What were the reasons for Google? Apart from the obvious that their decision that also happened to stab a competitor in the eye.
I just 'upgraded' my gmail to a slightly new interface, which apparently is motivated by the new Android-slates, and a long-term goal of insulation of the Google platform from the hardware.
To me it appears RIM was convenient roadkill, not a goal in itself.
Mitt, is this a war declaration?! Huntsman, no it's business as usual. Cain? 9-9-9! Perry lets combat those Koreans, Vietnamese, and that, err... Palin, Russia! No, that, err, third country.
In an article from November 1, 2011 about the biography of the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon we can read: "The harshest words, though, are reserved for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, viewed as cowardly and untruthful. Gilad charges that Netanyahu, after being elected prime minister in 1996, reneged on a promise to appoint Sharon finance minister. A year later, he writes, on being summoned to a meeting by Netanyahu, Sharon told him, “a liar you were and a liar you have remained." (http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt/what_would_sharon_do )
That Netenyahu is a liar has now, November 8, 2011, been confirmed by the French President Sarkozy: "I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar", Sarkozy said to the US President Barack Obama. Obama replied, "You're fed up, but I have to deal with it all day." (http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=244760)
Q: Is the Internet a good place for a peace process? A: No, or?
Q: Is the Internet a good place for a politics? A: Yes, or?
"Anyone else in science needs to ask themselves this question: is there some journal somewhere which would publish this, even if it was wrong or falsified?"
Yes, there would be dozens if not hundreds of peer reviewed journals that would love to publish well done research on this matter.
As it is a highly debated area any article would get high quotations which is the bread and butter for these journals. If it is plausible it would be highly cited for the wrong reason, bad science, then they will not publish it.
Greenfield probably shot from her hip, with no data to back up her claim, or any data that would support her view of causation and get published in a serious, peer-reviewed journal.
My understanding of the principles of SIRI is that they use a similar approach to voice patterns as Google did to search phrases.
Whenever someone typed in a search phrase into Google and it turned out to be wrong because of a spelling error, people corrected their search and typed in the correct phrase next time. By storing these chains of searches Google accumulated more and more data so that they could improve over and over.
It is my understanding that SIRI uses a similar technique, but for voice patterns. When people say what they want, they get an answer, if it is the wrong answer they repeat the question, giving the database a chance for improvement over time.
By altering the SIRI replies somewhat one then also improves the replies over time, seeing what minimizes the need for follow-up spoken questions.
If this is correct, one may wonder if Google patented some of their search algorithms... Yet another patent war? LOL
"Electronic mosquito repellents for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection Malaria is a major health problem that particularly affects people living in sub-Saharan Africa and other tropical parts of the world. It often causes considerable morbidity and mortality especially in children under ve. It is transmitted by mosquito bites from infected female mosquitoes. Several strategies and approaches are available for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection, including repellents, and these approaches will be considered by those living in affected areas and by travellers to areas where there is high risk of infection. Electronic mosquito repellents (EMRs) are designed to repel female mosquitoes by emitting high-pitched sounds almost inaudible to the human ear. EMRs are claimed by their manufacturers to be effective in repelling mosquitoes and preventing disease. No randomized controlled trials were found, but 10 eld studies looking at the number of mosquitoes caught on the bare body parts of humans were assessed. These studies were conducted in various parts of the world with different species of mosquitoes and were controlled for factors such as locality and timing. One study used just one observer with seven observations, while the highest assessment included 18 observers with 324 observations. There was no evidence in the eld studies to support any repelling effects of EMRs, hence no evidence to support their promotion or use. Future randomized controlled trials are not proposed as there was no suggestion in the eld studies that EMRs show any promise as a preventive measure against malaria."
Gates uses his money for good research. Still, that article does show that Gates needs to have several independent evaluators, unknown to each other, too.
A. A. Derksen (1993). The Seven Sins of Pseudo-Science. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 24 (1):17 - 42. "In this paper I will argue that a profile of the pseudo-sciences can be gained from the scientific pretensions of the pseudo-scientist. These pretensions provide two yardsticks which together take care of the charge of scientific prejudice that any suggested demarcation of pseudo-science has to face. To demonstrate that my analysis has teeth I will apply it to Freud and modern-day Bach-kabbalists. Against Laudan I will argue that the problem of demarcation is not a pseudo-problem, though the discussion will bear out that Laudan's replacement question, namely the question whether someone's theory is well-confirmed, is not, as Lugg claimed, independent of the question as to whether that person is a pseudo-scientist. I further argue that my prototype pseudo-scientists do not have the shortcomings highlighted in Thagard's recent analysis of pseudo-science"
It is quite fun, and shows that parts of the foundations of some psychology is a sham, not a science, that it is fluffy, or some other degrading adjective. The umbrella of psychology should not shelter those parts.
"Scientists have found a way to use rice to "grow" the critical human blood protein albumin, which is used to make vaccines and to treat cirrhosis of the liver and other medical problems. "It looks like an interesting technological step forward," Dr. Richard J. Benjamin, chief medical officer for the American National Red Cross, told Fox News. "It could potentially produce large quantities in a reasonable time." How did scientists pull off something that sounds like make-believe? It all started in China, where the protein is in short supply and blood samples are often contaminated. "That's what prompted me to do something like this," lead researcher Daichang Yang, a plant biotechnologist at China's Wuhan University, told Nature News."
So, the scientific and technical capacities of China continues to make the headlines in all scientific and technical fields, except, yes except that the Chinese just cannot seem to grasp the intricacies of cyber warfare, or?
Sorry, you are ridiculous. You just underestimated a nation three times the size of USA, and an economy with a continued growth potential, despite already twenty years of explosive growth.
What you learned about copy-cat Asians from the sixties and seventies may be valid for the Chinese today, in part. Give them a few decades of copying and they'll learn to do original research soon enough; and they already do, btw.
Do you still think the Japanese are copy-cats? Not any longer. They perhaps were some fifty years ago, but haven't been for decades.
Sorry, but the brute force of 1.X billion Chinese is larger than 0.3X of the US. The education level in the greater cities of China already surpasses that of many areas in the US. Rural china vs rural US? Tough choice.
"The fact is that by 2020 they're still going to be using this same reverse engineered chip design"
Don't worry, you'll see stepwise improvements on that too; Intel is still building on improvements made for their Pentium Pro. The only radical change for Intel, the Itanium, was a financial disaster.
Bark elsewhere. The Chinese have yet again shown how to do it, at home.
Natural selection was lucky to handle this situation. Most toxic agents are too quick to kill.
An 'other factor' may have been the the toxic sludge itself, increasing the mutation rate and by chance providing some fish with a much needed mutation.
Natural selection with an ironic touch, again. We, oxygen consumers, were better off than our cousins, those anaerobic bastards forced to live underground two billion years ago.
Slashdot Mirror
When I was your age, we http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU
Enjoy :)
!!!
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/top-5-ways-that/
As close i got get on short notice. I posted this two years ago IIRC
In how many countries?
Thank you Hamburg!
Ya gotta let go of it.
Or steal your money when you buy rehashed pork
Here is a gem - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5dsOn06w1s
EA is weird
What were the reasons for Google? Apart from the obvious that their decision that also happened to stab a competitor in the eye.
I just 'upgraded' my gmail to a slightly new interface, which apparently is motivated by the new Android-slates, and a long-term goal of insulation of the Google platform from the hardware.
To me it appears RIM was convenient roadkill, not a goal in itself.
Mitt, is this a war declaration?! Huntsman, no it's business as usual. Cain? 9-9-9! Perry lets combat those Koreans, Vietnamese, and that, err... Palin, Russia! No, that, err, third country.
Ok, so I'm educating people. Luna is the Latin name for the Moon.
In an article from November 1, 2011 about the biography of the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon we can read: "The harshest words, though, are reserved for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, viewed as cowardly and untruthful. Gilad charges that Netanyahu, after being elected prime minister in 1996, reneged on a promise to appoint Sharon finance minister. A year later, he writes, on being summoned to a meeting by Netanyahu, Sharon told him, “a liar you were and a liar you have remained." (http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt/what_would_sharon_do
)
That Netenyahu is a liar has now, November 8, 2011, been confirmed by the French President Sarkozy: "I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar", Sarkozy said to the US President Barack Obama. Obama replied, "You're fed up, but I have to deal with it all day." (http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=244760)
Q: Is the Internet a good place for a peace process?
A: No, or?
Q: Is the Internet a good place for a politics?
A: Yes, or?
Skip the backwards, get on to KDE
Flamebait? No, not necessarily.
See "Sabayon 7 Review / Overview Kde +Gnome" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBsUrxxEYk
"Anyone else in science needs to ask themselves this question: is there some journal somewhere which would publish this, even if it was wrong or falsified?"
Yes, there would be dozens if not hundreds of peer reviewed journals that would love to publish well done research on this matter.
As it is a highly debated area any article would get high quotations which is the bread and butter for these journals. If it is plausible it would be highly cited for the wrong reason, bad science, then they will not publish it.
Greenfield probably shot from her hip, with no data to back up her claim, or any data that would support her view of causation and get published in a serious, peer-reviewed journal.
This kills off any kabbalist's notion of the importance of numbers as such. Now music have no pattern, too.
Sounds like Texas Instruments T99/4A of 1982 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI99/4A
Release date June, 1981 (99/4 in June, 1979)
Discontinued October, 1983
Operating system TI BASIC
CPU TI TMS9900 @ 3.0 MHz
Memory 256 bytes "scratchpad" RAM + 16 KB VDP (graphics RAM)
Good looking but stood no chance against the brand new 'IBM compatibles'
History repeats itself
An old Chinese proverb - don't talk, act.
Like it used to be, here and there.
(No, it wasn't an old Chinese proverb, but it could have been)
My understanding of the principles of SIRI is that they use a similar approach to voice patterns as Google did to search phrases.
Whenever someone typed in a search phrase into Google and it turned out to be wrong because of a spelling error, people corrected their search and typed in the correct phrase next time. By storing these chains of searches Google accumulated more and more data so that they could improve over and over.
It is my understanding that SIRI uses a similar technique, but for voice patterns. When people say what they want, they get an answer, if it is the wrong answer they repeat the question, giving the database a chance for improvement over time.
By altering the SIRI replies somewhat one then also improves the replies over time, seeing what minimizes the need for follow-up spoken questions.
If this is correct, one may wonder if Google patented some of their search algorithms... Yet another patent war? LOL
The risk is imminent that these methods are as much scam as most previous methods, however well meant they may be.
For a really nice overview and analysis of electronic mosquito repellents, please see http://eprints.liv.ac.uk/665/1/Enyati_electronic_mosquito_repellents.pdf
Here is the summary:
"Electronic mosquito repellents for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection
Malaria is a major health problem that particularly affects people living in sub-Saharan Africa and other tropical parts of the world. It
often causes considerable morbidity and mortality especially in children under ve. It is transmitted by mosquito bites from infected
female mosquitoes. Several strategies and approaches are available for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection, including
repellents, and these approaches will be considered by those living in affected areas and by travellers to areas where there is high risk
of infection. Electronic mosquito repellents (EMRs) are designed to repel female mosquitoes by emitting high-pitched sounds almost
inaudible to the human ear. EMRs are claimed by their manufacturers to be effective in repelling mosquitoes and preventing disease.
No randomized controlled trials were found, but 10 eld studies looking at the number of mosquitoes caught on the bare body parts
of humans were assessed. These studies were conducted in various parts of the world with different species of mosquitoes and were
controlled for factors such as locality and timing. One study used just one observer with seven observations, while the highest assessment
included 18 observers with 324 observations. There was no evidence in the eld studies to support any repelling effects of EMRs, hence
no evidence to support their promotion or use. Future randomized controlled trials are not proposed as there was no suggestion in the
eld studies that EMRs show any promise as a preventive measure against malaria."
Gates uses his money for good research. Still, that article does show that Gates needs to have several independent evaluators, unknown to each other, too.
Read and return:
A. A. Derksen (1993). The Seven Sins of Pseudo-Science. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 24 (1):17 - 42. "In this paper I will argue that a profile of the pseudo-sciences can be gained from the scientific pretensions of the pseudo-scientist. These pretensions provide two yardsticks which together take care of the charge of scientific prejudice that any suggested demarcation of pseudo-science has to face. To demonstrate that my analysis has teeth I will apply it to Freud and modern-day Bach-kabbalists. Against Laudan I will argue that the problem of demarcation is not a pseudo-problem, though the discussion will bear out that Laudan's replacement question, namely the question whether someone's theory is well-confirmed, is not, as Lugg claimed, independent of the question as to whether that person is a pseudo-scientist. I further argue that my prototype pseudo-scientists do not have the shortcomings highlighted in Thagard's recent analysis of pseudo-science"
It is quite fun, and shows that parts of the foundations of some psychology is a sham, not a science, that it is fluffy, or some other degrading adjective. The umbrella of psychology should not shelter those parts.
Too bad for him. But good for justice.
If he is guilty, I hope he will be convicted.
If he is innocent, let us hope he won't be convicted anyway.
As of now, he still is innocent.
In other news, Chinese scientists-make blood from rice!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20128572-10391704/scientists-get-blood-protein-from-rice-whats-it-for/
"Scientists have found a way to use rice to "grow" the critical human blood protein albumin, which is used to make vaccines and to treat cirrhosis of the liver and other medical problems. "It looks like an interesting technological step forward," Dr. Richard J. Benjamin, chief medical officer for the American National Red Cross, told Fox News. "It could potentially produce large quantities in a reasonable time." How did scientists pull off something that sounds like make-believe? It all started in China, where the protein is in short supply and blood samples are often contaminated. "That's what prompted me to do something like this," lead researcher Daichang Yang, a plant biotechnologist at China's Wuhan University, told Nature News."
So, the scientific and technical capacities of China continues to make the headlines in all scientific and technical fields, except, yes except that the Chinese just cannot seem to grasp the intricacies of cyber warfare, or?
Sorry, you are ridiculous. You just underestimated a nation three times the size of USA, and an economy with a continued growth potential, despite already twenty years of explosive growth.
What you learned about copy-cat Asians from the sixties and seventies may be valid for the Chinese today, in part. Give them a few decades of copying and they'll learn to do original research soon enough; and they already do, btw.
Do you still think the Japanese are copy-cats? Not any longer. They perhaps were some fifty years ago, but haven't been for decades.
Sorry, but the brute force of 1.X billion Chinese is larger than 0.3X of the US. The education level in the greater cities of China already surpasses that of many areas in the US. Rural china vs rural US? Tough choice.
"The fact is that by 2020 they're still going to be using this same reverse engineered chip design"
Don't worry, you'll see stepwise improvements on that too; Intel is still building on improvements made for their Pentium Pro. The only radical change for Intel, the Itanium, was a financial disaster.
Bark elsewhere. The Chinese have yet again shown how to do it, at home.
"there are intentional mechanisms built into the DNA pathways that deliberately cause genetic mutations during stress events"
While that sounds very unorthodox I may be wrong.
Do you have any reference to support this? Or is it wishful thinking? ;)
It would really help to see some references.
Natural selection was lucky to handle this situation. Most toxic agents are too quick to kill.
An 'other factor' may have been the the toxic sludge itself, increasing the mutation rate and by chance providing some fish with a much needed mutation.
Natural selection with an ironic touch, again. We, oxygen consumers, were better off than our cousins, those anaerobic bastards forced to live underground two billion years ago.
IOW, the others just died from the PCB and the ones that we have now are the survivors. As per Darwin prediction. Excellent, in a marauding way.
Probably a good move. With a large portfolio of consumer products this was much more likely than Ericsson buying from Sony.
Indeed, the PSP could use some of the Sony Ericsson wizardry.