I have never really studied the Mona Lisa painting before and I have never understood why her smile is seen as being so enigmatic. But I have general trouble identifying facial expressions (one of the characteristics of Asperger syndrome) so this may explain why I don't get it. So I just spent the last hour reading some studies about the painting on the web, reading the Wikipedia article, and of course looking at it in great details, in order to find other clues.
And nobody seems to notice something about her eyes: she is not really looking at the viewer, but she is looking just at the viewer's right hand side. That means she is not giving her smile to the viewer, but she is smiling at something else. So my theory is that people generally think she is looking at them, while their unconscious mind clearly notice she is not, the direct result of this difference of perception between the conscious and uncounscious mind is what create this enigmatic feeling: unconsiously you wonder what object/people, on your right hand side, makes her smile.
Home PCs != new Home PCs. look again for the qualifier unless they are fairly new. That is all.
Oops my fault. I agree that, with old PCs, it might be ill-chosen to upgrade from PATA to SATA
because of the extra SATA card (even if it's a cheap one, at $20 or so).
I submitted the story 2 days ago, but it was rejected (damn I hate when that happens), so here is more information...
Here is the official press release
from the One Laptop per Child organization.
OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said, "Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away."
Also tech specs can be found on the
FAQ page:
500 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM.
Ahhh what a pleasure to feel safe and good, knowing that my network is regularly audited by this now non-opensource Nessus security scanner. This product is developed by a respectable company, that really know computers, networks, and stuff like that. They have a fantastic website very well administered, and very safe. You know for sure that for example, given their competence and immense wisdom, such a website will NEVER succumb under intense intrusion attacks, denial of service attacks, and this kind of crazy things. Look just go to www.nessus.org.
/me look at the browser trying to load the page...
bad implementations which will only delete the message's metadata instead of the data itself (which will remain visible in the memory chip, and forensic investigations will be able to recover deleted text messages)
hacked phone firmwares that will violate the protocol by allowing users to prevent the deletion
people who will think this technology is secure but will realize later how easy it is to circumvent
From my personal point of view this "auto descruction" feature should only be seen as a convenience where phones autodelete messages to keep enough free memory space.
If I lived in India, I think just for fun I would participate in this contest, and then when I win (because I am of course the best dev in the world), I will tell Balmer "I am sorry but actually I think I am gonna work for Google. Bye ! Oh BTW, nice chair you have there. Have a nice day !".
Hey ! This was not a trollish comment. Apparently people didn't get my joke, I would have done the same one for any language ("Building Intelligent XXX Applications"). Please don't mod me Flamebait.
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I have never really studied the Mona Lisa painting before and I have never understood why her smile is seen as being so enigmatic. But I have general trouble identifying facial expressions (one of the characteristics of Asperger syndrome) so this may explain why I don't get it. So I just spent the last hour reading some studies about the painting on the web, reading the Wikipedia article, and of course looking at it in great details, in order to find other clues.
And nobody seems to notice something about her eyes: she is not really looking at the viewer, but she is looking just at the viewer's right hand side. That means she is not giving her smile to the viewer, but she is smiling at something else. So my theory is that people generally think she is looking at them, while their unconscious mind clearly notice she is not, the direct result of this difference of perception between the conscious and uncounscious mind is what create this enigmatic feeling: unconsiously you wonder what object/people, on your right hand side, makes her smile.
Oops my fault. I agree that, with old PCs, it might be ill-chosen to upgrade from PATA to SATA because of the extra SATA card (even if it's a cheap one, at $20 or so).
I don't have the exact numbers, but at a wild guess 80% of new Home PCs include SATA. "80%" is not exactly what I call "unlikely".
PATA is not cheaper than SATA. Prices of both technologies are generally within 5% of each other.
You mean 1 TB ought to be enough for anybody ?
I submitted the story 2 days ago, but it was rejected (damn I hate when that happens), so here is more information...
Here is the official press release from the One Laptop per Child organization. OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said, "Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away."
Also tech specs can be found on the FAQ page: 500 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM.
is a watch like this one, but instead of using nixie tubes, it would use those green-blue displays also used in some old calculators. Does it exist ?
considering I am selling a mirror of PriceGrabber.com for ONLY $300 million ! Anyone interested ?
I can't tell if it's supposed to be funny or not... Are you serious ? Do they really follow such a procedure ?
Ahhh what a pleasure to feel safe and good, knowing that my network is regularly audited by this now non-opensource Nessus security scanner. This product is developed by a respectable company, that really know computers, networks, and stuff like that. They have a fantastic website very well administered, and very safe. You know for sure that for example, given their competence and immense wisdom, such a website will NEVER succumb under intense intrusion attacks, denial of service attacks, and this kind of crazy things. Look just go to www.nessus.org.
Yep. This time they choosed the brunette over the blonde.
I predict:
From my personal point of view this "auto descruction" feature should only be seen as a convenience where phones autodelete messages to keep enough free memory space.
That's why we all have 10 fingers.
Fooling fingerprint scanners is really a child's play with Play-Doh !
Before everyone jumps directly to the conclusion that SEOs are evil, let me tell you this. As the article states, there are 2 kinds of SEOs:
Only the second kind is evil. Other SEOs out there actually do good things and truly make the Web a better place.
My sig is also supposed to be funny. It's a parody of the message sent by this IM virus ("lol this is not a virus").
My post was supposed to be funny, it's not a flamebait.
Oh wait I could use a mirror. Damn I am a blasted idiot.
How the hell am I supposed to take a picture of the R1 with the R1 itself ? Hmm ?
Strangely enough, pictures of objects showing the word $sys$ always end up being completely black...
If I lived in India, I think just for fun I would participate in this contest, and then when I win (because I am of course the best dev in the world), I will tell Balmer "I am sorry but actually I think I am gonna work for Google. Bye ! Oh BTW, nice chair you have there. Have a nice day !".
Easy. It will be exactly like it is now ! Since they don't believe in evolution.
Build it yourself based on an existing USB drive, like this one for example. Plus I bet its size would match the scale of you e-penis ! Enjoy :)
Hey ! This was not a trollish comment. Apparently people didn't get my joke, I would have done the same one for any language ("Building Intelligent XXX Applications"). Please don't mod me Flamebait.
Step 1: get a brain.