It is different.
Ask people, they might just lie, or reply in a slightly distorded way.
By using MRI, scientists can know what parts of the brain are / may be stimulated by ads, so what kind of feelings we got when seeing / hearing it...
Of course it's not (only) because we think product A is funnier than product B that we buy A, other factors hopefully are taken into account too...
Yeah, but if the movie is bad, then people will not bother to read the book, guessing it's bad too....
And if the movie is good, people won't bother reading the book, since they (will think they) know the story already....
Honestly, i've almost always been disappointed by movies taken from books...
It would be a real pain to make movies. The first books are short stories collections, so i'd rather see a mini series.
The second point is that the story isn't particularly spectacular itself. I mean, fine, save humanity & such, but no real fights, it's more political, psychological, about ideas (so can't easily be ported to screen) than anything else...
I'm also a big Asimov fan (haven't seen Bicentennial Man though), but i'd rather have Foundation not adapted than adapted in a bad movie ^_-
Yeah, as usual they attempt to deal with the results of some trouble (plastic over-consumption) instead of thinking of ways to reduce plastic use in the first place...
Just go to your local shop (food, music, whatever), buy a few products, and figure out for yourself how much of all that plastic you really need...
Sure PCs clusters can prolly do the trick.
However, large companies using mainframes aren't likely to use clusters, because it would at least rewrite to rewrite the whole application code !! Meaning testing, checking, moving the old data to the new system, forming users to the interface, the list goes on & on....
It sounds pretty clear those costs would be waaaaaaay over the current cost of mainframes...
Hum, isn't it rather his addition of this idea what he considers his greatest mistake ?
Re:"unknown"? Light article...
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Einstein Unveiled
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· Score: 5, Informative
I read a book on Einstein's life (i think it may simply have been called 'Einstein').
Well, the article forgets a whole lot of things, unless i have totally messed recollection of that book.
First, they don't even tell us Einstein got a Nobel Prize... and not even for relativity itself ! IIRC, he got it for explaining some optical phenomena (dual particle / light nature of photons)
Second, article forgets to tell that Israel did propose him to run for presidency there, which he declined.
Third, the 1919 experiment actually had MESSED UP results (that was found later) !!! So it didn't confirm Einstein's theory... which, granted, was confirmed later.
Fourth, Einstein introduced some constant in the relativity's equations so that the universe is static, which was his deep belief.
And don't forget his fun quote: God doesn't play with dice (i do think it's from him)
Well, for that to be possible, you have some requirements:
hospital / firestation / police are in networks you can hack. Maybe they are connected to the internet, but i sure hope they are securely protected from outside intrusions, or have 2 separate networks (internal & external)
assuming you can hack those networks, you'll need to DOS'em at the same time. Meaning you hafta get ready enough time before the bomb goes off, so you run the risk of someone noticing you 'pre-intrusion'
it also assumes hospital / police / firestation can't live without their networks... which is, i hope, partially false. In case of emergency, hopefully people will just use the old (read: pre-network) ways, and get going... maybe slower, but still do respond in some way
There are a few points noting, though. The one i remember on top of my head is about holding the Australian IT industry back. Alston simply points out that apart journalists, presumably in search of subjects to run, were the only ones complaining...
Apart that, yeah, fairly political thingy...
Having some professionnal experience too, i'd like to point out a few things:
if the code works correctly, what's the point of refactoring ? You'll need to test _again_ the code, refix bugs, and so on
ok, maybe you can split code somewhere, or make a common procedure / function / class out of existing things, to reduce code complexity. But usually you do that because you need to (to implement new things, mainly)
from the management's point of view, refactoring is often seen as wasting time. After all what's the point of reviewing code when you could be coding other stuff, like new functionalities ?
usually, when you wanna fix a bug, you go for the quick & dirty way, because it's faster... why spend a week rewriting / testing when you can fix in 10mins ? Specially if you have bad time constraints
I don't mean refactoring is bad, after all i think i do enough while coding, even if it's more adding features / correcting bugs that drives the refactoring process.
I like 'nice' / 'elegent' (very subjective thing:-)) code, true... But usually if a part works correctly, no point in rewriting it.
On the other hand, sometimes you have a few mins, start browsing the code, add a few comments on things so people can understand better... and decide to simplify the code because it's a pain to understand !!
I think bottom of line the best way is to document while coding, so you (or others) can backtrace easily why you are doing something, and why you are doing it that way instead of another. The mere fact of documenting clearly sometimes points weird things you are doing, maybe soon enough to make you stop to think on a better way to implement.
Hey, there's no 'ping' button on ie's taskbar, how can the average user know that command exists ?
ie replies 'connection timed out' whatever the error is, so people don't check if the remote host is up or not using 'ping'...
(ok, free bashing on ie, sometimes you just hafta say what you got inside you !)
I'd even go as far as asking 'is it good enough for any operation ?'.
Lag change, noticed or not, can be just the bad thing that kills your patient.... even on a simple operation !
That's why indeed there's the need for guaranteed (and maybe more important constant) lag time...
Rather than a novel approach, isn't that just 'interface' thingy ?
The most important point is the connection itself. The surgeon should know when it goes down, or when latency changes, whatever the means used (light, sound, hell, why not electric shock !).
I see that as a maybe fun way to see the trouble, but it won't solve it.
I'll of course assume the surgeon buys special bandwidth with certified low- or fixed- latency before doing the surgical act...
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A Peek Into the Google
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The trouble is finding the precise page you're looking for, no ? ^_^;;;
One of the main troubles of Google, imo, is that it archives blindly stuff. So you end up with 4+ results pointing to for instance the same message in a mailing list, because the archives are duplicated.
And not to mention pages totally unrelated to what you seeking.
Maybe some 'smart' (a word quite popular lately) merging of results would be cool... Been in the talks for maaany years, still waiting for the search engine that can reply to 'who is the President / Prime Minister / chief-dictator / and so on
And when searching for someone, they hafta be lucky to find the latest updated page:-)
I too have slowness troubles sometimes under Windows, and i think it's related, partly, to windows swapping out some of Mozilla's memory.
Simplest test is reduce Mozilla to taskbar, open other applications that use memory, and restore it: takes a while on my comp...
So Mozilla should allow the users to make a nicer transition by enabling certain non-standard IE-only features as much as possible
Trouble is that some IE features aren't (as far as i know) in HTML standards. So either Mozilla breaks those standards and displays correctly the page, or respects'em & messes up some pages sometimes.
Don't forget that many pages use ActiveX too, but Mozilla sure doesn't use that... and i wouldn't want it to !
Concerning html editor, i think that depends on the use of people. Do you really want Mozilla to be a full web / mail / news / html editor suite ? Or simply a good browser ?
I know i don't use the html editor, because other softwares, which are only designed for html / web edition, offer way more functionalities (like checking html links, updating on file rename, and such). Functionalities i don't want as part of a browser !
I'd rather have a fast, reliable, maybe skinnable (though i have yet to find a decent skin editor !) browser which is poor on mail / news / web edition than a half-done suite...
Maybe directory listing is faster, but (i haven't downloaded it yet) did they improve the skin engine ?
I mean, on my home comp, the refresh sometimes takes a while... (of course Windows swaps out some part of data, but still...)
Hehe, you weren't in Japan in july...
That's the time around which Chihiro (original title) was released, and you could buy the DVD / tape / related stuff in any shop related more or less to anime, video, games, and such...
So maybe Disney care about related products, but they aren't the only ones ^_-
I guess the nomination should be handled to Hayao Miyasaki AND the whole crew ! After all everyone collaborated to make that movie ^_-
And fyi in France (and probably whole Europe) too anime / manga is considered for children... whereas European 'comics' (don't know the english term, we call that 'bande dessinee'), featuring drawn chars, is considered for everyone.... hell, there are some violent / porno ones, too, and nobody objects ! Not saying it's exactly the same thing, but real close...
Oh well...
The original title is 'Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi', for those who care:-)
It won a prize at some Berlin (Germany) festival, the Gold Bear
I saw it in France around a year ago, and even if there were some long scenes imo, it's still a pretty darn good movie.
Of course, some things are lost in the translation (for instance, why is Chihiro sometimes called 'Sen' isn't that easy to get if you don't know some japanese basics).
You can also find some ecological references (river god), and things like that.
I was in Japan in july, around the time it was released in DVD, and boy, it was totally crazy: any shop related more or less to video, anime, games, you-name-it had TVs with the DVDs / tape rolling ! (and i don't even mention related merchandise)
The real question is will people use smart phones to browse the web.
Hey, never noticed that technology companies try to push things that people will never use ?
Ok, maybe it'd be cool to use your 'phone' to browse the web, buy wont PDA do that even better ? And do you really need that functionality ?
Hell, after all why wouldn't cellphones & PDA merge together....
I use a firewall at home to filter those active content thingy. Pretty much safe, and not that many sites require you to have ActiveX / Java / you-name-it enabled.
Of course sometimes i hafta change the settings to allow some sites (like windows update)...
At work it's even more safe, all active content turned off & regular users can't change the settings ! (though i'm using good ol' IE4, having all those active content things turn off makes it less unsecure...)
It's not because you don't use Windows that you're totally secure...
Just think of all recent security nice things: OpenSSL vulnerability, the libcap thingy, all those root exploits, and so on.
Ok it's easy to trash MS, but security holes can appear anywhere.
The trouble is that, at some point, you HAVE to trust somebody, or something....
Would you trust./'s site with an ActiveX control if it was certified ? Or simply ignore it ?
More easier, you probably install software (either executables or sources you compile) regularly, no ? How do you know you can trust the program ? Did you check the sources to make sure there is no trojan hidden ?
(hint: recent libcap troubles, anyone ?)
Bottom line is, at some point you just have to trust blindly..... or simply stop using computers !
Slashdot Mirror
It is different.
Ask people, they might just lie, or reply in a slightly distorded way.
By using MRI, scientists can know what parts of the brain are / may be stimulated by ads, so what kind of feelings we got when seeing / hearing it...
Of course it's not (only) because we think product A is funnier than product B that we buy A, other factors hopefully are taken into account too...
Yeah, but if the movie is bad, then people will not bother to read the book, guessing it's bad too....
And if the movie is good, people won't bother reading the book, since they (will think they) know the story already....
Honestly, i've almost always been disappointed by movies taken from books...
It would be a real pain to make movies. The first books are short stories collections, so i'd rather see a mini series.
The second point is that the story isn't particularly spectacular itself. I mean, fine, save humanity & such, but no real fights, it's more political, psychological, about ideas (so can't easily be ported to screen) than anything else...
I'm also a big Asimov fan (haven't seen Bicentennial Man though), but i'd rather have Foundation not adapted than adapted in a bad movie ^_-
Yeah, as usual they attempt to deal with the results of some trouble (plastic over-consumption) instead of thinking of ways to reduce plastic use in the first place...
Just go to your local shop (food, music, whatever), buy a few products, and figure out for yourself how much of all that plastic you really need...
Sure PCs clusters can prolly do the trick.
However, large companies using mainframes aren't likely to use clusters, because it would at least rewrite to rewrite the whole application code !! Meaning testing, checking, moving the old data to the new system, forming users to the interface, the list goes on & on....
It sounds pretty clear those costs would be waaaaaaay over the current cost of mainframes...
Hum, isn't it rather his addition of this idea what he considers his greatest mistake ?
I read a book on Einstein's life (i think it may simply have been called 'Einstein').
Well, the article forgets a whole lot of things, unless i have totally messed recollection of that book.
First, they don't even tell us Einstein got a Nobel Prize... and not even for relativity itself ! IIRC, he got it for explaining some optical phenomena (dual particle / light nature of photons)
Second, article forgets to tell that Israel did propose him to run for presidency there, which he declined.
Third, the 1919 experiment actually had MESSED UP results (that was found later) !!! So it didn't confirm Einstein's theory... which, granted, was confirmed later.
Fourth, Einstein introduced some constant in the relativity's equations so that the universe is static, which was his deep belief.
And don't forget his fun quote: God doesn't play with dice (i do think it's from him)
Wait, the local web site calculator is banned, lemme go check overseas what it amounts to !
Just my 2 cents of euro...
There are a few points noting, though. The one i remember on top of my head is about holding the Australian IT industry back. Alston simply points out that apart journalists, presumably in search of subjects to run, were the only ones complaining...
Apart that, yeah, fairly political thingy...
I don't mean refactoring is bad, after all i think i do enough while coding, even if it's more adding features / correcting bugs that drives the refactoring process.
I like 'nice' / 'elegent' (very subjective thing
On the other hand, sometimes you have a few mins, start browsing the code, add a few comments on things so people can understand better... and decide to simplify the code because it's a pain to understand !!
I think bottom of line the best way is to document while coding, so you (or others) can backtrace easily why you are doing something, and why you are doing it that way instead of another. The mere fact of documenting clearly sometimes points weird things you are doing, maybe soon enough to make you stop to think on a better way to implement.
Hey, there's no 'ping' button on ie's taskbar, how can the average user know that command exists ?
ie replies 'connection timed out' whatever the error is, so people don't check if the remote host is up or not using 'ping'...
(ok, free bashing on ie, sometimes you just hafta say what you got inside you !)
I'd even go as far as asking 'is it good enough for any operation ?'.
Lag change, noticed or not, can be just the bad thing that kills your patient.... even on a simple operation !
That's why indeed there's the need for guaranteed (and maybe more important constant) lag time...
Imagine the doctor listening to music (portable player, whatever) during the operation ! He wouldn't be able to hear the ping !!
Rather than a novel approach, isn't that just 'interface' thingy ?
The most important point is the connection itself. The surgeon should know when it goes down, or when latency changes, whatever the means used (light, sound, hell, why not electric shock !).
I see that as a maybe fun way to see the trouble, but it won't solve it.
I'll of course assume the surgeon buys special bandwidth with certified low- or fixed- latency before doing the surgical act...
The trouble is finding the precise page you're looking for, no ? ^_^;;;
:-)
One of the main troubles of Google, imo, is that it archives blindly stuff. So you end up with 4+ results pointing to for instance the same message in a mailing list, because the archives are duplicated.
And not to mention pages totally unrelated to what you seeking.
Maybe some 'smart' (a word quite popular lately) merging of results would be cool... Been in the talks for maaany years, still waiting for the search engine that can reply to 'who is the President / Prime Minister / chief-dictator / and so on
And when searching for someone, they hafta be lucky to find the latest updated page
I too have slowness troubles sometimes under Windows, and i think it's related, partly, to windows swapping out some of Mozilla's memory.
Simplest test is reduce Mozilla to taskbar, open other applications that use memory, and restore it: takes a while on my comp...
So Mozilla should allow the users to make a nicer transition by enabling certain non-standard IE-only features as much as possible
Trouble is that some IE features aren't (as far as i know) in HTML standards. So either Mozilla breaks those standards and displays correctly the page, or respects'em & messes up some pages sometimes.
Don't forget that many pages use ActiveX too, but Mozilla sure doesn't use that... and i wouldn't want it to !
Concerning html editor, i think that depends on the use of people. Do you really want Mozilla to be a full web / mail / news / html editor suite ? Or simply a good browser ?
I know i don't use the html editor, because other softwares, which are only designed for html / web edition, offer way more functionalities (like checking html links, updating on file rename, and such). Functionalities i don't want as part of a browser !
I'd rather have a fast, reliable, maybe skinnable (though i have yet to find a decent skin editor !) browser which is poor on mail / news / web edition than a half-done suite...
Just my 2 cents of Euro !
Maybe directory listing is faster, but (i haven't downloaded it yet) did they improve the skin engine ?
I mean, on my home comp, the refresh sometimes takes a while... (of course Windows swaps out some part of data, but still...)
Hehe, you weren't in Japan in july...
That's the time around which Chihiro (original title) was released, and you could buy the DVD / tape / related stuff in any shop related more or less to anime, video, games, and such...
So maybe Disney care about related products, but they aren't the only ones ^_-
I guess the nomination should be handled to Hayao Miyasaki AND the whole crew ! After all everyone collaborated to make that movie ^_-
And fyi in France (and probably whole Europe) too anime / manga is considered for children... whereas European 'comics' (don't know the english term, we call that 'bande dessinee'), featuring drawn chars, is considered for everyone.... hell, there are some violent / porno ones, too, and nobody objects ! Not saying it's exactly the same thing, but real close...
Oh well...
The original title is 'Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi', for those who care :-)
It won a prize at some Berlin (Germany) festival, the Gold Bear
I saw it in France around a year ago, and even if there were some long scenes imo, it's still a pretty darn good movie.
Of course, some things are lost in the translation (for instance, why is Chihiro sometimes called 'Sen' isn't that easy to get if you don't know some japanese basics).
You can also find some ecological references (river god), and things like that.
I was in Japan in july, around the time it was released in DVD, and boy, it was totally crazy: any shop related more or less to video, anime, games, you-name-it had TVs with the DVDs / tape rolling ! (and i don't even mention related merchandise)
All in all, a decent movie imo ^_^
The real question is will people use smart phones to browse the web.
Hey, never noticed that technology companies try to push things that people will never use ?
Ok, maybe it'd be cool to use your 'phone' to browse the web, buy wont PDA do that even better ? And do you really need that functionality ?
Hell, after all why wouldn't cellphones & PDA merge together....
I use a firewall at home to filter those active content thingy. Pretty much safe, and not that many sites require you to have ActiveX / Java / you-name-it enabled.
Of course sometimes i hafta change the settings to allow some sites (like windows update)...
At work it's even more safe, all active content turned off & regular users can't change the settings ! (though i'm using good ol' IE4, having all those active content things turn off makes it less unsecure...)
It's not because you don't use Windows that you're totally secure...
Just think of all recent security nice things: OpenSSL vulnerability, the libcap thingy, all those root exploits, and so on.
Ok it's easy to trash MS, but security holes can appear anywhere.
The trouble is that, at some point, you HAVE to trust somebody, or something.... ./'s site with an ActiveX control if it was certified ? Or simply ignore it ?
Would you trust
More easier, you probably install software (either executables or sources you compile) regularly, no ? How do you know you can trust the program ? Did you check the sources to make sure there is no trojan hidden ?
(hint: recent libcap troubles, anyone ?)
Bottom line is, at some point you just have to trust blindly..... or simply stop using computers !