He's not hoping to affect MS with stern words, he's hoping people start to switch away, which can happen when enough of the geek population think it's right (as Firefox is starting to show).
Once people in numbers start to switch away, it is possible Microsoft will react with better products (again, as an example they have restarted IE development because of Firefox), everyone wins then (even the people who haven't switched).
These would make an interesting premise for a 1st person shooter. It explains why "you" go in first alone, can sustain a lot of damage and why the controls aren't as fluid as in real life
Oh dear. It worries me that I thought of this not long after being told about remote control machines equiped with guns.
I hope that they'll encourage people to feel more involved with their community and government etc. This seems to be the ideal place to plug the plans for the new Blog:Vote which will try and encourage bloggers and general web-users to discuss policy issues at the next UK General election.
I'm surprised not to see people mention open source. Most of it isn't paid but bounties or small contracts exist. I guess there aren't very many of them (yet?)
I'm really surprised not to see someone mention open source. I guess most of it isn't paid but bounties or small contracts exist. I guess there aren't very many of them (yet?)
For non-sciencey types, the light from a long way away (high-z in the jargon) gets "stretched" (red-shifted by the expansion of the universe) as it travels so light that was visible when it set out on its journey has a longer wavelength ("near infra-red") when it arrives here.
The story asked about the effect on evolution. The way I see it, genetic engineering like this is the only way humans will evolve. Other than that it seems to me, evolution is over.
I'm partially paralysed but I have survived long enough to breed and have a girl-friend, the evolutionary pressures that select only the strongest/fittest mutuations in nature have been (thankfully) eliminated in civilised society, I guess we'll diversify but as long as transport is easily available then we won't fragment into different species so presumably evolution is over?
Yeah, I've seen them around, for some reason they really appeal to me. I have a feeling they'll be cult classics in the future like the original Mini and VW Beetle are today. I know I certainly wouldn't say no if anyone offered me one.
I'm a little disappointed with the name. Even if the money is put up by Americans and will almost inevitably be won by an American it just seems a little well clique-y to put America in the title. I'm aware this is private enterprise and they have the right to call it what they like, I'm just a little sad about their choice.
To correct myself (didn't notice the link in the bottom right) the sample isn't the web but the British National Corpus, a collection of writing from different sources. Which explains why Slashot and Firefox aren't high in the list and why colour (867) is much higher than color (27077). It would be interesting to compare to a web sampled version, which they are planning for the future.
It seems there's a little over 40,000 words (excluding proper nouns etc.) in use in the sample text (whole english-written web?). I'm making that estimate based on the completely unscientific observation that after that point, most of the words seem to be place names etc.
I know there are proper nouns before that point, but they're presumably balanced by the non-proper noun words after that point.
Hmm, I think you need to listen to scientists more. They (we?) can often come up with crazy theories but a good scientist will explain what their fairly sure about and what is just guess work. The huge number of different theories about dark energy at the moment shows we don't really have much idea.
I'm a theorist and therefore don't work in a large collaboration...nobody reviews my results before they are put on the web. At the moment they try and weed out the nutters by hand although they are bringing in this endorsement system (so you can only subject papers if someone with enough citations will vouch for you),
Peer review is important, it has spotted mistakes in work I've done but the arXiv is still invaluable. I never look at journals, always reading the paper on the web and I'm sure it would benefit other fields to have a similar system! (If you are worried about the veracity of a paper there you can always glance at the field that tells you whether it has been published (and note how many citations it has)
In particle physics (and some other mathematical physics), we already put preprints of all our papers on the web (for free) at the arXiv and have done for years.
It mixes state recording of public places and private recording (like the night-club filming unknowing people having sex on their premises).
Although personally I'm okay with both types of filming (although of course, agree it was right to sue the night-club in question), it's common in other countries to have cameras in shops and I don't feel any greater need for privacy on a high street than I do in a shop on the high street.
I'm always a bit surprised by foreigners reaction to it who almost uniformly (in the non-scientific poll I've conducted on friends) wouldn't be in favour of it back home.
Of course, it it doesn't actually prevent crime, and there seem to be a lot of very contradictory statistics at the moment then it is a lot of money that could be better spent elsewhere....
It looks from the picture like it might be designed to used with a left hand, i.e. there is a button that looks like it's supposed to be used by a thumb on the right.
Is this true or am I looking at the picture funny? I had a stroke when I was very young and type one handed but if there was a keyboard designed for just my right hand (that was cheap: I'm not how much faster I'd be than on a QWERTY), I'd give it a shot.
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He's not hoping to affect MS with stern words, he's hoping people start to switch away, which can happen when enough of the geek population think it's right (as Firefox is starting to show).
Once people in numbers start to switch away, it is possible Microsoft will react with better products (again, as an example they have restarted IE development because of Firefox), everyone wins then (even the people who haven't switched).
These would make an interesting premise for a 1st person shooter. It explains why "you" go in first alone, can sustain a lot of damage and why the controls aren't as fluid as in real life
Oh dear. It worries me that I thought of this not long after being told about remote control machines equiped with guns.
I hope that they'll encourage people to feel more involved with their community and government etc. This seems to be the ideal place to plug the plans for the new Blog:Vote which will try and encourage bloggers and general web-users to discuss policy issues at the next UK General election.
Henrik Gemal has screenshots here
I'm surprised not to see people mention open source. Most of it isn't paid but bounties or small contracts exist. I guess there aren't very many of them (yet?)
I'm really surprised not to see someone mention open source. I guess most of it isn't paid but bounties or small contracts exist. I guess there aren't very many of them (yet?)
For non-sciencey types, the light from a long way away (high-z in the jargon) gets "stretched" (red-shifted by the expansion of the universe) as it travels so light that was visible when it set out on its journey has a longer wavelength ("near infra-red") when it arrives here.
The story asked about the effect on evolution. The way I see it, genetic engineering like this is the only way humans will evolve. Other than that it seems to me, evolution is over.
I'm partially paralysed but I have survived long enough to breed and have a girl-friend, the evolutionary pressures that select only the strongest/fittest mutuations in nature have been (thankfully) eliminated in civilised society, I guess we'll diversify but as long as transport is easily available then we won't fragment into different species so presumably evolution is over?
Yeah, I've seen them around, for some reason they really appeal to me. I have a feeling they'll be cult classics in the future like the original Mini and VW Beetle are today. I know I certainly wouldn't say no if anyone offered me one.
I read that, it gives me the same feeling. Even so it could still be a non-American who wins the prize, just be based there...
I'm a little disappointed with the name. Even if the money is put up by Americans and will almost inevitably be won by an American it just seems a little well clique-y to put America in the title. I'm aware this is private enterprise and they have the right to call it what they like, I'm just a little sad about their choice.
The ./ effect is stopping me reading it at the moment but what I want to know is who paid for the study?
To correct myself (didn't notice the link in the bottom right) the sample isn't the web but the British National Corpus, a collection of writing from different sources. Which explains why Slashot and Firefox aren't high in the list and why colour (867) is much higher than color (27077). It would be interesting to compare to a web sampled version, which they are planning for the future.
It seems there's a little over 40,000 words (excluding proper nouns etc.) in use in the sample text (whole english-written web?). I'm making that estimate based on the completely unscientific observation that after that point, most of the words seem to be place names etc.
I know there are proper nouns before that point, but they're presumably balanced by the non-proper noun words after that point.
But does this here new language have Pirate Slang? If not they'll never be good ship-mates. Arrr.
No. Dark Energy is pretty much a mystery at the moment, there is no generally accepted explanation.
Hmm, I think you need to listen to scientists more. They (we?) can often come up with crazy theories but a good scientist will explain what their fairly sure about and what is just guess work. The huge number of different theories about dark energy at the moment shows we don't really have much idea.
He's not so random, he was the man behind the Political Survey.
I'm a theorist and therefore don't work in a large collaboration...nobody reviews my results before they are put on the web. At the moment they try and weed out the nutters by hand although they are bringing in this endorsement system (so you can only subject papers if someone with enough citations will vouch for you),
Peer review is important, it has spotted mistakes in work I've done but the arXiv is still invaluable. I never look at journals, always reading the paper on the web and I'm sure it would benefit other fields to have a similar system! (If you are worried about the veracity of a paper there you can always glance at the field that tells you whether it has been published (and note how many citations it has)
In particle physics (and some other mathematical physics), we already put preprints of all our papers on the web (for free) at the arXiv and have done for years.
Ummm you know that Airstrip One in the book in the UK right? So he had actually been there as he was British.
It mixes state recording of public places and private recording (like the night-club filming unknowing people having sex on their premises).
Although personally I'm okay with both types of filming (although of course, agree it was right to sue the night-club in question), it's common in other countries to have cameras in shops and I don't feel any greater need for privacy on a high street than I do in a shop on the high street.
I'm always a bit surprised by foreigners reaction to it who almost uniformly (in the non-scientific poll I've conducted on friends) wouldn't be in favour of it back home.
Of course, it it doesn't actually prevent crime, and there seem to be a lot of very contradictory statistics at the moment then it is a lot of money that could be better spent elsewhere....
This article might be a tad misleading, most days room temperature here is about 10 Kelvin if you leave a window open.
(For people that don't understand the Kelvin temperature scale this is not true and is in fact a bad attempt at humour)
WalMart own Asda, a large chain in the UK.
It looks from the picture like it might be designed to used with a left hand, i.e. there is a button that looks like it's supposed to be used by a thumb on the right.
Is this true or am I looking at the picture funny? I had a stroke when I was very young and type one handed but if there was a keyboard designed for just my right hand (that was cheap: I'm not how much faster I'd be than on a QWERTY), I'd give it a shot.