For once something has come out of msdn that doesn't read like a blatant advertisement. This study is open about the amount of time that it took to create this site, although the forum development and security testing was not included as it was outsourced to other companies. As a non-MS developer I'm naturally wary of studies like this but seems like a competent piece of work although I thought it was spoilt with the simpering hero-grams at the end... "Without the ease of.NET we wouldn't have even started"...ick!
but I fail to see how a national ID card can invade or strip my privacy any more than a drivers license or any of the other things Ive mentioned above.
Possibly because you are used to carrying an ID card with you at all times and possibly because what you consider to be an ID card (name, address, maybe a couple of other sensible pieces of information) is nothing like what the government are proposing. Their ID card would include: fingerprints, iris scanning, possibly facial scanning amongst other things. Along with the requirement that all agencies are required to inform other agencies of any changes to these details it means that a large amount of information on me is available to people for no real reason, this is what I object to, especially given their current record of data security.
I wouldn't mind the one off cost of these things in the same way that I don't object to paying for my passport, but I do object to ANYBODY demanding my information on spurious grounds of "security" and that "the public support for ID cards has remained consistently high across all sectors of society [quote from ID cards briefing - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs4/Id_Cards_Briefi ng.pdf%5D"
which is arrant bollocks and typical of the current slippery incumbents of the UK government
As someone who's spent many years as a neurophysiology researcher before becoming a programmer I feel I may have a bit more insight than the average person. What this project boils down to is a simplistic model of the simplist unit of operation of one area of the brain (neocortical column). Anyone who has followed research into areas such as epilepsy and memory will know of the massive gaps in our understanding of the realtionship of the brain and the mind. So this "first computer simulation of the entire human brain" is neither accurate in the sense that they are not simulating the human brain, nor are they the first to try what they are attempting. They only difference here is that they have the very public backing of a major corporation who understand the benefit of good publicity.
This sort of research is fascinating and despetately needs to be done, but it does no one any favours when people associate tabloid style headlines to it. The days when we wear Richard Morgan style "stacks" are still as far away as ever unfortunately.
You're also talking about an era where governments (US, UK and AUS amongst them) exposed their own soldiers to nuclear tests to see how they would react, so I'm not sure about the psychological effects being that profound.
Mind you, we also had radioactive toothpaste and people bought it!
I agree. This seems to be very much along the lines of 2+2=5. The difficulty in refining the uranium and/or plutonium required meant that germany was many months from creating a bomb. The amount of credence given to an undated and unsigned diagram seems disproportionate considering that there is little or no surrounding and supporting evidence.
That Karlsch can claim that the Nazi's managed a nuclear test from a single diagram and a reactor design seems a little premature (okay it seems ridiculous but I'm trying to be objective).
Unfortunately, the coverage seems to stem more from the ego of a single scientist propounding a different and contraversial view rather than scientific fact.
It sounds all too much like an elaborate marketing scheme on their part
I can't believe that. No company in their right mind would run the risk of alienating their customers (especially the techies) by doing this. If the SCO thing has proven anything it's that you can't run roughshod over other peoples work and claim it for your own without paying a huge price, both financially and in your reputation
Wrong.
The Elites do the shitty jobs but turn a shitty job into a great one by hardwork and talent. Everybody has to be the "teaboy" at some time in their career, you just might not realise they are as they're doing such a good job.
A good example is Uni, you may be stuck in school for 3 years (try 8 in my case!) while your mates are out earning, but come 10 years time you will have easily surpassed many of them, as you did the grunt work to make you what you are.
>>it became common to float molten glass on mercury
Surely you mean "float glass on molten tin" as I've never heard the phrase "mad as a glazier" (although it would provide many answers reagarding the suspicious behaviour or double-glazing salespeople!)
You're absolutely correct. For a PC you don't care...but for a server you damn well do care, and this is where AMD have made the smart move by hitting the more niche market of servers first. I feel that they will sew up this area first and then take this momentum into the desktop.
AMD are also crippled on the desktop by MS's inability to produce a 64 bit OS. People feel comfortable with microsoft OS's and an OS upgrade is always a good driver to upgrade.
Let's face it, if Longhorn came out at the same time as Opteron, AMD would have more than double the market share they currently have.
The advert is hilarious. You see this bod walking around with the voiceover spreading FUD about how dangerous the internet is (Jaws-like scary theme). Cue soothing music as soon as he gets home and switches on his (apparently AOL powered) PC.
The best bit is when he's in the AOL interface and has to manually switch on the virus scanner and trojan protector! Like they shouldn't be on by default!! Jeez, I hope that's poetic license else in the 10 minutes it takes the AOL user to get the settings, they'll already be 0wn3d!
Yep, the only way you can keep most users virus and trojan free is to unplug their computer...and take their phones away...and their PDA's...
Right, paper and pen it is then!
I hate to blow my own trumpet (but I would say that!) but I managed to snap up a couple of PSPs on a recent trip to New York (before they sold out) and on both the screens are perfect. I'd heard bad things about the screen and how dodgy they are but both myself and my friends who've seen it (which include people in the television and film industry) think it's stunning. No dead pixels, great colour depth and deep blacks.
Caveat emptor always, but don't believe the bad hype.
Both media and banking (my last 2 contracts) have been dominated by Java/J2EE, although this may well be due to the fact that I am primarily a server developer, with my only client programming being the web presentation layer..NET looks good for serious windows GUI apps due to the shortfalls of Swing/SWT but anything distributed has gone to Java, especially at the enterprise level.
I know it's horses for courses but I'd like to know personal feedback for different industries.
The discovery of a new type of antibiotics is always welcome. The overuse of the common goups such as cephalosporins, and penicillins have contributed to bacterial resistance with the resulting appearance of bacteria such as MRSA.
It will be interesting to see how broad a spectrum these furanones will turn out to have or how well they are in combination with other drugs, as well as their pharmacokinetics and tolerance. This research looks positive but it's early days.
One point though, the poster should state their involvement in the study and also that of Biosignal.
I'm sure the surgical team would have told you that operating near the occiptal lobe could result in some visual disturbance which is a real pity, but considering the alternative....
No one is ever "lucky" to get a brain tumour but you could do far worse than a low grade indolent tumour. So I'm glad to hear you're still around and kudos to you and your support group!
First off, my clinical experience is in epilepsy not ADHD, but a quick skim of the journals would indicate that EEGs are starting to be used in this area.
The trouble is, an EEG can only show brain activity and it is then up to a skilled neurophysiologist to analyse the record and make a clinical decision. Such conditions as epilepsy, post-concussion syndrome, and tumours may show noticeable activity (although tumour detection has obviously been increased by the use of MRI and CT). Activity that is pathomnemonic (due to one condition and no other) is few and far between, so a patient may have epileptiform activity (spike/spike and wave) in the EEG and yet never suffer an epileptic seizure. So to extend this and claim that it can be used as a tool to confirm things such as the above is a little strong.
Specifically to ADHD/ADD, doctors are still uncertain about what constitutes the syndrome of ADHD as it varies depending on which diagnosis criteria you use (DSM-IV or ICD-10), so the use of EEGs to confirm diagnosis seems early to say the least.
In short, EEGs are very good for some conditions but not sensitive or specific enough for others.
Slashdot Mirror
28 April 1995...and that's a complete wild-assed guess
Citizen Smith, please report to room 101 for "re-education", your reading habits have been found ..... wanting.
As a Java developer I would agree with you, but the chances of using Java in a company owned by Microsoft must be pretty slim!
For once something has come out of msdn that doesn't read like a blatant advertisement. This study is open about the amount of time that it took to create this site, although the forum development and security testing was not included as it was outsourced to other companies. As a non-MS developer I'm naturally wary of studies like this but seems like a competent piece of work although I thought it was spoilt with the simpering hero-grams at the end... "Without the ease of .NET we wouldn't have even started"...ick!
Possibly because you are used to carrying an ID card with you at all times and possibly because what you consider to be an ID card (name, address, maybe a couple of other sensible pieces of information) is nothing like what the government are proposing. Their ID card would include: fingerprints, iris scanning, possibly facial scanning amongst other things. Along with the requirement that all agencies are required to inform other agencies of any changes to these details it means that a large amount of information on me is available to people for no real reason, this is what I object to, especially given their current record of data security.
I wouldn't mind the one off cost of these things in the same way that I don't object to paying for my passport, but I do object to ANYBODY demanding my information on spurious grounds of "security" and that "the public support for ID cards has remained consistently high across all sectors of society [quote from ID cards briefing - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs4/Id_Cards_Briefi ng.pdf%5D"
which is arrant bollocks and typical of the current slippery incumbents of the UK government
As someone who's spent many years as a neurophysiology researcher before becoming a programmer I feel I may have a bit more insight than the average person. What this project boils down to is a simplistic model of the simplist unit of operation of one area of the brain (neocortical column). Anyone who has followed research into areas such as epilepsy and memory will know of the massive gaps in our understanding of the realtionship of the brain and the mind. So this "first computer simulation of the entire human brain" is neither accurate in the sense that they are not simulating the human brain, nor are they the first to try what they are attempting. They only difference here is that they have the very public backing of a major corporation who understand the benefit of good publicity.
This sort of research is fascinating and despetately needs to be done, but it does no one any favours when people associate tabloid style headlines to it. The days when we wear Richard Morgan style "stacks" are still as far away as ever unfortunately.
You're also talking about an era where governments (US, UK and AUS amongst them) exposed their own soldiers to nuclear tests to see how they would react, so I'm not sure about the psychological effects being that profound.
Mind you, we also had radioactive toothpaste and people bought it!
I agree. This seems to be very much along the lines of 2+2=5. The difficulty in refining the uranium and/or plutonium required meant that germany was many months from creating a bomb. The amount of credence given to an undated and unsigned diagram seems disproportionate considering that there is little or no surrounding and supporting evidence.
That Karlsch can claim that the Nazi's managed a nuclear test from a single diagram and a reactor design seems a little premature (okay it seems ridiculous but I'm trying to be objective).
Unfortunately, the coverage seems to stem more from the ego of a single scientist propounding a different and contraversial view rather than scientific fact.
I can't believe that. No company in their right mind would run the risk of alienating their customers (especially the techies) by doing this. If the SCO thing has proven anything it's that you can't run roughshod over other peoples work and claim it for your own without paying a huge price, both financially and in your reputation
bloody formatting.....
the next version of the Windows operating system, will make {insert current scare here}'a thing of the past'
the next version of the Windows operating system, will make 'a thing of the past'
did he demand a recount on the vote?
Wrong.
The Elites do the shitty jobs but turn a shitty job into a great one by hardwork and talent. Everybody has to be the "teaboy" at some time in their career, you just might not realise they are as they're doing such a good job.
A good example is Uni, you may be stuck in school for 3 years (try 8 in my case!) while your mates are out earning, but come 10 years time you will have easily surpassed many of them, as you did the grunt work to make you what you are.
>>it became common to float molten glass on mercury Surely you mean "float glass on molten tin" as I've never heard the phrase "mad as a glazier" (although it would provide many answers reagarding the suspicious behaviour or double-glazing salespeople!)
You're absolutely correct. For a PC you don't care...but for a server you damn well do care, and this is where AMD have made the smart move by hitting the more niche market of servers first. I feel that they will sew up this area first and then take this momentum into the desktop.
AMD are also crippled on the desktop by MS's inability to produce a 64 bit OS. People feel comfortable with microsoft OS's and an OS upgrade is always a good driver to upgrade.
Let's face it, if Longhorn came out at the same time as Opteron, AMD would have more than double the market share they currently have.
HA! oh for the old days, just me and my wax tablet and cuneate, figuring out which way these damn pyramids were meant to go...
The advert is hilarious. You see this bod walking around with the voiceover spreading FUD about how dangerous the internet is (Jaws-like scary theme). Cue soothing music as soon as he gets home and switches on his (apparently AOL powered) PC.
The best bit is when he's in the AOL interface and has to manually switch on the virus scanner and trojan protector! Like they shouldn't be on by default!! Jeez, I hope that's poetic license else in the 10 minutes it takes the AOL user to get the settings, they'll already be 0wn3d!
Yep, the only way you can keep most users virus and trojan free is to unplug their computer...and take their phones away...and their PDA's... Right, paper and pen it is then!
This study comes from AOL UK which just happens to be pushing a big advertising campaign in the UK about how "safe" AOL is, what a surprise.
I hate to blow my own trumpet (but I would say that!) but I managed to snap up a couple of PSPs on a recent trip to New York (before they sold out) and on both the screens are perfect. I'd heard bad things about the screen and how dodgy they are but both myself and my friends who've seen it (which include people in the television and film industry) think it's stunning. No dead pixels, great colour depth and deep blacks.
Caveat emptor always, but don't believe the bad hype.
Which industry is that?
.NET looks good for serious windows GUI apps due to the shortfalls of Swing/SWT but anything distributed has gone to Java, especially at the enterprise level.
Both media and banking (my last 2 contracts) have been dominated by Java/J2EE, although this may well be due to the fact that I am primarily a server developer, with my only client programming being the web presentation layer.
I know it's horses for courses but I'd like to know personal feedback for different industries.
I misread the poster, apologies to Michael.
The discovery of a new type of antibiotics is always welcome. The overuse of the common goups such as cephalosporins, and penicillins have contributed to bacterial resistance with the resulting appearance of bacteria such as MRSA.
It will be interesting to see how broad a spectrum these furanones will turn out to have or how well they are in combination with other drugs, as well as their pharmacokinetics and tolerance. This research looks positive but it's early days.
One point though, the poster should state their involvement in the study and also that of Biosignal.
I'm sure the surgical team would have told you that operating near the occiptal lobe could result in some visual disturbance which is a real pity, but considering the alternative....
No one is ever "lucky" to get a brain tumour but you could do far worse than a low grade indolent tumour. So I'm glad to hear you're still around and kudos to you and your support group!
First off, my clinical experience is in epilepsy not ADHD, but a quick skim of the journals would indicate that EEGs are starting to be used in this area.
The trouble is, an EEG can only show brain activity and it is then up to a skilled neurophysiologist to analyse the record and make a clinical decision. Such conditions as epilepsy, post-concussion syndrome, and tumours may show noticeable activity (although tumour detection has obviously been increased by the use of MRI and CT). Activity that is pathomnemonic (due to one condition and no other) is few and far between, so a patient may have epileptiform activity (spike/spike and wave) in the EEG and yet never suffer an epileptic seizure. So to extend this and claim that it can be used as a tool to confirm things such as the above is a little strong.
Specifically to ADHD/ADD, doctors are still uncertain about what constitutes the syndrome of ADHD as it varies depending on which diagnosis criteria you use (DSM-IV or ICD-10), so the use of EEGs to confirm diagnosis seems early to say the least.
In short, EEGs are very good for some conditions but not sensitive or specific enough for others.