Aren't they the same group of people who fired someone for suggesting that people switch to Firefox from IE because IE wasn't secure? This was before SP2 was out I believe. Maybe they thought that was hype too... A group that fires someone for speaking the truth makes me question their qualification as consultants.
Correct me if I'm wrong but stock prices are supposed to reflect future value as well as assets. So yes there is a good amount of speculation involved. However, this also means the market believes that Google WILL generating the same or more profit than TW. To price a stock, you take what the company is worth now, discount all expected future earnings, and add that back to it's current networth.
Aha! I knew OSS supports terrorists, communists, and is anti-American. What else would a digital bacteria be for?! Other than to infect the computers of law-abiding, copyright-fearing, Windows users?! Isn't that what all bacterias do after all....
Which would also contain this in the footnotes: 1. Acquire information on nukes from the Wikipedia 2. Acquire uranium from former USSR countries' garage sale. (Note to self: Be tough on the bargain, no accessories or warranty services.) 3. Acquire other components using eBay 4. Build bomb 5.... 6. No profit!
Each is using his proficiency in a particular aspect of the cartooning business...
Sounds like they also created a new team of superheroes... I give you the Blank Comic 6! Cartoonist during the day and upholder of the first amendment on the Internet by night.
Did you even bother clicking the link I posted??? Maybe you should do that before posting. The two squares are the EXACT SAME COLOR. In other words, if you take your meter and measured it, it will give you the EXACT SAME readings. Yet your eyes will perceive one to be much lighter than the other. By simply covering up or changing the surroundings, it becomes obvious that they're the same color.
Again, back to my point. Some people will just dismiss things out of hand without actually taking the time to carefully examine it simply because it is familiar. Thanks for proving my point. Your simple meter explanation will be inadequate in explaining the example.
To save you the effort:
http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkersh adow_illusion.html
And let me quote him:
"The visual system is not very good at being a physical light meter, but that is not its purpose. The important task is to break the image information down into meaningful components, and thereby perceive the nature of the objects in view."
Once again, thank you for being a perfect example to my original post.
The amazing thing is that "we percieve darker areas as black" isn't true. We don't percieve black. There's no black in the visual spectrum. The dark areas in our vision is more than just the product of our perception. Check out the link I posted in the my reply to my original post (forgot to post link in my original post). Darkness in our vision is not nearly as simple or obvious as people think. Instruments and meters cannot duplicate our vision exactly. What we actually "see", as in the picture in our mind, is different from the picture striking our eyes. As a photographer, you're probably more aware of this than most people. Then again, I would consider photographers people who marvel at ordinary things.:)
BTW, I didn't actually do research on seeing black. It was hypothetical, not actual.
When I took cogntive science, my professor liked to stress this qote:
"Ordinary people marvel at extraordinary things. Extraordinary people marvel at ordinary things."
-Confucius
Why in cog. sci? Let's think about seeing the color black for a minute. Pretty ordinary. If I told you that I did my Ph.D. on our ability to see the color black, what would you think? "For this you got a Ph.D.?" If I stopped there, you could probably write a short, shallow article about how scientists wasted time and money doing research on things that's mundane. But let's think about it for a minute. How do we see? Light entering our eyes. What color is a projector screen? White. So how is it that we are able to see black on a movie screen during a movie? If we see because of lights entering our eyes, where is the black coming from? The projector shines light, the white screen reflects it back, the portions that we see as black has no light, how do we end up seeing black on a white screen? Maybe not everything we see comes from the outside world. In fact, black is something our brain creates, which then really makes you wonder about shadows.
Don't believe me? Check this out.
So we've gone from something that seems really ordinary to a startling discovery. In fact, it's usually the deeper truth behind ordinary things that surprise us and make us go "wow" and inspires us. Stars from the ground are nothing more than specks of light. I guess we can call astronomy look at specks of light through glass and mirrors. Sounds pretty boring too.
What they didn't mention was that the real benefits of countless young men rushing to join the TSA once this system is deployed. The TSA will have twice the man power while paying them minimal wage and will no doubt attract a significant number of nerds.
If I was the RIAA, I wouldn't sue the search engine. Instead, I would use it to find any tracker stupid enough to post to the search engine and go after those guys. Knowing this, I doubt most illegal torrent trackers will allow searches from this site, unless of course you happen to be Pirate Bay, who've been defying the **AA for sometime now.
That's really representative of the MS mentality: Do something stupid as long as it prevents you from doing something equally stupid or worse. I guess that makes sense in a PHP's mind... It's great that Microsoft shoot for ever lower standards.
It makes as much sense as becoming an alcoholic so you would be too drunk to go and do crack.
While I agree with most of what you say, a company is more than just an organization that's there to make money. Yes, that's its goal. It is also MY goal to make money as well. However, both IBM and I exist as members of a community and have certain obligations to that community because of our membership. I have an obligation to obey the law and do my civic duty. I don't get paid to vote in the elections or know what's going on with my government. It would be a sad day when none of voted or paid attention. Likewise, IBM have certain obligations to its community and its employees. I agree that shifting or eliminating those jobs are within its rights. I hope, however, that IBM will aid those workers in finding new jobs else where or soften the blow of unemployment. Good will is hard to measure on your SEC filings but bad will can certainly hurt you in the long run.
Things are bad over here in the US as well. I was driving home one night through downtown Dallas. As I approached the light turned green and two girls out of a group of teens was in the middle of the road. They raced across to avoid my car. One of their male friends, to show off, decided to cross the same road walking backwards, daring me to hit him. I slowed down, let him do his stupid move as his friends watched from the side, then I shrugged, and drove off. Unfortunately, these days stupid things like that are considered admirable. Nerds on the other hand would have the intelligence not to dare a car to hit him walking backwards across a road nor admire such a inconsiderate and stupid behavior. Unfortunately, among teens at least, being smart and playing it safe is considered cowardice. One of these days, it won't be a nerd like me behind the wheels but some drunk or insecure dumbass who will unfortunately vindicate the nerds.
Nerds might be a bit different or sometimes too serious about trivial things but at least they are harmless and leave other people at peace, most of the time when they're not on Slashdot.:-) Then again, often time some of the greatest works started out as trivial subjects taken too seriously by someone and pushed to new heights. Some of the things done by amateurs or hobbyists that have been posted on Slashdot have really impressed me.
Where's the article?? It's just two short blog entries between two guys arguing over an issue. How is that news or "stuff that matters"? It's almost like reading two headlines. This has a feel of high school.
High school girl A: So Ben Goodger's claim that "redistributions of the official Mozilla releases are never going to give you security updates as quickly as Mozilla" High school girl B: "Christopher Aillon of Red Hat says that this is only because Mozilla doesn't play by the same rules as other OSS projects" High school girl A: No. He didn't.
I was just thinking about this. I doubt banks will make it THAT easy for people to steal identity. Remember, it's money here we're dealing with and if it becomes too easy to steal the banks will lose money as well and customers' good will and trust, which you want in the finance industry.
In any case, I can imagine it working like this: 1. Terminal sends some string of random bytes, p. 2. Card processes it using some one way function f(p,q) and returns the value s where q is some secret info. 3. Terminal takes the results and sends p and s to the bank to verify. Bank runs f(p, q) and see if it matches s. If so, return true.
That's just a simple scheme I hatched up where you don't have to reveal your secret info to verify yourself. I'm sure there are much better ways.
That's just silly. You say it as though inventions is some heroic deed that's clearly separate from everything that came before it. Sorry, no. Inventions are a social process. An idea is nothing if you can't make a prototype. A prototype is useless if you can't commercialize it. Things won't improve if you don't feed money back to improve it. So to pretend that everything after the initial discovery is meaningless is unrealistic.
If you want to go back far enough, the Chinese invented rocket propulsion, not the English. The Greek arguably "invented" freedom, not the French if one can actually invent such a thing. Things would have been left as fireworks and political theory if someone else didn't come along and pick it up again. It was the Americans who built the Saturn V that sent people to the moon. The Germans weren't the ones to break the sound barrier with a jet engine. Computers wouldn't be the same today without American companies like IBM, Intel, Sun, AT&T and Microsoft. Surely, Americans have paid their price for freedom as much as anyone else. To pretend that Americans didn't make great contributions to the things you listed is just unrealistic, not insightful.
BTW, the Americans deserve a large part of the credit for invention the color CRT, photocopiers, helicopters, and TRANSITORS.
Actually, De Beers was started by Cecil Rhodes. It was named after the piece of estate he original brought and had the insight that most diamonds are found under the earth rare than on the surface.
This is the same Cecil Rhodes who founded the Rhodes scholarship and had a country named after himself, Rhodesia, which started after the British brutally crushed the natives. This is just the start of the problems diamond would bring to Africa.
Slashdot Mirror
Aren't they the same group of people who fired someone for suggesting that people switch to Firefox from IE because IE wasn't secure? This was before SP2 was out I believe. Maybe they thought that was hype too... A group that fires someone for speaking the truth makes me question their qualification as consultants.
If it takes a robotic suit for a geek to pick up women, then a robotic suit it is, regardless of strength and weight.
Correct me if I'm wrong but stock prices are supposed to reflect future value as well as assets. So yes there is a good amount of speculation involved. However, this also means the market believes that Google WILL generating the same or more profit than TW. To price a stock, you take what the company is worth now, discount all expected future earnings, and add that back to it's current networth.
Talk about revenge... Note to self, never open an account with Citigroup. If I do, be sure to never close it.
Aha! I knew OSS supports terrorists, communists, and is anti-American. What else would a digital bacteria be for?! Other than to infect the computers of law-abiding, copyright-fearing, Windows users?! Isn't that what all bacterias do after all....
Which would also contain this in the footnotes: ...
1. Acquire information on nukes from the Wikipedia
2. Acquire uranium from former USSR countries' garage sale. (Note to self: Be tough on the bargain, no accessories or warranty services.)
3. Acquire other components using eBay
4. Build bomb
5.
6. No profit!
It's ironic that you're posting as Anonymous Coward. We got a Peter Parker/Spiderman thing going here?
Sounds like they also created a new team of superheroes... I give you the Blank Comic 6! Cartoonist during the day and upholder of the first amendment on the Internet by night.
Come on. Just download Firefox and you can hang out with the other cool kids.
Aw... Is that a smilie emoticon I see in your window?!
[Mr. Burns] Excellent... [/Mr. Burns]
There's also AMD. In any case, I've been thinking about switching to Apple since OSX came out. Everyday the reasons get more compelling.
I need to learn how to click right. This was meant to reply to: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150952&op=Repl y&threshold=-1&commentsort=1&tid=133&mode=thread&p id=12662251
OK, I'll stop posting before I make more mistakes.
Again, back to my point. Some people will just dismiss things out of hand without actually taking the time to carefully examine it simply because it is familiar. Thanks for proving my point. Your simple meter explanation will be inadequate in explaining the example.
To save you the effort: http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkersh adow_illusion.html
And let me quote him:
"The visual system is not very good at being a physical light meter, but that is not its purpose. The important task is to break the image information down into meaningful components, and thereby perceive the nature of the objects in view."
Once again, thank you for being a perfect example to my original post.
BTW, I didn't actually do research on seeing black. It was hypothetical, not actual.
When I posted check this out, I meant to link: http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkersh adow_illusion.html
"Ordinary people marvel at extraordinary things. Extraordinary people marvel at ordinary things." -Confucius
Why in cog. sci? Let's think about seeing the color black for a minute. Pretty ordinary. If I told you that I did my Ph.D. on our ability to see the color black, what would you think? "For this you got a Ph.D.?" If I stopped there, you could probably write a short, shallow article about how scientists wasted time and money doing research on things that's mundane. But let's think about it for a minute. How do we see? Light entering our eyes. What color is a projector screen? White. So how is it that we are able to see black on a movie screen during a movie? If we see because of lights entering our eyes, where is the black coming from? The projector shines light, the white screen reflects it back, the portions that we see as black has no light, how do we end up seeing black on a white screen? Maybe not everything we see comes from the outside world. In fact, black is something our brain creates, which then really makes you wonder about shadows. Don't believe me? Check this out.
So we've gone from something that seems really ordinary to a startling discovery. In fact, it's usually the deeper truth behind ordinary things that surprise us and make us go "wow" and inspires us. Stars from the ground are nothing more than specks of light. I guess we can call astronomy look at specks of light through glass and mirrors. Sounds pretty boring too.
What they didn't mention was that the real benefits of countless young men rushing to join the TSA once this system is deployed. The TSA will have twice the man power while paying them minimal wage and will no doubt attract a significant number of nerds.
If I was the RIAA, I wouldn't sue the search engine. Instead, I would use it to find any tracker stupid enough to post to the search engine and go after those guys. Knowing this, I doubt most illegal torrent trackers will allow searches from this site, unless of course you happen to be Pirate Bay, who've been defying the **AA for sometime now.
That's really representative of the MS mentality:
Do something stupid as long as it prevents you from doing something equally stupid or worse. I guess that makes sense in a PHP's mind... It's great that Microsoft shoot for ever lower standards.
It makes as much sense as becoming an alcoholic so you would be too drunk to go and do crack.
While I agree with most of what you say, a company is more than just an organization that's there to make money. Yes, that's its goal. It is also MY goal to make money as well. However, both IBM and I exist as members of a community and have certain obligations to that community because of our membership. I have an obligation to obey the law and do my civic duty. I don't get paid to vote in the elections or know what's going on with my government. It would be a sad day when none of voted or paid attention. Likewise, IBM have certain obligations to its community and its employees. I agree that shifting or eliminating those jobs are within its rights. I hope, however, that IBM will aid those workers in finding new jobs else where or soften the blow of unemployment. Good will is hard to measure on your SEC filings but bad will can certainly hurt you in the long run.
Things are bad over here in the US as well. I was driving home one night through downtown Dallas. As I approached the light turned green and two girls out of a group of teens was in the middle of the road. They raced across to avoid my car. One of their male friends, to show off, decided to cross the same road walking backwards, daring me to hit him. I slowed down, let him do his stupid move as his friends watched from the side, then I shrugged, and drove off. Unfortunately, these days stupid things like that are considered admirable. Nerds on the other hand would have the intelligence not to dare a car to hit him walking backwards across a road nor admire such a inconsiderate and stupid behavior. Unfortunately, among teens at least, being smart and playing it safe is considered cowardice. One of these days, it won't be a nerd like me behind the wheels but some drunk or insecure dumbass who will unfortunately vindicate the nerds.
:-) Then again, often time some of the greatest works started out as trivial subjects taken too seriously by someone and pushed to new heights. Some of the things done by amateurs or hobbyists that have been posted on Slashdot have really impressed me.
Nerds might be a bit different or sometimes too serious about trivial things but at least they are harmless and leave other people at peace, most of the time when they're not on Slashdot.
Touche...
I guess anything that involves two high school chicks is "stuff that matters" for nerds.
Where's the article?? It's just two short blog entries between two guys arguing over an issue. How is that news or "stuff that matters"? It's almost like reading two headlines. This has a feel of high school.
High school girl A: So Ben Goodger's claim that "redistributions of the official Mozilla releases are never going to give you security updates as quickly as Mozilla"
High school girl B: "Christopher Aillon of Red Hat says that this is only because Mozilla doesn't play by the same rules as other OSS projects"
High school girl A: No. He didn't.
[cat fight]
Except there would be no cat fight here....
I was just thinking about this. I doubt banks will make it THAT easy for people to steal identity. Remember, it's money here we're dealing with and if it becomes too easy to steal the banks will lose money as well and customers' good will and trust, which you want in the finance industry.
In any case, I can imagine it working like this:
1. Terminal sends some string of random bytes, p.
2. Card processes it using some one way function f(p,q) and returns the value s where q is some secret info.
3. Terminal takes the results and sends p and s to the bank to verify. Bank runs f(p, q) and see if it matches s. If so, return true.
That's just a simple scheme I hatched up where you don't have to reveal your secret info to verify yourself. I'm sure there are much better ways.
That's just silly. You say it as though inventions is some heroic deed that's clearly separate from everything that came before it. Sorry, no. Inventions are a social process. An idea is nothing if you can't make a prototype. A prototype is useless if you can't commercialize it. Things won't improve if you don't feed money back to improve it. So to pretend that everything after the initial discovery is meaningless is unrealistic.
If you want to go back far enough, the Chinese invented rocket propulsion, not the English. The Greek arguably "invented" freedom, not the French if one can actually invent such a thing. Things would have been left as fireworks and political theory if someone else didn't come along and pick it up again. It was the Americans who built the Saturn V that sent people to the moon. The Germans weren't the ones to break the sound barrier with a jet engine. Computers wouldn't be the same today without American companies like IBM, Intel, Sun, AT&T and Microsoft. Surely, Americans have paid their price for freedom as much as anyone else. To pretend that Americans didn't make great contributions to the things you listed is just unrealistic, not insightful.
BTW, the Americans deserve a large part of the credit for invention the color CRT, photocopiers, helicopters, and TRANSITORS.
Actually, De Beers was started by Cecil Rhodes. It was named after the piece of estate he original brought and had the insight that most diamonds are found under the earth rare than on the surface.
This is the same Cecil Rhodes who founded the Rhodes scholarship and had a country named after himself, Rhodesia, which started after the British brutally crushed the natives. This is just the start of the problems diamond would bring to Africa.
So there is no De Beers family in the trade.