I love it here in Europe, just the other day a colleague of mine surprised me by wanting to install Ubuntu.
People here are less resistant to change and have a tiny bit more of patience to adapt to new things. They do not equate "new/unknown" with "crap" as other countries do.
This isn't about learning to type on a real keyboard, it's about not needing one all together. Just know the basic layout and type away on the screen with no keyboard visual.
I think this is quite amazing. It would even be good for standard PCs with a keyboard.
I do touchtyping and sometimes I "misplace" my hand and end up typing for example"unfirnatuib" instead of "information".
I assume the idea behind the app is to use the information on the "closeness" of the different keys in the QWERTY keyboard and look for words with letters that are closer (on QWERTY) to the ones you typed.
That is a good idea, one of those that makes you think "oh! why didn't I think of that!".
That could be used for programming to, once the program "knows" the language you are using and the keyboard layout it can correct the signs ({}[], etc) as you type. Pretty cool IMHO
Now, I do not use Valve and nowadays do not play games on my PC; but having the CEO/President of a company accept staright away that they screwed, and doing several steps to fix the problem is something very rare in this day and age.
I applaud Valve for this and deffinitely would like to see other companies follow similar policies.
This makes me curious of buying valve games, and also makes me feel good that I bought a gift game from Valve for my brother-in-law last christmass.
It is interesting to see that Mr. Watters replied to you.
I had a look at the document and I was disappointed to see that it is only a technical report. As it is not a published paper in a peer-reviewed journal/conference, it has no value whatsoever.
On the other hand, it would be good if someone else from academia made a new study considering all the datasets you describe in your article.
Nevertheless, I am still sure the amount of illegal content will vastly outnumber the legal one. ~xtracto
RapeLay is played from the perspective of a chikan named Kimura Masaya, who stalks and subsequently rapes the Kiryuu family (a mother and her two young daughters). The player can choose from a variety of sexual positions, and controls the action by making movements with the mouse or by scrolling the mouse wheel.
I would suggest something like that, but mainly look for the guys who have good LAMP knowledge.
Back when I was almost finishing my University degree (Software Engineering), I was *very good* at programming. I was one of the first in my city (in a 150,000 people city on Mexico) coding.NET (back in 2002 or the the 1.0 days).
I went into a software company (from American owners established in my city) looking for a job. After a quick interview and a week, I got accepted for a 3 MONTH test. After those 3 months it was going to be decided whether I stayed or left (and I also was given the chance to quit without notice on those 3 months).
The first working day, the lead programmer asked me to do an "ABC" (altas, bajas y consultas), that is a simple DB application to read, write and report on some dataset (I remember I used a copy of a dataset they had), they told me to do it on any language and I chose C#.net.
It took me about 4 hours. After the lead programmer reviewed the code (he was the only one in house who knew C#) he was impressed. In fact, he thought I would take two or three days haha.
Nowadays I am rusty in my programming as I do mainly research. But even in my current research position, I had a 6 months "testing period" in which I could quit or could be dismissed if the research institute thought I was not OK.
I believe in this type of "testing periods". Thus, I would suggest interviewing a bunch of candidates (5 or maybe 5) and offering a 3 month period to the one you think it is the best.
Afterwards, if into the three months you thought you the guy isn't good, just dispose of him and look for your next available candidate in your list.
Just curious, did you pay the full price? (or an amount similar to the full price)
If you did, then yeah, I agree it sucks, but in the places I am mentioning (specifically Tepito in Mexico City) like flea markets in the majority of Mexico, you have the option to buy the "original" DVd/Game at $400 pesos ~ $35 USD or the "clones" (they don't like you to call them "copias piratas") for $20 pesos ~ $2 USD.
This is a good move, at least in that people at Microsoft will get to eat their own dog food (at least while they are at MS campus) and hopefully they can show some issues with the interface.
OTOH, I can imagine the majority of them will just leave their phone laying on their desk.
When you make a knockoff copy of something and sell it to someone as legit, you are defrauding them
LOL,
The though of someone really believing that the Avatar DVD they are buying in Tepito is the "original" is really funny.
Of course everybody knows they are not the original, the people that buy those DVDs or Games do it mainly because otherwise they won't be able to get the same "amount" of media.
Also AFAIK (a friend of mine from Colombia and her German wife live there), in China is the same. People go to specifically buy the cheaper version knowing that it is not the "original" they sell in the standard market at a higher price.
The fact is that the people selling the pirated media have created a secondary market, which functions like a real free market and in which people that cannot participate int he primary (legal) market go.
In Mexico at least there have been efforts to make CDs very cheap (from USD$6.2). Unfortunately neither DVDs nor Game publishers have done this.
It is fast, its memory footprint can be customized (if needed), it allows comments and text, it has a tabbed interface and its print dialog is way better than any other I have seen (OS or non OS).
Even though it is not open source I really really like the free version!
I've been working on "hard" AI research for some time. I am also interested in game AI, which is completely different than research AI.
In my opinion, the AI that the majority of people is waiting for will be achieved by game developers or similar technology and not by AI research.
Microsoft Milo shows how feasible it is to make an animation which looks *very* "intelligent", "emotional" and responsive and can interact in a very natural way with people. But that does not mean the program is highly "intelligent".
On the other hand, anyone who has talked with the average Myspace girl (in person) realizes how they can be very emotional, responsive and "interacting" but at the same time they won't have a high intelligence.
It all boils down to what a teacher asked my group on the first day of the Bachellors' AI course: "what is intelligence". There are several definitions of "intelligence", I think the main capacity which should be synthesized before computers are really intelligent is the capacity of abstraction.
How about two people using a screen at the same time when talking about something on the screen. Both are turning objects that are being rendered, to view different angles and the like.
All that while eating cheetos! Yum!
I seem to remember someone developping a coating (spray) that prevented surfaces getting dirty... that will be a MUST for this touch-screen-happy era.
Haha, that reminds me. I recently bricked my Wii, *real* brick by erasing IOS60 (the main "function" that makes the system boot), not even the "preventive" homebrew apps were helpful.
However, it was revived by a simple re-flash of the NAND chip using an specialized programmer.
This being slashdot, I would recommend GP constructing his own joystick. This one (from parent link) is an analog joystick with USB interface. It supports 8 buttons and has 360 degree sensing capabilities (not 4 or 8 axis).
With that, 8 cheap buttons and some woodwork you can have the ultimate joystick
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I love it here in Europe, just the other day a colleague of mine surprised me by wanting to install Ubuntu.
People here are less resistant to change and have a tiny bit more of patience to adapt to new things. They do not equate "new/unknown" with "crap" as other countries do.
This isn't about learning to type on a real keyboard, it's about not needing one all together. Just know the basic layout and type away on the screen with no keyboard visual.
I think this is quite amazing. It would even be good for standard PCs with a keyboard.
I do touchtyping and sometimes I "misplace" my hand and end up typing for example"unfirnatuib" instead of "information".
I assume the idea behind the app is to use the information on the "closeness" of the different keys in the QWERTY keyboard and look for words with letters that are closer (on QWERTY) to the ones you typed.
That is a good idea, one of those that makes you think "oh! why didn't I think of that!".
That could be used for programming to, once the program "knows" the language you are using and the keyboard layout it can correct the signs ({}[], etc) as you type.
Pretty cool IMHO
Yes, that guy Gabe is now my hero.
Now, I do not use Valve and nowadays do not play games on my PC; but having the CEO/President of a company accept staright away that they screwed, and doing several steps to fix the problem is something very rare in this day and age.
I applaud Valve for this and deffinitely would like to see other companies follow similar policies.
This makes me curious of buying valve games, and also makes me feel good that I bought a gift game from Valve for my brother-in-law last christmass.
Thumbs up!
Hi Steve, I thought you didn't post in /.!
so you can afford more KFC chicken.
What's the name of the KFC menu that gives you chicken?
Whoops,
I replied to another poster...
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1732898&cid=33043144
It is interesting to see that Mr. Watters replied to you.
I had a look at the document and I was disappointed to see that it is only a technical report. As it is not a published paper in a peer-reviewed journal/conference, it has no value whatsoever.
On the other hand, it would be good if someone else from academia made a new study considering all the datasets you describe in your article.
Nevertheless, I am still sure the amount of illegal content will vastly outnumber the legal one.
~xtracto
Howdy cow... those Japanese AREinsane:
RapeLay is played from the perspective of a chikan named Kimura Masaya, who stalks and subsequently rapes the Kiryuu family (a mother and her two young daughters).
The player can choose from a variety of sexual positions, and controls the action by making movements with the mouse or by scrolling the mouse wheel.
Ow come on mods, I know we are slashdot are pro-pirating, but really, modding parent as insightful?? he is mainly trolling!
Just read the Princeton study.
I would suggest something like that, but mainly look for the guys who have good LAMP knowledge.
Back when I was almost finishing my University degree (Software Engineering), I was *very good* at programming. I was one of the first in my city (in a 150,000 people city on Mexico) coding .NET (back in 2002 or the the 1.0 days).
I went into a software company (from American owners established in my city) looking for a job. After a quick interview and a week, I got accepted for a 3 MONTH test. After those 3 months it was going to be decided whether I stayed or left (and I also was given the chance to quit without notice on those 3 months).
The first working day, the lead programmer asked me to do an "ABC" (altas, bajas y consultas), that is a simple DB application to read, write and report on some dataset (I remember I used a copy of a dataset they had), they told me to do it on any language and I chose C# .net.
It took me about 4 hours. After the lead programmer reviewed the code (he was the only one in house who knew C#) he was impressed. In fact, he thought I would take two or three days haha.
Nowadays I am rusty in my programming as I do mainly research. But even in my current research position, I had a 6 months "testing period" in which I could quit or could be dismissed if the research institute thought I was not OK.
I believe in this type of "testing periods". Thus, I would suggest interviewing a bunch of candidates (5 or maybe 5) and offering a 3 month period to the one you think it is the best.
Afterwards, if into the three months you thought you the guy isn't good, just dispose of him and look for your next available candidate in your list.
It would be cool if you really do it, do you expect to publish it somewhere?
cheers.
Haha, I thought exactly the same. It would be really great if someone could create a VirtualBox, vmware or Qemu "virtual appliance" for this!
Just curious, did you pay the full price? (or an amount similar to the full price)
If you did, then yeah, I agree it sucks, but in the places I am mentioning (specifically Tepito in Mexico City) like flea markets in the majority of Mexico, you have the option to buy the "original" DVd/Game at $400 pesos ~ $35 USD or the "clones" (they don't like you to call them "copias piratas") for $20 pesos ~ $2 USD.
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I LOLed
This is a good move, at least in that people at Microsoft will get to eat their own dog food (at least while they are at MS campus) and hopefully they can show some issues with the interface.
OTOH, I can imagine the majority of them will just leave their phone laying on their desk.
When you make a knockoff copy of something and sell it to someone as legit, you are defrauding them
LOL,
The though of someone really believing that the Avatar DVD they are buying in Tepito is the "original" is really funny.
Of course everybody knows they are not the original, the people that buy those DVDs or Games do it mainly because otherwise they won't be able to get the same "amount" of media.
Also AFAIK (a friend of mine from Colombia and her German wife live there), in China is the same. People go to specifically buy the cheaper version knowing that it is not the "original" they sell in the standard market at a higher price.
The fact is that the people selling the pirated media have created a secondary market, which functions like a real free market and in which people that cannot participate int he primary (legal) market go.
In Mexico at least there have been efforts to make CDs very cheap (from USD$6.2). Unfortunately neither DVDs nor Game publishers have done this.
This makes articles such as http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/03/22/china-google-withdrawal-shows-government-intransigence [slashdot.org]">this one, where Google is praised for their support for basic human rights, was in essence a exercise in hypocrisy.
http://yro.slashdot.org/ahref=
OMG, teh Google censored Slashdot!!
pdfxchange viewer.
It is fast, its memory footprint can be customized (if needed), it allows comments and text, it has a tabbed interface and its print dialog is way better than any other I have seen (OS or non OS).
Even though it is not open source I really really like the free version!
I still use Firefox for work; mainly for one reason:
TreeStyle Tabs.
Is that something like Will Wright (hint. Spore)?
Spot on.
I've been working on "hard" AI research for some time. I am also interested in game AI, which is completely different than research AI.
In my opinion, the AI that the majority of people is waiting for will be achieved by game developers or similar technology and not by AI research.
Microsoft Milo shows how feasible it is to make an animation which looks *very* "intelligent", "emotional" and responsive and can interact in a very natural way with people. But that does not mean the program is highly "intelligent".
On the other hand, anyone who has talked with the average Myspace girl (in person) realizes how they can be very emotional, responsive and "interacting" but at the same time they won't have a high intelligence.
It all boils down to what a teacher asked my group on the first day of the Bachellors' AI course: "what is intelligence". There are several definitions of "intelligence", I think the main capacity which should be synthesized before computers are really intelligent is the capacity of abstraction.
How about two people using a screen at the same time when talking about something on the screen. Both are turning objects that are being rendered, to view different angles and the like.
All that while eating cheetos! Yum!
I seem to remember someone developping a coating (spray) that prevented surfaces getting dirty... that will be a MUST for this touch-screen-happy era.
Haha, that reminds me. I recently bricked my Wii, *real* brick by erasing IOS60 (the main "function" that makes the system boot), not even the "preventive" homebrew apps were helpful.
However, it was revived by a simple re-flash of the NAND chip using an specialized programmer.
I doubt this "fuse" brick will be unbreakable
If the eFuse failes to verify this information then the eFuse receives a command to "blow the fuse" or "trip the fuse".
So, I assume there is a possibility to change the hex value of this command from "Blow The fuse - 0xFD" to "NOP - 0x4E71".
Sooo...
is there an app for that?
That is a really good option.
This being slashdot, I would recommend GP constructing his own joystick. This one (from parent link) is an analog joystick with USB interface. It supports 8 buttons and has 360 degree sensing capabilities (not 4 or 8 axis).
With that, 8 cheap buttons and some woodwork you can have the ultimate joystick