Comment Eine Cure fur depression! (Score 1) 645
zo, doktor Freud sayz ze cure for depression maybe to go out wiz your friendx und enjoy life and stop uzing facebook all day.
Ivan Krstić Says Negroponte's Wrong About Sugar and OLPC 137
Not many days ago, we mentioned ZDNet's interview with Nicholas Negroponte, in which Negroponte had some harsh things to say about Sugar and its connection to the slower-than-hoped uptake of the XO. Ivan Krstic (formerly head of the OLPC's security innovative subsystem) responded to Negroponte's claims, which he says are "nonsense." Among other things, he mentions that Sugar "was the name for the new learning-oriented graphical interface that OLPC was building, but it was also the name for the entire XO operating system, one tiny part of which was Sugar the GUI, and the rest of which was mostly Fedora Linux."
The Web of Data, Beyond What Google and Yahoo Show 50
jccq writes "Both Google and Yahoo have been supporting Semantic Web markup (RDFa, RDF and Microformats) for weeks and months respectively. What they do, at the moment, is use the markup only for visual feedback by returning better looking, more functional 'page snippets.' But how would it look if you could get all these bits and compose them automatically to form a single structured information page about what you're searching for? The folks at the DERI institute have just released Sig.ma, a visual browser and mashup generator that will go all over the web of data and find dozens of sources to combine together when answering a user query. It also comes in API mode to reuse the information Sig.ma finds inside applications. Here are a screencast and a blog post, with semantic-web-geek details."
Comment TinFoilHat = On (Score 1) 1089
Almost every big site these days seems to have a google analytics link so even if your not a google-a-file your browsing history is probably being recorded, even with cookies off it is not rocket science for a web site to log your ip address and put 2 and 2 together for when you do have to switch on cookies eg to do banking or read web mail. So we block all google web links (eg make them 127.0.0.1 in our hosts file) and I renew my routers ip address regularly and I'm invisible again.. but what if google owned the whole stack...
I for one prefer the browser and OS separate [ diddn't Microsoft get a small slap on the wrist for integrating the OS and browser? ]
Comment But PHP is shit! (Score 1) 120
Blah de blah PHP is shit because [insert random piece of php code that a programmer could use if they were a complete fuckwit]
Everyone should use [insert my favorite scripting language] because [insert totally irrelevant feature nobody give a fuck about]
Comment Bad article (Score 5, Informative) 93
The guy (who admits to not knowing his stuff so perhaps we can forgive him) really hasnt got a clue
The processor is designed specifically for sensors that wake up, do a few calculations and go back to sleep, these type of devices are genrally battery powered and off grid and generally make a decision whether to power up some other device eg to transmit the data. The device would probably be useless for anything involving serious processing, even the processor in an optical mouse would probably wipe the floor with it!
Barring that there are billions (yes billions not millions) of sensor devices out there currently using PIC/AMR/8051 derivatives that may benefit from this technology.
Interestingly we are getting to a level of power where even the most inneficient generator (or a low power radio signal) and a rather small capacitor could power it forever
Submission + - Flying saucers to become a reality (physorg.com)
UK Boz writes: Wheres my flying car, what about wheres my flying saucer! Just surfing and came across this one which has all the elements required by slashdotees! science, innovation and of course flying saucers!! [physorg.com].. What with a thunderbird 2 lookalike almost a reality with the Aeroscraft ML866, it looks like the skies could be getting interesting once again.
