Also missing largely is a responsibility among the video game makers, especially the ones which are marketed to the teenagers. They certainly play and tease on the inherent violent and rebellious nature of a teenager. Playing with fire, someone had to get burnt.
Wifi certainly needs more support than a coffee shop chain to catch on. We need more ideas like the WiFi sharing plans http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/012221 6. I sure hope WiFi catches on.
Pitfall 5: User Expectations. Users sometimes unrealistically expect that robots can make decisions. Solution: Educate users on what robots can do (learning tasks and motions) and cannot do (reasoning and making decisions).
I guess SCO has got enough news coverage from this issue and possibly some customers too. They sure are playing with fire. Their persistance makes me hesitate in writing them off, wonder whats up their sleeve.
What we would be interested in knowing is how NASA is taking steps to prevent this from happening again. It certainly would have been nice if BBC had included a paragraph touching on that!
Those were the days. Now the first thing someone with a good notion does is press the government to protect it. Priceline patented its reverse-auction method for selling cut-rate airline tickets. I.B.M. patented a method for keeping track of people waiting in line for the bathroom. Last month, Netflix, a company that runs an online DVD-rental subscription service, got a patent covering, among other things, the way its customers request titles and the way it sends out DVDs. And eBay is now in court appealing a verdict that it infringed on a Virginia man's patent. The crime? Selling auctioned items at a fixed price. What gall.
A few years back a company in the US tried to patent the medical use of turmeric, which is prevalent in India. The mind is boggled by the complication brought in by the patents on simple and prevelant ideas, is it not possible that two people can think of a simple idea at the same time and it certainly is preposterous to claim an existing an idea. The patenting process surely should be limited to ideas and products which have been through a considerable research process, just a thought.
With 256 new Intel Itanium 2 processors, 2TB of global shared memory, and 1.5 TFLOPS of computational power at their disposal, ORNL researchers can simulate and analyze data sets of extraordinary size and complexity. The groundbreaking capabilities of the SGI Altix 3000 system will help ORNL drive new generations of scientific applications hungry for increased computing power and capacity. The applications include those used in computational biology and genetic research, as well as climate modeling, in which researchers project the potential long-term impact of such environmental threats as pollution and ozone depletion.
Looks like the number crunching reliability of intel processors has taken a good boost here.
"The technology industry must simplify its vocabulary so that consumers around the world can better understand the benefits technology can bring to their lives," said Patrick Moorhead, chairman of AMD's Global Consumer Advisory Board, which commissioned the study.
A better idea would be to educate those who need to understand the vocabulary wouldn't it? We need the vocabulary, re-defining it would be painful and take a long time. The practical thing to do here is for the tech people help educate the non-techies (as far as patience can take us).
But it still appeals to the everyday commuter at least in the big US cities where driving is not a choice.
Looks like a good idea, needs better coverage (try a state like Texas, which has absoulutely no public transport) and more of a compelling argument to sell.
Sooner or later, everyone has to face the problem that their computer is not fast enough. The conventional way to solve this by buying a new one or upgrading the current one quickly becomes expensive and is only seldom justifiable. However, home users have the option of tuning their systems using all the tricks in the books. Yes indeed, we're talking about traditional overclocking.
A tradional alternate solution for a conventional method to solve a problem.. interesting
The concerns cut both ways. The Chinese government has repeatedly accused the United States military and intelligence organizations of attempting to conduct espionage by manipulating American products sold in China. The tracking features in Intel's microprocessors and Microsoft's operating system software are of particular concern to Chinese officials, which is one reason China is intent on expanding its own technology industry.
And so has the rest of the world.
Anyone familiar with system security would be aware that it is not easy for a hacker to make his/her steps untraceable. It might cost the governments a little money to track them and take necessary actions to prevent these people in staying profitable in their activities, but that might just be the only way to stop them. If these spammers are outside of the free world they still have to ship the product to the idiot who buys it from them! Beat the hell outa the spammers.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm.. any idea when it will be available here in the US? Anybody?
Maybe becuase he did his work before the 80s when personal computers became popular and hence writing on a paper was more convenient? maybe..
Also missing largely is a responsibility among the video game makers, especially the ones which are marketed to the teenagers. They certainly play and tease on the inherent violent and rebellious nature of a teenager. Playing with fire, someone had to get burnt.
Wifi certainly needs more support than a coffee shop chain to catch on. We need more ideas like the WiFi sharing plans http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/012221 6. I sure hope WiFi catches on.
User Expectations. The double-edged sword
Thanks for that information, gotta run through that FAQ.
An interesting paper addressing security and privacy of the electronic voting system http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-4/voting.html
A little informative website running on eDemocracy http://www.fipr.org/eDemocracy
Why not have slashdot mirror the link before posting the story?
Although many users seem to be amused by this repeating event, it would be worth considering for the editors at slashdot.
I guess SCO has got enough news coverage from this issue and possibly some customers too. They sure are playing with fire.
Their persistance makes me hesitate in writing them off, wonder whats up their sleeve.
What we would be interested in knowing is how NASA is taking steps to prevent this from happening again. It certainly would have been nice if BBC had included a paragraph touching on that!
A few years back a company in the US tried to patent the medical use of turmeric, which is prevalent in India.
The mind is boggled by the complication brought in by the patents on simple and prevelant ideas, is it not possible that two people can think of a simple idea at the same time and it certainly is preposterous to claim an existing an idea. The patenting process surely should be limited to ideas and products which have been through a considerable research process, just a thought.
Am I missing something or are you comparing a G5 to a 256 processor system here?
Looks like the number crunching reliability of intel processors has taken a good boost here.
A better idea would be to educate those who need to understand the vocabulary wouldn't it?
We need the vocabulary, re-defining it would be painful and take a long time. The practical thing to do here is for the tech people help educate the non-techies (as far as patience can take us).
But it still appeals to the everyday commuter at least in the big US cities where driving is not a choice. Looks like a good idea, needs better coverage (try a state like Texas, which has absoulutely no public transport) and more of a compelling argument to sell.
A tradional alternate solution for a conventional method to solve a problem.. interesting
The concerns cut both ways. The Chinese government has repeatedly accused the United States military and intelligence organizations of attempting to conduct espionage by manipulating American products sold in China. The tracking features in Intel's microprocessors and Microsoft's operating system software are of particular concern to Chinese officials, which is one reason China is intent on expanding its own technology industry. And so has the rest of the world.
The enemy is now taking cover behind the blind. The battle gets complicated.
Hope the judge is sensible enough to throw these cases out.
Great idea today, reason for a battle tomorrow.
Anyone familiar with system security would be aware that it is not easy for a hacker to make his/her steps untraceable. It might cost the governments a little money to track them and take necessary actions to prevent these people in staying profitable in their activities, but that might just be the only way to stop them.
If these spammers are outside of the free world they still have to ship the product to the idiot who buys it from them!
Beat the hell outa the spammers.
Fighting the enemy outside and embracing the one inside?
Reading the article made me wonder how much of the initial internet design was heavily based upon the telephone networks.
Who really needs games on Linux!