Dude this is not for a real geeks! Real geeks don't drool at matrix paper-like materials.
I'm a geek.
I want a wallet with built in clock, mp3 player, camera, radio and cellphone abilities. (screw iPod! I'm a friggin geek, I have neither OSX nor Windows, I use IRC on a command line and browse in a text browser!)
I want it to store securely my passwords and info if I identify properly.
Identification should be done on several levels:
- iris detectiom fingerprint detection and dna-o-matic instant DNA analyzer. - voice detection, and voice recognition so it can understand my password
If I don't identify properly, it should communicate my location to a sattelite in orbit and it should beam a deadly laser beam right at me.
The internet will not be safe, ever, because of those people. Yes, "click here to win a date with name-a-rising-star" will always find its way to someone that thinks there is some remote possibility that Bill Gates will pay you to forward emails, or that a music hall-of-famer needs a date from someone just like them. The human factor in security will always be the weakest link. ALWAYS.
You can reduce 99% of this with proper education, but why teach THIS to your kids, when you can flood them with useless/to most/ information about what kind of soil you have in every country region, and which exactly day 1000 years ago a certain thing happened.
Zune is a progressive attitude from Microsoft.... Zune will soon become....Zune (even with its crippled WiFi)... "feature" from Zune... Zune Pocket PC OS....Media Player inside Zune... Zune itself plays WMV natively.
Doesn't anybody notice it!? We can now say "Zune" without laughing like retards! It's the "Wii" paradox all over again...
Do you know why this is? Because Zune gets bad press. You can't make Slashdot publish good press for Microsoft easy these days. It's the same on most geek blogs out there.
Bad news bring recognition, and build branding.
Microsoft may have some more up its sleeve to keep us busy discussing Zune:
- free Zune with Vista Ultimate (OMGWTF! monopoloy abuse!) - explosive Zune batteries (from Sony!) - Microsoft spreading FUD about iPod: Apple's coming to get you! While you sleep! - Zune's preloaded content has hidden 25-th frame message, it says: BU4 C1AN3S & VI4GRA
From the two videos on YouTube (especially the second one which explained what the team was doing), I have to say that this was an extremely interesting experiment, but not in robotics --- in human psychology. The reaction of people to Quasi was quite amazing, and not limited to kids. I found myself reacting to Quasi as an entity too, despite knowing that this was merely an interface manipulated by humans.
Yea wow the reaction is very amazing indeed! Given people thought he IS an intelligent robot.
It's a very interesting experiment in nothing, if you ask me. The robot is very cute, and it's a nice entertainment. But even the way it talks is a dead giveaway. You can figure there's an actor only 4-5 seconds into the video.
Even the top TTS in the world don't have such a smooth-flowing phrasing, intonation and so on. I'll give it to a bunch of kids getting fooled, and I'll even give it to a few random folkd being fooled by the booth...
But damn you GOTTA expect something better of reasoning skills from the editors of the "top IT/technology" blog: Slashdot.
When I think of Sony, I think of rootkits, exploding batteries and a delayed PS3. Sony has some significant problems. I don't think I want to buy anything connected with the name of Sony.
Add to this the worst CD/DVD media in the world. Their disks literally decay in 1-2 years, where all my other disks, in the same conditions, are in pristine state.
If the false positives were indeed "too much", you'd watch it on CNN, since Windows is used aggressively throughout the world in homes, hospitals, businesses, schools and so on.
Instead, you read about it here on the Slash-haha-Microsoft-sucks-dot blog. Therefore, nothing major to worry about as of yet.
Now of course WGA is a major annoyance. It can also be argued that Microsoft inflicted this on themselves by allowing piracy flourish under the table while whining about piracy in their official channels. Now that Windows basically owns the world, they are here to reap the rewards by taking active measures to protecting their IP.
But Microsoft doesn't want us to be so annoyed with Windows so the majority of us consider to move. So if the WGA turns out to be a disaster, a guy should flip a switch at Redmond, and the WGA around the entire world will deactivate in less than 24 hours (this is a built-in protection).
PDF isn't propreitary, the format is entirely open and documented.
I find it amusing how you said that, and were modded insightful. This requires serious lack of sarcasm in both you, and all the people that modded you.
According to a recent survey from the University of Arizona, the average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat.
There's even more bacteria INSIDE YOU! And no, they're not only "your" bacteria. They are in fact bacteria that you ate, breathed in and so on and so on. They live and breed inside you, and defecate inside you! They also *eat* from whatever is laying around (i.e. YOU).
Shocking? Well it better not be, since they're not going away any time soon. I'm sick of gem-counting revelations and toilet seat comparisons.
I'm proud to say I use a regular dirty mouse and keyboard and I'm still alive and healthy. If someone is concerned he might catch something bad from a computer mouse, he wouldn't be alive to buy this product anyway.
I'm truly disappointed at Sony for supporting proprietary formats like PDF, instead of introducing a better, mandatory *Universal E Book* format that any Sony Reader can open!
Oh btw, maybe their marketing isn't totally worthless if they offer more than 250 star trek books to their early gadget adopters. It's kinda obvious, but it might as well work!
You know, people keep saying "the TFA" and I'm thinking: what if we shorten it to TTFA? Then it becomes "the TTFA"... oh damn.. ok let me try again, "TTTFA"?
Since mice and humans share more than 90 percent of genes, the Allen Brain Atlas has enormous potential for understanding human neurological diseases and disorders affecting more than 50 million Americans each year
That's an instant classic. Genes don't exactly work like this you know?
90% same genes isn't like 90% same species. We share over 70% with insects and over 50% with plants. Yet, I wanna see someone claim that by dissecting oranges he can help us fight heart diseases.
Let's face it: he's a scientist, he wanted to do it, he had to convince the sponsors. That's fine..
Imagine the pain of having to write a functional applications with so many cores. I hope the interconnect will be very very fast. Otherwise writing massively scalable parallel algorithms will be masssively painful. And with so many cores, one will need multiple independants memory banks with some kind of NUMA. And writing apps for those things isn't fun. You have to spend so much time caring about the parallel stuff instead of caring about the problem.
It'll be far from massively painful. There are already high-level kits for working with massive parallel processing appearing in frameworks like.NET.
They are precoded for a certain tasks (for example FFT or rendering 3D etc.) and you use a simple programming language to describe what you want. Then you run the task and obtain the results async, like how you'd do with a network application that waits for data from a remote server.
I believe that the separate cores are already getting at a comfortable speed where you can perform tasks on a single core and obtain very decent speed. So multiple cores are left for two things:
1. multitasking
2. certain CPU demanding algorithms, where the kits will help, as I said.
This approach of splitting mobile content from "normal" content is the wrong way to do this CSS has media types and a media type of "handheld" FOR EXACTLY THIS PURPOSE!.... A properly design site should take advantage of the already existing method for handling this very situation. The website should change to me, not the other way around.
I agree the site should adapt to you. But if you honesly believe the same content can seamlessly be presented on completely different media only via the use of a different CSS, you're living in the web utopia.
Sites which use CSS media to present to a mobile device is either a site with not much content, or has half of its content hidden via CSS to fit the mobile screen. And this is hardly what you want with the kind of costs and speed of mobile internet.
Just like you can't scale a mobile phone up and get a desktop computer, or scale down a PC tower case and get a laptop, sites need a certain amount of dedicated interface design for the devices they target.
It doesn't mean you have to maintain each of them separately or buy pointless "mobi" domains. RoR and related frameworks have it right:
- you fetch the information internally from the same sources using the same code\ - you detect the user agent / device and present a specialized view to them
Because of squatters,.mobi is gonna be a self fulfilling prophecy: everyone buys their.mobi in fear someone else might do so and blackmail them.
I've plenty of com/net domains I use for my sites, and since I'm not quite that rich, I refuse to waste thousands of dollars on a nonsense preemptive strike.
"Microsoft goes after people having windows in their apartments, Sun sues people that sell and drink, or talk about java."
"Google sues all massively big numbers with typos. Suggests people use smaller numbers."
"AOL sues all Americans that are On-Line, tells people to pick: either be on-line abroad, or be Americans."
"After Adobe went after people using 'Flash' based trademarks/that's for real btw/, now they go after construction companies using adobe."
"News Corp. sues all news media, newspapers and news bulletins in the world."
"Companies using dictionary word based trademarks go after dictionaries including their trademarks."
"Practises in trademark law threaten the Universe to collapse from a massive lapse of logic. Won't happen because Apple is suing the Universe for making use of 'Logic', a company trademark they own."
There is a big difference between how vulnerable a program is and how dangerous it is to use. The more ubiquitous an application, the more it will be examined as a possible attack vector, and the more it will be exploited as an attack vector. IE is still far more dangerous to use than Firefox thanks to the fact it is still used by far more people.
So if we all want to remain safer, we should all go to Firefox.. In which case Firefox becomes the top browser, and IE will become less dangerous... You can't win, can you!? Aaah!
Unless of course you use Opera while everyone ignores it. But this is important: do NOT tell anyone! If you do, it'll become more popular, and more dangerous!
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Dude this is not for a real geeks! Real geeks don't drool at matrix paper-like materials.
I'm a geek.
I want a wallet with built in clock, mp3 player, camera, radio and cellphone abilities. (screw iPod! I'm a friggin geek, I have neither OSX nor Windows, I use IRC on a command line and browse in a text browser!)
I want it to store securely my passwords and info if I identify properly.
Identification should be done on several levels:
- iris detectiom fingerprint detection and dna-o-matic instant DNA analyzer.
- voice detection, and voice recognition so it can understand my password
If I don't identify properly, it should communicate my location to a sattelite in orbit and it should beam a deadly laser beam right at me.
The internet will not be safe, ever, because of those people. Yes, "click here to win a date with name-a-rising-star" will always find its way to someone that thinks there is some remote possibility that Bill Gates will pay you to forward emails, or that a music hall-of-famer needs a date from someone just like them. The human factor in security will always be the weakest link. ALWAYS.
/to most/ information about what kind of soil you have in every country region, and which exactly day 1000 years ago a certain thing happened.
You can reduce 99% of this with proper education, but why teach THIS to your kids, when you can flood them with useless
Zune is a progressive attitude from Microsoft.... Zune will soon become ....Zune (even with its crippled WiFi) ... "feature" from Zune ... Zune Pocket PC OS....Media Player inside Zune... Zune itself plays WMV natively.
Doesn't anybody notice it!? We can now say "Zune" without laughing like retards! It's the "Wii" paradox all over again...
Do you know why this is? Because Zune gets bad press. You can't make Slashdot publish good press for Microsoft easy these days. It's the same on most geek blogs out there.
Bad news bring recognition, and build branding.
Microsoft may have some more up its sleeve to keep us busy discussing Zune:
- free Zune with Vista Ultimate (OMGWTF! monopoloy abuse!)
- explosive Zune batteries (from Sony!)
- Microsoft spreading FUD about iPod: Apple's coming to get you! While you sleep!
- Zune's preloaded content has hidden 25-th frame message, it says: BU4 C1AN3S & VI4GRA
From the two videos on YouTube (especially the second one which explained what the team was doing), I have to say that this was an extremely interesting experiment, but not in robotics --- in human psychology. The reaction of people to Quasi was quite amazing, and not limited to kids. I found myself reacting to Quasi as an entity too, despite knowing that this was merely an interface manipulated by humans.
Yea wow the reaction is very amazing indeed! Given people thought he IS an intelligent robot.
It's a very interesting experiment in nothing, if you ask me. The robot is very cute, and it's a nice entertainment. But even the way it talks is a dead giveaway. You can figure there's an actor only 4-5 seconds into the video.
Even the top TTS in the world don't have such a smooth-flowing phrasing, intonation and so on. I'll give it to a bunch of kids getting fooled, and I'll even give it to a few random folkd being fooled by the booth...
But damn you GOTTA expect something better of reasoning skills from the editors of the "top IT/technology" blog: Slashdot.
I suppose our science, medicine, cities, culture is not interesting to aliens.
They'd much prefer to see us waving our private parts on front of the camera. Yea, that's gotta do it.
Are marsians complaining about?! What then.
When I think of Sony, I think of rootkits, exploding batteries and a delayed PS3. Sony has some significant problems. I don't think I want to buy anything connected with the name of Sony.
Add to this the worst CD/DVD media in the world. Their disks literally decay in 1-2 years, where all my other disks, in the same conditions, are in pristine state.
Yes, my one month old T60 too is on the list. Though I will wait out till the initial rush dies out.
I hope you don't mean that literally. I mean we're talking battery bombs here!
If the false positives were indeed "too much", you'd watch it on CNN, since Windows is used aggressively throughout the world in homes, hospitals, businesses, schools and so on.
Instead, you read about it here on the Slash-haha-Microsoft-sucks-dot blog. Therefore, nothing major to worry about as of yet.
Now of course WGA is a major annoyance. It can also be argued that Microsoft inflicted this on themselves by allowing piracy flourish under the table while whining about piracy in their official channels. Now that Windows basically owns the world, they are here to reap the rewards by taking active measures to protecting their IP.
But Microsoft doesn't want us to be so annoyed with Windows so the majority of us consider to move. So if the WGA turns out to be a disaster, a guy should flip a switch at Redmond, and the WGA around the entire world will deactivate in less than 24 hours (this is a built-in protection).
PDF isn't propreitary, the format is entirely open and documented.
I find it amusing how you said that, and were modded insightful. This requires serious lack of sarcasm in both you, and all the people that modded you.
Congratulations.
According to a recent survey from the University of Arizona, the average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat.
There's even more bacteria INSIDE YOU! And no, they're not only "your" bacteria. They are in fact bacteria that you ate, breathed in and so on and so on. They live and breed inside you, and defecate inside you! They also *eat* from whatever is laying around (i.e. YOU).
Shocking? Well it better not be, since they're not going away any time soon. I'm sick of gem-counting revelations and toilet seat comparisons.
I'm proud to say I use a regular dirty mouse and keyboard and I'm still alive and healthy. If someone is concerned he might catch something bad from a computer mouse, he wouldn't be alive to buy this product anyway.
I'm truly disappointed at Sony for supporting proprietary formats like PDF, instead of introducing a better, mandatory *Universal E Book* format that any Sony Reader can open!
Oh btw, maybe their marketing isn't totally worthless if they offer more than 250 star trek books to their early gadget adopters. It's kinda obvious, but it might as well work!
Welcome too the future, btw! Party at my house.
Tie 'em up, transport them abroad and beat 'em up!
I mean, why *untraceable* messages unless they're terrorists that ALSO wanna distribute child porn! Sick!
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Now, I've another question: you can't trace the messages, but can you trace the service was used (a protocol, a port? whatever?).
Because, since you are obviously hiding stuff from CIA and FBI, we plan to make your life a misery, y'know?
and there's a much better article than the TFA
... oh damn.. ok let me try again, "TTTFA"?
:(
You know, people keep saying "the TFA" and I'm thinking: what if we shorten it to TTFA?
Then it becomes "the TTFA"
I can't win, can I...
Since mice and humans share more than 90 percent of genes, the Allen Brain Atlas has enormous potential for understanding human neurological diseases and disorders affecting more than 50 million Americans each year
That's an instant classic. Genes don't exactly work like this you know?
90% same genes isn't like 90% same species. We share over 70% with insects and over 50% with plants.
Yet, I wanna see someone claim that by dissecting oranges he can help us fight heart diseases.
Let's face it: he's a scientist, he wanted to do it, he had to convince the sponsors. That's fine..
Imagine the pain of having to write a functional applications with so many cores. I hope the interconnect will be very very fast. Otherwise writing massively scalable parallel algorithms will be masssively painful. And with so many cores, one will need multiple independants memory banks with some kind of NUMA. And writing apps for those things isn't fun. You have to spend so much time caring about the parallel stuff instead of caring about the problem.
.NET.
It'll be far from massively painful. There are already high-level kits for working with massive parallel processing appearing in frameworks like
They are precoded for a certain tasks (for example FFT or rendering 3D etc.) and you use a simple programming language to describe what you want. Then you run the task and obtain the results async, like how you'd do with a network application that waits for data from a remote server.
I believe that the separate cores are already getting at a comfortable speed where you can perform tasks on a single core and obtain very decent speed. So multiple cores are left for two things:
1. multitasking
2. certain CPU demanding algorithms, where the kits will help, as I said.
It's fun to be smug but only when you know what you're talking about.
Got it Eric?
Nah, it's always fun to be smug, dude.
Gosh, do these guys *ever* learn? I still fill the pain from the broken promise on the 10GHz P4.
We had to have that 10GHz Pentium somewhere around this time I think. Reality? We don't even have Pentium anymore, after they redesigned it.
Intel wants to wow everybody with flashy predictions about their own future, but Intel, but what people care about is whaat they are selling *now*.
They seemed on the right path with Core 1/2, but it seems they are back to the silly "I have more of feature X" marketing.
World Warmth Wrath Wreaked!
This approach of splitting mobile content from "normal" content is the wrong way to do this CSS has media types and a media type of "handheld" FOR EXACTLY THIS PURPOSE!.... A properly design site should take advantage of the already existing method for handling this very situation. The website should change to me, not the other way around.
I agree the site should adapt to you. But if you honesly believe the same content can seamlessly be presented on completely different media only via the use of a different CSS, you're living in the web utopia.
Sites which use CSS media to present to a mobile device is either a site with not much content, or has half of its content hidden via CSS to fit the mobile screen. And this is hardly what you want with the kind of costs and speed of mobile internet.
Just like you can't scale a mobile phone up and get a desktop computer, or scale down a PC tower case and get a laptop, sites need a certain amount of dedicated interface design for the devices they target.
It doesn't mean you have to maintain each of them separately or buy pointless "mobi" domains. RoR and related frameworks have it right:
- you fetch the information internally from the same sources using the same code\
- you detect the user agent / device and present a specialized view to them
That's kind of a racist term.
Wow, using a color name in an abstract phrase is racism, people!
Oh did I say 'people', I don't wanna insult the rest of the animals!
And plants!
And inanimate objects!
Aaaaaa! I just can't do it, I guess I'm a racist, shoot me!
How about "recording."
... about webcasting! Oh no, I'm too smart to co-exist with the rest of the world!
Or
Because of squatters, .mobi is gonna be a self fulfilling prophecy: everyone buys their .mobi in fear someone else might do so and blackmail them.
I've plenty of com/net domains I use for my sites, and since I'm not quite that rich, I refuse to waste thousands of dollars on a nonsense preemptive strike.
Mobi will fail anyway.
In related news:
/that's for real btw/, now they go after construction companies using adobe."
"Microsoft goes after people having windows in their apartments, Sun sues people that sell and drink, or talk about java."
"Google sues all massively big numbers with typos. Suggests people use smaller numbers."
"AOL sues all Americans that are On-Line, tells people to pick: either be on-line abroad, or be Americans."
"After Adobe went after people using 'Flash' based trademarks
"News Corp. sues all news media, newspapers and news bulletins in the world."
"Companies using dictionary word based trademarks go after dictionaries including their trademarks."
"Practises in trademark law threaten the Universe to collapse from a massive lapse of logic. Won't happen because Apple is suing the Universe for making use of 'Logic', a company trademark they own."
There is a big difference between how vulnerable a program is and how dangerous it is to use.
The more ubiquitous an application, the more it will be examined as a possible attack vector, and the more it will be exploited as an attack vector.
IE is still far more dangerous to use than Firefox thanks to the fact it is still used by far more people.
So if we all want to remain safer, we should all go to Firefox..
In which case Firefox becomes the top browser, and IE will become less dangerous... You can't win, can you!? Aaah!
Unless of course you use Opera while everyone ignores it. But this is important: do NOT tell anyone! If you do, it'll become more popular, and more dangerous!