Python and Ruby have been GPL from the beginning, unlike Java. I think that makes reimplementation of the API certainly legal, since using the code directly is legal as well. The "end of programming as we know it" seems like a stretch - maybe the "end of Java as we know it". Or am I missing something here?
Actually last year it was a Galaxy Tab 10.1 (not a XOOM), a ChromeBook with 2 years free 3G, and a Verizon 4G hotspot with 3 months of free service for everyone; and for some attending certain sessions, an Xperia and an Adruino ADK.
i.e., the few thousand tickets available could have theoretically been sold out in seconds. The Moscone Center West would not even have the capacity for 25K+ Google employees, let alone the 10's of thousands of developers/students who would like to attend. My only point here is that there's a lot of demand and very little supply, so there's going to be a lot of disappointed people. I don't think a better registration system, programming challenges, doubling capacity, a lottery, etc will do much to placate everyone who wants a ticket. Perhaps the only sensible way to reduce demand would to be double, triple, or quadruple the price.
FWIW, I've been in 2009 and 2011 - in my experience, it's mostly engineers, developers and others interested in and actively working on Google technology - not people there for just for the freebies (although they are certainly welcomed).
The UDID is really useful for collecting analytics, such as with Flurry Analytics.
You can really easily get nice graphs and charts on how users in aggregate are using your app, or drill down to any particular (anyonymous) user based on the UDID.
For these analytics to be useful, you need to specify some type of unique identifier for the device. A UDID makes perfect sense, and there really isn't any standard or easy way to map the UDID to any particular user anyway, so it's hard to see what all the fuss is about. Regardless, the app should let the user know the UDID is being logged, and allow them the option to turn the logging off.
Global warming is not about saving the planet--this stuff has happened repeatedly and all this life is still here--its about saving humanity. Because if the other species out there that we require start dying off
Why do humans think that we are so entitled, we can indiscriminately cause mass extinction, unless we "require" those species? Yes life is still here since the last mass extinction event, but that life took 65 million years to evolve. And, in the course of about 100 years we've contributed to one of the fastest mass extinction events in the history of this planet.
I'm all for saving humanity, but I also think it's immoral to contribute to the destruction of about half of the Earths species, many of which have been around for millions of years longer than us.
It's obviously not a joke, and it's certainly not funny that people who are actually trying to make a difference are getting donkey punched by the local authorities.
It's funny you should say that - I'm sitting here at a city council meeting in City Hall in Mountain View, and I have 4 bars from Google WiFi as I type this. Also, my friends ditched their cable modem, and got a WiFi modem for Google WiFi, and are very happy with it.
I suppose your mileage will vary, but in my experience it's been very good...
But it does matter to us geeks, because we care what's under the hood. That's why we're discussing it - so to answer your question, yes, we do care, the OS does matter!
Even if the human race were to cease all industrial and agricultural output of greenhouse gas NOW (this very second), it wouldn't make a bit of difference in the warming trend.
WRONG. The warming will be more severe if we continue to emit CO2, and less severe if we stop.
So what exactly do they expect people to do?
Stop emitting CO2. e.g. build and buy cleaner cars, stricter emission controls on power plants, use less energy, etc.
A friend of mine did something like this a while ago - check out Larry the Llama, a geographic photo sharing site. It's pretty cool, especially for a not-for-profit self-sufficient personal project...
True. No one is talking about the possibility of using locally grown, sustainable crops to produce biofuels, nor do they mention other possibilities, such as algae.
Of course there's potential for problems with transitioning to biofeuls, and it seems that people hear about this and immediately dismiss biofuels. Yes, it's going to take a lot of planning, time, and technology, but we have to push on - fossil fuels are simply not an option moving foward, for geo-political, financial, and environmental reasons. We have to reduce consumption at the same time we move to biofuel, solar, wind, fuel cells, and other renewable energy. I think we'll need to rely on a mix of all of these as we move away from oil.
The Prius has a lot of other nice features - integrated bluetooth, in-dash GPS, "smart key" entry, extremely roomy, etc.
I know a lot of Prius owners (including myself), and everyone I've talked to has a different list of reasons for buying a Prius over other hybrids or other cars. To say that all "Prius drivers want to make a statement" is completely untrue. The Prius has truly entered the mainstream market, and it's certainly not only for environmentalists anymore. Actually one guy I know is a wacko global warming conspiracy-theory skeptic, and even he has a Prius.
But of course, if you really need to buy a new car, and you realize the importance of minimizing your contribution to greenhouse gases, Prius is a great choice...
Don't rely on the media or politically biased individuals to feed you talking points - find out the facts for yourself, based on real science. The IPCC report is based on more than 6 years of work, from 2500 scientific expert reviewers, with 800 contributing authors from over 130 countries. This is considered the authoritative report on global warming. Sure, there is some controversy that this report either understates the severity, or ignores some data; but there is not much evidence or research to back those claims - certainly nothing even coming remotely close to the thoroughness of the IPCC report. I encourage you to read the summary report for yourself, as you will see and undoubtedly have already heard, the summary says that warming of the climate system is unequivocal; and most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely (greater than 90% likely) due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (human) greenhouse gas concentrations.
Another good intro if you live in California, is Our Changing Climate - Assessing the Risk to California. This summary (based on very credible science) shows, among other things, scenarios where we'll lose 90% of the snowpack in the Sierras.
They were actually built by Commodore. I did a 6-month internship at Commodore's headquarters in West Chester, PA. I still have one of their 286 motherboards, and there's a Commodore name and logo silkscreened on the motherboard.
The thing I remember most about working there, interestingly, was the cigarette smoke. Everyone had these giant ash trays on their desk, and would chainsmoke like crazy as they worked. This was back in '92, but even at that time, I thought it was odd to be smoking at work. I'm sure glad things have changed - I didn't enjoy going home, reeking like stale smoke!!
And got away with it, if it wasn't for that meddling brain scanner...
From TFA:
During the study, the researchers asked volunteers to decide whether to add or subtract two numbers they were later shown on a screen.
Before the numbers flashed up, they were given a brain scan using a technique called functional magnetic imaging resonance. The researchers then used a software that had been designed to spot subtle differences in brain activity to predict the person's intentions with 70% accuracy.
Seems like a long ways to go before it could actually recognize anything meaningful...
Yes, that's a great idea - track what people actually click on, and weight those results higher. It's almost like meta-moderating Google's search results.
I really don't know anything about search, or if there's an open-source search engine? I wonder if anyone else does this?
Why not create a project that takes the Google search results, and then creates a collaborative layer on top of that? Sort of like GreaseMonkey for Google?
I know Google will never alter their automated search results - this is where a project like this could come in. It would have all the power of Google, plus all the power of collaborative human input. Right off the bat, it would be at least as powerful as Google - and assuming human input is more beneficial than detrimental, it would only get better over time...
I don't know if you've ever seen his CRX - but I have, he parked it every day in a parking garage in Palo Alto, CA, when he worked at Digeo. It was actually a crappy old red CRX if I remember correctly.
Anyway the funny this about his CRX was the license plate holder: it said "Trees are fast". Funny if you know anything about ReiserFS...
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Python and Ruby have been GPL from the beginning, unlike Java. I think that makes reimplementation of the API certainly legal, since using the code directly is legal as well. The "end of programming as we know it" seems like a stretch - maybe the "end of Java as we know it". Or am I missing something here?
Actually last year it was a Galaxy Tab 10.1 (not a XOOM), a ChromeBook with 2 years free 3G, and a Verizon 4G hotspot with 3 months of free service for everyone; and for some attending certain sessions, an Xperia and an Adruino ADK.
I created a machine that was featured on the Google Developer's Google+ stream, and I did not get a ticket (nor even an early invitation code).
i.e., the few thousand tickets available could have theoretically been sold out in seconds. The Moscone Center West would not even have the capacity for 25K+ Google employees, let alone the 10's of thousands of developers/students who would like to attend. My only point here is that there's a lot of demand and very little supply, so there's going to be a lot of disappointed people. I don't think a better registration system, programming challenges, doubling capacity, a lottery, etc will do much to placate everyone who wants a ticket. Perhaps the only sensible way to reduce demand would to be double, triple, or quadruple the price.
FWIW, I've been in 2009 and 2011 - in my experience, it's mostly engineers, developers and others interested in and actively working on Google technology - not people there for just for the freebies (although they are certainly welcomed).
The UDID is really useful for collecting analytics, such as with Flurry Analytics. You can really easily get nice graphs and charts on how users in aggregate are using your app, or drill down to any particular (anyonymous) user based on the UDID. For these analytics to be useful, you need to specify some type of unique identifier for the device. A UDID makes perfect sense, and there really isn't any standard or easy way to map the UDID to any particular user anyway, so it's hard to see what all the fuss is about. Regardless, the app should let the user know the UDID is being logged, and allow them the option to turn the logging off.
Global warming is not about saving the planet--this stuff has happened repeatedly and all this life is still here--its about saving humanity. Because if the other species out there that we require start dying off
Why do humans think that we are so entitled, we can indiscriminately cause mass extinction, unless we "require" those species? Yes life is still here since the last mass extinction event, but that life took 65 million years to evolve. And, in the course of about 100 years we've contributed to one of the fastest mass extinction events in the history of this planet.
I'm all for saving humanity, but I also think it's immoral to contribute to the destruction of about half of the Earths species, many of which have been around for millions of years longer than us.
Like anything else Ajax can be abused, but no one can refute that it powers many very useful, successful, and popular sites.
For that, take a look at the IPCC report, which has been reviewed by thousands of scientists all over the world over many years.
wtf is this tagged "humor"?
It's obviously not a joke, and it's certainly not funny that people who are actually trying to make a difference are getting donkey punched by the local authorities.
It's funny you should say that - I'm sitting here at a city council meeting in City Hall in Mountain View, and I have 4 bars from Google WiFi as I type this. Also, my friends ditched their cable modem, and got a WiFi modem for Google WiFi, and are very happy with it. I suppose your mileage will vary, but in my experience it's been very good...
But it does matter to us geeks, because we care what's under the hood. That's why we're discussing it - so to answer your question, yes, we do care, the OS does matter!
Why are you suprised? It's an op-ed piece!
WRONG. The warming will be more severe if we continue to emit CO2, and less severe if we stop.
So what exactly do they expect people to do?
Stop emitting CO2. e.g. build and buy cleaner cars, stricter emission controls on power plants, use less energy, etc.
It really seems to be targeting your typical TV episode uploaded to YouTube...
A friend of mine did something like this a while ago - check out Larry the Llama, a geographic photo sharing site. It's pretty cool, especially for a not-for-profit self-sufficient personal project...
Of course there's potential for problems with transitioning to biofeuls, and it seems that people hear about this and immediately dismiss biofuels. Yes, it's going to take a lot of planning, time, and technology, but we have to push on - fossil fuels are simply not an option moving foward, for geo-political, financial, and environmental reasons. We have to reduce consumption at the same time we move to biofuel, solar, wind, fuel cells, and other renewable energy. I think we'll need to rely on a mix of all of these as we move away from oil.
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I know a lot of Prius owners (including myself), and everyone I've talked to has a different list of reasons for buying a Prius over other hybrids or other cars. To say that all "Prius drivers want to make a statement" is completely untrue. The Prius has truly entered the mainstream market, and it's certainly not only for environmentalists anymore. Actually one guy I know is a wacko global warming conspiracy-theory skeptic, and even he has a Prius.
But of course, if you really need to buy a new car, and you realize the importance of minimizing your contribution to greenhouse gases, Prius is a great choice...
Another good intro if you live in California, is Our Changing Climate - Assessing the Risk to California. This summary (based on very credible science) shows, among other things, scenarios where we'll lose 90% of the snowpack in the Sierras.
The thing I remember most about working there, interestingly, was the cigarette smoke. Everyone had these giant ash trays on their desk, and would chainsmoke like crazy as they worked. This was back in '92, but even at that time, I thought it was odd to be smoking at work. I'm sure glad things have changed - I didn't enjoy going home, reeking like stale smoke!!
From TFA:
During the study, the researchers asked volunteers to decide whether to add or subtract two numbers they were later shown on a screen.
Before the numbers flashed up, they were given a brain scan using a technique called functional magnetic imaging resonance. The researchers then used a software that had been designed to spot subtle differences in brain activity to predict the person's intentions with 70% accuracy.
Seems like a long ways to go before it could actually recognize anything meaningful...
Quote: "I'm the biggest money whore in the world,' Osbourne told me. "I love it. But it's time to stop."
She said greed was killing the concert business, and the bubble was about to burst, as it did in the music industry.
The record companies need to think out of the box regarding CD sales as well, not claim that they're underpriced...
Yes, that's a great idea - track what people actually click on, and weight those results higher. It's almost like meta-moderating Google's search results. I really don't know anything about search, or if there's an open-source search engine? I wonder if anyone else does this?
Why not create a project that takes the Google search results, and then creates a collaborative layer on top of that? Sort of like GreaseMonkey for Google? I know Google will never alter their automated search results - this is where a project like this could come in. It would have all the power of Google, plus all the power of collaborative human input. Right off the bat, it would be at least as powerful as Google - and assuming human input is more beneficial than detrimental, it would only get better over time...
I don't know if you've ever seen his CRX - but I have, he parked it every day in a parking garage in Palo Alto, CA, when he worked at Digeo. It was actually a crappy old red CRX if I remember correctly. Anyway the funny this about his CRX was the license plate holder: it said "Trees are fast". Funny if you know anything about ReiserFS...