Why limit it to patents? 98% of everything contains mistakes. Even grammar Nazi flames usually have some sort of error if you look hard enough. Whoopdie-doo.
Professional analysts don't know anything. There were talking heads on TV the week before the dot-com bust telling everybody to buy. And the professional investment banks were not only sucked into to Enron, they were conspirators. Trying to time the market is just gambling unless you're using illegally obtained information.
And your reliable source for stock market tips is...?
I have a relative who works at Merrill Lynch telling people what stocks to buy. I asked him whether his most successful co-workers made their money following their own advice, or on commissions. The answer was "commissions."
In other words, I agree slashdot investments tips are probably worthless, but so are everyone else's, unless of course they're insiders.
I hate to agree with "The International Federation of the Phonographic Industries," but if filesharing has leveled off, I think it's reasonable to say that the suing is having some effect. Without some threat, I think free on-demand movie downloading would be spreading like wildfire, not leveling off.
Mr. President, sir, we have good news and bad news. The good news is we finally discovered extraterrestrial life; the bad news is they think we're tasty.
Great, you're just giving ammunition to all the looney conspiracy theorists challenging today's discovery of interstellar Cheeto powder in the comet trail!
I believe that, while computers are a long way from it, artificial intelligence will eventually be able to properly attribute and understand symbols and symbolism.
Then again, cockroaches may one day evolve into superintelligent beings as well. While recognizing the eventual potential of computers, I think it's perfectly fair to distinguish between minds and computers based on their present capabilities.
Shoot, I just posted the same thing about a dorm room installation above. Instead of some time reservation scheme, though, I simply suggest offering the previous 48 hours of 11 chosen channels, and avoiding the scheduling problem entirely.
Having more than three tuners in a PVR just doesn't seem practical to me
This would be a very cool device for a dorm hall to share. People don't haggle over programming it, because everything from the past 48 hours on the 11 best channels is right there, all the time. People watch from their own rooms. Your own little on-demand TV network.
My HTPC is built on a Celeron 566 overclocked to 850, and I can tell you it runs pretty close to full throttle just on a 640x480 video stream. A 1080 line high-def signal would have 5 times the pixels! In fact my Pentium-M 1.6 GHz laptop only gets 15-20 fps on 1024x768 video in the MSMpeg-4 codec.
the supercomputer folks... a niche market which is probably 10x larger and 100x more profitable than the propeller-beanie AMD fanboy crowd that trolls around here, scoffing at neon-illumiation-free chassis.
Oh, that must be why Cray, SGI, and Itanium are so ridiculously profitable.
STFU about them being market failures. They're not marketed at you.
That's Itanium's biggest failing of all. It was once intended to replace X86, now it has been pushed back into a tiny supercomputer niche where it will never pay off.
That certainly doesn't prove emotional memories are the least reliable. First, because they were asking about incidental circumstances instead of the traumatic event itself (along the lines of "what did you have for dinner the night you were raped?"). Second, to prove your argument, they'd have to compare this result with an experiment in which they ask subjects about randomly chosen points in time, i.e. "What were you doing on Sept. 9 1998 at 2:20pm?" which was presumably not an emotional time for most people. In other words, the fact that people remember the Challenger explosion at all proves how memorable emotional events are, compared to the rest.
Ironically, I would imagine that by reducing the tramatic effect of the attack, the victims memories might actually be more reliable.
I think you should wait for actual experiments to confirm or refute that hypothesis. Emotion has a huge impact on memory, that's the only reason we remember traumatic events as opposed to all the other 99% of boring life we forget. Deaden the emotion, and maybe you'll degrade the memories. I'm not claiming that, but I think it's just as likely as your guess, so wait for the facts before you slam the hypothetical juries of the future.
I doubt it will catch on unless people can take the pill after they start suffering the symptoms. (Unless of course the military mandates its use by soldiers).
I guess I've just lived a priveliged life, but I've never experienced something so bad I'd rather be kept in the dark about it. But I don't have PTSD, so I won't judge those who do.
I don't particularly like the feature, but I also don't think a user reveals any extra information by turning it on. Following a link already reveals precisely the same information, and sites no less than google.com already use redirects so they know every link followed from their site. They could already implement this same feature on the server side by notifying whomever they choose.
Such claims should be taken with a grain of salt until they reveal what fonts and point sizes they use.
Let me interpret for you: it's a lot.
What's incredibly more lame is that 99% of the slashdot comments on this article so far are stuck on units of measure. Clearly it's a lot. Instead of debating the length of a piece of string, how about some discussion on how to distribute and analyze so much data. At this point I'd almost welcome some grousing about patents or dumb google DNA-related theories. We're barely scratching the surface on understanding genetic data. Even finding approximate substring matches within samples is fairly difficult. Here we have the world's biggest crossword puzzle which encodes the secrets of life itself and most of you guys are stuck on the point size of the font.
It doesn't surprise me that it still competes with Intel's latest offering.
But they didn't compare power usage. I'd like to see you cram dual watercooled G5's into a laptop! Yet as I understand it, the new iMac CPU is just the same Centrino Duo you can get with 4 hours of battery life.
It's not just games. A lot of people including me have been tied to Windows for a long time. I've considered a "switch," but I'm not going to do it bellyflop-style, all at once. Getting a MacBook and dual (or triple) booting will be a safe way to test the OSX waters (assuming Windows runs smoothly).
Apple should not just allow Windows to run on them, they should support it. It can only grow the market for their hardware.
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I have a relative who works at Merrill Lynch telling people what stocks to buy. I asked him whether his most successful co-workers made their money following their own advice, or on commissions. The answer was "commissions."
In other words, I agree slashdot investments tips are probably worthless, but so are everyone else's, unless of course they're insiders.
I hate to agree with "The International Federation of the Phonographic Industries," but if filesharing has leveled off, I think it's reasonable to say that the suing is having some effect. Without some threat, I think free on-demand movie downloading would be spreading like wildfire, not leveling off.
Mr. President, sir, we have good news and bad news. The good news is we finally discovered extraterrestrial life; the bad news is they think we're tasty.
Great, you're just giving ammunition to all the looney conspiracy theorists challenging today's discovery of interstellar Cheeto powder in the comet trail!
Another very simple reason to use RAID0 is simply to pool several drives into one really big partition.
My son plays web games too. But I nice'd his desktop so the PVR takes preference :)
Shoot, I just posted the same thing about a dorm room installation above. Instead of some time reservation scheme, though, I simply suggest offering the previous 48 hours of 11 chosen channels, and avoiding the scheduling problem entirely.
My HTPC is built on a Celeron 566 overclocked to 850, and I can tell you it runs pretty close to full throttle just on a 640x480 video stream. A 1080 line high-def signal would have 5 times the pixels! In fact my Pentium-M 1.6 GHz laptop only gets 15-20 fps on 1024x768 video in the MSMpeg-4 codec.
That certainly doesn't prove emotional memories are the least reliable. First, because they were asking about incidental circumstances instead of the traumatic event itself (along the lines of "what did you have for dinner the night you were raped?"). Second, to prove your argument, they'd have to compare this result with an experiment in which they ask subjects about randomly chosen points in time, i.e. "What were you doing on Sept. 9 1998 at 2:20pm?" which was presumably not an emotional time for most people. In other words, the fact that people remember the Challenger explosion at all proves how memorable emotional events are, compared to the rest.
I guess I've just lived a priveliged life, but I've never experienced something so bad I'd rather be kept in the dark about it. But I don't have PTSD, so I won't judge those who do.
What's incredibly more lame is that 99% of the slashdot comments on this article so far are stuck on units of measure. Clearly it's a lot. Instead of debating the length of a piece of string, how about some discussion on how to distribute and analyze so much data. At this point I'd almost welcome some grousing about patents or dumb google DNA-related theories. We're barely scratching the surface on understanding genetic data. Even finding approximate substring matches within samples is fairly difficult. Here we have the world's biggest crossword puzzle which encodes the secrets of life itself and most of you guys are stuck on the point size of the font.
Apple should not just allow Windows to run on them, they should support it. It can only grow the market for their hardware.
Is your point really that Steve isn't lying, or rather that we shouldn't expect the truth?
This guy's answer to that question is spot-on.