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  1. Re:And it's all for ads on Photo Tour of Google's Data Centers · · Score: 1, Informative

    (Googler here.) Right, and constantly crawling + re-indexing the entire Web doesn't require CPU nor memory.

  2. Brown Note on Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're gonna shit our pants once we hear him reaching the brown note.

  3. Re:Nothing new here on Google Unveils New Search Features, Including iOS Voice Search · · Score: 1

    Question: what the heck are you going to be "searching" for when offline?

    Try imagine what it might be to interact with technology if you're tetraplegic... Voice search will help you a lot.

  4. Re:Doesn't work in the US on The Dutch Repair Cafe Versus the Throwaway Society · · Score: 1

    Europeans and especially Dutch tend to spend time together. Sit at cafes getting high, eat at a restaurant and have some fine wine, and socialize with people. The same is true for Asians and Australians too. And the American people introvert culture isn't a new thing that came with computers - they did this before geeks too. Sitting in front of TV watching mindless shows and eating TV dinners, alone.

    pretty much my experience living in San Francisco (I'm European, btw).

  5. Re:Pricing of assistive tools on Web Guru To the Blind · · Score: 3

    There's:

    all of which are free (some open-source as well)

  6. Dupe! Renault Zoom had it first in 1992 on MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car · · Score: 1
  7. Re:This is truly good news on Embryonic Stem Cell Retinal Implants Seem Safe, So Far · · Score: 4, Funny

    [...] I'm glad to see progress [...]

    I see what you did there. Oh wait...

  8. Re:accesibility standard: no javascript on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 1

    I'm currently working on a couple of government projects that must adhere to the latest accessibility standards, and they include this little doozy: no javascript.

    Completely, and utterly false. WCAG 2.0 (i.e., the latest accessibility standard for Web technologies) does enlist Javascript as a supported technology, and provides several techniques to successfully meet the criteria.

  9. Forks & merges on Man Open Sources His Genetic Data · · Score: 2

    As of now, he's got already 26 forks, so he's been cloned several times.

    But what will be impressive is having merges (via pull requests) accepted into the master branch. Crowd-sourced gene therapy (or mutation) anyone?

  10. Re:HTML *was* simple on The Abdication of the HTML Standard · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember when it was ok to use a "b" tag, and no one scoffed? How about table layouts? It's funny, the new standards aren't always better.

    1. 1) Download the NVDA screenreader
    2. 2) Learn about the problems induced with your comment
    3. 3) Spread the word!

    If you still think it's actually not better, sorry, but you should have 10 blind persons hit you with their canes...

  11. This is just wrong on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    E.g., if you take basic set theory and the set of real numbers to analyse the problem:

    0.99999... is the last element of ]-infinity, 1[
    where as 1 is the first element of [1, +infinity[

    and ]-infinity, 1[ intersected with [1, +infinity[ is the empty set...

  12. Re:Where is the reference to the words origin? on The Science of Truthiness · · Score: 1

    Maybe truthfulness should be used instead.

  13. Linked Data, of course on How Do You Organize Your Experimental Data? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The present (and the future) of experimental data organisation, repurposing, re-analysing, etc. is being shifted towards Linked Data and supporting graph data stores. Give it a spin.

  14. Call me dumb, but... on Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It also affects the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems.

    ... how can the DLL affect osx & other unix OSes? And why does it ship on these OSes?

  15. It could be worse... on IBM Distributes USB Malware At Security Conference · · Score: 1

    ... if they had distributed Melware.

  16. Re:In other words... on Real-World Outcomes Predicted Using Social Media · · Score: 1

    No, typically the crowd outsmarts the smartest ones in the crowd. http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/0385721706

  17. UCD on Mozilla Tries New "Lorentz" Dev Model · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but *every* UI-centric application development model should follow any flavour of User Centred Design.

  18. Re:Online Apps Suck on The Future Might Be BIOS and Browsers · · Score: 1

    Who has been asking for all these electrical applications? I keep reading about the freakin' "ELECTRICITY!!!" and am just not impressed. I wouldn't trust anyone's electrical platform with my company's tasks.

    As many people have mentioned, once the electricity goes down, no more electric anything. I want my apps, my tasks and my work all under my control on my local manpower. There are uses for electrical applications but to rely on them for business, private tasks or to store anything that lack of access to would cause a work stoppage is a bad idea.

    Now... get off my lawn!

  19. yes, but please... on Study Finds Video Games Are Not Bad for Kids · · Score: 1

    ... think of the children!

  20. How can I help? on Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research · · Score: 1

    I'm a computer scientist. What can I do, as a community member interested on this subject, to help on longevity research?

  21. Conference Proceedings and Journals on PhD Research On Software Design Principles? · · Score: 1

    Easy. Start by reviewing the state-of-the-art in Software Design. A quick search on ACM's Digital Library can yield interesting results.Try looking particularly to the proceedings of the OOPSLA and ESEC/FSE conferences. Furthermore, don't forget to check SIGSOFT's Website for other conferences in the area.

    And, last but not least, read seminal papers on the topic, check references/citations. It'll probably take you one entire year to have the feeling about the entire (relevant) state-of-the-art in your PhD topic. Trust me, it took me that long too. But it's worth it.

  22. IMAP import on Gmail Labs Lets Users Experiment With 13 New Features · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What I want is the support for external IMAP-based accounts. Currently one can only do that for POP-based. Only then I'll be able to ditch completely desktop mail apps (which suck a lot, btw).

  23. Spoiler. on Spoiler-Free Review of Indiana Jones · · Score: 1

    The butler did it!!!




    /me ducks

  24. Re:paper reference on Google VisualRank for Image Search · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www2008.org/papers/fp506.html No DOI currently available, but pdf link is in the page.

  25. And in 2009... on Social Network Aggregation, Killer App in 2008? · · Score: 1

    It'll be the year of social network aggregators aggregators (i.e., meta level)! Guess what's going to be the Next Big Thing in 2010?