If this were a lot smaller it might be a useful aid, particularly for those with memory problems. But we use something similar for web page design, where it's very useful indeed. By monitoring where the eyes move you can get a very good read on how people use a site and design accordingly.
This is regrettably another in a long line of cases where government gets around the checks and balances in the system by getting third parties to do it - usually at extortionate rates. See also the use of Halliburton to replace the US Army engineers and the hiring of Blackwater USA as a form of 'Mercenaries R Us.'
There really seems to be little legal case here. For years now therer's been information campaign after campaign about the safety aspects of meeting people you've met online in the offline world. She spent the whole afternoon with this guy and took him back to her place. If the assault is proven then her beef is with the attacker - you can't sue a friend for introducing you to someone who then assaults you.
This has very little to do with online security and lots to do with the fact that MySpace is in the public eye and has money. Long live America, land of the lawsuit.
At the end of the day the teaser campaign was mishandled. This kind of product is a tough sell at the best of times - as shown by the relative failure of the tablet PC. Samsung have a good product, but at the price of a very good laptop it's a near impossible sell. People like keyboards for serious work and there still isn't enough processing power or good enough software to make handwriting recognition a suitable alternative.
But it was the teaser campaign that really hurt the product. Trying to run a teaser campaign that would grasp the news agenda at the same time as the world's biggest trade show like CeBIT might have sounded good but it annoyed a lot of journalists. At the same time the hints we did get on features were so inflated that when the final product came out it was a big let down.
Teaser campaigns are notoriously difficult to pull off. Look at the Segway for example. 'Ginger',as was, was hyped to the moon and back but at the end of the day disappointed. Maybe it's a sign of the tech market - we tend to like less fluff and more hard facts?
The ISS project is dying on it's backside without the shuttle and we need the fleet to get operational as soon as possible. Yes, there is danger but there always will be with space travel. The astronauts know this and accept it and if they want to step down there are plenty more qualified people eager for the chance.
But these issues highlight a larger problem. We need a new space vehicle - the space shuttle was always a pale shadow of what it could have been. If we are to get the ISS functioning properly and go onwards to the Moon we'll need either a much heavier lifting platform or a totally new way of getting into orbit.
Too much of research these days is too tightly locked down; specific results must be achievable and there's no wiggle room. While this might make sense from an economists point of view but makes for less innovation.
I'm surprised none of the articles mentioned the electron. Totally useless discovery for 20 years but we wouldn't be reading Slashdot without it.
Nokia has a good record on trying out new designs (think of the iconic 7100 series and the 8850) and some of these are rather good designs.
But ion the long term, five or ten years down the line the bulk of phones are unlikely to be handsets. If the latest 'phone on a chip' designs follow Moore's guidelines (no it's not a law) then we'll be able to integrate phones into watches, earpieces and there's even a design for an earring. Difficult to leave those in the back of a taxi.
Thins won't work as a tracker if the kid doesn't want to be tracked and will have devastating consequences for family relationships if the parent insists on their children using it.
First off kids are smart. This system needs power to work so simply taking the battery out of the phone will make the child impossible to track. If this is similar to other tracking systems it will still work if the phone is switched off but take out the battery and there's no way to track it.
For those kids that can't figure this out the kids will simply leave their phone at home and say they forgot it. Now many parents buy their children a mobile phone for safety, so if they get in trouble they can call for help. But if you're a kid wanting to go to an event they aren't allowed too, usually something where the parent perceives there to be danger like a party or concert, the kid leaves the phone at home and is in even more danger.
The logical next step is for the parent to insist that the kid carries the phone at all times. What's that going to do to foster trust between the generations? "I love you Timmy and to show that love I'm going to destroy any privacy you have left and check obsessively to see where you are at all times and question you about it when you get back."
I'm sure Verizon will make money on this but the social and emotional costs will also be high and the risk factor is likely to be untouched. The first thing a child snatcher will do is ditch the phone after all. What's next, implants?
No-one wants to be snooped on but this information is volunteered and as such is fair game. I'll fight to the death to keep my details private but if people are putting that information up there it's fair game. Not sure they are going to catch too many terrorists that way (Likes: Sport, hanging out, overthrowing decadent and secular regimes...).
The Blu-Ray camp are trying to push their media into storage as fast as possible as well - I've had loads of briefings on how data centres will love Blu-Ray. Personally I have my doubts - Microsoft and Intel's support could prove crucial in making HD DVD the drive of choice for PCs.
Don't think it will save them this time however. Microsoft faces real structural problems in moving to software as a service, as well as a complete reengineering of the financial model that has given them such deep pockets.
One thing is certain, the standard procedure of putting stuff out for free and trying to dominate won't work in the service model, at least not in the long term.
After all the crash of one of the first fly by wire A320 aircraft at a French air show in 1998 there were numerous questions raised about the suitability of its control software. The investigation claimed pilot error but there is considerable evidence that the data in the flight recorders was falsified. The thought of a pilot being advised to leave it to software is very worrying.
I know it's a great film but for goodness sake how long are we going to keep falling for this?
I've already got two versions of this film and will not be buying a third. It seems that every director under the sun is releasing director's cuts and special editions - it's a shameless cash in.
As a creative I am very familiar with the need to have your work as you want it but this is Ridley Scott's third go at it. If he was that talented he would have got it right first time.
Possibly the only honest director's cut I've seen was the alternative Alien Resurrection, where Jean-Pierre Jeunet explains that he was perfectly happy with the final cut but here's something they've done anyway.
The paper doesn't seem to be denying accessing the site, merely if it had been given permission. The only possible reason for this would be to check who accessed the site using the login and when, something which the government's own server logs should reveal.
554 Amun may well have billions of precious metals inside, it'll be easier to reach than the moon BUT it's also moving at a fair old whack and actually parking it in orbit is going to be a whole different problem. Somehting 2km in diameter is going to take a lot of stopping.
The only way to do it with anything approaching today's technology would be to dump a series of engines, possibly ion drives or even a solar sail, on the rock and slow it down so you could pick it up on the next circuit. Looks like we'll all have to wait a while longer to knock Bill Gates off the rich list.
Someone out there had their own little mega-Chernobyl. He postulated supernovai were indutrial accidents - somebody may have been asleep at the switch.
You laugh but in a world where Switzerland can win the America's Cup anything is possible.
As for the original question it's illl-informed rubbish. British fishing fleets, on which I have worked, are being shut down at an unprecedented rates and the chances of a resurgence in numbers is about as likely as Satan going to work on a snowplough.
The main culprits are the large international factory fleets that catch indiscriminately and with little regard for local regulations. These are aided and abetted but the buyers not showing responsibility. It's all very well to bemoan the destruction of cod and tuna stocks but people are still ordering it in restaurants. We need a campaign to raise people's awareness that unless things change our kids won't be able to experience the joy of cod and chips.
Samsung stopped making this particular player nearly two years ago and the lawsuit looks more like a warning to other manufacturers.
Any recall would be useless - if someone has one of these players and wants to keep it they'll just say it broke and they binned it. This wouldn't be impossible since a quick skim thought online forums indicates build quality on this particular model wasn't up to much.
Instead the studios are sending a message to all DVD manufacturers to beef up their future models so this kind of thing can't be done in the first place. If they don't they too can expect a legal fight.
Personally I think they are on to a loser - studios have very little pull over hardware manufacturers and if there's strong demand for an open player they will build it.
In the type of business Radio Shack is/was running then the internet was bound to hurt it. Buying components from a store is beset with problems of supply and demand - people want exactly what they need and they want it now. From a stock control standpoint this is incredibly difficult to do on a store by store level.
When people had no choice before the internet people had to make do and wait for parts to come into stock. Now it's easier to source most of the parts online and usually cheaper. The company's web site is also a pain in the neck to use.
It's a pity in a way because a lot of my friends considered Radio Shack an essential part of growing up and developing their knowledge of technology. But in this free market world it's adapt or die.
Plenty of other animals do this as well. At its most basic level a shoal of fish is merely a group of prey banding together so that they are less likely to be eaten, similar to herds of gazelle on land. In neither case does this lead to mor3 advanced social systems.
More likely is that we had the intelligence to see the results of such co-operation more quickly and improve upon this. You see high levels of co-operation among elephants and dolphins for example, even to the extent of routinely raising each other's offspring. If a group of early humans figured out how to kill or scare off all the large predators that group will have a higher survival rate than groups which couldn't co-operate.
It doesn't take much smarts to see the benefits of a good night's sleep compared to keeping watch waiting for footfalls in the night...
I've just come back from the UAE and what they are doing to that country id incredible. They are doubling the capacity of the existing 90 million person per year airport and building another capable of handling 150 million. They have one of the world's biggest ports and expanding control of other international port facilities.
Meanwhile the whole country is being developed as a commercial hub. UAE don't have much oil compared to Saudi or Iran and are using the money from what they have to develop as a trading hub. Other countries could learn from this example of self-investment.
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If this were a lot smaller it might be a useful aid, particularly for those with memory problems. But we use something similar for web page design, where it's very useful indeed. By monitoring where the eyes move you can get a very good read on how people use a site and design accordingly.
This is regrettably another in a long line of cases where government gets around the checks and balances in the system by getting third parties to do it - usually at extortionate rates. See also the use of Halliburton to replace the US Army engineers and the hiring of Blackwater USA as a form of 'Mercenaries R Us.'
There really seems to be little legal case here. For years now therer's been information campaign after campaign about the safety aspects of meeting people you've met online in the offline world. She spent the whole afternoon with this guy and took him back to her place. If the assault is proven then her beef is with the attacker - you can't sue a friend for introducing you to someone who then assaults you. This has very little to do with online security and lots to do with the fact that MySpace is in the public eye and has money. Long live America, land of the lawsuit.
At the end of the day the teaser campaign was mishandled. This kind of product is a tough sell at the best of times - as shown by the relative failure of the tablet PC. Samsung have a good product, but at the price of a very good laptop it's a near impossible sell. People like keyboards for serious work and there still isn't enough processing power or good enough software to make handwriting recognition a suitable alternative.
,as was, was hyped to the moon and back but at the end of the day disappointed. Maybe it's a sign of the tech market - we tend to like less fluff and more hard facts?
But it was the teaser campaign that really hurt the product. Trying to run a teaser campaign that would grasp the news agenda at the same time as the world's biggest trade show like CeBIT might have sounded good but it annoyed a lot of journalists. At the same time the hints we did get on features were so inflated that when the final product came out it was a big let down.
Teaser campaigns are notoriously difficult to pull off. Look at the Segway for example. 'Ginger'
I know, I know. Spotted it too late. My bad.
The ISS project is dying on it's backside without the shuttle and we need the fleet to get operational as soon as possible. Yes, there is danger but there always will be with space travel. The astronauts know this and accept it and if they want to step down there are plenty more qualified people eager for the chance. But these issues highlight a larger problem. We need a new space vehicle - the space shuttle was always a pale shadow of what it could have been. If we are to get the ISS functioning properly and go onwards to the Moon we'll need either a much heavier lifting platform or a totally new way of getting into orbit.
Too much of research these days is too tightly locked down; specific results must be achievable and there's no wiggle room. While this might make sense from an economists point of view but makes for less innovation. I'm surprised none of the articles mentioned the electron. Totally useless discovery for 20 years but we wouldn't be reading Slashdot without it.
News up next - Ursine defecation in arboreal context and spiritual leader found in Rome.
There's no conclusive proof that smoking causes cancer either, but there is strong evidence.
Nokia has a good record on trying out new designs (think of the iconic 7100 series and the 8850) and some of these are rather good designs. But ion the long term, five or ten years down the line the bulk of phones are unlikely to be handsets. If the latest 'phone on a chip' designs follow Moore's guidelines (no it's not a law) then we'll be able to integrate phones into watches, earpieces and there's even a design for an earring. Difficult to leave those in the back of a taxi.
Thins won't work as a tracker if the kid doesn't want to be tracked and will have devastating consequences for family relationships if the parent insists on their children using it. First off kids are smart. This system needs power to work so simply taking the battery out of the phone will make the child impossible to track. If this is similar to other tracking systems it will still work if the phone is switched off but take out the battery and there's no way to track it. For those kids that can't figure this out the kids will simply leave their phone at home and say they forgot it. Now many parents buy their children a mobile phone for safety, so if they get in trouble they can call for help. But if you're a kid wanting to go to an event they aren't allowed too, usually something where the parent perceives there to be danger like a party or concert, the kid leaves the phone at home and is in even more danger.
The logical next step is for the parent to insist that the kid carries the phone at all times. What's that going to do to foster trust between the generations? "I love you Timmy and to show that love I'm going to destroy any privacy you have left and check obsessively to see where you are at all times and question you about it when you get back."
I'm sure Verizon will make money on this but the social and emotional costs will also be high and the risk factor is likely to be untouched. The first thing a child snatcher will do is ditch the phone after all. What's next, implants?
No-one wants to be snooped on but this information is volunteered and as such is fair game. I'll fight to the death to keep my details private but if people are putting that information up there it's fair game. Not sure they are going to catch too many terrorists that way (Likes: Sport, hanging out, overthrowing decadent and secular regimes...).
In my experience when internet dating potential partners have only two of the following three qualities: Attractive
Single
Mentally stable
The Blu-Ray camp are trying to push their media into storage as fast as possible as well - I've had loads of briefings on how data centres will love Blu-Ray. Personally I have my doubts - Microsoft and Intel's support could prove crucial in making HD DVD the drive of choice for PCs.
Don't think it will save them this time however. Microsoft faces real structural problems in moving to software as a service, as well as a complete reengineering of the financial model that has given them such deep pockets. One thing is certain, the standard procedure of putting stuff out for free and trying to dominate won't work in the service model, at least not in the long term.
After all the crash of one of the first fly by wire A320 aircraft at a French air show in 1998 there were numerous questions raised about the suitability of its control software. The investigation claimed pilot error but there is considerable evidence that the data in the flight recorders was falsified. The thought of a pilot being advised to leave it to software is very worrying.
I know it's a great film but for goodness sake how long are we going to keep falling for this? I've already got two versions of this film and will not be buying a third. It seems that every director under the sun is releasing director's cuts and special editions - it's a shameless cash in. As a creative I am very familiar with the need to have your work as you want it but this is Ridley Scott's third go at it. If he was that talented he would have got it right first time. Possibly the only honest director's cut I've seen was the alternative Alien Resurrection, where Jean-Pierre Jeunet explains that he was perfectly happy with the final cut but here's something they've done anyway.
The paper doesn't seem to be denying accessing the site, merely if it had been given permission. The only possible reason for this would be to check who accessed the site using the login and when, something which the government's own server logs should reveal.
554 Amun may well have billions of precious metals inside, it'll be easier to reach than the moon BUT it's also moving at a fair old whack and actually parking it in orbit is going to be a whole different problem. Somehting 2km in diameter is going to take a lot of stopping. The only way to do it with anything approaching today's technology would be to dump a series of engines, possibly ion drives or even a solar sail, on the rock and slow it down so you could pick it up on the next circuit. Looks like we'll all have to wait a while longer to knock Bill Gates off the rich list.
Someone out there had their own little mega-Chernobyl. He postulated supernovai were indutrial accidents - somebody may have been asleep at the switch.
You laugh but in a world where Switzerland can win the America's Cup anything is possible.
As for the original question it's illl-informed rubbish. British fishing fleets, on which I have worked, are being shut down at an unprecedented rates and the chances of a resurgence in numbers is about as likely as Satan going to work on a snowplough.
The main culprits are the large international factory fleets that catch indiscriminately and with little regard for local regulations. These are aided and abetted but the buyers not showing responsibility. It's all very well to bemoan the destruction of cod and tuna stocks but people are still ordering it in restaurants. We need a campaign to raise people's awareness that unless things change our kids won't be able to experience the joy of cod and chips.
Samsung stopped making this particular player nearly two years ago and the lawsuit looks more like a warning to other manufacturers.
Any recall would be useless - if someone has one of these players and wants to keep it they'll just say it broke and they binned it. This wouldn't be impossible since a quick skim thought online forums indicates build quality on this particular model wasn't up to much.
Instead the studios are sending a message to all DVD manufacturers to beef up their future models so this kind of thing can't be done in the first place. If they don't they too can expect a legal fight.
Personally I think they are on to a loser - studios have very little pull over hardware manufacturers and if there's strong demand for an open player they will build it.
In the type of business Radio Shack is/was running then the internet was bound to hurt it. Buying components from a store is beset with problems of supply and demand - people want exactly what they need and they want it now. From a stock control standpoint this is incredibly difficult to do on a store by store level.
When people had no choice before the internet people had to make do and wait for parts to come into stock. Now it's easier to source most of the parts online and usually cheaper. The company's web site is also a pain in the neck to use.
It's a pity in a way because a lot of my friends considered Radio Shack an essential part of growing up and developing their knowledge of technology. But in this free market world it's adapt or die.
Plenty of other animals do this as well. At its most basic level a shoal of fish is merely a group of prey banding together so that they are less likely to be eaten, similar to herds of gazelle on land. In neither case does this lead to mor3 advanced social systems. More likely is that we had the intelligence to see the results of such co-operation more quickly and improve upon this. You see high levels of co-operation among elephants and dolphins for example, even to the extent of routinely raising each other's offspring. If a group of early humans figured out how to kill or scare off all the large predators that group will have a higher survival rate than groups which couldn't co-operate. It doesn't take much smarts to see the benefits of a good night's sleep compared to keeping watch waiting for footfalls in the night...
I've just come back from the UAE and what they are doing to that country id incredible. They are doubling the capacity of the existing 90 million person per year airport and building another capable of handling 150 million. They have one of the world's biggest ports and expanding control of other international port facilities. Meanwhile the whole country is being developed as a commercial hub. UAE don't have much oil compared to Saudi or Iran and are using the money from what they have to develop as a trading hub. Other countries could learn from this example of self-investment.