Well, Purdue likes to go out there and commercialize the technology that they have. Plenty of them go through the Purdue Research Foundation... apparently including this one.
In fact, there's a booming research park north of campus that has a lot of these companies.
I attended a talk that Steve Meyer (one of the presenters of the paper) gave at Purdue as part of the CERIAS Security Seminar Series. Link to the video is here. It's definitely worth a watch.
I'm curious about whether these inaccuracies are limited to science/computers. It's entirely possible that the media sources we trust to be accurate are actually riddled with errors.
I'd definitely say that's a good possibility, given the amount of corrections found on Regret the Error. One of the interesting things that was brought up on the site a couple of weeks ago was the real lack of correction pages for broadcast journalism. If there's an issue in a newspaper article, then a correction is run in the next couple of days. However, there seems to be no real way to demonstrate a correction on a local or network news broadcast.
According to this article, the state legislature is planning on changing the open records law specificially to exclude mailing lists from being able to be released to the public under the law. So... not very long at all.
Actually, I don't find this to be all that difficult on Windows. Just Alt-F, W, F. Admittedly it is a couple more keystrokes than the Apple version... but I can do it really fast, so it doesn't affect me.
(In fact, I spend most of my time waiting for Windows to catch up when I make the folder...)
Admittedly, I'm a freshman at Purdue in CS, so I haven't really looked at the job market all that closely in Fort Wayne. I do, however, have a few thoughts on the area:
Jobs in general: Indiana's economy is heavily based on manufacturing and service providing. I believe we lost the 2nd highest amounts of jobs last year due to cuts by manufacturers. High-tech jobs, though, do not seem to be a common thing in the area. About the only high-tech companies that I know about in our area of the state would be the big 3 orthopedic manufacturers over in Warsaw, IN (north-central part of the state)... having 3 of the 5 largest manufacturers in the world headquartered in a town of about 10-15 thousand is pretty amazing. That said, there's not all that many other opportunities (at least, not well publicised ones. My dad works in the same industrial park as Britannia Inc, the company mentioned in the story, and I doubt that he even knows what they do, let alone me).
Brain Drain: This appears to be the biggest problem for our area (and the entire state in general.) Indiana is a nice place to raise kids, but kids don't want to stay in the area. Most of my friends from high school refer to Fort Wayne as "Fort Fun", a place where there's nothing to do. Their disillusion sticks with them... many of them "just want to get the heck out of here" (quote from one of them). I think what would attract the kids back would be an improvement in the quality of jobs... more high-tech jobs as opposed to manufacturing ones that don't really appeal to college graduates.
Anyways, these are just my thoughts on things. I personally think Fort Wayne is a great town, and I would like to return there after I graduate. The problem for me is finding a job... but it appears that I had a opportunity all along in Britannia.
On another note... I wonder what the nutritional content of these will be. High in fiber, perhaps? Will they offer a low-sugar, low fat version?... I suppose only time will tell.
First of all, the article mentions that the cd is covered with a.01 mm layer of resin supposedly "tough" enough to withstand the strongest teeth. So, I think that you might have to break it up into a few more pieces than just 4 or 5.
... On the other hand, what would be the point of eating the disc when it's laying in bunches of pieces? I seriously doubt that someone is going to sit through and try to glue together the pieces.
Check out Joe Drago's impressions at OSNews. His story revolves around City of Heroes and an older game, namely Grim Fandango. His review is pretty much all positive. Here's an excerpt for those who don't bother to RTFA:
If you are a Linux user that is tired of rebooting for those Windows games, this is definitely for you, but you can't be afraid to help coax Cedega into playing your favorite games just right. I think that it's going to get better with each release.
When I first read this story's title on this, I immediately thought of They Might Be Giants' infamous Dial-A-Song program, which can incidentally be reached at (718) 387-6962.
Something, though, tells me that this test isn't going to apply to this sort of dial-up audio.
This is old news to me. This summer, some of my friends figured out a way to get this to work on a modified fan (i.e. the LEDs were mounted on one of the fan's fins). While I'm not sure how exactly they got it to work (I just saw the final project, but they hooked it up to the computer somehow), it was kinda cool just to see the thing work.
Besides, it helped to cool you down. What could be better? In fact, these would probably work fairly well at amusement parks with the fans producing subliminal messages (along the lines of "Buy More Pepsi!") as well as cooling the people off.
I am a senior at an Indiana high school, and I printed out a copy of the article to show to my English teacher. After looking over it, she said a couple of things to me:
They have decided at my school to grade all the exams (I'm not sure which grades) by hand because they have had several issues with the system. She claims that the computer doesn't really recognize sophisticated diction or syntax patterns such as inverted sentences; in fact, the computer apparently grades these lower than students who choose to use simple diction and sentence structures.
Now for an example: she was in the library administrating one of her freshman English classes. She had three students in front of her, with the middle one being an excellent writer and the other two being mediocre at best. The middle writer was having some problems with the system, as it claimed that her essay was too short for the computer to grade, except that my teacher looked at all three essays and discovered that the person in the middle had written the most (100-200 words more).
Meanwhile, the student on the left had gotten a score of 5, and the person on the right said that he had also gotten a 5 and was happy with it. My teacher started reading the right person's essay, and discovered a misuse of both "its"/"it's" and "they're"/"their"/"there" in the first sentence. The second sentence wasn't even that; it was a fragment.
She didn't tell me how the rest of the essay went, but I would imagine that it followed the same general pattern. Yet, somehow, it received a 5. Something's screwy here...
Right, but the whole point of Wikipedia is to build an open-content, user-modified encyclopedia. If you feel there's a lack of Finnish articles, then write some Finnish articles.
I don't mean to sound harsh at all, but... one shouldn't complain when he has the opportunity to help rectify the source of his complaint.
I'm sorry, but the size of Crono's eyes leads me to believe that he's constipated (or something along those lines)...
Then again... that could be some new feature in the game.
The music was one of the great attractions for me. I'm not much of an RPG player (AKA I've completed maybe 4 at the most), but the music really drew me into the game.
I don't even know where to start with my favorite tracks... there's so many of them!
Then there were the wonderful SNES graphics. I look at them today, and I'm still amazed by their punch.
there was an episode of X-Play the other day that had a trucking game that I just had to laught out loud at. No collision detection, you raced against an oppontent that never moved, and there was no sound AT ALL.
You're probably talking about "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing," which was mentioned back in January here on Slashdot. From what I've seen of the game, it truly is one of the buggiest/worst games of all time, leading to its staggering 4% rating at Gametab.
For those of you who were wondering/complaining...
on
Google's Bigger Index
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· Score: 3, Informative
According to Google's cache of Google, there used to be only 3,307,998,701 pages in their index, as opposed to the 4,285,199,774 (as of writing) in the index.
It's also interesting to note that both have a copyright date of 2004, which would imply that Google has found just under 1 billion websites in a month and a half, which seems like an interesting fact.
My high school drama teacher had recieved a plaque a few years ago from a couple of techies. The plague was entitled "The Rules of Screwing." Needless to say, this was very suggestive, including my favorite one:
"There is an purpose for every screw, and a screw for every purpose."
I have to wholeheartedly agree with you. The Mozilla line of browsers is definitely the best browser around, but many people don't know about it/take the time to install it. It took MS a while to get it done, but at least they have it installed.
[Slightly OT] Even with my warm recommendation of Mozilla, I use IE constantly on a daily basis. Mozilla just takes a while to load up on this computer of mine, whereas IE starts up in a matter of seconds... speed is a lot more important on a daily basis than adherence to standards.
This story seems kinda curious to me. Google appears to handle what has to be a magnificient strain on their webservers just fine... and I doubt that Orkut had as many users as Google.
Then again... this just proves that not even Google is immune to being slashdotted...
For the first problem, though, perhaps a SETI-ish distributed "Heritrix" could help make regularly archiving all of these sites a managable affair. IA sends marching orders out to the distributed volunteer network, each clients downloads, compares MD5 of the pages with other clients, compresses them, and sends them back to a master archive. Sounds great in theory, at least at first, to me...
There actually is a program out there called Grub that tries to follow this concept. I had contributed to the project in its infancy, but once it was bought out by LookSmart, I kinda moved away from it. A lot of people were complaining about Grub's utter lack of respect for no crawl sections of sites and robots.txt. It might have changed a little bit since then to actually support robots.txt, so it might be worth your try.
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From the looks of a report on Purdue's website, it's been undergoing research since at least 2003.
Well, Purdue likes to go out there and commercialize the technology that they have. Plenty of them go through the Purdue Research Foundation... apparently including this one.
In fact, there's a booming research park north of campus that has a lot of these companies.
I attended a talk that Steve Meyer (one of the presenters of the paper) gave at Purdue as part of the CERIAS Security Seminar Series. Link to the video is here. It's definitely worth a watch.
I'd definitely say that's a good possibility, given the amount of corrections found on Regret the Error. One of the interesting things that was brought up on the site a couple of weeks ago was the real lack of correction pages for broadcast journalism. If there's an issue in a newspaper article, then a correction is run in the next couple of days. However, there seems to be no real way to demonstrate a correction on a local or network news broadcast.
According to this article, the state legislature is planning on changing the open records law specificially to exclude mailing lists from being able to be released to the public under the law. So... not very long at all.
Actually, I don't find this to be all that difficult on Windows. Just Alt-F, W, F. Admittedly it is a couple more keystrokes than the Apple version... but I can do it really fast, so it doesn't affect me.
(In fact, I spend most of my time waiting for Windows to catch up when I make the folder...)
I watched the episode, and he responded like so:
What is
Fed-Ex?
Anyways, these are just my thoughts on things. I personally think Fort Wayne is a great town, and I would like to return there after I graduate. The problem for me is finding a job ... but it appears that I had a opportunity all along in Britannia.
--Ryan
On another note... I wonder what the nutritional content of these will be. High in fiber, perhaps? Will they offer a low-sugar, low fat version? ... I suppose only time will tell.
Actually, there is one. Just hit the escape key. It'll close the bar just fine.
Something, though, tells me that this test isn't going to apply to this sort of dial-up audio.
This is old news to me. This summer, some of my friends figured out a way to get this to work on a modified fan (i.e. the LEDs were mounted on one of the fan's fins). While I'm not sure how exactly they got it to work (I just saw the final project, but they hooked it up to the computer somehow), it was kinda cool just to see the thing work.
Besides, it helped to cool you down. What could be better? In fact, these would probably work fairly well at amusement parks with the fans producing subliminal messages (along the lines of "Buy More Pepsi!") as well as cooling the people off.
They have decided at my school to grade all the exams (I'm not sure which grades) by hand because they have had several issues with the system. She claims that the computer doesn't really recognize sophisticated diction or syntax patterns such as inverted sentences; in fact, the computer apparently grades these lower than students who choose to use simple diction and sentence structures.
Now for an example: she was in the library administrating one of her freshman English classes. She had three students in front of her, with the middle one being an excellent writer and the other two being mediocre at best. The middle writer was having some problems with the system, as it claimed that her essay was too short for the computer to grade, except that my teacher looked at all three essays and discovered that the person in the middle had written the most (100-200 words more).
Meanwhile, the student on the left had gotten a score of 5, and the person on the right said that he had also gotten a 5 and was happy with it. My teacher started reading the right person's essay, and discovered a misuse of both "its"/"it's" and "they're"/"their"/"there" in the first sentence. The second sentence wasn't even that; it was a fragment.
She didn't tell me how the rest of the essay went, but I would imagine that it followed the same general pattern. Yet, somehow, it received a 5. Something's screwy here...
I don't mean to sound harsh at all, but... one shouldn't complain when he has the opportunity to help rectify the source of his complaint.
I'm sorry, but the size of Crono's eyes leads me to believe that he's constipated (or something along those lines)...
Then again... that could be some new feature in the game.
The music was one of the great attractions for me. I'm not much of an RPG player (AKA I've completed maybe 4 at the most), but the music really drew me into the game. I don't even know where to start with my favorite tracks... there's so many of them! Then there were the wonderful SNES graphics. I look at them today, and I'm still amazed by their punch.
I wonder where they're racing to?
You're probably talking about "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing," which was mentioned back in January here on Slashdot. From what I've seen of the game, it truly is one of the buggiest/worst games of all time, leading to its staggering 4% rating at Gametab.
It's also interesting to note that both have a copyright date of 2004, which would imply that Google has found just under 1 billion websites in a month and a half, which seems like an interesting fact.
"There is an purpose for every screw, and a screw for every purpose."
[Slightly OT] Even with my warm recommendation of Mozilla, I use IE constantly on a daily basis. Mozilla just takes a while to load up on this computer of mine, whereas IE starts up in a matter of seconds... speed is a lot more important on a daily basis than adherence to standards.
Then again... this just proves that not even Google is immune to being slashdotted...
There actually is a program out there called Grub that tries to follow this concept. I had contributed to the project in its infancy, but once it was bought out by LookSmart, I kinda moved away from it. A lot of people were complaining about Grub's utter lack of respect for no crawl sections of sites and robots.txt. It might have changed a little bit since then to actually support robots.txt, so it might be worth your try.