motters

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by motters 16y ago
Paid shills or "astroturfers" seem to be fairly common in other areas of endeavor - especially where there is money or political influence at stake - so I also wouldn't rule out the possibility of it also happening here. One way to unmask
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by motters 16y ago
Destined to become a meme.
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by motters 16y ago
I'm beginning to think that this is what Lanier's "digital maoists" are all about.
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Mark Shuttleworth discusses Unity(youtube.com)
16 points by motters 16y ago|1 comments
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by motters 16y ago
It's a nice idea, except that you're placing an enormous amount of trust in the web site owners not to leak/sell your private commentary to all and sundry. The potential for blackmail with something like this could be huge. Also, if you'r
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by motters 16y ago
Perhaps that's true, and that it's people's perception of what it takes to begin adult life which has changed. Probably there is greater marketing of higher education than ever before.
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by motters 16y ago
I think there are a couple of factors at work here. The first and most obvious is that young adults are more often engaged in higher education, which effectively delays the point at which they enter the "real world". The second is that it
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Debian celebrates its 17th birthday(lists.debian.org)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
"A method of inertially stabilized propulsion by the serialized placement of one supporting appendage in front of another"
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by motters 16y ago
Ditching Flight Simulator was one of the dumbest decisions Microsoft ever made. It's probably one of their best known games, with a hardcore user base.
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by motters 16y ago
Having never used OpenSolaris this is no hardship for me. However, it's looking like Oracle is a company that is quite hostile to open source, so this also raises concerns for what will happen to the likes of OpenOffice and VirtualBox. In
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by motters 16y ago
People like Carl Sagan highlight the need for science evangelists who are good at communicating scientific ideas to the public in terms which are easy to understand. All too often other more dubious kinds of evangelists are far more effect
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by motters 16y ago
With the aging workforce in Japan, Europe and North America telecommuting and telerobotics will mean that people who have physical mobility impairments will still be able to continue in active employment for longer than would previously hav
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by motters 16y ago
GDP per capita has increased linearly in the US over the last few decades. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs217.snc4/39207... The distribution of salaries for the UK looks like this: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sn
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by motters 16y ago
Ten years from now people who dismiss telecommuters are going to look like flat earthers. There are a range of forces which mean that telecommuting and telerobotic working will become more common, such as rising energy prices, environmenta
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by motters 16y ago
This sounds like the old fascist idea that there are groups of people who are genetically inferior and cannot participate in a modern society, so should be sterilized or otherwise removed.
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Upping the CAPTCHA ante(mashable.com)
3 points by motters 16y ago|4 comments
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by motters 16y ago
It's an example of intuition. Also some birds display intuition-like behavior, so this cognitive feature probably goes back a long way. Being able to intuit a solution means imagining a solution (a sort of internal simulation) then formul
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Beagleboard based Dalek with stereo vision(vogon.nfshost.com)
6 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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Solar energy cheaper than nuclear energy(consumerenergyreport.com)
2 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
The core university market seems to be voting with its feet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-10903088
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by motters 16y ago
This is a book which I'm currently reading. On my recessionista budget I found a second hand copy (1980 edition) with a few dodgy falling out pages. My main reasons for wanting to read this were that I say a video a talk by Hofstadter in
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by motters 16y ago
I think Gates is right, and this is something which I've also ranted about in the past. The cost of university education has been increasing, there are an increasing number of people wanting university education and that level of education
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by motters 16y ago
Probably one of their mistakes was not to have interoperability between Wave and Gmail at an early stage. I think they ruled out doing that early on.
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by motters 16y ago
I was also a lone waver for a long time. I think the same happened to many users, so the way in which it was launched should have been different. However, I don't think that the failure can be blamed entirely upon the launch strategy. Pe
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by motters 16y ago
I hope they fix the problem with RecordMyDesktop (or its codecs) in this release. That bug has been quite irritating for people producing YouTube videos.
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by motters 16y ago
I complained about this decision myself. Continuing to insist upon using IE6 puts civil servants and the public whose data is entrusted to them at extremely serious risk of being compromised - i.e. data being lost, stolen or altered by una
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by motters 16y ago
I'm looking at RobotVision to see whether it's something I could use or adapt. http://openslam.org/robotvision.html
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by motters 16y ago
So the obvious question is, why so few females (or so many males) ?
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Schmuck compression(scientopia.org)
2 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments

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