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by nwatson 15y ago
if touch is not "forward" then at least the mouse is definitely "backward". the ideal PARC machine would have been keyboard + touch, not keyboard + mouse. "touch" is interaction with something approaching the real world as it's been known
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by nwatson 15y ago
Chomsky makes an interesting point about how the U.S. military names weaponry after vanquished foes and their artifacts (e.g., Apache helicopter, Tomahawk missile). So I make this call first: - in 20 years when the U.S. military can
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by nwatson 16y ago
This is case-in-point for centralized log-archival-and-analysis tools like SenSage. No matter how secure you make your infrastructure, in situations like this you want evidence of all activity on your networks, computers, DB's, app servers
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by nwatson 16y ago
I e-mailed a link to a related article from a few months ago ( http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19712-evidence-that-we... ) -- I sent it to some co-workers and also copied my wife. My wife (a psychologist and a Christian) defended the
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by nwatson 16y ago
problem here is we choose to not depend on Brazilian sugar cane ethanol. we instead impose huge import tariffs to protect our possibly net-energy-negative corn ethanol lobby.
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by nwatson 16y ago
A follow-up question regarding REST, transactions, and doing multiple things at the same time ... I see the REST services in the article expose some very fine-grained concepts, e.g., existence of patients, doctors, and "slots", i.e., appoin
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by nwatson 16y ago
That means I'm looking forward to CentOS 6 soon. I hope. QEMU/KVM virtualization is very nice and hopefully I won't need to rely on bleeding edge (though surprisingly stable) Fedora 13+ for a good stock deployment from now on.
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by nwatson 16y ago
Fellow Sun Devil and Computer Systems Engineering grad here. CSE was a great program, got me some great GRE scores, an NSF research fellowship, and a great basis for a career. I hope it's done the same for you. Drop me a line if you'd lik
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by nwatson 16y ago
Assuming the decay from paper-cup-watse -> CO2-and-other-greenhouse-gases is very slow (compared to the regrowth time for a tree) then cutting down trees, turning them into paper cups, and burying the cups is an excellent carbon-sequest
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by nwatson 16y ago
With one strategically looked-over space WSJ says "Android == sh*t". "Oracle's suit, filed in August, is part of a surge in patent complaints in the fast-moving mobile-phone market--with >> Google'shit Android software << a
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In Oracle vs. Google article WSJ states "Android == sh*t"(online.wsj.com)
1 points by nwatson 16y ago|3 comments
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by nwatson 16y ago
skip the video and forget ramen profitability. the real standard is the Costco hot dog. $1.50 for an excellent treat with unlimited soda refills.
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by nwatson 16y ago
This might be the answer to our "depleted ocean fish stock" problem. Feed the bottom of the food chain and we'll have plenty of fish in 5 years.
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by nwatson 16y ago
mistake #1 when trying to understand or explain the Fourier Transform is to discuss the breakdown of f(t) into sine/cosine components. it's much easier to understand in terms of the original e^(i * w * t) waveforms, and the effects of inte
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by nwatson 16y ago
Try SenSage.
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by nwatson 16y ago
If this is 'hosts in use' then discrepancy comes from security concerns. The majority of computers in *.com concerns will be behind firewall and not have publicly exposed names. The .net orgs are more likely to let it all hang out.
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by nwatson 16y ago
I think he built equivalent of a logic circuit to do the arithmetic, but using apparently the simulated mechanical physics within the game. The simulated ropes, levers, pulleys, or whatever, he navigates in the second half are the implemen
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by nwatson 16y ago
"How would you run/debug apps you compiled with VS?" --> Visual Studio could launch or connect to a virtualized iPhone device and let you debug there. That's the approach you use when developing Android apps with Eclipse ... Eclipse co
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by nwatson 16y ago
A single developer looking at their day-to-day needs is going to consider maybe at most 5% of the total market need for Android apps. All developers together doing the same might consider only 40% of that possible market. ... and that pie
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by nwatson 17y ago
7 == representation of divinity 6 == what comes short of divinity, i.e., humankind (the number of man) 666 == emphatic rejection of the influence of the divine in humankind's affairs 42 == 6 * 7, the product of interaction of the divine wit
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by nwatson 17y ago
The US government's Citibank investment is paying off because a bit of that huge stream of government cash/debt flowing into the economy has sloshed into Citi's bowl. The total overall net for the US government and us taxpayers will still
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by nwatson 17y ago
The buzz posts are at: http://www.google.com/profiles/bo.whitehouse.doggy#buzz If you have Android or iPhone Google Maps, navigate on over to the White House. It's real!!??!
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Bo Obama (the White House dog) is now using Google Buzz(picasaweb.google.com)
2 points by nwatson 17y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 17y ago
You can hear NPR audio from the link. Transcript is at http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story... . This was an interesting story I heard a few months back, detailing how: * Yakuza/organized crime figures carry busine
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Underreported Yakuza murders in Japan, FBI liver-transplant-for-info swap [2009](npr.org)
1 points by nwatson 17y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 17y ago
In Japan there's no "murder" without a body. Most yakuza murders don't result in found bodies. Therefore Japan's "low homicide rate". Most of these murders aren't reported. Here's an interesting NPR interview with an American crime repor
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by nwatson 17y ago
SenSage (a log aggregation tool with many security-related features) has used compressed per-column raw data at the lowest level in its distributed storage engine since 2001. Writes are fast, and when reading raw data at the lowest level t
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by nwatson 17y ago
"It's not the people who are evil, but the regime ..." I'm not sure about the North Korean case, but an author argued a few years back in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" that most WWII-era Germans were happy and willing to go along
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China will allow Android cell phones in China even after Google dispute(online.wsj.com)
1 points by nwatson 17y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 17y ago
The cavalier attitude toward correctness comes from "relevance". Much of the truth you have to share isn't relevant to others. Even to other engineers. Presenting a simplified story is best in most situations, even if it doesn't cover th

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