Why do children need to be on social networking sites? Why can't they just invite their friends over and talk to them face to face. I didn't have facebook and myspace growing and I turned out alright (and I am not that old).
My grandfather grew up without TV, so they shouldn't have let my father grow up with a TV? Society and culture change, especially with new technologies. Going back to "the way things were" is a tempting nostalgic idea but just not practical. Personally I think it's great that the children today are learning about networking with people from all over the world. It is up to the parents to make sure it is done safely.
Am I the only one wondering who has the most information right now and why there isn't a complaint against that company already with the FTC?
Well I think its more like right now Double click and Google have roughly the same "amount" of information, but since they are in different areas its hard to quantify. After the merger, when one heuristically quantifies the amount of information they have compared to other companies, one concludes that Google definitely has "more" than the other companies.
So think of it like this: Who has more fruit, John with apples, Betsy with oranges, or Fran with tomatoes(a fruit). Well they all have the same "amount" of fruit, though they are different in terms of weight, amount of vitamin C, etc. But if John and Betsy combine forces, it is easier to say that Fran has "less" fruit than John & Betsy LLC.
I went to the Game Developers Conference and went to a session where a gentleman from either IBM or Intel gave a talk on how to utilize extra cores and yet not penalize those that did not have multicore. As an aside, Intel also offers something called the "Building Blocks" library which parallelizes primitive things such as for loops. Anywho, back to something game specific, a few of the suggestions below:
Particle physics for client-side visual effects (omit on non multi-core machines)
Animate faces more, smoother more natural animations when walking up stairs/inclines (again more static and rigid on single core machines)
Animate cloth/hair
And my personal favorite
Dynamic texture/model tessellation. (models far away are less complex than models close up, make the transition smoother)
So, whats my opinion? It's the libraries and programming languages and compilers that will change, the programmer just needs to have an idea of synchronization issues and whatnot.
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Or has it?
Ever wonder why the cat doesn't count as an observer? What does it feel like to be alive and dead at the same time? Do you have to have a soul to observe life or death?
for some geek student to hack in and stalk a cute target.
You got it all wrong, Geeks are socially adjusted. Nerds are the ones that wouldn't go up and talk to someone cute, and even then they wouldn't have the courage to follow them. You're just talking about a straight-up creep. Geek and creep, while sounding similar, are definitely distinctly different.
Man, am I glad I've got 192.168.0.100 through 192.168.0.105 setup on my network at home. Hmmm.....maybe I should lay claim to 106 through 110, just in case.....
WTF? I've got 192.168.0.1 thru 192.168.0.6. ..are you using my router?
No seriously, it has been established a long time ago that the security of cc #'s rests with the merchant. Ever issue a charge back on your credit card? Guess who gets screwed, no its not the cc company. Merchants can get hurt a lot more by leaks of credit card information. Personally I think it makes sense, what better way to get merchants to act responsibly than to have it cost them when they aren't. What you should do is notify the cc company of the merchant where you found numbers. That merchant will be drawn and quartered and posted around Visa headquarters. I can understand thinking the responsibility of the cc company to watch over its merchants that it "allows" to use their cards, but currently thats not how things work.
Nothing specific (I'm on school's computer atm) but just google around for algae production and biodiesel. You can even ferment corn, take the ethanol from it for energy, and pipe the excess co2 created in the process into the algae to help it grow. There was one Colorado based company http://www.solixbiofuels.com/ whos design I particularly like. From my understanding the biggest issue is funding and experience. Noone wants to toss money into a sector of agriculture that hasn't really been explored before, and the reliability of such farms is quite variable (yields varying from 1,000 gallons to 10,000 gallons) due to lack of understanding on the best way to handle the algae and stop impurities. Corn is definitely not the best application to make biofuel but lets face it, we know how to grow corn reliably.
The real question is, can one attack the survey based on it's merits?
Why not just do many surveys and only report the one you like. So take 100 random people, ask them what they're favorite color is. If you get below 80, ask another 100 random people. Eventually you'll get 80+ that say "blue". This way your study is perfectly sound though still biased.
While algae would yield 8000 gallons of biodiesel and 5000 gallons of ethanol per acre. ..and it requires less water (closed system) and that water can be salt water (set up algae farms near coast, use seawater). . .
If humanity does survive another thousand years . ..It's going to be way stranger than Star Trek. You will pine for the days when it was as simple as Star Trek.
Good point. I don't know about the grandparent, but I look forward to seeing you in a few thousand years to discuss this again. Fortunately I plan on living forever; so far so good.
Whoa, who modded me informative, I was just being sarcastic and trying to spark some debate into how the number of photographs or times a camera sees you can be accurately quantified. What does "300 photographs" mean? Walk past 300 individual running video cameras or actually get your photo snapped 300 times? Can you be accurately identified from each of these "photographs"?
It's ok though, all the moderaters have to do is mod my last comment up +5 funny, and then this one +5 informative. Yes I get oodles of karma but it's the integrity of the discussion on slashdot that matters.
What they didn't mention is that with all those video cameras each frame counts as an individual photograph, so standing in view of a 30fps camera for 4 seconds counts as 120 individual photographs. Not as scary once you do the math.
And, as pointed out in the article, the weapon used then was relatively impotent. Would it not be safe to consider that if the assassination were committed today the assassin likely would have also used updated technology (i.e., something more, ahem, potent)?
Ok, I think you're missing the point. Ever think about Apollo 13 and wish you could go back in time with your PDA give it to NASA because it could have replaced the on board computer (using an emulator running under Java while you were playing chess against it) and had its own independent power supply (2x AA's) that would last the whole trip? Or what about giving just Napoleon a single tank that can easily run on kerosene which was readily available back then. Yes technology has come far and people always think about how things used to be and how far we've come. This is just another example of us humans not taking something for granted and realizing how far our technological advances have carried us.
My attempt to get modded up (any positive mod) by only quoting grandparent, parent, and the summary(and in that order). . . here goes:
Most annoying thing are the crashes of Firefox 2.x! I don't care if it eats a lot of memory (I've got 2GB - who wouldn't these days?) or is bloated, but I can't stand the crashes!
I'm running 3/4 of a gig, and I've never had Firefox crash. And I have BOINC running all the time. My CPU is spinning pretty high all the time, and I tend to have a good bit of my RAM being used all the time. So I don't know what you're doing wrong dude.
Firefox addresses this issue somewhat, setting the default cache lower on computers with less than a gigabyte of RAM.
If I told you I had hard evidence as to what happened to Amelia Earhart would you care? She's probably dead too. What about Abraham Lincoln, Napolean, Jesus? It's called history, trying to figure out what happened in the past so we have a better understanding of our world and a better idea of where we are headed in the future.
Anyone reminded of that ad about the guys printing the newspaper that says they use Windows because its more reliable and stuff? That wasn't for the NYSE was it? I see that ad all the time on Slashdot and roll my eyes every time:-p
I'm assuming its based on when the phone rings, if you jam the signal I doubt the phone will "ring" and will instead desync from the tower and search for a signal. Unable to cut through the noise and synchronize with a tower, it will stay in this state until the jamming is done. I can understand where you're confusion comes from, if you pump out random data you may actually pump out the "activate" string. However, I think this is more like preventing the cellphone from handshaking with the tower. Though theoretically it would be possible for the random data to perfectly emulate the tower (CRC and ECC and everything) though I don't think thats likely at all.
Clearly medical research as a whole is irrelevant until we solve world hunger; spaceships, cars, and the internet are even more irrelevant. Progress is progress, how do you know that their research into this gene won't help cancer down the road?
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Why do children need to be on social networking sites? Why can't they just invite their friends over and talk to them face to face. I didn't have facebook and myspace growing and I turned out alright (and I am not that old).
My grandfather grew up without TV, so they shouldn't have let my father grow up with a TV? Society and culture change, especially with new technologies. Going back to "the way things were" is a tempting nostalgic idea but just not practical. Personally I think it's great that the children today are learning about networking with people from all over the world. It is up to the parents to make sure it is done safely.
Tomarrow: Think of the citizens
Am I the only one wondering who has the most information right now and why there isn't a complaint against that company already with the FTC?
Well I think its more like right now Double click and Google have roughly the same "amount" of information, but since they are in different areas its hard to quantify. After the merger, when one heuristically quantifies the amount of information they have compared to other companies, one concludes that Google definitely has "more" than the other companies.
So think of it like this: Who has more fruit, John with apples, Betsy with oranges, or Fran with tomatoes(a fruit). Well they all have the same "amount" of fruit, though they are different in terms of weight, amount of vitamin C, etc. But if John and Betsy combine forces, it is easier to say that Fran has "less" fruit than John & Betsy LLC.
I went to the Game Developers Conference and went to a session where a gentleman from either IBM or Intel gave a talk on how to utilize extra cores and yet not penalize those that did not have multicore. As an aside, Intel also offers something called the "Building Blocks" library which parallelizes primitive things such as for loops. Anywho, back to something game specific, a few of the suggestions below:
Particle physics for client-side visual effects (omit on non multi-core machines)
Animate faces more, smoother more natural animations when walking up stairs/inclines (again more static and rigid on single core machines)
Animate cloth/hair
And my personal favorite
Dynamic texture/model tessellation. (models far away are less complex than models close up, make the transition smoother)
So, whats my opinion? It's the libraries and programming languages and compilers that will change, the programmer just needs to have an idea of synchronization issues and whatnot.
Or has it?
Ever wonder why the cat doesn't count as an observer? What does it feel like to be alive and dead at the same time? Do you have to have a soul to observe life or death?
...and there was much rejoicing! yay. . .
for some geek student to hack in and stalk a cute target.
You got it all wrong, Geeks are socially adjusted. Nerds are the ones that wouldn't go up and talk to someone cute, and even then they wouldn't have the courage to follow them. You're just talking about a straight-up creep. Geek and creep, while sounding similar, are definitely distinctly different.
Man, am I glad I've got 192.168.0.100 through 192.168.0.105 setup on my network at home. Hmmm.....maybe I should lay claim to 106 through 110, just in case.....
.are you using my router?
WTF? I've got 192.168.0.1 thru 192.168.0.6. .
No seriously, it has been established a long time ago that the security of cc #'s rests with the merchant. Ever issue a charge back on your credit card? Guess who gets screwed, no its not the cc company. Merchants can get hurt a lot more by leaks of credit card information. Personally I think it makes sense, what better way to get merchants to act responsibly than to have it cost them when they aren't. What you should do is notify the cc company of the merchant where you found numbers. That merchant will be drawn and quartered and posted around Visa headquarters. I can understand thinking the responsibility of the cc company to watch over its merchants that it "allows" to use their cards, but currently thats not how things work.
That would be "behaviour", mate.
This is in the UK not Australia, so actually it would be "chap", not "mate". Cheerio.
Indeed, but you left out the nounified conjugation: smitification.
Nothing specific (I'm on school's computer atm) but just google around for algae production and biodiesel. You can even ferment corn, take the ethanol from it for energy, and pipe the excess co2 created in the process into the algae to help it grow. There was one Colorado based company http://www.solixbiofuels.com/ whos design I particularly like. From my understanding the biggest issue is funding and experience. Noone wants to toss money into a sector of agriculture that hasn't really been explored before, and the reliability of such farms is quite variable (yields varying from 1,000 gallons to 10,000 gallons) due to lack of understanding on the best way to handle the algae and stop impurities. Corn is definitely not the best application to make biofuel but lets face it, we know how to grow corn reliably.
The real question is, can one attack the survey based on it's merits?
Why not just do many surveys and only report the one you like. So take 100 random people, ask them what they're favorite color is. If you get below 80, ask another 100 random people. Eventually you'll get 80+ that say "blue". This way your study is perfectly sound though still biased.
While algae would yield 8000 gallons of biodiesel and 5000 gallons of ethanol per acre. . .and it requires less water (closed system) and that water can be salt water (set up algae farms near coast, use seawater). . .
If humanity does survive another thousand years . . .It's going to be way stranger than Star Trek. You will pine for the days when it was as simple as Star Trek.
Good point. I don't know about the grandparent, but I look forward to seeing you in a few thousand years to discuss this again. Fortunately I plan on living forever; so far so good.
Whoa, who modded me informative, I was just being sarcastic and trying to spark some debate into how the number of photographs or times a camera sees you can be accurately quantified. What does "300 photographs" mean? Walk past 300 individual running video cameras or actually get your photo snapped 300 times? Can you be accurately identified from each of these "photographs"?
It's ok though, all the moderaters have to do is mod my last comment up +5 funny, and then this one +5 informative. Yes I get oodles of karma but it's the integrity of the discussion on slashdot that matters.
everyone photographed hundreds of times a day
What they didn't mention is that with all those video cameras each frame counts as an individual photograph, so standing in view of a 30fps camera for 4 seconds counts as 120 individual photographs. Not as scary once you do the math.
Thats odd, I saw what looked to be a superposition of 0 and 1.
And, as pointed out in the article, the weapon used then was relatively impotent. Would it not be safe to consider that if the assassination were committed today the assassin likely would have also used updated technology (i.e., something more, ahem, potent)?
Ok, I think you're missing the point. Ever think about Apollo 13 and wish you could go back in time with your PDA give it to NASA because it could have replaced the on board computer (using an emulator running under Java while you were playing chess against it) and had its own independent power supply (2x AA's) that would last the whole trip? Or what about giving just Napoleon a single tank that can easily run on kerosene which was readily available back then. Yes technology has come far and people always think about how things used to be and how far we've come. This is just another example of us humans not taking something for granted and realizing how far our technological advances have carried us.
My attempt to get modded up (any positive mod) by only quoting grandparent, parent, and the summary(and in that order). . . here goes:
Most annoying thing are the crashes of Firefox 2.x! I don't care if it eats a lot of memory (I've got 2GB - who wouldn't these days?) or is bloated, but I can't stand the crashes!
I'm running 3/4 of a gig, and I've never had Firefox crash. And I have BOINC running all the time. My CPU is spinning pretty high all the time, and I tend to have a good bit of my RAM being used all the time. So I don't know what you're doing wrong dude.
Firefox addresses this issue somewhat, setting the default cache lower on computers with less than a gigabyte of RAM.
If I told you I had hard evidence as to what happened to Amelia Earhart would you care? She's probably dead too. What about Abraham Lincoln, Napolean, Jesus? It's called history, trying to figure out what happened in the past so we have a better understanding of our world and a better idea of where we are headed in the future.
Anyone reminded of that ad about the guys printing the newspaper that says they use Windows because its more reliable and stuff? That wasn't for the NYSE was it? I see that ad all the time on Slashdot and roll my eyes every time :-p
I'm assuming its based on when the phone rings, if you jam the signal I doubt the phone will "ring" and will instead desync from the tower and search for a signal. Unable to cut through the noise and synchronize with a tower, it will stay in this state until the jamming is done. I can understand where you're confusion comes from, if you pump out random data you may actually pump out the "activate" string. However, I think this is more like preventing the cellphone from handshaking with the tower. Though theoretically it would be possible for the random data to perfectly emulate the tower (CRC and ECC and everything) though I don't think thats likely at all.
Clearly medical research as a whole is irrelevant until we solve world hunger; spaceships, cars, and the internet are even more irrelevant. Progress is progress, how do you know that their research into this gene won't help cancer down the road?
and finally: Who knew what a tetrahedron was, but didn't know what a "d4" was until the above poster stated it was a die with 4 sides?