even though she doesn't write any code, they figured having a woman telling the developers what to do would be the best way to get them to obey as they were used to taking orders off their mothers/wives
i kid, i kid, posting this from firefox, keep up the good work guys
" 'The worry is if you humanize them too much you cross certain boundaries,' said David Magnus, director of the Stanford Medical Center for Biomedical Ethics. 'But I don't think this research comes even close to that.'"
it's the thin end of the wedge. maybe this wasn't human enough...and nor will the next infinitessimally small step...but one day it will be too far and we won't have even realised
maybe i could have stretched to imagining yahoo bettering google at something other than search (i'm pretty sure they farm out their search to google to some degree, although i might be wrong) but msn beating google...nah. well, it is a market research firm, not a news outlet...someone has to pay them to do this work. not that i'm suspicious of course
post only mentions the good things, in fact he seems wistfull of his time there, although he does allude to bad things in a previous post. wonder if the tone of this website will change in a few years time
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..imagine a swarm of those "boinking" robots with cameras in. would that be like a beow..oh nevermind
oh dude, never mind the not safe for work warnings, we need warnings about naked pregnat women. and i think that picture is neither art nor porn, just as i picture of bill gates at the side of an article about microsoft isn't either. apart from that though i totally agree with your post
...that they are crapping their pants at the state of linux acceptance in india, and the widespread use of the operating system independant programming language java.
redhat bought something usefull and made it open source? that's one of the most amazingly good things i've heard this week. i thought open source was all about using software made for free. it's so great to see a xcompany making a living off open source to buy something usefull the community needs and give it out for free. i'm a debian man myself, but keep up the good work redhat!
i hate this whole rootkit debacle, but i will only boycott their cds. and believe me i have been warning all of my friends of this (shame the corals cd was one of these cds)
however, i love my ps2 and use my eyetoy as a webcam in my windows box. that's probably safe though, as it is not how it was intended to be used.
basically at the moment sony has joined the ranks of a certain other company, which is this; they make brilliant multimedia products and gaming hardware, but i wouldn't trust them anywhere near the internet
what is this, an attemt to start the biggest flame war ever? we all know this isn't news, it's just the opinion of one idiot. what the hell is it doing on slashdot?
this kind of enter a pin number to start the car would stop a lot of car thefts probably. and maybe even drunk drivers (i know someone who had an unlock code for his phone that was ridiculously long so that he didn't make stupid calls when drunk, if he was so messed up he couldn't get it right he assumed it was a bad time to call)
how the hell is this drm? what, are you wanting to burn the car to cd or copy it to your ipod or what? it's nothing like drm and is completely acceptable in a hire purchase agreement. if i don't pay my internet bill, they turn it off, i no longer "hire" the line from them. bad analogy but you get the idea
i've heard there is a windows program that does the same,. i'm sure someone here will telly you, but i like gaim when i ever do use IM as it handles msn/im together. i should imagine google talk might be included in the next version of it or at some version in the future as they seem to be quite friendly towards OSS.
oh and the worst aspect of any instant messenger is if it pops up and steals your windows focus and you end up typing half a url into a message window or whatever. best feature is integrated email delivery notification for me. would be nice to have that for gmail as well as aol/hotmail.
oops oh yes there is, i just automatically didn't read to the end when i realised it was a sign up page....hrm still shouldn't be on the main page though
the supposed "new website" detailing this is one page of html asking you to sign up to a mailing list. lame, they could have at least put up a lay version of the main changes
as someone who is a hobbyist musician and someone who has tinkered with various audio programs (reason, audacity etc) and even occasionally had a go with real hardware, your description of a hearing aid astounds me at how badly designed they are. you have to powercycle it to stop feedback? i can't imagine why someone hasn't just put a simple volume gate that would stop this. or at the very least a volume control for the input to cycle instead of the power. i would have imagined it would be a simple task to have a gate set up to automatically do this. i strongly suggest writing to the manufacturer, maybe with a few signitures of like-minded people you may know who have first hand experience in this to try and nudge them into improving the product. unfortunately, as many big businesses have shown, if you buy their stuff and it is unreliable, they tend not to improve to much over time without considerable public response or exposure. but then again, i may be wrong and am not a hearing aid specialist...surely they would have considered all this
this will be just like when they tried to add grandma and grandadas days to mothers and fathers days, just another excuse to try and drum up more profit. seems a bit pointless in this case though, they are both wrong and it's a growth business anyway. perhaps marketing were exceptionally bored. or maybe it was the work experience guy
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even though she doesn't write any code, they figured having a woman telling the developers what to do would be the best way to get them to obey as they were used to taking orders off their mothers/wives
i kid, i kid, posting this from firefox, keep up the good work guys
" 'The worry is if you humanize them too much you cross certain boundaries,' said David Magnus, director of the Stanford Medical Center for Biomedical Ethics. 'But I don't think this research comes even close to that.'"
it's the thin end of the wedge. maybe this wasn't human enough...and nor will the next infinitessimally small step...but one day it will be too far and we won't have even realised
...same thing we do every night pinky....get experimented on barberously!
maybe i could have stretched to imagining yahoo bettering google at something other than search (i'm pretty sure they farm out their search to google to some degree, although i might be wrong) but msn beating google...nah. well, it is a market research firm, not a news outlet...someone has to pay them to do this work. not that i'm suspicious of course
post only mentions the good things, in fact he seems wistfull of his time there, although he does allude to bad things in a previous post. wonder if the tone of this website will change in a few years time
..imagine a swarm of those "boinking" robots with cameras in. would that be like a beow..oh nevermind
it's just putting unneccesary strain on the network, packets that aren't needed clogging it up. fp?
oh dude, never mind the not safe for work warnings, we need warnings about naked pregnat women. and i think that picture is neither art nor porn, just as i picture of bill gates at the side of an article about microsoft isn't either. apart from that though i totally agree with your post
er...p2p anyone?
...that they are crapping their pants at the state of linux acceptance in india, and the widespread use of the operating system independant programming language java.
make sure it works with bloody linux
redhat bought something usefull and made it open source? that's one of the most amazingly good things i've heard this week. i thought open source was all about using software made for free. it's so great to see a xcompany making a living off open source to buy something usefull the community needs and give it out for free. i'm a debian man myself, but keep up the good work redhat!
i hate this whole rootkit debacle, but i will only boycott their cds. and believe me i have been warning all of my friends of this (shame the corals cd was one of these cds)
however, i love my ps2 and use my eyetoy as a webcam in my windows box. that's probably safe though, as it is not how it was intended to be used.
basically at the moment sony has joined the ranks of a certain other company, which is this; they make brilliant multimedia products and gaming hardware, but i wouldn't trust them anywhere near the internet
thats my opninion anyway
"Balmer, its Google calling."
"They are trying to sell you replacement office furniture"
sorry couldn't help it
maybe if it was satire it would be funny, but the writer is just a tool
SPECTRUM FTW
god know what his problem is. maybe he thinks he's being the simon cowell of I.T. whereas instead he's being the g.w. bush of I.T.
what is this, an attemt to start the biggest flame war ever? we all know this isn't news, it's just the opinion of one idiot. what the hell is it doing on slashdot?
this kind of enter a pin number to start the car would stop a lot of car thefts probably. and maybe even drunk drivers (i know someone who had an unlock code for his phone that was ridiculously long so that he didn't make stupid calls when drunk, if he was so messed up he couldn't get it right he assumed it was a bad time to call)
how the hell is this drm? what, are you wanting to burn the car to cd or copy it to your ipod or what? it's nothing like drm and is completely acceptable in a hire purchase agreement. if i don't pay my internet bill, they turn it off, i no longer "hire" the line from them. bad analogy but you get the idea
i've heard there is a windows program that does the same,. i'm sure someone here will telly you, but i like gaim when i ever do use IM as it handles msn/im together. i should imagine google talk might be included in the next version of it or at some version in the future as they seem to be quite friendly towards OSS.
oh and the worst aspect of any instant messenger is if it pops up and steals your windows focus and you end up typing half a url into a message window or whatever. best feature is integrated email delivery notification for me. would be nice to have that for gmail as well as aol/hotmail.
oops oh yes there is, i just automatically didn't read to the end when i realised it was a sign up page....hrm still shouldn't be on the main page though
the supposed "new website" detailing this is one page of html asking you to sign up to a mailing list. lame, they could have at least put up a lay version of the main changes
as someone who is a hobbyist musician and someone who has tinkered with various audio programs (reason, audacity etc) and even occasionally had a go with real hardware, your description of a hearing aid astounds me at how badly designed they are. you have to powercycle it to stop feedback? i can't imagine why someone hasn't just put a simple volume gate that would stop this. or at the very least a volume control for the input to cycle instead of the power. i would have imagined it would be a simple task to have a gate set up to automatically do this. i strongly suggest writing to the manufacturer, maybe with a few signitures of like-minded people you may know who have first hand experience in this to try and nudge them into improving the product. unfortunately, as many big businesses have shown, if you buy their stuff and it is unreliable, they tend not to improve to much over time without considerable public response or exposure. but then again, i may be wrong and am not a hearing aid specialist...surely they would have considered all this
this will be just like when they tried to add grandma and grandadas days to mothers and fathers days, just another excuse to try and drum up more profit. seems a bit pointless in this case though, they are both wrong and it's a growth business anyway. perhaps marketing were exceptionally bored. or maybe it was the work experience guy