Submission + - Adsense: Advertising without sense (duckworksmagazine.com)
An anonymous reader writes: For all the algorithms it has designed Google is one irrational company you can't reason with.
Submission + - Thrown off Adsense, and he's not sure why (duckworksmagazine.com)
rhyder128k writes: Dylan Winter, freelance writer, broadcaster and film maker, has built a business around making high quality, niche films on the subjects of sailing and trucking. He gives an outline of how much money he makes, who his customers are and how, by working with organizations such as Adsense, Yahoo and Amazon, he was able to turn his creative endeavors into an income. He was a walking, talking (and filming) example of how creatives, trained in traditional media production can profitably re-orientate themselves towards engagement with the Internet age.
However, things went wrong when he awoke one morning to discover that he had been thrown off Adsense. The moral: if you're thinking of building a business that relies on Adsense, bear in mind that they have a user contract that allows them to throw you off the service on a whim. Maybe the user experience would improve if Google had a bit more competition in this area?
However, things went wrong when he awoke one morning to discover that he had been thrown off Adsense. The moral: if you're thinking of building a business that relies on Adsense, bear in mind that they have a user contract that allows them to throw you off the service on a whim. Maybe the user experience would improve if Google had a bit more competition in this area?
Submission + - Is the Internet Destroying our brains?
proudhawk writes: "Andrew price brings us news that the internet may be bad for your intelligence and reasoning.
see article here: http://www.good.is/post/is-the-internet-destroying-your-brain-try-this-test/?gt1=48001
take tests here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-distraction-filtering-demo.html
and here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-task-switching-demo.html
I found myself at odds between the tests. the first one indicates that I have the same focus as a low multitasker (or single tasker type)
and that the second reveals that I have the same inability to switch tasks rapidly in much the same way a high multitasker would have.
What does this make me, I wonder?"
see article here: http://www.good.is/post/is-the-internet-destroying-your-brain-try-this-test/?gt1=48001
take tests here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-distraction-filtering-demo.html
and here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-task-switching-demo.html
I found myself at odds between the tests. the first one indicates that I have the same focus as a low multitasker (or single tasker type)
and that the second reveals that I have the same inability to switch tasks rapidly in much the same way a high multitasker would have.
What does this make me, I wonder?"
Submission + - Aaron Ardiri ports Lemmings in 36 hours (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment which creates native C versions of the game. He live blogged the whole thing and in the end has an iPhone version and Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his blog.
Submission + - Kahn Academy Delivers 70,000 Lectures Daily (physorg.com)
eldavojohn writes: Over fifteen hundred mini-lectures have made available by Salman Khan to educate the world right from the comfort of his own home. Kahn Academy amounts to little more than a YouTube channel and one very very devoted man trying to provide education the way he wanted it. With 70,000 video views a day, the man is definitely making a measurable difference for many students young and old. In his FAQ he explains how he knows he is being effective. What will probably ensure his popularity (and provide a legacy surpassing that of the highest paid educators) is that everything is licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 and his only requirements are his time, a $200 Camtasia Recorder, an $80 Wacom Bamboo Tablet and a free copy of SmoothDraw3. While it may not be Feynman quality lecturing, it's a great augmenting resource for learners who can clench their fists and thank KAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHN!
Submission + - Need a friend? Rent one online (skunkpost.com)
crimeandpunishment writes: Housewives, college students, and others....working for a website that charges users an hourly rate for their companionship. No, it's not an escort service....at least it's not one "with benefits". It's a site called rentafriend.com, that's trying to carve out a niche in the "everything's available online" business world. The seven-month-old site, patterned after hugely successful sites in Asia, has nearly 2,000 members who pay either a monthly or yearly fee to check out the pictures and profiles of more than 160,000 potential pals.
Submission + - Tattoos for the Math and Science Geek 7
An anonymous reader writes: I've been thinking of getting a sleeve of math and science tattoos for quite a while now. With the money saved up, the only question remaining is, what equations/ideas should I get? I know for certain that I'm going to include some of Maxwell's equations, and definitely Ohm's Law. So, if you were going to put a tribute to the great math and science minds on your body forever, which ones would you choose?
Submission + - OpenShot Video Editor - Version 1.0 Released! (openshotvideo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: After only one year of development Jonathan Thomas has released version 1.0 of his impressive NLE for Linux. Based on the MLT Framework, OpenShot Video Editor has taken less time to reach this stage of development than any other Linux NLE. Dan Dennedy of Kino fame has also lent a helping hand ensuring that Openshot has the stability and proven back-end that is needed in such a project.
Submission + - Solar geomagnetic index reaches unprecedented low (prisonplanet.com)
CaptainChuck writes: Solar geomagnetic index reaches unprecedented low – only “zero” could be lower – in a month when sunspots became more active.
(Global warming may be on hold for a while.)
(Global warming may be on hold for a while.)
Submission + - A Peek into Netflix Queues (nytimes.com)
margaret writes: The New York Times has an interactive web app where you can map the popularity of various netflix titles by neighborhood, in a dozen different cities. Invasion of privacy or harmless voyeuristic fun? Either way, it's pretty interesting.
Submission + - Prion proteins capable of evolution despite no DNA 1
An anonymous reader writes: Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that "lifeless" organic substances with no genetic material are capable of evolving just like any higher form of life. The discovery could reshape the definition of life and have revolutionary impacts on how certain diseases are treated.
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/health/stories/prion-proteins-capable-of-evolution-despite-containing-no-dna
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/health/stories/prion-proteins-capable-of-evolution-despite-containing-no-dna
Submission + - Programmers Need To Learn Statistics (zedshaw.com) 2
David Gerard writes: "Zed Shaw writes an impassioned plea to programmers: Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All. "I go insane when I hear programmers talking about statistics like they know shit when it’s clearly obvious they do not. I’ve been studying it for years and years and still don’t think I know anything. This article is my call for all programmers to finally learn enough about statistics to at least know they don’t know shit. I have no idea why, but their confidence in their lacking knowledge is only surpassed by their lack of confidence in their personal appearance.""
Submission + - World’s Smallest Operating system 5
An anonymous reader writes: Have you ever heard of an OS which fit inside a Floppydisk ? Maybe Not. But there is.It is known as KolibriOS. KolibriOS (also known as KOS and Kolibri) is a free operating system with a monolithic preemptive, real-time kernel, video drivers, for 32-bit x86 architecture computers, developed and maintained by The KolibriOS Project Team. Its only 2.4 MB in size.
Submission + - An x86 smartphone? - here comes the LG GW990 (arstechnica.com)
gbjbaanb writes: I love stories about new smartphones, it shows the IT market is doing something different than the usual same-old desktop apps, maybe one day we'll all be using super smartphones as our primary computing platforms.
And so, here's Intel's offering: the LG GW990. Running a Moorestown CPU, which gives 'considerably' better energy efficiency than the Atom, it runs Intel's Linux distro — Moblin.
"In some respects, the GW990 — "which has an impressive high-resolution 4.8-inch touchscreen display — "seems more like a MID than a smartphone. It's possible that we won't see x86 phones with truly competitive all-day battery life until the emergence of Medfield, the Moorestown successor that is said to be coming in 2011. It is clear, however, that Intel aims to eventually compete squarely with ARM in the high-end smartphone market."
And so, here's Intel's offering: the LG GW990. Running a Moorestown CPU, which gives 'considerably' better energy efficiency than the Atom, it runs Intel's Linux distro — Moblin.
"In some respects, the GW990 — "which has an impressive high-resolution 4.8-inch touchscreen display — "seems more like a MID than a smartphone. It's possible that we won't see x86 phones with truly competitive all-day battery life until the emergence of Medfield, the Moorestown successor that is said to be coming in 2011. It is clear, however, that Intel aims to eventually compete squarely with ARM in the high-end smartphone market."
Living In Tokyo's Capsule Hotels 269
afabbro writes "Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 once offered a night’s refuge to salarymen who had missed the last train home. Now with Japan enduring its worst recession since World War II, it is becoming an affordable option for people with nowhere else to go. The Hotel 510’s capsules are only 6 1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide. Guests must keep possessions, like shirts and shaving cream, in lockers outside of the capsules. Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas says, 'It’s just a place to crawl into and sleep. You get used to it.'”
