Why in the hell do they have to do this? If you look closely, there are "2005 Google" watermarks everywhere. What can that possibly do for them?
It is not like it is thier images, these look like they are straight off of TerraServer. TerraServer has an SOAP interface for requesting images and I don't have to see watermarks everywhere.
Oh well, it is convinient to have it integrated with Google Maps.
Controlling the brain is actually pretty difficult. From experiment they have done, they found the human brain does not take well to control. Frequently, tests subjects would have seizures under such conditions. Even just recording a subject's brain waves and playing them back would induce serious seizures.
Sorry I don't have any links on this, I saw it on Discovery channel a few years ago.
Is there a preference to disable link prefetching?
Yes, there is a hidden preference that you can set to disable link prefetching. Add this line to your prefs.js file located in your Mozilla profile directory:
user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
We are considering adding UI for this preference (see bug 166648); however, our theory is that if link prefetching needs to be disabled then there must be something wrong with the implementation. We would rather improve the implementation if it does not work correctly, than simply expect users to locate some obscure preference in the preferences UI. Heck, the Mozilla preferences UI is already crowded enough;-)
I find this statement particulary interesting:
We are considering adding UI for this preference (see bug 166648); however, our theory is that if link prefetching needs to be disabled then there must be something wrong with the implementation.
Um, that is pretty arrogant to assume why people would want to disable things. Until I read this article I didn't even know that Firefox did this. I don't like it one bit from a security standpoint. I don't want my browser running around going to sites that I don't intened to visit. And certainly, not because Google tells my browser to do so.
From the article:
...so I just sat down in a chair and my hand was swabbed with some form of disinfectant. From the color of it, I'd guess it was iodine based.
I would definately be skeptical with such technologies. SQL was an attempt to make database queries close to natural language. In my opinion, SQL is the most difficult language to do complex tasks with. True that it may be, SQL was originally designed for queries not stored procedures and such. The fact is that need was there and SQL had to try and support it.
The inherit problem with using a natural language, or something similar to a natural language for programming is that computers need exacting commands. While natural languages are more expressive, formal programming laguages are precise.
Which is the whole reason why there are often bugs. Computers are not smart, they can not guess what a user wants. They can only do exactly what a user specifies, whether it's right or wrong.
I mean, look at all the misunderstandings that occur between people. (Most) humans have a very sophisticated brain with a portion devoted to language. And still, we get things wrong very often when understanding others.
My point is I don't think there will be a replacement anytime soon for formal programming laguages. I know that is not what this tool is trying to do, but I think it's value is novel at best. There is a long way to go before someone can speak into a microphone and a computer can make the assumptions necessary to peform a task with a reasonable degree of success.
This question is loosely related to the topic. Does anyone know of public chemical databases available on the Internet? Such that I can do a parametric search for compounds? I am not a chemist so I do not have access to such a database like most scientists.
The situation is, I have had some ideas in the past about photovoltaic cells, but do not have the information available to pursue these ideas. So the this exchange of information has always been the greatest hindrance for me.
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Given the net was designed for the whole community, it has done well to reach millions. If you want to reach the whole population, you have to make sure it can scale up.
Wouldn't it just be easier to lower the population to millions rather than changing current infrastructure?
I'm not sure what this has to do with this article but I assume we should listen to these kinds of statements to see how we can make Linux based systems more reliable and easy to use for people that depend on a system they can use under extreme stress and fatigue.
No, Windows is great for embedding into things like bullets and munitions. Just as long as the Blue Scream of Death is that of our enemies and not us.
After reading how this works, it is basically just an email auto reply for any given word @grafedia.com.
In my mind, I jumped to thinking that users took a picture on their camera-phone and sent that picture to grafedia. Then image-comparison software would match that image to an image of the same graffiti that the author submitted. If a match was found, the system would retrieved the information that the author "attached." Now that would have been kind of cool! Think steganography meets UPC symbols.
But no, it's just some word as a mail account. Yawn.
I have always wondered why robotics engineering has not taken more approaches using memory-shape alloys. Mondo-tronics has a product called Muscle Wire that has carbon or graphite embedded in the alloy so that it heats up when an electric current is applied. This causes the Nitinol to contract as the alloy returns to its "memory" shape.
Really the only thing I have seen using this form of memory-shape alloys is just for hobbyist projects, nothing serious. Granted there are some problems to overcome, such as duty cycles and heat dissipation. But most of these could be solved, I have looked into them. On larger scale projects the cost could be prohibitive though.
The value as I see memory-shape alloys over motors, is that it is almost a solid-state actuator. There really is no moving parts that can wear, other than the alloy itself. And these memory-shape alloys have a very high force/weight ratio - thus making the bulk of most robotics not a function of locomotion.
I hate to be the one to point this out, but um. They haven't actually killed anything. This more accurately should be called a Solar Plastic-Melting Ray.
Spelling rarely rises to such levels of hilarity as it does on Slashdot
And people on Slashdot can rarely speak street slang. oxycotton
Feb. 9, 2001 -- The official name is OxyContin, but on the street it's known as "oxycotton." And at a dollar a milligram, it's the drug du jour from the coal-mining country of Kentucky to the bleak factory towns of rural Maine.
You should try that Proactiv then. Apparently from the infomercials, Vanessa Williams was hideous before using Proactive Solution.
Vanessa Williams:
"Having acne is a drag. You're self-conscious; it's embarrassing. You just want to be normal. I know how it feels. I started breaking out when I was about sixteen, and that's a tough enough age without a face full of pimples. Acne doesn't care how old you are; even in my thirties I was still breaking out and in my business, that's unacceptable. I first started using Proactiv Solution after finding it for my teenage daughter. Within a week, I noticed an immediate change in the smoothness of my skin; fewer bumps, less redness. Now I have my brother on it, my babysitter on it. If only we had it sooner."
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Why in the hell do they have to do this? If you look closely, there are "2005 Google" watermarks everywhere. What can that possibly do for them?
It is not like it is thier images, these look like they are straight off of TerraServer. TerraServer has an SOAP interface for requesting images and I don't have to see watermarks everywhere.
Oh well, it is convinient to have it integrated with Google Maps.
It looks to me like /. was trying to get an April 1st joke article in every topic.
I am going to mow my resume into my lawn. Maybe then I will be considered for a job at Google. They like the creative thinking types right?
Controlling the brain is actually pretty difficult. From experiment they have done, they found the human brain does not take well to control. Frequently, tests subjects would have seizures under such conditions. Even just recording a subject's brain waves and playing them back would induce serious seizures.
Sorry I don't have any links on this, I saw it on Discovery channel a few years ago.
I find this statement particulary interesting: Um, that is pretty arrogant to assume why people would want to disable things. Until I read this article I didn't even know that Firefox did this. I don't like it one bit from a security standpoint. I don't want my browser running around going to sites that I don't intened to visit. And certainly, not because Google tells my browser to do so.
I suppose at the very least, it can be disabled.
Those crazy anarchists, PSPs are for kids.
That's right, I set them up and you knock 'em down. Then you get the +5 funny. That's what I call teamwork.
UN Inspectors denied access to Internet; Bush launches bombing campaign.
AOL, very sorry.
I would definately be skeptical with such technologies. SQL was an attempt to make database queries close to natural language. In my opinion, SQL is the most difficult language to do complex tasks with. True that it may be, SQL was originally designed for queries not stored procedures and such. The fact is that need was there and SQL had to try and support it.
The inherit problem with using a natural language, or something similar to a natural language for programming is that computers need exacting commands. While natural languages are more expressive, formal programming laguages are precise.
Which is the whole reason why there are often bugs. Computers are not smart, they can not guess what a user wants. They can only do exactly what a user specifies, whether it's right or wrong.
I mean, look at all the misunderstandings that occur between people. (Most) humans have a very sophisticated brain with a portion devoted to language. And still, we get things wrong very often when understanding others.
My point is I don't think there will be a replacement anytime soon for formal programming laguages. I know that is not what this tool is trying to do, but I think it's value is novel at best. There is a long way to go before someone can speak into a microphone and a computer can make the assumptions necessary to peform a task with a reasonable degree of success.
This question is loosely related to the topic. Does anyone know of public chemical databases available on the Internet? Such that I can do a parametric search for compounds? I am not a chemist so I do not have access to such a database like most scientists.
The situation is, I have had some ideas in the past about photovoltaic cells, but do not have the information available to pursue these ideas. So the this exchange of information has always been the greatest hindrance for me.
Wouldn't it just be easier to lower the population to millions rather than changing current infrastructure?
After reading how this works, it is basically just an email auto reply for any given word @grafedia.com.
In my mind, I jumped to thinking that users took a picture on their camera-phone and sent that picture to grafedia. Then image-comparison software would match that image to an image of the same graffiti that the author submitted. If a match was found, the system would retrieved the information that the author "attached." Now that would have been kind of cool! Think steganography meets UPC symbols.
But no, it's just some word as a mail account. Yawn.
I have always wondered why robotics engineering has not taken more approaches using memory-shape alloys. Mondo-tronics has a product called Muscle Wire that has carbon or graphite embedded in the alloy so that it heats up when an electric current is applied. This causes the Nitinol to contract as the alloy returns to its "memory" shape.
Really the only thing I have seen using this form of memory-shape alloys is just for hobbyist projects, nothing serious. Granted there are some problems to overcome, such as duty cycles and heat dissipation. But most of these could be solved, I have looked into them. On larger scale projects the cost could be prohibitive though.
The value as I see memory-shape alloys over motors, is that it is almost a solid-state actuator. There really is no moving parts that can wear, other than the alloy itself. And these memory-shape alloys have a very high force/weight ratio - thus making the bulk of most robotics not a function of locomotion.
I hate to be the one to point this out, but um. They haven't actually killed anything. This more accurately should be called a Solar Plastic-Melting Ray.
And people on Slashdot can rarely speak street slang. oxycotton
I know, oxycotton. I was kidding.
Everyone's doing it!
Richard Stallman: Fuck no! Those Oxford pricks disgust me. Fuck!... Shit!... Bu Balls!