... the/. reporter can go find a stand that has a halfway decent camera with a microphone that actually works first and then use that to shoot the video.
The Streisand effect applies when you're trying to avert attention from something but inadvertently attract attention to it in doing so. I don't think it applies here. Nobody is trying to avert attention from anything. In fact, I'd expect their government to be pleased as punch with so much free publicity for a simple policy change.
If your point is that telling people about illegal currency only makes them want to use it more, I think you're overestimating the general appeal of bitcoin. Main reason for bitcoin's popularity is that it's both difficult to trace and not illegal. One of those is no longer true in Thailand and I don't think that will improve its popularity with criminals in Thailand, nor with most others valuing the former.
Don't mistake my point for agreement with their policy though. I don't think bitcoin as it stands has lasting potential, but that doesn't mean I agree with a decision like outlawing it.
Did you even look at the footage? You sound like someone going "Pffrt, flew people to Mars in 6 months? I can get to work in 6 minutes! When they do that in 6 days, I will be impressed."
You could also argue that, if you need a modern GPU to be able to render the graphics for a fun game, you're doing it wrong! What's wrong with Pacman and Space Invaders, right?
More space allowing for more data and faster calculation in a spreadsheet allows for more uses. Just the fact that you'd pick another set of tools, doesn't mean someone able to do it quickly and effectively with a spreadsheet is doing anything "wrong".
Like most people, I'm mostly interested in the capability to stream audio to all kinds of devices. And people have already pointed out some key differences with DLNA that explain why there is reason to be happy with something like MagicPlay.
But Airplay offers streaming of audio, as well as video, photo's and screen mirroring. I haven't looked into the source yet, but going by the description, it looks like MagicPlay doesn't offer any of that and sofar nobody is planning to add it. Has anyone looked at the source and are they able to refute this?
Calling MagicPlay "open source AirPlay" seems a bit of a stretch then. That's like calling AbiWord "open source Office". Of course the marketing department won't like it, but MagicPlay seems more like "open source RAOP" (Remote Audio Output Protocol, see the Unofficial AirPlay Protocol Specification ) with the added stuff required to nicely hook up sinks to sources.
Your question is valid, but the research doesn't appear to favor one of the answers - though it's clear which one will sell more ads. (Found myself replacing "papers" with "ads" there, how sad)
Although this is in the article: 'Appelbaum said that with time and experience, the gamer apparently gets better at doing this. "They need less information to arrive at a probabilistic conclusion, and they do it faster."' And of course you could actually determine this by looking at how long and how much people have been playing games up to the point of the study.
Nicely put. I agree, Linux is for survivalist, literate hippies with no interest in digital entertainment and Windows is for pretty much everyone else.
The parent made their point about games, but it is equally true for business software, creative software and pretty much any software that's not back end stuff. Sure, there's great software for other OSes. Steam for Linux, the move to the web and into the cloud and all that jazz. But don't pretend that Windows isn't still the premier platform for nearly all commercial software developers.
Perhaps the better question would be directed at developers: what keeps you developing for Windows? And when might those arguments stop being valid?
When I first learned to program, I didn't own a computer, nor did I have access to one at home. I wrote GFA Basic programs in a lined paper notebook, saving it up for the rare time I did have access to an Atari 1040 STF at a friend's house. Learning GFA Basic was nice, learning to think about code and imagining how it would work without a compiler on hand taught me much more.
The first system I had continual access to was a 8086 XT with DOS 4.01. Learning GW Basic was nice, learning how to juggle around code to get the most out of the limited space afforded by the language taught me much more.
Running out of options on Basic, I started playing around with debug.com. Learning machine code was nice, learning about microcomputer architecture by manipulating it up close taught me much more. In the end, replacing command.com with my own is one of my fondest programming memories.
You get the idea. MASM taught me assembler, but also the value of a good build and deployment process and the pain of multi-threading in the form of TSR's. Then Borland Turbo Pascal 5.0 taught me Pascal, but also object-orientation and modular software design in the first glimpse of an IDE. Then AutoLisp in AutoCAD 2.something taught me LISP, but also the functional programming paradigm and how math and programming had more in common than I ever suspected. A few more languages got me through the first year of college, finally bringing it all together in a coherent story; filling in the blanks and allowing me for the first time to understand the computer in its entirity, from semi-conductors all the way up through machine code, parsers, compilers, higher level languages and beyond.
Then Delphi followed and introduced me to rapid application development and visual interface design and I don't think a year has passed since in which I didn't learn at least one new programming language (the latest being Scala). Because if teaching myself how to program (and getting a little help at university later) taught me one thing, it's that you're never done learning in the field of software development. And the true lessons aren't in learning how to code, they're in understanding why someone designed a language and what it tells you about systems, software and their purpose.
... the outrage can hardly be contained. But when linked to positive behavior, people are tripping over each other to go "of course, obviously". Little bias, perhaps?
To all who used to claim to suffer from Asperger Syndrome, but are now miraculously cured since calling yourself autistic doesn't quite have that je ne sais quoi. Seriously though, like parents claiming ADHD for there kids to explain troublesome behavior, this has to have been the #1 claim for self-justification of strange social behaviour of awkward netizens. Even if only for that reason, it's good to see it classified as a serious disorder that's actually no fun at all...
I like having the tablet on hand, since it is less intrusive in a meeting and in some cases more practical than a laptop. But the weight of all decent tablets is still too much to really recommend it for every case, even if you don't mind spending extra on an iPad. And the speed and software on eBook readers is still not quite there yet to recommend those at all, in my opinion. In terms of software I like Mantano Reader for Android (using it on a Motorola Xoom, which is nice, but heavy). But perhaps my main issue with any of these options is still the limited typing speed for annotations and notes. Perhaps Microsoft will manage to surprise us with something in the way of actual usable speech recognition on Surface?..
... it's that NASA doesn't appear to be working very hard to get this site taken down. Perhaps a little extra attention doesn't hurt? Even when it is a lame hoax that would be caught be anyone with the slightest skills as an editor. (Hint: that's probably the actual reason why NASA doesn't care to take them down)
It's not Yahoo that's at fault here, at least not all by itself. Microsoft chose to implement an "on by default" DNT feature in IE10, which goes against the agreed intention of DNT. Microsoft can fix this in many ways, the simplest of which could be to offer the user a choice upon first using IE10 - heck, they can even have the "activate Do Not Track" option selected by default, so people will only have to click "OK".
Why, do you think, did Microsoft choose not to do this? Do you really think that removing that choice from the first use degrades the user experience so much that it validates ignoring a standard and risking justified behavior from parties like Yahoo? Or could it be that it is Microsoft that would like to see DNT marginalized and sees this as the perfect way of doing so: embrace (done), extend (done), extinguish (in 3.. 2.. 1...)
I agree with your point; that intelligence is not just nurture but also nature and that genetics play a role in this. Whether that link is "very" strong, is probably up for debate.
However, you open yourself up for serious criticism with a poor example. After all, IQ test do not (just) measure your genetic predisposition for greater intelligence. So, the parents with an IQ of 90 may well have been genetically predisposed for high intelligence, but raised in an environment that failed to capitalize on this. Passing on these traits to the kid, it may well surpass its adopted parents if it receives the same quality education and upbringing they have.
Backing it up with anecdotal evidence doesn't help the case either. Bottom line is people still aren't sure what is causing the rise in IQ, but we can be fairly sure it's not (or hardly) genetics. The rise seems to be too steep for it to just boil down to natural selection doing its work on our gene pool. The linked Wikipedia entry offers a few reasonable explanations.
In the end, the piece isn't about why any single individual might have a higher or lower IQ. It's about the constant need to raise the bar and re-calibrate IQ tests to make sure that a score of "100" represents average intelligence. The parent was just making the point that (average) intelligence might be raised mostly through better education and upbringing and the Wikipedia article offers a few more explanations.
It's perfectly fine to say "epidemic laser strikes", indicating that the laser strikes (compound noun) were epidemic (adjective). Apparently, the laser strikes were "like or having to do with an epidemic" or simply "widespread". In this case, I think it's an apt choice of words, as the author may want to evoke the image of the occurrences spreading in a pattern similar to the spread of a disease.
Expansions of the phrase "epidemic laser strikes" to "laser strikes becoming epidemic" and "laser strikes on aircraft becoming epidemic" maintain that interpretation just fine.
Note: apparently/. does not support the use of a percontation point or irony mark, so I had to resort to using '[?]'. I'm sorry if your flame was all written by the time you read this.
... 50 Shades of Grey for Developers? It clearly isn't informing us of anything worthwhile and on top of that it is wrong, as others have already pointed out. I can add two more success stories about developers hooking up, getting married and having kids (and still loving each other) just from my own close friends. I myself (a developer) married a mathematician who manages software projects, so I won't count that (although we have been together for 13 years now). A load of crock, this article.
No, Google Glass is neither the Future of Movies nor Monkey Cam 2.0? This is just an example of uncreative minds failing to see the potential that's apparent to engineers and other creative minds at Google. Of course, that's no guarantee they will succeed with this product, but I think we'll see a couple of big things within the next couple of years where people will say that "it started with Google Glass".
And addressing the specific question: the camera mounted on Zippy was not bad technology; the problem was that it was mounted on a chimp. If you give Google Glass to an able cinematographer, I'm sure you'll be able to get something worthwhile. Runway models and fashion designers don't count as able cinematographers, just like the pictures you shoot with that SLR don't even get close to a Capra.
This not a simple case of security through obscurity, though. If it were, then all physical cylinder locks or password security could also be considered "security through obscurity". After all, the security only lies in not publishing the exact configuration of bumps on the key required to open the lock, or the characters making up the password.
The point in this case is that the public had no means of guessing or finding the URL other than trying every possible combination. GeenStijl provided the public with the right combination (the key or password if you will) and this is where their publication further infringes on the copyright.
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Your remark begs the question whether my country would actually extradite someone for a copyright infringement or something of the sort.
Actually, I seriously doubt any country would, unless it's an excuse to extradite someone who cannot be extradited on other grounds. So, no, U.S. law does not apply everywhere and most people get by fine without ever visiting the U.S.
Actually, the Dutch water defenses can take quite a bit and do so regularly when storm surges occur. Of course, when a storm surge would come on top of a sea level increase of 1m overall, that would cause flooding sooner, at least temporarily.
However, this lame website simply colors every bit of land that just happens to be below the set level and ignores any defense that would keep the water out, even at the lower settings. It's utter bollocks and I'm betting it's only there to generate ad revenue. Oh/., how sad to see you slip into senility.. (not directed at parent, but at the so-called editors that decided this should run)
It's not a fair comparison, unless the point is that it is more profitable to sell the OS and the brand as well as the hardware. No surprise there, if you can make it work and Apple deserves the credit for pulling it off - though I still won't have any of their stuff.
A fair comparison would be to make an estimate of the profit made by HTC, Samsung, Motorola, Asus, etc. on the sale of Android devices, combined with the profit made by Google off the platform. Looking at it that way, Android is likely to generate a lot more profit than iOS, just not for a single company.
If Apple were to split into a hardware and a software and services company, which one would generate the most profit: the hardware one, or the software and services one? I would bet the hardware part, assuming that nothing else changes and they maintain a closed platform between the two. Google is on the software side of things, though that is slowly changing since their acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
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... the /. reporter can go find a stand that has a halfway decent camera with a microphone that actually works first and then use that to shoot the video.
Shows what you know. And the dolts marking this "Interesting", I suppose.
The Streisand effect applies when you're trying to avert attention from something but inadvertently attract attention to it in doing so. I don't think it applies here. Nobody is trying to avert attention from anything. In fact, I'd expect their government to be pleased as punch with so much free publicity for a simple policy change.
If your point is that telling people about illegal currency only makes them want to use it more, I think you're overestimating the general appeal of bitcoin. Main reason for bitcoin's popularity is that it's both difficult to trace and not illegal. One of those is no longer true in Thailand and I don't think that will improve its popularity with criminals in Thailand, nor with most others valuing the former.
Don't mistake my point for agreement with their policy though. I don't think bitcoin as it stands has lasting potential, but that doesn't mean I agree with a decision like outlawing it.
Did you even look at the footage? You sound like someone going "Pffrt, flew people to Mars in 6 months? I can get to work in 6 minutes! When they do that in 6 days, I will be impressed."
Of course, the illegible drivel that sits atop most /.-pages defies classification even by humans, so some margin for error is reasonable.
You could also argue that, if you need a modern GPU to be able to render the graphics for a fun game, you're doing it wrong! What's wrong with Pacman and Space Invaders, right?
More space allowing for more data and faster calculation in a spreadsheet allows for more uses. Just the fact that you'd pick another set of tools, doesn't mean someone able to do it quickly and effectively with a spreadsheet is doing anything "wrong".
Like most people, I'm mostly interested in the capability to stream audio to all kinds of devices. And people have already pointed out some key differences with DLNA that explain why there is reason to be happy with something like MagicPlay.
But Airplay offers streaming of audio, as well as video, photo's and screen mirroring. I haven't looked into the source yet, but going by the description, it looks like MagicPlay doesn't offer any of that and sofar nobody is planning to add it. Has anyone looked at the source and are they able to refute this?
Calling MagicPlay "open source AirPlay" seems a bit of a stretch then. That's like calling AbiWord "open source Office". Of course the marketing department won't like it, but MagicPlay seems more like "open source RAOP" (Remote Audio Output Protocol, see the Unofficial AirPlay Protocol Specification ) with the added stuff required to nicely hook up sinks to sources.
Clearly, you've never watched a single body-swap movie :).
Your question is valid, but the research doesn't appear to favor one of the answers - though it's clear which one will sell more ads. (Found myself replacing "papers" with "ads" there, how sad)
Although this is in the article: 'Appelbaum said that with time and experience, the gamer apparently gets better at doing this. "They need less information to arrive at a probabilistic conclusion, and they do it faster."' And of course you could actually determine this by looking at how long and how much people have been playing games up to the point of the study.
Nicely put. I agree, Linux is for survivalist, literate hippies with no interest in digital entertainment and Windows is for pretty much everyone else.
The parent made their point about games, but it is equally true for business software, creative software and pretty much any software that's not back end stuff. Sure, there's great software for other OSes. Steam for Linux, the move to the web and into the cloud and all that jazz. But don't pretend that Windows isn't still the premier platform for nearly all commercial software developers.
Perhaps the better question would be directed at developers: what keeps you developing for Windows? And when might those arguments stop being valid?
When I first learned to program, I didn't own a computer, nor did I have access to one at home. I wrote GFA Basic programs in a lined paper notebook, saving it up for the rare time I did have access to an Atari 1040 STF at a friend's house. Learning GFA Basic was nice, learning to think about code and imagining how it would work without a compiler on hand taught me much more.
The first system I had continual access to was a 8086 XT with DOS 4.01. Learning GW Basic was nice, learning how to juggle around code to get the most out of the limited space afforded by the language taught me much more.
Running out of options on Basic, I started playing around with debug.com. Learning machine code was nice, learning about microcomputer architecture by manipulating it up close taught me much more. In the end, replacing command.com with my own is one of my fondest programming memories.
You get the idea. MASM taught me assembler, but also the value of a good build and deployment process and the pain of multi-threading in the form of TSR's. Then Borland Turbo Pascal 5.0 taught me Pascal, but also object-orientation and modular software design in the first glimpse of an IDE. Then AutoLisp in AutoCAD 2.something taught me LISP, but also the functional programming paradigm and how math and programming had more in common than I ever suspected. A few more languages got me through the first year of college, finally bringing it all together in a coherent story; filling in the blanks and allowing me for the first time to understand the computer in its entirity, from semi-conductors all the way up through machine code, parsers, compilers, higher level languages and beyond.
Then Delphi followed and introduced me to rapid application development and visual interface design and I don't think a year has passed since in which I didn't learn at least one new programming language (the latest being Scala). Because if teaching myself how to program (and getting a little help at university later) taught me one thing, it's that you're never done learning in the field of software development. And the true lessons aren't in learning how to code, they're in understanding why someone designed a language and what it tells you about systems, software and their purpose.
... the outrage can hardly be contained. But when linked to positive behavior, people are tripping over each other to go "of course, obviously". Little bias, perhaps?
And if you think the distinction matters, you're not getting what's happening.
To all who used to claim to suffer from Asperger Syndrome, but are now miraculously cured since calling yourself autistic doesn't quite have that je ne sais quoi. Seriously though, like parents claiming ADHD for there kids to explain troublesome behavior, this has to have been the #1 claim for self-justification of strange social behaviour of awkward netizens. Even if only for that reason, it's good to see it classified as a serious disorder that's actually no fun at all...
I like having the tablet on hand, since it is less intrusive in a meeting and in some cases more practical than a laptop. But the weight of all decent tablets is still too much to really recommend it for every case, even if you don't mind spending extra on an iPad. And the speed and software on eBook readers is still not quite there yet to recommend those at all, in my opinion. In terms of software I like Mantano Reader for Android (using it on a Motorola Xoom, which is nice, but heavy). But perhaps my main issue with any of these options is still the limited typing speed for annotations and notes. Perhaps Microsoft will manage to surprise us with something in the way of actual usable speech recognition on Surface?..
... it's that NASA doesn't appear to be working very hard to get this site taken down. Perhaps a little extra attention doesn't hurt? Even when it is a lame hoax that would be caught be anyone with the slightest skills as an editor. (Hint: that's probably the actual reason why NASA doesn't care to take them down)
It's not Yahoo that's at fault here, at least not all by itself. Microsoft chose to implement an "on by default" DNT feature in IE10, which goes against the agreed intention of DNT. Microsoft can fix this in many ways, the simplest of which could be to offer the user a choice upon first using IE10 - heck, they can even have the "activate Do Not Track" option selected by default, so people will only have to click "OK".
Why, do you think, did Microsoft choose not to do this? Do you really think that removing that choice from the first use degrades the user experience so much that it validates ignoring a standard and risking justified behavior from parties like Yahoo? Or could it be that it is Microsoft that would like to see DNT marginalized and sees this as the perfect way of doing so: embrace (done), extend (done), extinguish (in 3.. 2.. 1...)
I agree with your point; that intelligence is not just nurture but also nature and that genetics play a role in this. Whether that link is "very" strong, is probably up for debate.
However, you open yourself up for serious criticism with a poor example. After all, IQ test do not (just) measure your genetic predisposition for greater intelligence. So, the parents with an IQ of 90 may well have been genetically predisposed for high intelligence, but raised in an environment that failed to capitalize on this. Passing on these traits to the kid, it may well surpass its adopted parents if it receives the same quality education and upbringing they have.
Backing it up with anecdotal evidence doesn't help the case either. Bottom line is people still aren't sure what is causing the rise in IQ, but we can be fairly sure it's not (or hardly) genetics. The rise seems to be too steep for it to just boil down to natural selection doing its work on our gene pool. The linked Wikipedia entry offers a few reasonable explanations.
In the end, the piece isn't about why any single individual might have a higher or lower IQ. It's about the constant need to raise the bar and re-calibrate IQ tests to make sure that a score of "100" represents average intelligence. The parent was just making the point that (average) intelligence might be raised mostly through better education and upbringing and the Wikipedia article offers a few more explanations.
My, my, no end to the pendantry[?]
It's perfectly fine to say "epidemic laser strikes", indicating that the laser strikes (compound noun) were epidemic (adjective). Apparently, the laser strikes were "like or having to do with an epidemic" or simply "widespread". In this case, I think it's an apt choice of words, as the author may want to evoke the image of the occurrences spreading in a pattern similar to the spread of a disease.
Expansions of the phrase "epidemic laser strikes" to "laser strikes becoming epidemic" and "laser strikes on aircraft becoming epidemic" maintain that interpretation just fine.
Note: apparently /. does not support the use of a percontation point or irony mark, so I had to resort to using '[?]'. I'm sorry if your flame was all written by the time you read this.
... 50 Shades of Grey for Developers? It clearly isn't informing us of anything worthwhile and on top of that it is wrong, as others have already pointed out. I can add two more success stories about developers hooking up, getting married and having kids (and still loving each other) just from my own close friends. I myself (a developer) married a mathematician who manages software projects, so I won't count that (although we have been together for 13 years now). A load of crock, this article.
.. the answer is still "No", apparently.
No, Google Glass is neither the Future of Movies nor Monkey Cam 2.0? This is just an example of uncreative minds failing to see the potential that's apparent to engineers and other creative minds at Google. Of course, that's no guarantee they will succeed with this product, but I think we'll see a couple of big things within the next couple of years where people will say that "it started with Google Glass".
And addressing the specific question: the camera mounted on Zippy was not bad technology; the problem was that it was mounted on a chimp. If you give Google Glass to an able cinematographer, I'm sure you'll be able to get something worthwhile. Runway models and fashion designers don't count as able cinematographers, just like the pictures you shoot with that SLR don't even get close to a Capra.
This not a simple case of security through obscurity, though. If it were, then all physical cylinder locks or password security could also be considered "security through obscurity". After all, the security only lies in not publishing the exact configuration of bumps on the key required to open the lock, or the characters making up the password.
The point in this case is that the public had no means of guessing or finding the URL other than trying every possible combination. GeenStijl provided the public with the right combination (the key or password if you will) and this is where their publication further infringes on the copyright.
Your remark begs the question whether my country would actually extradite someone for a copyright infringement or something of the sort.
Actually, I seriously doubt any country would, unless it's an excuse to extradite someone who cannot be extradited on other grounds. So, no, U.S. law does not apply everywhere and most people get by fine without ever visiting the U.S.
Actually, the Dutch water defenses can take quite a bit and do so regularly when storm surges occur. Of course, when a storm surge would come on top of a sea level increase of 1m overall, that would cause flooding sooner, at least temporarily.
However, this lame website simply colors every bit of land that just happens to be below the set level and ignores any defense that would keep the water out, even at the lower settings. It's utter bollocks and I'm betting it's only there to generate ad revenue. Oh /., how sad to see you slip into senility.. (not directed at parent, but at the so-called editors that decided this should run)
It's not a fair comparison, unless the point is that it is more profitable to sell the OS and the brand as well as the hardware. No surprise there, if you can make it work and Apple deserves the credit for pulling it off - though I still won't have any of their stuff. A fair comparison would be to make an estimate of the profit made by HTC, Samsung, Motorola, Asus, etc. on the sale of Android devices, combined with the profit made by Google off the platform. Looking at it that way, Android is likely to generate a lot more profit than iOS, just not for a single company. If Apple were to split into a hardware and a software and services company, which one would generate the most profit: the hardware one, or the software and services one? I would bet the hardware part, assuming that nothing else changes and they maintain a closed platform between the two. Google is on the software side of things, though that is slowly changing since their acquisition of Motorola Mobility.