"today announced its intentions to pursue a major clinical trial of the company's deep brain stimulation (DBS) technology in the treatment of severe and intractable depression, a disabling form of the psychiatric disorder affecting millions of people worldwide."
Yesterday across the hall a couple of venture analysts where laughing their arses off over a pitch from a firm that used magnets to treat depression. It was compared to pitch from a firm that used a giant rubber band to treat erectile dysfunction. Today I see this link...
That this is posted as science is indeed depressing
"users with a high "Spyware IQ" have a nearly 100% chance of visiting a dangerous site during 30 days of typical online searching and browsing activity."
My guess is one such site would be McAfee SiteAdvisor given the company's history of finding a virus where they don't exist.
Spyware is just nature's way of getting idiots off the net and oddly the bread and butter of the article. I need to check however to see if I'm infected and my/. link points to CNet.
"How will this detract from your privacy in ways that cant be done now? You think that somehow your boss will sneak this new monitor in without you knowing? Well Ive got news for you: If you really think he might do that, then he probably already has a much cheaper web cam hidden in your cube and right this very moment hes watching you blather on Slashdot and laughing his a$$ off."
So true, however in my case, I picked the camera placement, installed the video server and obsfucated the user interface.
Now can we discuss the new iPods that can hear your thoughts and monitor for trade secret violations?
"To do my part in saving the Earth, I will replace my current vehicle with an electric or hybrid car, because they grow naturally from sunflower fields. I know they grow in sunflower fields because if they didn't, the energy saved by the increase in MPG wouldn't be enough to compensate for the energy used to create these heavy industrial products. If so, I would feel bad, and I don't want to feel bad, and I want to feel good when I buy things."
I'm doing my part, I ride a frigging bus paying 5 bucks each way on Hummer, hybrid and limo snarled roadways.... Where's my tax rebate?
I'm thinking they must have a failure to communicate. Isn't this one of those states in which inbred retards play banjos in the trees while the locals play piggy with tourists?
It's a mistake but unfortunately the way of the world. I expect now that biometric devices are so cheap that the next generation of Windows will require the end user to register much like you do now to use Bloomberg software.
The real pain is using MSDN. You create testing environments only to wipe them out when done and now you have to call MS and go thru the phone activation now. Hardly my idea of a development network. I was told getting eOpen MSDN and production licensing would end this but noooooo, the new policy has even this going back to phone activation when under heavy use.
No, Open Office is not the answer but perhaps a few typewriters and some whiteout could be...
"I tire of hearing about people getting CTS. They are simply doing it all wrong, but blaming everything else but themselves. If you are using a straight rectangular keyboard that isn't at the proper height, pounding on it with your fingers and strained wrists, and feel you need to type 100 wpm in order to be productive, then its your own damn fault!"
Yeah, and those smokers that get cancer... they just don't puff right.
By the way, I'm getting Blackberry thumb, anyone know the lawyer that fat guy used to sue MickeyD's?
Why to make the master Steve Jobs happy of course. Why else would his cult follow him thru the desert, traveling with the burning bush of money as Apple flirts with Motorola, IBM, Intel and coming soon "embryonic" stem cells.
Seeing the cult of mac turn overnight from Wintel haters to clapping with glee over bootcamp only proves that Conviction, is in the Apple Menu.
"The other possibility is Microsoft may have to try to really redesign their OS to be secure, and that could inflict things like Palladium on us. It may well be making Windows secure is an impossible task without throwing it out, starting over, and destroying backward compatibility which would probably eliminate Microsoft's death grip on computer user's throats.
Windows was written to be collaborative. Any collaborative tool, be it Windows, TCP/IP or the girl next door, is only going to be as secure as they are set-up to be.
Windows has no death grip it only offers the closest thing to a standard that most users want. Not everyone is happy being a wingless bird alone on an iceberg.
"It's upto application developers to release 64 bit builds, but for most apps it just isnt necessary or bring any performance benefits. That said, off the top of my head there are 64 bit builds of 7zip and SmartFTP"
The topic is Microsoft and whatever silent but deadly surprise they have in store of us (IMO; hold your nose). Somehow 7zip and smartFTP are not quite what I have in mind for performing a productive day (where I get my satisfaction, sometimes geeky but often not). No, I talking about MS OFFICE, maybe 64-bit media support even. My point is that if anything MS's release of Windows 64-bit shows us they have no coherent planning, no O\S to application logistics, and frankly no interest in what their end-users want. Heck if the Linux community could lose the geeky elitism over usability (end-users) they could make something of this vacuum, but no... instead Steve Jobs looks to do it.
"Application support? Most applications I use all work fine on XP x64. What one's do you have trouble with?
Antiviral apps are the only problem i'm aware of along with apps that modify shell context menu's (which is not too difficult to fix)"
You are correct all those 32-bit apps run fine. Just call me silly for wanting native 64-bit apps that send chills down my spine.
"Besides, Microsoft's marketing technique seems to be based on people knowing what are going to be in their applications before they are released. I think this is just wishful thinking."
Almost two years know and I'm still waiting for application and driver support for XP 64-bit.
The only storm ahead is the one in which fisherman Gates is played by Clooney... of course Gates ends up on an island of billions of dollars as the business world mops up the mess.
"Something else to consider... if you are disinterested in this new technology because the difference isn't that noticable and from the looks of things you seem to be technically fluent, how is the average joe going to react? I'm talking about those people who watch standard def contents on their HDTV sets without even realizing it/knowing the difference."
All I know is that years of staring at various CRT's, LCD's and plasma displays has my eyes just wishing it'd all go away for a bit as I open up a book.
My apologies to the warriors of the latest format war but I'm sitting it out...
I purchase both the T series and X series for the office. I had noticed that the T series had degraded about a year ago; Keys falling off and poor performance. This was before Leveno entered the picture. My users still like the X series however, although a few complained about speed. Frankly laptop quality across the board is lacking as I've tried a couple of Dells as well.
Not to be Xenophobic but it was alarming when Lenovo Released China's "First Security Chip"(Hengzhi), approved by the State Encryption Administration (backdoor for Big Red Bro). Yes, it's only for computers made for the Chinese population but it makes you cautious and perhaps will make Leveno a hard sell.
"What if the problem wasn't just the fuel burning we use to heat the building, but the size and location of the building itself that was the problem?
Most of us have stood between 2 manmade skyscrapers and been blown off our feet, that wind pattern has to directly affect the weather patterns in another part of the world. Theres no need to pore over detailed chemical tables or discuss possible scenarios, we each affect the climate simply by being here."
We're doomed, and it all started when we domesticated animals and created large unnatural pockets of methane in the atmosphere. Perhaps if we unplugged and headed back up the trees we could make a difference...
No, but's invading this thread and my inbox. So help me if I get one more e-mail with one more product that adds Virtualization as if it's the new iPod, I'm going to get cranky...
"Truth be told, both Macs, and PCs are really unreliable when you start dealing with uncompressed video."
Windows - you get a blue screen.
Mac - you get a "sad mac".
Linux - it just sits there like a dead bird at side of a road as you poke it with a stick.
But I'm going to be laughing at Mac users five years down the road when Jobs makes another generation of software and equipment obsolete as he moves Macs to run on bio-engineered dolphin brain processors.
"By the way, I have also been in situations where I was asked to hide my PC before the client came in, so they wouldn't know I had done their work on a PC."
I'm sure this happens way more than Mac users wish to admit, but that is the problem. With Apple it is all about image and that carries down to the cult ahh, I mean end users.
But at some point work or commerce needs to get done so they come to us...
Slashdot Mirror
But you can use your coupon for iPod batteries... wait, you can't, that form factor changed as well.
Yesterday across the hall a couple of venture analysts where laughing their arses off over a pitch from a firm that used magnets to treat depression. It was compared to pitch from a firm that used a giant rubber band to treat erectile dysfunction. Today I see this link...
That this is posted as science is indeed depressing
My guess is one such site would be McAfee SiteAdvisor given the company's history of finding a virus where they don't exist.
Spyware is just nature's way of getting idiots off the net and oddly the bread and butter of the article. I need to check however to see if I'm infected and my /. link points to CNet.
So true, however in my case, I picked the camera placement, installed the video server and obsfucated the user interface.
Now can we discuss the new iPods that can hear your thoughts and monitor for trade secret violations?
I'm doing my part, I ride a frigging bus paying 5 bucks each way on Hummer, hybrid and limo snarled roadways.... Where's my tax rebate?
I'm thinking they must have a failure to communicate. Isn't this one of those states in which inbred retards play banjos in the trees while the locals play piggy with tourists?
The real pain is using MSDN. You create testing environments only to wipe them out when done and now you have to call MS and go thru the phone activation now. Hardly my idea of a development network. I was told getting eOpen MSDN and production licensing would end this but noooooo, the new policy has even this going back to phone activation when under heavy use.
No, Open Office is not the answer but perhaps a few typewriters and some whiteout could be...
Beyond DVD's are the point of diminishing returns. They had good quality, fair price.
Frankly judging from the pricing of the new formats if I want "more real", I'll go with the cheap hooker...
Yeah, and those smokers that get cancer... they just don't puff right.
By the way, I'm getting Blackberry thumb, anyone know the lawyer that fat guy used to sue MickeyD's?
Why to make the master Steve Jobs happy of course. Why else would his cult follow him thru the desert, traveling with the burning bush of money as Apple flirts with Motorola, IBM, Intel and coming soon "embryonic" stem cells.
Seeing the cult of mac turn overnight from Wintel haters to clapping with glee over bootcamp only proves that Conviction, is in the Apple Menu.
I agree... but then as I've stated I don't see MS making any surprises either, unless delivering what they promise counts...
Windows was written to be collaborative. Any collaborative tool, be it Windows, TCP/IP or the girl next door, is only going to be as secure as they are set-up to be.
Windows has no death grip it only offers the closest thing to a standard that most users want. Not everyone is happy being a wingless bird alone on an iceberg.
The topic is Microsoft and whatever silent but deadly surprise they have in store of us (IMO; hold your nose). Somehow 7zip and smartFTP are not quite what I have in mind for performing a productive day (where I get my satisfaction, sometimes geeky but often not). No, I talking about MS OFFICE, maybe 64-bit media support even. My point is that if anything MS's release of Windows 64-bit shows us they have no coherent planning, no O\S to application logistics, and frankly no interest in what their end-users want. Heck if the Linux community could lose the geeky elitism over usability (end-users) they could make something of this vacuum, but no... instead Steve Jobs looks to do it.
"Application support? Most applications I use all work fine on XP x64. What one's do you have trouble with? Antiviral apps are the only problem i'm aware of along with apps that modify shell context menu's (which is not too difficult to fix)" You are correct all those 32-bit apps run fine. Just call me silly for wanting native 64-bit apps that send chills down my spine.
Almost two years know and I'm still waiting for application and driver support for XP 64-bit.
The only storm ahead is the one in which fisherman Gates is played by Clooney... of course Gates ends up on an island of billions of dollars as the business world mops up the mess.
All I know is that years of staring at various CRT's, LCD's and plasma displays has my eyes just wishing it'd all go away for a bit as I open up a book.
My apologies to the warriors of the latest format war but I'm sitting it out...
hear he tried yEnc but was flamed by henchmen that preferred uuencode.
I have a feeling this was more about the man seeing himself as a "Cesar", than encryption methodology however.
Not to be Xenophobic but it was alarming when Lenovo Released China's "First Security Chip"(Hengzhi), approved by the State Encryption Administration (backdoor for Big Red Bro). Yes, it's only for computers made for the Chinese population but it makes you cautious and perhaps will make Leveno a hard sell.
We're doomed, and it all started when we domesticated animals and created large unnatural pockets of methane in the atmosphere. Perhaps if we unplugged and headed back up the trees we could make a difference...
No, but's invading this thread and my inbox. So help me if I get one more e-mail with one more product that adds Virtualization as if it's the new iPod, I'm going to get cranky...
I bet anything e-gold is behind this...
Windows - you get a blue screen. Mac - you get a "sad mac". Linux - it just sits there like a dead bird at side of a road as you poke it with a stick.
But I'm going to be laughing at Mac users five years down the road when Jobs makes another generation of software and equipment obsolete as he moves Macs to run on bio-engineered dolphin brain processors.
I'm sure this happens way more than Mac users wish to admit, but that is the problem. With Apple it is all about image and that carries down to the cult ahh, I mean end users.
But at some point work or commerce needs to get done so they come to us...
You mean, he's never used iLife?
And here I thought cloning the same old games year after year was the problem... my bad. Well that and the fact Duke Forever isn't done yet...