I dont know if these are funny coincidences but M$ is selecting all "dirty" names from different languages around the world. Vista==Shit in a Indian language
I have this theory going on in my head.. Why did Nature (or whatever Darwin talks about) made us so 'powerful', 'smart' and 'advanced' that we have powers to control Nature (like rains, jungles, animals) i.e. there is a lot of imbalance in Nature due to us Humans.
Now reading this article I am realizing that MAY BE we were CHOSEN by Nature to create Nuclear Weapons.. and then Destroy Ourselves. May be by causing a mini-Big Bang ?
It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Mr Ander(Larry)son, a CEO of a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Shuttleworth and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.
thats right OraUbuntu is the real Matrix !!!
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geezz..you know in an out of the thing released just today..are you one of the GCalendar developer or from Google PR dept or something ?
I always wondered if Google or other companies hired people for creating 'hidden buzz' of their products in news groups and blogs.
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I would really likee integrating GTalk Status and G Calendar for e.g. If I m in a meeting or sleeping or biking etc.. I could be able to just pull-in that to G Talk status message - shouldnt be that hard technically speaking and can lead to more 'integration' of currently 'defragmented' array of Google services.
what used to be called 'data-mining' in 80 and 90s is now machine learning in 21st century.. and there are several instances where machine learning has shown tremendous success (probably this is the only by-product of AI that has shown promising real world applications)
- The DARPA Grand Challenge - Stanely, the winning robot from Stanford used 'Adaptive vision' which used some real-time learning algorithms
- Clustering and Micro-Array Analysis - Once genetic-medicine will become a reality, the physicians will unknowingly be using clustering algorithms underneath..
- Froogle, Clusty, Amazon recommending etc all use learning underneath..
I havent RTFA but I think "RDBMS-view" is too naive for given scale of problem. What one has to understand is that data-mining is not a "push-button" technology, one has to have a total understanding of data and 'interesting questions' that one wants to answer then choose right set of algorithms and tune them properly. In biomedicine, there has always been 'bio-statisticians' in the hospital who perform these tasks.
how about them providing streaming songs over Web ? or something like radio where they could set up a whole Web2.0 thing with several people with similar interests listenining and tagging and shouting on songs being played ? just add 'adsense' around a bit..and thats it.
Google Radio (TM). I said (predicted) this first here !
look at http://211.41.28.11/CHASE/index.htm they use the exact same CSS and headers.. sometimes its impossible even for me (after a BS,MS in CS) to figure out which is legitimate email and which ones are not.. and given that all Banks nowadays FORCE you to go for 'electronic statements' instead of paper statements makes it even worse
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I can clearly see the benefit of such device for clinicians who practice in metropolitan areas (like NYC). My university hospital is situated in a highly hispanic concentrated area (Washington Heights) and there is always a requirement for a spanish speaking nurse on the floor. The university also gives free language tutorials for medical students. Hell I have seen several physicians putting language skills on top of their resume to get a job the our hospital.
I havent RTFA, but the last I heard (a week ago frm my machine learning prof) that speech recognition systems are only 50% good and it seems to me that such a device in a clinical setting can prove disastrous if it makes some mistakes !
Imagine some scenarios Patient says: I feel blah blah blah... (of course in some different language) Doctor hears: I feel like having sex with you
Patient says: No..blah no.. no.. blah Doctor hears: aah yES.. YES.. right there.. YES aah YES..
Thanks for pointing it out, its the filters are really good.. I wonder how did they do it, does chinese govt have a set of people manually classifying sites or Google uses their 'fancy-shamncy' machine learning algorithms to do this.. Interesting IR challenge though.
I have always felt that Cable television industry currently is also doing similar double charging.. we already pay these money for 'premium' channels.. and then overthat they show these @#$@#$ing ADs every 10 minutes. They are earning from both sides.. simply insane.. Dont get me started on the list of charges that they give when a cable guy enters your apt/house.
Ive heards rumours of Google ADs entering into TV n all. m just waiting that they kick all cable provider's ASS and give us free television..I dont mind seeing some 'unobtrusive' ads (whatever that means in televsion context)..
and some of my uncles had contracts in these highway projects. And I can tell you how this 'Road bizness' goes on in India. First, lets start with my small town in western India (couple hundred miles from Mumbai). Every year they build new roads in the town but not 'new ones' instead they 'rebuild' the roads over same ones.. why ? coz every year the road breaks down (with lot of pot holes and gravel comes out), mostly due to heavy monsoon.. They dont use good quality asphalt and mix lot of gravel.. Ahh and one more reason why the roads break apart is that they start building new roads right around MAY-JUNE when the monsoon season starts in India and hence the road doesnt get chance to 'strengthen' all over my stay there (1982-2003) this happened every year and I m sure its a common phenomena all over the country.
Secondly, these construction companies (that includes my uncles & co.) who are subcontracted to build roads use all sort of means to bribe everyone right from the small clerk to big politicians (yes you have to feed'em all) to get the 'tender'. Once they get the 'tender'/contract.. they just wait.. wait.. like a frog... until monsoon sets in.. thats when they start building roads.. so its breaks faster.. and they can get another contract..
Thirdly, you would not believe but on all these highways.. they literally 'cut-off' margins on both side of roads to 'save' money.. and when you have to make such long highways we are talking about savings in millions.. No govt official ever goes to do any inspection..
Fourthly and most importantly - TOLLS ! what the NYT article doesnt talk about is that most of these highways are built in segments with each segment given to some construction company. What happens is that these companies show large costs and the govt says fuck that we cannot pay that much amount..so Company says.. let us built TOLL booth.. and we will recover rest of the money in 1 or 2 years.. and guess what, they go on collecting tolls for years.. w/o any road maintenance n all..
However, people in India are really happy with highways without potholes coz they can finally run their Japanese and American cars above 100Kmph since we basiclly dont have any COPs that comes after you to give tickets.. (isnt that cool !, the probability of you hitting a cow or dog or sheep (which I did once) and/or dying is higher than COP catching you for speeding)
Last winter I had been to India and we drove thru famous 'bombay-pune' highway which every 'Mumbaikar' would boast about since its modelled after Amercian standards and all fenced so no dog or cat or sheep can get in.. but the problem with people driving in India is that they are not used to looking at roads signs (we are not necessariy required to give a road test.. e.g. one day I was watching TV and my dad is like.. here son..your new licence..I had been driving since I was 14:) okay along the bombay-pune highway my friend who was driving missed the exits twice and we had to travel like 20kms to get back.. oh well..sometimes these advances come with their own price.
last line.... "remarkable abilities of the unassuming ambassador from Pakistan.® "
hell I never knew that the country names were registered trademarks !
or does it mean that the whole story is 'registered' by 'theregister' ?
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I dont know if these are funny coincidences but M$ is selecting all "dirty" names from different languages around the world.
Vista==Shit in a Indian language
There needs to be investment into something that creates new ideas, new wealth and new real growth not new
Biotech ?
I totally agree, in my country, India, kissing in public is considered a crime
I have this theory going on in my head.. Why did Nature (or whatever Darwin talks about) made us so 'powerful', 'smart' and 'advanced' that we have powers to control Nature (like rains, jungles, animals) i.e. there is a lot of imbalance in Nature due to us Humans.
Now reading this article I am realizing that MAY BE we were CHOSEN by Nature to create Nuclear Weapons.. and then Destroy Ourselves. May be by causing a mini-Big Bang ?
Where am I going to find enough p0rn to fill that ?
Windows Media Player 10.
It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Mr Ander(Larry)son, a CEO of a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Shuttleworth and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.
thats right OraUbuntu is the real Matrix !!!
geezz..you know in an out of the thing released just today..are you one of the GCalendar developer or from Google PR dept or something ?
I always wondered if Google or other companies hired people for creating 'hidden buzz' of their products in news groups and blogs.
I would really likee integrating GTalk Status and G Calendar for e.g. If I m in a meeting or sleeping or biking etc.. I could be able to just pull-in that to G Talk status message - shouldnt be that hard technically speaking and can lead to more 'integration' of currently 'defragmented' array of Google services.
a mosquito can fly but a fly cannot mosquito
one day we decide those chinese sons of ze bitches are going daaoowwwn..... booom.. end of ze world...
what used to be called 'data-mining' in 80 and 90s is now machine learning in 21st century.. and there are several instances where machine learning has shown tremendous success (probably this is the only by-product of AI that has shown promising real world applications)
- The DARPA Grand Challenge - Stanely, the winning robot from Stanford used 'Adaptive vision' which used some real-time learning algorithms- Clustering and Micro-Array Analysis - Once genetic-medicine will become a reality, the physicians will unknowingly be using clustering algorithms underneath..
- Froogle, Clusty, Amazon recommending etc all use learning underneath..
I havent RTFA but I think "RDBMS-view" is too naive for given scale of problem. What one has to understand is that data-mining is not a "push-button" technology, one has to have a total understanding of data and 'interesting questions' that one wants to answer then choose right set of algorithms and tune them properly. In biomedicine, there has always been 'bio-statisticians' in the hospital who perform these tasks.
how about them providing streaming songs over Web ? or something like radio where they could set up a whole Web2.0 thing with several people with similar interests listenining and tagging and shouting on songs being played ? just add 'adsense' around a bit..and thats it.
Google Radio (TM). I said (predicted) this first here !
the Web attacks YOU ! (via spam, viruses, Internet Explorer, Vista and.. Oh wait)
look at http://211.41.28.11/CHASE/index.htm
they use the exact same CSS and headers.. sometimes its impossible even for me (after a BS,MS in CS) to figure out which is legitimate email and which ones are not.. and given that all Banks nowadays FORCE you to go for 'electronic statements' instead of paper statements makes it even worse
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'Vista' means 'Shit' in a language called 'Gujarati' spoken by 41 million people in state of Gujarat, India.
I can imagine dialogue with my Mom..
Me: Mom this is new Windows Vista
Mom: ehh ? Windows Shit ??
I can clearly see the benefit of such device for clinicians who practice in metropolitan areas (like NYC). My university hospital is situated in a highly hispanic concentrated area (Washington Heights) and there is always a requirement for a spanish speaking nurse on the floor. The university also gives free language tutorials for medical students. Hell I have seen several physicians putting language skills on top of their resume to get a job the our hospital.
I havent RTFA, but the last I heard (a week ago frm my machine learning prof) that speech recognition systems are only 50% good and it seems to me that such a device in a clinical setting can prove disastrous if it makes some mistakes !
Imagine some scenarios
Patient says: I feel blah blah blah... (of course in some different language)
Doctor hears: I feel like having sex with you
Patient says: No..blah no.. no.. blah
Doctor hears: aah yES.. YES.. right there.. YES aah YES..
the (Semantic/Intelligent) WEB Censors YOU !
Slashdot-2020
You must be new here..
of course you can do that ! just copy paste the following code
if(document.all)
load_driver_for_windows
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load_driver_for_osx
764 hits (total)& start=10&sa=N
l ang_en&sa=X&oi=lrtip9
http://www.google.com/search?q=goobuntu&hl=en&lr=
7 hits (English only)
http://www.google.com/search?q=goobuntu&hl=en&lr=
It would be interesting to see the rise in # of hits over lets say next 1-2 month on this FUD..
Thanks for pointing it out, its the filters are really good..
I wonder how did they do it, does chinese govt have a set of people manually classifying sites or Google uses their 'fancy-shamncy' machine learning algorithms to do this.. Interesting IR challenge though.
I have always felt that Cable television industry currently is also doing similar double charging.. we already pay these money for 'premium' channels.. and then overthat they show these @#$@#$ing ADs every 10 minutes. They are earning from both sides.. simply insane.. Dont get me started on the list of charges that they give when a cable guy enters your apt/house.
Ive heards rumours of Google ADs entering into TV n all. m just waiting that they kick all cable provider's ASS and give us free television..I dont mind seeing some 'unobtrusive' ads (whatever that means in televsion context)..
of this slashdot page -
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke"
and some of my uncles had contracts in these highway projects. And I can tell you how this 'Road bizness' goes on in India.
First, lets start with my small town in western India (couple hundred miles from Mumbai). Every year they build new roads in the town but not 'new ones' instead they 'rebuild' the roads over same ones.. why ? coz every year the road breaks down (with lot of pot holes and gravel comes out), mostly due to heavy monsoon.. They dont use good quality asphalt and mix lot of gravel.. Ahh and one more reason why the roads break apart is that they start building new roads right around MAY-JUNE when the monsoon season starts in India and hence the road doesnt get chance to 'strengthen' all over my stay there (1982-2003) this happened every year and I m sure its a common phenomena all over the country.
Secondly, these construction companies (that includes my uncles & co.) who are subcontracted to build roads use all sort of means to bribe everyone right from the small clerk to big politicians (yes you have to feed'em all) to get the 'tender'. Once they get the 'tender'/contract.. they just wait.. wait.. like a frog... until monsoon sets in.. thats when they start building roads.. so its breaks faster.. and they can get another contract..
Thirdly, you would not believe but on all these highways.. they literally 'cut-off' margins on both side of roads to 'save' money.. and when you have to make such long highways we are talking about savings in millions.. No govt official ever goes to do any inspection..
Fourthly and most importantly - TOLLS ! what the NYT article doesnt talk about is that most of these highways are built in segments with each segment given to some construction company. What happens is that these companies show large costs and the govt says fuck that we cannot pay that much amount..so Company says.. let us built TOLL booth.. and we will recover rest of the money in 1 or 2 years.. and guess what, they go on collecting tolls for years.. w/o any road maintenance n all..
However, people in India are really happy with highways without potholes coz they can finally run their Japanese and American cars above 100Kmph since we basiclly dont have any COPs that comes after you to give tickets.. (isnt that cool !, the probability of you hitting a cow or dog or sheep (which I did once) and/or dying is higher than COP catching you for speeding)
Last winter I had been to India and we drove thru famous 'bombay-pune' highway which every 'Mumbaikar' would boast about since its modelled after Amercian standards and all fenced so no dog or cat or sheep can get in.. but the problem with people driving in India is that they are not used to looking at roads signs (we are not necessariy required to give a road test.. e.g. one day I was watching TV and my dad is like.. here son..your new licence..I had been driving since I was 14 :) okay along the bombay-pune highway my friend who was driving missed the exits twice and we had to travel like 20kms to get back.. oh well..sometimes these advances come with their own price.
last line.... "remarkable abilities of the unassuming ambassador from Pakistan.® "
hell I never knew that the country names were registered trademarks !
or does it mean that the whole story is 'registered' by 'theregister' ?