Well, if they were serious they'd just make IE 7 available for Windows 2000. Of course their motive for turning against IE 6 is just to force people to upgrade to XP or beyond and give them money...
The poster didn't argue that it wasn't useful. They asked if any immediate use is known. Not a dumb question, because often we can think of a specific application for new physics or math. For example, if someone solves does P=NP, we would care pretty fast. Sometimes we find the utility later, and sometimes nothing is found.
When there are new cable channels, they almost always have an over-specific focus and branch out because they don't have enough content or they just think they'll do better with general focused programming. MTV barely even shows a music video. BBC America is always showing Americans shows like Star Trek. The History Channel shows "Ice Road Truckers." American Movie Classics shows Mad Men and movies that are nowhere near classic status. ESPN shows poker games and eating contests. It is not at all surprising to see Syfy just showing whatever they think can get ratings at this point. Maybe they can come out with Syfy 2, for the true sci-fi, and then slowly transition it just showing music videos.
Phelps just loves attention. What are they going to do? DDOS his website? It'll be down for a day but that will just give him plenty of publicity. He's not a huge company that needs a website up 24/7. I don't believe he has any other IT infrastructure for them to attack.
It is not very good at all. It uses my juice and processing power "Scrobbling" whenever I play my own mp3s, it takes forever to load even though I have a high-end phone, it spends more time not playing than actually playing, and it keeps playing Breaking Benjamin and similar bands no matter how many times I tell it not to. Pandora isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than last.fm and my own library is best.
He says he doesn't need "adult supervision" anymore? Well the child is the worst to judge these things.
If Schmidt is such a good CEO, why change the setup? Page just thinks he'd be a better CEO because it is human nature to believe such things. I think this is an ego driven move and it could turn out very badly. At least they are keeping Schmidt on in a high level role.
He said that in "How the Mind Works." The problem with Pinker is that he just asserts his hypothesises in his books and doesn't distinguish between them and established scientific theories that have been tested.
Don't get me wrong, it's worth researching, but it is safe to assume that anything you like doing (learning, masturbating, etc.) stimulates the production of dopamine.
One thing I read that was interesting was a Steven Pinker where he said music simulates the effect of motion on your brain. So dissonant music sounds like scary falling. Nice music makes you feel like you are being softly rocked, etc. I don't know how much that idea has been tested.
I'm surprised the most obvious challenge in going to the moon isn't mentioned in the article: that it takes a huge amount of energy to get to the moon and then to get back. I mean what are we going to mine that has so much value? Water? Energy production uses a huge amount of water. Going to the moon for some water is counter productive.
It is a far more efficient use of energy to mine the mineral out of garbage dumps than try to try to ship it from the moon.
Being a software engineer can mean a lot of thing. You can work in a big company churning out DAO's all day or working at a little company architecting your own projects. You might make a lot of money. You might have a lot of time to look at slashdot and try to get one of the first five posts.
Looking at the test, possible mistakes a student can make include believing that glucose can be converted into ATP. (To avoid making this mistake you have to understand that ATP contains phosphorous.) Also, you have to know that most of a plant's mass comes from CO2 it takes in, not things it absorbs in the soil, which is also tricky because most people know that gas doesn't weight very much. Another question is "An animal inhales O2 and exhales CO2, what happens to its mass?" The correct answer is that it loses mass, but you really have to be paying attention to realize that.
Now that I use a SWYPE keyboard on my phone, I realize that it's faster than thumb typing. I think it wouldn't be hard for a keyboard-sized touch to become faster than the physical keyboard it replaces. This would be a great opportunity to kill QWERTY, too. Think about it.
You can have five large vowels surrounded by a ring of constants with numbers and punctuation below. You would swype away with the right and pick the word selections with your left hand. It could give you words guesses based on what you are swyping, the sentence you are writing, and common words would just always be there. Oh and it would vibrate to give you tactile feed back. I think when you think about it, this kind of system could allow you to type A LOT faster than a standard keyboard.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/1244210/Why-Published-Research-Findings-Are-Often-False
If you read this piece it talks about a "decline effect." Basically research that gets published has positive results to report and conforms to established opinion. However, further study shows that the effects aren't as strong as before. It talks about research showing pre-cognition before, but later be disproven.
I think it's just fine to publish work in journals on pre-cognition, if the work was done in a scientific way. The only reason not to is because it doesn't conform to established opinion. If it's a false positive, it'll not be replicated and we'll forget about it.
If it stands the test of time then we'll realize that there is pre-cognition of some sort but a mundane explanation will be found. After all, your brain is a sort of pre-cognition machine. I have a pretty good idea of what is going to happen in my life today. Don't you?
This is another case of false equivalence. Whenever someone criticizes the right, someone always complains that they aren't criticizing the left "because they are exactly the same."
But it isn't the case. There really is no left-wing Rush Limbaugh and if there is then this person isn't nearly as powerful and influential as Rush.
If you have something to criticize about the left or liberals or progressives, then I welcome that, it will ultimately strengthen the movement. But don't insist that the right shouldn't be criticized because you imagine others have the same problem but you can't be troubled to explain how.
It would seem they mean MATHEMATICALLY, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line. Compared to the misleading titles and summaries we often see on this site, that's a pretty minor error so I'm not going to sweat it.
Think about it. We all know placebos actually give pain relief. So if you know they "work" why should the placebo effect of a known placebo be any less than the placebo effect of aspirin?
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Well, if they were serious they'd just make IE 7 available for Windows 2000. Of course their motive for turning against IE 6 is just to force people to upgrade to XP or beyond and give them money...
In the Facebook age, dissidents have Prime Ministers arrested. I think this PM should be careful.
The poster didn't argue that it wasn't useful. They asked if any immediate use is known. Not a dumb question, because often we can think of a specific application for new physics or math. For example, if someone solves does P=NP, we would care pretty fast. Sometimes we find the utility later, and sometimes nothing is found.
When there are new cable channels, they almost always have an over-specific focus and branch out because they don't have enough content or they just think they'll do better with general focused programming. MTV barely even shows a music video. BBC America is always showing Americans shows like Star Trek. The History Channel shows "Ice Road Truckers." American Movie Classics shows Mad Men and movies that are nowhere near classic status. ESPN shows poker games and eating contests. It is not at all surprising to see Syfy just showing whatever they think can get ratings at this point. Maybe they can come out with Syfy 2, for the true sci-fi, and then slowly transition it just showing music videos.
Phelps just loves attention. What are they going to do? DDOS his website? It'll be down for a day but that will just give him plenty of publicity. He's not a huge company that needs a website up 24/7. I don't believe he has any other IT infrastructure for them to attack.
Film at 11.
You will be assimilated.
Can this technology be adapted as a defense used by a cyborg alien race, by any chance?
It is not very good at all. It uses my juice and processing power "Scrobbling" whenever I play my own mp3s, it takes forever to load even though I have a high-end phone, it spends more time not playing than actually playing, and it keeps playing Breaking Benjamin and similar bands no matter how many times I tell it not to. Pandora isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than last.fm and my own library is best.
They won't be able to train the mice to harass Palestinians and leave Jews alone.
He says he doesn't need "adult supervision" anymore? Well the child is the worst to judge these things.
If Schmidt is such a good CEO, why change the setup? Page just thinks he'd be a better CEO because it is human nature to believe such things. I think this is an ego driven move and it could turn out very badly. At least they are keeping Schmidt on in a high level role.
He said that in "How the Mind Works." The problem with Pinker is that he just asserts his hypothesises in his books and doesn't distinguish between them and established scientific theories that have been tested.
Don't get me wrong, it's worth researching, but it is safe to assume that anything you like doing (learning, masturbating, etc.) stimulates the production of dopamine.
One thing I read that was interesting was a Steven Pinker where he said music simulates the effect of motion on your brain. So dissonant music sounds like scary falling. Nice music makes you feel like you are being softly rocked, etc. I don't know how much that idea has been tested.
I wish I had mod points because this is the best comment I have ever seen on slashdot.
I'm surprised the most obvious challenge in going to the moon isn't mentioned in the article: that it takes a huge amount of energy to get to the moon and then to get back. I mean what are we going to mine that has so much value? Water? Energy production uses a huge amount of water. Going to the moon for some water is counter productive.
It is a far more efficient use of energy to mine the mineral out of garbage dumps than try to try to ship it from the moon.
I mean Chuck Norris loves the Total Gym, it's a product that you can sell with one of these infomercial stories. Why don't we have a story about it?
Hate to be a jerk, but you know what? It is very easy for me to not admire guys like this.
Of course not. And neither condition applies to some.
Being a software engineer can mean a lot of thing. You can work in a big company churning out DAO's all day or working at a little company architecting your own projects. You might make a lot of money. You might have a lot of time to look at slashdot and try to get one of the first five posts.
Looking at the test, possible mistakes a student can make include believing that glucose can be converted into ATP. (To avoid making this mistake you have to understand that ATP contains phosphorous.) Also, you have to know that most of a plant's mass comes from CO2 it takes in, not things it absorbs in the soil, which is also tricky because most people know that gas doesn't weight very much. Another question is "An animal inhales O2 and exhales CO2, what happens to its mass?" The correct answer is that it loses mass, but you really have to be paying attention to realize that.
Now that I use a SWYPE keyboard on my phone, I realize that it's faster than thumb typing. I think it wouldn't be hard for a keyboard-sized touch to become faster than the physical keyboard it replaces. This would be a great opportunity to kill QWERTY, too. Think about it. You can have five large vowels surrounded by a ring of constants with numbers and punctuation below. You would swype away with the right and pick the word selections with your left hand. It could give you words guesses based on what you are swyping, the sentence you are writing, and common words would just always be there. Oh and it would vibrate to give you tactile feed back. I think when you think about it, this kind of system could allow you to type A LOT faster than a standard keyboard.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/1244210/Why-Published-Research-Findings-Are-Often-False If you read this piece it talks about a "decline effect." Basically research that gets published has positive results to report and conforms to established opinion. However, further study shows that the effects aren't as strong as before. It talks about research showing pre-cognition before, but later be disproven. I think it's just fine to publish work in journals on pre-cognition, if the work was done in a scientific way. The only reason not to is because it doesn't conform to established opinion. If it's a false positive, it'll not be replicated and we'll forget about it. If it stands the test of time then we'll realize that there is pre-cognition of some sort but a mundane explanation will be found. After all, your brain is a sort of pre-cognition machine. I have a pretty good idea of what is going to happen in my life today. Don't you?
So their security is not EPIC FAIL but SUBTLE, UNDERSTANDABLE OVERSIGHT?
This is another case of false equivalence. Whenever someone criticizes the right, someone always complains that they aren't criticizing the left "because they are exactly the same." But it isn't the case. There really is no left-wing Rush Limbaugh and if there is then this person isn't nearly as powerful and influential as Rush. If you have something to criticize about the left or liberals or progressives, then I welcome that, it will ultimately strengthen the movement. But don't insist that the right shouldn't be criticized because you imagine others have the same problem but you can't be troubled to explain how.
It would seem they mean MATHEMATICALLY, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line. Compared to the misleading titles and summaries we often see on this site, that's a pretty minor error so I'm not going to sweat it.
Think about it. We all know placebos actually give pain relief. So if you know they "work" why should the placebo effect of a known placebo be any less than the placebo effect of aspirin?