Joseph Lam - Slashdot User

Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision 171

Posted by samzenpus on Friday February 03, @01:02PM
from the all-the-better-to-see-you dept.

Oswald McWeany writes "Reports swirling around the Internet are that a boy in China may have cat-like night vision. The boy with eerie blue-eyes was able to fill out a questionnaire in the dark and his eyes reflect like a cat's when a light is shined on them. No reports yet if he marks his territory or is litter box trained."

Study Finds the Perfect Ratio of Attractiveness 176

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 29 2010, @02:24PM
from the hey-there-big-arms dept.

Gksksla writes "Scientists in Australia and Hong Kong have conducted a comprehensive study to discover how different body measurements correspond with ratings of female attractiveness. The study, published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, found that across cultural divides young, tall and long armed women were considered the most attractive."

Apple, RIM, Google All Bid On Palm 117

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 15 2010, @07:00PM
from the face-palm-apple dept.

imamac writes "It seems HP was only one of many bidders for the struggling Palm. The others included Apple, RIM and even Google. You may now commence speculation on why the various companies wanted Palm."

Comment: Re:One of Many (Score 2, Insightful) 396

by Joseph Lam on Sunday April 11 2010, @04:20PM (#31810806) Attached to: "Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle

IBM probably would have been a better suitor for Sun than Oracle, but now it's all over but the crying.

If we're talking about only the Java part of Sun then you're probably right. But I think the hardware business of Sun is worth more to Oracle than to IBM.

Comment: Re:As a user of Google (Score 1) 202

by Joseph Lam on Sunday April 11 2010, @02:45PM (#31809882) Attached to: Google Incorporates Site Speed Into PageRank Calculation

RTFS: "While site speed is a new signal, it doesn't carry as much weight as the relevance of a page"

Also, "our users place a lot of value in speed" does not necessarily conflict with "quality over speed".

Comment: Re:ViEmu + Visual Studio (Score 1) 193

by Joseph Lam on Wednesday December 30 2009, @03:55PM (#30598648) Attached to: IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability?

Normally, I'm a vim+make guy, but I occasionally have to use Visual Studio. The ViEmu plugin was the best $99 I've ever spent on windows software.

The OP explicitly asked for linux based IDE.

Haskell 2010 Announced 173

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 24 2009, @06:05PM
from the eddie-and-the-beav dept.

paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."

Comment: Re:Cross border paperwork (Score 1) 324

by Joseph Lam on Tuesday November 24 2009, @07:54AM (#30212024) Attached to: LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting

Because of the uncertainty principle, they're still arguing about the exact location and the mass of the goods needed to calculate the duty

Comment: Re:It's definitely a fast boot, (Score 2, Interesting) 324

by Joseph Lam on Saturday November 21 2009, @08:39PM (#30189600) Attached to: Microsoft, Other Rivals Slam Google Chrome OS

If you want more than that you'd be better off with Ubuntu Netbook Remix or another mini Linux distro. I would have much preferred a stable Linux build of the Google Chrome browser.

As you've already said there are better solutions for people who need more. Google is providing something optimized for those who DON'T need more.

Comment: Re:Car Analogy for MS Spokesperson (Score 1) 324

by Joseph Lam on Saturday November 21 2009, @08:31PM (#30189532) Attached to: Microsoft, Other Rivals Slam Google Chrome OS

I think you hit the nail on the head. Google is solving a problem that doesn't exist. I have yet to hear anyone ask to do all their computing through a web browser.

I love Chrome. It's my browser of choice most of the time. I'm a Google account/services user. I do think they provide an excellent web experience. I don't see them providing the same experience for my desktop as they do for the web. I guess we'll see how this unfolds though. Something tells me there is more to this than we're seeing.

Most users don't even know what to ask for, be it a web browser or standalone software. They just need a good way (whatever it is) to achieve their goals e.g. email, reading news, watching videos, listening to music, etc... Web-based computing is one of the many ways, and it happens to be the way Google chose to bet their entire business on. So they're doing whatever it takes to improve it. In terms of user experience it's ahead of desktop computing in some ways and lagging behind in others. I'm sure the engineers at Google know that and are working hard on those weaknesses.