Doubleclick was the very first host I mapped to 127.0.0.1 in my host file when web ads started to appear. I wonder how many people actully did that? I know that most of my co workers did it - even those that didn't know what it meant. " It also lowered its fourth-quarter earnings forecast to $72 million to $77 million"
Obviously, not many, since they can make that kind of money.
Plants with flattened seedpods also take advantage of the falling-paper effect.
A specific example of this is the sycamore seed. As a matter of fact, landing a helicopter without motor assistance is called "the sycamore landing". It utilizes the exact same theory these phycisists has explained. So - It's not the theory that's new - it's the level of detail.
Why use a 30mm wide angle lens when a 300mm zoom would've been more appropriate?
I've seen the movie, and the other comments are correct - it's just a dot that appears and fades away.
It would have been much better if he'd used a zoom lens, unless I'm missing something?
Pretty neat technology
What? This is not neat. This is a step backwards. If drivers gets accustomed that their car will alert them if they're about to hit something, it will probably encourage them to contiue that extra hour of unsafe driving.
I bought this camera specifially for it's video capabilities. It takes so-so pictures, but the video is excellent. It can record directly på MPEG which is a huge advantage. It can hold 30 minutes of high quality MPEG on the memorystick.
Just thought I wanted to show you an alternative. I have no stocks in Sony (wish I did though;)
Good point.
Like the pictures of abused prisoners in Iraq. They've been around the rest of the world for a year before they finally surfaced in the US.
Compared to that, a two day cover up in china isn't scary.
I wouldn't call it hacking. More like reverse engineering the old service and building a new.
Call me a nitpicker, but the term hacker is growing too wide for my taste.
You don't need 600 persons to commit cyber crime. You need one script kiddie with 600.000 zombie windows machines, since I reckon the most effective type of eWAR is ddos. Hacking one machine isn't nearly as effective as nuking an entire infrastructure using a distributed dos.
"It's smaller than a standard postcard." /me sets mode +rant
No it's not. Two of the three dimensions are smaller than a postcard, but so are the flag pole I have in my back yard. Comparisons like that are useless. /me sets mode -rant
One of the reasons why they can keep the cost down is the lack of safety. In India, human lives aren't considered very valuable. And, before you mod me as flamebait, let me tell you where I got this from. I was visiting India at the time where the tensions between India and Pakistan was high. Both countries threatened with nuclear weapons. The indians I spoke with all said the same thing, when I asked them if they weren't concerned with a nuclear war: "So they drop the bomb on us, and 50 million people die. Big deal, we're still a billion people. So we drop the bomb om them, and kill 50 million people and win the war."
Of course, this point of view is very different from our western view, and very difficult for us to understand. But we do spend a lot of money on safety - not only in the space industry, but elsewhere. And that can make a big difference in project cost.
All the goatse jokes aside, I find this very interesting. I still remember the impact Jules Vernes "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" had on me when I was a kid. I so wanted them to find som eerie remains of some unknown creature at the bottom of the cave.
When I read stories like this, I get an urge in my stomach to give up life as a geek and become an explorer. I reckon I'm not the only one, since the story was posted on slashdot? /me walks out of the office "So long suckers!"
"Hopefully this will cut down on vendor lock-in and lure people from using Microsoft Office."
uhm - what planet have you been living on for the last decade? It's very simple. People use MS Office because people use MS Office. Not because of the file format. I'm forced to use MS Office at $DAYJOB because my customers use it. They don't know the first thing about what file format they save their drivel in. They just hit "send as email" and forget about it.
I dislike MS Office as much as the next guy. If I had my way, LaTeX would be the standard. But if anyone thinks that an ISO label on a file format will lure anyone away from MS Office they're plain wrong. Period.
The what where now?
on
They Killed Ken!
·
· Score: -1, Flamebait
I feel like burning some karma.
Who the hell is Ken? And what game are you talking about?
That's not news for nerds, stuff that matters. That's news for americans, stuff that really doesn't matter.
In related news, Barbie needs a new boyfriend.
My sex life would be worse. I mean - today I only get those that would "do anyone with a pulse". Once I fall out of that category, my only sex life would be when my pocket is picked.
I just saw the videoclip and it does look kindda fun. And I agree it improves the sport - honestly, polo has always had this gayish image, hasn't it? Now it looks ultra l33t.
Here's an idea. Don't charge per click but per sale generated. The advertizer is happy, because he gets what he pays for. Google is happy, because the customer pays for what they get. There wouldn't be any idea in boosting up the click rate, and fraud would be virtually impossible.
If you've ever had to create an Oracle application with support for Chinese you know that it's quite an ordeal. The core of the database just isn't suited for a language that, among other things, doesn't have spaces.
It makes perfectly sense to open an R&D department in China, since there's a huge market there, and of course Oracle wants to fully support chinese.
Slashdot Mirror
This is interesting, albeit not surprising.
Doubleclick was the very first host I mapped to 127.0.0.1 in my host file when web ads started to appear. I wonder how many people actully did that? I know that most of my co workers did it - even those that didn't know what it meant.
" It also lowered its fourth-quarter earnings forecast to $72 million to $77 million"
Obviously, not many, since they can make that kind of money.
Plants with flattened seedpods also take advantage of the falling-paper effect.
A specific example of this is the sycamore seed. As a matter of fact, landing a helicopter without motor assistance is called "the sycamore landing". It utilizes the exact same theory these phycisists has explained. So - It's not the theory that's new - it's the level of detail.
Why use a 30mm wide angle lens when a 300mm zoom would've been more appropriate?
I've seen the movie, and the other comments are correct - it's just a dot that appears and fades away.
It would have been much better if he'd used a zoom lens, unless I'm missing something?
I'll see your Yahoogle and raise with a Microsoogle
They forgot sex robots. Add a bit of movement and AI to a RealDoll and you will have a bestseller.
(I'm only partially kidding.)
Pretty neat technology
What? This is not neat. This is a step backwards. If drivers gets accustomed that their car will alert them if they're about to hit something, it will probably encourage them to contiue that extra hour of unsafe driving.
I bought this camera specifially for it's video capabilities. It takes so-so pictures, but the video is excellent. It can record directly på MPEG which is a huge advantage. It can hold 30 minutes of high quality MPEG on the memorystick. ;)
Just thought I wanted to show you an alternative. I have no stocks in Sony (wish I did though
Good point. Like the pictures of abused prisoners in Iraq. They've been around the rest of the world for a year before they finally surfaced in the US. Compared to that, a two day cover up in china isn't scary.
I wouldn't call it hacking. More like reverse engineering the old service and building a new.
Call me a nitpicker, but the term hacker is growing too wide for my taste.
You don't need 600 persons to commit cyber crime. You need one script kiddie with 600.000 zombie windows machines, since I reckon the most effective type of eWAR is ddos. Hacking one machine isn't nearly as effective as nuking an entire infrastructure using a distributed dos.
"It's smaller than a standard postcard."
/me sets mode +rant
/me sets mode -rant
No it's not. Two of the three dimensions are smaller than a postcard, but so are the flag pole I have in my back yard. Comparisons like that are useless.
One of the reasons why they can keep the cost down is the lack of safety. In India, human lives aren't considered very valuable. And, before you mod me as flamebait, let me tell you where I got this from. I was visiting India at the time where the tensions between India and Pakistan was high. Both countries threatened with nuclear weapons. The indians I spoke with all said the same thing, when I asked them if they weren't concerned with a nuclear war: "So they drop the bomb on us, and 50 million people die. Big deal, we're still a billion people. So we drop the bomb om them, and kill 50 million people and win the war."
Of course, this point of view is very different from our western view, and very difficult for us to understand. But we do spend a lot of money on safety - not only in the space industry, but elsewhere. And that can make a big difference in project cost.
All the goatse jokes aside, I find this very interesting. I still remember the impact Jules Vernes "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" had on me when I was a kid. I so wanted them to find som eerie remains of some unknown creature at the bottom of the cave.
/me walks out of the office "So long suckers!"
When I read stories like this, I get an urge in my stomach to give up life as a geek and become an explorer. I reckon I'm not the only one, since the story was posted on slashdot?
"Hopefully this will cut down on vendor lock-in and lure people from using Microsoft Office."
uhm - what planet have you been living on for the last decade? It's very simple. People use MS Office because people use MS Office. Not because of the file format. I'm forced to use MS Office at $DAYJOB because my customers use it. They don't know the first thing about what file format they save their drivel in. They just hit "send as email" and forget about it.
I dislike MS Office as much as the next guy. If I had my way, LaTeX would be the standard. But if anyone thinks that an ISO label on a file format will lure anyone away from MS Office they're plain wrong. Period.
I feel like burning some karma.
Who the hell is Ken? And what game are you talking about?
That's not news for nerds, stuff that matters. That's news for americans, stuff that really doesn't matter.
In related news, Barbie needs a new boyfriend.
Film at 11... oh wait, make that puppet theater at 11, since the RIAA has confiscated the film
Am I the only one who read this as "Artificial pron"?
My sex life would be worse. I mean - today I only get those that would "do anyone with a pulse". Once I fall out of that category, my only sex life would be when my pocket is picked.
I just saw the videoclip and it does look kindda fun. And I agree it improves the sport - honestly, polo has always had this gayish image, hasn't it? Now it looks ultra l33t.
"[..] the FBI invoked a provision of the USA Patriot Act to obtain financial records from his ISP. Is copyright infringment now a terrorist act?"
This raises the obvious question. Is the Patriot act really about terrorism?
Reminds me of Oliver.. A chimpanse walking upright. Full story here..
Here's a nifty one-handed keyboard
Here's an idea. Don't charge per click but per sale generated. The advertizer is happy, because he gets what he pays for. Google is happy, because the customer pays for what they get. There wouldn't be any idea in boosting up the click rate, and fraud would be virtually impossible.
If you've ever had to create an Oracle application with support for Chinese you know that it's quite an ordeal. The core of the database just isn't suited for a language that, among other things, doesn't have spaces.
It makes perfectly sense to open an R&D department in China, since there's a huge market there, and of course Oracle wants to fully support chinese.