Re:One thing Google could do about incoming spam..
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To save you some time in the future, I believe the GMail spam filter automatically whitelists anybody that you have sent e-mail too. The assumption being that if you're sending them e-mail, they're not likely to be sending you spam
I'm sure he would love to except that our dear hosts seem to have forgotten to add it to the preferences when they added the Idle category. Hopefully, that will be fixed soon enough(maybe I'm delusional though.)
Is it really any surprise that researchers are taking such a challenge seriously? Most challenges of this nature generate a lot of interest. Not for the money(the cost of succeding often tend to exceed the size of the prize), but for the publicity and pride involved in succeeding. We are vain animals after all.
The merger, according to their complaint, would give one company access to more information about the Internet activities of consumers than any other company in the world. Wasn't this the case for Google before they bought Google? Not to dismiss their worries(Google freaks me out sometimes), but they could have found a better way to voice them.
First of all, its the student suing the school to get the suspension lifted. As far as I can tell, the school hasn't even tried to get the video pulled. I mean, its in the article itself, after all.
While I agree with you that the punishment doesn't fit the crime, that still doesn't mean that a 1st amendment defense should hold in this case.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable suspension to me. If someone is stupid enough to post a video on a public forum, he should be ready to accept the consequences of somebody seeing that video. To take the situation to the extreme, if someone posts a video on Youtube of themselves killing somebody else, would you want a 1st amendment defense to hold for them.
I kind of agree with you on the whole thinking Nintendo are the messiah thing. But I thought I should point out one thing: selling consoles at a loss is not something that's always been done. Nintendo have never done it, and as far as I know, the only consoles that have are XBox, XBox 360, PS3, and maybe PS2.
You've got a fair point there. I know the PS3 has potential for some fantastic games. That is, if a publisher fully takes advantage of its capacity. Thing is, I think you underestimate just how big of a market kids and people wanting good party games are.
Maybe they have. Maybe they haven't. They also realize that if they were to use that distinction to decide whether to print a science story or not, most science stories wouldn't be printed.
I'm going to try this argument out because you seem rational enough. My general point of view when these arguments crop up about global warming is quite simple. It doesn't really matter which side is right. Yes, shocking isn't it. Think of it this way, can you in all honesty say that the proposed solutions to global warming are bad ideas in their own right? Are you worried that if we drastically reduce CO2 emissions, we'll destroy the current climate or that it will lead to the collapse of our current economy? If you don't, which I believe to be quite likely, then why bother arguing about it?
Just because an idea was tried and failed, doesn't mean that the idea in itself is bad. It could just mean that the implementation of said idea is bad.
Well, the main page of the site have two pictures showing examples of skin detection algorithms and motion vectors as the main tools, so that should be pretty language independent. Personally, skin detection algorithms bug me. They're fairly simple solutions for face and hand tracking and work well under the assumption that everybody has the same color of skin, but we all know this isn't really the case.
The technology for this is very cool and all, but I don't see it as very applicable to use with cell-phones. As far as I know requires the use of both hands, so you would have to put down your phone in a way that you can be seen and you can see the screen and lastly without holding it. This seems like an impossible proposition. But the technology in its own right could be very interesting, at least for desktop video-conferencing units.
Well, I would think that having roof-top gardens, assuming those are actual living plants, would be quite good for reducing carbon dioxide levels. If every single building in the world had a garden on top of it, I think we would take quite a big bite out of the problem. Not to say that someone won't decide to force people to paint their roofs white. The government's capacity for doing stupid things will never cease to amaze me.
It's quite fun to consider that when the original joke was made, the processing power of that Beowulf cluster would probably been quite close to the processing power of the processor discussed in the article.
Hmm, well, I guess you're right. As for your initial question, yes, France's energy is 78% nuclear. As a matter, their the world's largest net exporter of electricity(one of their biggest clients being London). Even then, I think they'd have to increase their nuclear power output drastically in order to have all or most of their cars being electric, never mind all the other obstacles to doing such a thing. Not that would disagree with such a thing, but its no small task.
While I agree that Zelda: TP might not deserve award-winning praises(and this is coming from a Zeldaholic, so that's saying a bit), there are a few things I'd like to point out. I think Nintendo delivered exactly what fans of the series were hoping for which is a new Zelda with the graphical style of Ocarina of Time, only bigger and prettier. And this is hard to argue is not the case. Also, there is a difference between puzzle mechanics and storyline. Not that the story has changed that much, but after all the entire premise of the Zelda universe is history repeating itself. As for the puzzle mechanics, can you imagine the uproar if a Zelda game came out without the bow, hookshot and Master Sword.
I think have made quite a brilliant move with the release of the Wii. On one hand, they have Zelda moving a lot of consoles. On the other hand they have Wii Sports demonstrating the potential of the control mechanics. I have hope that someone will soon come out with an absolutely brilliant use of the Wiimote, which will create a new genre in the same way that GTA3 did for the previous generation.
Well, while all you say is true, the technology for turning garbage into electricity efficiently has existed for a long time. The reason its not used more I don't know, but its probably a combination of reasons. The achievement here, is making the whole thing portable without losing all the efficiency. I have to say, I find the thought of US soldiers standing around in landfills burning trash to power their electronic gadgets quite amusing.
If that was really the intent of the proposal, wouldn't it be easier to, I don't know, increase the punishment for the crimes he has already committed.
Re:Java Only for now, more coming soon
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From the FAQ, they will start adding new types of code starting Summer 2007, and will have a poll to discuss which languages to support.
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To save you some time in the future, I believe the GMail spam filter automatically whitelists anybody that you have sent e-mail too. The assumption being that if you're sending them e-mail, they're not likely to be sending you spam
I'm sure he would love to except that our dear hosts seem to have forgotten to add it to the preferences when they added the Idle category. Hopefully, that will be fixed soon enough(maybe I'm delusional though.)
Is it really any surprise that researchers are taking such a challenge seriously? Most challenges of this nature generate a lot of interest. Not for the money(the cost of succeding often tend to exceed the size of the prize), but for the publicity and pride involved in succeeding. We are vain animals after all.
First of all, its the student suing the school to get the suspension lifted. As far as I can tell, the school hasn't even tried to get the video pulled. I mean, its in the article itself, after all. While I agree with you that the punishment doesn't fit the crime, that still doesn't mean that a 1st amendment defense should hold in this case.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable suspension to me. If someone is stupid enough to post a video on a public forum, he should be ready to accept the consequences of somebody seeing that video. To take the situation to the extreme, if someone posts a video on Youtube of themselves killing somebody else, would you want a 1st amendment defense to hold for them.
I kind of agree with you on the whole thinking Nintendo are the messiah thing. But I thought I should point out one thing: selling consoles at a loss is not something that's always been done. Nintendo have never done it, and as far as I know, the only consoles that have are XBox, XBox 360, PS3, and maybe PS2.
You fool. Why did you tell him the Spanish Inquisition is coming. Now he's going to expect it.
Hmm, what would the other three horsemen be. one wonders. Terrorism is one of them, obviously, but we need another two.
You've got a fair point there. I know the PS3 has potential for some fantastic games. That is, if a publisher fully takes advantage of its capacity. Thing is, I think you underestimate just how big of a market kids and people wanting good party games are.
Maybe they have. Maybe they haven't. They also realize that if they were to use that distinction to decide whether to print a science story or not, most science stories wouldn't be printed.
I'm going to try this argument out because you seem rational enough. My general point of view when these arguments crop up about global warming is quite simple. It doesn't really matter which side is right. Yes, shocking isn't it. Think of it this way, can you in all honesty say that the proposed solutions to global warming are bad ideas in their own right? Are you worried that if we drastically reduce CO2 emissions, we'll destroy the current climate or that it will lead to the collapse of our current economy? If you don't, which I believe to be quite likely, then why bother arguing about it?
I've always just assumed it was the Earth purring.
Just because an idea was tried and failed, doesn't mean that the idea in itself is bad. It could just mean that the implementation of said idea is bad.
Well, the main page of the site have two pictures showing examples of skin detection algorithms and motion vectors as the main tools, so that should be pretty language independent. Personally, skin detection algorithms bug me. They're fairly simple solutions for face and hand tracking and work well under the assumption that everybody has the same color of skin, but we all know this isn't really the case.
The technology for this is very cool and all, but I don't see it as very applicable to use with cell-phones. As far as I know requires the use of both hands, so you would have to put down your phone in a way that you can be seen and you can see the screen and lastly without holding it. This seems like an impossible proposition. But the technology in its own right could be very interesting, at least for desktop video-conferencing units.
Well, I would think that having roof-top gardens, assuming those are actual living plants, would be quite good for reducing carbon dioxide levels. If every single building in the world had a garden on top of it, I think we would take quite a big bite out of the problem. Not to say that someone won't decide to force people to paint their roofs white. The government's capacity for doing stupid things will never cease to amaze me.
It's quite fun to consider that when the original joke was made, the processing power of that Beowulf cluster would probably been quite close to the processing power of the processor discussed in the article.
Hmm, well, I guess you're right. As for your initial question, yes, France's energy is 78% nuclear. As a matter, their the world's largest net exporter of electricity(one of their biggest clients being London). Even then, I think they'd have to increase their nuclear power output drastically in order to have all or most of their cars being electric, never mind all the other obstacles to doing such a thing. Not that would disagree with such a thing, but its no small task.
Umm,would you allow a nuclear reactor inside your car. I sure as hell wouldnt.
Highly offtopic but needs to be said. You can drive to Hawaii??? Where did you buy your car? I want one.
While I agree that Zelda: TP might not deserve award-winning praises(and this is coming from a Zeldaholic, so that's saying a bit), there are a few things I'd like to point out. I think Nintendo delivered exactly what fans of the series were hoping for which is a new Zelda with the graphical style of Ocarina of Time, only bigger and prettier. And this is hard to argue is not the case. Also, there is a difference between puzzle mechanics and storyline. Not that the story has changed that much, but after all the entire premise of the Zelda universe is history repeating itself. As for the puzzle mechanics, can you imagine the uproar if a Zelda game came out without the bow, hookshot and Master Sword. I think have made quite a brilliant move with the release of the Wii. On one hand, they have Zelda moving a lot of consoles. On the other hand they have Wii Sports demonstrating the potential of the control mechanics. I have hope that someone will soon come out with an absolutely brilliant use of the Wiimote, which will create a new genre in the same way that GTA3 did for the previous generation.
Well, while all you say is true, the technology for turning garbage into electricity efficiently has existed for a long time. The reason its not used more I don't know, but its probably a combination of reasons. The achievement here, is making the whole thing portable without losing all the efficiency. I have to say, I find the thought of US soldiers standing around in landfills burning trash to power their electronic gadgets quite amusing.
If that was really the intent of the proposal, wouldn't it be easier to, I don't know, increase the punishment for the crimes he has already committed.
From the FAQ, they will start adding new types of code starting Summer 2007, and will have a poll to discuss which languages to support.