I was reading these posts and started rolling around ideas in my head for scripting a little meta-search engine that learns from your searches and is customizable, when I realized that such programs already exist (sort of). Search Rocket is one of them (I know there are more). It searches all the big search engines at once, lets you filter and sort results and save your work in a nice xml file for later. I use this tool when I am doing in depth research and need to come back to the links I found later (but don't want to shuffle bookmarks for an hour). Still, it would be even cooler if it did some of the smart auto-filter type stuff mentioned above.
Oh, and just to be completely on topic, if the big guys change their search results, Search Rocket needs a quick patch. So in a way, they could prevent tools like this from working by changing the results a lot, but I would think they want to keep it standard due to cross licensing etc etc
I'm tired of people anti-spamming their hotmail accounts.
spacecow10@hotmail.com
I'm posting anonymously because I'm moderating.
What is the big deal? Why does this bother you? Yes, I get 5-10 spam emails a day on hotmail anyway, but do I want more? No. Do I use the built in spam filter? Yes. Are you posting this because you honestly want to email me and are pissed cause you have to cut off.org from the end of my email? I guess I just don't get where you are coming from with this.
If my wording was a little stong, it is because I am sick of seeing comments on slashdot with no real content other than pure speculation being moderated up. Didn't mean to offend, but you also could have made your comment really informative (+3) by including some examples. With so many a-hole trolls and flamebaiters posting trash on/. these days, it is hard to pick out real comments from junk.
This is not a link to the main epinions page. It is a link for the exact item searched for. Here is anothe r one. My advice to you: put up or shut up. Really, instead of just saying you have noticed something, prove it and people might listen.
I know it has been mentioned already, but I just wanted to share my email to the author of the article:
You should know that your article has been slashdotted (mentioned on
http://www.slashdot.org). Congratulations.
In your article you said
"For $40 a month the residential service provides an "always-on"
connection at a speed of 128 kilobytes per second, which is comparable to
cable and digital subscriber line access available in larger cities. An
even faster speed of 256 kbps is offered for $65 a month."
Surely you meant 128 kilobits per second ( 8 bits per byte, so closer to
16 kilobytes per second). If 128 kilobyte per second wireless internet
access is available for $40 a month in Iowa I just might move there.:-)
I use Myplay to store my MP3s online and although I haven't tried it, they even have a share music option. What is the difference between Myplay and MP3.com? Is Myplay next?
I do know that with MyPlay you have to actually upload files you already have. From what I have read here Mp3.com would let you listen to the music without uploading if you prove you own the CD? I guess that could be the key difference.
cgifool said:I don't understand, there's TONS of junk already up there that they're tracking all the time. Why release MORE of it to test with??
Because it allows for a controlled test of the systems abilities. Sure you can shoot at stuff already there, but you won't know as much about it as stuff you put up on purpose. Scientific method through and through.
My current job is to translate a bunch of access databases and the VBA behind them from Japanese to English. (I am not a native speaker, but have a lot of experience with the language)
So, what are my thoughts? I have to agree with the poster above who said that programming is based on logic and not language. There are a lot of places where I have to translate nouns or verbs into English, but I never have to change the program structure.
If Microsoft was a Japanese company (or VBA was created in Japan) would things be different? I honestly can't say. If...Then would probably be the same, but I could see an argument being made for Object.Method ending up as Method.Object due to differences in the language structure. Are there any programming languages out there tailored to specific languages other than English?
Check out the Digital Wallet by Mindsatwork. It has some flaws, but if you have time to upload pictures between filling a disk or an assistant who can do it for you, then this looks like a good option:
I don't have anything to do with any of the above companies/sites. I am just a digital camera enthusiast who likes backpacking (and thus is looking for a similar solution, but compact). I am waiting for the second generation of these devices after reading the reviews though.
I didn't mean that your comment would be moderated down, rather my own. I got the joke you were making, but unfortunately others were taking it seriously.
Just to clear things up about the above (out of context) quote. He isn't saying you can't write a macro virus in VBScript. He is saying you cannot obtain an unsafe pointer and crash the system.
This will probably be moderated down as (obvious -1), but people are already responding with posts about VBScript kiddies etc...
BFD, I did this a year ago with USWest! You still have to wait for them to turn it on at the main office (ONLY took a month with USWest in Seattle). The second time I did this, I didn't even request the installation package. I just bought a used Cisco 675 on ebay, setup the modem, and was online. If this had information about skipping USWest (or whoever) and getting FREE DSL or even about paying for DSL but not having to wait a month to get service it might be interesting. As it stands, this doesn't seem like much to get excited about.
Two important details the original "translator" forgot to mention:
1. WARNING: The picture is an example of the product (Implying that what you actually recieve might be different).
2.Due to the popularity of this kit the date of delivery will be more than a month from when you place your order.
There is also some interesting commentary on the possible uses of the kit and a mention that smart media, batteries, headphones and the case are all not included. Have a good night. Feel free to email me at spacecow10@hotmail.com if you need J->E translations in the future (especially technical translation).
Intel Says No Talks With Corel On Cheap PCs By STUART WEINBERG
TORONTO -- An Intel Corp. (INTC) spokesman said the company isn't in talks with Corel Corp. (CORL) to launch a line of "cheap personal computers," as was reported Thursday in the Globe and Mail.
"There are no discussions about a specific project, such as the one discussed in the Globe and Mail," Intel spokesman Adam Grossberg told Dow Jones.
Grossberg said Intel works with "hundreds and hundreds" of software companies, including Corel, "to make sure that their software runs great on Intel architecture." Aside from that ongoing relationship, there are no projects underway between the two companies, he said.
The Globe and Mail report said Corel was in talks with Intel and at least one major computer maker to launch a line of personal computers that would compete with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).
Corel spokeswoman Catherine Hughes wouldn't confirm or deny the Globe and Mail story, saying only that Intel is one of many companies that Corel is talking to about "a number of different projects." She declined to elaborate on the nature of the projects.
Shares of Corel are surging Thursday, up 2 1/4, or 16%, to 16 3/8 on about 7.9 million shares on Nasdaq.
Corel Corp. (CORL) spokeswoman Catherine Hughes said the company will continue its relationship with Microsoft while at the same time working on more Linux intiatives. "We cooperate with Microsoft on a number of points, and we also believe in competition," she said.
Hughes said Corel was also looking at ways to bridge the gap between the Linux and Windows operating systems, though she declined to elaborate.
She said the company held its annual meeting Wednesday, and that shareholder reaction to the planned merger between Corel and Inprise/Borland was positive.
At the meeting, both Inprise chief executive Dale Fuller and Corel chairman and chief executive Michael Cowpland emphasized that "they feel positive moving forward," she said. Cowpland said he expects the merger - an all-stock transaction in which Inprise shareholders are to receive 0.747 of a Corel share for each share held - to be approved by shareholders sometime in June.
The vote of confidence in the merger came one day after Inprise director C. Robert Coates made public his resignation from the Inprise board. He quit in early February before the board approved the merger.
Hughes said Corel was on schedule to release its WordPerfect Office Suite for Linux in April. She said sales of the company's Linux operating system were US$3.2 million as of November.
-Stuart Weinberg, Dow Jones Newswires; 416-306-2032
Ok, took me a while to dig this out, but here is a bunch of info from the booklet I received when I visited Prof Fukuda's lab. There are some nice graphs and such that unfortunately I can't include. Enjoy.
From Reseach Activities 1998, Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory of Micro System Control, Nagoya University.
Brachiation Robot That Learns By Doing
Mobile robot moving from branch to branch dynamically like a long-armed ape.
Motion improvement by off-line learning.
Using real-time tracking system as a visual sensor
Using kinetic energy of center of gravity as evaluated value
Study on the Control of a Two-link Brachiating Robbot via "Target Dynamics"
Wish to understand how dynamically dexterous taks can be achieved using physical insight into the designated task and intrinsic dynamics of the system.
Task is encoded as an output of a target dynamical system motivated by the pendulous motion of an ape's brachiation.
Extension to the "Irregular Ladder Problem" - brachiation on a ladder with irregular intervals.
Validation of the proposed strategy by numerical simulation and experimental implementation.
I will be studying under Prof Fukuda starting next fall. During the winter break, I went to Japan and was invited to his lab to see the various projects there. Besides the monkey robot, the projects that were most interesting to me were a cooperative micro robot project, a set of legs that learn to walk, and a feedback control system for an invasive surgery tool/camera.
The monkey robot is currently most limited by the power/data cables that give it life and can only travel one or two bars before needing to be placed back where it started. It's motions are incredibly lifelike.
For more information about the people and projects at Prof Fukuda's lab, check out this link to the English version of the web page.
This is not a technology breakthrough, but rather a profit decision. Wireless connections are already technically feasible from 100kbps all the way up to really fast. The main problem is that there is a huge investment in 14kbps hardware on the telcos part and they don't want to take losses on that (they still need to recoup their investment). I think we can expect to see a gradual shift (with high cost/scattered service areas) to higher bandwidth, but it will be following a cost/profit graph at the telcos and not be so dependent on tech improvements.
Are these things meant to be throw away? From the sound of it, either you buy a whole new one or refill the methanol manually:
They would use small plastic canisters similar to those used for fountain pen ink. Consumers could easily check the methanol level to find out when to replace the fuel cell, which will likely cost as much as or less than traditional rechargeables, Ooms said.
This would really suck! I don't want to change batteries ever. I want to plug the thing in or even better, have it recharge through solar and kinetic sources. Who wants batteries that need to be replaced all the time (expensive)!
Looks like they beefed up their web backend in the last few minutes, the slashdot effect that was going on has disapeared for me. Slashdot seems to be more/.'d than Transmeta is right now! LOL
BZZZT! You do not get to go onto final jeopardy. The Ainu are much like Native Americans. They were forced off their land and had terrible things done to them by the forces in power (Japanese), but they are still alive, although their culture has been effectivly wiped out.
The people that Ashitaka comes from are the...Emishi! Yes, the same Emishi that Yamato Takeru of Kojiki myth sets out to vanquish. In the Kojiki (Collection of Ancient Things), the Emishi are depicted as a thouroughly nasty bunch who are uncivilized, but this was probably because they lost against the Yamato clan (who ended up uniting Japan).
First, let me say that I am in favor of limiting the global population simply because I don't like crowded conditions that much.
HOWEVER, with the possible exception of living space (and with enough money, uninhabitable regions of the earth can be made habitable), more people on the earth does not mean less resources for each person. As an earlier post mentioned, people are the most valuable resource! Why are people starving? Distribution of food and money are the issue, NOT areable land. How about fossil fuels? With more people available, we will have more people to 1)find more fossil fuel reserves and 2)develop alternative energy sources. Material goods; i.e. toys? Simply drives the economy creating more jobs for the more people who want to consume more.
Yes, I am being overly (even dangerously simplistic), BUT so are those who claim that more people == BAD_THING. If our population was limited to agrarian groups of 100 spread 1000 miles apart, do you think we would have ever developed our techonology and society this far? Doesn't seem likely does it?
Claims that the max population for the earth are 9 billion, 15 b or some other number are pure guesswork.
That said, please don't have to many kids cause I wanna go on hikes in the woods and not have to look at your suburban houses:-)
This post is meant to encourage thought outside the box...don't take it as a serious representation of my view on life...
Actually, that is not the only shift that is happening. The drop in the birth rate in many developing nations is far outstriping the rate at which they are adopting the production/technology of 1st world countries. It is fairly obvious why countries like the US, Japan, and European countries have a low birth rate (as you mentioned above). The real mystery is why the birth rate is dropping so quickly in countries that have advanced that much in the last 50 years (many countries have gone from something like 7 child/couple to 3 child/couple - I can't list any specific examples).
Some guesses as to why are:
1) Awareness - People are becoming aware of the population problem and are making family planning choices out of concern. This one seems a little far-fetched to me.
2) Family planning tools - With more contraceptives available than ever before (there may be very little in the way of contraceptives in these countries, but that is more than none), families have more choice about making babies. This also sounds a little lame.
So the question isn't "Why are birth rates low in industrialized countries?", but rather the more mysterious "Why are birth rates falling so quickly in countries that haven't made the shift from agrarian to industrial?"
Actually, I remember reading something about the possibility of teleportation/action at a distance in relation to entanglement. I don't remember where, but check out this article from Scientific American for some cool info.
Slashdot Mirror
I was reading these posts and started rolling around ideas in my head for scripting a little meta-search engine that learns from your searches and is customizable, when I realized that such programs already exist (sort of). Search Rocket is one of them (I know there are more). It searches all the big search engines at once, lets you filter and sort results and save your work in a nice xml file for later. I use this tool when I am doing in depth research and need to come back to the links I found later (but don't want to shuffle bookmarks for an hour). Still, it would be even cooler if it did some of the smart auto-filter type stuff mentioned above.
Oh, and just to be completely on topic, if the big guys change their search results, Search Rocket needs a quick patch. So in a way, they could prevent tools like this from working by changing the results a lot, but I would think they want to keep it standard due to cross licensing etc etc
Ok, enough rambling. Time to go home.
mailto:spacecow10@hotmail.com
.org from the end of my email? I guess I just don't get where you are coming from with this.
I'm tired of people anti-spamming their hotmail accounts.
spacecow10@hotmail.com
I'm posting anonymously because I'm moderating.
What is the big deal? Why does this bother you? Yes, I get 5-10 spam emails a day on hotmail anyway, but do I want more? No. Do I use the built in spam filter? Yes. Are you posting this because you honestly want to email me and are pissed cause you have to cut off
If my wording was a little stong, it is because I am sick of seeing comments on slashdot with no real content other than pure speculation being moderated up. Didn't mean to offend, but you also could have made your comment really informative (+3) by including some examples. With so many a-hole trolls and flamebaiters posting trash on /. these days, it is hard to pick out real comments from junk.
Anyway, have a jolly day.
I think you are mistaken. Here is a simple experiment (disclaimer: this is a product I wrote an epinions review for):
Google Search
Resulting Epinions link
This is not a link to the main epinions page. It is a link for the exact item searched for. Here is anothe r one. My advice to you: put up or shut up. Really, instead of just saying you have noticed something, prove it and people might listen.
I know it has been mentioned already, but I just wanted to share my email to the author of the article:
:-)
You should know that your article has been slashdotted (mentioned on
http://www.slashdot.org). Congratulations.
In your article you said
"For $40 a month the residential service provides an "always-on"
connection at a speed of 128 kilobytes per second, which is comparable to
cable and digital subscriber line access available in larger cities. An
even faster speed of 256 kbps is offered for $65 a month."
Surely you meant 128 kilobits per second ( 8 bits per byte, so closer to
16 kilobytes per second). If 128 kilobyte per second wireless internet
access is available for $40 a month in Iowa I just might move there.
Have a great weekend,
Eden Brandeis
Moderators: Be kind, I haven't got much karma.
I use Myplay to store my MP3s online and although I haven't tried it, they even have a share music option. What is the difference between Myplay and MP3.com? Is Myplay next?
I do know that with MyPlay you have to actually upload files you already have. From what I have read here Mp3.com would let you listen to the music without uploading if you prove you own the CD? I guess that could be the key difference.
Anyone have an understanding of this?
cgifool said:I don't understand, there's TONS of junk already up there that they're tracking all the time. Why release MORE of it to test with??
Because it allows for a controlled test of the systems abilities. Sure you can shoot at stuff already there, but you won't know as much about it as stuff you put up on purpose. Scientific method through and through.
My current job is to translate a bunch of access databases and the VBA behind them from Japanese to English. (I am not a native speaker, but have a lot of experience with the language)
So, what are my thoughts? I have to agree with the poster above who said that programming is based on logic and not language. There are a lot of places where I have to translate nouns or verbs into English, but I never have to change the program structure.
If Microsoft was a Japanese company (or VBA was created in Japan) would things be different? I honestly can't say. If...Then would probably be the same, but I could see an argument being made for Object.Method ending up as Method.Object due to differences in the language structure. Are there any programming languages out there tailored to specific languages other than English?
Anyway, fun stuff to ponder.
Check out the Digital Wallet by Mindsatwork. It has some flaws, but if you have time to upload pictures between filling a disk or an assistant who can do it for you, then this looks like a good option:
MindsAtWork
Digital Wallet FAQ
Digital Wallet Review
I don't have anything to do with any of the above companies/sites. I am just a digital camera enthusiast who likes backpacking (and thus is looking for a similar solution, but compact). I am waiting for the second generation of these devices after reading the reviews though.
I didn't mean that your comment would be moderated down, rather my own. I got the joke you were making, but unfortunately others were taking it seriously.
Just to clear things up about the above (out of context) quote. He isn't saying you can't write a macro virus in VBScript. He is saying you cannot obtain an unsafe pointer and crash the system.
This will probably be moderated down as (obvious -1), but people are already responding with posts about VBScript kiddies etc...
BFD, I did this a year ago with USWest! You still have to wait for them to turn it on at the main office (ONLY took a month with USWest in Seattle). The second time I did this, I didn't even request the installation package. I just bought a used Cisco 675 on ebay, setup the modem, and was online. If this had information about skipping USWest (or whoever) and getting FREE DSL or even about paying for DSL but not having to wait a month to get service it might be interesting. As it stands, this doesn't seem like much to get excited about.
Two important details the original "translator" forgot to mention:
1. WARNING: The picture is an example of the product (Implying that what you actually recieve might be different).
2.Due to the popularity of this kit the date of delivery will be more than a month from when you place your order.
There is also some interesting commentary on the possible uses of the kit and a mention that smart media, batteries, headphones and the case are all not included.
Have a good night. Feel free to email me at spacecow10@hotmail.com if you need J->E translations in the future (especially technical translation).
Intel Says No Talks With Corel On Cheap PCs By STUART WEINBERG
TORONTO -- An Intel Corp. (INTC) spokesman said the company isn't in talks with Corel Corp. (CORL) to launch a line of "cheap personal computers," as was reported Thursday in the Globe and Mail.
"There are no discussions about a specific project, such as the one discussed in the Globe and Mail," Intel spokesman Adam Grossberg told Dow Jones.
Grossberg said Intel works with "hundreds and hundreds" of software companies, including Corel, "to make sure that their software runs great on Intel architecture." Aside from that ongoing relationship, there are no projects underway between the two companies, he said.
The Globe and Mail report said Corel was in talks with Intel and at least one major computer maker to launch a line of personal computers that would compete with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).
Corel spokeswoman Catherine Hughes wouldn't confirm or deny the Globe and Mail story, saying only that Intel is one of many companies that Corel is talking to about "a number of different projects." She declined to elaborate on the nature of the projects.
Shares of Corel are surging Thursday, up 2 1/4, or 16%, to 16 3/8 on about 7.9 million shares on Nasdaq.
Corel Corp. (CORL) spokeswoman Catherine Hughes said the company will continue its relationship with Microsoft while at the same time working on more Linux intiatives. "We cooperate with Microsoft on a number of points, and we also believe in competition," she said.
Hughes said Corel was also looking at ways to bridge the gap between the Linux and Windows operating systems, though she declined to elaborate.
She said the company held its annual meeting Wednesday, and that shareholder reaction to the planned merger between Corel and Inprise/Borland was positive.
At the meeting, both Inprise chief executive Dale Fuller and Corel chairman and chief executive Michael Cowpland emphasized that "they feel positive moving forward," she said. Cowpland said he expects the merger - an all-stock transaction in which Inprise shareholders are to receive 0.747 of a Corel share for each share held - to be approved by shareholders sometime in June.
The vote of confidence in the merger came one day after Inprise director C. Robert Coates made public his resignation from the Inprise board. He quit in early February before the board approved the merger.
Hughes said Corel was on schedule to release its WordPerfect Office Suite for Linux in April. She said sales of the company's Linux operating system were US$3.2 million as of November.
-Stuart Weinberg, Dow Jones Newswires; 416-306-2032
From Reseach Activities 1998, Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory of Micro System Control, Nagoya University.
Brachiation Robot That Learns By Doing
Study on the Control of a Two-link Brachiating Robbot via "Target Dynamics"
I will be studying under Prof Fukuda starting next fall. During the winter break, I went to Japan and was invited to his lab to see the various projects there. Besides the monkey robot, the projects that were most interesting to me were a cooperative micro robot project, a set of legs that learn to walk, and a feedback control system for an invasive surgery tool/camera.
The monkey robot is currently most limited by the power/data cables that give it life and can only travel one or two bars before needing to be placed back where it started. It's motions are incredibly lifelike.
For more information about the people and projects at Prof Fukuda's lab, check out this link to the English version of the web page.
This is not a technology breakthrough, but rather a profit decision. Wireless connections are already technically feasible from 100kbps all the way up to really fast. The main problem is that there is a huge investment in 14kbps hardware on the telcos part and they don't want to take losses on that (they still need to recoup their investment). I think we can expect to see a gradual shift (with high cost/scattered service areas) to higher bandwidth, but it will be following a cost/profit graph at the telcos and not be so dependent on tech improvements.
Are these things meant to be throw away? From the sound of it, either you buy a whole new one or refill the methanol manually:
They would use small plastic canisters similar to those used for fountain pen ink. Consumers could easily check the methanol level to find out when to replace the fuel cell, which will likely cost as much as or less than traditional rechargeables, Ooms said.
This would really suck! I don't want to change batteries ever. I want to plug the thing in or even better, have it recharge through solar and kinetic sources. Who wants batteries that need to be replaced all the time (expensive)!
TM312 0 Data Sheet
/.'d than Transmeta is right now! LOL
TM540 0 Data Sheet
FAQ
Looks like they beefed up their web backend in the last few minutes, the slashdot effect that was going on has disapeared for me. Slashdot seems to be more
I am surprised to see links to news sites but no tech links. Guess I will post them.
PDF Tech Sheet - Not specs, just more details of the technology.
PD F Benchmark Info Whitepaper
PDF Benchmark Report
And finally for those of you wanting to develop for the Crusoe, the developer registration page: Register Today!
Have a good one.
I don't know if this was the first article, but there was an april fools article in the Seattle weekly about it this year.
The people that Ashitaka comes from are the...Emishi! Yes, the same Emishi that Yamato Takeru of Kojiki myth sets out to vanquish. In the Kojiki (Collection of Ancient Things), the Emishi are depicted as a thouroughly nasty bunch who are uncivilized, but this was probably because they lost against the Yamato clan (who ended up uniting Japan).
HOWEVER, with the possible exception of living space (and with enough money, uninhabitable regions of the earth can be made habitable), more people on the earth does not mean less resources for each person. As an earlier post mentioned, people are the most valuable resource! Why are people starving? Distribution of food and money are the issue, NOT areable land. How about fossil fuels? With more people available, we will have more people to 1)find more fossil fuel reserves and 2)develop alternative energy sources. Material goods; i.e. toys? Simply drives the economy creating more jobs for the more people who want to consume more.
Yes, I am being overly (even dangerously simplistic), BUT so are those who claim that more people == BAD_THING. If our population was limited to agrarian groups of 100 spread 1000 miles apart, do you think we would have ever developed our techonology and society this far? Doesn't seem likely does it?
Claims that the max population for the earth are 9 billion, 15 b or some other number are pure guesswork.
That said, please don't have to many kids cause I wanna go on hikes in the woods and not have to look at your suburban houses :-)
This post is meant to encourage thought outside the box...don't take it as a serious representation of my view on life...
Some guesses as to why are:
1) Awareness - People are becoming aware of the population problem and are making family planning choices out of concern. This one seems a little far-fetched to me.
2) Family planning tools - With more contraceptives available than ever before (there may be very little in the way of contraceptives in these countries, but that is more than none), families have more choice about making babies. This also sounds a little lame.
So the question isn't "Why are birth rates low in industrialized countries?", but rather the more mysterious "Why are birth rates falling so quickly in countries that haven't made the shift from agrarian to industrial?"
Nobody has a clue...
Actually, I remember reading something about the possibility of teleportation/action at a distance in relation to entanglement. I don't remember where, but check out this article from Scientific American for some cool info.