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Comment Re:Terman and Hollingworth studies (Score 0) 488

by lebjoot (#35945458) Attached to: What Does IQ Really Measure?
Man, I wish I read this link before. Sometimes been more open minded is a chore. A nice way to deal it it is to play along the normal people: try do some sports like soccer, watch some stupid tv program (and talk, and laugh about it), do some easy tasks (clean the backyard), etc, dumb it down sometimes. Works for me. Have a nice day!

Comment Re:This is horrid (Score 0) 82

by lebjoot (#35492590) Attached to: Kinect Self-Awareness Hack
Ok, this is not news but is not bad at all. It is well done. Have a script, good edition and nice effects. No, it is not easy to make quality stuff. Just watch many youtubers that just hold a trembling cam with one hand while mumbling something about the project. I wish the majority of videos on internet was this level.

Comment Re:Marketing MIA (Score 0) 625

by lebjoot (#26547377) Attached to: Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?

I disagree. Most guides out there for ubuntu involve terminal commands.

Commands that say things like this?

sudo apt-get install foo

Yeah. That's because it's easier and faster to write that than say 'Click System | Administration | Synaptic Package Manager.' Click the 'Search' button and type 'foo' and hit enter. Right click the 'foo-1.0' package and click 'Install'. When prompted, enter your password.

How about some official reference page like howto install . Easy to link and you can explain some command line there if one really needs to. Common tasks should be very well explained, IMHO.
Software

Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test 580

Posted by CmdrTaco
dewilso4 writes "Of the five computer finalists at this year's Loebner prize Turing Test, at least three managed to fool humans into thinking they were human conversationalists. Ready to speak about subjects ranging from Eminem to Slaughterhouse Five and everything in between, these machines are showing they we're merely a clock cycle away from true AI. '... I was fooled. I mistook Eugene for a real human being. In fact, and perhaps this is worse, he was so convincing that I assumed that the human being with whom I was simultaneously conversing was a computer.' Another of the entrants, Jabberwacky, can apparently even woo the ladies: 'Some of its conversational partners confide in it every day; one conversation, with a teenaged girl, lasted 11 hours.' The winning submission this year, Elbot, fooled 25% of judges into thinking he was human. The threshold for the $100K prize is 30%. Maybe next year ..."
GUI

A 3D Curve Sketching System For Tablets 72

Posted by timothy from the no-mention-of-license-terms dept.
dominique_cimafranca writes "The Dynamic Graphics Project of the University of Toronto has released a pretty nifty 3D curve sketching system. Apart from the large drawing area, the tablet software looks very intuitive to artists. From the site: 'The system coherently integrates existing techniques of sketch-based interaction with a number of novel and enhanced features. Novel contributions of the system include automatic view rotation to improve curve sketchability, an axis widget for sketch surface selection, and implicitly inferred changes between sketching techniques. We also improve on a number of existing ideas such as a virtual sketchbook, simplified 2D and 3D view navigation, multi-stroke NURBS curve creation, and a cohesive gesture vocabulary.'"
Windows

Lenovo Requires NDA For Windows License Refund 321

Posted by timothy from the deserves-a-raise dept.
tykev writes "A customer wanted to return the license for preinstalled Windows Vista Business that came with his Lenovo laptop. After some lengthy negotiations with representatives of Lenovo's technical support and management, he was offered financial compensation for returning the license in the amount of CZK 1950 (USD 130, EUR 78), pending his acceptance of a non-disclosure agreement that would cover the entire negotiations with the company and its results. He declined and published his experiences on a Czech Linux website. The website editors decided to reward the customer for publishing the article by paying him an author's royalty in the same amount as was the offered compensation for returning the license."
Networking

IPv4 Address Crunch In 2 Years, IPv6 Not Ready 539

Posted by kdawson from the told-ya dept.
An anonymous reader writes "We've known for ages that IPv4 was going to run out of addresses — now, it's happening. IPv6 was going to save us — it isn't. The upcoming crisis will hit, perhaps as soon as 2010, but nobody can agree on what to do. The three options are all pretty scary. This article covers the background, and links to a presentation by Randy Bush (PDF) that shows the reality of the problem in stark detail."
Security

Open Source DRM Solutions? 369

Posted by kdawson from the using-the-force-for-good dept.
Feint writes "I'm working on an business platform for inter-company collaboration based on an open source software stack. As part of that platform I would like to integrate some sort of digital rights management for the documents in the system. The vast majority of articles about DRM are focused how good or evil it is to apply DRM to digital music or video. I haven't seen many articles address open source solutions for protecting business data like CAD / MS Office / PDF / etc. documents, which is a real need in business today. Can the Slashdot readership suggest some open source DRM offerings other than the Sun DReaM initiative, which hasn't had a release since Jan. 2007?"

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