This one was from a couple years back. You can read/see other Hopkins commencement speeches at http://www.jhu.edu/commencement/speeches/ including one by Al Gore from last year I believe.
That's true. But in order to get funding and actually make progress, a scientist has to convince people and politicians that his/her work is worthwhile.
I recently spoke with an important public health official who told me it is his job to argue for science. Now I'm not sure of his political views and he may love the Bush administration for all I know, I found that interesting and think it applies a lot to what's going on right now with NASA.
That recent Bush appointee that tried to go against the Big Bang theory is just the sort of problem, as is recent funding cuts to NASA. I don''t just blame the current administration however--because it is the scientist's job to convince the public and politicians of the importance of their work, and it is clear that they are currently largely failing at this.
Reminds me of all these businesses making money off of selling free software on eBay/websites that I won't add to the pagerank of. It's pretty pathetic, but mostly legal. I think they should figure out a way to change licenses to disallow that type of thing. I know if I told my uncle that FireFox is an amazing program and everyone should have it, there's a good chance he'd go home and pay 15 bucks for it haha.
It has been said a lot, but it really seems like most games today try to focus on having amazing graphics, and then move onto focusing on gameplay later, if ever.
Some games manage to innovate both gameplay and graphics, but they are rare. A lot of sports games have played essentially the same for the past 5 or 6 years, with only graphical updates. Most FPS games are similar, with just better graphics (physics is an exception, but that's not really gameplay when it just has to do with rolling barrles after an explosion... only when, like in HL2, it's used for essential elements of the game like strategy, etc.).
Hopefully more games will be made that innovate, like Darwinia (steampowered.com), which looks alright, but has amazing and unique gameplay.
This is a great way to start moving even further from the paper world. Every one or two-page document you get in class/the office you can quickly scan with a pen, then upload wirelessly to your computer. The day this becomes effective and viable--and the software for converting scanned images to text/pdf/.doc files becomes more accurate--we'll start to see an even greater shift away from traditional documents.
Already, most handouts in class can be found online. This will just make it even easier to keep everything on your computer for easy retrieval--especially through SEARCH (spotlight, google DS, vista, etc.).
Can't wait till they technology is cheaper and more efficient.
It is possible that it's just too new, so it isn't ready for market yet--that could by why the items aren't moving. Of course, I'm sure the first iterations of this product won't be amazing, but as time goes by, they'll probably improve.
Of course, the idea of having such a tiny scanner is amazing. It would be great to one day have a normal pen that you can just slide along a piece of paper anywhere and it will save the image. Later, you could upload it to your computer wirelessly. I would definitely pay a few hundred dollars for something like that, if not a thousand. It would be great in class to quickly scan in and then throw away every handout, so I don't need to keep them in a folder somewhere collecting dust.
I have Adelphia. Normally crappy, but the DVR is not bad. You listed not having the follow features:
1) No 30 second skip [Got it.]
2) No ability to send content to my psp or computer [Don't know, but there are some connections in the front so it may be possible. Don't care about this feature, personally.]
3) Frequent crashes [Crashed maybe 10-20 times total in heavy usage over the period of 10 months. One crash every few weeks or every month is acceptable in my book.]
4) No upgradeable drive [True, but you have the benefit of getting an upgraded unit free every time they come out with one, if you request it.]
5) Frequent "forgetting of series" and forcing me to re-enter them [never forgot one series i entered, including one that had been cancelled for almost a year]
6) And most importantly, that it's a microsoft product. [mine is not microsoft]
At this point I'd pay at least $1000 for a tivo. [At this point, I wouldn't pay 10 bucks for a tivo]
I think subscription only pricing is their best bet. At this time, I can get a DVR from my cable company for my digital cable service for about 5 dollars more a month. How does TiVo plan to compete with that with their current price structure? I understand that people like the features that come with tivo more than other boxes, but I think mine is just fine, works like a charm, and I don't have to pay 100+ down and 10+ a month. If TiVo wants to truly compete, they need to either just focus on providing the boxes to cable companies directly to deliver to customers, or on other pricing schemes (such as, pay 500 dollars get TiVo for life--or until we go Bankrupt--as well as cheap upgrades to future boxes/software updates) or no cost for the units, can get an upgrade free every two years, and a minimal monthly cost (as in 10 dollars--120 a year is reasonable).
Why doesn't Taco just build in a script that automatically makes a "I for one welcome our new ___ overlords" comment on each new post?
I guess he doesn't have to bother... these guys do it for him. Please, for the love of god, come up with your own jokes next time and save these trite, overused expressions for the times when they'll be really funny. Thanks.
I would happily pay 99 cents a song, if they gave it to me in.mp3 format, completely free of DRM, and I had an online record of all the songs I had purchased and could re-download then whenever I needed to one one or two machines through the service, or just copy it unlimited times to CDs, etc. myself. This is the only way I'm ever going to buy these. Stop circumventing fair use by making "licenses," if you are unethical to your customers, they will be unethical to you!
Wouldn't it be ironic if one of your randomly generated entries actually turned out to be a real person, with all the correct information, and he got it stolen because of that? Highly, highly unlikely, but interesting to think about.
You guys are so immature it's sickening. Sorry that someone dares to make a comment that you see has threatening your favorite TV show... It's not like I said it sucks, I just said that that was bad news reporting to say it's the best show ever. I'm getting so sick of this web site. Every 3 news items are really interesting, and have great posts/comments, but it's not worth it to have to deal with fanbois left and right... I wish there was a site like slashdot for IMPORTANT news for nerds.
Sure, there's a huge difference, but it still is such an objective claim. Almost everyone I know wouldn't love "33" and many would get bored with it. I thought it was OK, but not amazing. That's not the point. A news source shouldn't be saying something like that... unless they are quoting someone else, or saying that "based on viewership," etc. This just makes them look like an unprofessional source.
Mindjack seems to be more of a traditional news source than a blog (visit the About Us page, for example). So why does it say "(That episode, "33," is one of the best hours of drama ever written for television.)"? That seems to be a pretty personal statement. I certainly don't think that that episode is one of the best hours of drama ever written... stay with the facts, please. (At least they put it in parenthesis... to sort of show that it isn't directly part of the article.. but still).
If you can get that @aol.com email for free, why the need to pay $10-$20 per month? I wonder if many subscribers will leave (not sure if it lets them cancel an account, then make an aim with the same name) or, at the very least, will they not gain many new ones?
Once these employees are using FireFox at work, there is a good chance that they'll start to use it as home, as well (once they get used to it, and if they like it more than IE which usually seems to be the case). Then they can tell family and friends (I've personally only convinced a few people to switch, but those ten or so have told others, and it spreads).
Personally, I prefer Safari over FireFox (I don't need too many extensions, just a simple browsing experience) but when I'm on a windows machine I only use FireFox.
My homepage didn't work. I thought my internet was down. That's the first thought that comes to me, rather than "google" is down--that seems impossible!
But a ping on google.com works. My gmail doesn't work. Google.com doesn't work.
Is the world coming to an end, or is the Gates plan mentioned on slashdot a week or two ago about operation Underdog underway?
Who cares about the open source lab, tell us about google!
I've been worried about this for quite some time. I know how easy it is for someone to put a small device between the keyboard and the computer, and no one would notice it in most cases (such as at a public library, university campus, or any other place where the computers themselves are accessible and used by the general population). And even if you check the rear of the machine, it's also possible that it's been compromised by a software keylogger that is much more difficult to detect.
I find myself, when on public machines, typing extra characters in my passwords and then using the mouse to highlight them and type over them. This makes my passwords (which are already random letters/numbers) seem longer than they really are with gibberish if they are logged as keystrokes. Unfortunately, some software keyloggers can detect exactly what the input into forms are -- this does not help with that. It is also quite a hassle, but what can I say? I'm a bit paranoid (but, I believe, right so).
Keylogging is the easiest way to get people's information. The only solution I see is to ensure all public machines are much more secure from the user's end, and to actually have the machine itself inaccessible (i.e. locked in a drawer, etc.). I guess the only 'perfect' solution (if there is one) would be to use a keyboard that is projected from an inaccessible area, so that it cannot be tampered with whatsoever.
Nothing's perfect, but we can do better than we're doing in public locations!
Sure, a lot of people liked it. But compared to the number that liked Saving Private Ryan? Gladiator? Lord of the Rings? Man on Fire? Rugrats: The Movie? You get the point. Even movies that we all can agree weren't good probably had more of a following than this will have. This might do better then expected because the book it's based on is so good and respected. Once someone pays to see this garbage, they're not going to go to a sequal unless they're some fanboi guy (like you might be?).
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This one was from a couple years back. You can read/see other Hopkins commencement speeches at http://www.jhu.edu/commencement/speeches/ including one by Al Gore from last year I believe.
That's true. But in order to get funding and actually make progress, a scientist has to convince people and politicians that his/her work is worthwhile.
I recently spoke with an important public health official who told me it is his job to argue for science. Now I'm not sure of his political views and he may love the Bush administration for all I know, I found that interesting and think it applies a lot to what's going on right now with NASA.
That recent Bush appointee that tried to go against the Big Bang theory is just the sort of problem, as is recent funding cuts to NASA. I don''t just blame the current administration however--because it is the scientist's job to convince the public and politicians of the importance of their work, and it is clear that they are currently largely failing at this.
Reminds me of all these businesses making money off of selling free software on eBay/websites that I won't add to the pagerank of. It's pretty pathetic, but mostly legal. I think they should figure out a way to change licenses to disallow that type of thing. I know if I told my uncle that FireFox is an amazing program and everyone should have it, there's a good chance he'd go home and pay 15 bucks for it haha.
It has been said a lot, but it really seems like most games today try to focus on having amazing graphics, and then move onto focusing on gameplay later, if ever.
Some games manage to innovate both gameplay and graphics, but they are rare. A lot of sports games have played essentially the same for the past 5 or 6 years, with only graphical updates. Most FPS games are similar, with just better graphics (physics is an exception, but that's not really gameplay when it just has to do with rolling barrles after an explosion... only when, like in HL2, it's used for essential elements of the game like strategy, etc.).
Hopefully more games will be made that innovate, like Darwinia (steampowered.com), which looks alright, but has amazing and unique gameplay.
This is a great way to start moving even further from the paper world. Every one or two-page document you get in class/the office you can quickly scan with a pen, then upload wirelessly to your computer. The day this becomes effective and viable--and the software for converting scanned images to text/pdf/.doc files becomes more accurate--we'll start to see an even greater shift away from traditional documents.
Already, most handouts in class can be found online. This will just make it even easier to keep everything on your computer for easy retrieval--especially through SEARCH (spotlight, google DS, vista, etc.).
Can't wait till they technology is cheaper and more efficient.
It is possible that it's just too new, so it isn't ready for market yet--that could by why the items aren't moving. Of course, I'm sure the first iterations of this product won't be amazing, but as time goes by, they'll probably improve.
Of course, the idea of having such a tiny scanner is amazing. It would be great to one day have a normal pen that you can just slide along a piece of paper anywhere and it will save the image. Later, you could upload it to your computer wirelessly. I would definitely pay a few hundred dollars for something like that, if not a thousand. It would be great in class to quickly scan in and then throw away every handout, so I don't need to keep them in a folder somewhere collecting dust.
I have Adelphia. Normally crappy, but the DVR is not bad. You listed not having the follow features:
1) No 30 second skip [Got it.]
2) No ability to send content to my psp or computer [Don't know, but there are some connections in the front so it may be possible. Don't care about this feature, personally.]
3) Frequent crashes [Crashed maybe 10-20 times total in heavy usage over the period of 10 months. One crash every few weeks or every month is acceptable in my book.]
4) No upgradeable drive [True, but you have the benefit of getting an upgraded unit free every time they come out with one, if you request it.]
5) Frequent "forgetting of series" and forcing me to re-enter them [never forgot one series i entered, including one that had been cancelled for almost a year]
6) And most importantly, that it's a microsoft product. [mine is not microsoft]
At this point I'd pay at least $1000 for a tivo. [At this point, I wouldn't pay 10 bucks for a tivo]
I think subscription only pricing is their best bet. At this time, I can get a DVR from my cable company for my digital cable service for about 5 dollars more a month. How does TiVo plan to compete with that with their current price structure? I understand that people like the features that come with tivo more than other boxes, but I think mine is just fine, works like a charm, and I don't have to pay 100+ down and 10+ a month. If TiVo wants to truly compete, they need to either just focus on providing the boxes to cable companies directly to deliver to customers, or on other pricing schemes (such as, pay 500 dollars get TiVo for life--or until we go Bankrupt--as well as cheap upgrades to future boxes/software updates) or no cost for the units, can get an upgrade free every two years, and a minimal monthly cost (as in 10 dollars--120 a year is reasonable).
Lets see what happens.
Adding injury to insult would have fit better, if you think about it (even though it's not a 'phrase,' at least it would make sense).
Why doesn't Taco just build in a script that automatically makes a "I for one welcome our new ___ overlords" comment on each new post?
I guess he doesn't have to bother... these guys do it for him. Please, for the love of god, come up with your own jokes next time and save these trite, overused expressions for the times when they'll be really funny. Thanks.
I would happily pay 99 cents a song, if they gave it to me in .mp3 format, completely free of DRM, and I had an online record of all the songs I had purchased and could re-download then whenever I needed to one one or two machines through the service, or just copy it unlimited times to CDs, etc. myself. This is the only way I'm ever going to buy these. Stop circumventing fair use by making "licenses," if you are unethical to your customers, they will be unethical to you!
Wouldn't it be ironic if one of your randomly generated entries actually turned out to be a real person, with all the correct information, and he got it stolen because of that? Highly, highly unlikely, but interesting to think about.
You guys are so immature it's sickening. Sorry that someone dares to make a comment that you see has threatening your favorite TV show... It's not like I said it sucks, I just said that that was bad news reporting to say it's the best show ever. I'm getting so sick of this web site. Every 3 news items are really interesting, and have great posts/comments, but it's not worth it to have to deal with fanbois left and right... I wish there was a site like slashdot for IMPORTANT news for nerds.
Sure, there's a huge difference, but it still is such an objective claim. Almost everyone I know wouldn't love "33" and many would get bored with it. I thought it was OK, but not amazing. That's not the point. A news source shouldn't be saying something like that... unless they are quoting someone else, or saying that "based on viewership," etc. This just makes them look like an unprofessional source.
Mindjack seems to be more of a traditional news source than a blog (visit the About Us page, for example). So why does it say "(That episode, "33," is one of the best hours of drama ever written for television.)"? That seems to be a pretty personal statement. I certainly don't think that that episode is one of the best hours of drama ever written... stay with the facts, please. (At least they put it in parenthesis... to sort of show that it isn't directly part of the article.. but still).
If you can get that @aol.com email for free, why the need to pay $10-$20 per month? I wonder if many subscribers will leave (not sure if it lets them cancel an account, then make an aim with the same name) or, at the very least, will they not gain many new ones?
Once these employees are using FireFox at work, there is a good chance that they'll start to use it as home, as well (once they get used to it, and if they like it more than IE which usually seems to be the case). Then they can tell family and friends (I've personally only convinced a few people to switch, but those ten or so have told others, and it spreads).
Personally, I prefer Safari over FireFox (I don't need too many extensions, just a simple browsing experience) but when I'm on a windows machine I only use FireFox.
How/where will these be located to avoid tampering?
Thanks for the post. I didn't realize you were a member of Slashdot, Mr. Gates.
My homepage didn't work. I thought my internet was down. That's the first thought that comes to me, rather than "google" is down--that seems impossible!
But a ping on google.com works. My gmail doesn't work. Google.com doesn't work.
Is the world coming to an end, or is the Gates plan mentioned on slashdot a week or two ago about operation Underdog underway?
Who cares about the open source lab, tell us about google!
Actually A9.com is Amazon's, not Yahoo's. Don't really see why Yahoo would make another search engine to compete with itself, anyway.
I've been worried about this for quite some time. I know how easy it is for someone to put a small device between the keyboard and the computer, and no one would notice it in most cases (such as at a public library, university campus, or any other place where the computers themselves are accessible and used by the general population). And even if you check the rear of the machine, it's also possible that it's been compromised by a software keylogger that is much more difficult to detect.
I find myself, when on public machines, typing extra characters in my passwords and then using the mouse to highlight them and type over them. This makes my passwords (which are already random letters/numbers) seem longer than they really are with gibberish if they are logged as keystrokes. Unfortunately, some software keyloggers can detect exactly what the input into forms are -- this does not help with that. It is also quite a hassle, but what can I say? I'm a bit paranoid (but, I believe, right so).
Keylogging is the easiest way to get people's information. The only solution I see is to ensure all public machines are much more secure from the user's end, and to actually have the machine itself inaccessible (i.e. locked in a drawer, etc.). I guess the only 'perfect' solution (if there is one) would be to use a keyboard that is projected from an inaccessible area, so that it cannot be tampered with whatsoever.
Nothing's perfect, but we can do better than we're doing in public locations!
'a lot'?
Sure, a lot of people liked it. But compared to the number that liked Saving Private Ryan? Gladiator? Lord of the Rings? Man on Fire? Rugrats: The Movie? You get the point. Even movies that we all can agree weren't good probably had more of a following than this will have. This might do better then expected because the book it's based on is so good and respected. Once someone pays to see this garbage, they're not going to go to a sequal unless they're some fanboi guy (like you might be?).
Mark me as flamebait all you want your movie sucks nerds, deal with it!!! hahahahah!!!
(oh... who am I kidding i'm a nerd too...)