I don't see how posting a video where you're lip syncing your face to the song is any different from just posting a copy of the song on YouTube. Seems like the LipSync clause is redundant since the lip syncing implies you're also copying the music.
I had a friend in highschool who played "Drug wars" on his palm pilot. One day his mom was snooping on the palm pilot and found an itemized list of drugs, payments received, payments pending etc...
The problem is, there is a HUGE political wing that not only believes it understands the complexities of ecological change, but understands them well enough to want to impose corrective measures.
IF by "Political Wing" you mean almost every human being who has intensely studied the subject I agree completely.
What Is a Sidebar Gadget? A Sidebar gadget can be a powerful and handy little tool. So you might be surprised by how easy they are to create. In fact, if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (and I suspect many of you already do), youâ(TM)re well on your way.
HTML + CSS and Javascript running lightweight little desktop apps... it all sounds so familiar....
In US politics only old people participate[1] since voting isn't mandatory and young people are stupid and lazy[2]. You have to remember that the soviet union collapsed in 1991 and a grand total of 2 years of voters have lived since then. 1 year if you count the last major election (2010). Even if you exclude youngsters you still only have 10 of about 60 years of voters who don't remember the soviet union being around. It's going to be a while before the average citizen didn't have their political paranoias formed after Communism stopped being a threat.
On the other hand would you rather have an application in which the developer spent most of their time writing code or adding features?
Sometimes performance is a feature but on most modern systems for most applications performance is secondary to functionality.
I write most of my tools in an abstracted scripting language instead of C++ SDKs. Why? Because I can crank out a tool in about an hour. Writing a C++ SDK would take several days.
I'm less interested in how fast it is than what it can do. JIT scripting in most cases delivers a responsive user experience and lets me spend a week adding features and usability instead of hunting bugs and interfacing large unwieldy SDKs.
If you think about it though. You only need one Solar Technological breakthrough to revolutionize the global economy.
We're an energy driven economy. You provide inexpensive plentiful electricity free of emissions and you've just put the world's most profitable companies (The Oil Industry) on notice.
It's not like you need 3 or 4 different effective solar cell designs. You need one. One good one that's easy and cheap to manufacture. Then you just make 6 billion of them.
If you could get it incredibly cheap you start opening up all kinds of new and interesting uses for electricity that are cost prohibitive today.
Not to mention I can't help but feel like a Communist Party member wrote the blog entry or else a clueless American who poorly chose their words...
China has made the great leap into next-generation, hybrid supercomputing by using GPUs to drive far better efficiency and performance, more economically.
As inflated statistics reached planning authorities, orders were given to divert human resources into industry rather than agriculture. The official toll of excess deaths recorded in China for the years of the Great Leap Forward is 14 million, but as of 1987, scholars had estimated the number of victims to be between 20 and 43 million.
1) Zune/WP7 syncs over Wifi as have many smart phone OSes for many years. WP7 just launched and Apple is probably trying to be sure that any differentiating features in WP7 are leveled.
2) "Wi-fi sync" is the most obvious name. "Wireless sync" implies it can be done over 3G so that's no good. "Mobile Sync" ditto. "802.11 sync" is stupid. "AirSync" would be really the only other option. So it was really 50/50.
3) If this dev didn't want to deal with Apple's notorious douchiness he should have done something for Android or WP7.
4) I can almost guarantee you that he used some sort of trick to send USB Sync data over Wifi as a bridge but using Apple's standard Sync protocol. Apple on the other hand I'm sure wrote a direct Sync over Wifi protocol and skipped the USB so their implementation is going to be completely different (without any theft).
They did ask for his resume when they rejected his app.
The whole thing is ridiculous. I'm a huge Apple hater but only because usually it's Apple claiming this nonsense *cough app store* but it's clearly an obvious idea that iPhones competitors already do. And his logo is just a composition of the universal icons for Sync and Wifi. (Then again his logo is substantially more legible, so bravo to him)
And I'm sure he used some interesting and impressive hacks to trick the iphone into wirelessly syncing. Apple has no need to do that, they can just add APIs directly to the OS so there is no need to steal his code.
Furthermore, even the developer doesn't seem to care.
It matters because successful organizations often don't feel the need to continue innovating. "After all Google Is print money, why change?" And small little problems start cropping up. This feature becomes difficult to maintain. This product starts to lag behind the competition a little bit. But all of it can be ignored since they're still so successful.
Eventually some little whipper snapper comes along and eats their lunch (usually founded by 'sour grapes' ex-$organization members).
It becomes particularly problematic when a single organization starts to establish fiefdoms. Microsoft being the obvious case study. You can't add XYZ to ABC because it'll compete with UVW. It's good to have competition but you don't want to stifle disruptive technology since your competition won't be so accommodating in disrupting your existing product line.
Maybe what you have is working. But someone out there is cooking up something that's not just working... it's better. If you're in the lead you have to start competing with yourself.
Every time I wonder why slashdot hates Windows so much I am reminded that most of Slashdot is still basing their comparisons to Windows from 13 years go.
1) "Windows is terrible." 2) "There is no reason to upgrade my 23 year old release."
If you're going to be a douche though it's cheaper to just befriend evil-doers. Why bother mercilessly bombing countries that piss you off when you can just ignore them and pat them on the back.
I don't think in this case they are even legitimately being made obsolete.
Microsoft isn't going to write MSOffice in HTML5. They'll have their lightweight web version but Office Office is going to remain.NET
My understanding from the Windows 8 presentation was that the little gadgets and applets would be HTML5 but you could still release cross platform.NET applications.
We all know that those little gadgets are going to be rendered using IE10. If anyone thinks Silverlight isn't going to be a part of IE10 in some capacity they've lost their minds.
Maybe not for an FPS or racer but if it was a really cool Starcraft killer that would have interesting possibilities. Handle the 2D GUI with the tablet processor and then raytrace a photorealistic game engine.
You could also stream data and handle some of the primary ray data locally.
If you rendered the visible lighting and then used irradiance caching. The cloud could do the heavy lifting with GI and the tablet could do the kNN lookups.
Personally, I seriously doubt that Watson will ever advance to being able to replace a doctor for non-trivial complaints. First of all, humans are better at image processing, so if a patient looks like death then they aren't going to ask questions to rule out minor complaints.
The dirty truth of medicine though is that 99% of problems are trivial complaints. I've only ever needed a doctor to save my life once. The other 90 times was for trivial things. Oh and once I went in for a dislocated shoulder and he assured me it wasn't dislocated. So I limped along for a week and finally went to a physical therapist who immediately determined I had a dislocated shoulder and torn ligaments.
What Watson can offer is the leveraging of less "Doctors" and more nurses. Nurses are perfectly adept at dealing with sniffles, sprained wrists and food poisoning. Watson can tell them that they aren't missing something non-trivial. If there are any odd symptoms Watson can trigger the need to consult with a full blown doctor.
Nurses already are the ones who usually take the symptoms and perform most of human interaction.
A Nurse + Watson is cheaper and better suited to most problems.
That is as ridiculous as saying that you've rubbed charcoal and diamonds on paper, and you know they're different elements.
No this is a case of a very vague study with low precision. I'm not saying that the same regions of the brain don't light up... I'm saying even though they light up it doesn't mean the experiences are terribly similar.
This study was the first to show that rejection can elicit a response in two brain areas associated with physical pain: the secondary somatosensory cortex and the dorsal posterior insula.
With insufficient precision you can say "Both pain and rejection cause neural activity!" But that doesn't tell you much.
A more apt analogy to this study would be the researchers taking glass and diamond and concluding they are carbon since they're both hard.
I could tell you that both anger and arousal elicit an adreneline rush. That doesn't mean they are the same.
For the sake of researching long term pain studies then yes I imagine the fact that both use inter-related circuitry is insightful and useful. But statements like "To the brain, heartbreak and emotional torment are no different from having hot coffee spilled on your hand" are terribly misleading.
Cheapest round trip flight I can find from Philadelphia to Seattle on Orbitz is $624. Cheapest round trip for Amtrak is $857. So $233 more for a train, or about 40% more. If you get a sleeper it is more, but then again you get all your meals free.
Seattle to Philadelphia!? That's an 80 hour Amtrak trip. There are times and places for trains. Cross country is not one of them.:) I used to do Seattle -> Nebraska every year and that was fun with family but more as a trip in of itself.
IT still pays considerably higher than median income. It's hard to find high 5 to low 6 figure salary positions with just a 4 year degree. Also, let's be honest, a lot of CS majors weren't exactly 'doctor/lawyer' material if you catch my drift.
So sure it might be a soul sucking endeavor. But while the hotdog stand guy is working 70 hour weeks and stressing over which credit card company to pay down this month. The soul selling IT professional can take the bi-annual vacation to Bermuda with his pocket change.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a lot of things that can make you happy. I'm in the creative field and I kind of sold out. And by sold out I mean I found a job that pays well even if I don't do exactly what I want every day. Meanwhile the "Creatives" who are "Charting their own path" tend to work 9-5 at GAP 7 days a week and subsist on Ramen.
I have way more free time to pursue my creative endeavors outside of work since I don't have to work 60 hour weeks to pay rent.
Screw the general population. I'm a geek and a 120+ WPM @ 98% accuracy typist to boot and I can't even enter our administrative password more than 50% of the time at work.
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I don't see how posting a video where you're lip syncing your face to the song is any different from just posting a copy of the song on YouTube. Seems like the LipSync clause is redundant since the lip syncing implies you're also copying the music.
I had a friend in highschool who played "Drug wars" on his palm pilot. One day his mom was snooping on the palm pilot and found an itemized list of drugs, payments received, payments pending etc...
Confusion and hilarity ensued.
The problem is, there is a HUGE political wing that not only believes it understands the complexities of ecological change, but understands them well enough to want to impose corrective measures.
IF by "Political Wing" you mean almost every human being who has intensely studied the subject I agree completely.
The whole thing is a non-story. Tiles are the new Gadgets. Anyone remember those? You know those things on the side of stock Vista installs?
Anyway time for a refresher course since evidently everyone forgot:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163370.aspx
What Is a Sidebar Gadget?
A Sidebar gadget can be a powerful and handy little tool. So you might be surprised by how easy they are to create. In fact, if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (and I suspect many of you already do), youâ(TM)re well on your way.
HTML + CSS and Javascript running lightweight little desktop apps... it all sounds so familiar....
In US politics only old people participate[1] since voting isn't mandatory and young people are stupid and lazy[2]. You have to remember that the soviet union collapsed in 1991 and a grand total of 2 years of voters have lived since then. 1 year if you count the last major election (2010). Even if you exclude youngsters you still only have 10 of about 60 years of voters who don't remember the soviet union being around. It's going to be a while before the average citizen didn't have their political paranoias formed after Communism stopped being a threat.
[1] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/01/todays_median_age_voters_grew.html
[2] Sad but true.
On the other hand would you rather have an application in which the developer spent most of their time writing code or adding features?
Sometimes performance is a feature but on most modern systems for most applications performance is secondary to functionality.
I write most of my tools in an abstracted scripting language instead of C++ SDKs. Why? Because I can crank out a tool in about an hour. Writing a C++ SDK would take several days.
I'm less interested in how fast it is than what it can do. JIT scripting in most cases delivers a responsive user experience and lets me spend a week adding features and usability instead of hunting bugs and interfacing large unwieldy SDKs.
If you think about it though. You only need one Solar Technological breakthrough to revolutionize the global economy.
We're an energy driven economy. You provide inexpensive plentiful electricity free of emissions and you've just put the world's most profitable companies (The Oil Industry) on notice.
It's not like you need 3 or 4 different effective solar cell designs. You need one. One good one that's easy and cheap to manufacture. Then you just make 6 billion of them.
If you could get it incredibly cheap you start opening up all kinds of new and interesting uses for electricity that are cost prohibitive today.
Not to mention I can't help but feel like a Communist Party member wrote the blog entry or else a clueless American who poorly chose their words...
China has made the great leap into next-generation, hybrid supercomputing by using GPUs to drive far better efficiency and performance, more economically.
As inflated statistics reached planning authorities, orders were given to divert human resources into industry rather than agriculture. The official toll of excess deaths recorded in China for the years of the Great Leap Forward is 14 million, but as of 1987, scholars had estimated the number of victims to be between 20 and 43 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
1) Zune/WP7 syncs over Wifi as have many smart phone OSes for many years. WP7 just launched and Apple is probably trying to be sure that any differentiating features in WP7 are leveled.
2) "Wi-fi sync" is the most obvious name. "Wireless sync" implies it can be done over 3G so that's no good. "Mobile Sync" ditto. "802.11 sync" is stupid. "AirSync" would be really the only other option. So it was really 50/50.
3) If this dev didn't want to deal with Apple's notorious douchiness he should have done something for Android or WP7.
4) I can almost guarantee you that he used some sort of trick to send USB Sync data over Wifi as a bridge but using Apple's standard Sync protocol. Apple on the other hand I'm sure wrote a direct Sync over Wifi protocol and skipped the USB so their implementation is going to be completely different (without any theft).
They did ask for his resume when they rejected his app.
The whole thing is ridiculous. I'm a huge Apple hater but only because usually it's Apple claiming this nonsense *cough app store* but it's clearly an obvious idea that iPhones competitors already do. And his logo is just a composition of the universal icons for Sync and Wifi. (Then again his logo is substantially more legible, so bravo to him)
And I'm sure he used some interesting and impressive hacks to trick the iphone into wirelessly syncing. Apple has no need to do that, they can just add APIs directly to the OS so there is no need to steal his code.
Furthermore, even the developer doesn't seem to care.
It matters because successful organizations often don't feel the need to continue innovating. "After all Google Is print money, why change?" And small little problems start cropping up. This feature becomes difficult to maintain. This product starts to lag behind the competition a little bit. But all of it can be ignored since they're still so successful.
Eventually some little whipper snapper comes along and eats their lunch (usually founded by 'sour grapes' ex-$organization members).
It becomes particularly problematic when a single organization starts to establish fiefdoms. Microsoft being the obvious case study. You can't add XYZ to ABC because it'll compete with UVW. It's good to have competition but you don't want to stifle disruptive technology since your competition won't be so accommodating in disrupting your existing product line.
Maybe what you have is working. But someone out there is cooking up something that's not just working... it's better. If you're in the lead you have to start competing with yourself.
Every time I wonder why slashdot hates Windows so much I am reminded that most of Slashdot is still basing their comparisons to Windows from 13 years go.
1) "Windows is terrible."
2) "There is no reason to upgrade my 23 year old release."
If you're going to be a douche though it's cheaper to just befriend evil-doers. Why bother mercilessly bombing countries that piss you off when you can just ignore them and pat them on the back.
I don't think in this case they are even legitimately being made obsolete.
Microsoft isn't going to write MSOffice in HTML5. They'll have their lightweight web version but Office Office is going to remain .NET
My understanding from the Windows 8 presentation was that the little gadgets and applets would be HTML5 but you could still release cross platform .NET applications.
We all know that those little gadgets are going to be rendered using IE10. If anyone thinks Silverlight isn't going to be a part of IE10 in some capacity they've lost their minds.
I have a Brown Zune. It's awesome. Don't use it anymore since I bought a WP7.
http://www.greentechvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/Zune%20Brown_2.jpg
I would buy a brown phone if someone made one.
Maybe not for an FPS or racer but if it was a really cool Starcraft killer that would have interesting possibilities. Handle the 2D GUI with the tablet processor and then raytrace a photorealistic game engine.
You could also stream data and handle some of the primary ray data locally.
If you rendered the visible lighting and then used irradiance caching. The cloud could do the heavy lifting with GI and the tablet could do the kNN lookups.
Personally, I seriously doubt that Watson will ever advance to being able to replace a doctor for non-trivial complaints. First of all, humans are better at image processing, so if a patient looks like death then they aren't going to ask questions to rule out minor complaints.
The dirty truth of medicine though is that 99% of problems are trivial complaints. I've only ever needed a doctor to save my life once. The other 90 times was for trivial things. Oh and once I went in for a dislocated shoulder and he assured me it wasn't dislocated. So I limped along for a week and finally went to a physical therapist who immediately determined I had a dislocated shoulder and torn ligaments.
What Watson can offer is the leveraging of less "Doctors" and more nurses. Nurses are perfectly adept at dealing with sniffles, sprained wrists and food poisoning. Watson can tell them that they aren't missing something non-trivial. If there are any odd symptoms Watson can trigger the need to consult with a full blown doctor.
Nurses already are the ones who usually take the symptoms and perform most of human interaction.
A Nurse + Watson is cheaper and better suited to most problems.
They not only have to beat the best human at challenging subjects... they have to beat all of the best humans in all subjects.
As soon as an AI masters a challenge suddenly the question becomes. "But can it write a symphony like Beethoven?" To which I always reply, "Can you?"
That is as ridiculous as saying that you've rubbed charcoal and diamonds on paper, and you know they're different elements.
No this is a case of a very vague study with low precision. I'm not saying that the same regions of the brain don't light up... I'm saying even though they light up it doesn't mean the experiences are terribly similar.
This study was the first to show that rejection can elicit a response in two brain areas associated with physical pain: the secondary somatosensory cortex and the dorsal posterior insula.
With insufficient precision you can say "Both pain and rejection cause neural activity!" But that doesn't tell you much.
A more apt analogy to this study would be the researchers taking glass and diamond and concluding they are carbon since they're both hard.
I could tell you that both anger and arousal elicit an adreneline rush. That doesn't mean they are the same.
For the sake of researching long term pain studies then yes I imagine the fact that both use inter-related circuitry is insightful and useful. But statements like "To the brain, heartbreak and emotional torment are no different from having hot coffee spilled on your hand" are terribly misleading.
Your anecdotal evidence based on reconstructed memories surely disproves the data the scientists collected.
So your anecdotal evidence is that you've had a breakup that was the exact same experience as a dermal burn?
Can anyone remember a breakup that was comparable subjectively to physically being burned?
Goes to show how crude our current scanning techniques are.
I've burned my hand before and the sensation was quite different from being dumped.
Not to say it's magic or not in the brain. Just saying fMRI isn't accurate enough to detect the difference. There most certainly is a difference.
Why can't the pleasure of learning be the significant return?
Because you can usually do it cheaper with specialized courses on your own off campus. Want to learn history? Read a great book.
Cheapest round trip flight I can find from Philadelphia to Seattle on Orbitz is $624. Cheapest round trip for Amtrak is $857. So $233 more for a train, or about 40% more. If you get a sleeper it is more, but then again you get all your meals free.
Seattle to Philadelphia!? That's an 80 hour Amtrak trip. There are times and places for trains. Cross country is not one of them. :) I used to do Seattle -> Nebraska every year and that was fun with family but more as a trip in of itself.
IT still pays considerably higher than median income. It's hard to find high 5 to low 6 figure salary positions with just a 4 year degree. Also, let's be honest, a lot of CS majors weren't exactly 'doctor/lawyer' material if you catch my drift.
So sure it might be a soul sucking endeavor. But while the hotdog stand guy is working 70 hour weeks and stressing over which credit card company to pay down this month. The soul selling IT professional can take the bi-annual vacation to Bermuda with his pocket change.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a lot of things that can make you happy. I'm in the creative field and I kind of sold out. And by sold out I mean I found a job that pays well even if I don't do exactly what I want every day. Meanwhile the "Creatives" who are "Charting their own path" tend to work 9-5 at GAP 7 days a week and subsist on Ramen.
I have way more free time to pursue my creative endeavors outside of work since I don't have to work 60 hour weeks to pay rent.
Screw the general population. I'm a geek and a 120+ WPM @ 98% accuracy typist to boot and I can't even enter our administrative password more than 50% of the time at work.