Hah! To my own shame I must say I didn't notice, I loose some nerd points there:) It might actually have been done like this on purpose, knowing the kind of people who would read this article.
Not even that, here in Germany the company that owned and now rebranded the european wal-mart stores is every now and then selling 300 euro boxes with lindows or something of that kind, simple celeron, 500 GB disks, full multimedia etc.
Now wonder they went bust, I mean, he could sing alright, but being a rock star just gives only so little preparation for leading a high-tech company. I am glad that trend got stopped soon enough!
Well, I believe that, I am also distracted by a heavy conversation with my passenger while driving. But at least I am looking at the road with both my hands at the steering wheel. The big difference between calling hands free and not calling hands free is that you at least _physically_ are in the correct and safe driving position while calling, whereas calling while holding your mobile phone requires you to take a very unsafe driving position. I see it a lot: steering with left while holding the phone with the right hand to the left ear. I don't want to be the kid that will cross the road when such an asshole takes a turn. As for myself, I let fellow passengers answer the phone or if there aren't any, I just leave it.
I actually once tried to check the phone while driving, and while getting the phone out of my pocket I hit the keys and turned the engine off! That was a good lesson.
I have looked at Digg at some times, but the quality of the moderation system and the comments just doesn't appeal to me and I left it for what it is. Although the quality of the comments might improve as the 13-year olds that are posting there grow up. Another good thing of Digg is that since Digg the many stupid comments on Slashdot got significantly less.
that is the theory, of course, I am just worried that in practice the advertisers (whose money makes the world go round) will just look at the amount of visitors.
It's a bit like counting harddisk storage the real binary way or as factors of 1000. They can differ about a few GBs nowadays, and for just 7 years or so that difference would have been a whole harddrive worth of data. But when looking at a terabyte disk, who still cares about a GB more or less.
Wrong, it is then a government-funded piece of work. In your definition all (US) military projects are socialist as well? Furthermore, I'd like to add that these kind of projects are set up in a pretty efficient business-like manner, even better. The researcher gets a clear set of goals to reach within a certain period of time, using a certain amount of money. Good thing is that during this few years of funding the scientist has hardly any administrative work to do to find funding (instead of begging for small funds continuously). This makes sure that the scientist has enough time to work on the project, and actually work on things of his/her own interest as well, and it are those side projects they encounter on the way that usually give the biggest innovations.
One answer: size. About half of all people are women (yes it's not a hoax) and many of them don't like to have some bulky ugly desktop in their house. Furthermore, if you need a laptop for your work anyway, why buy two pcs?
This is also at the heart of the US immigration policy, which runs approximately as follows: "We want those of you if you are the best or one of the best in your field. Those we will welcome to stay, and offer the chance to join the club and become a citizen. Others will be required to enter as illegal immigrants."
Another thing: Researchers are often concerned about their freedom and politics in general as well. A lot of european people despise having to give the amount of data that would be expected from a criminal to the US immigration office. If the US immigration policy goes on treating any non-usian passing the border as criminals like they do now, the source of bright foreign scientists might dry out quicker than they'd like.
And also there is the factor of working and living climate. Research positions in Europe are a bit too rare, but overall the stress rate is bearable. How many will give up their family and social life just for a tenure track position?
As a last point, the amount of quality research in the US is actually inflated. Because many of the main journals are US-based, US groups have an advantage when publishing in the top journals. So instead of top research from outside the US, some lesser work by a 'Famous' US group will get published. Corrected for this, the amount of quality work outside the US is even higher than measured here.
Yes, following the logic of the GP, you would be able to legally copy the whole lord of the rings video as long as you would embed it in a 48 hour long documentary or something like that. Or just add video footage of your aquarium at the end of it.
You keep buying DVDs until you find out that the new movies are not brought out on DVD anymore. Or even the old movies. Really, what gave you the impression that freedom of choice actually exists, in this world that is lead by corporate america?
So what if it's not 'real' AI, that doesn't mean you shouldn't take advantage of it. Just put some millennium problem as a captcha. Or your homework. Third order differential equations. Let them write pieces of code. Any web-user that will want to see free porn will find a solution to your captcha.... Profit!
80 is a bit too short, I am using fortran code at the moment, the stuff made for 80 column punchcards, and the variable names are things like "ngr", "infs", etc. Horrible if you need to debug or even figure out what the code is supposed to do! Then again, I also wrote a small application in Visual Basic one day, and there the object properties ended up being 80 characters long. As always, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
BTW, I am by far not the oldest here, under 30 still, but I am still surprised there are people here on slashdot that don't know what punchcards are. I guess I figured out they existed when I was 13 or so, in a pretty nice children's book about computing, starting with the first machines to make tapestries, and also mentioning the work by Pascal and Babbage. I was very happy to find out the university used old punch cards as scrap cards, so I even own some!:)
Thanks for the details! BTW germany DOES NOT have a minimum wage. Some people are actually earning less per hour than $5.85 (although, after dollar->euro conversion it is about the same). Especially in trades where there is no union there are no agreements on the starting wages, therefore a hairdresser in the eastern part of germany will earn about 4 euro per hour. There is some initiative to introduce a minimum wage (http://www.mindestlohn.de), but it gets the same resistance here as introducing healthcare over there in the US. Probably the same arguments as well ('bad for economic growth', etc)
Ah then, does Skype work?:) That program uses magic to pass through firewalls I believe, it is amazing. Probably better not to test it though, makes many companies unhappy.
At the local supermarket they have a scale for vegetables and fruit with a camera for auto-detection. I am not sure how it works, and if it will learn over time via some central database, but at the moment it is accurate as horseshit. Lettuce gets mixed up with grapes, apples with bananas, that kind of stuff. I would think that weeds is an even harder task than this, as color differences are less clear, and they are a lot smaller than fruit as well.
In summary, the iPhone is the nerd-media equivalent of Paris Hilton. I am actually fed up with being confronted with more no-stories about the both of them, let alone the both combined, the horror!
I have a real question: do you people use acrobat reader? I found it trying to access the Adobe base a LOT. Since PDFs are ubiquitous (sp?), how do you manage this in an FDA regulated env.?
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Hah! To my own shame I must say I didn't notice, I loose some nerd points there :) It might actually have been done like this on purpose, knowing the kind of people who would read this article.
Not even that, here in Germany the company that owned and now rebranded the european wal-mart stores is every now and then selling 300 euro boxes with lindows or something of that kind, simple celeron, 500 GB disks, full multimedia etc.
Then I ask you... Why? Or was it maybe just a test to see if sabotage could enter the ship unnoticed?
Now wonder they went bust, I mean, he could sing alright, but being a rock star just gives only so little preparation for leading a high-tech company. I am glad that trend got stopped soon enough!
Well, I believe that, I am also distracted by a heavy conversation with my passenger while driving. But at least I am looking at the road with both my hands at the steering wheel. The big difference between calling hands free and not calling hands free is that you at least _physically_ are in the correct and safe driving position while calling, whereas calling while holding your mobile phone requires you to take a very unsafe driving position. I see it a lot: steering with left while holding the phone with the right hand to the left ear. I don't want to be the kid that will cross the road when such an asshole takes a turn. As for myself, I let fellow passengers answer the phone or if there aren't any, I just leave it. I actually once tried to check the phone while driving, and while getting the phone out of my pocket I hit the keys and turned the engine off! That was a good lesson.
Good stuff at Parent's post, shame I just used up mine ....
Probably they were testing them just this week in SF...
that is the theory, of course, I am just worried that in practice the advertisers (whose money makes the world go round) will just look at the amount of visitors.
OK, that's it! One more of these memes and I will leave the internet!
It's a bit like counting harddisk storage the real binary way or as factors of 1000. They can differ about a few GBs nowadays, and for just 7 years or so that difference would have been a whole harddrive worth of data. But when looking at a terabyte disk, who still cares about a GB more or less.
Wrong, it is then a government-funded piece of work. In your definition all (US) military projects are socialist as well? Furthermore, I'd like to add that these kind of projects are set up in a pretty efficient business-like manner, even better. The researcher gets a clear set of goals to reach within a certain period of time, using a certain amount of money. Good thing is that during this few years of funding the scientist has hardly any administrative work to do to find funding (instead of begging for small funds continuously). This makes sure that the scientist has enough time to work on the project, and actually work on things of his/her own interest as well, and it are those side projects they encounter on the way that usually give the biggest innovations.
Because GP forgot that rather important point!
One answer: size. About half of all people are women (yes it's not a hoax) and many of them don't like to have some bulky ugly desktop in their house. Furthermore, if you need a laptop for your work anyway, why buy two pcs?
Another thing: Researchers are often concerned about their freedom and politics in general as well. A lot of european people despise having to give the amount of data that would be expected from a criminal to the US immigration office. If the US immigration policy goes on treating any non-usian passing the border as criminals like they do now, the source of bright foreign scientists might dry out quicker than they'd like.
And also there is the factor of working and living climate. Research positions in Europe are a bit too rare, but overall the stress rate is bearable. How many will give up their family and social life just for a tenure track position?
As a last point, the amount of quality research in the US is actually inflated. Because many of the main journals are US-based, US groups have an advantage when publishing in the top journals. So instead of top research from outside the US, some lesser work by a 'Famous' US group will get published. Corrected for this, the amount of quality work outside the US is even higher than measured here.
I promise, next time there will be news on the iPhone, I'm leaving the internets forever as well!!
mind you that you should take care to choose the right artist to do this.
Yes, following the logic of the GP, you would be able to legally copy the whole lord of the rings video as long as you would embed it in a 48 hour long documentary or something like that. Or just add video footage of your aquarium at the end of it.
You keep buying DVDs until you find out that the new movies are not brought out on DVD anymore. Or even the old movies. Really, what gave you the impression that freedom of choice actually exists, in this world that is lead by corporate america?
So what if it's not 'real' AI, that doesn't mean you shouldn't take advantage of it. Just put some millennium problem as a captcha. Or your homework. Third order differential equations. Let them write pieces of code. Any web-user that will want to see free porn will find a solution to your captcha. ... Profit!
BTW, I am by far not the oldest here, under 30 still, but I am still surprised there are people here on slashdot that don't know what punchcards are. I guess I figured out they existed when I was 13 or so, in a pretty nice children's book about computing, starting with the first machines to make tapestries, and also mentioning the work by Pascal and Babbage. I was very happy to find out the university used old punch cards as scrap cards, so I even own some! :)
Thanks for the details! BTW germany DOES NOT have a minimum wage. Some people are actually earning less per hour than $5.85 (although, after dollar->euro conversion it is about the same). Especially in trades where there is no union there are no agreements on the starting wages, therefore a hairdresser in the eastern part of germany will earn about 4 euro per hour. There is some initiative to introduce a minimum wage (http://www.mindestlohn.de), but it gets the same resistance here as introducing healthcare over there in the US. Probably the same arguments as well ('bad for economic growth', etc)
Ah then, does Skype work? :) That program uses magic to pass through firewalls I believe, it is amazing. Probably better not to test it though, makes many companies unhappy.
At the local supermarket they have a scale for vegetables and fruit with a camera for auto-detection. I am not sure how it works, and if it will learn over time via some central database, but at the moment it is accurate as horseshit. Lettuce gets mixed up with grapes, apples with bananas, that kind of stuff. I would think that weeds is an even harder task than this, as color differences are less clear, and they are a lot smaller than fruit as well.
In summary, the iPhone is the nerd-media equivalent of Paris Hilton. I am actually fed up with being confronted with more no-stories about the both of them, let alone the both combined, the horror!
I have a real question: do you people use acrobat reader? I found it trying to access the Adobe base a LOT. Since PDFs are ubiquitous (sp?), how do you manage this in an FDA regulated env.?