This is a psychology study, it's supposed to be cold science. Do you complain about the categorization of insects being cold science because it describes the beautiful butterflies in the same terms as the cockroaches? These people want to know how we make friends, regardless of whether they have any or not.
Socializing is an exercise in not being too boring but not being too excentric either. If somebody's first topic is the collected works of Tolstoy, they may learn from a study like this that they might choose talking about music instead, to get closer to somebody and slowly discover if Tolstoy would be a good topic.
Or is a relationship worth less just because the Tolstoy freak (exaggerating here) controlled himself and didn't reveal his true passions right away? He'll sure prefer 10 lesser relationships to none at all.
All voice recognition software, no matter what platform, would suffer from this supposed "exploit".
That's incorrect. I don't know about such a software, but the voice-recognition program should filter out what it captures as going to the output of the computer. For example, Skype, too, should be able to filter out the annoying echo if you have the mike in range of the speakers. This is a feature waiting to be implemented, not an inevitable characteristic. And the feature could, in fact, be in the OS, somewhere around the sound drivers.
Right, so the convenient endless draggable Google maps or the convenient way of handling pics in Flickr are going away in a few years... Sigh, it was good while it lasted.
Like hell they are going away! Only the visionaries or the misled talk seriously about bigger application being on AJAX soon; instead AJAX is adopted by a lot of little Web applications that would never really work as non-networked desktop apps, and people are experimenting, pushing the limits, as they should be.
Sweet baby galaxy, NTOSKRNL.EXE??? 8.3 filename? In two-thousand-fucking-seven? No wonder Vista sucks, if they can't get rid of the stupidest old limitations. And I'm not talking about technical limitations, this one shows a limitation of thinking.
I, for one, spend more time with my clothes than with my SO, or with my computer, for that matter. This is, however, meaningless, what matters is what I do when I'm inside my clothes or at the computer - I can work, I can communicate, play games, read stuff, shop etc.
Some people say that within 10 years, computers will disappear. I concur, I think within 10 years, computers will be everywhere, so they will disappear from the focus, and we will talk about what we do (with or without computers).
If you exercise, it's understandable that you'll be fitter longer. Bilingualism is to the brain like living in a hilly terrain to the legs. I'm dazzled that the scientists would be dazzled by a finding like this.
Haven't RTFA, but the name part "Quad" seems to imply that not only is the horizontal, but also the vertical resolution doubled in 2160p, so that would probably require four PS3s, unless a single PS3 can handle 1080p and double the resolution vertically. Unlikely.
Robots are great at handling almost everything expected, but people are pretty good at handling things that are unexpected.
One could wonder how much unexpected stuff there's gonna be on the Moon. Well, I bet there would be a lot of that if people got to be on the Moon for 10+ years, getting bored out of their minds and toying with the alien environment. Oh, and trying to survive, achieving some pretty amazing deeds in that direction.
I've read science fiction where repairs were outlawed (to stimulate the market) and repairmen were treated worse than drug dealers. If I understand it correctly, you may be already barred from repairing software (due to licensing terms), and I wonder how long before attempts are made to outlaw opening and maybe even tinkering with your newest gadget.
You have to remember that you are starting up a full virtual machine environment. That is going to have lots of overhead, especially at initialization. Anyone who expects to run "Hello, World" programs efficiently is a fool.
I disagree to an extent. You can take the VM, start it with everything it normally does before it actually loads the first app-dependent class, save a snapshot of the memory and use that the next time. Then you can see what parts of this are accessed when, optimize the physical (on-disk) layout of the snapshot file, and thus speed it up some more.
Then you can load the initialized VM on startup of the system, forking for every Java app to be started instead of running it from the start, oh and cache the JIT-compiled versions of classes, and a big lot of the startup time people complain about will be gone away.
With GPL JRE, people are finally free to try doing this and distributing their results to the public.
Actually, the ethical and legal issues might go away if it was the authors of the original compromised software who published such worms to find and patch/seal the hole. What about this?
Dear all, aren't we sometimes confusing privacy and the other rights here? Privacy is about the ability to keep secrets, it is not about being hauled away at dawn for being a terrorist.
I fear that privacy slowly goes away as technology gets better: for example, if a celebrity is photographed from a public place topless at her house, that's privacy invasion, and that seems to be OK. We just learn to do what we want behind closed doors and walls. It may get worse as various entities get the ability to correlate a lot of info about us, and here anonymity technologies (virtual walls and doors?) are going to be useful.
But that's not about "not being allowed to protest" or "getting on a no-fly list wrongly" etc.
Can anyone please shed some light on the difference (for the user) between a true quad-core and a dual dual-core processor? I expect a quad-core can be cheaper because it is more integrated, but is that it?
can't believe I'm so stupid as to actually run that bomb. System stopped playing mp3 in 20 secs, along with doing most other stuff, but it got a bit better when it maxed out memory and started swapping - had more time for other tasks, somehow, and I managed to kill that shell. System back to normal, I'll just clean up the swap and go on. 8-)
Above the 6k a year, if a company wants to participate in working groups, there's the cost of the time of the participant and the cost of attending meetings, both teleconferences and face-to-face. These costs can easily outweigh the membership fee. And these costs grow linearly with the number of working group participants a member company has.
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This is a psychology study, it's supposed to be cold science. Do you complain about the categorization of insects being cold science because it describes the beautiful butterflies in the same terms as the cockroaches? These people want to know how we make friends, regardless of whether they have any or not.
Socializing is an exercise in not being too boring but not being too excentric either. If somebody's first topic is the collected works of Tolstoy, they may learn from a study like this that they might choose talking about music instead, to get closer to somebody and slowly discover if Tolstoy would be a good topic.
Or is a relationship worth less just because the Tolstoy freak (exaggerating here) controlled himself and didn't reveal his true passions right away? He'll sure prefer 10 lesser relationships to none at all.
Imagine fiber with green laser - how green is that!
That's incorrect. I don't know about such a software, but the voice-recognition program should filter out what it captures as going to the output of the computer. For example, Skype, too, should be able to filter out the annoying echo if you have the mike in range of the speakers. This is a feature waiting to be implemented, not an inevitable characteristic. And the feature could, in fact, be in the OS, somewhere around the sound drivers.
Right, so the convenient endless draggable Google maps or the convenient way of handling pics in Flickr are going away in a few years... Sigh, it was good while it lasted.
Like hell they are going away! Only the visionaries or the misled talk seriously about bigger application being on AJAX soon; instead AJAX is adopted by a lot of little Web applications that would never really work as non-networked desktop apps, and people are experimenting, pushing the limits, as they should be.
Sweet baby galaxy, NTOSKRNL.EXE??? 8.3 filename? In two-thousand-fucking-seven? No wonder Vista sucks, if they can't get rid of the stupidest old limitations. And I'm not talking about technical limitations, this one shows a limitation of thinking.
youngster!
I, for one, spend more time with my clothes than with my SO, or with my computer, for that matter. This is, however, meaningless, what matters is what I do when I'm inside my clothes or at the computer - I can work, I can communicate, play games, read stuff, shop etc.
Some people say that within 10 years, computers will disappear. I concur, I think within 10 years, computers will be everywhere, so they will disappear from the focus, and we will talk about what we do (with or without computers).
If you exercise, it's understandable that you'll be fitter longer. Bilingualism is to the brain like living in a hilly terrain to the legs. I'm dazzled that the scientists would be dazzled by a finding like this.
You mean undersea fibre links are just cables laying on the sea floor?! I don't know what I expected, but somehow I'm disappointed.
Haven't RTFA, but the name part "Quad" seems to imply that not only is the horizontal, but also the vertical resolution doubled in 2160p, so that would probably require four PS3s, unless a single PS3 can handle 1080p and double the resolution vertically. Unlikely.
One could wonder how much unexpected stuff there's gonna be on the Moon. Well, I bet there would be a lot of that if people got to be on the Moon for 10+ years, getting bored out of their minds and toying with the alien environment. Oh, and trying to survive, achieving some pretty amazing deeds in that direction.
FWIW, when I tried intranet and word processor in Austria, none of the ads were for anything recognizably related to Google.
I've read science fiction where repairs were outlawed (to stimulate the market) and repairmen were treated worse than drug dealers. If I understand it correctly, you may be already barred from repairing software (due to licensing terms), and I wonder how long before attempts are made to outlaw opening and maybe even tinkering with your newest gadget.
no worries, found it in a later post of yours, my bad
Would you care to post a link to the pwd management program for Palm? I'd be very interested... Thanks.
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I disagree to an extent. You can take the VM, start it with everything it normally does before it actually loads the first app-dependent class, save a snapshot of the memory and use that the next time. Then you can see what parts of this are accessed when, optimize the physical (on-disk) layout of the snapshot file, and thus speed it up some more.
Then you can load the initialized VM on startup of the system, forking for every Java app to be started instead of running it from the start, oh and cache the JIT-compiled versions of classes, and a big lot of the startup time people complain about will be gone away.
With GPL JRE, people are finally free to try doing this and distributing their results to the public.
Well, Apple is blaming those Indians that made the blankets and infected them with smallpox.
Actually, the ethical and legal issues might go away if it was the authors of the original compromised software who published such worms to find and patch/seal the hole. What about this?
Dear all, aren't we sometimes confusing privacy and the other rights here? Privacy is about the ability to keep secrets, it is not about being hauled away at dawn for being a terrorist.
I fear that privacy slowly goes away as technology gets better: for example, if a celebrity is photographed from a public place topless at her house, that's privacy invasion, and that seems to be OK. We just learn to do what we want behind closed doors and walls. It may get worse as various entities get the ability to correlate a lot of info about us, and here anonymity technologies (virtual walls and doors?) are going to be useful.
But that's not about "not being allowed to protest" or "getting on a no-fly list wrongly" etc.
I read TFA and I'm not getting the Sony reader as presented, but I for one would be all over a useful e-book reader for $100 right fucking now.
We are talking about all Libyan school-age children - most of them won't have air-conditioned buildings available.
Can anyone please shed some light on the difference (for the user) between a true quad-core and a dual dual-core processor? I expect a quad-core can be cheaper because it is more integrated, but is that it?
can't believe I'm so stupid as to actually run that bomb. System stopped playing mp3 in 20 secs, along with doing most other stuff, but it got a bit better when it maxed out memory and started swapping - had more time for other tasks, somehow, and I managed to kill that shell. System back to normal, I'll just clean up the swap and go on. 8-)
Above the 6k a year, if a company wants to participate in working groups, there's the cost of the time of the participant and the cost of attending meetings, both teleconferences and face-to-face. These costs can easily outweigh the membership fee. And these costs grow linearly with the number of working group participants a member company has.