Well, when it comes down to it, surface computing will not be optimal for the typical paradigms that we have grown to love/hate with keyboard/mouse interaction. A single-touch device is basically applying/mapping an already solid interface (the mouse) to a lesser approach. The whole point of multi-touch technology is to break away from the typical one-process-at-a-time task, and move into the realm of a computing adapting itself to the user's preferences.
I've had the chance to play around with the MS surface table... It's true that there isn't much there besides (for me anyway, an advanced computer user) the flash. However, watching the more typical user (and especially kids) interact with it, was a blast. Most multiplayer games require separate controller-type gameplay, but with surface we had our game immersed into a combined space.
In short, I think that multi-touch is a much better approach to computational collaboration that the single node per user approach... but one has to realize that it's still in its infantile state (for a typical, off-the-street user).
I could get charged with being a bank robber, then make a deal where I agree to only rob a small bit from banks, and then I'd demand compensation for loss of earnings.
From the sound of it, it's exactly the opposite of that. The EU is basically demanding MS to hand over their IP for free. This is much like someone going to a bank and demanding that they hand over the money for free, for sake that they are not willing to work for the money instead. There simply isn't an excuse for this blatant attempted robbery in the name of socialism; production without compenstation is not something that should ever be forced onto anyone.
Really, I like writing. I think a term paper provides a convenient package by which to express what one has learned over the course of a semester.
Anyone plagiarizing should not be in class anyway.
Really, I like writing. I think a term paper provides a neat, convenient package by which to express what one has learned over the course of a semester.
Anyone plagiarizing should not be in class (or/. for that matter) anyway!
This does seem like old news and there have been some development at MS labs along with Flicker that totally top the cake on this google ap (albeit it's not released to the public to submit photos yet). Here's a video of the Photosynth application that I've been unable to find on the offical site: MS Photosynth
Actually it's the silk protein that is produced in the goat's milk. The process of creating the silk for the web deals with pushing it through (varying the amount of water mixed with it) the silk sac. The gene (and protein) sequence for the silk protein is known, but the actually process of making it into a web is still in the R&D department. Sorry if the parent already said this.. I'm too lazy to look.:P
Have you got any references? Just the obscure recollection of something mentioned in lecture a few years ago... however, these 'predictions' are all a bit wary...as they have yet to be tested.... 114 seems to be a step in the right direction. I'll crack open my school books/papers/notes sometime and if I find anything, I'll be sure to forward it to you.
The predicted region of stability is centred on element 114 (sometimes known as Eka-lead), which is on the opposide side of the diagram to the superactinde branch. True. However 114 isn't really stable... the superactinde branch is supposed to represent heavy elements that are predicted to be stable on the order of years, or the red peak of the island (even if it looks like the two diagram don't align up right). Good observation though, and honestly I'm not 100% confident about this topic; I only have a BS in chem.
For those of you who aren't theoretical physicists/chemists, another visualization for this Island of Stability is shown in a spiral periodic table. The predicted region of heavy elements that might be stable are labeled superlactindes and come off as a third arm.
I doubt that an officer will ever be allowed to draw blood onsite for a suspected drug use. The reason for this is there are regulations (JACHO et al.) that require back-up medical personal in case of an emergency associated with the needle stick (puncturing an artery, anaphylaxis shock etc). --not to mention, field draws aren't very sterile places to be doing 'routine' (non-life threatening) procedures. Urine samples are another story, but they bring up indecent exposure claims.
Reading the comments of the article, "Jake" suggests that borg refers to borg.google.com, a very important internal subdomain. (James Bradbury)
A quick search revealed:
Google Finance Leaks Version Two Information (Search Engine Watch Blog, 2006-07-21) Garett Rogers stumbled upon a link in Google Finance at the top right corner that said "v2 (test)" in red font. The link points to http://0.frontend-live.sfe.scrooge.hs.borg.google. com/finance, which seems to not be accessible from my location, or outside of Google's network. Notice the sign of the borg again? borg.google.com from before. So, now we have rumors that Google is going to be launching a version two of Google Finance soon. Maybe it includes stock indices from other worlds?:)... (http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/seo-news/topic -16812.htm)
Thanks for the info, and I hope you have a great week!
Ken
Subject: New.jpg emergency data
As a resident of Seattle, a veteran of the Iraqi war, a citizen of this country and an educated man, I am completely appalled and disgusted to this new format change of emergency data to "stop terrorists from using Seattle911.com's services."
In fact THIS IS ILLEGAL under RCW 42.56.030! I am informing you that if this action continues to prevent the collection of public data to be used in public interest, I will file a class action lawsuit against the city of Seattle for evading the RCW.
But none of those million years were we exposed to some of the chemicals/proteins/etc that are being geneticly engineered into foods. Although I think the outrage of some against bioengineered food is unjustified, there are definately risks that need to be thoroughly evaluated.
Well yes and no... Scientists don't make new proteins and put them into food; they basically splice already known proteins into other organisms. We hve already been exposed to the majority of these proteins, through natural occurances. GM foods are just more "pure" in a sense that we better know what is actually being produced. Cross breading and radiation exposure (done for many many years and the plant still being considered "natural" afterwards) is a much more crude method. In fact, the FDA guidelines for GM foods ensure that they are tested *much* more than natural foods. It's just that the media focuses on the very few bad cases that have occured.
Let's just try to build a fair society where everyone has an equal chance to succeed.
Well, I don't think it's fair that I'm much shorter than the average basketball player. This puts me at a disadvantage to compete for an NBA contract; it is unfair... granted this is a trivial example, however it's obvious that human traits (height, build, beauty, intelligence etc) vary through some distribution. Ignoring that distribution is what "No Child Left Behind" does.. though if it were implemented in a better way, there might be room for some leveling, while embracing the top part of the student cohort. However, its title would need to reflect this implementation.
Ensuring that everyone has an equal start sounds like a noble statement, but it contradicts a stratified society. Someone has to be a graveyard gas station attendant, a garbage man etc. I think the misconception of equality is rooted by the phrase, "all men are created equal." The notion of equality referring that phrase refers to is fundamental rights as a citizen (or human). To argue that it should be applied to a socioeconomic model is the same as arguing that we need to chop off the legs of the tall NBA players to make them even; it's nonsensical.
This is actually a pretty interesting break-through, given that carbon nano-tubes (the discovery of bucky balls lead to the formations of them) are somewhat limited in their capabilities to form certain angles. I'm wondering how stable these 'deformations' are in accord to the whole system... as bucky balls are very stable.
As a Chemistry major, I was interested to know that there are more than just one way to explore the properties of the elements. A few examples can be found here: http://www.wou.edu/las/physci/ch412/alttable.htm. I wonder if any of these guys could be made into some type of artwork...
It's actually a remarkable fact that we will be able to tell our grandchildren that, "back when I was your age, we learned that there were nine planets in the solar system."
Hopefully by then, however, there will be a colony on mars and a teraton more extrasolar planets known.
I disagree with you wholeheartedly. Last I heard, China was a communist state. It isn't capitalism that is causing this high work to time ratio; it's a mixture of things to include overpopulation, unstable economies, high demand for work but short supply and inadequate natural resources. The capitalist monsters you are referring to got to their status by utilizing their abilities, not by simply submitting to the fact that since they're alive they ought to be showered in riches.
Yes, their are inequalities in any stratified social structure, but they all come down to the fact that every life-form must struggle to survive and reproduce. I believe you would prefer a socialist society. However, it does not reward ability, but rather treats everyone as feudal serfs. I for one welcome a reward-based society founded on ability, even if sometimes it seems that such ability goes unrecognized; the alternate is far worse.
I see this design could have some uses with the distribution of medication and supplies in hospitals. It could allow the medical staff greater security to the possibility of someone using their password to steal narcotics, etc.
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Well, when it comes down to it, surface computing will not be optimal for the typical paradigms that we have grown to love/hate with keyboard/mouse interaction. A single-touch device is basically applying/mapping an already solid interface (the mouse) to a lesser approach. The whole point of multi-touch technology is to break away from the typical one-process-at-a-time task, and move into the realm of a computing adapting itself to the user's preferences.
I've had the chance to play around with the MS surface table... It's true that there isn't much there besides (for me anyway, an advanced computer user) the flash. However, watching the more typical user (and especially kids) interact with it, was a blast. Most multiplayer games require separate controller-type gameplay, but with surface we had our game immersed into a combined space.
In short, I think that multi-touch is a much better approach to computational collaboration that the single node per user approach... but one has to realize that it's still in its infantile state (for a typical, off-the-street user).
Finally there's a hard piece of work that demostrates the usefulness of String Theory.... oh wait.... it doesn't.
Some men are longer than others....I guess
Sounds like a strange way to run the Schrödinger cat experiment.... any interesting results?
From the sound of it, it's exactly the opposite of that. The EU is basically demanding MS to hand over their IP for free. This is much like someone going to a bank and demanding that they hand over the money for free, for sake that they are not willing to work for the money instead. There simply isn't an excuse for this blatant attempted robbery in the name of socialism; production without compenstation is not something that should ever be forced onto anyone.
Anyone plagiarizing should not be in class anyway.
Really, I like writing. I think a term paper provides a neat, convenient package by which to express what one has learned over the course of a semester.
Anyone plagiarizing should not be in class (or
This does seem like old news and there have been some development at MS labs along with Flicker that totally top the cake on this google ap (albeit it's not released to the public to submit photos yet). Here's a video of the Photosynth application that I've been unable to find on the offical site: MS Photosynth
Why not start a new lunar religion? It seems like a natural method as most religions are geocentric anyway.
Actually it's the silk protein that is produced in the goat's milk. The process of creating the silk for the web deals with pushing it through (varying the amount of water mixed with it) the silk sac. The gene (and protein) sequence for the silk protein is known, but the actually process of making it into a web is still in the R&D department. Sorry if the parent already said this.. I'm too lazy to look. :P
For those of you who aren't theoretical physicists/chemists, another visualization for this Island of Stability is shown in a spiral periodic table. The predicted region of heavy elements that might be stable are labeled superlactindes and come off as a third arm.
I doubt that an officer will ever be allowed to draw blood onsite for a suspected drug use. The reason for this is there are regulations (JACHO et al.) that require back-up medical personal in case of an emergency associated with the needle stick (puncturing an artery, anaphylaxis shock etc). --not to mention, field draws aren't very sterile places to be doing 'routine' (non-life threatening) procedures. Urine samples are another story, but they bring up indecent exposure claims.
WARNING link contains nudity!!!!!!!!!!!
Reading the comments of the article, "Jake" suggests that borg refers to borg.google.com, a very important internal subdomain. (James Bradbury)
A quick search revealed:
Google Finance Leaks Version Two Information (Search Engine Watch Blog, 2006-07-21). com/finance, which seems to not be accessible from my location, or outside of Google's network. Notice the sign of the borg again? borg.google.com from before. So, now we have rumors that Google is going to be launching a version two of Google Finance soon. Maybe it includes stock indices from other worlds? :)... (http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/seo-news/topic -16812.htm)
Garett Rogers stumbled upon a link in Google Finance at the top right corner that said "v2 (test)" in red font. The link points to http://0.frontend-live.sfe.scrooge.hs.borg.google
I found this to be a little funny as well.
Below is my forwarded email to the Seattle Fire Dept. http://www.seattle.gov/fire/contact/contactForm.as p Maybe you can get the pull to get more concerned residents to do the same?
Thanks for the info, and I hope you have a great week! Ken
Subject: New .jpg emergency data
As a resident of Seattle, a veteran of the Iraqi war, a citizen of this country and an educated man, I am completely appalled and disgusted to this new format change of emergency data to "stop terrorists from using Seattle911.com's services."
In fact THIS IS ILLEGAL under RCW 42.56.030! I am informing you that if this action continues to prevent the collection of public data to be used in public interest, I will file a class action lawsuit against the city of Seattle for evading the RCW.
Sincerely, Kenneth Herrington
But none of those million years were we exposed to some of the chemicals/proteins/etc that are being geneticly engineered into foods. Although I think the outrage of some against bioengineered food is unjustified, there are definately risks that need to be thoroughly evaluated.
Well yes and no... Scientists don't make new proteins and put them into food; they basically splice already known proteins into other organisms. We hve already been exposed to the majority of these proteins, through natural occurances. GM foods are just more "pure" in a sense that we better know what is actually being produced. Cross breading and radiation exposure (done for many many years and the plant still being considered "natural" afterwards) is a much more crude method. In fact, the FDA guidelines for GM foods ensure that they are tested *much* more than natural foods. It's just that the media focuses on the very few bad cases that have occured.
Let's just try to build a fair society where everyone has an equal chance to succeed.
Well, I don't think it's fair that I'm much shorter than the average basketball player. This puts me at a disadvantage to compete for an NBA contract; it is unfair... granted this is a trivial example, however it's obvious that human traits (height, build, beauty, intelligence etc) vary through some distribution. Ignoring that distribution is what "No Child Left Behind" does.. though if it were implemented in a better way, there might be room for some leveling, while embracing the top part of the student cohort. However, its title would need to reflect this implementation.
Ensuring that everyone has an equal start sounds like a noble statement, but it contradicts a stratified society. Someone has to be a graveyard gas station attendant, a garbage man etc. I think the misconception of equality is rooted by the phrase, "all men are created equal." The notion of equality referring that phrase refers to is fundamental rights as a citizen (or human). To argue that it should be applied to a socioeconomic model is the same as arguing that we need to chop off the legs of the tall NBA players to make them even; it's nonsensical.
This is actually a pretty interesting break-through, given that carbon nano-tubes (the discovery of bucky balls lead to the formations of them) are somewhat limited in their capabilities to form certain angles. I'm wondering how stable these 'deformations' are in accord to the whole system... as bucky balls are very stable.
naa... This robot definitely has a shitty job....
As a Chemistry major, I was interested to know that there are more than just one way to explore the properties of the elements. A few examples can be found here: http://www.wou.edu/las/physci/ch412/alttable.htm. I wonder if any of these guys could be made into some type of artwork...
It's actually a remarkable fact that we will be able to tell our grandchildren that, "back when I was your age, we learned that there were nine planets in the solar system."
Hopefully by then, however, there will be a colony on mars and a teraton more extrasolar planets known.
I disagree with you wholeheartedly. Last I heard, China was a communist state. It isn't capitalism that is causing this high work to time ratio; it's a mixture of things to include overpopulation, unstable economies, high demand for work but short supply and inadequate natural resources. The capitalist monsters you are referring to got to their status by utilizing their abilities, not by simply submitting to the fact that since they're alive they ought to be showered in riches.
Yes, their are inequalities in any stratified social structure, but they all come down to the fact that every life-form must struggle to survive and reproduce. I believe you would prefer a socialist society. However, it does not reward ability, but rather treats everyone as feudal serfs. I for one welcome a reward-based society founded on ability, even if sometimes it seems that such ability goes unrecognized; the alternate is far worse.
So, does this mean that the creators of malware/viruses/spyware are going to be classified as terrorists?
I see this design could have some uses with the distribution of medication and supplies in hospitals. It could allow the medical staff greater security to the possibility of someone using their password to steal narcotics, etc.