Wired carried a story two weeks ago on the army's recruiting shortfall. A lot of different media starting reporting on that then.
So this is not surprising. Now why anyone would want to advertise to the Pentagon that they do not want to join is beyond me. Constituting a separate database of unpatriotic scum sounds rather sinister to me.
Refreshing change? I interpret what Google's CEO said as "we won't just compete with Paypal". Sounds to me like they don't want to be pigeon-holed because they are far more ambitious than that. Perhaps they are gunning for the place currently occupied by credit card companies and processors?
The type of free content that was created to carry doubleclick is mostly junk. All the other special-interest and useful (if only to some tiny fringe) content will continue to carry keyword-advertising or no advertising at all.
This is a company already recognized for making watches that have indefinite battery life- their "eco-drive" watches uses any kind of light for power.
When you're down to 1/100 of normal display power, you can (almost) dispense with the battery.
At a time when everyone else is trying to make better batteries, this looks like a much more promising way ahead. I'm looking forward to laptops like this!
So photographers now have to make money off their service rather than their image bank.
Is anyone here crying them a river?
If Wal-mart decides to be assholes about this, we could go the legal route (sue them), or make a big fuss at the counter. We could also go to shops that have more reasonnable rules.
well, I had- after much confusion, I heard Ubuntu was supposed to be easy and noob friendly so I gave it a shot.
When I started getting fairly serious problems (it wouldn't even install properly) and people running Linux for years couldn't fix it, when I couldn't get done things I consider basic, I was told I was asking too much.
So I'll check it out again in a couple years... meanwhile, I want to go back to my years of using a computer as an appliance.
I did just that- tried Ubuntu. I also tried several other distros and in my not so humble opinion the user experience sucks badly. Oh- I got a lot of shit from Linux fans for stating this too. What platform should I have used exactly?
My next computer will probably be a Mac for that very reason.
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Super. I'm predicting a whole lot of false positives...especially during the initial phase of this operation...
If using contrived language flags this system, I wouldn't want to be the one having to read all the false positives. I imagine I'd find out about a lot of affairs, rumours and backstabbing plans.
Since mapping data can be so damned expensive, I wondered if it would be possible to use digital photographs to read civic numbers and/or street names. Assuming you could read traffic signs, the same photos may be used to gather data about driving constraints (one-way streets, stops, left/right-only turns, etc.)
That could effectively break the monopoly of the big mapmakers for those things we like to hack.
Given that they are looking at military and recreational uses though, a loud motor just isn't going to have commercial potential.
As for oxygen being stripped out, it really shouldn't be a big deal. It's not just oxygen, but all dissolved gases. Humans will be just another animal getting its gas from the water, and they won't be staying very long.
For sensitive sites there may be different concerns than you would have with tanks; then again maybe people should be avoiding those places altogether no matter what the air source.
Japan imports nearly all of its oil. A rival power, the USA, controls oil-rich regions. What would you do in their situation? Probably the same thing powers like France and Germany did- reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Having a less energy-intensive industry means they win big if oil prices go up. Balance-of-trade issues also factor in; some of the policies discussed in the article were started over a decade ago.
And anyone concerned about Peak Oil and wanting to get the government to act on it would probably have used the above arguments. Fear isn't a very good motivator.
If I took out a MasterCard with MBNA to support an institution, I'm not sure what use the average/.'er weighing in would be.
How about MBNA take upon itself to contact those that have its card and ask them? It can't be the first time a non-governmental entity using this as a fundraising technique goes belly-up, there has got to be a process for this.
Although I'm sure Linus and other Linux coders would have some moral authority, I wonder who has the legal authority in this matter...
Economically and politically, it should be the manufacturers:
-Give them a real incentive to design items that will be easier to take apart and recycle. Chances are we will all end up with better designed electronics. If we let them design carelessly, it will be very costly to recycle the resulting mess.
-We allow corporations to operate so long as they do something in the public interest. In this day and age, if a corporation can't take care of its products from cradle to grave it's seriously dysfunctional and should not be allowed to operate.
I don't ever expect such translation to work perfectly, but taking existing phrases should lead to useful first drafts.
This will mean one less possible career for me, and fewer babelfish induced laugther moments.
As a fluently bilingual person, I often recognize expressions that were translated in Canadian government documents. "Anglicisme" is the word the french have for it.
There's subtlety to languages we may forever lose. Take for example:
"Je donne ma langue au chat" - "I give up (answering a riddle) instead of the more picturesque "I give my language to the cat". Well, that should be tongue, but hey, it's just babelfish!
"Bullshit" won't produce "merde de taureau". That is a strange expression you anglos have, don't you realize?
"Il pleut comme vache qui pisse" will give us "it's pouring cats and dogs" rather than "it's pouring like cows' a'pissin". The french also have never heard of cats and dogs falling from the sky.
While an improved Babelfish may improve our mutual comprehension, please pause for a moment to consider all the linguistic hilarity we'll forever lose.
I work for a company that outsourced their web-app development to third-parties. And they all suck really badly.
On one of them, a loooong form is split up in several tabs and pages- and the "next", "previous", "submit" and "void" buttons all sit next to each other with the exact same icon.
Even a barely competent dev should be able to spot that as a show-stopping UI bug. The cost in wasted time by operator mistakes is at least an order of magnitude larger than the annual license fees.
I'm not saying your apps suck, just that most of the ones I've seen do. Faced with that, a company can do just as well to develop their own in-house.
Sure, this guy is doing all sorts of neat things at once with the water. For getting it to market and economically proven though, I'd rather see a demo that shows that one of the features is useful than trying to make a whole range of things work.
Even more troubling is that he proposes to pay off investors in seven years- not a great ROI given the risks.
Everyone's mixing everything with Google Maps from crime stats to apartment rentals (hey, put both of those together!). Google said they want to make that easier, so people don't have to hack it. Ah, but what about those who license the maps to Google. Are they cool about that? There wasn't a clear answer -- Google just hopes it won't be an issue.
So it's looking like we'll have the opportunity to contribute data to one or two big companies, but will the data itself ever be in the public domain?
Good geographic data for projects I'd like to hack is impossible to get for free- commercial version exist for about my yearly salary. What I'd like to see is Google and/or MSN making it easy to access these new data layers. It might help to change the balance of power with the map resellers that could want to impose strict guidelines on re-use.
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Odd that we could do something we love and get paid for it?
Yeah, but an odd I could get used to.
Wired carried a story two weeks ago on the army's recruiting shortfall. A lot of different media starting reporting on that then.
So this is not surprising. Now why anyone would want to advertise to the Pentagon that they do not want to join is beyond me. Constituting a separate database of unpatriotic scum sounds rather sinister to me.
Refreshing change? I interpret what Google's CEO said as "we won't just compete with Paypal". Sounds to me like they don't want to be pigeon-holed because they are far more ambitious than that. Perhaps they are gunning for the place currently occupied by credit card companies and processors?
:)
It's not cut-throat, it's just business
The type of free content that was created to carry doubleclick is mostly junk. All the other special-interest and useful (if only to some tiny fringe) content will continue to carry keyword-advertising or no advertising at all.
All the spam sites may have to fold. So sad.
This is a company already recognized for making watches that have indefinite battery life- their "eco-drive" watches uses any kind of light for power.
When you're down to 1/100 of normal display power, you can (almost) dispense with the battery.
At a time when everyone else is trying to make better batteries, this looks like a much more promising way ahead. I'm looking forward to laptops like this!
So photographers now have to make money off their service rather than their image bank.
Is anyone here crying them a river?
If Wal-mart decides to be assholes about this, we could go the legal route (sue them), or make a big fuss at the counter. We could also go to shops that have more reasonnable rules.
well, I had- after much confusion, I heard Ubuntu was supposed to be easy and noob friendly so I gave it a shot.
When I started getting fairly serious problems (it wouldn't even install properly) and people running Linux for years couldn't fix it, when I couldn't get done things I consider basic, I was told I was asking too much.
So I'll check it out again in a couple years... meanwhile, I want to go back to my years of using a computer as an appliance.
Considering the number of available platforms, there's a usability problem right there!
I did just that- tried Ubuntu. I also tried several other distros and in my not so humble opinion the user experience sucks badly. Oh- I got a lot of shit from Linux fans for stating this too. What platform should I have used exactly?
My next computer will probably be a Mac for that very reason.
Since mapping data can be so damned expensive, I wondered if it would be possible to use digital photographs to read civic numbers and/or street names. Assuming you could read traffic signs, the same photos may be used to gather data about driving constraints (one-way streets, stops, left/right-only turns, etc.)
That could effectively break the monopoly of the big mapmakers for those things we like to hack.
Anyone know?
Using insults and insinuation only serve to make you look bad.
If you want better content, go submit it.
Given that they are looking at military and recreational uses though, a loud motor just isn't going to have commercial potential.
As for oxygen being stripped out, it really shouldn't be a big deal. It's not just oxygen, but all dissolved gases. Humans will be just another animal getting its gas from the water, and they won't be staying very long.
For sensitive sites there may be different concerns than you would have with tanks; then again maybe people should be avoiding those places altogether no matter what the air source.
Odd how much sarchasm we find on /.
The real concern is not really peak oil per se.
Japan imports nearly all of its oil. A rival power, the USA, controls oil-rich regions. What would you do in their situation? Probably the same thing powers like France and Germany did- reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Having a less energy-intensive industry means they win big if oil prices go up. Balance-of-trade issues also factor in; some of the policies discussed in the article were started over a decade ago.
And anyone concerned about Peak Oil and wanting to get the government to act on it would probably have used the above arguments. Fear isn't a very good motivator.
If I took out a MasterCard with MBNA to support an institution, I'm not sure what use the average /.'er weighing in would be.
How about MBNA take upon itself to contact those that have its card and ask them? It can't be the first time a non-governmental entity using this as a fundraising technique goes belly-up, there has got to be a process for this.
Although I'm sure Linus and other Linux coders would have some moral authority, I wonder who has the legal authority in this matter...
Economically and politically, it should be the manufacturers:
-Give them a real incentive to design items that will be easier to take apart and recycle. Chances are we will all end up with better designed electronics. If we let them design carelessly, it will be very costly to recycle the resulting mess.
-We allow corporations to operate so long as they do something in the public interest. In this day and age, if a corporation can't take care of its products from cradle to grave it's seriously dysfunctional and should not be allowed to operate.
hehe... that was "deja vu" (an expression the french haven't even heard of)
I remember some colleagues smoking "du shit" (fr sp? / a low grade hash), going to "tres select" clubs or overhearing someone say "c'est la life"
Oui, c'est cool.
More professional doozies were "checkiner" and "checkouter". Although it's a bona fide french snigglet, I never heard "javaquer" in my work place.
aaah, Paris. I wish I could get that job again!
I don't ever expect such translation to work perfectly, but taking existing phrases should lead to useful first drafts.
This will mean one less possible career for me, and fewer babelfish induced laugther moments.
As a fluently bilingual person, I often recognize expressions that were translated in Canadian government documents. "Anglicisme" is the word the french have for it.
There's subtlety to languages we may forever lose. Take for example:
"Je donne ma langue au chat" - "I give up (answering a riddle) instead of the more picturesque "I give my language to the cat". Well, that should be tongue, but hey, it's just babelfish!
"Bullshit" won't produce "merde de taureau". That is a strange expression you anglos have, don't you realize?
"Il pleut comme vache qui pisse" will give us "it's pouring cats and dogs" rather than "it's pouring like cows' a'pissin". The french also have never heard of cats and dogs falling from the sky.
While an improved Babelfish may improve our mutual comprehension, please pause for a moment to consider all the linguistic hilarity we'll forever lose.
I work for a company that outsourced their web-app development to third-parties. And they all suck really badly.
On one of them, a loooong form is split up in several tabs and pages- and the "next", "previous", "submit" and "void" buttons all sit next to each other with the exact same icon.
Even a barely competent dev should be able to spot that as a show-stopping UI bug. The cost in wasted time by operator mistakes is at least an order of magnitude larger than the annual license fees.
I'm not saying your apps suck, just that most of the ones I've seen do. Faced with that, a company can do just as well to develop their own in-house.
NS8 break IE? I'm no software engineer, but that reeks of poor design.
For some reason, I'm also suspecting that it's IE that's brittle. Anyone have solid info yet?
As reported by the CBC last August, Lake Ontario water cools Toronto offices
Sure, this guy is doing all sorts of neat things at once with the water. For getting it to market and economically proven though, I'd rather see a demo that shows that one of the features is useful than trying to make a whole range of things work.
Even more troubling is that he proposes to pay off investors in seven years- not a great ROI given the risks.
Knowing the "editors", we should have a dupe within two weeks.
Not that that's often enough...
Good geographic data for projects I'd like to hack is impossible to get for free- commercial version exist for about my yearly salary. What I'd like to see is Google and/or MSN making it easy to access these new data layers. It might help to change the balance of power with the map resellers that could want to impose strict guidelines on re-use.