Do you really want your pediatrician diagnosing your childs illness based on google searches?
Actually....
Your Dr *IS* looking up your condition on-line; it's not Google, but something very similar w/ a medical twist.
The span of knowledge in medicine is far too great to hold in one's mind. (Which is why there are so many specialists).
There are too many Differential Diagnoses.
It's not always about spying and surveillance. It's not always about privacy and big brother. This technology would be endlessly useful in a search and rescue situation! Imagine pinpointing an unconscious person's breathing and directing rescue personnel to that location, or locating the cries of a small trapped / lost child. Or a victim stuck in a structure fire! Do you have any idea how LOUD structure fires are!?! Not to mention that unlike the Hollywood portrayal, fires are pitch black!
Finding people and the potential of leaving people behind are some of the hardest things that firefighters do.
I can think of countless uses for such a device as this for fire and rescue.
Let me get this straight...the same man, who single-handedly ended Nokia's push into open source software and at the same time drove Nokia into oblivion is coming to run Microsoft? That will work out well.
Any victim of a fire or other incident to which fire or ems respond are automatically protected by HIPPA. Posting of any video to the public would violate said patients' HIPPA rights.
GoPro has single handedly ruined the ski industry.
As a pro skier and snowboarder I have seen this first hand.
GoPro has made people believe that if they have $200 (to buy a camera) they are gonna get discovered and become big time pros with a red bull contract.
When the reality of the situation is that those same idiots are tearing off downhill completely out of control. Wrecking and hurting others in the process.
I don't take issue with the camera but I do take issue with the image GoPro is trying to sell. Similar in effect to the tobacco industry advertising, only with much more traumatic implications.
I dropped mandrake linux when they fired the founder back in 06(?) After that I switched to LFS (and BLFS). Currently my new laptop hosts Ubuntu until I can get a new LFS built.
Way to go ElcomSoft!
Good to see hackers sticking it to the once hacker-originated Apple Computers Inc.
Sad to see that Apple Computers has become another catholic church style entity.
Please I hope "God"had nothing to do with it. Can we please get past this religion drug?
Anyhow, now that the troll bait is out of the way.
Congratulations to Mr.Obama, friends, & cow-orkers.
hmm...here's what I see with this... With such great power and such few processors, this will cause other (but not all) computing technology to migrate in that direction. I can see the average PC doing 15 Terra flops with in the next 5 years. This, if I am accurate, would put the home PC in the processing realm of the human brain. Is it possible that an AI which could pass the Turing test with near 100% of the subjects is not long behind? Humanoid robots and robotic transportation?...And then...there's the military...
Should we put a "Three Laws Treaty" on the international table?
I am a very avid backpacker, I enjoy my time and privacy in the backcountry. If I were to find out that such measures were being taken I would protest wildly, and probably destroy any such setup in the backcountry. It does not need to be. If a backpacker wants to be found in an emergency then he/she should take proper precautions. The backcountry is supposed to be untouched, and untainted. Man has already infected enough of this land.
I took the AP Exam in 95. there were no multiple choice questions. it was all code. at the time the instructor graded it. we got a certificate afterwards to our performace.
As far as the language. I like Pascal, it was very nice for learning about CS.
granted you can't really teach OOP w/ Pascal, but still, personally, I think JAVA sucks ass, so oh well.
Since then I've moved on to more complex languages (not to learn but to use) such as C and ASM.
I think it's a shame that the AP tests are moving in such a direction.
OOP is nice to learn, but honestly, a programmer isn't worth sh*t if they don't understand the hardware (sorry cross-platform dudes) side of the situation. There is a deep relation ship between code and hardware, and its unfortunate that more students, or perhaps more importantly the instructors, do not understand this.
I realize that in theory, you should be able to abstract away from hardware, and specialize in the simple pure logic of the problem. But IMHO that is a wrong attitude. You cannot remove the hardware aspect any more than you can remove the user aspect (even if the program is non human interactive, there is still a human user who implements the system)
I think, at that impressionable age, the complexities of software and hardware interaction should be a hands on experience.
Both should go together, not one separate from the other. Once the kids have had a taste of that, then they should choose and specialize.
just my $US0.02
um, good point, I'm not a windows person, so I don't do DirectX. Wine however, doesn't emulate; it translates rather, into OpenGL, X, and other library calls. Libraries which are native to GNU/linux.
I've often heard that SDL ( LibSDL.org ) is comparable to DirectX, and any program written in a nice API like SDL would *seem* easy to translate in such a high-level way. Although I have no experience w/ DirectX or any such translating software, so this is all just speculation.
Well, this is rather disappointing. The game works with neither wine (transgaming CVS build) or winex3 (prebuilt binaries). You'd think that something this simple would run. I wish, I wish I hadn't paid that stupid fee to transgaming. I'm canceling my subscription to them as the CVS build works better for me anyhow.
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Do you really want your pediatrician diagnosing your childs illness based on google searches?
Actually....
Your Dr *IS* looking up your condition on-line; it's not Google, but something very similar w/ a medical twist.
The span of knowledge in medicine is far too great to hold in one's mind. (Which is why there are so many specialists).
There are too many Differential Diagnoses.
I would love to play my Steam Games on GNU/Linux, but sadly, I have AMD :-(
Nothing like playing L4D or Starbound at 5 frames per sec.
I tweeted the same fact to the author of the article and sadly she had no response.
We stopped at 2 lol. Oh if only they were as good at research as they are at FUD.
NUFF Said.
Give us back our snow! --Sad Washington Ski Bum
OMG have you people seen their website! It's all "subscribe now" "donate now" "we bring fear, give us your money!" ridiculous
It's not always about spying and surveillance. It's not always about privacy and big brother. This technology would be endlessly useful in a search and rescue situation! Imagine pinpointing an unconscious person's breathing and directing rescue personnel to that location, or locating the cries of a small trapped / lost child. Or a victim stuck in a structure fire! Do you have any idea how LOUD structure fires are!?! Not to mention that unlike the Hollywood portrayal, fires are pitch black! Finding people and the potential of leaving people behind are some of the hardest things that firefighters do. I can think of countless uses for such a device as this for fire and rescue.
Let me get this straight...the same man, who single-handedly ended Nokia's push into open source software and at the same time drove Nokia into oblivion is coming to run Microsoft? That will work out well.
Any victim of a fire or other incident to which fire or ems respond are automatically protected by HIPPA. Posting of any video to the public would violate said patients' HIPPA rights.
because you refuse to READ!
GoPro has single handedly ruined the ski industry. As a pro skier and snowboarder I have seen this first hand. GoPro has made people believe that if they have $200 (to buy a camera) they are gonna get discovered and become big time pros with a red bull contract. When the reality of the situation is that those same idiots are tearing off downhill completely out of control. Wrecking and hurting others in the process. I don't take issue with the camera but I do take issue with the image GoPro is trying to sell. Similar in effect to the tobacco industry advertising, only with much more traumatic implications.
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I dropped mandrake linux when they fired the founder back in 06(?) After that I switched to LFS (and BLFS). Currently my new laptop hosts Ubuntu until I can get a new LFS built.
Go Science!
Way to go ElcomSoft! Good to see hackers sticking it to the once hacker-originated Apple Computers Inc. Sad to see that Apple Computers has become another catholic church style entity.
Yes, it's a very nice computer. +++OUT OF CHEESE ERROR+++
Please I hope "God"had nothing to do with it. Can we please get past this religion drug? Anyhow, now that the troll bait is out of the way. Congratulations to Mr.Obama, friends, & cow-orkers.
hmm...here's what I see with this... ...And then...there's the military...
With such great power and such few processors, this will cause other (but not all) computing technology to migrate in that direction.
I can see the average PC doing 15 Terra flops with in the next 5 years. This, if I am accurate, would put the home PC in the processing realm of the human brain. Is it possible that an AI which could pass the Turing test with near 100% of the subjects is not long behind? Humanoid robots and robotic transportation?
Should we put a "Three Laws Treaty" on the international table?
I am a very avid backpacker, I enjoy my time and privacy in the backcountry. If I were to find out that such measures were being taken I would protest wildly, and probably destroy any such setup in the backcountry. It does not need to be. If a backpacker wants to be found in an emergency then he/she should take proper precautions. The backcountry is supposed to be untouched, and untainted. Man has already infected enough of this land.
I took the AP Exam in 95. there were no multiple choice questions. it was all code. at the time the instructor graded it. we got a certificate afterwards to our performace. As far as the language. I like Pascal, it was very nice for learning about CS. granted you can't really teach OOP w/ Pascal, but still, personally, I think JAVA sucks ass, so oh well. Since then I've moved on to more complex languages (not to learn but to use) such as C and ASM. I think it's a shame that the AP tests are moving in such a direction. OOP is nice to learn, but honestly, a programmer isn't worth sh*t if they don't understand the hardware (sorry cross-platform dudes) side of the situation. There is a deep relation ship between code and hardware, and its unfortunate that more students, or perhaps more importantly the instructors, do not understand this. I realize that in theory, you should be able to abstract away from hardware, and specialize in the simple pure logic of the problem. But IMHO that is a wrong attitude. You cannot remove the hardware aspect any more than you can remove the user aspect (even if the program is non human interactive, there is still a human user who implements the system) I think, at that impressionable age, the complexities of software and hardware interaction should be a hands on experience. Both should go together, not one separate from the other. Once the kids have had a taste of that, then they should choose and specialize. just my $US0.02
I've often heard that SDL ( LibSDL.org ) is comparable to DirectX, and any program written in a nice API like SDL would *seem* easy to translate in such a high-level way. Although I have no experience w/ DirectX or any such translating software, so this is all just speculation.
Well, this is rather disappointing. The game works with neither wine (transgaming CVS build) or winex3 (prebuilt binaries). You'd think that something this simple would run. I wish, I wish I hadn't paid that stupid fee to transgaming. I'm canceling my subscription to them as the CVS build works better for me anyhow.
I have this book, in print. It's one of my favorites. I go to sleep reading it all the time. I'm glad that others get to read this fantastic classic.