Wonder why they left out....
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The software is making its way into everything from Motorola (MOT ) cell phones and Mitsubishi robots to eBay (EBAY ) servers and the NASA supercomputers that run space-shuttle simulations.
Google. That would've helped to shake up the PHBs a little more effectively, given this is BusinessWeek.
Carrying the analogy further, IE becomes a "phishing net" and Windows becomes a "phishing boat". The intarweb may be viewed as the "ocean" and your average AOLer a dumb "phish". Smarter geeks could be viewed as smarter"dolphins".
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Quokka Sports, Inc.
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Food First
Edna St. Vincent Millay Society
Gianni Versace s.P.a.
Supercuts, Inc.
Chronicle Books
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One reason that LCDs have gained in popularity is because of their small foot print. The overall size and weight of CRT monitors far exceeds that of LCD monitors.
Not a chance- pure standard superstition will keep a good standard of living out of India for at least the next 100 years- as proven by all the stupid people who went down to the beach looking to see what diety had pulled the plug on the ocean a couple of weeks back.
From the news reports immediately after the Tsunami- how litterally thousands of people went down to the beach to look at the sudden "tide" going out...apparently they had never heard that if water leaves the beach, it will return. Now, of course, they'll never correct their stupidity- because they are all dead from that stupidity.
I fail to see how you got $diety in your former post. You may be biased...but a bunch of people going towards the water out of *curiosity* is very different from people going to see what's up out of *superstition* as you state in your preceding comment.
When asked to justify your comment, however, you resorted to a lame 2 liner about people being astonished by the unexpected behavior of the $water_body, and going out to satisfy their natural curiousity...which is a natural reaction given normal human nature.
I still fail to see how you attributed that to superstition and $diety. Sorry to do this, but welcome to my foes list. Illogical people and those who defent lame statements by irrelevant logic in a hope of getting away irk me greatly.
Seriously....the current Search functionality on/. sucks big time.
I noticed a few days back (can't reproduce it) that the Search button was changed to "Google Search". I was disappointed, however, when I realized that it just searched Google for the term with an added "site: slashdot.org".
Using "site:slashdot.org" with Google doesn't work too well, because for some reason Google seems to "age" older pages in it's index for sites like Slashdot, which are more dynamic, and which it presumably crawls more often (alongwith the other news sites).
This aging mechanism (or whatever it is) means I can't go to Google and type in "GillBates0 site:slashdot.org" to get *all* of my past 739 comments (like subscribers can), even though they're archived and accessible from Slashdot.
Leapfrog as just announced their Fly pen computer for children. It talks, giving feedback as they write and draw, and with special Fly paper, you can draw a calculator, press the 'buttons' with the pen and it will read the answers.
I read TFA and even tried dig up technical specifications on their webpage. There seems to be a dirth of details about the device.
What kind of feedback are we talking about here? Does it recognize random/badly drawn figures? Does it take wild guesses if I draw something mildly resembling an apple (circle, oval, egg, round)? What exactly is the purpose of the "feedback"? Trying to make the pen guess what's being drawn?
I agree the calculator example sounds interesting...but again, how accurate is the character/image recognition? Handwriting (especially with small kids) is notoriously difficult to recognize....and we're talking about random images here. How effective is this thing? How does it even know I've drawn a calculator? It's going to be just a series of squares containing numbers.
I agree a device capable of recognizing handwriting and drawing in real time could have interesting applications, but I'll believe it when I see it...they seem to be making a lot of vague promises here.
the young soldier had spent much of his spare time e-mailing his folks back home through Yahoo! webmail. "He was keeping a journal of sorts to put together for future history," John Ellsworth told BBC News. "He wanted to make sure that his generation, as well as following generations, have actual words from somebody who was there." But Mr Ellsworth Snr was shocked when Yahoo! turned down a request to release his dead son's e-mails, on the basis of privacy.
"The man is devastated at the prospect of his son's memories, what essentially could be his son's last written words, being obliterated forever. Just let him see it," writes one contributor.
So, is the father interested in looking at the inbox for the received emails? That doesn't make sense, as most of the incoming mails into the account wouldn't be written by the son.
Or are they interested in the "Sent messages folder" to see the son's last written words? If, as the above excerpts suggest is what they're interested in, they could directly approach his friends (or the other way around) who might have received his last emails.
In any case, I don't see a reasonable justification for them to access all the past communication their son engaged in - it might even be embarrassing. In some cases, it's best to let the dead bury the dead.
than a lot of other people. They usually have access to computers, games and the luxury of entertainment - something a lot of people do not.
IMHO, it would be great if more people remembered that:
Poor people are humans.
Drug addicts are humans.
Gays are humans.
Alcoholics are humans.
Smokers are human.
Disabled/handicapped people are humans.
People that don't agree with you are humans.
People with different religions beliefs are humans.
People of other races are humans. . . .
These are people who need to recognition the most and society tends to forget their humanity when convenient to do so.
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Google. That would've helped to shake up the PHBs a little more effectively, given this is BusinessWeek.
Mmmm baked vegetable and meat medley.
The sad part is that we'll be part of the main course....I'll have Geek au gratin please with a side of elephant home fries.
Fishermen fish.
Phishermen phish.
It's not "Fishers fish".
Carrying the analogy further, IE becomes a "phishing net" and Windows becomes a "phishing boat". The intarweb may be viewed as the "ocean" and your average AOLer a dumb "phish". Smarter geeks could be viewed as smarter"dolphins".
Interesting, huh.
Terry Gross's bio
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O.J. Simpson Complaint Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Quokka Sports, Inc.
AlaskaMen Magazine
Burning Man
Women Count
Republic of Cuba and its agencies and instrumentalities
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Food First
Edna St. Vincent Millay Society
Gianni Versace s.P.a.
Supercuts, Inc.
Chronicle Books
Source Health & Mobility
And I was like OMG I shut off the internets and stuff!!1!!
And i called the AOL helpdesk and they helped turn it back on.
my wife's more popular than me.
just kidding...!wife.
Thank you.
WAS alive. Thank you /..
Bollywood's viewership is 3.8 billion vs Hollywood's 3.2 billion.
Former Miss World, bollywood queen, and my current heartthrob Aishwarya Rai was featured on 60 mins as the world's most beautiful woman and is among the cast in the next Hollywood James Bond flick.
No. It's dead, Jim.
From the news reports immediately after the Tsunami- how litterally thousands of people went down to the beach to look at the sudden "tide" going out...apparently they had never heard that if water leaves the beach, it will return. Now, of course, they'll never correct their stupidity- because they are all dead from that stupidity.
I fail to see how you got $diety in your former post. You may be biased...but a bunch of people going towards the water out of *curiosity* is very different from people going to see what's up out of *superstition* as you state in your preceding comment.
When asked to justify your comment, however, you resorted to a lame 2 liner about people being astonished by the unexpected behavior of the $water_body, and going out to satisfy their natural curiousity...which is a natural reaction given normal human nature.
I still fail to see how you attributed that to superstition and $diety. Sorry to do this, but welcome to my foes list. Illogical people and those who defent lame statements by irrelevant logic in a hope of getting away irk me greatly.
Metamodded the flamebait moderation 'Unfair'.
Taking down unfair Moderators one metamod at a time...
Makefile would've been a lot cooler IMHO. And quite relevant too, considering their target readership.
Global Dimming Dec 18
Hint to editors: I obtained the links by doing a Slashdot search for dimming. Also checked that a Google site:slashdot.org search also turned up results.
I noticed a few days back (can't reproduce it) that the Search button was changed to "Google Search". I was disappointed, however, when I realized that it just searched Google for the term with an added "site: slashdot.org".
Using "site:slashdot.org" with Google doesn't work too well, because for some reason Google seems to "age" older pages in it's index for sites like Slashdot, which are more dynamic, and which it presumably crawls more often (alongwith the other news sites).
This aging mechanism (or whatever it is) means I can't go to Google and type in "GillBates0 site:slashdot.org" to get *all* of my past 739 comments (like subscribers can), even though they're archived and accessible from Slashdot.
I read TFA and even tried dig up technical specifications on their webpage. There seems to be a dirth of details about the device.
What kind of feedback are we talking about here? Does it recognize random/badly drawn figures? Does it take wild guesses if I draw something mildly resembling an apple (circle, oval, egg, round)? What exactly is the purpose of the "feedback"? Trying to make the pen guess what's being drawn?
I agree the calculator example sounds interesting...but again, how accurate is the character/image recognition? Handwriting (especially with small kids) is notoriously difficult to recognize....and we're talking about random images here. How effective is this thing? How does it even know I've drawn a calculator? It's going to be just a series of squares containing numbers.
I agree a device capable of recognizing handwriting and drawing in real time could have interesting applications, but I'll believe it when I see it...they seem to be making a lot of vague promises here.
mah-Bell
Should we welcome our new ethical robot overlords?
"The man is devastated at the prospect of his son's memories, what essentially could be his son's last written words, being obliterated forever. Just let him see it," writes one contributor.
So, is the father interested in looking at the inbox for the received emails? That doesn't make sense, as most of the incoming mails into the account wouldn't be written by the son.
Or are they interested in the "Sent messages folder" to see the son's last written words? If, as the above excerpts suggest is what they're interested in, they could directly approach his friends (or the other way around) who might have received his last emails.
In any case, I don't see a reasonable justification for them to access all the past communication their son engaged in - it might even be embarrassing. In some cases, it's best to let the dead bury the dead.
"Cracker penetrates T-Mobile Systems".
IMHO, it would be great if more people remembered that:
Drug addicts are humans.
Gays are humans.
Alcoholics are humans.
Smokers are human.
Disabled/handicapped people are humans.
People that don't agree with you are humans.
People with different religions beliefs are humans.
People of other races are humans.
These are people who need to recognition the most and society tends to forget their humanity when convenient to do so.
BLinux
-GillBates0.
the term "air borne viruses".
I saved a bunch on my car insurance!