Hahaha, no offense taken. Actually the work I was looking for was associations but somewhat managed to choose the wrong wrong while doing the spell-checking step.
As a Comp. Sci. PhD I have a slightly different point of view.
I went out of my country (Mexico) to do my PhD with a scholarpship from my government. However, due to the lack of jobs in my own country, I chose to stay in Europe to do a Postdoc.
In Germany at least (in the Science circles I am moving now) there is quite a lot of money for research. In fact, in my institute there is more money than researchers (because generally people do not want to live in the city where the institute is).
However, I can see that the main problem in USA is the same as in Mexico; the government wants people to study science but does not want to impulse job creation for those scientists. In the case of Mexico (and other underdeveloped countries) we have the option of going to other countries, but in the case of the USA (mainly due to cultural limitations) people may not have that option.
The problem is how can the government *impulse* such job creation. The private sector will never offer a lot of research jobs (specially theoretical research), and as someone else said, they want useful, commercial results in a very small amount of time... because they do not know how science work.
The other option is for government funded research institutes. This is how Germany research assassinations work (Max Planck, Fraunhofer, Leibniz, UFZ, Helmholz, etc...) and to a lower degree how Mexico works (Cinvestav). But in a country (like the USA) where government "control" is seen as being a bad thing, I cannot imagine this approach being accepted.
With Sony (and Apple) it is actually quite simple, at least with my wife. It is very pragmatic things that allows us to decide no to buy certain technology. We usually do not buy a "brand", but a product. If I want a refrigeration I will check several of them and buy the one with the best features.
Nevertheless, with Sony and Apple, all their products are going to be crippled in some way (proprietary memory cards, enforcing proprietary software, etc., ) It is only a matter of *educating* people, once people know the *why*, it is also easy for them to make the right decision.
Damn right! for us kids that were amazed by the NES, the arrival of the SuperNES had a huge impact. For me, one of the factors was that I could play the Arcade games (Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2) *at home*! without paying a lot of Pesos. Of course the updated graphics where also amazing!
I think a lot of people would notice if their laptop suddenly got a third less battery life.
Not trying to troll but for me Linux has always used drained battery faster than alternative OS. I do not know what is the reason or the problem but from previous Linux versions I always got around 20% less time in Linux than in the other OS. (I remember about 5 years ago there even was a problem that Linux was writing a lot to the HDD and that caused battery train problems).
This same issue happens with information. About 10 years ago, I bought some programming magazine every month. I liked it because it "pushed" all sorts of information to me, including new languages, new APIs or libraries I did not know about (sometimes, you even got a tutorial in assembler).
Nowadays with the Internet, I usually have to *look for* (pull) this same info. And as you say, usually you look for stuff that you already know exists. Fortunately, getting the RSS feed for StackOverflow and Programmers.StackExchange allows me to see some interesting things I did not know before.
It is a sad joke. Even for sites like Reddit whose administrators are supposed to know better, the Amazon shit hit. And the terrible thing is that it is not the first time that Amazon's service has broken, this has happened quite a lot in the last months, and people still *pay* for the service. Crazy.
Fuck Sony, they are a has been in the internet age (
What the fuck does your title says? in your race for the first post you only wrote a lot of nonsense. Can yo please calm down and rephrase your rambling so that we can understand it?
Sheesh, we should strive to leave this kind of nonsense to Digg, youtube or the like.
I came here to say the same thing. Sony just followed their standard produdct practices. The "original" PS3 had features like OtherOS and PS2 emulation, which the newer Slim Version did not have.
Interesting... I have got 100 tablets of 800mg each for about 10 Euro... ( docsimon.com / article/piracetam-al-tbl-100x-800mg ). That doesn't seem expensive to me.
I do not understand why people hate experts-exchange. A lot of times I have found solutions to real problems in the answers of this site. On the other site, eHow really dones not provide any value.
That would be useful for Computer Games only if computer games were sold. Unfortunately, current computer games are actually licensed and what you acquire when buying such a game is just a license to use the developers' game (see, the game is still owned by the developer) in whatever way they like you to use it.
The only way in which the First sale Doctrine would have effect is if the game developers *sold* you the game... but they don't. To put it in a car analogy, you are free to sell a car you bought, but you are not free to sell a car you rented from Avis.
I am sorry that not all of us are paid in Norwegian Money like you... I guess we are not that lucky.
If I payed for each of these little monthly "chip ins" required by some sites I use *sometimes* it would really eat a lot of my monthly paycheck. (Think about it... Pay for NewYork Times, pay for Allrecipes, pay for Spotify, Pay for grooveshark, pay for last.fm pay for slashdot, pay for reddit, pay for lovefilm, payfor... sheesh)
I had a similar experience with Last.FM... I subscribed for some time, but after a while I realized the music collection they had was not very varied for the genres I like (speed metal, symphonic metal, heavy metal) and the "recommendations" just where not what I liked, so even though I can use the free version, the service is just not worth the money for me.
Same thing happens to me, only for Hulu or Jinni... Quite often after looking for something to see I find myself in a webpage that says "sorry but this service is only available in the USA"... I have my credit card in my wallet and I am happy to pay but a lot of times paying is actually *NOT* an option so I usually look for the movie on filestube... which is a shame.
But IIRC from the last book I have read (Effective Java) the Java VM has some limitations itself. That is the reason why a lot of the new Java language enhancements (in 1.5), such as generics, have to be dealth with at *compile* time by type erause (e.g., the JVM does not know anything about the Generics).
IMHO the real Java killer will be C#. Although I myself prefer Java due to the amount of free/open-source libraries available.
Storing passwords as hashes instead of plain text is now illegal in France,
No, it is not. Nowhere in the article (yes, I read it) does it say that. The law that is being challenged by Google and others is one that requires them to store users' information for one year.
It is still completely possible for Google to use hashed passwords to authenticate users and only "save" the plain password in a "write only" file (text or separate database) with the unhashed passwords...
Shit, if they were required to provide a plain password, they could use any of the cracking tools to obtain exactly that one... or just "reset" the password of the account and give it to the French police.
Nevertheless, the law is still idiotic, as they say in the article; just a couple of months ago France slapped Google due to some privacy issues, and now they want them to keep so much data for so long time?
Uhh, I appreciate your point of view; however, the type of "gamificaton" you are referring to (in relation to Game Theory) is more about strategy.
There are other types of "gameification" which I think are more related to what TFA considered. It is called "role playing game" (best known as RPG). RPGs are being used to put people in "charge" of certain roles within a system; it is used as a "human simulation" to understand the decisions that people do and the non-rational reasons on why they do it.
RPGs can be used for example, when trying to "computerize" a real-world system. In order to *understand* the dynamics and decisions of such system you let people who know about the domain to play a well designed RPG.
I am actually working with such kind of games, using them specifically to create simulations of complex systems than include individual's behaviour. RPGs allow us to explore the actions of the people and to understand the reasons behind those actions.
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And I did it again... shit, let me get a coffee...!
Hahaha, no offense taken. Actually the work I was looking for was associations but somewhat managed to choose the wrong wrong while doing the spell-checking step.
Oh man, slashdot comments have become so low in quality. The majority of comments are mainly ramblings :(
As a Comp. Sci. PhD I have a slightly different point of view.
I went out of my country (Mexico) to do my PhD with a scholarpship from my government. However, due to the lack of jobs in my own country, I chose to stay in Europe to do a Postdoc.
In Germany at least (in the Science circles I am moving now) there is quite a lot of money for research. In fact, in my institute there is more money than researchers (because generally people do not want to live in the city where the institute is).
However, I can see that the main problem in USA is the same as in Mexico; the government wants people to study science but does not want to impulse job creation for those scientists. In the case of Mexico (and other underdeveloped countries) we have the option of going to other countries, but in the case of the USA (mainly due to cultural limitations) people may not have that option.
The problem is how can the government *impulse* such job creation. The private sector will never offer a lot of research jobs (specially theoretical research), and as someone else said, they want useful, commercial results in a very small amount of time... because they do not know how science work.
The other option is for government funded research institutes. This is how Germany research assassinations work (Max Planck, Fraunhofer, Leibniz, UFZ, Helmholz, etc...) and to a lower degree how Mexico works (Cinvestav). But in a country (like the USA) where government "control" is seen as being a bad thing, I cannot imagine this approach being accepted.
With Sony (and Apple) it is actually quite simple, at least with my wife. It is very pragmatic things that allows us to decide no to buy certain technology. We usually do not buy a "brand", but a product. If I want a refrigeration I will check several of them and buy the one with the best features.
Nevertheless, with Sony and Apple, all their products are going to be crippled in some way (proprietary memory cards, enforcing proprietary software, etc., ) It is only a matter of *educating* people, once people know the *why*, it is also easy for them to make the right decision.
Damn right! for us kids that were amazed by the NES, the arrival of the SuperNES had a huge impact. For me, one of the factors was that I could play the Arcade games (Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2) *at home*! without paying a lot of Pesos. Of course the updated graphics where also amazing!
I think a lot of people would notice if their laptop suddenly got a third less battery life.
Not trying to troll but for me Linux has always used drained battery faster than alternative OS. I do not know what is the reason or the problem but from previous Linux versions I always got around 20% less time in Linux than in the other OS. (I remember about 5 years ago there even was a problem that Linux was writing a lot to the HDD and that caused battery train problems).
This same issue happens with information. About 10 years ago, I bought some programming magazine every month. I liked it because it "pushed" all sorts of information to me, including new languages, new APIs or libraries I did not know about (sometimes, you even got a tutorial in assembler).
Nowadays with the Internet, I usually have to *look for* (pull) this same info. And as you say, usually you look for stuff that you already know exists. Fortunately, getting the RSS feed for StackOverflow and Programmers.StackExchange allows me to see some interesting things I did not know before.
It is a sad joke. Even for sites like Reddit whose administrators are supposed to know better, the Amazon shit hit. And the terrible thing is that it is not the first time that Amazon's service has broken, this has happened quite a lot in the last months, and people still *pay* for the service. Crazy.
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Fuck Sony, they are a has been in the internet age (
What the fuck does your title says? in your race for the first post you only wrote a lot of nonsense. Can yo please calm down and rephrase your rambling so that we can understand it?
Sheesh, we should strive to leave this kind of nonsense to Digg, youtube or the like.
Thank you.
I came here to say the same thing. Sony just followed their standard produdct practices. The "original" PS3 had features like OtherOS and PS2 emulation, which the newer Slim Version did not have.
Interesting... I have got 100 tablets of 800mg each for about 10 Euro... ( docsimon.com / article /piracetam-al-tbl-100x-800mg ). That doesn't seem expensive to me.
I do not understand why people hate experts-exchange. A lot of times I have found solutions to real problems in the answers of this site. On the other site, eHow really dones not provide any value.
That would be useful for Computer Games only if computer games were sold. Unfortunately, current computer games are actually licensed and what you acquire when buying such a game is just a license to use the developers' game (see, the game is still owned by the developer) in whatever way they like you to use it.
The only way in which the First sale Doctrine would have effect is if the game developers *sold* you the game... but they don't. To put it in a car analogy, you are free to sell a car you bought, but you are not free to sell a car you rented from Avis.
Uh... I guess then you won't like if I tell you about this PDF trimmer called Briss.
But yeah, I agree, Open Source program names tend to be quite shitty.
I am sorry that not all of us are paid in Norwegian Money like you... I guess we are not that lucky.
If I payed for each of these little monthly "chip ins" required by some sites I use *sometimes* it would really eat a lot of my monthly paycheck. (Think about it... Pay for NewYork Times, pay for Allrecipes, pay for Spotify, Pay for grooveshark, pay for last.fm pay for slashdot, pay for reddit, pay for lovefilm, payfor... sheesh)
I had a similar experience with Last.FM... I subscribed for some time, but after a while I realized the music collection they had was not very varied for the genres I like (speed metal, symphonic metal, heavy metal) and the "recommendations" just where not what I liked, so even though I can use the free version, the service is just not worth the money for me.
Same thing happens to me, only for Hulu or Jinni... Quite often after looking for something to see I find myself in a webpage that says "sorry but this service is only available in the USA"... I have my credit card in my wallet and I am happy to pay but a lot of times paying is actually *NOT* an option so I usually look for the movie on filestube... which is a shame.
[My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
If you read your rants with "Der Untergang" Hitler's German accent, it sounds very funny.
Piracetam is another option... or any of the long list of nootropics.
Have you heard about one way encryption?
But IIRC from the last book I have read (Effective Java) the Java VM has some limitations itself. That is the reason why a lot of the new Java language enhancements (in 1.5), such as generics, have to be dealth with at *compile* time by type erause (e.g., the JVM does not know anything about the Generics).
IMHO the real Java killer will be C#. Although I myself prefer Java due to the amount of free/open-source libraries available.
Nah... I would settle with a sound system that really works FINE in all cases.
Storing passwords as hashes instead of plain text is now illegal in France,
No, it is not. Nowhere in the article (yes, I read it) does it say that. The law that is being challenged by Google and others is one that requires them to store users' information for one year.
It is still completely possible for Google to use hashed passwords to authenticate users and only "save" the plain password in a "write only" file (text or separate database) with the unhashed passwords...
Shit, if they were required to provide a plain password, they could use any of the cracking tools to obtain exactly that one... or just "reset" the password of the account and give it to the French police.
Nevertheless, the law is still idiotic, as they say in the article; just a couple of months ago France slapped Google due to some privacy issues, and now they want them to keep so much data for so long time?
Uhh, I appreciate your point of view; however, the type of "gamificaton" you are referring to (in relation to Game Theory) is more about strategy.
There are other types of "gameification" which I think are more related to what TFA considered. It is called "role playing game" (best known as RPG). RPGs are being used to put people in "charge" of certain roles within a system; it is used as a "human simulation" to understand the decisions that people do and the non-rational reasons on why they do it.
RPGs can be used for example, when trying to "computerize" a real-world system. In order to *understand* the dynamics and decisions of such system you let people who know about the domain to play a well designed RPG.
I am actually working with such kind of games, using them specifically to create simulations of complex systems than include individual's behaviour. RPGs allow us to explore the actions of the people and to understand the reasons behind those actions.