There is actually no express need for academics to get into the Open Source Movement. In my University library, MS Windows Professional is available for $10 for installation on the staff computers, other packages are similarly priced. With big companies giving away their software to Universities, and with support options available, not many would want to work with Linux. Consequently, there is no development geared towards the Linux OS. All the professors in my department (EE) use Windows XP without exception. I guess the pressures of academic life are too much to get into the OSS way of life.
How does it compare to tellico ? I have been using this on my Linux box for sometime now and find it extremely useful for cataloging my books and movies. Tellico also offers integration with Amazon (for books) and IMDB (for movies), and best of all, its FREE! (Not sure whether it costs to get Delicious Monster, not a Mac owner)
Well, last I checked, slashdot was about the latest stuff happening around us. I guess you would be happy to read year old news just because its on slashdot. You must be special.
I have always wondered why people who have higher than average understanding (the typical slashdot crowd) still blame the H1Bs for their job losses. This as has been explored before is an offshoot of globalization. What I don't understand is how people do not seem to mind the immigrants (Mexicans, et al) who take up the lowliest jobs, do nothing to improve the surroundings, who in fact lower the standard of living all around their communities and who live off the largess of the US and give absolutely nothing back. Contrast this with the skilled H1B workers who not only (almost always) have advanced degrees, who do a competent job and who give back to the community in a big way (maintaining their affluence - causing improvement in the living areas, etc) and also in more tangible terms, by opening their own companies and providing employment to a number of others. A distinction is to be made between such immigrants who should be welcomed and the other kind. Consider what is happening here today. Illegal immigrants (those who end up doing menial jobs) get away scot free (in some cases also getting citizenships) and basically get to enjoy the frutis of working in the US whereas the technically oriented crowd always has to worry about being in status, gets heckled even in big cities and basically live in mortal fear of the INS or their companies. Doesn't this seem to be kind of unfair? American should wake up and with a clear head decide which kind of immigrant is a better prospect.
Well, the next step would be to eliminate the computer (used for processing the brain signals) and use an ASIC to perform the required signal processing. The ramifications of this, as the article notes are endless. Ethical questions do exist, but we will find a way to answer them (and I don't mean in a Stem-Cell kind of way...)
Well, it does seem like a good first step. Although the equipment might be clunky, it will eventually be miniaturized (with smaller electrodes etc) and hence be more palatable to users. Identifying areas of the brain where activity occurs in response to a particular stimulus is in itself a big thing, which will help us build devices for people with neural problems (think quadriplegics...) Sometime in the next decade, we should see a more integrated brain-machine interface for performing all the things we take for granted, but are impossible for affected people.
I am actually quite sick of people branding people about whom they hardly know anything even in jest. Just as there are blues and reds in the US, there are a variety of people in India and equating India = turban is just advertising one's ignorance to the world. How would it be if one would say America = "duh"?
I agree. I would buy it just for the hard drive and the ability to run PDA apps, with storage space to boot. This may well drive the resurrecton of PDAs, if only they could include better communication abilities into the device. IR seems to be too much of an under-kill.
Would anyone ever want to watch movies on this thing?
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There is actually no express need for academics to get into the Open Source Movement. In my University library, MS Windows Professional is available for $10 for installation on the staff computers, other packages are similarly priced. With big companies giving away their software to Universities, and with support options available, not many would want to work with Linux. Consequently, there is no development geared towards the Linux OS. All the professors in my department (EE) use Windows XP without exception. I guess the pressures of academic life are too much to get into the OSS way of life.
It's OverSIGHT not oversite.
How does it compare to tellico ? I have been using this on my Linux box for sometime now and find it extremely useful for cataloging my books and movies. Tellico also offers integration with Amazon (for books) and IMDB (for movies), and best of all, its FREE!
(Not sure whether it costs to get Delicious Monster, not a Mac owner)
Sheeps?
Sheesh...talk about spelling!
One more application is in the BioMed area, with the laser source used for Medical Imaging onchip, as in Laser Speckle Imaging.
I read it when it came out sometime toward the end of December. To me at least, it's more than a week old.
Well, last I checked, slashdot was about the latest stuff happening around us. I guess you would be happy to read year old news just because its on slashdot. You must be special.
How old is this article? I remember reading it atleast a week ago. Is slashdot slipping or what?
I have always wondered why people who have higher than average understanding (the typical slashdot crowd) still blame the H1Bs for their job losses. This as has been explored before is an offshoot of globalization. What I don't understand is how people do not seem to mind the immigrants (Mexicans, et al) who take up the lowliest jobs, do nothing to improve the surroundings, who in fact lower the standard of living all around their communities and who live off the largess of the US and give absolutely nothing back.
Contrast this with the skilled H1B workers who not only (almost always) have advanced degrees, who do a competent job and who give back to the community in a big way (maintaining their affluence - causing improvement in the living areas, etc) and also in more tangible terms, by opening their own companies and providing employment to a number of others. A distinction is to be made between such immigrants who should be welcomed and the other kind.
Consider what is happening here today. Illegal immigrants (those who end up doing menial jobs) get away scot free (in some cases also getting citizenships) and basically get to enjoy the frutis of working in the US whereas the technically oriented crowd always has to worry about being in status, gets heckled even in big cities and basically live in mortal fear of the INS or their companies. Doesn't this seem to be kind of unfair? American should wake up and with a clear head decide which kind of immigrant is a better prospect.
Well, the next step would be to eliminate the computer (used for processing the brain signals) and use an ASIC to perform the required signal processing. The ramifications of this, as the article notes are endless. Ethical questions do exist, but we will find a way to answer them (and I don't mean in a Stem-Cell kind of way...)
Well, it does seem like a good first step. Although the equipment might be clunky, it will eventually be miniaturized (with smaller electrodes etc) and hence be more palatable to users.
Identifying areas of the brain where activity occurs in response to a particular stimulus is in itself a big thing, which will help us build devices for people with neural problems (think quadriplegics...)
Sometime in the next decade, we should see a more integrated brain-machine interface for performing all the things we take for granted, but are impossible for affected people.
I am actually quite sick of people branding people about whom they hardly know anything even in jest. Just as there are blues and reds in the US, there are a variety of people in India and equating India = turban is just advertising one's ignorance to the world.
How would it be if one would say America = "duh"?
I agree. I would buy it just for the hard drive and the ability to run PDA apps, with storage space to boot. This may well drive the resurrecton of PDAs, if only they could include better communication abilities into the device. IR seems to be too much of an under-kill.
Would anyone ever want to watch movies on this thing?