Comment Re:Your definition of movie may vary... (Score 1) 207
Actually I am an Australian, Denton hasn't really done much film. And anyway, the operative word there was 'company.'
Comment Re:Your definition of movie may vary... (Score 0) 207
So a company with no history in the industry is annoyed because IMDB won't list their pre-production film. How is their problem different from any other production company without a history of releases behind them?
Comment Re:Your definition of movie may vary... (Score 4, Informative) 207
Yes, and if you read their rules in detail, you will see that acceptance at a film festival with any sort of selection criteria is also sufficient to get a listing in IMDB. So, I don't understand why the makers don't simply submit the film to a festival!?
Comment Re:..are as superfluous as ever. (Score 1) 270
You had 12 friends? How did you get to be so popular? Please tell me your secret.
They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers 184
I'm Not There (1956) writes "Sociologist Clifford Nass is talking about how people think of their computers as something like human beings. In one of his experiments, Nass found that people are more willing to 'help' computers when the computer helped them previously: 'When people were then asked to help optimize the screen resolution on a computer where the program had been "helpful," they were much more likely to do so than with the less helpful version.' He also found that people evaluating software's performance were more forgiving if the evaluation was done on the same computer the software was tested on. Nass has recently published the book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, in which he 'uses our interactions with machines to investigate how human relationships could be improved.'"
Comment Re:Not a test (Score 2, Funny) 284
Are you comparing apples with oranges?
Submission + - Australian IT Policy Debate Scheduled (theaustralian.com.au)
kandela writes: The Australian reports that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will debate Coalition and Greens shadows Tony Smith and Scott Ludlam at the National Press Club next Tuesday. Amongst topics covered in the debate will be the national broadband network and internet filter policy. The event is being put on by the Australian Computer Society and which will be shown on Sky News and hosted by the station's political editor David Speers.
Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes 383
nk497 writes "UK computing legend Steve Furber — co-founder of Acorn and ARM designer — believes students are avoiding computing classes because they teach nothing but the boring basics. Currently studying why the number of students signing up for computing has halved in the past eight years, Furber said schools focus too much on teaching kids how to use spreadsheets, word processors and PowerPoint, rather than teaching more challenging areas such as programming. 'What schools are presenting as ICT as an academic subject is very mundane compared with what students know they can do,' he said. 'It's as if maths was just arithmetic or English was taught as just spelling. It's not unimportant that you can do arithmetic or you can spell, but it certainly doesn't open up the whole world of interest and challenge, if that's all you do.'"
Comment Re:the problem is not culpability nor blame (Score 1) 1657
Ok, except that if increased CO2 in the atmosphere is causing warming, then the obvious solution is to reduce CO2. But if we take your approach and just say warming is bad, and we are seeing warming, people will ask, why is cutting CO2 going to work? Unfortunately for your philosophy our understanding of how to solve the problem is tied up in our understanding of what is causing the problem.
Comment Re:More Info & Dashboard (Score 1) 1657
As someone who has written papers on both solar influences on Terrestrial weather and the technology for alternative (green) energy sources, I have to say that I believe global warming is occurring, we are causing it, and we aren't acting fast enough to avoid a catastrophe.
If you don't trust the people proffering a solution in the US, then look elsewhere and see what groups in other parts of the world are saying.
Comment Re:This research is FALSE! (Score 1) 1657
Unfortunately it's the morons and the jebus freaks who are the majority of voters.
Comment Re: move along now (Score 1) 264
Oh I see. The problem was that the GP you refer to was below my threshold, and it looked like you were replying to that post's parent.
Comment Re: move along now (Score 1) 264
And in fact is is *STILL* the convention to use "I" for a single author in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. (http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1882/3883) I hope you've learned something today.
Comment Re: move along now (Score 1) 264
That's a convention now, but it wasn't always the case, and there's no reason why it should be necessary. If you really don't think anything written in the first person is credible then you will have to take issue with thousands of articles in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. For instance: http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/133-142/821).
Comment Re:That's no moonlet. (Score 1) 47
The IAU has spoken: we have to call it a dwarf moonlet because it hasn't cleared its orbit of debris.
