Ugh, that's terrible. I've always hated camera picture downloading software. But I have no idea of current trends, having switched long ago to using a dedicated card reader only. I found a nice little one that sits in the 3.5" bay, but there are plenty of removable USB ones. I recommend them to anyone hating their camera software.
I don't think my 2 year old could manage an etch a sketch, but he's loving his magna-doodle. That thing has been a way bigger success than I thought it would be.
Every time I hear on the radio about efforts to curb college drinking, pushing organizations, dorms, whole campuses to go dry it makes me think that there is going to be a big issue with alcoholism in the 23 ~ 27 yr age range after that. And I don't know about other colleges, but the safety nets were better for me when I was in college than after I graduated. Had to do a lot less driving, as well.
Every once in a while I hear about a responsible drinking program and I think 'bravo'. More common is just discouraging alcohol altogether.
To give script kiddies something to do To create jobs for unemployed IT workers To generate youtube videos of lights doing crazy junk To facilitate the construction of holiday building-wide window-light christmas trees To push people to move off IPv4 So Google can track your movements within your house and sell the info to advertisers So the Government can use them to control your thoughts So mighty USA can crush the manufacture of cheap Chinese light timers So the Japanese can create Tamagotchi lightbulbs (turn it on every day to keep it happy!) So that it can automatically phone home for firmware updates
AND FINALLY: IT'S PURE SCIENCE! YOU WOULDN'T ASK WHY THE SPACE SHUTTLE, WOULD YOU? YOU KNOW WE GOT TEFLON FROM THE SPACE PROGRAM!!!eleventy!1!
Someone should just hack one together. Why even bring the kinect into it? The motion tracking PhD project that was on here a the other week (wasn't it released open source?), or one of the packages that people in comments claimed rendered it no big deal, plus a usb webcam and an atom powered computer with a IR interface should render this possible for a determined hacker. Shouldn't it? At least as far as channel + / -, Volume + / -, and input increment goes.
Sounds like a nice bag of hacker-points just waiting to be claimed. Probably get you a whole basket of page views on your blog.
You can see here that the tax rates on top earners dropped significantly in the '80's. Previous to that, why pay someone a lot of money? They would only benefit from a small portion of it, the rest would go to taxes. I find myself thinking that money now going into executive pocketbooks used to be invested in the corporate structure. Maybe in R&D, maybe elsewhere.
And I guess hope that 2004 is the version that your co-workers decided to keep as well? And that you don't have to get any new licenses because a new member joined your team? B/C each version is fairly significantly incompatible with the others. So says the article.
Mod parent up. To paraphrase the Matrix: What good is the source code, if you are unable to compile and install it?
The solution of choice for users would not be Google holding more control back for itself, but passing control to users rather than carriers. Not that this is necessarily viable in either a technical or economic sense.
Huh. So you say they dumped water all over the radioactive disaster with helicopters, firetrucks, a big concrete pump truck, and now the basement of the reactor is filled with radioactive water?
I have been thinking lately that perhaps the increasing amount of things to be known, the specialization available in every area, makes it impossible to be more than marginally informed on a handful of subjects. This isn't so much an original thought. Recently, I've been thinking that this has been more successfully exploited that maybe in the past. Or perhaps it isn't so much a malicious and calculated attack, as much as the Information Superhighway having just increased the flow without improving the signal to noise ratio. Not sure on the malicious act / natural effect thing. Anyway, I once thought the internet would make everyone so much more informed, but now I'm starting to see that it's more difficult than that. I've been wondering how we can get past that. That's my thought.
There is an aspect which I am curious about: carrying information.
I have understood in some of the screwing-around-with-the-speed-of-light research that while they can make signals look like they are departing from the C speed limit, it turns out that no information is transferable in these unusual cases. (EG - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Phase_velocities_above_c )
The differentiation between a headline saying 'X is faster than light!!1!' and info about actual signal transfer can be non-intuitive, so I have to wonder: Is the transfer of information necessarily implied by the proposal here?
From TFA: Men don't have spiny penises or sensory whiskers on their faces because some DNA got deleted. Likewise some brain growth. Couple of researchers decided to look at what humans are missing relative to chimps, as opposed to what we have that is extra. They found a buncha stuff but don't really know what it means.
Except that one area involves penile spines and sensory whiskers. Another area has to do with brain growth.
Ah, you are correct, I think. Still, these stores drive me crazy. What is it, then? Perhaps it's the marketing that comes along with it. Maybe it's having to run an extra application. Or maybe it's the liberties that they seem to take with my computer.
Everyone seems to be coming up with something like this. And I think it's all to encourage you to stay within the owner's ecosystem where they make the rules and skim the profits of everything that comes through.
Apple iStore started it. Then Steam. GamesForWindowsLive is an obvious ripoff. Apple is offering more and more stuff, Facebook wants to start offering credits or something like that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Credits App Stores, Paypal, etc. it's the wave of the future.
Everyone wants to be the broker through which you do all your stuff. I kinda hope that they all screw off and drop dead. I don't need any more middle men between me and my destination.
Maybe the marketplaces will proliferate to the extent that none of them can become truly mandatory. Or maybe one day you'll choose between the 300 different app markets that do all sorts of shit and you'll have to be careful to shop out the one with the best terms. Or maybe you'll have to join a bunch of them (that product you just bought requires you to join another one, please generate ANOTHER unique username and password!) and you'll have to manage all 300 digital identities.
I think that the internet probably exerted pressure in that direction, but I think the move started before video distribution over the internet was really viable.
I actually feel like MTV started ditching videos in the late 80's. Wikipedia seems to agree.
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Ugh, that's terrible. I've always hated camera picture downloading software. But I have no idea of current trends, having switched long ago to using a dedicated card reader only. I found a nice little one that sits in the 3.5" bay, but there are plenty of removable USB ones. I recommend them to anyone hating their camera software.
My kid can't reach the glass in his legally mandated safety seat.
I don't think my 2 year old could manage an etch a sketch, but he's loving his magna-doodle. That thing has been a way bigger success than I thought it would be.
it seems the fans/fanboys (and girls) keep throwing money towards him
Doesn't seem like there are many fanboys left around here!
Why would a true AI want to let you see its source code?
For that matter, why would a true AI want to educate your child?
How to defeat the computer eye without defacing your plate? Try to wash it out with IR? Something else?
Would the scanner stop the cops every time there was a misread?
It's also drinking.
Every time I hear on the radio about efforts to curb college drinking, pushing organizations, dorms, whole campuses to go dry it makes me think that there is going to be a big issue with alcoholism in the 23 ~ 27 yr age range after that. And I don't know about other colleges, but the safety nets were better for me when I was in college than after I graduated. Had to do a lot less driving, as well.
Every once in a while I hear about a responsible drinking program and I think 'bravo'. More common is just discouraging alcohol altogether.
Advertisement:
Here, have a smell of our food or personal scent product, wouldn't you like to buy it?
Advertisers are the only people I can imagine wanting something like this.
I really want a button ... that brings up a full trace to the person who initiated the message...
You and Gaddafi both.
Why IP Address Lightbulbs:
To give script kiddies something to do
To create jobs for unemployed IT workers
To generate youtube videos of lights doing crazy junk
To facilitate the construction of holiday building-wide window-light christmas trees
To push people to move off IPv4
So Google can track your movements within your house and sell the info to advertisers
So the Government can use them to control your thoughts
So mighty USA can crush the manufacture of cheap Chinese light timers
So the Japanese can create Tamagotchi lightbulbs (turn it on every day to keep it happy!)
So that it can automatically phone home for firmware updates
AND FINALLY:
IT'S PURE SCIENCE! YOU WOULDN'T ASK WHY THE SPACE SHUTTLE, WOULD YOU? YOU KNOW WE GOT TEFLON FROM THE SPACE PROGRAM!!!eleventy!1!
Someone should just hack one together. Why even bring the kinect into it? The motion tracking PhD project that was on here a the other week (wasn't it released open source?), or one of the packages that people in comments claimed rendered it no big deal, plus a usb webcam and an atom powered computer with a IR interface should render this possible for a determined hacker. Shouldn't it? At least as far as channel + / -, Volume + / -, and input increment goes.
Sounds like a nice bag of hacker-points just waiting to be claimed. Probably get you a whole basket of page views on your blog.
An excellent link you have provided, thank you.
I've been formulating the position current income disparity is a result of the decrease in tax rate for the top tax bracket. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#History_of_federal_income_tax
You can see here that the tax rates on top earners dropped significantly in the '80's. Previous to that, why pay someone a lot of money? They would only benefit from a small portion of it, the rest would go to taxes. I find myself thinking that money now going into executive pocketbooks used to be invested in the corporate structure. Maybe in R&D, maybe elsewhere.
And I guess hope that 2004 is the version that your co-workers decided to keep as well? And that you don't have to get any new licenses because a new member joined your team? B/C each version is fairly significantly incompatible with the others. So says the article.
Mod parent up. To paraphrase the Matrix: What good is the source code, if you are unable to compile and install it?
The solution of choice for users would not be Google holding more control back for itself, but passing control to users rather than carriers. Not that this is necessarily viable in either a technical or economic sense.
*glances involuntarily at Bernard*...
Arrrrg! Freaking Epsilons! Never send an Epsilon to do Alpha work, I guess.
Huh. So you say they dumped water all over the radioactive disaster with helicopters, firetrucks, a big concrete pump truck, and now the basement of the reactor is filled with radioactive water?
Headline: Post Pushes Back Known Wise-Ass Comments About Texas Date For Slashdot Story
I have been thinking lately that perhaps the increasing amount of things to be known, the specialization available in every area, makes it impossible to be more than marginally informed on a handful of subjects. This isn't so much an original thought. Recently, I've been thinking that this has been more successfully exploited that maybe in the past. Or perhaps it isn't so much a malicious and calculated attack, as much as the Information Superhighway having just increased the flow without improving the signal to noise ratio. Not sure on the malicious act / natural effect thing. Anyway, I once thought the internet would make everyone so much more informed, but now I'm starting to see that it's more difficult than that. I've been wondering how we can get past that. That's my thought.
There is an aspect which I am curious about:
carrying information.
I have understood in some of the screwing-around-with-the-speed-of-light research that while they can make signals look like they are departing from the C speed limit, it turns out that no information is transferable in these unusual cases. (EG - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Phase_velocities_above_c )
The differentiation between a headline saying 'X is faster than light!!1!' and info about actual signal transfer can be non-intuitive, so I have to wonder: Is the transfer of information necessarily implied by the proposal here?
From TFA: Men don't have spiny penises or sensory whiskers on their faces because some DNA got deleted. Likewise some brain growth. Couple of researchers decided to look at what humans are missing relative to chimps, as opposed to what we have that is extra. They found a buncha stuff but don't really know what it means.
Except that one area involves penile spines and sensory whiskers. Another area has to do with brain growth.
Not a lot of actual info here.
Ah, you are correct, I think. Still, these stores drive me crazy. What is it, then? Perhaps it's the marketing that comes along with it. Maybe it's having to run an extra application. Or maybe it's the liberties that they seem to take with my computer.
Everyone seems to be coming up with something like this. And I think it's all to encourage you to stay within the owner's ecosystem where they make the rules and skim the profits of everything that comes through.
Apple iStore started it.
Then Steam. GamesForWindowsLive is an obvious ripoff. Apple is offering more and more stuff, Facebook wants to start offering credits or something like that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Credits App Stores, Paypal, etc. it's the wave of the future.
Everyone wants to be the broker through which you do all your stuff. I kinda hope that they all screw off and drop dead. I don't need any more middle men between me and my destination.
Maybe the marketplaces will proliferate to the extent that none of them can become truly mandatory. Or maybe one day you'll choose between the 300 different app markets that do all sorts of shit and you'll have to be careful to shop out the one with the best terms. Or maybe you'll have to join a bunch of them (that product you just bought requires you to join another one, please generate ANOTHER unique username and password!) and you'll have to manage all 300 digital identities.
Perhaps you can see how excited I am.
Technological cheetah, you mean?
I think that the internet probably exerted pressure in that direction, but I think the move started before video distribution over the internet was really viable.
I actually feel like MTV started ditching videos in the late 80's. Wikipedia seems to agree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV#First_format_evolution