Headline seems a bit sensationalists, they're not reading minds, they MEASURING STRESS.
Well, they are using the colour of your forehead to determine how many times you have whacked your head into the screen in desperation recently, which probably correlates well with your stress level.
I agree, but if you think about it, it's really a win-win for Carnegie Mellon. Either way, they get the text translated.
I think the GP's worry is that the spammers use OCR and there are a lot of them, so the two challenges you are relying on for checking both get answered by the same OCR spambot code - so they could match even though they're wrong.
but it is a mess. When I upgraded from Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy my linksys 11b card stopped working. That doesn't inspire confidence. But I went out and bought an Asus card (11g this time) which said it supported linux on the side of the box. That worked with WEP, but there were still some hoops to jump through to get WPA working.
Now all laptops come with built in wifi things are even harder. I really don't want to be choosing my laptop based on what wifi chipset it uses (or having a card sticking out the side just because I can't get the internal wifi to work).
MS gets stung for millions, yeah! But lawyers get millions, boo! But MS gets stung for millions, yeah! But lawyers get millions, boo! But... head explodes.
To my knowledge (accumulated from the popular press and talking to some folks at Apple in addition to being a shareholder) is that Apple makes almost nothing on the sale of the music itself
Well I don't know what deals the majors record labels have done, but for indie musicians using aggregator services like tunecore, Apple keep 29c per 99c song sold. Does the iTunes store really cost that much to run? I think they must be making money.
I had the same problem and managed to work round it by moving the toolbars to the side which gave me just enough room to click the forward button. But really there is no reason for that window to be so big.
This has 4 dual core CPUs - 8 cores. That's the same as a MacPro or Dual Quad code Xeon PC who's cores are more powerful and which have much better communication between CPUs. And they have cases;)
Here's the whole paragraph that that blogger selectively quotes from:
Google claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Google services. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through Google services and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, modify, publish and distribute such Content on Google services for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Google services. Google reserves the right to syndicate Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Google services and use that Content in connection with any service offered by Google. Google furthermore reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Content in its sole discretion.
I think it is meant to mean that if you submit content to Google which you intend to be displayed to the public, you um, give them the right to display it to the public however they choose, which is pretty standard stuff. But I'm not sure it actually does say that.
The only solution I can see is to release tracks in two versions, one compressed to an inch of its life so it sound the same volume as everything else, and another with dynamics for those people who are going to listen to the album all in one go in an environment without loads of background noise.
Just releasing tracks that are much quieter than the current standard is going to be annoying for a lot of listeners.
I saw that BBC headline, but I didn't read the article because it sounded like a joke story... it's clever, but didn't do it's job (make me read the story).
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How many minutes of lawyer time does that buy?
I find advertising pretty off-putting in the real world too. Just another reason to stay in the basement...
Phew, being "fairly realistic" is pretty high up my list of desirable features for any air transportation I use.
Headline seems a bit sensationalists, they're not reading minds, they MEASURING STRESS.
Well, they are using the colour of your forehead to determine how many times you have whacked your head into the screen in desperation recently, which probably correlates well with your stress level.
Ever, ever, ever. Guess I should have previewed that one.
You just have to look at it from programmer's point of view.
:)
That might be the best UI insult I have every seen
I agree, but if you think about it, it's really a win-win for Carnegie Mellon. Either way, they get the text translated.
I think the GP's worry is that the spammers use OCR and there are a lot of them, so the two challenges you are relying on for checking both get answered by the same OCR spambot code - so they could match even though they're wrong.
And that's going to happen just after the Porcine Aviation Assocation makes WiFi actually run at the speeds that it says in the headlines.
but it is a mess. When I upgraded from Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy my linksys 11b card stopped working. That doesn't inspire confidence. But I went out and bought an Asus card (11g this time) which said it supported linux on the side of the box. That worked with WEP, but there were still some hoops to jump through to get WPA working.
Now all laptops come with built in wifi things are even harder. I really don't want to be choosing my laptop based on what wifi chipset it uses (or having a card sticking out the side just because I can't get the internal wifi to work).
When you go out of the country, just yank the battery out.
Oh, wait...
Oh no! my biting satirical comment on wikipedia as a source of all knowledge has been modded down!! I AM WASTED ON YOU SLASHDOT!
Don't worry, I'm joking. Again.
Can't they just check Wikipedia?
MS gets stung for millions, yeah! But lawyers get millions, boo! But MS gets stung for millions, yeah! But lawyers get millions, boo! But... head explodes.
So they'll be spending the next couple of days catching up on their e-mail and a backlog of facebook stuff.
To my knowledge (accumulated from the popular press and talking to some folks at Apple in addition to being a shareholder) is that Apple makes almost nothing on the sale of the music itself
Well I don't know what deals the majors record labels have done, but for indie musicians using aggregator services like tunecore, Apple keep 29c per 99c song sold. Does the iTunes store really cost that much to run? I think they must be making money.
I had the same problem and managed to work round it by moving the toolbars to the side which gave me just enough room to click the forward button. But really there is no reason for that window to be so big.
ffs, how is that flamebait? Isn't it true? Did I overlook something?
This has 4 dual core CPUs - 8 cores. That's the same as a MacPro or Dual Quad code Xeon PC who's cores are more powerful and which have much better communication between CPUs. And they have cases ;)
So a Dual Quad core Xeon a super computer too?
Don't worry, they are working on a rain powered version for the UK.
I think it is meant to mean that if you submit content to Google which you intend to be displayed to the public, you um, give them the right to display it to the public however they choose, which is pretty standard stuff. But I'm not sure it actually does say that.
It would be nice if Slashdot added a feature in which a post could be modded down enough that it was actually deleted (lazy deletion at least)
I think doing that would screw up the research of future generations of archaeologists studying privative herds of geeks.
The unit is dollars, to measure it: all stop working for a quarter and see ho the business performs compared to a normal quarter.
:)
Well, it's worth a shot anyway
Just releasing tracks that are much quieter than the current standard is going to be annoying for a lot of listeners.
My prior art told me yesterday.
I like the BBC headline better.
I saw that BBC headline, but I didn't read the article because it sounded like a joke story... it's clever, but didn't do it's job (make me read the story).