Now the company has surpassed other software vendors when it comes to currying favor with researchers, says Jon Ellch, a 24-year-old researcher in Monterey, Calif. -- "at least in terms of the number of beers (it) bought for me."
Well. You can't patent something as ubiquitous as a content managment system which is what blackboard is (Sure a special type of CMS but still it's a CMS)
Yes. It can be their business because you never actually said about who rejected you. For all we know you could have been pissed because a debt counciling service decided not to hire you.
I work at Home Depot, as a cashier. I can back up all of parent's statements; people lose about fifty IQ points when faced with the self checkout. That's why ours have a cashier supervising them.
No. You just think that is the reason why the cahsiers are there. The real reason why is those machines fail pretty often. It's a pretty common occurance where the machine thinks that I didn't place an item into the bag but I did. Usually happens where the item's weight is pretty variable from item to item(ie Baked goods, nuts,washers, etc etc). The problem is that the thing relies on weight. The machine locks up and then you need someone to over ride the machine.
Bleh... First of all the article is talking about digital computers and not analog. Technically speaking if you include analog computers then MIT wasn't the first. Brookhaven National Laboratory actually built a game called Tennis for Two using an analog computer. Essentially, it was Pong. http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html
If I read the article correctly then you will be able to buy models of the animals you create. That is pretty neat and impressive if you ask me. Also, the article hints at the same idea in creating your own cars in a card game. This whole game is starting to remind me of second life only this time it's crossing over.
Then no one would want to steal them anymore. Also, does anyone find it mildly amusing that the example they give of an Ipod theft involves a cellphone and not an Ipod.
Interestingly, according to documentation the Wii-mote is able to act as something of an eye, measuring coordinates between 0-1023 on the X axis and 0-767 on the Y axis, which means that it is more or less seeing a megapixel image. Whether or not this data can be interpreted into visual information remains unknown, but we're not ruling out the possibility that the pointer could sub as a camera. This is, of course, purely speculative on our part, but stranger things have certainly happened - like, for instance, an internal speaker.
I just can't visualize or imagine what puprose this will have. Anyone have any ideas?
At Northeastern University I took a course similar to the one in the article except it was related to a program called CenSSIS. It was pretty interesting because it combined ultrasonic technology and programming to work on different projects. The most impressive of which was mapping an object found in jello without cutting into the jello. Though that course was an engineering course and not a computer science course.
Im confused the bombardment of UV rays from the sun would mean that most plastic materials would turn into goop and become useless. Does that mean duct tape can withstand UV rays or is it just a kludge? I know there is certain tapes developed from NASA that I use every day but it isn't duct tape (It's Kapton tape).
This website has better music even though some of it is sixty years old. These songs deal with incompetent managers and even the United States obsession with science and the military. It also helps that some of these people actually have signing talent.
And yet the worst fishing site on geocities is still up-- since something like 1998? Someone's asleep at the wheel.
Ill be honest. I spent all that time to trying to figure out how the website was trying scam people out of money. Then I realized that it was nothing more that a pun. Great job and very subtle and it somehow being modded insightful made it even more funnyy.
I have a commemorative "Vermont's Swinest" Ben and Jerry's T-shirt (complete with holstein styled pigs), they made them when they started a deal to supply a local pig farm (I believe near the Waterbury plant) with milk waste. The milk waste would be fed to the pigs along with the ususal feed, I don't recall where the pig waste / methane was headed. IIRC The first three pigs, by contract, were to be named "Ben", "Jerry" and "Ed" in honor of Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield and Ed Stanek - the Vermont EPA official who brokered the deal.
Yep. Dirty Jobs also had a pig farmer that got spoiled food from Las Vegas and obtained milk. Aparently, milk ferments and turns into beer and well moving drunk pigs is annoying. Also, Im pretty sure the oil from the spoiled food actually went into cosmetics though I could be confusing it with another episode. San Fransico takes garbage and has it rot into methane in which it is burned.
What ever happened to Nintendo when they used the song Black Betty to advertise Mario. According to wikipedia the song drew the same racist overtones that this add is pulling.
It makes me wonder why the released this whilst the price is so high. I'd be amazed if they sold more than 1000
They never intended to sell this device to consumers directly. They mainly were selling to bussinesses and other places that could use the technology and just decided to sell to consumers.
Well... Aside from the fact that any creature that uses a wheel as locomotion would be eaten once it gets stuck in a hole there are parralells in nature. The dung beetle is one such example. Sure it's a ball and not a wheel but all a wheel is a cross section of a ball.
That article is prety stupid to make a reference to Alexa. Im looking at the graph for Digg vs Slashdot and something seems fishy. For the past few monthes Slashdot and Digg were pretty much neck and neck which makes sense. In April both Slashdot and Digg jump almost straight up in page views. Something is odd with that data.
I have doubts that you can accurately simulate a hurricane without the space around the house. Some damage is done directly by the wind, yes, but there's a LOT of damage that is done by the wind blowing things into other things and weakening them.
Yes but scientists have all ready been firing 2X4s directly into different structures in order to test this. Its a lot easier than trying to directly test the effects of wind.
As for being "perfectly repeatable", I have doubts for that as well. That assumes that you could build the exact same house over and over. The article even states that the placement of the nails in the house matters, and I can't see anyone being that perfect.
Yeah. Its odd how some scientist can say a measurement can be perfectly repeatable when one of the major tenants of science is that there will always be variance. Perhaps what he meant is that the experiments will be repeatable within housing code because out in the real world the houses will be met with some variance in building quality.
n the UK lots of homless people sell a magazine called the Big issue as a method of making some money.. I am not sure if this is something which is done in the states - but they buy the magazines at say 25 pence each and sell then for £1 allowing them to make 75p per magazine sold - this is done to help them get back up and running again. Some of these people though don't look like they need to be selling the magazines - there is a guy who sells this magazine near my office who is always decked out in the latest running shoes which much cost £100 - I can't help but think that we often help the wrong people.
Im pretty sure that there is a newspaper that hires homeless people and has homless people selling them. At least Im sure about the selling part.
f I touch the side of a Faraday cage I also would not get shocked. A Faraday cage shields the inside electrically from the outside up to a certian frequency of radio wave. The skin effect doesn't affect the person in the car, only the body of the car by making current flow on the outside.
Well, Im really confused. The skin effect and the Faraday cage are very similar and wikipedia lists the car as being a Faraday cage but technically the skin affect would apply also since lighting is a very high frequency ac current.
Slashdot Mirror
Ummm... Transformers don't work with direct current.
Well. You can't patent something as ubiquitous as a content managment system which is what blackboard is (Sure a special type of CMS but still it's a CMS)
Yes. It can be their business because you never actually said about who rejected you. For all we know you could have been pissed because a debt counciling service decided not to hire you.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/pdf/Tuzhilin_Report .pdf This actually has a lot more meat and information since this is the actual report.
No. You just think that is the reason why the cahsiers are there. The real reason why is those machines fail pretty often. It's a pretty common occurance where the machine thinks that I didn't place an item into the bag but I did. Usually happens where the item's weight is pretty variable from item to item(ie Baked goods, nuts,washers, etc etc). The problem is that the thing relies on weight. The machine locks up and then you need someone to over ride the machine.
Bleh... First of all the article is talking about digital computers and not analog. Technically speaking if you include analog computers then MIT wasn't the first. Brookhaven National Laboratory actually built a game called Tennis for Two using an analog computer. Essentially, it was Pong.l
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.htm
If I read the article correctly then you will be able to buy models of the animals you create. That is pretty neat and impressive if you ask me. Also, the article hints at the same idea in creating your own cars in a card game. This whole game is starting to remind me of second life only this time it's crossing over.
Then no one would want to steal them anymore. Also, does anyone find it mildly amusing that the example they give of an Ipod theft involves a cellphone and not an Ipod.
I just can't visualize or imagine what puprose this will have. Anyone have any ideas?
At Northeastern University I took a course similar to the one in the article except it was related to a program called CenSSIS. It was pretty interesting because it combined ultrasonic technology and programming to work on different projects. The most impressive of which was mapping an object found in jello without cutting into the jello. Though that course was an engineering course and not a computer science course.
Im confused the bombardment of UV rays from the sun would mean that most plastic materials would turn into goop and become useless. Does that mean duct tape can withstand UV rays or is it just a kludge? I know there is certain tapes developed from NASA that I use every day but it isn't duct tape (It's Kapton tape).
http://www.haverford.edu.nyud.net:8090/physics-ast ro/songs/
Coral cached it so it doesn't get slashdotted.
This website has better music even though some of it is sixty years old. These songs deal with incompetent managers and even the United States obsession with science and the military. It also helps that some of these people actually have signing talent.
Ill be honest. I spent all that time to trying to figure out how the website was trying scam people out of money. Then I realized that it was nothing more that a pun. Great job and very subtle and it somehow being modded insightful made it even more funnyy.
Yep. Dirty Jobs also had a pig farmer that got spoiled food from Las Vegas and obtained milk. Aparently, milk ferments and turns into beer and well moving drunk pigs is annoying. Also, Im pretty sure the oil from the spoiled food actually went into cosmetics though I could be confusing it with another episode. San Fransico takes garbage and has it rot into methane in which it is burned.
What ever happened to Nintendo when they used the song Black Betty to advertise Mario. According to wikipedia the song drew the same racist overtones that this add is pulling.
They never intended to sell this device to consumers directly. They mainly were selling to bussinesses and other places that could use the technology and just decided to sell to consumers.
Well... Aside from the fact that any creature that uses a wheel as locomotion would be eaten once it gets stuck in a hole there are parralells in nature. The dung beetle is one such example. Sure it's a ball and not a wheel but all a wheel is a cross section of a ball.
Whooo.. MIT may have a talking robotic head but we have a walking lobster. http://www.neurotechnology.neu.edu/
That article is prety stupid to make a reference to Alexa. Im looking at the graph for Digg vs Slashdot and something seems fishy. For the past few monthes Slashdot and Digg were pretty much neck and neck which makes sense. In April both Slashdot and Digg jump almost straight up in page views. Something is odd with that data.
Yes but scientists have all ready been firing 2X4s directly into different structures in order to test this. Its a lot easier than trying to directly test the effects of wind.
Yeah. Its odd how some scientist can say a measurement can be perfectly repeatable when one of the major tenants of science is that there will always be variance. Perhaps what he meant is that the experiments will be repeatable within housing code because out in the real world the houses will be met with some variance in building quality.
Well, Im really confused. The skin effect and the Faraday cage are very similar and wikipedia lists the car as being a Faraday cage but technically the skin affect would apply also since lighting is a very high frequency ac current.