Yes, I also had similar thoughts when I read the summary that there must be a simpler explanation, and I got a good chuckle from the post from fellow slashdot'ers. Scenes of knights bickering back and forth about the aerodynamic properties of laden vs. unladen swallows come to mind. But, I kinda agree with edraven in that I'm disappointed more people have not embraced the researcher's findings as a first step in the scientific process. There are surely ways to test their hypothesis, and the very idea of this prospect seems ideally suited for the tech-savvy slashdot community. Therefore, I'd like to issue a challenge to all slashdot'ers to come up with the next step to test the researcher's conclusions. As a primer, I'm thinking of a collar equipped with a digital compass and a GPS device. There would also have to be some wireless capability to poll the location and orientation of the cattle, and some means of recording the time stamped data into a database.
I have a first generation iPhone (no jail break), and I went through the download/installation steps for the 2.0 firmware update just fine. But when it came to re-activating the phone, iTunes keeps timing out -- very inconvenient. People might want to hold off on the 2.0 upgrade if you have a first generation iPhone until apple gets their activation server back up.
I am the most senior programmer in an up-and-coming destributed-media company. A big part of what I do is (*read rapid*) development of tools for analysis of network topology. Java is a central part of that. Given the rescent lameness of what M$ deems as their state-of-the-art end-user OS, I want my tools to work in whatever play ground I deem worthy. I want my tools to work everywhere, and java is the right tool for the job.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I also had similar thoughts when I read the summary that there must be a simpler explanation, and I got a good chuckle from the post from fellow slashdot'ers. Scenes of knights bickering back and forth about the aerodynamic properties of laden vs. unladen swallows come to mind. But, I kinda agree with edraven in that I'm disappointed more people have not embraced the researcher's findings as a first step in the scientific process. There are surely ways to test their hypothesis, and the very idea of this prospect seems ideally suited for the tech-savvy slashdot community. Therefore, I'd like to issue a challenge to all slashdot'ers to come up with the next step to test the researcher's conclusions. As a primer, I'm thinking of a collar equipped with a digital compass and a GPS device. There would also have to be some wireless capability to poll the location and orientation of the cattle, and some means of recording the time stamped data into a database.
I have a first generation iPhone (no jail break), and I went through the download/installation steps for the 2.0 firmware update just fine. But when it came to re-activating the phone, iTunes keeps timing out -- very inconvenient. People might want to hold off on the 2.0 upgrade if you have a first generation iPhone until apple gets their activation server back up.
I am the most senior programmer in an up-and-coming destributed-media company. A big part of what I do is (*read rapid*) development of tools for analysis of network topology. Java is a central part of that. Given the rescent lameness of what M$ deems as their state-of-the-art end-user OS, I want my tools to work in whatever play ground I deem worthy. I want my tools to work everywhere, and java is the right tool for the job.