"No one bothers to write in anonymously [..] Gripes about husbands, wives, children, and commanding officers come signed with the sender's real name and address. Mike doesn't reply to these messages, and he doesn't publish them, but how do they know he won't? One theory he's encountered in his user-experience work: People trust simply designed sites."
There's a lesson to be learned here. Less bloat, more trust!
"If his winning streak continues, Jennings could become the most celebrated software engineer in America."
Engineers can put probes on Mars and take pictures of Jupiter, but if you want to be celebrated, you must go on TV:)
Is it a bad idea to rely so heavily upon one service for our major internet needs?
We do that already. Remember when verisign introduced Sitefinder, thus effectively making various services (like spam filters etc) unusable because non-existing domains all of a sudden replied with a valid IP.
I agree with mar1boro. The information that the ad-company will gain by throwing a contest like this, far exceeds the prices you can win. It's a brilliant idea though (from the companys point of view).
Someone should be wacked over the head with a clue bat. It seems to me, that the core issue here is, that someone (this "someone" being a script) is reading eveybodys mail.
Well... what the heck do they think Baysean filters does? A lot (most) of email providers offers spam filtering including Baysean filter. Guess what - they read your email! - in the same way that gmail does.
Sheesh.
I did my master thesis in computer science in this area. We made a system to automatically segment and visualize the vessels in the brain. One usage was for Laparoscopic surgery, albeit they mostly use the system as a pre-operation planner.
Anyway, my point is, that the methods we used for the visualization isn't that far away from what is used in modern game development. We also aimed to show as many polygons as possible, animated and shaded, on the screen at once, like modern 3D games.
The model wasn't that complex, so our home made engine had no problem viewing it in real time, but I see no problem in using a game engine such as Quakes to visualize medical data.
I don't get it. This is news about a feature in an OS that's not available yet, and when it's available, that feature will have changed? Excuse me, but what the heck is this about? (I'm not trying to sound like a troll - I'm really confused)
With bandwidth getting cheaper, I reckon it's just a matter of time before we see san.google.com. Google takes care of all the expensive issues of a SAN - all you do is plug'n'play. Still not suitable when speed is an issue, but it may be at some point.
Ok, I always welcome new serious products for Linux, but this seems very odd. WP doesn't even sell well in the win32 version. What makes them think it will be any different on Linux? Just wondering
This is indeed how it works here. You pay a flat, monthy fee to the ISP and then you have access to all the hotspots nation wide.
I'm actually considering buying an SD-Wifi card for my PDA. That could actually be usefull. I'm not usually carrying my laptop around, but my PDA is always with me.
This seems to be a world wide trend. Here in good ol'.dk the local telco just installed wifi access on McDonalds, Statoil gas stations and a lot of other places. Access is free for the next three months.
I wonder if people with laptops will replace the image people with cell phones had 5 years ago.
Damnit - I need to get this off my chest. If this much effort was put into catching the real criminals of the internet (spammers, child pornographers etc) the net would be a much better and safer place. All this is just due to a huge lobby and a horde of overpaid lawyers. I refuse to recognize this as problem worthy of this many ressources.
Ok - I'll get off my soapbox now. Sorry for the rant.
This looks like a good idea for browsing your history. However, I usually find items of interst through two metods - I either search or I browse. This will help me in the latter. If this was combined with a free text search (maybe a client-side google) they'd have a heck of a tool.
From the article " it is completely 100 precent pollution-free."". This is not completely true. It's correct that the application of hydrogen as a fuel doesn't pollute, but the creation of hydrogen does indeed require traditional energy. Besides, the degree of efficiency is not 100%. In other words - if you use 100 kj of energy to create hydrogen, you don't get 100 kj back from spending the hydrogen. So, you could say that this is actually more polluting than conventional energy sources.
"And the ads are a little more low key" . Really? I find them more intrusive than before, because they look like the search result, and thusly my eyes tend to catch them more than before. And I'm pretty sure that's the idea.
So basically they want to be able to "route" electricity in different directions in case of a power node failure. Opens up a whole new area for hackers. Imagine an eDdos (electric Distributed denial of service) attack on pentagon.
So what this basically means is, that unhappy people chose a career in IT, not that IT makes you unhappy. Think about it - when we were young, the IT savvy where the geeks with no friends. They (we) are the guys working as IT professionals today. IT didn't make me unhappy. Being a nerd did.
Ok, so here's what they do. They enable access to MS outlook information (address book, email etc) without having to go through the entire boot sequence.
That means, your anti-virus product hasn't been launched yet, but you can still read that funny mail telling you to "see this amazing attachment".
It also means, that they're basically providing an API to the outlook address book. That means, if you can fake that you're really just the BIOS requesting the information, you can make a virus that can access all the information it needs - undetected.
Some might call this a feature. Other might call this Yet Another Reason To Avoid Phoenix And Outlook.
We host some servers. If they do not have power, the customers goes apeshit (and I blame the guy that doesn't speak english). That's it. No one has died (yet). Still, we have two seperate diesel power generators in underground concrete shelters. Why is it that a small hosting company has more power supply redundancy than a level 4 biological lab?
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"No one bothers to write in anonymously [..] Gripes about husbands, wives, children, and commanding officers come signed with the sender's real name and address. Mike doesn't reply to these messages, and he doesn't publish them, but how do they know he won't? One theory he's encountered in his user-experience work: People trust simply designed sites."
There's a lesson to be learned here. Less bloat, more trust!
"If his winning streak continues, Jennings could become the most celebrated software engineer in America." :)
Engineers can put probes on Mars and take pictures of Jupiter, but if you want to be celebrated, you must go on TV
Nice list, but I don't see any equivalent for Indesign og Pagemaker.
Is it a bad idea to rely so heavily upon one service for our major internet needs?
We do that already. Remember when verisign introduced Sitefinder, thus effectively making various services (like spam filters etc) unusable because non-existing domains all of a sudden replied with a valid IP.
I agree with mar1boro. The information that the ad-company will gain by throwing a contest like this, far exceeds the prices you can win. It's a brilliant idea though (from the companys point of view).
Someone should be wacked over the head with a clue bat. It seems to me, that the core issue here is, that someone (this "someone" being a script) is reading eveybodys mail.
Well... what the heck do they think Baysean filters does? A lot (most) of email providers offers spam filtering including Baysean filter. Guess what - they read your email! - in the same way that gmail does.
Sheesh.
This could have consequences for sites like bash.org
"As something of an anorak/geek/nerd myself."
Since when has anorak become synonymous with geek? This is the first time I've seen it.
This technology along with a vibrator would solve the problem quite effectively.
I did my master thesis in computer science in this area. We made a system to automatically segment and visualize the vessels in the brain. One usage was for Laparoscopic surgery, albeit they mostly use the system as a pre-operation planner.
Anyway, my point is, that the methods we used for the visualization isn't that far away from what is used in modern game development. We also aimed to show as many polygons as possible, animated and shaded, on the screen at once, like modern 3D games.
The model wasn't that complex, so our home made engine had no problem viewing it in real time, but I see no problem in using a game engine such as Quakes to visualize medical data.
I don't get it. This is news about a feature in an OS that's not available yet, and when it's available, that feature will have changed? Excuse me, but what the heck is this about? (I'm not trying to sound like a troll - I'm really confused)
With bandwidth getting cheaper, I reckon it's just a matter of time before we see san.google.com. Google takes care of all the expensive issues of a SAN - all you do is plug'n'play. Still not suitable when speed is an issue, but it may be at some point.
Ok, I always welcome new serious products for Linux, but this seems very odd. WP doesn't even sell well in the win32 version. What makes them think it will be any different on Linux? Just wondering
This is indeed how it works here. You pay a flat, monthy fee to the ISP and then you have access to all the hotspots nation wide.
I'm actually considering buying an SD-Wifi card for my PDA. That could actually be usefull. I'm not usually carrying my laptop around, but my PDA is always with me.
This seems to be a world wide trend. Here in good ol' .dk the local telco just installed wifi access on McDonalds, Statoil gas stations and a lot of other places. Access is free for the next three months.
I wonder if people with laptops will replace the image people with cell phones had 5 years ago.
Damnit - I need to get this off my chest. If this much effort was put into catching the real criminals of the internet (spammers, child pornographers etc) the net would be a much better and safer place. All this is just due to a huge lobby and a horde of overpaid lawyers. I refuse to recognize this as problem worthy of this many ressources.
Ok - I'll get off my soapbox now. Sorry for the rant.
This looks like a good idea for browsing your history. However, I usually find items of interst through two metods - I either search or I browse. This will help me in the latter. If this was combined with a free text search (maybe a client-side google) they'd have a heck of a tool.
From the article " it is completely 100 precent pollution-free."". This is not completely true. It's correct that the application of hydrogen as a fuel doesn't pollute, but the creation of hydrogen does indeed require traditional energy. Besides, the degree of efficiency is not 100%. In other words - if you use 100 kj of energy to create hydrogen, you don't get 100 kj back from spending the hydrogen. So, you could say that this is actually more polluting than conventional energy sources.
"And the ads are a little more low key" . Really? I find them more intrusive than before, because they look like the search result, and thusly my eyes tend to catch them more than before. And I'm pretty sure that's the idea.
Some of the fish died, others heavily mutated. Here's a picture of the mutated fish.
So basically they want to be able to "route" electricity in different directions in case of a power node failure. Opens up a whole new area for hackers. Imagine an eDdos (electric Distributed denial of service) attack on pentagon.
So what this basically means is, that unhappy people chose a career in IT, not that IT makes you unhappy. Think about it - when we were young, the IT savvy where the geeks with no friends. They (we) are the guys working as IT professionals today. IT didn't make me unhappy. Being a nerd did.
Ok, so here's what they do. They enable access to MS outlook information (address book, email etc) without having to go through the entire boot sequence.
That means, your anti-virus product hasn't been launched yet, but you can still read that funny mail telling you to "see this amazing attachment".
It also means, that they're basically providing an API to the outlook address book. That means, if you can fake that you're really just the BIOS requesting the information, you can make a virus that can access all the information it needs - undetected.
Some might call this a feature. Other might call this Yet Another Reason To Avoid Phoenix And Outlook.
We host some servers. If they do not have power, the customers goes apeshit (and I blame the guy that doesn't speak english). That's it. No one has died (yet). Still, we have two seperate diesel power generators in underground concrete shelters. Why is it that a small hosting company has more power supply redundancy than a level 4 biological lab?
I've had a device that could detect (and react) to words I haven't even spoken yet, for years now. I call the device "wife".