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Submission + - Nexus 7... not so much

Submitted by nerdpocalypse on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @09:20PM

nerdpocalypse writes: Google rushed a little fast on shipping out the Nexus 7. Many failed on start up, The customer service (required both for troubleshooting and returns ?!?) experienced a bottle neck lasting on average over 3 hrs to get through.

The required 15% restocking fee on failed product doubtless will be profitable !

Submission + - Space X Mission Highlights Video | Dragon Makes History (spaceindustrynews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @09:17PM

An anonymous reader writes: On May 25, 2012, SpaceX made history when the Dragon spacecraft became the first privately developed vehicle in history to successfully attach to the International Space Station. Previously only four governments — the United States, Russia, Japan and the European Space Agency — had achieved this feat.

Submission + - NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @08:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: In a bizarre turn of events, the Senate would prefer that the DoD use software not written by the government for the government.

Submission + - Google declares war on free clicks (bgr.com)

Submitted by redkemper on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @03:38PM

redkemper writes: Google is an advertising company first and foremost, but the big revenue the company sees from ads is funding the rest of the company’s efforts — efforts that have brought us great products and services like Gmail, Google Maps and the company’s new Nexus 7 tablet. Search remains Google’s core product, of course, and countless businesses are sustained by traffic generated by Google searches. As such, it’s no mystery that advertising is Google’s biggest revenue generator by a landslide. Google has made moves recently to promote clicks on paid ads rather than organically surfaced results, and a new study reveals that Google’s efforts have had quite an impact...

Submission + - Penny Arcade Sells Out (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by

sanosuke001

on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @02:07PM

sanosuke001 writes: "Penny Arcade has taken the crowdfunding idea from the other direction; try to fund an existing, and already successful, operation via their fans. With 29 days to go they have already passed their initial goal of $250,000 USD and are on their way to reaching some very interesting stretch goals including new Lookouts and Automata strips, an ad-free penny-arcade.com, revived podcast, and my personal favorite: Jerry Holkins cosplay which will be decided on by the fans.

They will be giving out some pledge goodies like t-shirts, autographed prints, digital versions of their first two books, Stream codes for Rainslick Precipice of Darkness Episode 3. For those with deep pockets: promises of twitter following, re-tweeting, an internship for a day, hang-outs with the PA crew, and even a shirt-of-the-month club, just to name a few."

Submission + - "Great news guys we won ......um.... HEYYYY!!!" (bbc.com)

Submitted by

nerdpocalypse

on Monday July 09, 2012 @08:20PM

nerdpocalypse writes: "In a classic goodnews/badnews situation, Samsung won the right to again sell its tablet in the UK and Apple's design trademark infringement suit was quashed. The bad news....the judge says there's no infringement because the Samsung tablet "isn't cool"."

Submission + - Russian Wikipedia shutters in protest of Internet Blacklist plans (en.ria.ru)

Submitted by

decora

on Monday July 09, 2012 @08:00PM

decora writes: "If you visit Russian Wikipedia today you will be forgiven for thinking the entire site has crashed. It is not a crash, but a protest of the Russian State Duma's Bill 89417-6 According to Ria Novosti, the bill is "proposing a unified digital blacklist of all websites containing pornography, drug ads and promoting suicide or extremist ideas." Russian Wikipedia's main page has been replaced with a redacted logo and a protest text, part of which says "The Wikipedia community protests against censorship, dangerous to free knowledge, open to all mankind. We ask you to support us in opposing this bill" (translation by Google Translate)"

Submission + - Winscape now with Kinect tracking (rationalcraft.com)

Submitted by

hoagaboom

on Monday July 09, 2012 @07:58PM

hoagaboom writes: "The Wii Remote and IR necklace tracking combo was clumsy, at best. Now with tracking via the Kinect Sensor, the Winscape is much more user friendly. New features also include support for up to 6 displays and 4K video playback for much better resolution. The demo video also experiments with cubicle and marketing applications."

Submission + - wow, that global warming sh@t was, like, real ?!? (cringely.com)

Submitted by

nerdpocalypse

on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @09:24AM

nerdpocalypse writes: "Yes, global warming may interrupt your video game playing and, when it does it can then be considered a fact.

Sadly, one of many unfortunate biproducts of our evolution has been an overwheening fondness for waterfront property. This gets hit first with increasing sea levels and, probably, increasing storms. Computers use a lot of fiddly bits, some of which are going to be made in hazardous spots.
for much more, see
www.nerdpocalypse.net/climate"

Submission + - Steve Jobs Movie (cringely.com)

Submitted by

nerdpocalypse

on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @08:15AM

nerdpocalypse writes: "Robert Cringely had probably the best Steve Jobs interview sitting on his shelf. It seems a good time for a retrospective and releasing it since it can't be superseded and made irrelevant. Looking at the amount of money/time/effort/life involved to get it spiffied and into theatres, one can see why Mr. Cringely did many other useful things instead up til now.
We thank him."

Submission + - Kindle Fire Rooted (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by Ogre332 on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @07:59AM

Ogre332 writes: It's been just one day since Amazon's flagship Android tablet began shipping to consumers, and less than a week since the first review units were sent out.Yet the device has already been taken apart and rooted, thanks to the website iFixit.

Submission + - RIP Steve

Submitted by

nerdpocalypse

on Monday October 10, 2011 @08:27AM

nerdpocalypse writes: "nothing. Just a space for people to comment

tribute album
http://www.nerdpocalypse.net/tribute%20album.html"

Comment marker for discretion (Score 1) 196

by nerdpocalypse on Saturday September 24, 2011 @09:20AM (#37501228) Attached to: Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check

And nobody is making it illegal nor very difficult to make an entirely fake online persona. Personally, most jobs I have had require a certain amount of social IQ*, this is a marker for people lacking that skill set. If my employees are either total party-tards or unable to put up a professional artificial front, they are really dangerous to me and my business. *LYING.

Submission + - diy electronic medical records

Submitted by nerdpocalypse on Monday November 22, 2010 @04:00PM

nerdpocalypse writes: previously mentioned at
http://www.slate.com/id/2274809/?from=rss
as patient centered medical records.

yeah, I'm log rolling for myself here, but the basic concept is sound.
a simple listing of meds, conditions, contact numbers, allergies, pharmacy numbers.... (the components of the ccr), scribbled in plain text via notepad and saved with the extension *.html...becomes an electronic health record more interoperable than any on the market. It is able to be stored on thumb drives, most mp3 players or smart phones. It is displayable everywhere.
extension #1. Front end program to make the file automatically.
extension #2 add every other medical thing into the same file folder as *jpg images THEN add
targetname.jpg for each file at the end of the first key file to make a medical record file linked to all previous medical files/ekg/xray/etc.
extension #3 read in every line as a string, have a program that parses each string and then compares it to a list of best practice recommendations to make an automated tickler for popping up best practices for conditions found in the original medical record key file.

(I would hardly be mentioning these extensions if they were not already written (in python, actually)).

Comment cognitive processing help to deal with complexity (Score 1) 511

by nerdpocalypse on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @01:17AM (#32883630) Attached to: Do Scientists Understand the Public?

The real question, obviously is, how do you deal with the apes ? Yeah people are stupid.... nearly half don't believe in evolution, there is no stupid Republican lie that doesn't fool at least 20% of the public (birthers, death panels, Obama is a socialist...when everyone knows he's really a Vulcan...., etc.) Ok, I can answer this one. I'm a physician. I HAVE to deal with people who cannot reliably count to three. This is a huge problem facing health care: http://www.nerdpocalypse.net/limited%20health%20literacy.html You fit things into how their brains work. Paradigms. Paradigms that they know....(i.e., metaphor). Draw pictures to illustrate causality chains. (oh, by the way, the term nerdpocalypse.net means this sort of cognitive visual framework). And, if I'm trying to get YOU GUYS to start using primary source data, and multiple references and facility with enormous data sets....it's becomes the same problems I have with the low health literacy patients.

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