Nix. Numerous 'feral children' have acquired (limited) language skills (most famously, Genie) - they provide an extremely poor study group for looking at language and social skills learning because a. they may have been abandoned because they were (or were percieved to be) subnormal, b. they tend to be significantly traumatised, either simply by circumstances, or by abuse (again, Genie). c. Case studies are a bugger.
(Feral children covers a broad spectrum - we are not just talking about 'raised by wolves' here)
Regarding the main topic - this has characteristics uncomfortably like the Forbidden Experiment (bring up a child in a totally controlled, isolated environment - see what happens), and making the footage publically available worries me - did they cut a deal with Fox for the funding?
By which I mean - you, the readership of/., and especially those of you complaining that witty/interesting/deceptive/crushingly unfunny headlines should be destroyed for the sake of clarity and efficiency of data delivery.. Are not the target market of that sort of journalism anyway. Try thinking of the puns as like tags, conveying extra information. They are in their own way, micro-editorials which tell you some small amount about the organisation/individual's attitude to the subject.
My second point is this would be another example of the wrongness of how we relate to technology (something Google ought to be more sensitive to than the average - look at GMail's tagline), namely that technology often ends up requiring us to reshape and restructure our world to fit the demands of something we originally created to.. er.. assist in making our world easier to deal with.
Judging from my own quick go on the test as well as the/. comments, the advisory that this affects 6.x versions is wrong. It would be more useful if there was information on which 6.x versions it affects - is this an issue intoduced in a recent patch, or is it pre-whatever versions only? (And an undetermined number of IE7 versions)
I'm sure I've been beaten to this observation.. But this is essentially the basis of Hari Seldon's [Isaac Asimov's) psychohistory - he developed the idea based on the physics which were being used to model particle movements in gases.
From the article: "Western technology companies could have a powerful case if they acted as a group in telling China that they are under tremendous consumer and political pressure to stick up for free expression."
You mean like countless protests, threats of sanction on China's poor treatment to basic human rights, which result in nothing? Or do you mean North-Korea or Iran's nucular plan despite pressures from western countries?
I'm sure you've read the Foundation books - if you recall the Foundation's conflict with Korell (or not, in fact); the controlling regime is brought down by the withdrawal of Foundation technology, and the economic chaos and public dissatisfaction that results in.
The analogy here, is that while political pressure seems to have minimal influence, global corporations have a stunning (or terrifying, if you prefer) amount of political clout - just look at the U.S.A.
Of course in this case it isn't like MS, Google, McDonalds or whoever could damage the Chinese economy in the same way - or at least not without collapsing much of the rest of the world's along with it. (Assuming they grouped together and all withdrew their interests from China, an event aproximately as likely as me shagging Evil Willow within the next ten minutes)
For my money, the logic here is that Adsense is solely for visual media. Podcasting and online radio in general are hot tips just now, and not well served by the existing Adsense model.
When a large company wants to enter a new arena, there's a tendency for them to simply buy a smaller company already specialising in that area. (MS and that AV company, Google and Picasa etc.)
If you were Google, and felt it was time to move into advertising on podcasts and their ilk, I suspect you'd go and buy a company who've spent a long time learning how to effectively deliver advertising via an audio medium.
Here's the skinny - MySpace.com was originally a filesharing site, however that went defunct in 1999.
The MySpace we know today appears to have always been owned by the same people - IntermixMedia (IntermixMedia.com), who were initially called eUniverse and are to all intents and purposes a (viral) marketing company. eUniverse changed their name following accounting troubles which resulted in them being delisted from the Nasdaq, and allegations regarding spyware.
IntermixMedia was subsequently bought by News Corp. for an apparant $580m.
Exactly where the two (three, including Brad Greenspan who left around the time of the troubles with the SEC) guys who apparantly started MySpace come into it all, is at best unclear.
Damn. Can't believe I never thought of that! I've been relying on the twitchy guy in a motorcycle helmet who works the street corner and smells slightly of urine..
The current British government also appears to be cautiously in favour of building a few more nuclear power stations to replace the ones due to be decommisioned in 2020 - the major barrier being that about half of the population is against them. (We worry about things like the increasing amounts of radioactive waste in our dumps, possible indications of higher incidences of leukemia and cancer in areas like Sellafield, and risks of a serious accident.)
Sure. Great. Now if it reliably recognised when a process was failing to respond, could indicate when a process other than the visible window was not responding, and would reliably allow you to kill or suspend the process in question? That would do just fine.
Cellular Phone is AFAIK, largely a US thing - we've called them mobile phones (because they're mobile, and they're phones), in the UK for donkey's years now.
Actually I suspect, after going Googling for it, that this is really a misquote of "I have seen the future and it doesn't work", as said by John Senders.
CoH, WoW both encourage team based play - to the best of my knowledge, anyway. Personally I can't stand online gaming. (Connect instantly with thousands of fucktards and watch them spouting agrammatical racist bullshit! Gain zero satisfaction because unlike you they play all the goddamn time, spent a fortune on hardware and some sort of terrifying uber-connection with negative ping, and are far, far better than you.)
Few things here - first off, men generally don't game with the intent of social interaction - they do however tend to play online because human opponents offer a different challenge to bots and scripted encounters.
Second, the terrifying success of WoW, Everquest, CoH, etc. would suggest that games with some basis in social interaction are actually mind bogglingly popular.
Also, as a vapid generalisation, you tend to see women playing games with some degree of focus on social interaction. (I was going to use the Sims as an example here, but a moment's thought reminded me that the Sims is actually just an extension of the doll principle, having nothing whatsoever to do with social interaction.)
What else... Ok. Programmable calculators suck, Battlestar Galactica has always sucked, Microsoft make very fine software, George Bush is a neo-facist, George Bush is a great man... Slashdot doesn't post enough Google dupes!
Holy crap. That's a nice fire. Anybody wanna make smores?;)
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Well, presumably not if you unplug them all or pop the batteries out?
Nix. Numerous 'feral children' have acquired (limited) language skills (most famously, Genie) - they provide an extremely poor study group for looking at language and social skills learning because a. they may have been abandoned because they were (or were percieved to be) subnormal, b. they tend to be significantly traumatised, either simply by circumstances, or by abuse (again, Genie). c. Case studies are a bugger.
(Feral children covers a broad spectrum - we are not just talking about 'raised by wolves' here)
Regarding the main topic - this has characteristics uncomfortably like the Forbidden Experiment (bring up a child in a totally controlled, isolated environment - see what happens), and making the footage publically available worries me - did they cut a deal with Fox for the funding?
Matter of curiosity - do Nintendo make bigger bank from the EFL world, or the ESL (or NFEAAYIC) world?
And is wii 'silly' in any language besides English?
By which I mean - you, the readership of /., and especially those of you complaining that witty/interesting/deceptive/crushingly unfunny headlines should be destroyed for the sake of clarity and efficiency of data delivery.. Are not the target market of that sort of journalism anyway. Try thinking of the puns as like tags, conveying extra information. They are in their own way, micro-editorials which tell you some small amount about the organisation/individual's attitude to the subject.
My second point is this would be another example of the wrongness of how we relate to technology (something Google ought to be more sensitive to than the average - look at GMail's tagline), namely that technology often ends up requiring us to reshape and restructure our world to fit the demands of something we originally created to.. er.. assist in making our world easier to deal with.
If, like me, you ran a quick check with IE and flicked away to look at something else.. It didn't work.
The window must remain in focus for the spoof to suceed - at least in my version of IE.
Judging from my own quick go on the test as well as the /. comments, the advisory that this affects 6.x versions is wrong. It would be more useful if there was information on which 6.x versions it affects - is this an issue intoduced in a recent patch, or is it pre-whatever versions only? (And an undetermined number of IE7 versions)
Is this related to the flash player version?
More data needed!
I'm sure I've been beaten to this observation.. But this is essentially the basis of Hari Seldon's [Isaac Asimov's) psychohistory - he developed the idea based on the physics which were being used to model particle movements in gases.
Score one for sci-fi?
From the article: "Western technology companies could have a powerful case if they acted as a group in telling China that they are under tremendous consumer and political pressure to stick up for free expression."
You mean like countless protests, threats of sanction on China's poor treatment to basic human rights, which result in nothing? Or do you mean North-Korea or Iran's nucular plan despite pressures from western countries?
I'm sure you've read the Foundation books - if you recall the Foundation's conflict with Korell (or not, in fact); the controlling regime is brought down by the withdrawal of Foundation technology, and the economic chaos and public dissatisfaction that results in.
The analogy here, is that while political pressure seems to have minimal influence, global corporations have a stunning (or terrifying, if you prefer) amount of political clout - just look at the U.S.A.
Of course in this case it isn't like MS, Google, McDonalds or whoever could damage the Chinese economy in the same way - or at least not without collapsing much of the rest of the world's along with it. (Assuming they grouped together and all withdrew their interests from China, an event aproximately as likely as me shagging Evil Willow within the next ten minutes)
For my money, the logic here is that Adsense is solely for visual media. Podcasting and online radio in general are hot tips just now, and not well served by the existing Adsense model.
When a large company wants to enter a new arena, there's a tendency for them to simply buy a smaller company already specialising in that area. (MS and that AV company, Google and Picasa etc.)
If you were Google, and felt it was time to move into advertising on podcasts and their ilk, I suspect you'd go and buy a company who've spent a long time learning how to effectively deliver advertising via an audio medium.
Here's the skinny - MySpace.com was originally a filesharing site, however that went defunct in 1999.
The MySpace we know today appears to have always been owned by the same people - IntermixMedia (IntermixMedia.com), who were initially called eUniverse and are to all intents and purposes a (viral) marketing company. eUniverse changed their name following accounting troubles which resulted in them being delisted from the Nasdaq, and allegations regarding spyware.
IntermixMedia was subsequently bought by News Corp. for an apparant $580m.
Exactly where the two (three, including Brad Greenspan who left around the time of the troubles with the SEC) guys who apparantly started MySpace come into it all, is at best unclear.
Damn. Can't believe I never thought of that! I've been relying on the twitchy guy in a motorcycle helmet who works the street corner and smells slightly of urine..
No, this would be according to a Guardian/ICM poll using a random sampling of 1,004 adults, according to Guardian Unlimited.
I'm not aware of any available opinion polling from the govt. itself.
Towns like Corby also had higher rate of leukemia.
Clearly the answer lies in the trouser press!
The current British government also appears to be cautiously in favour of building a few more nuclear power stations to replace the ones due to be decommisioned in 2020 - the major barrier being that about half of the population is against them.
(We worry about things like the increasing amounts of radioactive waste in our dumps, possible indications of higher incidences of leukemia and cancer in areas like Sellafield, and risks of a serious accident.)
No you bloomin' can't! I'm sat here at a damn XP box that will happily fail to kill processes. I'll grant you, it may just be doing it very slowly.
Don't be silly. We all know that the USA owns the sky.
Sure. Great. Now if it reliably recognised when a process was failing to respond, could indicate when a process other than the visible window was not responding, and would reliably allow you to kill or suspend the process in question? That would do just fine.
Since none of those are the case however...
Mobile Phone - Cellular Phone.
Cellular Phone is AFAIK, largely a US thing - we've called them mobile phones (because they're mobile, and they're phones), in the UK for donkey's years now.
Actually I suspect, after going Googling for it, that this is really a misquote of "I have seen the future and it doesn't work", as said by John Senders.
This is really bugging me here - who exactly said "I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient", besides AC several times on /.?
CoH, WoW both encourage team based play - to the best of my knowledge, anyway. Personally I can't stand online gaming. (Connect instantly with thousands of fucktards and watch them spouting agrammatical racist bullshit! Gain zero satisfaction because unlike you they play all the goddamn time, spent a fortune on hardware and some sort of terrifying uber-connection with negative ping, and are far, far better than you.)
Few things here - first off, men generally don't game with the intent of social interaction - they do however tend to play online because human opponents offer a different challenge to bots and scripted encounters.
Second, the terrifying success of WoW, Everquest, CoH, etc. would suggest that games with some basis in social interaction are actually mind bogglingly popular.
Also, as a vapid generalisation, you tend to see women playing games with some degree of focus on social interaction. (I was going to use the Sims as an example here, but a moment's thought reminded me that the Sims is actually just an extension of the doll principle, having nothing whatsoever to do with social interaction.)
Something like that. Nicotine withdrawal, one of those Hulk SMASH! moments. You know what I mean.
Excellent. More fuel.
;)
What else... Ok. Programmable calculators suck, Battlestar Galactica has always sucked, Microsoft make very fine software, George Bush is a neo-facist, George Bush is a great man... Slashdot doesn't post enough Google dupes!
Holy crap. That's a nice fire. Anybody wanna make smores?
Good man! Join the bonfire. Later we will burn effigies of Darl McBride and, to keep life interesting - Linus Torvalds!
Confusion will reign, the sky will turn black, lawyers will throw faecal matter on their clients, Firefly will get a new series.
I used to have ~ 150 DVDs, I gave them all away when I realised that I didn't watch movies more than twice.