibly happen? Where do you think all those MIT students come from?
Really sad. Not that some high school kids can build better robots than the MIT. But that they beat the MIT in the 'Technical Report' category is really sad.
I also find it amusing that the MIT would enter a competition that seems to be targeted towards high schools. Or should I find that sad too?
Social software. So maybe I'm anti-social, but I just don't get it. de.icio.us, de.lirio.us, flickr, you name it. I just don't get it.
Not that I don't like it. I just don't get it.
All these services never care to explain what they are, how they work, how you use them, who operates them. You go to the front page and what you see looks like search engine spam.
How do people find out how this stuff works? Everybody seems to know it. I don't. Where do you read up on this stuff? Is it considered to be really uncool if you have a two-sentence paragraph somewhere on the front page that tells you what this is all about?
Am I getting old?
Don't feel bad. You demonstrated your amazing knowledge of SiFi literature. And that's what slashdot is all about.
Kind of, but not quite.
Blocking a specific virus, won't prevent new viruses (in fact, the opposite maybe true). A cure for cancer doesn't stop cancer.
Software to stop spammers, though, would defnitely stop spam.
I know that this was supposed to be a joke, but it's worth some thinking. Are anti-spam services really always meant to stop spam? IMHO, this isn't redundant, but a strange business model if you really think about it.
We've got this new product here and if it suceeds it will be completely superflous!
This is an extremely difficult issue, although it sounds pretty trivial.
For one thing, the taxpayer is rarely participating in discussions like this one. Moreover, the success of scientific institutions is often measured in terms of number of patents, successfully launched businesses by former students/researchers, etc. So not only is there little or no opposition to closed-source software (or scientific articles!), there are also good reasons for researchers to go the closed-source road.
Some researchers have a tendency towards secrecy. Some even seem a little paranoid when it comes to their data and methods. You could compare this to the tendency of the OSS zealot to suspect bugs, glitches, and omissions in any piece of closed-source software.
And as a German side-note: There are laws over here that require you to have the patentability of any piece of software you develop checked by university lawyers. GPLing something is technically illegal for a researcher. I have no idea how this is regulated in other countries.
Baseball? Is that the game where there are all these guys with beer guts standing around scratching their balls all the time?
If I was on steroids, I'd be careful with that scratching.
Good question. But unfortunately you are backing it up with the wrong arguments
Right. That's how you and me and 80% of the slashdot crowd would do it. But did you ever have a look at your server logs? It will never cease to amaze me what hits I get from what search terms.
Google is so popular because it doesn't get in the way. It loads fast and gives you fast results. I have a feeling that it would be even more popular without the little excerpt for each result. For some strange reason, many people don't want to read anything on the web, even if they aren't doing obvious searches for porn.
Guess you haven't even looked at the wikipedia article then? It has the phrases online and poker all over it.
OK, so what about the Google bombs where this is not the case? Why bother? Who is actually trying to find something when he enters the phrase miserable failure?
What we really need is a world where users are willing to enter more than two words in the search field. Heck. The twits that are all hot for online poker don't even go that far. I'm sure they just type poker and that's that for em.
It seems they knew this. That's why it's now on the top left. Ha!
Sadly? Rejoice users of Linux and MacOS. Mark this day in your calendar and have a big party next year. Sadly my ass.
You want multiple toolbars condensed to single buttons all wrapped up nicely in a rpm? Come on!
What's the point? If you find those prizes too high, don't buy anything or try to find a cheaper source.
Unless the music industry starts to push new laws that require you to pay those prizes, I fail to see the problem or even newsworthiness of this.
Nice to see that there is such a thing as a free market, even when it comes to music in digital form.
It's naked? I guess that explains why the site is down right now.
Don't you think that your page rank would drop like a stone when people find out that you are an evil, dollar-raking asshole? I do!
If all you are trying to protect is your forums, then it would have the same effect. But now you can do it on a per-link basis. The links that the blogs author sets still can boost the page rank of the linked page, but spammy comments will achieve nothing.
Come on now! Guido is on that list.
I don't mean to spoil all the fun that you guys and those researchers are having, but what is really happening isn't that closely linked to thinking.
Each hemispehere of the brain features a motor cortex. If you move your hand or your foot, if you raise your eyebrows or wrinkle your nose, the motor cortex will become active. If something bad happens to you and the nerves connecting your, e.g., right hand, to your motor cortex are cut, the motor cortex will keep on going and firing, but, of course, your hand will no longer move.
In essence, this is more like imagining the movement. Not thinking.
But since it's really exhausting to imagine a movement while not moving, those gaming applications you all dream about will feature a gamer that is actually carrying out those movements. And since he is really performing them, it will always be easier and cheaper to measure them at the hand (using a new cool technology called "mouse") than to measure the brain waves and transform those to commands.
Gee. Track any spamvertized website and you will see many of them going down after a couple of days. Often, these sites are hosted by malware-infected dial-up machines. Or by servers somewhere in China that are administered so badly that they can crash any minute.
Unless Lycos tells us how many servers were targeted, I don't see how the statement that two servers are down can be connected in any way to the workings of that stupid marketing toy.
The "global inbox" is indeed a cool feature. I still prefer separate inboxes for each account (probably because most of my accounts are IMAP accounts).
But what is really bugging me is that you cannot use (or even access) the filter of one account on another account. Why would I want not use the "delete if sa score > 7"-rule on all of my accounts?
Why would you compare MS Outlook, a groupware application, to an email application?
Don't have an answer for that one, sorry. But I've got another question: Why would you add an email client to a groupware client? Why read and write email with that thing that lets you schedule the presentation rooms?
Hey Will! Why do you think that the whole world sat up and took notice when you started your blog? Probably because it sits up and takes notice any time any one starts a blog?
Answer b actually gives me the impression that this show is done by nerds with nerdy humor.
Answer c begs the question of who the father of the Fee Software Movement is.
c + b vs a makes me wonder whether these people have a problem with capitalisation or whether 'Soviet Jeans' and 'Free Software Movement' actually are registered trademarks.